How to use LuaScript examples

[b-morgan]

I have installed LuaScript 0.12 on NotePad++ 8.6.9 and I’ve found the documentation with a list of examples.

What I’m missing is how to use the examples. In particular, luaautoindent.lua.

I am a World of Warcraft addon developer and a recent Blizzard “enhancement” is to remove all the indentation from their saved variables files which are Lua tables. While getting rid of all that white space may be good for speeding up loading of addons, it sucks when debugging an addon.

I want to load the file into NPP and then do “something” to reformat it. Very rarely I’ll change something and save it but mostly I just want a better visualization of the multiple tables in the file.

[dail8859]

To be honest I haven't used this plugin in a while but I'm assuming it still works with the latest Notepad++ still.

In the plugin menu you can edit the Lua start up script and paste the example code in that file, save, and restart N++.

[b-morgan]

Unless I totally misunderstand you, I'm not interested in running code every time I start Notepad++. I want to load this saved variables file into a NPP tab and then "do something" to execute a LuaScript function which will reformat the contents of that tab. I don't want to mess with any of the other tabs which might contain .lua files from my addon which are already formatted (by me) and don't need to be messed with.

[dail8859]

The startup script runs every time at start up of the application, but the intention is that it just defines all the shortcuts and defines callbacks to be used during runtime.