Notepad++ not syntax highlighting my files

Question

Until a week ago I was happily coding html.erb files in Notepad++ with syntax highlighting. Then my hard drive crashed.

I reinstalled Notepad++ on my new system but when

Answer 1

I had this problem when reinstalling notepad++ because with the new install, .r source code files were being recognized as REBOL instead of R. I had to manually remove the r file extension from the REBOL key in the langs.xml file. For instructions, see the similar question on the Notepad++ community forum at this link.