Cannot add style token to selected text anymore

[christian faisstnauer]

Since my last upgrade I cannot “highlight” selected text anymore.
If I double click on a word and then apply a style token, it works; but if I select a text by clicking & dragging the mouse, applying a style token doesn’t seem to have any effect.
Any idea how to solve this (other than downgrading to previous versions) ?

[PeterJones]

@christian-faisstnauer ,

There was an added setting in v8.0 and newer which slightly changed the default behavior of the style token highlighting:

If you uncheck the Mark All => ☐ Match whole word only (as shown in the screenshot), then the style-token highlighting will work even if you select only part of a word, or if your selection goes across a word boundary (like punctuation or spaces)

previous answers on similar questions:

• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/68148
• https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/67883

official documentation:

• https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#highlighting

[christian faisstnauer]

Thank you! That solved the problem.
Thanks also for the links, very useful!

[Malik Jahangir]

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