@PeterJones Thanks so much for the quick reply. Installing the release candidate fixed the issue for me. Much appreciated!

@PeterJones said in Pascal multi line string highlight:

[pascal]
; Everything between pairs of triple-ticks is colored cyan
0xCCCC00 = (?s)‘’‘.*?’‘’
;excluded_styles = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,20,21,22,23
(make sure you use the ; or # to coment out the excluded_styles, otherwise it won’t color properly; you can, of course, pick any 0xBBGGRR values you want to choose your own color, as described in the comments of the INI file.)

Thanks for the workaround, I used here and have some problems, when i have more than one multi-line string on a single document sometime the string is colored sometime everything else are colored.
To make it works I changed to this rule:

[pascal] 0x9393CC = (?s)(?<=[=,\(]){1}\s*('{3,}).*?\1

Now to considere the text the trhee or more apostrophe needs to be preceded by come caracteres like =, ( or [.

I tryed to search by the same amonth of ticks, it is working just well enough, but not exactly fine.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Simple and light is often the opposite of universal.

This is often the case, but not always.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

If you solution is “universal enough” for you, fine;

Of course, when there is no ideal option, you have to choose the one that is most suitable for the situation.

@Alan-Kilborn said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Good luck achieving all of those all of the time.
Or do you have a “pick any 2” or “pick any 3” type rule? ;-)

Thanks. It happens to everyone at some point ;)
But it must be universal and fast, even if it means making the code complex.

@mpheath @PeterJones
Thank you both for identifying the fault, although your discussion is a bit above my head :)

Just to check my understanding, Notepad++ is using a 3rd party plugin to do the formatting? and the suggestion is i install an alternative styling plugin for notepad++ which will override this new styling plugin which will allow me to revert to the former behaviour?

Does anyone know an effective solution to the black square instead of the cursor issue?