Custom code folding in HTML

[mbass]

I want to be able to have custom code folding in the html language file. Up until version 17.00, I could put "/Open Fold Strings" and "/Close Fold Strings" in the html.uew file and I could get code folding to work on my custom tags.

But now, since v17, it does not work. I mean I see some code folding but it is not lined up correctly and basically just fails.

I was hoping maybe it would get fixed at some point, but now we are up to v17.20 and no fix, so I guess I am the only person in the world that wants this. Any ideas on how can I get this to work?

Thanks.

[Mofi]

You are right. I use the default HTML code folding applied on files highlighted with syntax highlighting language containing language marker HTML_LANG. But when I try to override the default code folding by adding for example

/Open Fold Strings = "<p" "<tr"
/Close Fold Strings = "</p>" "</tr>"

to this language, UltraEdit does not offer any [-] anymore as code folding would be disabled for this language. That's very strange.

Have you reported this wrong behavior of UltraEdit v17.20.0.1013 by email to IDM support?

[mbass]

Thanks for looking into it, Mofi. Yes, I reported it to IDM support when v17 first came out but apparently they are not too interested in fixing it. Starting with v17, if you use HTML_LANG a new built-in tag matching/code folding engine kicks in and you can't do anything custom anymore.

I have used UE for ColdFusion programming for many, many years and as you may know, CFML is essentially ColdFusion tags mixed with HTML. I have always added my CF tags to the custom fold strings -- was very nice. Now, not only can I not customize the fold strings, but the new built-in engine completely breaks down with HTML/CFML files such that even without customizing, you get no usable code folding at all on any tags.

So I am stuck on v16 because it is the last version that will work with HTML/CFML and offer any kind of code folding at all.

Mofi, you seem to be an expert on the word files. Can you think of anyway I can work around the new code folding engine that automatically kicks in on HTML_LANG files? Is there anyway I can craft a custom word file to work with CFML/HTML and give me custom code folding? I tried removing HTML_LANG to stop the built-in engine but then none of the keywords highlight anymore, because I think it has something to do with the keywords all starting with '<' and '</'. Maybe you know some tricks to make it work without the HTML_LANG specifier.

Thanks again for you time.