You’ll find a collection of third party UDL files on the notepad++’s wiki, download one which will be an xml file or perhaps a zip with one or more XML files in it. First off, how do we load an existing UDL ? Loading An Existing UDL Yes, i’m using it’s “m32″ script file as an example here, but the principles involved in setting up a UDL will apply to whatever language you are configuring too. I’m going to use a real script as a basis – a script used by a 1990′s video game called Duke Nukem 3D which allowed you to customise game-play and later, in Eduke32 form, write similar scripts to do clever things in a game level editor. Indeed, in the UDL dialog of the latest notepad++ (Aug 2015) is a link to a temporary documentation site – which ceased in 2012 with a message “New, improved documentation site will replace this one in near future.”

Neat … only … when I came to try to make one I found little documentation and what there was was fractured, distributed and dammit just incomplete (incomplete = Can’t find even a snifter via Google in an hour). For editing regular text I do like Notepad++, a text editor with colour syntax highlighting for many different programming languages built in – and a lot of other languages for which people have written User Defined Language ( UDL) plugins.

Starting a new line on notepad++ editor