Integrating fpm with Notepad++

[ivan-pi]

The recent Quickstart-Fortran installer from @LKedward has made it easy to start using Fortran on Windows.

Notepad++ is one of the most ubiquitous editors text editors on Windows that already comes with built-in Fortran syntax highlighting (both free and fixed form, although some newer syntax is missing). The appearance of the editor is not the prettiest, but overall the tools available are good. I think it makes a great editor for Fortran newcomers.

There are few ways we can integrate fpm with NotePad++:

• Provide NppExec scripts to run fpm through a key-binding,
• Provide a Notepad++ plugin; the plugin system expects you expose methods in C which can be mapped to a window or menus,
• (minor) Suggest users to install the NPP-TOML-Syntax that would provide syntax highlighting for the manifest file

This discussion is also related to #479.

So far I don't have anything to demonstrate, but wanted to see if there is any interest among other fpm users. Hopefully I can provide some examples in the following weeks/months.