Matching IF - ENDIF with lines

[jer99]

There's an official word for lines that are in the left margin of code that match an IF with the appropriate ENDIF.
Whatever that is, is there a way to do this with UltraEdit?

[Mofi]

Are you talking about preprocessor directives or statements/keywords? In some languages IF - ENDIF are statements/keywords, in other languages these are preprocessor directives.

However, you can use Search - Match Brace to find the matching statement/keyword/directive. You just have to add these 2 words to the list of open and close brace strings in your syntax highlighting wordfile for the language used to highlight your source files.

Open Advanced - Configuration - Editor Display - Syntax Highlighting and press the button Open right to the file name of the syntax highlighting wordfile you currently use, if you don't have open a project with a project specific wordfile. Close the configuration dialog with button Cancel.

Find the line which starts with /Lx"..." with x is a number in the range of 1 ... 20 and "..." is the name of the language you see in the status bar at bottom of the UltraEdit window or in menu View - View As (Highlighting File Type) when one of your source file is the active file.

Between this language definition line and the line starting with /C1 you should see something like following:

/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "["
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]"

If you can't see these lines, insert them above the line starting with /C1. Next modify it to:

/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "[" "IF"
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]" "ENDIF"

Save the wordfile and you can immediately test, if command match brace now works for IF - ENDIF too.

Additionally I suggest to specify IF and ENDIF also as code folding keywords.

/Open Fold Strings = "IF"
/Close Fold Strings = "ENDIF"

or maybe even better

/Open Fold Strings = "IF" "ELSE"
/Close Fold Strings = "ELSE" "ENDIF"

Now you can easily fold (make hidden) all lines between matching IF - ELSE, ELSE - ENDIF and IF - ENDIF statements/keywords/directives.

For more details see in help of UltraEdit the page about syntax highlighting and the readme topic in the syntax highlighting forum.

[pietzcker]

Perhaps what he means is to have fold regions marked by a line in the left margin, like this:

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I don't think that's possible with UE.

[jer99]

pietzcker -
That's exactly what I am looking for. It would be GREAT if UE would have this option with the ability to print.
For very lengthy programs it would be a life-saver.

Considering that UE can help identify matches already, the addition of a line to the left that is printable seems doable...

I'm really surprised that no one has done this yet.

[tigerlight]

I'm also looking for a way to highlight syntax matches for HTML tags. Folding is useful in some cases but most of the time I just want to see highlighted text

In wordfile.txt, In the section that starts with,

/L3"HTML" HTML_LANG

I added,

/Open Brace Strings = "{" "(" "[" "<div"
/Close Brace Strings = "}" ")" "]" "</div"

Auto syntax highlighting is turned on.

[jer99]

New version 15.10 -
Cool stuff, but disappointment when it comes to IF/THEN (logic) "staples". (see pietzcker above)
I can collapse code, yes. But I can not visually see nested loop lines - I have notches, but they do not indicate which IF matches an ENDIF.
Not only that, but it still doesn't print!!
Please, please consider giving us a more robust logic staples that actually match & print....

[BengalTigger]

It would be really great if folded code could have the option of having the entire line highlighted so that it is not so easy to delete the folded code.