Marking And Highlighting shortcut
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Is it possible to create my own shortcuts for Marking And or Highlighting any text with any style or just as standard style 1. By pressing the same should Clear it.
Or Notepad++ can add it as standard of its own because they know what shortcuts are free.
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By pressing the same should Clear it
If this requirement needs to be fulfilled, then no, not with builtin features.
Otherwise use shortcut mapper and style configurator.
Cheers
Claudia -
I would like this request to be fulfilled please. I use it for programming Galil servo controllers instead of using their editor. It will be very handy to add these marking and highlighting feature with shortcut.
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to get this solved now, I would recommend to use plugins like python/lua script to do it.
Maybe someday npp supports it natively.Cheers
Claudia -
O man. Thanks for some solutions at this time. BBBut both these two languages are the one I never have tried. Are there any example codes on line which I can just change little bit and do it. The latest one i have tried is Java but that too i am not as good. Or do you mind ----- please thro some codes here. Actually this will also the first time I will use any script in Notepad++. So how will I run script in Notepad++ . That will be a great help.
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what languages do you prefer?
There are other possible solutions like c# …For python you need to install the python script plugin.
I would propose to use the MSI package instead of using the plugin manager.First steps are described here .
An example script would be
import re # needed to find whole words only editor.indicSetStyle(13,INDICATORSTYLE.STRAIGHTBOX) # used to color selected text editor.indicSetFore(13,(255,0,0)) # the color in RGB color syntax editor.indicSetAlpha(13,155) # alpha settings editor.indicSetOutlineAlpha(13,255) # outlining editor.indicSetUnder(13,True) # draw under the text # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- _g = globals() # global variable used to check status if not _g.get('CUSTOM_STYLER_IS_RUNNING'): # if variable not defined yet, CUSTOM_STYLER_IS_RUNNING = False # set it to False (=NOT RUNNING) # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- def clear_indicators(): # used to clear coloring text_end_position = editor.getLength() # determine document length editor.setIndicatorCurrent(13) # set defined indicator editor.indicatorClearRange(0, text_end_position) # and clear it from whole document. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- def colorize(text): # used to color the selected chars matches = [] # create empty list of matches editor.research('\\b{0}\\b'.format(text), lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0))) # find selected chars and append it to match list for match in matches: # for each match found editor.setIndicatorCurrent(13) # set the defined indicator and editor.indicatorFillRange(match[0], match[1] - match[0]) # color it. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- def main(): # main function to handle start/stop behavior global CUSTOM_STYLER_IS_RUNNING # assining to global variable if CUSTOM_STYLER_IS_RUNNING: # if script is currently running clear_indicators() # clear all inidcators and CUSTOM_STYLER_IS_RUNNING = False # set flag to False else: # else selected_text = editor.getSelText() # get selected text if len(selected_text) > 0 and selected_text.isspace() == False: # if there is at least on char selected CUSTOM_STYLER_IS_RUNNING = True # set the flag to true and colorize(selected_text) # color the selection. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- main() # entry pointOther python scripts can be found here or in this forum.
Cheers
Claudia -
Thanks Claudia. I use only cnc, plc, hmi, servo system programming the most. Other languages like C and visual basic are history for me. Java being new I still will prefer that. I use Eclipse for it. Any code help will be appreciated as otherwise I always try to work around.
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Sorry, I’m not aware that there is an java automation plugin available.
So, maybe you wanna give the python example a try?Cheers
Claudia