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    • Alberto Bongiorni
      Alberto Bongiorni last edited by

      it would be very useful to search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors … especially useful in log analysis

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Alberto Bongiorni last edited by

        @Alberto-Bongiorni

        Maybe you wanna look into User Defined Language (UDL) setup for your log-analysis needs, as it can “color” such things very well. If you choose to look into it and need help, feel free to post back here.

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        • Alberto Bongiorni
          Alberto Bongiorni @Alan Kilborn last edited by

          @Alan-Kilborn
          Thanks Alan,
          but I would like to have a dynamic search tool such as a non-language specific find.
          With your solution I should create a specific language for each type of analysis.
          If instead there was a dialog that allows you to specify 3-5 terms and highlight each with a color, that would be great!

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          • Alan Kilborn
            Alan Kilborn @Alberto Bongiorni last edited by

            @Alberto-Bongiorni said in search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors:

            If instead there was a dialog that allows you to specify 3-5 terms and highlight each with a color, that would be great!

            Probably the closest you can get to this is putting your caret on a term and then invoking Search menu > Mark All > and selecting a color. You could assign a keycombo to that so that it is faster than mousing around in the menus (for the coloring part).

            You could “macroize” the whole thing, but that would require having your terms “fixed”, which it doesn’t sound like something you want to have.

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            • Alan Kilborn
              Alan Kilborn @Alberto Bongiorni last edited by

              @Alberto-Bongiorni

              Another thought is that something could be scripted for this if you’re willing to use a scripting plugin, e.g. Pythonscript.
              Let us know what you think about that.

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              • Alberto Bongiorni
                Alberto Bongiorni @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                @Alan-Kilborn said in search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors:

                Another thought is that something could be scripted for this if you’re willing to use a scripting plugin, e.g. Pythonscript.
                Let us know what you think about that.

                Sounds like a great idea to me. If anyone can realize it I would appreciate it, otherwise where can I learn how to write a python plugin for notepad ++?

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                • Alan Kilborn
                  Alan Kilborn @Alberto Bongiorni last edited by

                  @Alberto-Bongiorni

                  Here’s a little Pythonscript demo of the functionality:

                  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
                  
                  from Npp import editor, notepad
                  
                  for indic in [25, 24, 23, 22, 21]:
                      user_input = notepad.prompt('\r\nEnter comma separated terms to show in Style #{}:'.format(25 - indic + 1), '', '')
                      if user_input == None: break
                      if len(user_input) > 0:
                          input_list = user_input.split(',')
                          for inp in input_list:
                              matches = []
                              editor.search(inp, lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))
                              for m in matches:
                                  editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indic)
                                  editor.indicatorFillRange(m[0], m[1] - m[0])
                  

                  Some nice instructions for how to acquire the Pythonscript plugin and set up a script are found HERE.

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                  • Alberto Bongiorni
                    Alberto Bongiorni @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn said in search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors:

                    -- coding: utf-8 --

                    from Npp import editor, notepad

                    for indic in [25, 24, 23, 22, 21]:
                    user_input = notepad.prompt(‘\r\nEnter comma separated terms to show in Style #{}:’.format(25 - indic + 1), ‘’, ‘’)
                    if user_input == None: break
                    if len(user_input) > 0:
                    input_list = user_input.split(‘,’)
                    for inp in input_list:
                    matches = []
                    editor.search(inp, lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))
                    for m in matches:
                    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indic)
                    editor.indicatorFillRange(m[0], m[1] - m[0])

                    thanks, it’s almost perfect, can I change the background color depending on the position of the search term? For example 1st blue term, 2nd yellow term etc … ?

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                    • guy038
                      guy038 last edited by guy038

                      Hello, @alberto-bongiorni, @alan-kilborn and All,

                      Thanks again, Alan for this new script ! After some testing ,I preferred to use the regex mode. So I simply changed the line :

                                  editor.search(inp, lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))
                      

                      by the line

                                  editor.research(inp, lambda m: matches.append(m.span(0)))
                      

                      This modification provides two advantages :

                      • Firstly, we can simulate the Match whole word only and Match case options of the Find/Replace/Find in Files/Mark dialogs. For instance :

                        • Program will mark this string, with this exact case ( Default case )

                        • (?i)Program will mark this string, wahtever its case

                        • \bProgram\b will mark this word, with this exact case

                        • (?i)\bProgram\b will mark this word, whatever its case

                      • Secondly, it allows us to mark areas of differents lengths ! Test, against the well-known license.txt file, the two regexes below :

                        • b.*q

                        • (?s)b.*q

                      Nice, as this kind of marking is impossible with the Search > Mark All >.... native N++ options ;-))


                      One more tip :

                      If you use a same expression for two or more styles, you can mark these expressions with the blend of all the styles involved ! For instance, the picture, below, shows the default style colors and the blend of two styles :

                      f56816eb-3c69-489b-8fef-012f57c9c4b1-image.png

                      Best Regards,

                      guy038

                      P.S. :

                      In the picture below, I added the combinations with 3 styles !

                      d6001d87-6c32-46ac-8d39-970afc0b3c34-image.png

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                      • Alan Kilborn
                        Alan Kilborn @Alberto Bongiorni last edited by

                        @Alberto-Bongiorni said in search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors:

                        can I change the background color depending on the position of the search term? For example 1st blue term, 2nd yellow term

                        Not sure what you mean by that, in context of how the script works.
                        Can you re-ask that question with a concrete example?

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                        • gstavi
                          gstavi @Alberto Bongiorni last edited by

                          @Alberto-Bongiorni said in search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors:

                          it would be very useful to search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors … especially useful in log analysis

                          In what way does this improve over right click -> Style token?

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                          • Alan Kilborn
                            Alan Kilborn @gstavi last edited by Alan Kilborn

                            @gstavi said in search and highlight 2 or more words with different colors:

                            In what way does this improve over right click -> Style token?

                            It really doesn’t. :-)
                            Except that you don’t have to find an occurrence (by hand or search) of your “token” first, in order to rclick it.
                            The script is really just a demo that someone could build something related upon.
                            I can’t see someone typing all those “tokens” very often…

                            It really makes way more sense to use a UDL for such a purpose (OP’s original “log analysis”). And that was my first suggestion to OP.

                            But everyone has their own workflow.
                            And their own likes, dislikes, and "I want"s.

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