What to do with Notepad++ (NPP)

					Rick Landau 20060221
                    Updated     20060419

Edit (or just read) MOF, MIB, and XML files with it!

Hot features: 
- Syntax color highlighting for DMTF MOF and SNMP MIB,
  in addition to thirty other languages.
- XML syntax checking.
- Code folding for many languages.  
- Free!  
					
Notepad++ is a nice, general, freebie editor (from 
sourceforge) that includes syntax highlighting for 
thirty+ languages, XML syntax checking, code folding, 
bookmarks, and other useful features.  Not perfect but 
useful.  

The basic package is the .exe installer for Windows.  The 
xmlCheck plug-in will check XML syntax after every 
File->Save, if you turn it on.  Just unzip the 
xmlCheck.dll file into the plugins subdirectory under the 
Notepad++ installation directory, restart Notepad++, and 
turn on the feature under the Plugins menu.  

I added a syntax-highlighting file for DMTF MOF syntax, 
to make editing MOFs slightly more palatable.  It is a 
user-defined language added to the normal set.  Place the 
userDefineLang.xml file into the directory for your NPP 
settings, that is, approximately, 

"C:\Documents and Settings\<your_profile_name>\Application Data\Notepad++\"

Just drop the file into that directory and you get a new 
file type, "DMTF MOF," which applies to any file with 
extension ".mof" or any file you manually select.  If I 
missed some keywords, or you want different colors, feel 
free to edit them.  

New news 20060419: I also added syntax highlighting for 
SNMP MIB syntax.  Also works reasonably for RFCs with MIBs
embedded in them, if you don't mind a few spurious
highlights in the text portions of the file.  (The MOF and 
MIB highlighting instructions are in the same file, 
userDefineLang.xml.  Two for the price of one.)

Good luck.  

rick

PS: Ctrl-mousewheel will change the text size, as is true 
in many applications these days.  And what a wonderful 
feature for programmers over forty.