<![CDATA[Syntax highlight % and %% lines differently]]>Hi
I am creating a UDL using the GUI. I need to distinguish between lines starting with a single %, which marks a comment line, and those that start with %% which are quite different.
How do I do that please?
Thanks

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25483/syntax-highlight-and-lines-differentlyRSS for NodeMon, 11 May 2026 21:37:10 GMTSat, 17 Feb 2024 15:50:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlight % and %% lines differently on Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:03:53 GMT]]>@jnbearon said in Syntax highlight % and %% lines differently:

@Ekopalypse
I have a problem in that I am already short of Delimiter defs as the language definition form only allows 8 to be set. That then prompts 2 further questions:

  1. Can I define more than 8 delimiters - by editing the XML file?

No. The number of colors is compiled into the program, and cannot be changed by a config file.

  1. Can I assign more than 1 delimiter to a particular colour? (I would be quite happy to bundle a few of the less often used ones into a single colour, but have the more popular ones having their own specified coloured line.

Yes. You can see an example of this in the “Markdown (preinstalled)” UDL that ships with Notepad++:

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Just put the space-separated list of open and the space-separated list of close in the same order

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/93015https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/93015Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:03:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlight % and %% lines differently on Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:39:04 GMT]]>@Ekopalypse
Thanks Ekopalypse, that method does work if both are defined in “Operators and Delimiters”. What does not seem to work is to have % set as the comment marker in “Comment and Number” and %% set in the “Operators and Delimiters”. If there are consecutive lines starting with %% then they get coloured in alternating colours - seems to be something to do with how the ((EOF)) is interpreted.

I have a problem in that I am already short of Delimiter defs as the language definition form only allows 8 to be set. That then prompts 2 further questions:

  1. Can I define more than 8 delimiters - by editing the XML file?
  2. Can I assign more than 1 delimiter to a particular colour? (I would be quite happy to bundle a few of the less often used ones into a single colour, but have the more popular ones having their own specified coloured line.

Thanks

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/93013https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/93013Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:39:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlight % and %% lines differently on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:57:14 GMT]]>@jnbearon

In this case, you could use UDL’s own functionality by ensuring that you define two delimiters, with the %% defined first and both ending with the ((EOL)) marker.

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92965https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92965Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:57:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Syntax highlight % and %% lines differently on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:22:30 GMT]]>@jnbearon
Off the top of my head, the best way to do this is probably to use EnhanceAnyLexer.

^%(?!%).*$ matches any line that begins with a single %
^%%.*$ matches any line that begins with %%

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