Re: Syntax highlighter for Xy in PsPad or some other external editor

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Notepad++ allows user-defined languages. I have just played around with
the feature a bit (I hadn't used it before). You can define a
"delimiter" to open with ®MDSU¯ (for example) and close with ®MDNM¯, and
select the color for all the text from the start of the opening
delimiter to the end of the closing one. That won't handle strings like
®MDIT¯italics®MDBO¯bold®MDNM¯, however. But there are several options
that I haven't explored.


I don't understand the character encodings. The string «MDNM» displays
by default as ®MDNM¯; I can't see an encoding option that displays it at
«MDNM».


Martin

On 6/11/2013 9:44 AM, Kari Eveli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to enable PsPad (http://www.pspad.com/en/) to show
> Xy codes in user highlighter mode. When I make a User Highlighter
> definition with 'Allowed chars in KeyWords' as NOT INCLUDING '«»' and
> 'Keywords' as MDNM etc., I get highlights for MDNM etc., but if I
> include '«»' and set 'Keywords' as «MDNM», they show properly only if
> not directly followed by a character, that is '«MDNM» word' is ok,
> but '«MDNM»word' shows no highlight. This depends on the internal
> workings of PsPad, so I think PsPad is not able show proper
> formatting for XyWrite. Has someone tried something similar with
> success? Is there a better candidate for editing Xy files externally
> with highlighting?
>
> Best regards,
>
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