Hello, Michael,

Choose the menu option Settings - Preferences - MISC

Click on the Enable option, in the Smart Highlighting area

You may prefer the Match case option, as well !

Et voilà :-))

Enjoy N++ !

guy038

Okay solved.
settings->style configurator->font style and select same as of MS Notepad or any other supporting of your choice.
Works like charm.
Thank You. :)

Where is the underline shown? If it’s in Notepad++ it has nothing to do with RTF. Go to Settings->Preferences->MISC and disable clickable links.

If it’s not in NPP, many Tools have similar Settings to automatically highlight text parts that look like a link.

Hello Radu Vîrşescu,

Yes, indeed ! Moreover, it will allow me to talk about the main property of a powerful feature of regular expressions : the look-arounds :-))

A look-around can be, either, a look-behind or a look-ahead and, either, positive or negative. A look-around contains its own regex ( or a string or a character ! ) which must be matched, at cursor location, in order that the regex engine considers that there a reel match of the entire regex, when the main regex is already matched

An example : let’s suppose the simple subject string abcdefghidefxyz, beginning a line and the regex (def(?=ghi)|.)

When the position of the regex engine is located before the letters a, b or c, the regex engine chose the second part ( . ), of the alternative |, because it can’t see any string def, at cursor location

Then, the regex engine matches the string def, because that string is quite followed with the string ghi ( first part of the alternative (def(?=ghi) ). It’s important to note that, although the regex engine needs to look till position 9, to verify that the string ghi is, really, present, the “official” location of the regex engine is, still, just after the string def and before the letter g ( so between columns 6 and 7 )

Indeed, if you go on searching, you, now, get, successively, the letters g, h, i, then, again, the letters d, e and f and, finally, the letters x, y and z, which are, all, matched, because of the dot ( . ). Note that the second string def, although found by the regex engine, is NOT considered as a match, just because it’s NOT followed by the string ghi !

So, Radu, you, certainly, have found out how to build your regex, for your counting !!

Simply, search for the regex a(?=a) Et voilà !

For instance, given the subject string aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ( 30 letters a ), a click on the Count button returns 29 matches. Quite logical :-)

Now, if you choose the regex a(?=aaaaaaaaaa), you get, only, 20 matches

And if you choose the regex aaa(?=aaaaa), you’ll obtain 8 matches ( 8 consecutive groups of the string aaa ), because the ninth and tenth groups of the string aaa are NOT followed by the exact string aaaaa !!

Best Regards,

guy038

how can I switch back to this custom highlighter

The easiest way is probably just to switch to a file and switch back. The only other way I could think of is possibly tie it to a shortcut key.

to do code-folding using BRACES or something?

It technically should be possible since the plugin simply wraps all the API calls for Scintilla, however I’ve never actually messed with code folding at all so I’m not sure what all it would take to do it properly…so most likely I will pass on this.

The parsers Notepad++ uses is from Scintilla. Notepad++ is using a bit older version but even in the newer version it looks like the parser for PowerShell would still have this problem. Would probably be best to report this issue to that project.