I wanted to be able to use the "Comment Add" and "Comment Remove" to add and remove "> " e-mail quote marks in plain text files, or files that don't have a syntax highlight definition in the word file. I discovered that this isn't directly possible, but I worked around this limitation by creating the following definition in my word file:
This definition creates "> " as the quoting string, and indicates that it's only a quote when it occurs in the first column. It specifies all extensions (*), and disables string characters. The quotation marks around "String Chars =" is required to disable string highlighting (presumably, setting it to blank is the same as resetting it to the default, e.g. ' and "). I also set the open and close brace strings to empty ("") to disable brace highlighting for plain text.
After that, I went into the syntax highlight dialog and set the color for numbers to the same color as text for this language definition.
Now I can use the commenting commands to "quote" lines in plain text files.
Bill
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/L1"Text" "Line Comment Num = 2> " Line Comment Valid Columns = [1] File Extensions = * "String Chars ="
/Open Brace Strings = ""
/Close Brace Strings = ""After that, I went into the syntax highlight dialog and set the color for numbers to the same color as text for this language definition.
Now I can use the commenting commands to "quote" lines in plain text files.
Bill
