Batch

@PeterJones

The batch lexer is improved in Scintilla 4.4.6 which looks like it may be updated with the next Notepad++ release.

Cheers.

which isn’t identified consistently (see below). Do you know of a way to override this setting for all scenarios,

If by “consistently”, you mean that the Batch syntax highlighter has a different set of rules for when a brace “matches” or not, then that is by design: different languages have different lexer algorithms, because different languages can have different rules on nesting of braces.

If you disagree with the individual’s lexer’s decision on what constitutes a “bad brace”, I’m afraid there isn’t much recourse – Notepad++ inherits the lexers from Scintilla, and Scintilla has shown a reluctance to make changes in the builtin lexers, presumably because they’ve been vetted as-is for years now, and all the universally-agreed-upon bugs have been fixed. (And/or because Scintilla appears to be moving away from the builtin lexers, and is instead encouraging people who use their IP to develop their own lexers. Probably lexer maintenance was getting in the way of developing their core product, so they are trying to foist it onto someone else. ;-) ) So likely, not much will happen, even if you report that problem to Scintilla.

You could set the brace highlighting background and bad brace background to the same value… but the matching-brace won’t find the other end of what you consider to be a “good” matching brace, because the lexer disagrees with you.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing to be done in settings to disregard the lexer’s definition of a matched brace. Sorry.

Brace Highlight Style is for normal brace-matching.
Bad Brace Colour is for indicating a bad match on the parentheses

Batch:
good:

(problem - note the added if):

Normal text (good):

incidentally, for those using this on VMs with access to a network drive as well, these customizations are stored in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\stylers.xml

For future reference: All text styling¹ – color and font settings – are found in the Style Configurator.

reference: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/

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edit ¹. Except for User Defined Language styling, which is done in the UDL dialog.

is there a way to customize this background colour yet?

“Yet”? There has been, for a very long time – I checked my old versions, and it was available and working in v7.0 from 2016 and even in v6.0 from 2012.

The brace highlight style is independent of lexer language chosen. You cannot set it differently in each language.

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