Comments in wordfile.txt..... How?

marlow · Nov 17, 2005#12005-11-17T22:56+00:00

Trying out UE32. Couldn't find this in help or forum search:

How are comments indicated in wordfile.txt? Or are they allowed?

To be clear: I mean comment lines ignored when UE loads wordfile.txt; not refering to comments in languages described in wordfile.txt.

TIA

Mofi · Nov 18, 2005#22005-11-18T12:14+00:00

Comments in the word file are simply not possible. If you want comments, create a copy of your wordfile and add the comments there. Use a syntax for your comments which allows you with a single and simple regular expression replace to remove all your comments, so you can easily produce the really used wordfile from the file with comments.

toddm · Nov 18, 2005#32005-11-18T19:27+00:00

Comments are possible with "//". I commented my C++ function list like this and it works fine.

marlow · Nov 18, 2005#42005-11-18T20:48+00:00

Thanks for the help.
Based on a quick test "//" did seem to work ok to comment lines in my wordfile. It may be an undocumented feature.

I commented 1 and changed 1 line:
///C1"Operators"
/C1"Oper-xx-ators"
and indeed in "Advanced/Config/Syntax Highlighting" the Color Group list for the language changed from "Operators" to "Oper-xx-ators" things seemed to work okay.

I'm a big fan of commenting and was surprised not to find the wordfile.txt commented. Actually, it'd be nice to be able to define syntax highilghting for wordfile.txt! I'll drop a note to UE & suggest they document the feature if it's safe to use. Less hassle than the good workaround suggested by Mofi.

(btw Mofi, I spent a several weeks last year in Germany & Austria--stayed in Reutte & nearby for a while and what a beautiful area that is! My first visit since the borders were made "nonstop"...really cool to be able to zip back and forth so easily.)

Nov 19, 2005#52005-11-19T02:24+00:00

The Comment info from the UE folks:

"//" isn't really officially a comment for the wordfile, but it essentially works out this way when the wordfile is parsed. I'd have to check with the developers to see if I should clearly indicate this in the Help files, but in practice you would be correct to consider it as such in the wordfile. We use "//" when testing function strings in the wordfile, i.e., //Function String = "foo" will not be executed while /Function String = "foo" will.

mjcarman · Nov 21, 2005#62005-11-21T19:28+00:00

marlow wrote:It'd be nice to be able to define syntax highilghting for wordfile.txt!

You can, of course. http://www.ultraedit.com/files/wf/wordfiles.uew

Though I prefer my own version:

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/L20"UltraEdit Wordfile" Escape Char = ^ Noquote File Extensions = UWF
/Function String = "%/L[0-9]+^"^(*^)^""
/C1
Alt
Block Brace
Char Chars Characters Close Comment
Delimiters
Escape Extensions
File Fold Function
Ignore Indent
Line
Marker
Nocase Noquote Num
On Off Open
Preceding
String Strings SOL
Unindent
/C2
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8
L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 L9 L10 L11 L12 L13 L14 L15 L16 L17 L18 L19 L20
/C3
HTML_LANG
FORTRAN_LANG
LATEX_LANG

Bego · Nov 22, 2005#72005-11-22T11:55+00:00

Hi mjcarman,

n1, dude

Also renaming the wordfile.txt to .uwf is a good idea to tell UE not to interpret the wordfile with "wrong" txt-Syntax-checking and manipulation (big/small letter conversion).

rds Bego

palou · Feb 07, 2006#82006-02-07T20:10+00:00

Hi all,

I personnally use the # symbol as comment
marker in the wordfile.txt. It seems to work until now (at least with
version 11.10a+4).

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/L10"VHDL" Line Comment = -- Nocase String Chars = " File Extensions = VHD VHO
/Delimiters = ,; (	)'<>=:+-/*|&
/Indent Strings = "begin" "else" "generate" "is" "loop" "then"
/Unindent Strings = "begin" "else" "elsif" "end"
/Function String = "%^([ ^t]++[A-Z][A-Z_0-9]+^)[ ^t]++:[ ^t]++block"
/Close Brace Strings = ")"
#/Function String = "%[ ^t]++^([A-Z][A-Z_0-9]+[ ^t]++:[ ^t]++^{block^}^{process^}^)"
#/Function String 1 = "%[ ^t]++^([A-Z][A-Z_0-9]+[ ^t]++:[ ^t]++process[ ^t]++(*)^)"
/C1"VHDL reserved words"

Regards from Switzerland.

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