Better .jbeam Highlighting in Notepad++ Tutorial

Discussion in 'Utilities and programming' started by NMH, Dec 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM.

  1. NMH

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    Notepad++ will automatically open any .jbeam file as regular text.

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    Here's how to make always open .jbeam files with highlights like this:

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    Before doing anything, fully close Notepad++

    1. (for Windows), press Windows + R, then type %appdata%
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    2. Make sure you're in the Roaming folder, find Notepad++
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    3. Open langs.xml (just don't open it with notepad++)! A regular text editor should be able to open this
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    4. With Ctrl + F, search for json5, and add jbeam in the ext list
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    5. Save the file and re-open Notepad++. Your .jbeam files should all be opened now as JSON5. They might need to be re-opened again to work.
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    If you're on Linux or something, the steps should all be the same, except the Notepad++ folder might be somewhere else...

    God bless!
    -NMH
     
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