ShaderLab highlighting in Notepad++

I love Visual Studio but when it comes to edit shaders it sucks. I wanted a editor that could highlight keywords and match the curly braces, so I created a "User defined language" for Notepad++.

I just threw all the keywords I found and changed the colors randomly. I chose to ignore all the Cg code because the languages in Notepad++ can have only 4 types of keywords and I've already used all of them. Besides that, there are (or should be) better editors for Cg.

To use it, go to View -> User-defined dialogue and import this XML file.

I hope it will be useful. If I missed a keyword or if you have a sugestion, please contact me.

 

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

 

I can't verify it for Cg but I use it for HLSL and it claims Cg and GLSL: http://nshader.codeplex.com/

 

thanks it works, it took a while tho because you have to open and close the shader file, restarting notepad itself didnt apply the theme to the open docs.


What about user>style configurator>C>extension.... and mark shaderlab as an extension of C, it should work for the CG parts ok?

i attempted to mark shaderlab as an extension of C and it refuses to highlight it again.

 

it stopped unity from sending .shader's to notepad for editing.

here is a high contrast version, i find just making an extension of C called shader in style config more convenient.

i wouldnt use this too much, the shaderlab is easy but the CG is what needs serious highlighting, so it's cool if you dont use hlsl and cg

timesparralax cg hlsl page refers to a .vsix file for visualstudio presumably.

 

My Notepad++ does not have "User-defined dialogue" in its View menu. So how do I use this style?

 

It's under Language menu, you need to choose Define your language, then save the file with .shader extension and reopen it, it will work

 

Hi, I prefer this one : http://rcaloca.blogspot.com/2014/07/notepad-syntax-highlighter-for-metal.html

Once imported, just add the extention "shader" so that it automatically open this style.
It highlights Shaderlab AND CG, so that's useful

 

If somebody is still searching, I made a style for the solarized theme: https://github.com/JohannesDeml/NotepadPP-SolarizeShaderTheme



Any contributions are welcome as well

 

You're the best ;-)

 

Thanks! I'm glad it's useful to you