Notepad++: Adding color highlighting for PHP functions?

Question

I've recently begun using Notepad++, and have found a part of its styling functionality that confuses me.

I'm currently attempting to color all of PHP's defined functions (such as count(), strlen(), etc.). In the Settings->Style Configurator, you cannot add a new style for such a function list. Instead, I have begun editing the stylers.xml and langs.xml.

To add the new coloring, in langs.xml, I've modified the php section to the following:

<Language name="php" ext="php php3 phtml" commentLine="//" commentStart="/*" commentEnd="*/">
    <Keywords name="instre1">[default keywords]</Keywords>
    <Keywords name="instre2">[my function list]</Keywords>
</Language>

The [default keywords] and [my function list] are replaced with wordlists.

I've also edited the php section in stylers.xml to look like the following:

<LexerType name="php" desc="php" ext="">
    <WordsStyle name="QUESTION MARK" styleID="18" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FDF8E3" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" styleID="118" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="STRING" styleID="119" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="STRING VARIABLE" styleID="126" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="SIMPLESTRING" styleID="120" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="WORD" styleID="121" fgColor="008040" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" keywordClass="instre1">True False</WordsStyle>
    <WordsStyle name="NUMBER" styleID="122" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="VARIABLE" styleID="123" fgColor="0080FF" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="COMMENT" styleID="124" fgColor="FF8040" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="COMMENTLINE" styleID="125" fgColor="FF8040" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="OPERATOR" styleID="127" fgColor="8000FF" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
    <WordsStyle name="FUNCTIONS" styleID="128" fgColor="000080" bgColor="FEFCF5" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" keywordClass="instre2"></WordsStyle>
</LexerType>

The changed part is the last "FUNCTIONS" line.

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When I restart Notepad++ and go into the Settings->Style Configurator section, under the php language, the FUNCTIONS style exists. I can change the style's color, and can see the entire keyword list under 'Default Keywords'. However, it is not changing the coloring of the words in my code.

When I edit the WORD style, which contains stuff like 'if', 'and', and 'true', things change accordingly in my code.

Any ideas on how to make this work?

Answer 1

I've got the same problem. There does not seem to be a solution at the moment.

The problem is not related to notepad++, but the Scintilla project.

It is described here.

It is also noted in the ideatorrent.

Seems like we will have to wait for an Update on Scintilla.