Notepad++

[Stewart Gordon]

Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:12:41 +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:
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> Scintilla uses plugins to highlight source.  These plugins are written
> in C++ and have almost full access to the buffer so the highlighter code
> may be arbitrarily complex.  I actually wrote such a plugin to highlight
> D a while back:
> 
> http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/scilexer

"1.  If you have SciTE 1.76 for Windows installed simply replace
SciLexer.dll and d.properties with the supplied files.

2.  If you wish to build Scintilla from source:"

Can it be used in Scintilla-based editors besides SciTE short of 
acquiring the whole Scintilla source and rebuilding it?

For the record, there's a SciLexer.dll in my Notepad++ dir, but no 
d.properties to be found.  The SciLexer.dll reports itself as file 
version 1.7.8.0, product version 1.78.  So maybe the question is of what 
effect replacing it with a fork of version 1.76 would have.  (Do SciTE 
versions correspond directly to Scintilla versions?)

> It seems like Notepad++ developers added their own highlighter plugin
> which takes userDefineLang.xml as its configuration.  Such a
> configurable plugin is presumably much less flexible than pure C++
> implementation for a particular language.  It's very likely that PHP
> highlighter is written in C++ and comes bundled with Scintilla.

It puzzles me that they didn't make this plugin powerful enough to 
highlight the language it (and indeed the whole of Notepad++) is written 
in.  Even more so considering the sheer number of C-like languages out 
there, which people are likely to want to use N++ to write.

Stewart.