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NetScaler Syntax Highlighting for Notepad++

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Kenny Baldwin

This morning a colleague mentioned that it would be nice to have syntax highlighting for NetScaler configuration files in Notepad++, so what better way to have one, then to make one!

Below is my initial draft of a user-defined language for NetScaler; to use it in Notepad++ just save the following content as an .xml file:

<NotepadPlus>
 <UserLangname="NetScaler"ext="conf"udlVersion="2.0">
  <Settings>
   <GlobalcaseIgnored="yes"allowFoldOfComments="no"forceLineCommentsAtBOL="no"foldCompact="no"/>
   <PrefixKeywords1="no"Keywords2="no"Keywords3="no"Keywords4="no"Keywords5="yes"Keywords6="no"Keywords7="no"Keywords8="no"/>
  </Settings>
  <KeywordLists>
   <Keywordsname="Comments"id="0">00! 00remark 01 02((EOF)) 03 04</Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Numbers, additional"id="1">:</Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Numbers, prefixes"id="2"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Numbers, extras with prefixes"id="3"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Numbers, suffixes"id="4"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Operators1"id="5">. /</Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Operators2"id="6"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in code1, open"id="7"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in code1, middle"id="8"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in code1, close"id="9"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in code2, open"id="10"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in code2, middle"id="11"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in code2, close"id="12"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in comment, open"id="13">{</Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in comment, middle"id="14"></Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Folders in comment, close"id="15">}</Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Keywords1"id="16">add bind set remove rm show sh unbind</Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Keywords2"id="17">aaa route responder rewrite vpn interface ns </Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Keywords3"id="18">ip vserver policy action</Keywords>
   <Keywordsname="Delimiters"id="24">00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23</Keywords>
  </KeywordLists>
  <Styles>
   <WordsStylename="DEFAULT"styleID="0"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="COMMENTS"styleID="1"fgColor="008000"bgColor="FFFF80"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="117702655"/>
   <WordsStylename="LINE COMMENTS"styleID="2"fgColor="008000"bgColor="F2F2F2"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="117702655"/>
   <WordsStylename="NUMBERS"styleID="3"fgColor="C60000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="1"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="KEYWORDS1"styleID="4"fgColor="AC8202"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="1"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="KEYWORDS2"styleID="5"fgColor="0000C1"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="KEYWORDS3"styleID="6"fgColor="FF0000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="1"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="OPERATORS"styleID="12"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="FOLDER IN CODE1"styleID="13"fgColor="804000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="1"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="FOLDER IN CODE2"styleID="14"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="FOLDER IN COMMENT"styleID="15"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS1"styleID="16"fgColor="FF80C0"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS2"styleID="17"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS3"styleID="18"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS4"styleID="19"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS5"styleID="20"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS6"styleID="21"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS7"styleID="22"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
   <WordsStylename="DELIMITERS8"styleID="23"fgColor="000000"bgColor="FFFFFF"fontName=""fontStyle="0"nesting="0"/>
  </Styles>
 </UserLang>
</NotepadPlus>

Then open NPP and click ‘Language > Define your language…’:

Import User-Defined Language in Notepad++

Then click ‘Import’ to load it up:

Once loaded you should see most NetScaler syntax highlighted accordingly:

Enjoy!