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Thank you very much, PhilHo for that lexer- that's great work. And thanks for the HowTo to n-l-i-d. This got me to trie it- before I just waited for Notepad++ to support AHK. Scite runs from USB-sticks and that was exactly what I needed.

By the way: The last post in the Notepad++ Forum by Notepad++ author DonHo , dated 2006-11-19 was

Anything new about that?

Boskoop

No, I am not satisfied with the current state of the lexer - decent, but very perfectible - and I started a quite different version. The project is currently sleeping (under a stack of other projects...), but requests like that reduce the delay before awakening... Thanks.

BTW, n-l-i-d, many thanks for this great tutorial!

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Another interesting question to ask would be also: Why is AutoIt already supported by Notepad++ but AutoHotkey not?

Boskoop provided the right answer/citation: my lexer isn't yet an official one (integrated to Scintilla).

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Thanks for your excellent work PhiLho.

I use Programmers Notepad 2 which uses the Scite lexer but i have been unsuccessful in trying to make a working ahk syntax highlighting for ahk. When i came upon this post i thought this would solve it but, i still have been unsuccessful in getting it to work. Anyone have an ideas?

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When I choose it on WinXPPro (Chinese language), It works fine. However, on Win2k, when I use your lexer and properties and then input Chinese characters , SciTE crashes.
The same case also occurs for the defaut ahk properties file ,which assigns the lexer to asm) , and scilex.dll regardless of xp and 2k. But everything is normal for the au3.
Btw, I use autoit4scite 1.72

I am not sure what can be the issue. You should try with WSciTE (standard SciTE distribution) to sort out if the problem is with SciTE or AutoIt4SciTE.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

I have tried out with both Wscite and Stite4AutoIt3. The case is same.
Now I have to comment

Then although there's a little problem to delete unicode charator, the chinese characters can be displayed correctly. ^_^
Another problem : some chinese charaters is colored as numbers

PhiLho thanks for your effort.
I like editing AHK with SciTE a lot.
But even with your actual version (2006-11-26) I cannot open the AHK help with F1 if I dont modify the follwing two lines in the ahk1.properties:
(removed both "1")



best wishes
CoPa

Thanks, it is likely a search/replace side-effect...
Compile was broken as well, so I replaced *.ahk1 with $(file.patterns.ahk), which makes more sense anyway.
If somebody wants to add *.ahi or *.ahki (include files), for example, he has to do it in one place only.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

As a user of both Notepad++ and AHK I wondered whether there was any syntax highlighting that was available for the one within the other and so came upon this thread which I have read with interest.

I also came upon an article: Automating Windows with Autohotkey, Monday January 16, 2006 (12:00 PM GMT) By: Dmitri Popov at http://software.newsforge.com/article.p ... 79&tid=130
which stated:

The extras folder is part of the AHK install and in the editors/notepad++ folder it has a script for installing AHK as a user defined language.

I have just installed it and am about to test it and see how useful it is, but I wonder does this have a bearing on the discussions in this thread?

Dear Philho,
I'm currently looking at Notepad++ as a possible replacement for PSPad which I'm currently using. I read that this project is put on hold. Could you please give some information when new updates could be expected?
Otherwise I will just try it with the current files. Thanks for the lexer

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Ciao
toralf

Uh, I am not sure what you mean by "this project".
If you mean my lexer, indeed it was some time since I last updated it. It is quite usable, with a few quirks. I still plan to go back to the project someday.

Now, the problem is that Notepad++ cannot use my lexer without changing the source of the editor. If you plan to do this, fine, many people will rejoice.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Reading this post from Skan suggests that it is possible to use it. Am I wrong?

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Ciao
toralf

Notepad++ allows to define a language highlighting, but it might be less powerful than my lexer, for a language as complex as AHK. It cannot use my SciLexer.dll without recompilation: list of languages is hard-coded, IIRC. I looked at its source, and of Notepad2, both are quite locked on the supported languages.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")