Change colors in console window open after Find All in Current Document

Alan Kilborn

last N++ version which correctly handles the Selected Line style, of the pseudo-language Search Result, seem to be the v5.7 release ! With the next release, v5.8, the highlighting, when double-clicking, in the Find Result panel, does not work

Of course you are correct. You win some sort of detective award for this effort. :)

It is good to know the history, but I find that with this change from v7.5.7:

Make caret line always visible on click from Finder panel.

that the Selected Line style really isn’t that necessary anyway. What do you think?

Steven Haymes

@Alan-Kilborn,

Thanks,

Style Configurator -> Language -> Search results did the trick.

One thing that I am curious about is if highlight overlays are cumulative? For example, if my current line is RGB 50 50 50 for a dark gray and my selected text is RGB 100 100 100 for a less dark gray, it appears that in the area of overlap, the line is actually lighter than 100 100 100 and more like 150 150 150 for a medium gray.

Has anyone seen this?

Thanks,

Steve

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn said:

the Selected Line style really isn’t that necessary anyway. What do you think?

If none of us power-users had noticed that particular highlighting was missing since v5.8 (or at least it hadn’t bothered us enough to say anything), then it’s probably not necessary. :-)

PeterJones

@Steven-Haymes said:

it appears that in the area of overlap, the line is actually lighter than 100 100 100 and more like 150 150 150 for a medium gray.

Yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if it did apply some combo of the various highlight overlays – I don’t know whether it’s a linear combo, though. (Obviously, at some point, it stops, since it won’t go over 255 255 255… :-))

But if you told me that those two grays were different, I wouldn’t disagree with you. (My greyscale distinguishing isn’t great… and I’m often using NPP over a remote desktop connection, and colors don’t make it through the tunnel unaffected.)

guy038

Hi, @steven-haymes, @alan-kilborn, @peterjones, and All,

@peterjones

I did notice that difference, a long time ago. But, both, I’ve been able to live, with that regression, up to now and I was not courageous enough to post an issue, on GitHub ;-))

@alan-kilborn

You’re right ! Current line, in the Find Result panel, has a light background color, anyway ! This gives me an idea for a possible work-around, in order to easily localize the double-clicked line :-))

Just change the background color of the Current line background color style, of the pseudo-language Search result, to a darker color ;-)). For instance, you could choose, in a RGB notation :

A Violet color : 255,160,255
A Blue color : 128,160,255
A Yellow color : 255,255,96

Of course, doing so, prevents you from changing the foreground color of text. However, I verified that, even if you open successive Find result panels, by right-clicking and choosing the Find results in these found results option, the current line is still highlighted, with this darker color !

Cheers,

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038 said:

idea for a possible work-around, in order to easily localize the double-clicked line

Can you elaborate more on how this is advantageous? To me it just sounds like changing out one color for another, with no “improvement” in functionality. Clearly I am missing the point…it happens. :)

guy038

Hi, @alan-kilborn and All,

With the v4.9.2 release, by default :

With the v5.7 Unicode release, by default :

With the last v7.7.1 Unicode release, by default :

Obviously, it easier to localize the double-clicked line, of the Find Result panel, in the first two pictures than in the third one ;-))

Indeed, my work-around is not complicated at all ! I just made the current line background color darker, in order to simulate the selected line style, which does not work, anymore !

So, for instance, with a darker yellow, we get the 4th picture, below, which is better visible than in the 3th picture above ;-))

With the last v7.7.1 Unicode release, after modification of the background color of Current line background style of the Search result language :

Cheers,

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038

Oh, OK, it IS just a color change. I thought you had some magic whereby you achieved some additional functionality. :)

Thanks for clarifying, and the images.

Steven Haymes

@guy038

“Indeed, my work-around is not complicated at all ! I just made the current line background color darker, in order to simulate the selected line style, which does not work, anymore !”

I suspected that the selected line style was not working, thanks! My custom theme has a black background, so I already achieved the same result as you by going lighter instead.

Steve

Reggie Wherry

Console Editing for Notepad++:

plugins/npp exec/ change console font

this path changes the console’s font, font style, and size.

plugins/npp exec/advanced options

This path changes the color of the fonts in the terminal.

PeterJones

Sorry, @Reggie-Wherry,

You have misunderstood the question from 6 years ago. They were asking about the Search Results panel; your answer is talking about how to change settings for the NppExec plugin’s console panel, so is irrelevant to the original, already-answered question.