Today i've finally figured out a nice Notepad++ ULD2 workaround for SAS multi-lines comment «*», «%*» and «comment» highlighting.

I've been working on this for many months before finding a really effective workaround.

The problem was that SAS multi-lines comment «*», «%*» and «comment» behave "like" a single line comment for Notepad++.
They open at the start of a line only and preceding whitespaces are allowed.

You can read the complete explanation for the solution in the README.TXT file under the "Files" tab here :

https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus-plus-sas-udl2/

In short allow any ASCII characters to be a continue character.
But Notepad++ don't allow the "SPACE" and "TAB" characters to be continue characters. We have a bit mote than 99% effective workaround.
Remove all whitespaces at the end of each comment lines and this workaround will be fully effective.

Hope this will give better comment highlighting and comment folding for your SAS source code with Notepad++.