Do you prefer this to TESH?:

[Bribe]

Awesome Syntax Highlighting:

Starting with moyac's great concept of JASS highlighting in Notepad++, I decided to complete the project with the full blizzard.j and common.j natives and variables and what-not.

Notepad++ (freeware)
BribeText (language pack)

How to install (kinda copied from moyac's install tips):
[B]First download and install Notepad++ in your PC.[/B]
 
1. Type %APPDATA%\Notepad++ in Run box, then Enter;
   a new folder will open.
2. The zip file contains a file named "userDefineLang.xml".
3. Extract that file into the opened folder.
4. Launch Notepad++
 
In order to test it, open a JASS file, select the menu [I]Language > BribeText[/I]. You should see vJass code properly highlighted.

CONFIGURATION

Two things need to be configured, I've discovered.

Click View -> User-Defined Dialogue
-> Select from dropdown menu BribeText
-> Keywords List Tab -> 3rd Group -> check "prefix mode"
-> Comment & Number Tab -> Comment Line -> check "treat symbol as keyword"

Here is a peek at what I've done (it's kind of a mix between Java and JassCraft).

Features that are way better than TESH:
• Takes 1 second to open, save and close.
• .structhighlighting
• Quick line duplication (Ctrl+D)
• Smart highlighting (click a word and it highlights every like word in the code)
• IMO more aesthetically pleasing
• Way better Find&Replace utility
• Highlights every single common.j and blizzard.j function.
• Can add your own words to highlight
• "Compare to Last Save" option (and a built-in SVN component I haven't figured out)
• Lots more; Notepad++ is rich, just crazy rich with features I've yet to discover. I hate using NewGen to edit because of the capabilities this has.

Cons:
• Not able to check syntax (whoo copy+paste it in).
• Can't fold (but Notepad's folding looks silly anyway as it hides the endblock)
• You have to download a (very small) .zip folder and install Notepad++.

 

[DarkAngelAzazel]

Hey nice. A notepad++ addon.

Release it please

 

[Bribe]

OK, I've updated it, you can now download the Language File that I made.

 

[Bribe]

Two things need to be configured, I've discovered.

Click View -> User-Defined Dialogue
-> Select from dropdown menu BribeText
-> Keywords List Tab -> 3rd Group -> check "prefix mode"
-> Comment & Number Tab -> Comment Line -> check "treat symbol as keyword"

 

[TriggerHappy]

http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=108019 ?

 

[Bribe]

lol, apparently Vexorian doesn't even like TESH

 

[YourNameHere]

lol, apparently Vexorian doesn't even like TESH

Wrong, Vexorian is too lazy to use it because he doesn't use Windows.

 

[Bribe]

I have Windows 7 but I hate coding in NewGen; that's why I use Notepad++. I can see why a lot of people would want to download a program like he posted or the user-language that I've posted.

 

[YourNameHere]

I prefer JNGP, mainly because it is easier to compile and test the code.

 

[Bribe]

I find being able to open/save/close a project in 1 second total is much more convenient, and then compiling when the main sections have been pieced together. I know enough about vJass that there's almost always just a bracket missing or an undeclared variable.

 

[YourNameHere]

I'd say I know pretty much everything about vJass (although I switched to zinc now) and I barely make any mistakes when coding, but I just go ahead and test the map when I finished a section, just to make sure everything is working correctly or whether some variables need to be changed in order to make it better.

Also, when I'm developing a map, I do some triggering and 10 minutes later I continue making more units in the OE / continue with the terrain or whatever.

 

[Element of Water]

I myself much prefer coding outside of the editor. Most "elite" coders (as in, most of the wc3c people) do too.

But we already have plenty of things like this that are better.

 

[YourNameHere]

I myself much prefer coding outside of the editor. Most "elite" coders (as in, most of the wc3c people) do too.

You're elite because you code things for Warcraft III outside of Warcraft?

Do you get ANY advantages from that? A map loads within 20 seconds for me - I can live with that right away.
I can only think of disadvantages like no actual syntax checker or the ability to test the code directly.

 

[Element of Water]

I'm not saying that I'm elite, and I'm not saying that the elite people are elite because they do that, but the people who have proved themselves to be elite in some other way tend to do it.

There are ways around no syntax checker etc, such as a batch file that you can run.

 

[Flux]

Is this one similar to the common highlighting used by TESH and hive's [code=jass][/code] tags? I can't check this out because it doesn't exist anymore.

Moyack's highlighting is good, but I prefer the one used by TESH because I got used to it.

Moyack's highlighting:

EDIT: Nvm, I found a more recent xml user defined highlighting that matches the standard ones.

 

[KILLCIDE]

I can't check this out because it doesn't exist anymore.

What doesn't exist?

Moyack's highlighting

Moyack made his own syntax highlighter? Either I wasn't aware of that or you are mixing it up with lfh's TESH implemented in his newest JNGP.

 

[Flux]

What doesn't exist?

The BribeText link to a pastebin.

Moyack made his own syntax highlighter? Either I wasn't aware of that or you are mixing it up with lfh's TESH implemented in his newest JNGP.

From the looks of this, it seems moyack made it himself. It's not the one used by TESH though, as mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to use the highlighting used by TESH for Notepad++ (which I later found here).

 

[KILLCIDE]

Ahh you're right. It looks pretty similar to lfh's TESH excluding a few italicized words.

Out of curiousity, why would one prefer to code outside of the editor? Wouldn't it make testing code ingame cumbersome?

 

[Flux]

Out of curiousity, why would one prefer to code outside of the editor? Wouldn't it make testing code ingame cumbersome?

Working inside the trigger editor makes the script a binary file hence bad to work with using git.

 

[KILLCIDE]

Ahh got it. So it's mainly about having a version control?

 

[Flux]

Ahh got it. So it's mainly about having a version control?

More importantly a distributed version control. When working with text files, changes can be merged easily unlike binary files.