Markdown files are colored with dark text on a light background, even with a dark theme; how do I change?
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Whitespace is still a dark background, and the current line is a dark background, making it impossible to read the current line.
The Style configurator is set to Vibrant Ink theme, and all the languages have dark background colors. I don’t know where .md file colors are specified.
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The color of the current row is here:

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the markdown lexer is a UDL (user-defined-lexer) and unfortunately UDLs are not
covered by themes - only builtin lexers are.
I assume you are using npp 7.6.4, have a look for a file called
userDefinedLang-markdown.default.modern.xml -
Thanks, I was able to edit the color values in that file to have it look a lot less odd.
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@JeremyMorton: is it possible for you to post your changes here?
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Here is a list of styles for markdown
https://github.com/Edditoria/markdown-plus-plus -
@Max-Lovic has provided a nice looking solution.
How can this be merge into the main notepad++ repo?
I tried removing all the ‘styles’ from userDefineLang.xml which did not work.
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