Disable brace highlight style in comments?

albcntr

Hi, I’m new in Notepad++ and I’ve spent time seeking information about this in many forums. Finally, I had signed up here and I decided to ask. Well, it’s possible to dissable de style option: Brace highlight style but only in comments?

I’ve been reading too how I can change the foreground to white on Selected text only, and I did what Claudia Frank said, and it worked perfectly! (here the post: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/11039/foreground-options-for-selected-text)

I hope there is some way to do it like there, with some command from Python Script, or something. Thanks you very much.

Greetings.

Alberto

Claudia Frank

@albcntr

in order to make this work we need to define that brace matching should use an indicator instead
of a style and then enable/disable depending where we are.
So something like

editor.indicSetStyle(8,INDICATORSTYLE.HIDDEN)
editor.indicSetFore(8,(0,0,0))
editor.indicSetAlpha(8,0)
editor.indicSetOutlineAlpha(8,0)
editor.indicSetUnder(8,False)

comment_style_id = 1

def callback_UPDATEUI(args):
    cur_pos = editor.getCurrentPos()
    if editor.getStyleAt(cur_pos) == comment_style_id or editor.getStyleAt(cur_pos-1) == comment_style_id:
        editor.braceBadLightIndicator(True, 8)
        editor.braceHighlightIndicator(True, 8)
    else:
        editor.braceBadLightIndicator(False, 8)
        editor.braceHighlightIndicator(False, 8)
    
editor.clearCallbacks([SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.UPDATEUI])
editor.callbackSync(callback_UPDATEUI, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.UPDATEUI])

You need to check which style_id for comments is used by your lexer and change
comment_style_id = 1 accordingly. If you use the default theme, check in stylers.xml
otherwise see in the xml of your used theme (under themes directory).

Btw. instead of pasting this into the standard startup.py I would recommend you create
the user startup.py, simply by going to Plugins->Python Script->New Script
and name it startup.py.

Cheers
Claudia

albcntr

@Claudia-Frank

Thanks so much, it works perfectly! Just like what I wanted. Ty ty.

Fondest wishes