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Notepad++ special string character highlighting

In notepad++ if I have the code

 printf("Hello, World\n");

The whole string '"Hello, World\n"' is one color but in editors like vim '\n' is a different color signifying it's a special character. Is there to get this behavior in notepad++? It's an especially nice feature of vim to highlight some of the stranger printf syntax like '% 5.3s' or '%%'

Solution

  • If you don't mind editing some xml, I'm sure you could make the appropriate settings in stylers.xml where all syntax highlighting settings for Notepad++ are saved. It is usually located in %APPDATA%\Notepad++\

    Here is the wiki:

    http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Editing_Configuration_Files

    Otherwise, you could try to find a theme online and import it with settings->import->import theme