Macro Help Needed - Find and Mark with Style set 1-5

Bryce Petrick

Hey Everyone, I’m looking to tweak a macro to better suit my needs, but I can’t for the life of me figure out this Scintilla stuff (I have ZERO programming knowledge)…

I originally tried to:
start recording
highlighted specific keyword 1 in document
right click-> Style Token -> Using 1st Style
highlighted specific keyword 2 in document
right click-> Style Token -> Using 2nd Style
etc

However, after saving the macro, closing NPP and reopening, and then running that macro, it highlighted a word (not even one of my specific keywords), and nothing else, nor does the highlighting match any of the style tokens that are configured…

Someone else built something similar to what I’m trying to do, but they are no longer available for me to reach out to for assistance, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to tweak it (or honestly, where to even begin), … There are several of the below repeating sections (just changing the variable from “KPR|” to the next), which from my testing/understanding highlights the entire line of text:

        <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="^(.*)(KPR\|)(.*)$" />
        <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" />
        <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" />
        <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1615" sParam="" />

However there are also several of the below repeating sections (just changing the variable from “KPR|” to the next), which from my testing/understanding highlights JUST the variable that is defined:

        <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="KPR|" />
        <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" />
        <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1" sParam="" />
        <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="43022" lParam="0" sParam="" />

I don’t need to modify the “line highlighting” section, however I want to modify the “variable highlighting” section. The way it is currently configured, it seems to highlight ALL variables in the same color. I would like to further break this down by being able to highlight specific variables with different colors. Is there a way to tweak this to use the Style Tokens that are predefined in the Style Configurator (Style token 1-5)? Or is there any way to hard code it to a specific color, maybe using hex codes or RGB values?