There's an official word for lines that are in the left margin of code that match an IF with the appropriate ENDIF.
Whatever that is, is there a way to do this with UltraEdit?
Whatever that is, is there a way to do this with UltraEdit?
Are you talking about preprocessor directives or statements/keywords? In some languages IF - ENDIF are statements/keywords, in other languages these are preprocessor directives.
However, you can use Search - Match Brace to find the matching statement/keyword/directive. You just have to add these 2 words to the list of open and close brace strings in your syntax highlighting wordfile for the language used to highlight your source files.
Open Advanced - Configuration - Editor Display - Syntax Highlighting and press the button Open right to the file name of the syntax highlighting wordfile you currently use, if you don't have open a project with a project specific wordfile. Close the configuration dialog with button Cancel.
Find the line which starts with /Lx"..." with x is a number in the range of 1 ... 20 and "..." is the name of the language you see in the status bar at bottom of the UltraEdit window or in menu View - View As (Highlighting File Type) when one of your source file is the active file.
Between this language definition line and the line starting with /C1 you should see something like following:
/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "["
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]"
If you can't see these lines, insert them above the line starting with /C1. Next modify it to:
/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "[" "IF"
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]" "ENDIF"
Save the wordfile and you can immediately test, if command match brace now works for IF - ENDIF too.
Additionally I suggest to specify IF and ENDIF also as code folding keywords.
/Open Fold Strings = "IF"
/Close Fold Strings = "ENDIF"
or maybe even better
/Open Fold Strings = "IF" "ELSE"
/Close Fold Strings = "ELSE" "ENDIF"
Now you can easily fold (make hidden) all lines between matching IF - ELSE, ELSE - ENDIF and IF - ENDIF statements/keywords/directives.
For more details see in help of UltraEdit the page about syntax highlighting and the readme topic in the syntax highlighting forum.
However, you can use Search - Match Brace to find the matching statement/keyword/directive. You just have to add these 2 words to the list of open and close brace strings in your syntax highlighting wordfile for the language used to highlight your source files.
Open Advanced - Configuration - Editor Display - Syntax Highlighting and press the button Open right to the file name of the syntax highlighting wordfile you currently use, if you don't have open a project with a project specific wordfile. Close the configuration dialog with button Cancel.
Find the line which starts with /Lx"..." with x is a number in the range of 1 ... 20 and "..." is the name of the language you see in the status bar at bottom of the UltraEdit window or in menu View - View As (Highlighting File Type) when one of your source file is the active file.
Between this language definition line and the line starting with /C1 you should see something like following:
/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "["
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]"
If you can't see these lines, insert them above the line starting with /C1. Next modify it to:
/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "[" "IF"
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]" "ENDIF"
Save the wordfile and you can immediately test, if command match brace now works for IF - ENDIF too.
Additionally I suggest to specify IF and ENDIF also as code folding keywords.
/Open Fold Strings = "IF"
/Close Fold Strings = "ENDIF"
or maybe even better
/Open Fold Strings = "IF" "ELSE"
/Close Fold Strings = "ELSE" "ENDIF"
Now you can easily fold (make hidden) all lines between matching IF - ELSE, ELSE - ENDIF and IF - ENDIF statements/keywords/directives.
For more details see in help of UltraEdit the page about syntax highlighting and the readme topic in the syntax highlighting forum.
Perhaps what he means is to have fold regions marked by a line in the left margin, like this:
I don't think that's possible with UE.
I don't think that's possible with UE.
pietzcker -
That's exactly what I am looking for. It would be GREAT if UE would have this option with the ability to print.
For very lengthy programs it would be a life-saver.
Considering that UE can help identify matches already, the addition of a line to the left that is printable seems doable...
I'm really surprised that no one has done this yet.
That's exactly what I am looking for. It would be GREAT if UE would have this option with the ability to print.
For very lengthy programs it would be a life-saver.
Considering that UE can help identify matches already, the addition of a line to the left that is printable seems doable...
I'm really surprised that no one has done this yet.
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I'm also looking for a way to highlight syntax matches for HTML tags. Folding is useful in some cases but most of the time I just want to see highlighted text
In wordfile.txt, In the section that starts with,
/L3"HTML" HTML_LANG
I added,
/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "[" "<div"
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]" "</div"
Auto syntax highlighting is turned on.
In wordfile.txt, In the section that starts with,
/L3"HTML" HTML_LANG
I added,
/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "[" "<div"
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]" "</div"
Auto syntax highlighting is turned on.
New version 15.10 -
Cool stuff, but disappointment when it comes to IF/THEN (logic) "staples". (see pietzcker above)
I can collapse code, yes. But I can not visually see nested loop lines - I have notches, but they do not indicate which IF matches an ENDIF.
Not only that, but it still doesn't print!!
Please, please consider giving us a more robust logic staples that actually match & print....
Cool stuff, but disappointment when it comes to IF/THEN (logic) "staples". (see pietzcker above)
I can collapse code, yes. But I can not visually see nested loop lines - I have notches, but they do not indicate which IF matches an ENDIF.
Not only that, but it still doesn't print!!
Please, please consider giving us a more robust logic staples that actually match & print....
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It would be really great if folded code could have the option of having the entire line highlighted so that it is not so easy to delete the folded code.