Active strings in WinEdt 8

Question

I use WinEdt build 20131031 (v. 8.1) - 64-bit on a Windows 7 (64 bit) machine. My active strings are not working. I tried a lot, e.g., "Load Script" in the Options Interface (under Delimiters, Active Strings, Abbreviations... -> Active Strings).

For example, I would like to have the typical \ref{} active string (such that the labels given in the main file pop-up after typing in \ref{}). It does not work (by contrast to WinEdt 5 or so). Now it becomes really weird: I have created my own active strings and put them into a file called myActiveStrings.ini which is located in %b\ConfigEx\. In ActiveStrings.ini (i.e., the active strings file that comes with WinEdt) I inserted %INCLUDE="ConfigEx\myActiveStrings.ini". Now, my OWN active strings work, but not the active strings in ActiveStrings.ini!

Help...! ;-)

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '14 at 13:31

If you want to add your own active strings, you have to add the line

%INCLUDE="ConfigEx\myActiveStrings.ini"

in the file ActiveStrings.ini just before the line

[END]

as you did, but the structure of myActiveStrings.ini has to be the following one:

// ===============================================================================
// -*- DATA:INI:EDT -*-
//
// My WinEdt Active Strings
//
// ===============================================================================

[BUILD]

REQUIRES=20131017

// ===============================================================================

[ACTIVE_STRINGS*]

<your own code>

// ===============================================================================

Note the asterisk in [ACTIVE_STRINGS*] and the absence of [END].

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 06 '14 at 13:22

I have solved the problem. Indeed, it was my own ini-file which made WinEdt's active strings no more working. I used the following code in myActiveStrings.ini:

// ===============================================================================
// -*- DATA:INI:EDT -*-
//
// My WinEdt Active Strings
//
// ===============================================================================

[BUILD]

REQUIRES=20131017

// ===============================================================================

[ACTIVE_STRINGS]

<Body>

[END]

So, I guess by [END] I apparently made WinEdt to think that there are no more active strings and so it simply skipped the proprietary ones... ;-) After deleting

[BUILD]

REQUIRES=20131017

// ===============================================================================

[ACTIVE_STRINGS]

and

[END]

from the code, all things work perfect.

This works, but the right way to go in WinEdt is the one in my answer ;-) — karlkoeller, Feb 27 '14 at 12:12

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