TI-Basic Support

Ovismue Veholkin

Would it be possible to add support for the TI-Basic extensions such as *.8xp, and *.8xk?

Mark Olson

@Ovismue-Veholkin
Make a user-defined language, and hope that that’s adequate in spite of the numerous ideosyncracies of the UDL system.

If you find yourself wanting to color text according to complex rules, EnhanceAnyLexer can help.

PeterJones

@Ovismue-Veholkin ,

I have a personal User Defined Language (UDL) for TI-Basic / Extended Basic for the TI-99/4A. It doesn’t currently use those extensions (I’m not overly connected to the modern TI-users world, so I didn’t know there was a standard extension for TI-Basic files), but it highlights the syntax. I haven’t uploaded it to the public UDL Collection because I didn’t figure it would be of general use, since I don’t know how many Notepad++ users intersect with 99ers. So you can download that UDL definition into your %AppData%\Notepad++\userDefineLangs\ folder, then restart Notepad++ to make it see the new UDL) – and then you can manually add 8xp 8xk to the Language > User Defined Language > Define Your Language dialog’s User Language: TI-BASIC selection, in the Ext.: input which currently has TIBAS (so you would change it to TIBAS 8xp 8xk or just 8xp 8xk). (That said, I also am just assuming that by “TI-Basic”, you mean the BASIC that was used on the TI-99/4A; I don’t know if that name has a different meaning to other people. And if those extensions are for binary files that encode/store TI-Basic, like maybe for emulated “tape” storage or something, it won’t help, because Notepad++, as a text editor, has no way of understanding a binary file.)

As an aside: When we created the [Themes Collection]https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppThemes), I uploaded a theme that you might find amusing (though given that it’s inspired by the default TI-99/4A bright-cyan background color, I doubt anyone would want to use it on a regular basis. And no, when I made my UDL, I used standard light-theme color scheme, rather than a TI-inspired color scheme)

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addenda: after making this post, I did a websearch, and found that 8xp appears to be the file extension for TI-83/84 calculator’s BASIC – confusing of Texas Instruments to use the same name for what are likely two totally different implementations of BASIC. My UDL probably won’t help you; sorry. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the 8xp/8xk extensions were binary files that compress the BASIC text into bytecodes/opcodes that the calculator uses internally; in which case, you would need an external converter to convert from binary to text, then edit the text in Notepad++, save it, then use a converter to convert it back to the binary format.