We recently started to use SASS / SCSS to code our stylesheets. We were missing some proper syntax highlighting with the default CSS settings provided by Notepad++. After some research, we found a good base on Wouter Beugelsdijk's techblog but we were still not quite happy with it.

How to use

To enable SCSS syntax highlighting:

• In Notepad++, pick the User Defined Dialog... item from the view menu.
• Click on the import button and simply select the XML file located in our ZIP file
• That's it, all your files with the .scss extension should now be highlighted

To enable autocomplete:

• go to your Notepad++ folder then to /plugins/APIs/
• duplicate the css.xml and rename this file to scss.xml.

#Our modifications

version 1.0

• Highlighting for HTML tags
• Changed some colors
• Added syntax coloring for important comments starting with /! instead of just /
• Added syntax coloring for partial css keywords used while using nested properties