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Ken Bellows
Ken Bellows

Reputation: 6940

Is it possible in Notepad++ to associate a file extension with a dot in it?

I'm really trying to associate the various .erb filetypes. I would like to be able to associate .css.erb and .scss.erb with CSS, .html.erb with HTML, and .js.erb with JavaScript. Associating all .erb files with HTML does fine for HTML files themselves, but it doesn't work very well for JavaScript, CSS, or SCSS.

I've tried putting css.erb, etc. in the "User ext.:" box within the Style Configurator dialog, but it doesn't seem to pick up on the files properly.

I'm skeptical that this is possible, because I imagine the engine matches from the last . to the end of the filename rather than, e.g., something like filename.endswith(ext), but I thought it worthwhile to ask if anyone has found a way to make it work.

Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2302

Answers (2)

Debie Downer
Debie Downer

Reputation: 241

In general, this is not possible (unless someone writes/has written a plugin for it); the entered extension only matches the part of the filename after the last dot as you have found.

So if you enter an extension that includes a dot, it unfortunately doesn't match files with double extensions. But entered extensions that include a dot has a separate behavior that might be useful to some extent: they match the whole filename.

I found this as I use a User Defined Language for the todo.txt format. The User Defined Language specifies the extension as todo.txt, and it does match files named exactly todo.txt.

I was interested in your question, because I wanted other files to use this language highlighting as well. E.g. I renamed done.txt to done.todo.txt and created files like projects.todo.txt, 2021.todo.txt, hoping they would use the todo.txt language highlighting, but as you have found out, it doesn't work.

But since I only have a limited number of such filenames, knowing that it can match the whole filename still helped me; I simply added additional extensions, e.g. done.txt, projects.txt, 2021.todo.txt etc., for all filenames I would be using. It is still a clunky solution and I would have preferred a way to match all files ending with .todo.txt and name my files accordingly; but it works for now and is better than selecting the language every time I reopen the file. (I could have removed the .txt part and use .todo as the extension as an easier solution, but I wanted to keep .txt so that other programs continue to recognize them as text files.)

In your case, this solution is less useful, as you probably have a myriad of different filenames that end with .css.erb and .html.erb. But it might be still better than nothing if there are files that you work on frequently (currentproject.css.erb), or there are common filenames (say index.html.erb). You could just add each of those filenames, so that you could avoid having to select language manually at least on those files.

Upvotes: 1

Paul Sweatte
Paul Sweatte

Reputation: 24627

CSS and ERB File Extension Screencap Use the following process:

  • Open a new file
  • Input the desired content
  • Use File=>Save to save it as the desired MIME type, for instance foo.css for CSS
  • Use File=>Save As to save it again as the desired ERB file extension, for instance foo.css.erb

After using the Style Configurator, I have the following in the stylers.xml file in the folder where the Notepadd++ executable is installed:

<LexerType ext="css.erb" desc="CSS" name="css">

<WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" fontSize="" fontStyle="0" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="000000" styleID="0"/>

<WordsStyle name="TAG" fontSize="" fontStyle="0" fontName="Batang" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="0000FF" styleID="1"/>

<WordsStyle name="CLASS" fontSize="" fontStyle="0" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="FF0000" styleID="2"/>

<WordsStyle name="PSEUDOCLASS" fontSize="" fontStyle="1" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="FF8000" styleID="3"/>

<WordsStyle name="UNKNOWN_PSEUDOCLASS" fontSize="" fontStyle="0" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="FF8080" styleID="4"/>

<WordsStyle name="OPERATOR" fontSize="" fontStyle="1" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="000000" styleID="5"/>

<WordsStyle name="IDENTIFIER" fontSize="" fontStyle="1" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="8080C0" styleID="6" keywordClass="instre1"/>

<WordsStyle name="UNKNOWN_IDENTIFIER" fontSize="" fontStyle="0" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="000000" styleID="7"/>

<WordsStyle name="VALUE" fontSize="" fontStyle="1" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="000000" styleID="8"/>

<WordsStyle name="COMMENT" fontSize="" fontStyle="0" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="008000" styleID="9"/>

<WordsStyle name="ID" fontSize="" fontStyle="1" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="0080FF" styleID="10"/>

<WordsStyle name="IMPORTANT" fontSize="" fontStyle="1" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="FF0000" styleID="11"/>

<WordsStyle name="DIRECTIVE" fontSize="" fontStyle="0" fontName="" bgColor="FFFFFF" fgColor="0080FF" styleID="12"/>

</LexerType>

You can add more for each variation of erb by copying the model from stylers.model.xml and following the pattern.

References

Upvotes: 1

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