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    copied!<p>I've been doing development in TWIG lately. It is an html templating language that is very simple and robust.</p> <p>I've set notepad++ to automatically treat .twig files as html. This is ok, but I don't get any syntax highlighting on my twig functions. </p> <p>The twig syntax is incredibly simple (by design) and would be easy to add to notepad++. The problem is, everything I find on this subject is either about creating a new language definition (and I do not want to reinvent the html definition), or modifying the color for existing syntax bits in a language.</p> <p>Is there any way to copy a language definition and then modify it in notepad++? If not, is there any way in notepad++ to add extra syntax bits to an existing language definition?</p> <p><em>edit</em></p> <p>TWIG is an html template language/engine. they syntax for it is the same as html, with the addition of a few open/close tags (specifically {% %}, {{ }}, and {# #}) for control statements. you can read more about it at <a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org/" rel="noreferrer">the twig website</a></p> <p><em>edit #2</em></p> <p>Based on the answer from Brian Deragon, I have been investigating 3 files. Heres what I've figured out/done so far:</p> <ul> <li>\plugins\APIs\html.xml - Seems to define keywords, for autocomplete. I made a copy of the file named twig.xml</li> <li>langs.model.xml - Again, a list of keywords, with all the languages in 1 XML file. I copied the HTML object and replaced the name and ext parameters with twig.</li> <li>stylers.model.xml - Has a list of different items, and style information (color, bg color, font, etc) for each. I copied the HTML section and changed the name and desc parameters to twig.</li> </ul> <p>Those changes done, I opened up a twig file in notepad++, hoping to see it listed in the language options. Sadly, it has not appeared, leading me to believe that some of this is hard coded (and thus what I want might not be possible).</p> <p>The stylers.model.xml is interesting, though. Each entry has a bunch of items, defined like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;LexerType name="twig" desc="TWIG" ext=""&gt; &lt;WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" styleID="0" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" /&gt; &lt;WordsStyle name="COMMENT" styleID="9" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" /&gt; &lt;WordsStyle name="TAG" styleID="1" fgColor="0000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" /&gt; &lt;WordsStyle name="TAGEND" styleID="11" fgColor="0000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" /&gt; ... &lt;/LexerType&gt; </code></pre> <p>Those seem to be where the styles are defined for the different elements. I can't find anywhere where those elements are defined though. langs.model.xml has a definition for comment start/end, but not for any other delimiters. what I really need is a place to tell notepad++ to treat { } as a delimiter, much like it does for &lt; > now.</p> <p><em>edit #3</em></p> <p>I am also looking at this list of user defined languages for notepad++ <a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=User_Defined_Language_Files" rel="noreferrer">http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=User_Defined_Language_Files</a> User defined languages use a different engine, but i might be able to find one in there that is similar to html enough that I can adapt it.</p>
 

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