Notepad++ colour settings

Notepad++ colour settings

[richard.stephens]

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I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested 
by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them!

However, I do not really like the colour scheme and tried to alter the 
background colours by editing "Application 
Data/Notepad++/UserDefineLang.xml", shutting down Notepad++ and starting 
up again (via Npp.bat), but no change.  I also tried editing the "tex" 
entry in "Application Data/Notepad++/stylers.xml", but no joy.
I tried going to menu item Settings - Style Configurator, but Context 
isn't in the list of languages.

How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?

Richard Stephens

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Re: Notepad++ colour settings

[Hans Hagen]

richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:

> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?

does np++ has readable config files?

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Re: Notepad++ colour settings

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Hi,

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:12:31 -0600, <richard.stephens@converteam.com>  
wrote:

> I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested
> by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them!
>
> However, I do not really like the colour scheme and tried to alter the
> background colours by editing "Application
> Data/Notepad++/UserDefineLang.xml", shutting down Notepad++ and starting
> up again (via Npp.bat), but no change.  I also tried editing the "tex"
> entry in "Application Data/Notepad++/stylers.xml", but no joy.
> I tried going to menu item Settings - Style Configurator, but Context
> isn't in the list of languages.
>
> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?

Use the User Define Language dialog (the button to the left of the red-dot  
button)

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/UserLanguageDefineSystem-HOWTO.php

Choose ConTeXt and adjust anything you like (including color)!

Also, in Settings - Style Configurator, configure Global Styles.
There is also a Global Override option.

So there is a global color scheme and a language-specific one.

Best wishes
Idris

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Re: Notepad++ colour settings

[John Culleton]

On Friday 02 November 2007 08:12:31 am richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
> I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested
> by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them!
>
> However, I do not really like the colour scheme and tried to alter the
> background colours by editing "Application
> Data/Notepad++/UserDefineLang.xml", shutting down Notepad++ and starting
> up again (via Npp.bat), but no change.  I also tried editing the "tex"
> entry in "Application Data/Notepad++/stylers.xml", but no joy.
> I tried going to menu item Settings - Style Configurator, but Context
> isn't in the list of languages.
>
> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?
>
> Richard Stephens

You might have more luck with Vim/Gvim which has an open-ended syntax 
highlighting scheme with almost 500 files named e.g., cobol.vim in the 
subdirectory syntax. It will do automatic sensing by suffix but you can 
manually select one too.  It even has one for Context. 

 You can modify the syntax files if you like or create new ones but either 
task looks like an all-day project to me. 

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Re: Notepad++ colour settings

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:44:14 -0600, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
>
>> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?
>
> does np++ has readable config files?

Npp uses xml files for configuration mostly. Most of the *.xml and all of  
the *.api files (autocompletion) are quite readable, though stylers.xml is  
pretty ugly. OTOH stylers.xml is easily configured through the gui, and  
much more fun.

Best wishes
Idris

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Re: Notepad++ colour settings

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, John Culleton wrote:

> On Friday 02 November 2007 08:12:31 am richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
>> I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested
>> by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them!
>>
>> However, I do not really like the colour scheme and tried to alter the
>> background colours by editing "Application
>> Data/Notepad++/UserDefineLang.xml", shutting down Notepad++ and starting
>> up again (via Npp.bat), but no change.  I also tried editing the "tex"
>> entry in "Application Data/Notepad++/stylers.xml", but no joy.
>> I tried going to menu item Settings - Style Configurator, but Context
>> isn't in the list of languages.
>>
>> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?
>>
>> Richard Stephens
>
> You might have more luck with Vim/Gvim which has an open-ended syntax
> highlighting scheme with almost 500 files named e.g., cobol.vim in the
> subdirectory syntax. It will do automatic sensing by suffix but you can
> manually select one too.  It even has one for Context.
>
> You can modify the syntax files if you like or create new ones but either
> task looks like an all-day project to me.

I would like to disagree here. I love vim, and use it for all my editing 
tasks, but it is not easy to write a syntax file for vim. Simple syntax is 
easy, but getting correct syntax highlighting for context is a hard thing. 
I have been writing one syntax file for almost a year now, but it is not 
perfect. The difficulty is doing context sensitive highlighting. For 
example, for

\setupwhatver[key=value]

I want setupwhatever to be blue, and key=value to be red. Now sometimes, 
value is be a series of context commands entered as key={value}. In that 
case, I want everything in brackets to be hightlighted as the default 
context hightlighting (rather than red), so that if I make a mistake in 
the long statement, the syntax highlighting can help me. This is ok, but 
things gets hard when you want to do

\setupwhatever[before={\setupsomething[key=value]}].

And now, the same problem for key=value setting in the nested setup 
command.

There are other things which are difficult. \type is one command which I 
can never get to work. It is easy to get things like \type|command| or 
\type+command+ or \type{command} to give the correct highlighting, but 
something like \type{\command{parameter}} is hard.

I could not find enough hooks in the vim syntax highlighting to get 
everything that I want. I have not really looked at how configurable the 
highlighting features of other languages are. But what I want to say here 
is that writing syntax highlighting for context is hard. And it is 
certainly not a one day project.

Aditya
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Re: Notepad++ colour settings

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 03 November 2007 01:54:56 am Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, John Culleton wrote:
> > On Friday 02 November 2007 08:12:31 am richard.stephens@converteam.com 
wrote:
> >> I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested
> >> by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them!
> >>
> >> However, I do not really like the colour scheme and tried to alter the
> >> background colours by editing "Application
> >> Data/Notepad++/UserDefineLang.xml", shutting down Notepad++ and starting
> >> up again (via Npp.bat), but no change.  I also tried editing the "tex"
> >> entry in "Application Data/Notepad++/stylers.xml", but no joy.
> >> I tried going to menu item Settings - Style Configurator, but Context
> >> isn't in the list of languages.
> >>
> >> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?
> >>
> >> Richard Stephens
> >
> > You might have more luck with Vim/Gvim which has an open-ended syntax
> > highlighting scheme with almost 500 files named e.g., cobol.vim in the
> > subdirectory syntax. It will do automatic sensing by suffix but you can
> > manually select one too.  It even has one for Context.
> >
> > You can modify the syntax files if you like or create new ones but either
> > task looks like an all-day project to me.
>
> I would like to disagree here. I love vim, and use it for all my editing
> tasks, but it is not easy to write a syntax file for vim. Simple syntax is
> easy, but getting correct syntax highlighting for context is a hard thing.
> I have been writing one syntax file for almost a year now, but it is not
> perfect. The difficulty is doing context sensitive highlighting. For
> example, for
>
> \setupwhatver[key=value]
>
> I want setupwhatever to be blue, and key=value to be red. Now sometimes,
> value is be a series of context commands entered as key={value}. In that
> case, I want everything in brackets to be hightlighted as the default
> context hightlighting (rather than red), so that if I make a mistake in
> the long statement, the syntax highlighting can help me. This is ok, but
> things gets hard when you want to do
>
> \setupwhatever[before={\setupsomething[key=value]}].
>
> And now, the same problem for key=value setting in the nested setup
> command.
>
> There are other things which are difficult. \type is one command which I
> can never get to work. It is easy to get things like \type|command| or
> \type+command+ or \type{command} to give the correct highlighting, but
> something like \type{\command{parameter}} is hard.
>
> I could not find enough hooks in the vim syntax highlighting to get
> everything that I want. I have not really looked at how configurable the
> highlighting features of other languages are. But what I want to say here
> is that writing syntax highlighting for context is hard. And it is
> certainly not a one day project.
>
> Aditya

There is a file named context.vim in my 7.1 version of Gvim. I normally just 
use the default tex.vim file. Nikolai Weibull now@bitwi.se wrote it. Don't 
know if it meets all your desires however.  

I meant to say that writing a syntax file is not a trivial task. I haven't 
tired it yet. 



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http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm
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Re: Notepad++ colour settings

[richard.stephens]

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>> I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as 
suggested
>> by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them!
>>
>> However, I do not really like the colour scheme and tried to alter the
>> background colours by editing "Application
>> Data/Notepad++/UserDefineLang.xml", shutting down Notepad++ and 
starting
>> up again (via Npp.bat), but no change.  I also tried editing the "tex"
>> entry in "Application Data/Notepad++/stylers.xml", but no joy.
>> I tried going to menu item Settings - Style Configurator, but Context
>> isn't in the list of languages.
>>
>> How can I alter the default colour settings for ConTeXt, please?
>
> Use the User Define Language dialog (the button to the left of the 
red-dot 
> button)
>
> 
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/UserLanguageDefineSystem-HOWTO.php
>
> Choose ConTeXt and adjust anything you like (including color)!
>
> Also, in Settings - Style Configurator, configure Global Styles.
> There is also a Global Override option.
>
> So there is a global color scheme and a language-specific one.
>
> Best wishes
> Idris

Idris,

Thanks for your help. 

I was able to change the foreground colours from the "User Define" 
dialogue, but the background colour never changed.  Thanks to your 
pointer, I eventually found the global override for the background colour 
under "Settings - Styler Configurator - Global Styles - Global Override".

Regards,

Richard 

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