1. Reformatting lines in addition to re-indenting the lines
The command
Reindent selection is just for reindenting the lines within a selection. It does not reformat the lines by inserting line breaks, removing or adding spaces around brackets, etc. UltraEdit has built-in the support for the third-party tool Artistic Style Formatter which is installed with UltraEdit. That tool really reformats a source code file according to multiple available options. But that tool supports only a specific set of programming languages. TCL/TK is not included as supported language.
However, reformatting of lines before reindenting them can be done with an UltraEdit macro or an UltraEdit script using regular expression replaces. Here is a macro example:
Code: Select all
InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
Top
TrimTrailingSpaces
PerlReOn
Find MatchCase RegExp "^(?:.(?!{{))+\K}}$"
Replace All "}\r\n}"
Top
Find MatchCase RegExp "}\r\n\K(?:\r\n)+([\t ]*?)(?=})"
Replace All "\1"
SelectAll
ReIndentSelection
Top
The macro first deletes all trailing normal spaces and horizontal tabs in entire file. Next it runs a case-sensitive (faster) Perl regular expression replace all searching for a line ending with
}} not having
{{ left in the line and inserts a carriage return and a line-feed (DOS/Windows line ending) between the two closing braces. It next runs one more case-sensitive Perl regular expression replace all to find one or more empty lines between a line ending with
} and another line having also a closing brace after 0 or more horizontal tabs or normal spaces. Finally the entire file is selected, the command reindent selection is executed and the caret is moved to top of the script. The attached ZIP file contains
tcl_test.tcl reformatted and reindented by this macro.
2. Highlight everything from # with a color, except ...
The syntax highlighting of UltraEdit is strictly word based. It is not possible to take the context of a word or a word delimiter like
# into account. So it is impossible to define a rule like:
- highlight everything from # to end of the line,
- except there is left the string update and one or more spaces/tabs and there is next to # a digit,
- and do not interpret one or more } as part of the string to highlight.
There are text editors which support regular expression search strings in the syntax highlighting definition file making it possible to use complex Perl compatible regular expressions to take the context around strings (not words) to highlight with a specific color into account. But UltraEdit v28.20 does not yet support Perl regular expressions for syntax highlighting, just for finding strings to show in the function list.
Syntax highlighting of UltraEdit supports only four types to highlight more than one word:
- Line comments ... cannot be used here as there are lines with } which does not belong to the comment.
- Block comments ... cannot be used here too for the same reason as for line comments.
- Strings ... cannot be used here too for the same reason as for line comments.
- Marker characters which is a pair of word characters, more precisely word delimiters, to highlight everything from first to second character of the marker characters pair in same line. If a line has only the first marker character, but not the second marker character, nothing is highlighted in that line.
The attached ZIP file contains such a marker characters definition. The string from first to second marker character is highlighted with the color of the color group on where this marker character pair is added like a word to highlight. So there is a string containing the two word delimiters
#} in the added color group 13 with the name
Comments/Braces interpreted by UltraEdit not as word to highlight, but as information that the string from first to second marker character should be highlighted with the color and font style defined for this color group.
Something better is unfortunately not possible for TCL/TK syntax highlighting.
3. Contents of the attached ZIP file
The attached ZIP file contains a once more updated syntax highlighting wordfile for TCL/TK
- with keyphrase Line Comment = removed;
- with the delimiters sorted (not really necessary, but I favor that);
- with resorted words as required for a valid UE/UES syntax highlighting wordfile;
- with expression operator / defined correct by using at beginning of the line // as required as otherwise UE/UES interpret this character as beginning of one of its keyphrases;
- with ** $ removed from color group 10 and 11 because of strings starting with $ are highlighted already with the settings of color group 9;
- with color group 13 with name Comments/Braces added of which color and font style settings are used for strings between the marker characters #} and the word delimiters # { and }. The color and font style for this added color group must be configured by you in the Manage Themes dialog window on tab Syntax for language Tcl/Tk.
The ZIP file contains also the reformatted and reindented example file
tcl_test.tcl.
