Highlight custom functions in SciTE?

[Leli196]

Hey, I would like to know whether it is possible to highlight own/custom functions (to be precise: their names), like ScitE4AHK does with built-in functions like Round() or Sqrt(). I found nothing regarding this on the forum/the Internet.

[lexikos]

Create a text file named user.ahk.api in your SciTE user config directory, and list the functions there, one to a line.

[Leli196]

After doing so my functions were added to SciTE's auto-complete feature, but still have no highlighting. I found this in the meantime in an old thread: keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3) lowercase custom function names
I cannot figure out how to use this correctly. When I exchange keywords with a function's name, it does not have an effect.


Edit:
Found out how it works, lol:
keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3) customfunction

However, it does not work with a function that has a number as a suffix. Is there some way to fix this?

[lexikos]

Right, I mustn't have been paying attention.

However, it does not work with a function that has a number as a suffix.

What do you mean? This highlights foo42 just fine:

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keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3) foo42

If you meant "any function name with a common prefix and any number as a suffix" (which seems odd), you can write ^foo, but it will also highlight any "foo" with any other (numeric or non-numeric) suffix.

[Leli196]

It was because I wrote this:

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(This is an example of how to do it wrong!!)
keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3) foo
keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3) foo2
keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3) foo3
keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3) bar

It only highlighted the last name "bar" because you have to write all keywords to the same line or use the following method:

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ahk.keywords3=\
keywords functions etc \
another keyword another function \
keywords3.$(file.patterns.ahk)=$(ahk.keywords3)

Btw, the number changes the type of highlighting; 1 is used for special variable names like A_Index, 2 for Commands like PixelGetColor and 3 for functions.
Maybe this helps somebody in the future.

[rediffusion]

@lexikos
@Leli196

Tested right now...
For me it works if I put it here:

"C:\Users\MyPC\Documents\AutoHotkey\SciTE\SciTEUser.properties"

I also found a file that contains `keywords`. I don't understand why they're here and where they're being used?:

"C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\SciTE\ahk.keywords.properties"

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