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    Chris Overland
    last edited by Apr 4, 2019, 8:05 PM

    Hi, does Notepad++ have a strikethrough or highlight feature for keeping track of completed items on a list? (for example :) TIA

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      Alan Kilborn @Chris Overland
      last edited by Apr 4, 2019, 8:19 PM

      @Chris-Overland

      Sort of, you can do this in a text file in a N++ tab:

      before:

      TODO:
      [ ] take out the garbage
      [ ] make cookies
      [ ] chase the wife around
      

      after:

      TODO:
      [X] take out the garbage
      [X] make cookies
      [ ] chase the wife around
      

      Also, I think there’s a todo-list plugin.

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        PeterJones
        last edited by Apr 4, 2019, 8:32 PM

        @Chris-Overland: welcome to the Notepad++ Community Forums.

        You asked:

        Hi, does Notepad++ have a strikethrough or highlight feature

        Not directly. Notepad++ is for editing the text; except for syntax highlighting, it leaves out word-processing features like strikethrough.

        However, if you save the text in a Markdown file (.md), then there are two things in your favor: you can use the Markdown UDL (which is now bundled with newer Notepad++ versions), then you can see some syntax highlighting while going… I have a customized UDL which doesn’t have that, so cannot tell this instant whether the markdown ~~strikethrough~~ syntax gets struck out in the editor. If you also have the MarkdownViewer++ plugin, it can render the Markdown into a separate pane, which does properly render the strikethrough.

        In a few minutes, I may be back with confirmation on the default Markdown UDL

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          PeterJones
          last edited by Apr 4, 2019, 8:39 PM

          I just said:

          In a few minutes, I may be back with confirmation on the default Markdown UDL

          No, the default Markdown UDL (that ships with 7.6.4) does not define the ~~ as an open/close pair. However, you could add it: Language > Define Your Language, and select Markdown (default) from the pulldown. Go to the “Operators & Delimiters” tag, and go to the lower right “Delimiter 8” style; set Open: ~~, Escape: \, and Close:~~. Then click on that Styler button, and pick a style. Unfortunately, strike-through is not available; but you could set it to Bold+Underline, with foreground color = red, which may be a strikethrough indicator.

          But, as @Alan-Kilborn already said, there’s also a TODO-list plugin, which you can download using Plugins Admin > Task List (current version 2.1)

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            Ekopalypse @Chris Overland
            last edited by Apr 5, 2019, 3:26 PM

            @Chris-Overland

            in addition you could use the builtin UDL feature to define a user define language like
            for example such a simple one
            Define an unique file extension and every time you open such a file it tries to color it.

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