[New plugin] Smart Math

Carlos Sánchez

Hi, I’m new to the Notepad++ community.
I’d like to share a plugin with you that I made not long ago.

Smart Math
Real-time mathematical evaluation plugin for Notepad++ using EOL annotations. Supports variables, percentages, and persistent tab settings. Written in FreeBASIC.

I think it’s pretty simple but also quite useful :)

It would be great if the plugin showed up in the plugins manager list, but I’m a bit lazy and haven’t got a clue, so I’m just going to share it here.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/c-sanchez/npp-smart-math/
Thread on the FreeBASIC forum: https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33519

PeterJones

@Carlos-Sánchez said in [New plugin] Smart Math:

I’m a bit lazy and haven’t got a clue

I can’t solve the first part, but for the clue:

it’s just a PR to the nppPluginList project. Since you’re working in GitHub already, I assume you know how to do the PR
fork the nppPluginList repo, create your own branch
in that branch, edit pl.x64.json to link to the 64-bit version, and pl.x86.json to link to the 32-bit version
the id required in the JSON is just the SHA256 hash, which GitHub provides for you:
once you have edited both files in your branch, submit the PR from that branch

Vitalii Dovgan

Believe or not, I’m starting to work on a tiny update to SmartMath to eventually have all these features:

https://github.com/c-sanchez/AkelPad-Smart-Math/blob/main/USAGE_AND_SYNTAX.md

The “MathParser.bas” has already been imported, as well as “MathParserRawResult.bas” that allows exact integers and arrays in the calculation results.
The latest changes are here:
https://github.com/d0vgan/npp-smart-math/tree/feature/powerful-calc

It’s a work-in-progress since AkelPad-Smart-Math is so far ahead.
But the updated “MathParser.bas” is already here, so npp-smart-math is already expected to support all the math expressions and calculations as AkelPad-Smart-Math does.

I don’t think I’ll include all the unit tests from AkelPad-Smart-Math. To be honest, it would make perfect sense to have the “MathParser.bas”, “MathParserRawResult.bas” and maybe the Results Formatter as a separate project in git, and then both npp-smart-math and AkelPad-Smart-Math will reuse that as e.g. a git submodule.
But it’s not an intermediate question - it’s rather a question for the future, and I hope I will not become “liberated” in that future (referring to the “liberation” of e.g. Bakhmut, Maryinka, Popasna, Volnovakha, Soledar, Vovchansk, Chasiv Yar and other cities).

Another interesting topic is syntax highlighting. It was easy to do in AkelPad by means of its Coder plugin that allows to enable syntax highlighting programmatically for a given file:
https://github.com/c-sanchez/AkelPad-Smart-Math/blob/main/AkelFiles/Plugs/Coder/smartmath.coder
I am not sure if something similar can be achieved in Notepad++.