{"id":28,"date":"2013-05-09T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T23:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alrichardson.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-08-05T19:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:49:35","slug":"notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Notepad ++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Notepad ++ as my script editor when I&#8217;m working on large coding projects.<br \/>\nBecause when Maya crashes it takes any unsaved script changes with it!<br \/>\nBut being used to the MEL command highlighting in the Maya script editor I went hunting and turned up this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecrash.com\/downloads\/applications\/syntax-scripting\/c\/mel-language-definition-for-notepad-\">http:\/\/www.creativecrash.com\/downloads\/applications\/syntax-scripting\/c\/mel-language-definition-for-notepad-<\/a><br \/>\nThen I picked up a Maya-ish theme and modified the language to work with Maya Python syntax highlighting:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/N++themeFiles.rar\">N++themeFiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to:<\/p>\n<p><em>Put Waher-style in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\themes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\">put jbMayaPython in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\plugins\\APIs<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\"><em id=\"__mceDel\">put\u00a0userDifineLang<em id=\"__mceDel\"> in C:\\Users\\*USER*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Notepad++<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>load the theme with notepad++&#8217;s theme loader then<br \/>\nselect the language with the language dropdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Notepad ++ as my script editor when I&#8217;m working on large coding projects. 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