vmodus 

You can pretty much design any language. I did it for an obscure language I use for Oracle EBS, so I figured EL would be great, too. For EasyLanguage, I had my assistant modify the SQL language. I gave her a list of the known functions and this is what she came up with. If you have a list of functions, reserved words, etc. you can always Pine (or pretty much any other language) a try.

Thank you for that, I do indeed have list as Pine has documentations available, so its just matter of copy pasting from functions area. I don't think I can do SQL thing though, will look up tutorials online on this. Thanks a lot

syswizard 

Nice work and thanks for this. Do you know if this will help with the automatic formatting of the Easy Language code ? Wow, that would be terrific feature.

Do you mean outlining? Toolbox I don't use outlining, but it is useful. Right now, I think only the commenting collapses. Maybe I can integrate this into future versions of this language.

LastDino 

Thank you for that, I do indeed have list as Pine has documentations available, so its just matter of copy pasting from functions area. I don't think I can do SQL thing though, will look up tutorials online on this. Thanks a lot

You're welcome. You can always import the EasyLanguage xml into Notepad++, save it with a new name, then replace the EasyLanguage keywords with the Pine keywords. Fiddle with the Comments and Operators/Delimiters and you will be on your way.

You can have different styles for different types of keywords, as shown here:



You can also associate file extensions, so I use .esl since it isn't used for anything else on my PC.

I hope this helps!

rc76 

Much thanks vmodus! Yes actually I have tried to PM plankConst on Tradestation forum, however didn't get a reply and it seems he hasn't post on TS forum since 2018? He did show a dark background version of EL syntax for NP++, but I cannot find the xml for such syntax anyway on the forum.

Thanks for the feedback. I think I would need to add this to a theme, or maybe I could just hack the XML file. I was looking at the Dracula theme and I think it would not be too difficult. I may do it once my list of projects is whittled down to something manageable.

I will post updates on this thread. Just don't hold your breath....it may be a while.

vmodus 

You're welcome. You can always import the EasyLanguage xml into Notepad++, save it with a new name, then replace the EasyLanguage keywords with the Pine keywords. Fiddle with the Comments and Operators/Delimiters and you will be on your way. You can have different styles for different types of keywords, as shown here: You can also associate file extensions, so I use .esl since it isn't used for anything else on my PC. I hope this helps!

It will, thanks again

vmodus 

Do you mean outlining?

No, I meant formatting as in smart indenting of if-then-else, Begin/End statements, etc.

syswizard 

No, I meant formatting as in smart indenting of if-then-else, Begin/End statements, etc.

Yeah, not sure about that, but I'll look into it when I try to do a dark theme. I know there is 'auto-indent' as an option in Preferences, but language or keyword specific....not sure about.

vmodus 

Thanks for the feedback. I think I would need to add this to a theme, or maybe I could just hack the XML file. I was looking at the Dracula theme and I think it would not be too difficult. I may do it once my list of projects is whittled down to something manageable. I will post updates on this thread. Just don't hold your breath....it may be a while.

That do be super awesome! Thank you vmodus!

Just FYI, if you get the following error when applying the language:
An exception occurred due to plugin: DSpellCheck.dll
Exception reason: vector<T> too long

...just update the DSpellCheck.dll plugin via Plugins menu --> Plugin admin...

Apparently, plugins don't get updated along with the main program. I removed the Language, readded, then applied, and didn't receive the error.

Source: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/17212/an-exception-occured-due-to-plugin-dspellcheck-dll

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