An AutoComplete, with callTips, file for NotePad++.

AutoComplete: When typing keywords in NotePad++ it offers AutoComplete for special ESO words: Globals, Constants, Events, functions, methods, exc... to autocomplete the typing of the words for you. (See Pictures)

callTips: After entering a function and typing ( it will popup a window telling you what the parameters are for the function & their types, the return values & their types, and a few lua functions are also thrown in that also have descriptions on what they do & how to use them. It will also tell you if a function is protected or private. (See Pictures)

Events & Constants: Since notepad++ doesn't have mouse over tooltips, you must type ( after a function name to get them to show. For this reason I listed Events and constants as functions. The reason is that, for example, you could type a constant followed by ( and it will tell you what value that constant is. Then you can just backspace & remove the unwanted (. You can do the same with events to show the parameters they will pass to your registered function. A bit strange I know, but since there are no mouse over tooltips, its better than having to go look it up on the wiki. (See Pictures)

Method Overloads: While I guess their not really overloads, since the methods belong to different objects. I have listed each method with the same name as function overloads. This is due to yet another limitation of notepad++. But at least this way you can still find what you need, albeit a bit strange. For example you can type myObj:AddButton( and it will show a callTip with 4 overloads.The 4 callTips/overloads will show you the parameters & their types, returns & their types, if their private/protected, for each method as well as which obj the method belongs to. (See Pictures)

lua AutoComplete & callTips: Besides ESO terms it also has a few lua AutoComplete terms with callTips. I did not write nor check the descriptions of these functions. Someone else wrote it and said it could be modified & reused so I added the ones I thought might be useful to devs to my ESO autocomplete file: assert, find (string.find), format (string.format), getmetatable, gmatch (string.gmatch), gsub (string.gsub), insert (table.insert), ipairs, len (string.len), lower (string.lower), match (string.match), next, pairs, pcall, random (math.random), remove (table.remove), rep (string.rep), reverse (string.reverse), select, setmetatable, sort (table.sort), sub (string.sub), upper (string.upper), tonumber, tostring, type, unpack

See Limitations at the bottom of this page!

Extract the zip and place the lua.xml file in your notepad++/plugins/API folder.

It contains everything from the wiki API, Events, Constants, & Control page.

I was also planning on implementing syntax highlighting for constants, events, functions, methods, exc... but eventually figured out that there is a 38k character limitation to keyword categories with a maximum of 8 categories in notepad++ and from what I read there is no way to add more keyword categories without code changes & recompiling scintilla.

methods -- In notepad++ there is no way to correctly show methods. So instead all of the methods are defined as functions. What does this mean? You can type SetAnchor( and a calltip will pop-up telling you the parameters even though there is no object before it like: myControl:SetAnchor( Although I don't think thats really a big deal...you shouldn't be typing SetAnchor( by itself anyhow

string. & table. -- This file includes a few lua Auto-Completes with callTips that you may think behaves strangely. It is the same problem as with the methods. There is no way to get AutoComplete & callTips to work properly on a match like "string.gsub" or "table.insert". So instead I entered them in as individual functions "gsub", "gmatch", "insert", exc.. so they will at least appear when you need them. For example if you type "string.gsub(" or "s:gsub(" the autocomplete & calltips will work as expected. The downside is that you can type just "gsub(" and they will also appear, even though you've made a code error leaving out "string." or "s:"