How to highlight text?

Rowan Sylvester-Bradley

How in N++ do I highlight a few words or a few lines in a text document? This could either be by changing its colour, or by adding a coloured background to it, or in some other way. I find that when I’m looking through a 20 Mbyte log file, and I want to come back to a section to analyse in more detail what’s going on, I often want to highlight it or flag it in some way. How do I do this?

Thanks - Rowan

Meta Chuh

@Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley

if you like to highlight words or sections temporarily, go to the menu search > mark, enter a text to highlight, and press mark.

if you have about the same repeating keywords every time, you can create a user defined language at the menu language > define your language > create new.
there you can set your desired keywords at the keywords list, where you have 8 groups available, where each can have different font and colour settings.

best regards.

Alan Kilborn

@Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley

In addition to @Meta-Chuh 's suggestions, how about Search > Mark All > ... which will work on preselected text?
There you’ll find FIVE different colors for your pleasure. And by using Search > Jump Down > … you can easily come back later. (Also Jump Up).

ajay gohil

To highlight a block of code in Notepad++, please do the following steps

1)Select the required text.
2)Right click to display the context menu
3)Choose Style token and select any of the five choices available ( styles from Using 1st style to using 5th style). Each is of different colors.If you want yellow color choose using 3rd style.

Alan Kilborn

@ajay-gohil

Except for the context menu part, that’s the same thing I said. I rarely use the feature, so I forget it is also on the context menu.

Prahlad-Makwana4145

–> To highlight a block of code in Notepad++, please do the following steps

step-1 :- Select the required text.

step-2 :- Right click to display the context menu

step-3 :- Choose Style token and select any of the five choices available ( Styles from Using 1st style to using 5th style ). Each is different colors. if you want yellow color choose using 3rd style.

–> If you want to create your own style you can use style configurator under Setting menu…

Alan Kilborn

Why do people just keep saying the same things over and over? Really, if you don’t have something new and different to say, don’t reply and waste the bandwidth of all the readers of this forum.

mikegonzalez2k

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mikegonzalez2k

Here are the steps to highlight your CURRENT LINE.

Settings -> Style Configurator

Global Styles -> Current Line Background
Change the Background Color.
In my case I turned it to a dark blue.

Abhay Solanki

@Prahlad-Makwana4145 thanks

Farhan Yazid

@ajay-gohil

Hi, any shotcut button to assign the highlight funtion?

PeterJones

@Farhan-Yazid said in How to highlight text?:

Hi, any shotcut button to assign the highlight funtion?

By default, the Style One Token / Style All Occurrences of Token commands do not have keyboard shortcuts.

But if you use Settings > Shortcut Mapper, set Filter = style, you can choose any of them and use Modify to set a keyboard shortcut for that token-highlight style.

(In case it’s not clear: Style all using Nth style in that dialog corresponds to Search > Style All Occurrences of Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]; Style one using Nth style corresponds to Search > Style One Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]. And for further clarification: the Search > Mark All that @Alan-Kilborn mentioned 6 years ago is the same as what’s now known as Search > Style All Occurrences of Token)