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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Languages</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Languages
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</h1>
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<p>Notepad++
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can distinguish between different languages source code can be written in.
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This is useful to allow certain modifications and visual aids to be
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applied specifically designed for that language. For example, a
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language could distinguish certain keywords that have to be
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differently interpreted, and as such it can be useful to distinguish
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these keywords using another color or font. The language also
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determines the folding behavior (see <a href="Folding.html">Folding</a>) and how to handle
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comments (see <a href="Commenting.html">Commenting</a>).
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<p>Notepad++
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offers a lot of languages that can be selected, and has a few methods
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to add your own as will be discussed.</font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif">By
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default Notepad++ will try to guess the language of a document by the
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extension of the filename (if it is a file) or the default setting if
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it is a new document (see <a href="Preferences.html#New_Document_Open_Save_directory">Preferences</a>). To select another language, simply select it from the
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<span class="menu_item">Language</span> menu. The language of the currently active document is
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visible in the status bar in the first section (see <a href="Status%20Bar.html">Status Ba</a>r).</font>
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By
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default a language can have multiple keywords, divided in certain
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categories. It also determines the symbols used for comments and what
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extensions are associated with it by default. You can supplement the
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keywords and the list of extensions using the <a href="Styler%20Configurator.html">Styler Configurator</a>, it also allows you to change the
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colors used to print the text.
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<p>
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If
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you like to define your own language, you can do so by two means. The
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most simple and straightforward method is to make user of a User
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Defined Language (see <a href="User%20Defined%20languages.html">User Defined Languages</a>), but you can also
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create your own external lexer (see <a href="External%20Lexers.html">External Lexers</a>). This is more
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flexible but also a lot more difficult to make.
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</body></html>
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