Notepad++ with Abaqus Language Keyword and Highlighting

[teedit]

Has anyone successfully used Notepad++ to highlight and Collapse/Fold Abaqus input files?

 

[IceBreakerSours]

Man! Wouldn't that be nice? I tried once but it took too long. If you ever manage to get the style configured, please post it for the rest of us!

http://www.eng-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=376

 

[IceBreakerSours]

Marian Meinhard has done us Abaqus/Notepad++ users a huge service! And it works like a charm!

This is what Marian asked me to do:

Visit:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=User_Defined_Language_Files

Then, start Notepad++ => "View" => "User Defined Dialogue.."

Next, import the downloaded file (userDefineLang.xml). In the "User Language" drop-down menu, you should now see Abaqus, which you are free to edit.

~!ce.

http://www.eng-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=376

 

[teedit]

Yes, that works good for syntax highlighting. I'm still interested in code folding however and see that as the holy grail for the Abaqus language.

With a bit of research I found the following discussion on adding Abaqus as a language

https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/forums/forum/331754/topic/3221287

Notepad++ can be downloaded here

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/resources.html

The source code can be found here

http://download.tuxfamily.org/notepadplus/6.1.3/npp.6.1.3.src.7z

I also found this site which talks about the Abaqus lexer that was written. I don’t know if it requires a rebuild with the changed/added files or what

http://scintilla.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzr/scintilla/revision/2487

Here is the readme file from the source code on how to generate binaries (attached)

I am not a programmer so any programmer out there that wants to take a look at doing this...