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mlegge
mlegge

Reputation: 6913

Notepad++ Recognize Alternate Extensions

I am writing Hive scripts and always need to manually set the language to "SQL" if I want any sort of color which lead me to wonder if there is a way to teach NP++ to recognize alternate extensions for a language in general.

For instance, if I open a hive script with a .hql or .q extension, I would like to default the language to "SQL".

If this is not possible for a built in language -- is it possible to change for a custom language (SAS, Pig Latin, etc.)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 424

Answers (1)

Dark Falcon
Dark Falcon

Reputation: 44191

The extensions are in langs.model.xml in the Notepad++ installation directory. they go in the ext attribute on the Language tag. This is a space-separated list of extensions without the ..

Upvotes: 1

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