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Hi!

I've started to use the marvelous CMake (http://www.cmake.org) for generating makefiles.
The files you create for telling CMake how to generate the makefiles are all called "CMakeLists.txt".

To make it a little easier for me to edit these files, i made a syntax highlighting file for textpad and a new document class for "CMakeLists.txt"-files.

The problem is (of course) that textpad will never use this document class. Whenever i open a CMakeLists.txt file, textpad uses the "Text" document class, since this document class is used for all filenames on the form "*.txt" - including CMakeLists.txt!

So is there a way to syntax highlight CMakeLists.txt files differently than other txt-files?

Thanx for any help!

(i currently use textpad 4.7.3 if that makes any difference)

Make a class for CmakeList files, perhaps use "cma" for the extension.
Make a syntax file for the "cma" class

Now, load the CmakeList.txt file,
Click on File/Rename to CmakeList.cma
Use the syntax file for cma class
Do the work.
Rename the file back to CMakeList.txt, save and exit.

You could make a macro to the rename from .txt to .cma and another macro to rename from .cma to .txt.

Zaippa wrote: The files you create for telling CMake how to generate the makefiles are all called "CMakeLists.txt".

To make it a little easier for me to edit these files, i made a syntax highlighting file for textpad and a new document class for "CMakeLists.txt"-files.

The problem is (of course) that textpad will never use this document class. Whenever i open a CMakeLists.txt file, textpad uses the "Text" document class, since this document class is used for all filenames on the form "*.txt" - including CMakeLists.txt!

So is there a way to syntax highlight CMakeLists.txt files differently than other txt-files?

Yes, there is a way.

When Textpad tries to find a document class for a file, it tries all document classes - in reverse alphabetic order (don't ask me why, it is just like that).

So create your document class with a name, that comes alphabetically after the "Text" class, e.g. "ZMake", and as a file filter, use "CMakeLists.txt" (or whatever pattern that matches your files but not generally all txt files)

Thank you very much for that perfect solution!!!!

Thank you both for your answer!
(if it wasn't for madguard's insights into all the code of textpad, i would have tried out the macro method)

M_u_d, not Mad!

And I have never seen a single line of Textpad sourcecode ...