I would love Notepad++ to show the comments correctly (see screenshot)
Is there any plugin that takes care of it? Or is there any way I can get it to default to another languages' formatting when I load a JSP file?
A:
Since Notepad++ 5.6.5 which was released only 5 monts ago there's a builtin JSP syntax highlighter. Are you using the right version? If it's behaving buggy, you'd better report a bug to the Notepad++ guys.
BalusC
2010-06-25 21:43:15
I'm using 5.6.8 and I have submitted a bug report to them. No response as far as I know...
Lye
2010-06-25 21:49:01
What if you try to associate it with ASP highlighter?
BalusC
2010-06-25 21:59:20
Also doesn't pick up the comments?
Lye
2010-06-25 22:02:58
Well, I'm out of ideas other than suggesting another editor or an fullworthy IDE :) I myself use Eclipse.
BalusC
2010-06-25 22:13:05
Thanks for trying :)
Lye
2010-06-25 22:15:55
Although I don't use it for JSP, I tried it in my favourite text editor [Editplus](http://www.editplus.com/) and Java comments in JSP scriptlets are shown correctly. Unrelated to the problem: raw Java code in a JSP files is considered poor practice... Learn [servlets](http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/csajsp2.html) ;)
BalusC
2010-06-25 22:24:17