In my syntax highlighting, I prefer to use background colors rather than text colors to distinguish things. I have almost all the text set to black, but then the *background* of comments is green, variables are blue, and so on.
So it completely ruins my experience using Notepad++ that I cannot turn off the "Current line background color". I can set it to white, sure, but then whatever line I'm typing on loses all its other background colors. I HATE THIS. Please, please, I'm desperate to have an option to turn this off. Whatever current line I'm working on (probably the most important line of all to have syntax-highlighted!) loses my carefully-customised background colors.
I really want to stick with N++, because I love every other aspect of it. But this is really something I just can't abide. I know it might seem silly to some people, but trust me, if you're used to using background colors for syntax highlighting rather than text colors, then the current line BG color really does make the program much more difficult to use, because you effectively lost all highlighting on whatever line your cursor is on. I know I'm just one user, but developers, it would only be a tiny bit of effort, and I swear it would be the best thing to happen to me in years. If you can't understand why I care so much about this, then, well, just take my word for it, it makes a huge difference to me. I'm begging you.
(What would be even cooler is if there was an option to just slightly darken the background colors of the current line, so whatever's on the current line would still have various background colors (for variables, comments, etc.), but it would retain the advantage that the current line would be easily distinguishable from every other one.)
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If you install the ConvertExt plug-in, you'll find that it has options for adding two menu items to the view menu: a 'Current Line Highlighting' menu item and a 'Line numbers' menu item.
If you check the first one, Np++'s View menu will have a new menu item called "Current Line Highlighting". You can select it to turn the highlighting of the current line on or off.
I get the impression that the restriction that only the background color can be set is due to Scintilla.
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Words cannot express how grateful I am to you. Seriously.
This feature has been irritating me and slowing me down ever since I started using Np++, and I finally decided I'd ask for some help (but I didn't think it was very likely anyone would answer). And you came and solved the problem.
Thank you.
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In my syntax highlighting, I prefer to use background colors rather than text colors to distinguish things. I have almost all the text set to black, but then the *background* of comments is green, variables are blue, and so on.
So it completely ruins my experience using Notepad++ that I cannot turn off the "Current line background color". I can set it to white, sure, but then whatever line I'm typing on loses all its other background colors. I HATE THIS. Please, please, I'm desperate to have an option to turn this off. Whatever current line I'm working on (probably the most important line of all to have syntax-highlighted!) loses my carefully-customised background colors.
I really want to stick with N++, because I love every other aspect of it. But this is really something I just can't abide. I know it might seem silly to some people, but trust me, if you're used to using background colors for syntax highlighting rather than text colors, then the current line BG color really does make the program much more difficult to use, because you effectively lost all highlighting on whatever line your cursor is on. I know I'm just one user, but developers, it would only be a tiny bit of effort, and I swear it would be the best thing to happen to me in years. If you can't understand why I care so much about this, then, well, just take my word for it, it makes a huge difference to me. I'm begging you.
(What would be even cooler is if there was an option to just slightly darken the background colors of the current line, so whatever's on the current line would still have various background colors (for variables, comments, etc.), but it would retain the advantage that the current line would be easily distinguishable from every other one.)
You can disable/enable this option from Preferences dialog, in "Edit Components" tab.
Don
Hi,
If you install the ConvertExt plug-in, you'll find that it has options for adding two menu items to the view menu: a 'Current Line Highlighting' menu item and a 'Line numbers' menu item.
If you check the first one, Np++'s View menu will have a new menu item called "Current Line Highlighting". You can select it to turn the highlighting of the current line on or off.
I get the impression that the restriction that only the background color can be set is due to Scintilla.
Words cannot express how grateful I am to you. Seriously.
This feature has been irritating me and slowing me down ever since I started using Np++, and I finally decided I'd ask for some help (but I didn't think it was very likely anyone would answer). And you came and solved the problem.
Thank you.
Haha, don't thank me, thank Vitaliy for writing that plug-in! (And Don, for making plug-ins possible, of course)
There's open source for you. :-)