script hilighting is messed up with ASP

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#650 script hilighting is messed up with ASP

Milestone: Bug

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Neil Hodgson

Labels: Scintilla (834) lexilla (55) asp (2)

Priority: 3

Updated: 2023-07-26

Created: 2008-01-29

Creator: Anonymous

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I'm currently using Notepad++ 4.0.2 because this is the last clean version before this bug appeared and still continues.

Example: an ASP file:

<% 'comment %>
<html>
</html>

the script hilighting continues past the end of the script tag "%>" and into the html code below. The workaround is to put the tags and comment on separate lines. I hope this gets fixed in a future release. Thanks.
-Barrie

Related

Bugs: ~~#1942~~

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Neil Hodgson - 2008-01-29

priority: 5 --> 3

assigned_to: nobody --> nyamatongwe

status: open --> open-accepted
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- Peter - 2013-02-26
  
  Neil, could you look into this? A fix is provided:
  
  http://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/bugs/2890/
  
  thanks.
  P.
  
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Neil Hodgson - 2008-01-29

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I won't be working on this myself.

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kger - 2008-02-27

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This appears to have started with 1.72 of the lexer; 1.71 does not exhibit this behavior.

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kger - 2008-03-04

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By the way, you can copy the 1.71 version of the lexer DLL into the Notepad++ directory and it will restore the correct syntax highlighting behavior. I just keep a copy of that DLL around and overwrite the installed one every time I install a new version of NPP.

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Peter - 2013-02-26

This is still not fixed in version 227 and I found a solution here:

http://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/bugs/2890/

This highly visible bug annoys me everyday!

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- Neil Hodgson - 2013-02-26
  
  The patch undoes a fix from December 2006 which was to handle this example
  
  <%@ LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" %>  <% 'Here is error number 4: 'objXML.loadXML("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ACTIONRESULTXML/>") Dim strTest strTest = "MySample" %>
  
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  - Peter - 2013-02-26
    
    Ok, so in your opinion where should a fix (any fix) be applied to? Function "stateAllowsTermination" or some other place? I am a developer myself, I could look into this but I need some clues!
    
    Thanks!
    
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    - Neil Hodgson - 2013-02-26
      
      Discovering where and what to change is the work involved in fixing this. I have already said that I won't be working on this issue myself.
      
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Zufu Liu - 2022-04-09

labels: Scintilla --> Scintilla, lexilla, asp
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Zufu Liu - 2023-07-22

status: open-accepted --> open-fixed
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Neil Hodgson - 2023-07-26

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed
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