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    • sang heon baikS
      sang heon baik
      last edited by

      When I write any things with notepad++ frequently I mark any word(From menubar [search-mark-tick in selection-click Mark All]),But It is impossible for me to unmark one or two word,It just unmark all word [search-mark-tick in selection-click Clear all mark] which I have marked previously.I really want to know how can I unmark not all word which I have marked, but just one or several word.

      and I enabled multi editing setting(setting-preferences-Editing-tick Multi Editing Settings).I use ctrl+mouse click in order to highlight any seperated word but It seems that It just highlight only one color and can’t highlight any word with two or three colors.Is there any method to display two or three color when I use Multi Editing in notepad++?

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @sang heon baik
        last edited by

        @sang-heon-baik

        Currently there is no way to “unmark” partially. As you noticed it is an all or nothing clearing of marking.

        Regarding your second question, I for one am not following what you are asking about.

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        • sang heon baikS
          sang heon baik
          last edited by

          Then,Would you recommend any editor of notepad++ alternative which enable me to highlight Non-Contiguous word(seperated word) in two or three colors?

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          • Meta ChuhM
            Meta Chuh moderator @sang heon baik
            last edited by Meta Chuh

            @sang-heon-baik

            Then,Would you recommend any editor of notepad++ alternative which enable me to highlight Non-Contiguous word(seperated word) in two or three colors?

            this is a very good and nicely paradoxic question. i like. 👍

            i suppose that most users at the notepad++ community are mainly notepad++ users, and most people that have found a more suitable editor, will hang around at the community forum of their respective new editor, hence not visiting the notepad++ community.
            so even if they know which one would be best, they probably could not answer this question, due to their absence at this platform.

            so the big question is how can anyone find the most suitable editor for all own personal needs, without trying out all of them ?

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @sang heon baik
              last edited by

              @sang-heon-baik said:

              Then,Would you recommend any editor of notepad++ alternative

              Nope. :)

              can’t highlight any word with two or three colors

              Well, you can do this with Search > Mark All > Using xxx Style multiple times, but you can’t partially undo it later (in relation to your first original question).

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              • EkopalypseE
                Ekopalypse @sang heon baik
                last edited by Ekopalypse

                @sang-heon-baik

                concerning your first request of deleting existing marks resulted from mark dialog,
                if you don’t mind to install pythonscript plugin you might be able to get around this limitation by using a script like this

                FIND_MARK_INDICATOR = 31
                for i in range(editor.getSelections()):
                    start = editor.getSelectionNStart(i)
                    end = editor.wordEndPosition(start, True)
                    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(FIND_MARK_INDICATOR)
                    editor.indicatorClearRange(start, end-start)
                

                You would either double click the word or select the whole word and run the script
                to clear the marks. Works with multiedit setting as well.

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse

                  I was thinking of a Pythonscript, too, but then I thought what if a user marks with a regular expression…how to tell the script the regex to unmark. It gets complicated. I like yours, unmarking possible only for simple, selectable text…

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn

                    user marks with a regular expression

                    that what made me holding back at first glance as well but then I thought, at least
                    a possible workaround even if it doesn’t fit into every possible unmark wish.
                    Let’s see what OP is thinking about it. :-)

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by

                      @Ekopalypse

                      Yea, I often don’t do things because I see the complications right from the beginning. Or maybe more accurately, I overcomplicate it from the beginning… :)

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                        last edited by

                        @Alan-Kilborn

                        maybe more accurately, I overcomplicate it from the beginning…

                        LOL :_D - A good advise which I should have known by yesterday - wink, wink

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                        • sang heon baikS
                          sang heon baik @Meta Chuh
                          last edited by sang heon baik

                          @Meta-Chuh
                          It seemed that I misunderstand there must be some of veteran user in notepad++ community who have a lot of experience in text editor field So they would already known what text editor is able to highlight seperated word in two or three color.

                          @Alan-Kilborn
                          I follow your advice(Search > Mark All > Using xxx Style) but it is impossible to highlight selected word in two color. For example, If I selected just letter ‘a’ from below word, It only highlight all of letter ‘a’ in different color. I want to highlight just two or three of letter ‘a’ from below word and it must be different color each to each.

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                          @Ekopalypse
                          Thank you very much for your wonderful plugin,It really remove any mark which I selected.But if there is any mark which is created by Mark All command(Search > Mark All > Using xxx Style),your plugin cannot remove them…

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse @sang heon baik
                            last edited by

                            @sang-heon-baik

                            if there is any mark which is created by Mark All command(Search > Mark All > Using xxx Style),your plugin cannot remove them…

                            You are correct, would you mind specifying how exactly you want it to behave?
                            If you just want to have a single script which clears every possible mark indicator
                            we could change it like so

                            INDICATORS = [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31]
                            for i in range(editor.getSelections()):
                                start = editor.getSelectionNStart(i)
                                end = editor.wordEndPosition(start, True)
                                for indicator in INDICATORS:
                                    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indicator)
                                    editor.indicatorClearRange(start, end-start)
                            

                            but if you want to have a different behavior just let me know.

                            I want to highlight just two or three of letter ‘a’ from below word and it must be different color each to each

                            Sorry, but still confused about this.
                            Let’s assume you have a text like this

                            Just a sample text with a couple of a like in apple

                            Now if you select the a in between Just and sample,
                            you want to have automatically selected
                            a from sample,
                            a before couple,
                            a before like
                            and a in apple
                            and each of them in different color?
                            Or something else?

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                            • Alan KilbornA
                              Alan Kilborn @sang heon baik
                              last edited by

                              @sang-heon-baik said:

                              I follow your advice(Search > Mark All > Using xxx Style) but it is impossible to highlight selected word in two color. For example, If I selected just letter ‘a’ from below word, It only highlight all of letter ‘a’ in different color. I want to highlight just two or three of letter ‘a’ from below word and it must be different color each to each.

                              The feature is called “Mark all”. Thus if you highlight a single a and invoke the feature, of course it will do all of the a present.

                              Regarding “two color”, what I meant was, if you first color with, say Style1 and then you color the same thing with Style2, what will result will be a color combination of the colors of Style1 and Style2.

                              Is there still remaining confusion? I think the answer is that you can’t do what you are trying to do.

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                              • sang heon baikS
                                sang heon baik @Ekopalypse
                                last edited by

                                @Ekopalypse
                                your script is excellent.I am content with your script.

                                With your example of below text, I intend to highlight letter ‘a’ in between “Just” and “sample” in blue color, and to highlight letter ‘a’ in between “of” and “like” in green color.

                                Just a sample text with a couple of a like in apple

                                But As Alan Kilborn said, Notepad++ won’t support to highlight(mark) seperated word in respectively different color.So It would be impossible that your script Implement the function of my request.

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                                • EkopalypseE
                                  Ekopalypse @sang heon baik
                                  last edited by

                                  @sang-heon-baik

                                  It would be impossible that your script Implement the function of my request.

                                  That’s not exactly true.
                                  It is true that Notepad++ does not provide such a function,
                                  but that doesn’t mean that we can’t create it with a python script.
                                  For example, putting the cursor into a word (no selection) and running this script
                                  would result in marking the current word and the next 2 occurrences in different color.
                                  Using style1, 2 and 3.

                                  def find():
                                      current_pos = editor.getCurrentPos()
                                      start = editor.wordStartPosition(current_pos, True)
                                      end = editor.wordEndPosition(current_pos, True)
                                      text = editor.getTextRange(start, end)
                                      document_end_pos = editor.getTextLength()
                                      while start:
                                          yield start, end
                                          pos = editor.findText(0, end, document_end_pos, text)
                                          if pos is None:
                                              break
                                          start, end = pos
                                      
                                  
                                  _find = find()
                                  number_of_matches = 3
                                  try:
                                      for i in range(number_of_matches ):
                                          start, end = next(_find)
                                          editor.setIndicatorCurrent(21+i)
                                          editor.indicatorFillRange(start, end-start)
                                  except StopIteration:
                                      pass
                                  
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                                  • Alan KilbornA
                                    Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                                    last edited by

                                    @Ekopalypse said:

                                    marking the current word and the next 2 occurrences in different color

                                    It can be done, but is there value in that? Not sure I’m following what the OP’s true end-goal is, and how something like that helps.

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                                    • EkopalypseE
                                      Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                                      last edited by

                                      @Alan-Kilborn

                                      I agree, I can’t see the benefit too but I hope the OP will clarify why this is a good thing.
                                      :-)

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                                        Similar topic HERE.

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