<![CDATA[Is ther ea way to setup permanent text highlighting with differnt colours for phrases (or possible plug in)?]]>Hi all,

I work with a lot of log file that contain certain phrases that indicate errors and the like. Is there a way to set-up phrases so that they are highlight on opening a file?

I know you can mark text, bu this is not quite what I’m after.

Different phrases should be able to be marked in different colours.

Many thanks

Chris

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/10582/is-ther-ea-way-to-setup-permanent-text-highlighting-with-differnt-colours-for-phrases-or-possible-plug-inRSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 14:32:43 GMTSat, 26 Sep 2015 19:18:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Is ther ea way to setup permanent text highlighting with differnt colours for phrases (or possible plug in)? on Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:52:09 GMT]]>Hi,

I assume problem is with quote character, as it’s special character while defining multi-part keyword. You need to escape it using \(backslash). Define your keyword group like:

Level=\"ERROR\"

Also here you can find UDL documentation -> UDL2.0.

Best regards,
Tomas.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11795https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11795Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:52:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is ther ea way to setup permanent text highlighting with differnt colours for phrases (or possible plug in)? on Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:30:54 GMT]]>Thanks Gerd Müller,

Right, I’m obviously do something wrong as I am unable to see the Keywords I set show up as as style.

I Define an new Language, open the Keywords List, A a phrase that I want highlighted (i.e. Level=“ERROR”), set the style (e.g. background colour), and then set the current document as using that Language, but I see nothing.

There is obviously more I need to do, but I could not find any documentation.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11779https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/11779Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:30:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is ther ea way to setup permanent text highlighting with differnt colours for phrases (or possible plug in)? on Mon, 28 Sep 2015 06:51:23 GMT]]>you can use syntax highlighting. Define your own language with the phrases you want. You have 8 keyword groups (for 8 different colors or styles) with unlimited phrases. If you use a special ending for your files, you can define this for your own language and N++ will open this files with your defined syntax. Otherwise (i.e. for txt or something other) you must change the language with 2 clicks.

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