How to add scheme for a new programming language which is unsupported by Notepad3 ?

[aks2161989]

Hi,

This is a question, not a bug report.

First of all I would like to thank/congratulate you for developing this featureful editor. It opens in a jiffy and is very useful!

Is there a way to add syntax highlighting for a new programming language without recompiling Notepad3 ?

Regards,
Akshay

[RaiKoHoff]

Hello @aks2161989,
sorry, there is no way to add a new programming language syntax highlighting to Notepad3 w/o adding necessary program code to Notepad3 (and recompile).
Things to do:

1. Choose a lexer from Scintilla repository (or code your own lexer like LexTOML.cxx)
2. Code the corresponding lexer styles for keyword and features of the lexer.
3. Add the new code to Notepad3's repository and build a new version.

There is a request to add a "generic" lexer to Notepad3 (#1135) with a configurable syntax/style definition, like Notepad++ has, but we don't have this yet.

[RaiKoHoff]

@aks2161989 : which programming language syntax highlighting are you missing ?

[hpwamr]

Hello @aks2161989 ,
As far as I'm concerned, I think you (as requester) can close this issue...

[aks2161989]

@RaiKoHoff Thank you for the clear instructions. You have solved my doubts.
Regards.