By the way - I do have a strange phenomenon.
If the cursor is on the end of a large buffer, then styling takes quite long whereas
if the cursor is on the beginning of the document it styles it instantly.

Not sure why this happens, assume scintilla internals (?) - needs investigation.

Cheers
Claudia

Hi,

you are right - haven’t even thought about regex searches at all.
Thank you very much for the improvements has been added
to gist with slight modification to get even more close to npps output.

Cheers
Claudia

I swapped out the standard string search for the search_term with a regex one:

        # search_term_position = line.lower().find(search_term)
        # style_it(HIT_WORD, editor.positionFromLine(i)+search_term_position, len(search_term))
        match = re.search(search_term, line, re.IGNORECASE)
        if match is not None:
            mlen = match.end() - match.start()
            style_it(HIT_WORD, editor.positionFromLine(i)+match.start(), mlen)

That may make it a little dirtier, but then the highlighting works for normal searches that don’t contain regex special characters as well as regex search results. I didn’t see any way for the python plugin to probe the UI to see what the last search type was so making it always assume a regex search works best for me.

Thanks again Claudia.

@Claudia-Frank ,
Quick and dirty is my middle name. Your script works perfectly on normal searches. This board would be diminished without you. Thanks for all you do.

quick_and_dirty_python_lexer

Cheers
Claudia

I can give a black theme