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I like the highlighting feature in notepad++, but when using certain themes that default purple and yellow make the text unreadable, and it seems I cannot change it through style configurator. Does anyone know where I would find the option to change these? It's making working with dark themes hard.
running ANSI on XP
actually I was able to change the colors through Style configurator I used tags match highlight and tags atribute
Daniel
Posted 2009-11-12T03:19:07.790
Reputation: 430
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For starter, have you tried 'Settings' > 'Style Configuration' and in pop up, find 'Select theme' drop down box. Choose a theme color that suits you. For example, I'm on 'Deep Black'.
Trav L
Posted 2009-11-12T03:19:07.790
Reputation: 276
3I like the choco, but need to make the highlights work. would be nice to overwrite the transparency on those. – Daniel – 2009-11-12T03:33:21.737
2Go to 'Style Configurator' pop up, in your selected theme (ie/ Choco), in language choose 'Global Styles' then in style choose 'Selected text color'. Here you can change the 'Background color' value to one that suits you. – Trav L – 2009-11-12T04:04:00.867
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At least in notepad++ v6.2.2, some themes, such as Twilight, seem to ignore changes to the "Tag match highlight" and "Tag attribute". Meaning you end up with very hard to read highlight colors on a dark background.
It seems to be some error in the XML file for the theme. If you remove, for example, the "edgeColour" entry (which is set to styleID="0") then Notepad++ appears to parse the later entries properly - so the color changes do take effect.
ben
Posted 2009-11-12T03:19:07.790
Reputation: 141
Weird. I commented out the entire Edge colour line and it fixed my highlight issues. – Kit Menke – 2013-02-12T16:19:43.350
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I needed this too. As the original poster has noted, you can do this through:
Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles ...
Simon East
Posted 2009-11-12T03:19:07.790
Reputation: 2 414
2Voted to move to superuser. – Asaph – 2009-11-12T03:25:16.543
I think this was addressed in a newer version of notpad – Daniel – 2012-09-20T23:59:38.350