Changing colors of the space and other symbols, when view all is turned on.

[Joe Smith]

I have a problem seeing that small orange dot for a space, how can it be changed to a darker color?

[gstavi]

Global Styles -> White space symbol

[Scott Sumner]

@Joe-Smith :

@gstavi means specifically Settings (menu) -> Style Configurator… -> Language: Global Styles -> Style: White space symbol -> Colour style: Foreground color [@gstavi, sorry to jump in on your response, but it seemed like it might be cryptic if Joe is a total noob to Notepad++; heck, maybe my attempt at improvement is cryptic to some as well…]

Additionally, if you want to modify it further (e.g. increase the size of the whitespace dot), and you aren’t opposed to using the NppExec or Pythonscript plugins (with 32-bit Notepad++), see replies made by me to this thread: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13362/show-and-symbol-instead-of-cr-lf-when-whitespaces-enabled for how this can be accomplished.

[guy038]

Hello, @Joe-smith,

In addition to the present @gstavi and @scott-sumner replies and to the posts of @claudia-frank and @scott-sumner, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/12150/change-symbol-for-whitespace-highlight/2

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13362/show-and-symbol-instead-of-cr-lf-when-whitespaces-enabled/4

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13362/show-and-symbol-instead-of-cr-lf-when-whitespaces-enabled/5

Here is my contribution :

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• First of all, download one of the installation archives, of the script languages, below :

  • PythonScript_Full_1.0.8.0.zip, from :

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/npppythonscript/files/Python Script 1.0.8.0/

  • LuaScript.zip ( or LuaScript64.zip ), from :

  https://github.com/dail8859/LuaScript/releases/tag/v0.7.0

  • NppExec20160628_dll.zip ( or NppExec20160628_dll_x64-2.zip ), from :

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/NppExec/NppExec Plugin v0.5.9.9 dev/

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Once the chosen script installed and N++ re-started :

• Choose the menu option View > Show Symbol > Show White Space and TAB or View > Show Symbol > Show All Characters

• Open the Console window, of the script language, downloaded

  • With the Python script : Plugins > Python Script > Show Console

  • With the Lua script : Plugins > LuaScript > Show Console

  • With the NppExec script : Plugins > NppExec > Show Console Dialog

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Now :

• To change the size of the orange dot symbol, type one of the following commands :

  • With the Python script : editor.setWhitespaceSize(3)

  • With the Lua script : editor.WhitespaceSize = 3

  • With the NppExec script : SCI_SENDMSG 2086 3

in the input window of the Python or Lua script or in the console window of the NppExec script and valid with the Enter key

• To know the current size of the space dot symbol, type one of the following commands

  • With the Python script : editor.getWhitespaceSize()

  • With the Lua script : editor.WhitespaceSize

  • With the NppExec script : SCI_SENDMSG 2087

in the input window of the Python or Lua script or in the console window of the NppExec script and valid with the Enter key

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Notes :

• Any value may be used, but, practically, only the values, in the range [0-4], are interesting !

  • Value 0 does not display the dot symbol

  • Value 1 is the default dot symbol size

  • Value 2, as Scott said, seems the best choice

  • Value 3 is, to my mind, the maximum sensible value

  • Value 4 : Huuuum… You probably need glasses ;-))

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You can get further documentation, at the addresses, below :

http://www.scintillarg/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETWHITESPACESIZE

https://dail8859.github.io/LuaScript/classes/Editor.html

http://npppythonscript.sourceforge.net/docs/latest/scintilla.html

Best Regards,

guy038

[László Botka]

Hello guy038,

I downloaded NppExec20160628_dll.zip, but don’t know how to install it.
Please help

Thanks

[Claudia Frank]

@László-Botka

you need to extract the content of the zip into the plugins directory.
Depending on your installation choice this directory is under the installation directory
or under %APPDATA%\notepad++ directory.

Cheers
Claudia

[László Botka]

Thanks you, works fine!

[dreamforceinc]

With the NppExec script : SCI_SENDMSG 2087

Why nothing returned after executing this command?

================ READY ================
SCI_SENDMSG 2087
SCI_SENDMSG: 2087
================ READY ================

[Claudia Frank]

@dreamforceinc

the result is stored in variable msg_result, so something like

SCI_SENDMSG 2087
echo $(MSG_RESULT)

would do the job.

Cheers
Claudia