Selected text color issue?

Diehl WithIt

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.

But using Alt to select text, I get an different background color such as on line 4, note below

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.

rdipardo

Do you have the CSVLint plugin installed?

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

Diehl WithIt

@rdipardo I do not. I have the following installed:

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.

PeterJones

@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.

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show the Multi-selected text entry that I’ve clicked on in the screenshot, which means your copy of stylers.xml is out of date.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.

Diehl WithIt

@PeterJones Legit, you the man.

There were many styles I was missing so I’ve updated my styles.xml with them all now.

Thanks.