Code Folding in ASP (VBScript) doesn't work

[rickg22]

Hi guys. I don't know if this is a bug or I'm missing some plugin...

I have an .asp file that I'm editing. It has a <% tag at the beginning and a  %> tag at the end.

There is a folding indicator for those tags, but inside, I can see no folds between a begin and and end. I even tried the custom //{ and //} folding, but that doesn't work either.

Checking on the syntax highlighting I saw that the file is marked as "HTML/ASP/JS/PHP". If I change it to "VBSCRIPT" I get no folding between the <% and %> tags, but all the code becomes squiggly underlined.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

[MortenMacFly]

IHMO this was a bug in the scintilla version we are currently using. I've a patch pending though... stay tuned.

[rickg22]

I downloaded revision 7075 which according to the post, has a streamlined wxscintilla... but the folding still doesn't work Do I have to assume that scintilla just doesn't fold well with ASP?

EDIT: I managed a workaround. Since Codeblocks assumes the " ' " character is a string delimiter (and not a comment delimiter as VBSCRIPT specifies), I only create a "fake string" commenting a bracket:

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function myfunction(blah) '  ' {

end function '  '}


EDIT: On reloading, the above trick doesn't work! :'(

[MortenMacFly]

...did you try with SciTE?

I've no idea about how well scintilla supports vbscript. :-(

[rickg22]

I tried with SciTE, and if I select "VBScript", I can fold properly.

EDIT: This is interesting. In an older version of C::B (5686), I can select "vbscript" as the highlighting mode, and the blocks show Ok. But in the newest version, the change had no effect.  I'll try tomorrow at work (where I have the latest C::B) to confirm.

Here's the sample "test.asp":

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<%
class myclass

function myfunc(a,b,c)
blah
blah

end function


end class
%>


[rickg22]

I tried in C::B at work.

If I change to VBScript, the folding doesn't change automatically. I need to configure in the editor settings to use VBScript for ASP files, and then the folding will appear.

But then another problem comes: ALL the file is squiggly-underlined in green. I can't understand why, as nothing in the editor settings is underlined