There has to be a way to implement the highlighting so that its on all the time and shows all the brackets instead of having to click behind each individual bracket...If someone knows a plugin or can help me accomplish this it would be much appreciated.
I am acutally surprised this is not main feature because for those who are very skilled typers and find the colour annoying they would just have to change the colour to black to turn the feature "OFF"
Just to make sure I'm clear I am looking for a modification to the style configurator so that the following Global Styles, "Brace highlight style" and "Bad brace color" are permanently active for ALL brackets while editing a file in notepad++
As I said above...if it get annoying I simply have to change to two colours to black to shut it off :)
Thanks in advance for your help
McCoy
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This sort of feature can be easily implemented in an Lex<something> lexer file. If recompiling Scintilla that nonstandard way, we can get it in Ntepad++. I don't know how much of a trouble a nonstandard SciLexer.dll would be, but this doesn't seem to be afavoured route.
CChris
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Post this on IdeaTorrent, and I'll +1 it. Or even the ability to color differently depending on the nesting level, or simply use two alternating styles so as to easily read stacked braces.
This requires changes in Scintilla code basically (all the lexer files), so I wouldn't expect it soon. Perhaps asking on Scintilla's forum as well may help.
CChris
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Well I got word back from the scintilla dev...he admits the feature would be useful...but thinks its more effort then its worth so he won't be implementing it :(
I'm not sure what ideatorrent is...but I guess its the only hope I have left.
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There has to be a way to implement the highlighting so that its on all the time and shows all the brackets instead of having to click behind each individual bracket...If someone knows a plugin or can help me accomplish this it would be much appreciated.
I am acutally surprised this is not main feature because for those who are very skilled typers and find the colour annoying they would just have to change the colour to black to turn the feature "OFF"
Just to make sure I'm clear I am looking for a modification to the style configurator so that the following Global Styles, "Brace highlight style" and "Bad brace color" are permanently active for ALL brackets while editing a file in notepad++
As I said above...if it get annoying I simply have to change to two colours to black to shut it off :)
Thanks in advance for your help
McCoy
This sort of feature can be easily implemented in an Lex<something> lexer file. If recompiling Scintilla that nonstandard way, we can get it in Ntepad++. I don't know how much of a trouble a nonstandard SciLexer.dll would be, but this doesn't seem to be afavoured route.
CChris
Post this on IdeaTorrent, and I'll +1 it. Or even the ability to color differently depending on the nesting level, or simply use two alternating styles so as to easily read stacked braces.
This requires changes in Scintilla code basically (all the lexer files), so I wouldn't expect it soon. Perhaps asking on Scintilla's forum as well may help.
CChris
I was hoping the solution would be easier...but thanks for your advice. You can find and support my suggestion by following the url below
http://www.ideatorrent.org/ideatorrent/idea/19/
You can also follow it at the scintilla site by following the below url
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3353366&forum_id=331754
Umm...this is embarrasing...but the url above is obviously incorrect and I cannot edit my post. Anyways the correct url for the scintilla feature thread is below...
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2833009&group_id=2439&atid=352439
Well I got word back from the scintilla dev...he admits the feature would be useful...but thinks its more effort then its worth so he won't be implementing it :(
I'm not sure what ideatorrent is...but I guess its the only hope I have left.