These options are set by simply including the keyword in the wordfile. There are several keywords available for specifying syntax highlighting behavior options in the wordfile. where "#" is a number (no longer used for sorting purposes but still required) and "Language Name" is the name as it will appear in the list of available syntax highlighting languages. This is done on the first line of the wordfile via the following syntax: The first step to creating a valid wordfile is defining the language it will apply highlighting for. 16.1 Keywords beginning with a sub-string.This topic exhaustively documents all possible options and sections of the wordfile. You will need to restart UltraEdit in order to initialize the new wordfile, but once initialized, any changes you make to it will be reflected in real-time when you switch to an open file being highlighted by the wordfile you're modifying. The easiest way to create your own wordfile is to take one of the existing wordfiles and modify it as desired, saving it into the wordfiles directory with a unique name and. Wordfiles are loaded on startup, or when modified via the Add another language. must be saved in the wordfiles folder shown in Settings » Editor Display » Syntax Highlighting (subfolders are ignored).must be no more than 372 KB in size, and finally.can be in either ANSI, UTF-16, or UTF-8 encoding format (with or without BOM – Unicode characters are supported for all wordfile settings and definitions).must be in plain text format with DOS style line endings.Example of a wordfile used for syntax highlighting in UltraEditĪs discussed in the Syntax highlighting topic, UltraEdit applies syntax highlighting from definitions and configurations in wordfiles.