Notepad++ and EasyLanguage

January 7th, 2021, 11:04 AM

sgjohnson

Hm. It seems NPP doesn't do EasyLanguage multi-line comments correctly if you're commenting out anything with brackets already in them.

I will take a look at this. I'm working on the dark theme in the next few weeks, so maybe I will look at this at the same time. Can you point me in the right direction with a language in NPP that does multi-line comments as you described?

January 7th, 2021, 12:26 PM

vmodus

I will take a look at this. I'm working on the dark theme in the next few weeks, so maybe I will look at this at the same time. Can you point me in the right direction with a language in NPP that does multi-line comments as you described?

I don't think the particular language is the issue. It's just an issue with NPP. If you create a completely new language and use an open bracket as the opening of the block comment and the close bracket as the closing of the block comment, it still does the same thing. Take this block for example:

Code

{ trend:=	if (barstate.isfirst) {
			1
		} else {
			if (close>nz(resistance[1])) {
				1
			} else {
				if (close<nz(support[1])) {
					-1
				} else {
					nz(trend[1])
				}
			}
		}


if first bar, trend equals 1, or if close is greater than resistance of last bar, equals 1,
or if close is less than support of last bar, equals -1, otherwise trend of last bar }

This was a nested ternary operation from a PineScript indicator I converted to if-else to help me understand it so I could convert to EasyLanguage. I just copied and pasted into the code I already had to make it convenient to look at. If you copy and paste into TDE, it's commented out, but not in NPP. Not completely anyway. Some is, some isn't. It's not a huge deal. I can always use line comments since it's not terribly difficult to read.

January 7th, 2021, 01:58 PM

sgjohnson

I don't think the particular language is the issue. It's just an issue with NPP. If you create a completely new language and use an open bracket as the opening of the block comment and the close bracket as the closing of the block comment, it still does the same thing. Take this block for example:

This was a nested ternary operation from a PineScript indicator I converted to if-else to help me understand it so I could convert to EasyLanguage. I just copied and pasted into the code I already had to make it convenient to look at. If you copy and paste into TDE, it's commented out, but not in NPP. Not completely anyway. Some is, some isn't. It's not a huge deal. I can always use line comments since it's not terribly difficult to read.

Thanks. I'm wondering if those characters can be escaped somehow, if you know what I mean. I'm not sure how flexible the language editor is, but I will take a look at it anyhow.

I'll post any updates on this thread.

January 7th, 2021, 03:42 PM

Actually, line comments don't seem to work either. NPP sees a close bracket as ending the comment regardless if it's preceded by a line comment on the same line. Weird.

October 10th, 2022, 01:40 PM

Thank you for this! Is there a way for Notepad++ to show function details when typing in the function, as in the EL/PL editor?

October 10th, 2022, 05:11 PM

vmodus

You can pretty much design any language.

Nice work V....I use Notepad++ for fast searches thru the EasyLanguage source code, code comparisons using the Compare plug-in and for sending the source code to Github for versioning and archiving. It's a heckuva free tool.

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