Invert Background and forground colors on select words in a document
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Back in the old 8bit days, we called this “Inverse Video” :)
Is there a way to “format” selected characters in a document and invert the fore and background colors?
For example: I use Dark Mode as well as a custom Default style so that it’s bright green text on a black background. I’d like to be able to select characters/words and “invert” then to be a black text on a green background.
Been racking my brain on this, can’t find where it would be possible. Is it?
Thanks!
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@Tony-Mongiello said in Invert Background and forground colors on select words in a document:
Is there a way to “format” selected characters in a document and invert the fore and background colors?
Not permanently. This is a text editor, and text (like a .txt file) doesn’t store things like font and color.
There are ways to convince Notepad++ to higlight things: you can use the Mark dialog to temporarily mark things, or the Search > Style All Occurrences / Style One Token actions to add color (similar to inverse video) temporarily. But that doesn’t get saved in the file, because that’s not a feature of text files.
