I use notepad++ to go through very large log files. Sometimes I have to go through more than 50 open files at the same time and search for more than 20 text strings and it get hard to track them down after certain time.
I think more marking style will help me a lot.

In the contextMenu.xml, I modified the code following other posts,

    <Item FolderName="Style token" PluginEntryName="Python Script" PluginCommandItemName="color_scheme_veb_ver_1" ItemNameAs="Using 6th Style" />
    <Item FolderName="Style token" PluginEntryName="Python Script" PluginCommandItemName="color_scheme_veb_ver_2" ItemNameAs="Using 7th Style" />*

Similarly for removing the style.

<Item FolderName="Remove style" PluginEntryName="Python Script" PluginCommandItemName="color_scheme_veb_ver_1" ItemNameAs="Clear 6th Style" />
	<Item FolderName="Remove style" PluginEntryName="Python Script" PluginCommandItemName="color_scheme_veb_ver_2" ItemNameAs="Clear 7th Style" />

Here is the code for python script:

def clearIndicators(): 
    text_end_position = editor.getLength()
    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(8)
    editor.indicatorClearRange(0, text_end_position)

def colorize(text_to_be_painted):
    matches = []
    editor.research(text_to_be_painted, lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))

    for match in matches:
        editor.indicSetStyle(8,INDICATORSTYLE.ROUNDBOX)
        editor.indicSetFore(8,(0,255,0))
        editor.indicSetAlpha(8,255)
        editor.indicSetOutlineAlpha(8,255)
        editor.indicSetUnder(8,True)   
        editor.setIndicatorCurrent(8)
        editor.indicatorFillRange(match[0], match[1] - match[0])  

if editor.getProperty('has_been_styled') != '1':
    selected_text = editor.getSelText()
        if len(selected_text) > 0 and selected_text.isspace() == False:    
            editor.setProperty('has_been_styled', '1')
            colorize(selected_text)
else:
    editor.setProperty('has_been_styled', '0')
    clearIndicators()

Problems I am facing:

• randomly the scripts works, sometimes it doesn’t.
• Sometimes it marks the text which is not even highlighted.

My objectives:

• Have ten style token with different colors.
• If i mark a text string for example “my text string” in one file, then the script should color “my text string” in all the files which are opened in editor.
• I should be able to do that in just one script instead of creating different scripts and adding them in the “PluginCommandItemName” as I am not able to find a way to send any argument while calling the script which could be used a control variable in the script for different color.

I tried the combine plugin to merge all the opened file in one and then mark them however that plugin sometimes merge files in a random way which throws the timestamp in the logs in frenzy.

I would be grateful for your help good community of notepad++.

Regards,
Vaibhav