@John-Smith-3 ,

UDL is nice, but it cannot handle every possible condition. I don’t think it will do that natively.

However, you can add extra highlighting to a User Defined Language (UDL) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo – so with installing the PythonScript plugin and using the linked solution, you could define a regex that will color text matching r'c\h+' (raw string, with c followed by horizontal space), or similar, in some way to indicate a cmoment.

@Alan & Peter: I see and understand your view. My low-information policy was based on the wish not to stress you all that much. So well, I’ll poke around and if I find a solution, of course, I’ll post it here.

Many thanks for your incentives and - not to forget: Happy Easter!

@Bernhard-Iceman

Afaik it is the nativeLang.xml which does get its content replaced with the chosen one.

Thank you Mr. Alan, I didn’t know.

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you too … now it’s clear ;-)

@PeterJones Thanks, it worked and solved my issue.
It really saved my time.

@Diana

This forum is about Notepad++, so you’ve asked your question in the wrong place to get help of the type of problem you’ve asked about.

@PeterJones
Thanks again Peter for your followup post with the link on how to repair for non-default themes! This is great and I learned something in the process!

@carlos-navarro

One way to get around this limitation is to use something like my EnhanceAnyLexer.py script.

@Vasile-Caraus ,

Here are some takeaways from this problem. Hopefully, you will remember these, and act accordingly in the future:

The documentation at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/ describes all the proper syntax for searching and replacements. In it, you would find the list of \-escapes that are allowed in the REPLACE WITH field (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#substitution-escape-sequences). You will notice that the \s and \S are not valid sequences in that field, as @guy038 tried to explain. If you want to search for text that contains spaces, the space character or escape sequence must go in the FIND WHAT, not in the REPLACE WITH The quality of answers you receive is directly proportional to the quality of the question you ask

Other advice: you have been pointed to the documentation many times over your 5+ years of visiting this forum. You should take advantage of that resource, and read and study that document.

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Do you want regex search/replace help? Then please be patient and polite, show some effort, and be willing to learn; answer questions and requests for clarification that are made of you. All example text should be marked as literal text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. To make regex in red (and so they keep their special characters like *), use backticks, like `^.*?blah.*?\z`. Screenshots can be pasted from the clipboard to your post using Ctrl+V to show graphical items, but any text should be included as literal text in your post so we can easily copy/paste your data. Show the data you have and the text you want to get from that data; include examples of things that should match and be transformed, and things that don’t match and should be left alone; show edge cases and make sure you examples are as varied as your real data. Show the regex you already tried, and why you thought it should work; tell us what’s wrong with what you do get. Read the official NPP Searching / Regex docs and the forum’s Regular Expression FAQ. If you follow these guidelines, you’re much more likely to get helpful replies that solve your problem in the shortest number of tries.

@Kacper-Kantarowski said in Moving Background:

I would like to make my background move as the page scrolls.

@PeterJones @Alan-Kilborn I think he’s actually referring to a webpage, possibly created within NPP and using NPP to open it in his web browser of choice. So he’s asking the question here about html code, how to change his code to fit his need.

@Kacper-Kantarowski this is a forum about Notepad++, not html coding. You’d be better off asking the coding question in a html forum.

Terry

@Ravi-K

You probably should first refer to previous postings you’ve made here on very similar subjects.

@Teddy-Quentin-Chung

How exactly do you install and update PORTABLE npp versions?
Do you use the ones from PortableApps.com?
If so, they build the package and you need to ask the question there.

@iwanPlays

If you want to define a themaware UDL, you just have to click with the right mouse button on the color rectangle, so that you see a hatched rectangle.
To color digits inside {} differently than normal ones
use delimiters.

Ensure you have the language set correctly:
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It is usually done automatically if the extension is standard (e.g. *.py).

As for the background colors, there are a lot of predefined themes for that.
Take a look at this in menu: Settings > Style Configurator > Theme - Obsidian

@guy038 said in sample config:

After ticking this option, in the Preferences dialog and closing N++, the value of the dlgAlwaysVisible attribute is still no in the config.xml file !

Hmm. I would think that dlgAlwaysVisible would get erased from the FindHistory section at the N++ release that moves control to the Searching section of config.xml; example of that:

<GUIConfig name="Searching" monospacedFontFindDlg="yes" stopFillingFindField="no" findDlgAlwaysVisible="yes" confirmReplaceInAllOpenDocs="yes" />

Notice the name is now slightly different, too: findDlgAlwaysVisible

But…I really don’t know how such “obsolete” items are handled.

So , no need to create any issue

If obsolete settings are supposed to be removed, maybe THAT’S an issue you could open!

I used to write batch files and coldfusin apps, but that was long ago and far from my present mental haze… Thanks, but it looks like I’m going to load and save each file.

@Ali-Abbaspour ,

Natively, you cannot.

Fortunately for you, this is a FAQ, “How do I use Notepad++ to Compile my Source Code”, where the example in there actually shows using the gcc compiler to compile c source code and run the resulting executable, so I believe it matches what you want to do and should be easily adapted to your compiler needs.

@PeterJones awesome thank you so much! Learning regex is a long marathon lol

@guy038 ,

I don’t think that’s necessary. There’s probably enough in my post to re-create the original problem for anyone who was that curious. And I’ve left my reply public in case @jbenh ever comes back and wants the solution.