Highlight config for NppExec

Well, after some time I've understood that the error is in your highlight mask. The plugin works correctly.
The right mask is the following:

*] %ABSFILE%:%LINE%:*

You see, your mask "* %ABSFILE%:%LINE% " does not provide enough information. The keyword "%ABSFILE%" is something similar to "%s" in scanf(), so, in common case, it does not know where the substring starts and where it ends. Thus, if you specify "*] %ABSFILE%:%LINE%:*", it will be clear that the "%ABSFILE%" starts right after "] " in the string.

We can not perform additional verification for the start and end of "%ABSFILE%", because, in common case, "%ABSFILE%" may have different form:
1) c:\folder\file.ext
2) c:/folder/file.ext
3) \\path\file.ext
4) //path/file.ext
5) ..\path\file.ext
6) ../path/file.ext

And maybe we can invent other forms of %ABSFILE% :-)

Even though I cannot understand the working logic for the mask right now, your suggestion WORKS perfect.

Thank you!

Mask:
* %ABSFILE%:%LINE%

Output (replace '@' with ' ' below):
@@@@[javac] D:\Documents\

decision logic:
Step 1) Search each space char from beginning of a line
Step 2) Get the char next to the space char, and see if it's a legal leading char for %ABSFILE%
Step 3) Since '[' can not be a leading char for %ABSFILE%, continue Step 1)

With this decision procedure, my highlight mask works. If it doesn't make sense for other scenarioes, just forget it. Anyhow, '*] %ABSFILE' is obviously working fine.

XS

[Since the space char ' ' is ignored by the forum system, i replace it with '@' and re-post the message here]

The highlight feature of NppExec is powerful.But frankly speaking, the mask config is not smart enough. See the example below ['@' stands for space char ' ']:
1) ant(java make tool) output line for J2SE is:
@[javac] D:\Documents\workplace\snippets\src\MainWin.java:2: some message...
2) ant output line for J2ME is:
@@@@[wtkbuild] D:\Documents\workplace\dida\src\DidaMIDlet.java:16: some message...

Since the number of leading space characters is different in the examples, I should config two similar mask configures:
1)@* %ABSFILE%:%LINE%
2)@@@@* %ABSFILE%:%LINE%
Why not make the first mask match the second one? If I've similar syntax except for different spaces in some outputs, I should list them all?
Even worse,the list sequence cannot be changed. In this case if there're different mask configs with different space chars, I should adjust the whole existing list.

XS

It looks like an error... I'll debug the sources to see what's wrong.