I love Notepad++ and I really can't imagine life without, but I do alot of programming in TCL and I absolutely love the syntax highlight features. In the latest version this has been removed and I have search everywhere for an alternative, but my alternative for now is to revert back to using 4.9. I hope I'm not the only one that misses the TCL syntax.
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1/ OK, this is an old bug : see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1589507&group_id=95717&atid=612382
In notepad++ source code, tcl color highlighting settings are in the C languages group. That's the reason why the comments are wrongs...
So, I have recently post 2 comments to solve this problem in order to have in notepad++ the same settings than in scite.
wait and see.
2/ I have tested my patch under npp 5.01 (because this is the only one I can compile with MinGW) and it works fine. Here are the syntax elements that can be customized :
# comment line : OK
$ subtitution : OK
tcl/tk commands : OK
##### comment box : OK
-xxx modifiers : OK
"xx" in quote : OK
number and hex number : OK
...
see the screenshot (under wine) : http://leohome.free.fr/download/npp/npp-tclsyntax1.png
if you want to test :
1/ download the patched version (5.01.1) here : http://leohome.free.fr/download/npp/notepad++.zip
NOTE : this version don't use %APPDATA (the configuration files are in the install directory)
2/ unzip the downloaded file where you want in your hard drive : all the files are in notepad++ directory
3/ if you want english localisation, open the explorer, go in the directory where npp was unziped and remove nativeLang.xml
4/ to start npp, double click on notepad++.exe : enjoy
HTH
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Very nice, thanks for the reply! I'm not actively using Tcl at the moment so I will hope that it gets into an official build, but if not I'll give your patch a shot. Thanks again
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Actually I just went back as far as 4.3 and I see the same problems - does anyone see this? The one problem in particular is that it is using c-style comments rather than "#" - those are styled as preprocessor.
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I love Notepad++ and I really can't imagine life without, but I do alot of programming in TCL and I absolutely love the syntax highlight features. In the latest version this has been removed and I have search everywhere for an alternative, but my alternative for now is to revert back to using 4.9. I hope I'm not the only one that misses the TCL syntax.
For me it works fine
I'm also seeing problems in 5.x - comment style is wrong, etc.
1/ OK, this is an old bug : see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1589507&group_id=95717&atid=612382
In notepad++ source code, tcl color highlighting settings are in the C languages group. That's the reason why the comments are wrongs...
So, I have recently post 2 comments to solve this problem in order to have in notepad++ the same settings than in scite.
wait and see.
2/ I have tested my patch under npp 5.01 (because this is the only one I can compile with MinGW) and it works fine. Here are the syntax elements that can be customized :
# comment line : OK
$ subtitution : OK
tcl/tk commands : OK
##### comment box : OK
-xxx modifiers : OK
"xx" in quote : OK
number and hex number : OK
...
see the screenshot (under wine) : http://leohome.free.fr/download/npp/npp-tclsyntax1.png
if you want to test :
1/ download the patched version (5.01.1) here : http://leohome.free.fr/download/npp/notepad++.zip
NOTE : this version don't use %APPDATA (the configuration files are in the install directory)
2/ unzip the downloaded file where you want in your hard drive : all the files are in notepad++ directory
3/ if you want english localisation, open the explorer, go in the directory where npp was unziped and remove nativeLang.xml
4/ to start npp, double click on notepad++.exe : enjoy
HTH
Very nice, thanks for the reply! I'm not actively using Tcl at the moment so I will hope that it gets into an official build, but if not I'll give your patch a shot. Thanks again
Actually I just went back as far as 4.3 and I see the same problems - does anyone see this? The one problem in particular is that it is using c-style comments rather than "#" - those are styled as preprocessor.