I am writing documentation about an app and want to explain the code.
I want to copy parts of the Objective C code from Xcode to Microsoft Word.
I don't know how to put the code with syntax highlighting (and maybe line numbers, too ?!) into Word.
Does anybody know a usable solution for this little problem?
Copy and paste works !
Nevertheless, make sure the option "Copy colors and fonts" in Preferences>Fonts & Colors is checked !
If you need this in Pages you can paste into textedit then copy/paste from textedit into pages. I have yet to find a way to paste directly into pages and preserve the text color etc
If you copy from Xcode and paste into Word you get syntax highlighting etc as expected. You just need to reduce the font size to make it more readable and avoid wrapping etc. It would probably be a good idea to define a suitable Style in Word, e.g. "Code" which would have the required font size etc for pasted code.
It supports these by default in Xcode 4. And what you need to do is to choose "Use Orignal Format" in Word or Power Point.
If you need this in Pages, then a workaround is to copy in Xcode, paste in Word, copy again and then paste in Pages (That is if you have MS Word available).
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How can I copy queries from Oracle SQL Developer with format. Unlike Toad the query format is lost as I paste it in any document.
I am referring to font formatting.
Not (yet) supported in 4.x.
Your best shot is to vote/rate it up: "Copy to clipboard" should include HTML and/or RTF clipboard formats
As a workaround, if you really, really want it bad - you might try out long and tedious path of using "Print" option in color to some PDF printer, then copying it from there (some programs like Preview on Mac OS X preserve formatting while copying from PDF)
There is an extension called "Copy As HTML/RTF". But version 4.x doesn't support extensions. Only 3.x and earlier versions support them.
if you are talking about Highlight Format, I can suggest you to use one plugin in Notepad++, which preserves the Font color as in Notepad++ when you copy to Microsoft Word.
You can visit this site: Copy Notepad++ text with formatting?
SSMS has the same issue. With SSMS, it appears that there is a 10,045 byte limit. At 10,046 char/bytes, the sql format changes to text. There are two ways to resolve this issue that I know of so far.
Select all the sql text in the query window, open the word doc, and drag the text over to word instead of copy/pasting it.
Break your copy/paste text into sections less than 10,045 bytes and paste to word code section by code section. In other words, select sections of the sql text that are smaller than 10,045 bytes and copy/paste multiple times into word instead of the whole query at once.
What is the actual encoding used in Access' VBA editor? I have been searching for a concrete answer for quite a while but with no luck.
I thought it was UTF-8 but I'm not very certain.
My main issue is that when writing a query in VBA I sometimes need to test it in Access' query editor. When copy-pasting however, I lose my native characters (greek in my case) as they turn to gibberish.
I have tried pasting in a text editor and saving it as different encodings but I can never recover the original characters.
Thanks in advance.
Edit
Let me explain this a bit further:
As you can see I can write my greek characters in the VBA editor normally:
However, copying the first line in Access' query editor, I get the following:
Same goes for a simple text editor:
So I am inclined to think that the problem lies inside the clipboard, due to the encoding used for the greek characters. I guess they are not Unicode, as I indeed have to make the change in the System Locale for non-unicode characters. So how are these characters saved/copied? In what encoding?
Answer
Actually this problem was solved by switching the keyboard input language to greek (EL), when copying the actual test string.
I am still not sure however, as to why that happens. If anyone can provide some insight into this, I would love to hear it.
Thanks again
The VBA editor does not support Unicode characters, either for input or display. Instead, it uses the older Windows technology called "code pages" to provide support for non-ASCII characters.
So, the character encoding in the VBA editor corresponds to the code page that is used by the Windows system locale as specified in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel. For example, with my system locale set to "Greek (Greece)"
I can enter Greek characters into my VBA code
However, if I switch my Windows system locale back to "English (United States)"
and re-open my VBA project, the Greek characters have changed to the corresponding characters in the new code page
If "Control Panel" -> "Regional and Language Options" -> "System Locale" is set correctly but you still suffer from this problem some times then note that while you're copying your keyboard layout must be switched to the non-English language.
This is applicable to all non-unicode-aware applications not only VBA.
Credit goes to #parakmiakos
details in this: http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/use-greek-characters-visual-basic-editor-t2097705.html
Looks like making sure your OS is set properly, and font choice inside the VBA editor.
I had a similar problem with Cyrillic characters. Part of the problem is solved when set the System locale correctly.
However, The VBA editor still does not recognize cyrillic characters when it has to interpret them from inside itself.
For example it can not display characters from the command:
Msgbox "Здравей"
but if the sheet name is in cyrillic characters it does it well:
Msgbox Activesheet.Name
Finally, it turned out that these kind of problems were solved when I changed to 32 bits version of MS Office.
Is there a text editor that will let me shade certain code blocks with specific colors so I can easily find them later? Bookmarks are great, but I also wanted to shade with the same color all code blocks which are somehow related to each other.
and
When my current text editors autocreate curly braces or parentheses for me and I type what I want in between them, are there any that let me either jump to the end of the line to put a semicolon there, or "return" to type the next line, or do I always have to use the arrow key to get out of the curly braces? Perhaps there is a shortcut I'm missing?
I think about every code editor, including Notepad++, has bookmarks. If you're looking for a more complete IDE, it probably depends on the language you're using. For .NET languages that is Visual Studio, but you probably would have known that. For PHP, Javascript and HTML/CSS, you can use Netbeans for PHP. Netbeans is also available for Java. It is a rich editor, and I think one of the best free general purpose IDE's available.
Marking pieces of code in colors is unknown to me. I've never seen an editor that supports this. You would also need a project in which to store the start and end points of these blocks, unless you would save them as comments or so in the file itself.
Visual Studio knows regions which you can define by a start tag and an end tag. You can collapse and unfold an entire region at once, making it quite easy to navigate through larger files.
But these regions are actually part of the code file, so you cannot use this for any file, because those region markers will probably make the file invalid.
I'm still wondering why any other shortcut key would be easier or more convenient than 'arrow down'..
For no apparent reason, it just stopped. No more color-coding. Is there a mystery setting I accidentally turned off?
I had the same problem and discovered it was because I had enabled global foreground color under Global Styles.
Try out the following:
Select a language manually from the "Languages" menu.
In Settings/Preferences, check the File Associatons.
In worst case, reinstall.
In the Language menu select your corresponding language. For example H and then html
The solution for me was to go into the Style Configurator, select the 'Global Styles' from the Language selection box and uncheck the 'Enable global foreground colour' option. I am not sure why that was checked, but all of the code coloring worked after unchecking it. Thanks Richard!
Have a look in Settings -> Style Configurator. Maybe your styles got messed up somehow. You could try changing the selected style to see if it makes a difference.
I think the saved styles are stored in the "themes" directory under your Notepad++ installation directory, so you could also check that the files have not become corrupted in some way.
I had the same problem (I Googled "notepad++ file coloring quit" to find this discussion.) In my case the coloring quit mid file in a single file. I finally realized that adjacent string literals with one of them a macro was fooling Notepad++.
My code that broke it read:
Write_Supplemental_Configuration(privateData->new_config, FTP_ROOT_DIR"/lists.csv");
and the fix was to add a space after the macro:
Write_Supplemental_Configuration(privateData->new_config, FTP_ROOT_DIR "/lists.csv");
I tried replacing the macro FTP_ROOT_DIR with "foo" and the problem went away.
So in my case it was a macro that fooled the Notepad++ coloring.
watch out for the single quote that you copy from the web. if you get one of those "upper commas" instead of the tic mark it will confuse the code and kill the coloring (in SQL). just delete and replace.
Make sure that when you save the file it's saved as an .html instead of a .txt. This make a difference because the .html allows you to see the different colour codes whereas .txt doesn't.
Check, if you have saved the documents as .HTML and not as .txt
in the menu, choose Settings>Style configurator...
and in the list in the left pan select html, check if the colors for different tags are being shown in the color blocks. if yes, chosse a font and then save and exit.
Check only after you save the document in .html, whether it is working or not.
The language setting solved the issue for (all) 3 Javascript files (.js) which suffered from it, which previously were all recognized correctly as Javascript. For some reason it forgot they were Javascript files apparently!?
First type any thing and Save the file in any format you are working with (i-e; .cpp if c++, .js if JavaScript....etc)
And make sure global foreground color is disabled.
And it should work fine.
File > Save As > Format Type = Structured Query Language > Name the file with '*.sql'. THIS SHOULD BRING ALL THE COLOR CODES.....to differentiate your code and make it look pretty. J
If you want to display text in SQL format, then in menu select Language => S => SQL
Got to Setting -> Style Configuration and remove the global style checkbox
I just had the same thing happen to me. The only way I could fix it was to rename the file (I just added one character). Then open it with notepad++. The code was colored again. Then renamed the file back to the original name and it is still colored.
I have since found that if I close Notepad++ without closing the file first this happens. Try closing the file first then close Notepad++ then reopen the file.
This bug seems to be fixed as of version 7.8.6
If the coloring only stopped working for one file, you should check the extension name of your file. You might have accidentally saved the file as .txt
A couple years late here, but I'm pretty sure you're opening ".txt" files that contain your source code. Because the file doesn't have the language's extension, Notepad++ can't determine how to color-code it. You'll have to select the language under the "Language" tab.
How do you copy VBA code into a Word document and retain the VBA editor color scheme?
You can use Notepad++ to accomplish this in three ways. Just so you know, Notepad++ is a more advanced version of Notepad, which supports syntax highlighting of different code files "out of the box" - Visual Basic included!
Download & install it, fire it up, and load up your VBA code. You should automatically see it beautifully coloured (if not, because the file extension is something other than .vb, go to Language -> VB or Language -> V -> VB).
If you need to change any of the colours, you can easily do so - just go to Settings -> Styler Configurator. From that menu, you can change the various highlighting and font options, to suit your needs - although the default usually suffices for most.
Then, go to Plugins -> NppExport. From there, you have three options you can consider:
Directly print from Notepad++
Copy all formats to clipboard
Export to RTF
Export to HTML
The first is self explanatory. The second one - "Copy all formats to clipboard" - will copy the entire file with the highlighted syntax to the clipboard. Once you click it, then open Microsoft Word or your other favourite document editor, and just hit paste! You should see the beautifully syntax-highlighted code. If something goes wrong, then you can try one of the other options (export to RTF/HTML), although I've never had a problem with the clipboard method.
There are two programs on cnet downloads, which are free to try. In case you did not try them, here are the links:
VB-VBA Code Formatter & Printer 2.2
VBAcodePrint 6.13.110
Smart Indenter could be what you're looking for? You'd load the result into Notepad++, set language to VB and save as .rtf/.doc (or print to file, can't remember off the top of my head).
For a more modern approach, Sublime Text users can install ExportHTML from Package Control. This has the added benefit of being able to include the line numbers, and changing the code coloration.
HTML files can be opened directly within Word.
Highlight supports a wide range of Operating Systems and 150+ languages including Visual Basic, although I'm not sure about VBA.
I would recommend this one: planetB
It works well with Internet Explorer (didn't work wit Firefox for me, not sure abt Chrome).
Plus it's online, so no need to install anything (the case of Company/University PC's)
Regards
Wheeliam
The following works with Visual Studio Code:
Start VS Code.
New file.
Copy & Paste the VBA code into the VS Code window.
In the lower right-hand corner, click on "Plain Text" and select "Visual Basic" instead. Note that the code is now syntax-highlighted.
Copy & Paste the formatted code into Word.