Notepad++ is a diverse text editor with abilities to view and edit programs of various languages, does a great job in viewing large sized server log files. It supports a basic set of languages by default, and here is how you can extend its support for 500 other programming languages.
User Defined Languages:
As the name says, this is a feature that allows users to define their own programming language in the form of an XML file and then Notepad++ would start formatting your language as per that definition. The following page contains links to various XML files for 500+ languages.
http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php?title=User_Defined_Language_FilesFor example to get it support Groovy programming language, you would download Groovy's XML file, and then import it onto notepad++ using few clicks as shown below:
1. Select Language -> Define your language...
Then click Import and upload the .xml file you have downloaded. Close npp, and re-open it to see the formatting.
Here is a sample code after the formatting has been imported.
