Syntax Highlighting for SPIM in Notepad++

For one of my classes we're working with SPIM, and I wanted my code to print out all nice and pretty, which means syntax highlighting. After a little digging through the docs (and finding the counterintuitively placed "View->User Define Dialog" option), I managed to create a user-defined language for SPIM. You can just copy the text below into your userDefineLang.xml to add it, or if you haven't done any user defined languages yet, just download this userDefineLang.xml from my settings and save it to your Notepad++ directory. This file also includes definitions for Smarty as well, just because I didn't see any reason to strip it out. So if you program in PHP and use Smarty, you get a bonus! If you do PHP and not Smarty, I'd recommend checking it out - it makes my life a lot easier.

P.S. I still can't spell recommend right on the first try for the life of me. Stupid word.

<userlang name="SPIM" ext="s"> <settings> <global caseIgnored="yes" /> <treatassymbol comment="no" commentLine="no" /> <prefix words1="no" words2="no" words3="no" words4="yes" /> </Settings> <keywordlists> <keywords name="Delimiters">"00"00</Keywords> <keywords name="Folder+">:</Keywords> <keywords name="Folder-">jr $ra</Keywords> <keywords name="Operators">, : ( ) [ ]</Keywords> <keywords name="Comment"> 1 2 0#</Keywords> <keywords name="Words1">abs add addi addu addiu and andi div divu mul mulo mulou mult multu neg negu nor not or ori rem remu rol ror sll sllv sra srav srl srlv sub subu xor xori li lui seq sge sgeu sgt sgtu sle sleu slt slti sltu sltiu sne b bczt bczf beq beqz bge bgeu bgez bgezal bgt bgtu bgtz ble bleu blez bgezal bltzal blt bltu bltz bne bnez j jal jalr jr la lb lbu ld lh lhu lw lwcz lwl lwr ulh ulhu ulw sb sd sh sw swcz swl swr ush usw move mfhi mflo mthi mtlo mfcz mfc1.d mtcz abs.d abs.s add.d add.s c.eq.d c.eq.s c.le.d c.le.s c.lt.d c.lt.s cvt.d.s cvt.d.w cvt.s.d cvt.s.w cvt.w.d cvt.w.s div.d div.s l.d l.s mov.d mov.s mul.d mul.s neg.d neg.s s.d s.s sub.d sub.s rfe syscall break nop</Keywords> <keywords name="Words2">$zero $at $0 $v0 $v1 $a0 $a1 $a2 $a3 $t0 $t1 $t2 $t3 $t4 $t5 $t6 $t7 $s0 $s1 $s2 $s3 $s4 $s5 $s6 $s7 $t8 $t9 $k0 $k1 $gp $sp $fp $ra</Keywords> <keywords name="Words3">.align .ascii .asciiz .byte .data .double .extern .float .globl .half .kdata .ktext .space .text .word</Keywords> <keywords name="Words4">0x $ .</Keywords> </KeywordLists> <styles> <wordsstyle name="DEFAULT" styleID="11" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="0" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="FOLDEROPEN" styleID="12" fgColor="0000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="FOLDERCLOSE" styleID="13" fgColor="0000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="KEYWORD1" styleID="5" fgColor="0000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="KEYWORD2" styleID="6" fgColor="FF0000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="0" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="KEYWORD3" styleID="7" fgColor="000080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="KEYWORD4" styleID="8" fgColor="000080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="COMMENT LINE" styleID="2" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="0" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="NUMBER" styleID="4" fgColor="FF8000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="1" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="OPERATOR" styleID="10" fgColor="8000FF" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="0" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="DELIMINER1" styleID="14" fgColor="808080" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="Courier New" fontStyle="0" fontSize="10" /> <wordsstyle name="DELIMINER2" styleID="15" fgColor="000000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" /> </Styles> </UserLang>
P.P.S. When I realized all the angly brackets would mess with the HTML, I hit upon the idea of using a quick

print htmlentities(file_get_contents("/path/to/file.xml"));

in a

php -a

console to HTMLize it, which worked beautifully. Nice.

P.P.P.S. To stop Blogger from inserting <br/> tags all over the place and messing everything up, I had to set "Convert Line Breaks" to "No" in Settings->Formatting. Just FYI.