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I would like to share something with the community that my team came up with a couple of years ago and that I've been using a lot over the past month as I develop strategies and studies in EasyLanguage. I use Notepad++ in my daily life outside of trading for developing a ton of code in a number of different languages.
I often like to code outside the TradeStation Development Environment, for a number of reasons. The main reason is that I suffered a major crash of TradeStation and lost half day's work. I have a couple of version control mechanisms in place that constantly save my file changes in Notepad++, so I never lose my work.
How to install:
Download the XML file attached to this forum post: EasyLanguage.xml
In the User Defined Language dialog box, I have defined the file extension esl for EasyLanguage. This means every time I open or save a file with that extension, the context highlighting will be applied. You can change this to whatever file extension you may prefer.
To apply the language immediately to an unsaved document,
From the menu, click: Language > EasyLanguage. It's that easy!
This is awesome, thank you so much for the great share.
If possible I have a little feature request. Since the usual TS IDE as well as NPP usually defaulted to white background for development, it will be great that if we can make the IDE into dark mode (or dark color background, better for the eyes).
Is there any chance we can do a slight mod to the XML so that the it will work with dark background? (or by any chance you also use sublime text and may have EasyLanguage addon for Sublime?)
I'm glad this is useful for you. Hmmmmm...... dark background. Maybe you can check out these themes: https://cyberspacehawk.com/notepaddark-theme/ I have not used a theme before, so I don't know how the language will look. By coincidence, I just switched my PC over to dark theme a few days ago, so this is a very timely question.
I'm kind of old school..... my first computer black screen with amber characters and just block graphics, so I like the dark theme.
Personally, I'm not happy with my comment font, but I've been too lazy to fiddle with it.
I don't use sublime, but maybe we'll give a swing when I have some free time. I will let you know what I come up with for the Notepad++.
FYI....I just remembered there was a thread on the TradeStation community forums where someone did something similar. You might want to search "Notepad++" over there.
I didn't knew one could add languages to Notepad++, generally I just use Notepad on my system to do modifications and editing too, it works much better than default Pine editing window, so I'm curious if Pine could be added to the Notepad ++ too.
