Ah, that’s not how it’s supposed to work. HTML parser should detect language of embedded script blocks on its own without user changing the top-level language, because there are HTML/ASP tags that also need their own highlighting.
Thanks for the heads up, I think I’ve found the diff between np++ and scintilla code that’s responsible. I should probably take it to github from here.

The just of my reply was that this worked very well in the test run, but did not in my actual working files. Possibly because my image files aren’t actually named “image01, 02, 03” etc? Here are two actual strings:

(how very odd. it allowed this - but now I’m a “new user” and can only post once every twenty minutes. I might just email ya. ha)

Thank you Claudia. Adding -noPlugin switch to Start menu shortcut icon for NotePad++ seems to have fixed the problem of Skype launching. Thanks again.

Try to disable “Autodetect character encoding” under preferences - MISC. Tried it and got C2 A7 bytes, which I think is correct.

Thank you.

Hi guy038 & MAPJe71,

Thx for your response. I was referring to line (un)comment shortcuts.
If they are not available natively, can I submit a patch?

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/2394

The above pull request is added, is there any thing else required for submitting pull requests?
I am new to this forum, let me know if I have missed something.

Reagrds,

You need to do some programming in order to achieve that.