ABAQUS Input file editor with highlighting and code folding capabilities

[farshid75z]

Hi,

Notepad++ is my text editor of choice for many projects, but for ABAQUS input files, it does not do the code folding, as discussed in the following thread:

thread799-324132

Since the thread is closed now, I put my solution here. For the moment, I use the Sc1 from Scintilla project (FYI, Scintilla is the text-editing library behind several editors, including Notepad++):
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Download the single 720KB executable file for Windows. Apparently, it is not as feature-rich as Notepad++, but it does the syntax highlighting plus code folding for .inp files. The only issue on my Win7x64 machine is when I fold the blocks individually it freezes. If this happens to you, select "Toggle all folds" from "View" menu, and everything should work fine.

Do you know any other editor for this purpose? Or preferably a solution using Notepad++?

Kind regards,
Farshid

 

[PrabuddhaUoP]

Hi Farshid,

Thank you very much for sharing. I have searched for such an editor and Sc1 works like a charm. the User Defined Language xml for Notepad++ will not fold the code (As of 25/04/14). It has to be mentioned that the full download (zip) or the Windows installer versions of SciTE do not detect Abaqus input files (As of 25/04/14).

Kind Regards,
Prabuddha

 

[IceBreakerSours]

I managed to get the code folding to work with Notepad++. I also had a bunch of other cool features in it (multiple window editing, running jobs from a command prompt inside Notepad++, document map, etc.).

However, Notepad++ has a severe limitation: it sucks at handling large files. That is why I switched over the gVim. Code folding and highlighting are enabled by default in gVim.

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[SweetAbaqus]

Awesome find, thanks Farshid!