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html syntax highlight quirk

2008-03-05
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    This has been persistant for me since version 4.0 in Notepad++.

    In my blog template, I display an actively updated list from blogrolling.com.  In the code for the blogroll, I use a couple of <script> elements.  There's this one part where I make a comment inside the script element so that it's not empty.  I notice that when I enter the <!-- and --> at the beginning and end of the comment, the <!-- is purple instead of the usual green.  I couldn't figure it out until I noticed that the only difference between the location of this script and any other script I use is that it's a .php file.

    If you use <script src=".php"><!-- comment --></script> does that little quirk happen for anybody else?

     
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      I think this is the same problem I've seen with ASP files (using embedded VBscript).  I've temporarily solved this by copying version 1.71 of SciLexer.dll into the Notepad++ installation directory.  This problem started with v1.72 of that DLL. 

      There is a bug tracking entry on the SciTE bug list, but someone responded "I won't be working on this", so I'm not holding my breath for a solution.