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Re: st: How to fix 2 errors in Notepad++ syntax highlighting?
From
Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: How to fix 2 errors in Notepad++ syntax highlighting?
Date
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:44:38 -0500
This is incredibly helpful for us Notepad ++ users. Thanks!
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Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez
Graduate Student
Department of Economics
Brown University
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Bert Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is an updated version of the syntax highlighting at
> https://code.google.com/p/notepad-stats-integration/
> which appears to handle compound-double-quotes correctly.
>
> The problem of treating all "*" characters as indicators for comments
> persists. My imperfect workaround is to remove "*" as a comment
> indicator and replace it with "**". The benefit is that now "*"
> behaves properly for multiplication and pointers; the cost is that
> lines intended to be comments beginning only with a single asterisk
> will not be highlighted as comments, so you have to remember to use at
> least two asterisks to indicate a comment or use // or /* */.
>
> - BL
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Bert Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Information I should have put in the original post:
>>
>> Notepad++ v 6.5.2 from http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
>> Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
>> I don't think the version of Stata is relevant here but just in case:
>> Stata 12.1 SE 64 bit
>> Source for the syntax highlighting given in the original.
> *
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> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
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