A Notepad++ language file for BricsCAD LISP

Wiebe van der Worp

Hi everyone

For those of you using Notepad++: I created a language file for CAD LISP and Notepad++. It includes BricsCAD functions with syntax highlighting set to italics if the competition's function is lacking.

Hope you like it, otherwise: modify to taste. You'll find it here: http://nedcad.nl/en/notepad-syntax-highlighting-for-cad-lisp/

Torsten Moses

Dear Wiebe,

that lanugaue definition misses all the VLA functions :-)
And also all those pre-defined "constants" (like NIL, T, and all that many "acXXXX" constants generated from COM side).

I have attached my AutoLISP definition used with UltraEdit - it is plan text, so you can easily see all the keywards, constants etc.
Hope, that NPP is able to handle those many keywords :-)

many greetings !

Torsten Moses

oops - now attached again as ZIP ...

Wiebe van der Worp

Hi Torsten

I only wanted syntax highlighting, so VLA is supplied as wildcard pattern. And Notorious++ is known for its limits indeed...

I'll give it a short try and see how far I come... more soon.

Roy Klein Gebbinck

A Notepad++ user defined language can handle the large set of keywords, but the 3000+ function names have to be split up as they exceed the limits of a single keyword group.

Wiebe van der Worp

Torsten, you use 8 classes in UEW. NPP is limited to 8 Keywords List fields. That looks like "just enough", but it is not. So I've been shuffling a bit to solve the issue you and Roy came up with:

Classes Torsten uses:
line /Class
21 /C1 (constants)
1212 /C2 (standard autolisp)
1480 /C3 (visuallisp 'vl-')
1567 /C4 (visuallisp 'vlr-')
1614 /C5 (visuallisp 'vlax-')
1693 /C6 (visuallisp 'vla-')
3658 /C7 (visuallisp others)
3712 /C8 (VLE extension library)
3800 EOF

What one sees in NPP after choosing "Language" > "Define Language":

NPP Group 1: Prefix, quote ', defun, c:
NPP Group 2: BricsCAD only functions, italic, acos, atanh, ...
NPP Group 3: AutoCAD 2016 functions, -, *, ... , zerop, Should cover TM Class 2
NPP Group 4: Constants, Covers TM Class 1
NPP Group 5: Test Values, T nil 0 1 TRUE FALSE Y N y n
NPP Group 6: TM Class 3 ... 7, part to end of vla-get*
NPP Group 7: TM Class 3 ... 7, part starting with vla-handletoobject
NPP Group 8: VLE functions, underlined, vle-*, TM Class 8

Torsten, do you mind reusing the UEW file? If not, this NPP Language file should be a nice addition without inventing the wheel again. It may be a bit overkill though, with all the extra commands written out in full.

File for NPP is enclosed...

Torsten Moses

Dear Wiebe,
"Torsten, do you mind reusing the UEW file?"

Not at all :-) That's why I had provided that UEW language file here (and btw., it is part of free "Lisp Developer Support Package" as well, see AppCatalog).

Would be great if you can integrate all into NPP ...
many greetings & good luck !

Ewen Wallace

I put up a gist quite some time ago for Notepad++ AutoLisp highlighting at https://gist.github.com/CADbloke/7481998. It's probably not as good as the one posted here (I didn't check) but feel free to use it as a resource if you can get any value from it.

There is also a list of user-contributed language files for NP++ at docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/User_Defined_Language_Files

Wiebe van der Worp

Hi Ewen, you inspired me to change some things after using yours with much pleasure in the past - thanks by the way, assuming you are CADbloke. With holidays in the past and some dead lines in the future... I will post the bulky one soon. It does have some limitations I am not happy with, maybe someone can help. More soon...

Wiebe van der Worp

Updated and published here: http://nedcad.nl/en/tools/

Stuff to read, stuff to download.

TerryMulhern

@Ewen Wallace said:

I put up a gist quite some time ago for Notepad++ AutoLisp highlighting at https://gist.github.com/CADbloke/7481998. It's probably not as good as the one posted here (I didn't check) but feel free to use it as a resource if you can get any value from it.

There is also a list of user-contributed language files for NP++ at http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/User_Defined_Essayagency_Language_Files

Hello Ewen,

Thanks for sharing. I thought about creating an AutoLISP language file for Notepad++ too some years ago, however, I didn't even start, as I regularly used VLIDE for Notepad++ for everything else. Would you recommend DCL as well?

Ewen Wallace

@TerryMulhern said:
Would you recommend DCL as well?

I have almost zero experience with DCL, my UI stuff is in WPF & C#. If you know DCL then that will be a lot more straightforward than WPF ... but so is rocket surgery.