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    Is ther ea way to setup permanent text highlighting with differnt colours for phrases (or possible plug in)?

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    • Chris Swinney
      Chris Swinney last edited by

      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

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      • Gerd Müller
        Gerd Müller last edited by

        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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        • Chris Swinney
          Chris Swinney last edited by

          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.

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          • tomas-chrastina
            tomas-chrastina last edited by tomas-chrastina

            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.

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