@vvPeterJones I switched Settings>Preferences>Print from “No background color” to “Black on white” and the print is much better.

@PeterJones Great. Thanks

Even if the shorter, similar string was after the longer string, the same Regular Expression (Regex) can be used to get the same result:- Input abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx abc Output abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx ABC Explanation: The abc.*xyz preceding the (SKIP)(*F) in the Regex helps skip the long string starting with abc and ending with xyz and matches the other abc in the shorter, similar string! By using that Regex (mentioned in my previous post, just above this), the abc after the (SKIP)(*F) is matched, found and replaced.

Hello, Trying to do IPv6 in Syntax Highlighting for FortiOS. As I wanted to have a different font color for the dots and the colons in the IP address, I use those as operators, and have 0-9 A-F (Uppercase A-F) as keywords set to prefix. This only works if you’re building configs though, and will go back to default if there are lower case a-f hex values if you do a copy/paste type of thing in NPP. I chose to opt for uppercase A-F since all FortiOS words are case sensitive and must be lowercase(Not strings/objects mind you). You can, while configuring the device, set IPv6 addresses with these uppercase hex values. Note: You can specify objects without string delimiters, but I find that to be bad form. And if you include grep filtering in NPP, these keywords could be exposed. Keywords List Group Prefix Mode: Checked 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F Operators 1 . : /

I requested here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17508 I then made a plugin here: https://github.com/shoulders/npp-exclusive-file-lock Thanks

@PeterJones said: So, sorry, I don’t know of a way to do that. But I am now curious if someone else knows of a way, or if one of the codebase experts knows why it might not be possible (or whether it’s a feasible feature request or not). (I’d apologize for providing a ‘non-answer’ as my answer, when you haven’t gotten a ‘real answer’ first… but I wanted to caution future respondants to not jump to the same conclusion I did at first without actually giving it a try for themselves.) No worries I like to see how people tackle problems. And with a software as vast as N++ where I know only a small percentage of all the functions, even a non answer shows me something new most of the times. Coises answer does the trick. In an ideal world I’d like a way to switch the behaviour so Alt+drag copies, but for all intents and purposes the solution works for me.