When I reset my stylers.xml based on stylers.model.xml

Not sure what you mean, what do I do ?

Sorry, that was something I had to do, because my stylers.xml hadn’t been updated for many versions of Notepad++, so it was missing many of the fixes that had been applied over time. I wasn’t trying to tell you to do the same to your copy. Besides, since you are using Deep Black 2 as your theme, you don’t have to worry about stylers.xml

I see “stylers.model.xml” in root folder Notepad++ but don’t see a “stylers.xml” anywhere ?

Since you are using Deep Black 2 theme, you don’t need to worry. But the active “default stylers.xml” can be opened using %AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml 🛈

And congratulations on changing the color of the line-number. in the search results. (I don’t know why that color is different than others, which change immediately when you change the setting in Style Configurator. Probably because the Search Results window is done separately from other styling.)

When I reset my stylers.xml based on stylers.model.xml

Not sure what you mean, what do I do ?

Already fixed HEARDER in Deep Black 2 (my test) to HEADER

I see “stylers.model.xml” in root folder Notepad++ but don’t see a “stylers.xml” anywhere ?

But i understand now, FYI every time made a change. Had to restart NP++.

Thanks Peter, much appreciated!

yes, Line Number is the correct style for that. When I reset my stylers.xml based on stylers.model.xml, and if I restart Notepad++ between changes of the Line Number style, the search after restart will reflect that change. Sorry for the bad advice earlier.

Deep Black 2

Deep Black 2 is copy of Deep Black … sorry

Sorry, I based that assumption of which was matching based on the colors shown in the OP Deep Black 2 theme. I don’t have that theme, so used Deep Black, which has the pale-green-on-yellow for HIT WORD, so I assumed that was the right one.

The spelling of HEARDER is bad spelling the Deep Black.xml, as the Style Configurator uses the name field from that XML file for what each entry will be called.

Even with the default stylers.xml, however, I am having trouble figuring out which of the styles actually affects that line number, because it doesn’t seem to be changing things for me, even when I pick the Line Number style (as it’s called in teh default stylers.xml).

The line numers styling in the Search Results are controlled by the HIT WORD

Wouldn’t it actually be the NUMBER style?
And where is HEARDER coming from?; assume should be HEADER.

Where do I find the breakdown of these lines in the Style Configurator?

The Online User Manual is a good place to start. It’s in the ?-menu of Notepad++, and linked from various places in this forum. The Style Configurator is described here in the User Manual.

The Search Results window actually gets its styles from the Search Results “language” instead of from the “Global styles” section, because it’s using a special version of the editor-style window, and isn’t part of the “global” user interface. The line numers styling in the Search Results are controlled by the HIT WORD