Re: Syntax Highlighting sometimes isn't on automatically

Hi,

I'm using PSPad for Autohotkey Files for years.
The syntax highlighting works good too but some files won't switch the syntax highlighter on automatically when loaded.

It's strange: I have for instance 2 different .ahk files, saying a.ahk and b.ahk. Both work with the "Autohotkey" Syntax-Highlighter . When I open a.ahk the syntax highlighting is on. When I open b.ahk the syntax highlighting must be activated manually.

When I copy the content from b.ahk to a.ahk I have to subsequently manually activate the highlighting in a.ahk too.

It seems to be related with the files content: When I delete some lines in b.ahk automatic syntax highlighting will work. But it doesn't depend on file size. The lines I delete seems nothing special.

What may be the reason for this behavior?

Greetings, Halweg

Hello

There is a file size limit for autohighlight syntax.
The limit is maybe set too low for current computer power.

Open program settings / Direct edit button
Change value of the variable HLUpToSize e.g. to 500 000:
HlUpToSize=500000

It means files to 500 kB size will be highlighted automatically.
Please don't increase it above the about 1,2MB, it's integer value.

Thanks for the fast response!

Despite of only 2500 lines of code I took a look at the real file size and detected that it was 3,5 MB. So this was the reason.
The size comes from endless spaces at the end of many lines. I have no idea where they came from.
And yes, I forgot to set "Clear spaces at the end of each line".

A replacement of all "\s*$" finished the mystery. Now the file has a size of 115 kB.

Best regards, Halweg

Menu Edit / Lines manipulation / Remove redundant spaces

Thanks, but I hope that only this one file is affected.

Or select the 2500 lines and then ctrl-c(copy), ctrl-a(all), ctrl-v(paste), ctrl-s(save).

Thanks. As I said before the replacement of "\s*$" already did the job.

But I'm still wondering what could be the reason of blowing up a textfile with 3 MB of spaces.