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I am trying to add simple syntax highlighting and auto completion for a simple scripting language...
I added syntax highlighting using this article
Now I want to know how to enable auto completion with Notepad ++ for my custom language. Does anyone know how to do that?
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What is Auto-completion. Notepad++ offers automatic completion of various sorts of text after you have entered an initial substring (or prefix), which can save you having to type all of a long word (and potentially save you mistyping it).
Now the good news! If you are rather a fan of writing your code in a more lightweight editor like Notepad++, you don't have to completely give up the autocomplete support. Even Notepad++ comes with a auto-completion feature.
First of all the automatic bracket completion is easy. Just go to Settings >> Preferences >> Auto Completion and uncheck the parentheses, brackets, and curly brackets from the list as shown in the following picture. This will stop auto completion of those brackets.
Enabling/Disabling Auto-complete While typing your code in the editor: Press CTRL + Space key to trigger the auto-complete pop-up menu manually.
The link provided by Mark no longer works, but you can go to:
Notpad++ 6.6.9
I find it very annoying though, since a big autocomplete block is always coming up and I would just like to see autocomplete when I press tab or a key combination. I am fairly new to Notepad++ though. If you know of such a key combination, please feel free to reply. I found this question via Google, so we can always help others.
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For basic autocompletion, have a look at the files in %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\plugins\APIs. It's basically just an XML file with keywords in. If you want calltips ("function parameters hint"), check out these instructions.
I've never found any more documentation, but cpp.xml has a calltip for fopen, while php.xml is quite complete.
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