Strikethrough feature

Chris Overland

Hi, does Notepad++ have a strikethrough or highlight feature for keeping track of completed items on a list? (for example :) TIA

Alan Kilborn

@Chris-Overland

Sort of, you can do this in a text file in a N++ tab:

before:

TODO:
[ ] take out the garbage
[ ] make cookies
[ ] chase the wife around

after:

TODO:
[X] take out the garbage
[X] make cookies
[ ] chase the wife around

Also, I think there’s a todo-list plugin.

PeterJones

@Chris-Overland: welcome to the Notepad++ Community Forums.

You asked:

Hi, does Notepad++ have a strikethrough or highlight feature

Not directly. Notepad++ is for editing the text; except for syntax highlighting, it leaves out word-processing features like strikethrough.

However, if you save the text in a Markdown file (.md), then there are two things in your favor: you can use the Markdown UDL (which is now bundled with newer Notepad++ versions), then you can see some syntax highlighting while going… I have a customized UDL which doesn’t have that, so cannot tell this instant whether the markdown ~~strikethrough~~ syntax gets struck out in the editor. If you also have the MarkdownViewer++ plugin, it can render the Markdown into a separate pane, which does properly render the strikethrough.

In a few minutes, I may be back with confirmation on the default Markdown UDL

PeterJones

I just said:

In a few minutes, I may be back with confirmation on the default Markdown UDL

No, the default Markdown UDL (that ships with 7.6.4) does not define the ~~ as an open/close pair. However, you could add it: Language > Define Your Language, and select Markdown (default) from the pulldown. Go to the “Operators & Delimiters” tag, and go to the lower right “Delimiter 8” style; set Open: ~~, Escape: \, and Close:~~. Then click on that Styler button, and pick a style. Unfortunately, strike-through is not available; but you could set it to Bold+Underline, with foreground color = red, which may be a strikethrough indicator.

But, as @Alan-Kilborn already said, there’s also a TODO-list plugin, which you can download using Plugins Admin > Task List (current version 2.1)

Ekopalypse

@Chris-Overland

in addition you could use the builtin UDL feature to define a user define language like
for example such a simple one
Define an unique file extension and every time you open such a file it tries to color it.