Notepad++ Support for ColdFusion 8

The full fledged IDE’s are nice and all, but some situations call for something that’s lean and mean. I happen to use Notepad++, a Scintilla based product. While it lacks ftp support, as far as I know, it has plenty for me to get some basic stuff done quickly. So, I added “support” for the new tags in Coldfusion 8.

And to make it go, save it in the Notepad++ folder, under your personal applications folder in windows. Unzip the contents and rename to userDefineLang.xml (sic), if you don’t already have one, or copy its contents to the existing one.

So, for example, my folder is C:\Documents and Settings\howard\Application Data\Notepad++\userDefineLang.xml

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For more on Notepad++

If you know of a plug in for ftp support, let me know.

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22 Responses to “Notepad++ Support for ColdFusion 8”

  1. Daniel Says:
    June 4, 2007 at 2:27 am

    unfortunatly I don’t get it to work…
    Should CF appear in the languages list…

  2. Daniel Says:
    June 4, 2007 at 2:32 am

    have to correct myself ;) after upgrading to 4.1.2 it appeard in the language list… funny wise with ColdFsuion 8 and CF8…

  3. William from Lagos Says:
    July 5, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    Hey great. I just stumbled on your plugin when searching for a good plugin for Notepad++.

    Thanks

  4. Keith Says:
    August 3, 2007 at 10:22 am

    I could only open the zip file with WinRAR. Even then, the file seems corrupted. Is it supposed to contain valid XML?

  5. howardscholz Says:
    August 3, 2007 at 10:49 am

    I just posted the file on a different host. I tested the download from the original host, and it was indeed corrupted. It is fine at the new location

  6. John Giotta Says:
    August 4, 2007 at 11:01 am

    Whatever happened to the plugin?

  7. Dianna Says:
    October 9, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Just wanted to say that a FTP plugin has been listed on Notepad++, as of September.
    http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php

    Sourceforge link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189927&package_id=245189

  8. howardscholz Says:
    October 9, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    That’s great. I was just using the Regular Expression tool in Notepad++ to clean up some data the other day. Adding ftp will be beautiful. Thanks for passing the word along.

  9. Pavan Says:
    October 11, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    Hi,

    I was looking for this plugin. But it has been removed. Could you please mail it to me if possible. I would really appreciate it.

    Thank you in advance.
    Pavan

  10. howardscholz Says:
    October 13, 2007 at 11:11 am

    Hello, I am almost done with a new edit on this, and it is a lot more extensive than just the language file. I have put in keyword sensitive help, autocompletion of keywords, function listing (so you can have a panel with all the functions in the current component listed on the right side… click on the function, and you’re in the code) and a few surprises. This is not a paid effort, so I’ll post what I have with no warranties within the next couple of days.

  11. Jonathan Bownds Says:
    November 13, 2007 at 1:08 pm

    Been looking for a CF plugin for notepad ++ for a long time. . I’m excited to see the new iteration. .

  12. howardscholz Says:
    November 18, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    Jonathan, just to leave no doubt, this was not a plug in, but it takes advantage of features already existing in Notepad++. The ftp support list above is a plugin.

  13. Fabian Says:
    November 29, 2007 at 1:39 am

    Hey, thnx for helping me out with the CF-Tags for Notepad++
    AFAIK there is a FTP-Plugin for this great Editor now.

  14. Drew Says:
    November 30, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    The plugin doesn’t seem to recognize comments – is it just me?

  15. BEF Says:
    December 3, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Drew, I have the same problem. I wonder if it might be a notepad++ problem because the user-language configurator seems too think that it’s set up correctly.

  16. Dale Says:
    December 18, 2007 at 8:38 am

    This has proven extremely helpful. Thanks for providing such a resource to the Coldfusion community.

  17. zb! Says:
    June 12, 2008 at 6:50 am

    This will definitely soothe the pain of working with CF.

    Thanks, Mr. Scholz!

  18. Notepad++ the best lightweight CF editor : On the Bubble Says:
    July 24, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    [...] I cracked today, did a bit of googling and found a solution! Howard @ DelayedInstantiation has put together language support for Notepad++ so big kudos to him for developing the [...]

  19. Johno Says:
    September 10, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    I cant get comments to work either. They should show in green. I really want to get this working because its handy to know when a comment is not closed properly. Is there a fix for this ?

  20. Dave Says:
    February 4, 2009 at 7:54 am

    hi have you got a link just for the CFML plugin and not the help file.

  21. Jeremy Says:
    October 20, 2009 at 6:32 am

    It looks like as of September, the site that held the zip file is no longer being hosted. Could you please send me a copy of the zip file?

    Thank you

  22. Dell Charger Says:
    October 28, 2009 at 2:36 am

    Thanks for this , ive always needed the N++ cold fusion support :D

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