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    • Diehl WithItD
      Diehl WithIt
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      I don’t know when this started but when I select using Alt I get a different color than expected.

      This is normal selection without using Alt.
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      But using Alt to select text, I get an different background color such as on line 4, note below
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      The even more odd part is that this color is only present when notepad++ is the active window. If another window is active then it goes back to the normal selected color, as shown below.

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      • rdipardoR
        rdipardo @Diehl WithIt
        last edited by

        Do you have the CSVLint plugin installed?

        • https://github.com/BdR76/CSVLint/issues/85
        • https://github.com/BdR76/CSVLint/issues/77

        I don’t know when this started . . .

        If I guessed rightly, then v8.6 is the answer: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90967

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        • Diehl WithItD
          Diehl WithIt @rdipardo
          last edited by

          @rdipardo I do not. I have the following installed:
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          Sadly i didn’t think about removing my plugins to test but did so now and I’m still experiencing the same behavior without any plugin installed.

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          • PeterJonesP
            PeterJones @Diehl WithIt
            last edited by

            @Diehl-WithIt said in Selected text color issue?:

            I don’t know when this started but when I select using Alt I get a different color than expected.

            Starting in 8.6, Column-Select (Alt+Select) and Multi-select are conjoined more intimately. And there is a specific Style for the Multiple Selection highlight, so you can tell the difference.

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            Your Style Configurator screenshots don’t show the Multi-selected text entry that I’ve clicked on in the screenshot, which means your copy of stylers.xml is out of date.

            • Exit Notepad++ completely.
            • Open Notepad++ with files c:\program files\notepad++\stylers.model.xml and %AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml
            • In the <GlobalStyles> sections at the end, copy the <WidgetStyle name="Multi-edit carets color" ... line from stylers.model.xml into your ``%AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml` and save.
            • Close Notepad++ completely.
            • Open Notepad++. Your Alt+Selection text should now be in bgcolor 0xC0C0C0, and your Style Configurator will now see the Multi-selected text entry available for changing the colors on.

            For users who are using a different theme than the default (stylers.xml), you will need to do the same, but using %AppData%\Notepad++\themes\ThemeNameHere.xml as the destination file.

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            • Diehl WithItD
              Diehl WithIt @PeterJones
              last edited by

              @PeterJones Legit, you the man.
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              There were many styles I was missing so I’ve updated my styles.xml with them all now.

              Thanks.

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