Azulia has a list of some of the most popular from the web, even though its list is biased. You’ll probably find that only a few of them are useful, though. The easiest way to go about changing the colors, however, is to set a different theme. This process doesn’t clear other settings, it just essentially disables all custom settings except for global override for each particular categorized checkbox. You can use either Alt+Mouse Dragging or Alt+Shift+Arrows. Each one will completely override all other styles set in the configuration or theme only to display what the Global override is set to. Column editing is super simple in Notepad++ All you have to do is press the Alt key while selecting text. In the Global override style, there is a total of 8 checkboxes. Note the background color is the canvas and the foreground color is the text color.
And both the background and foreground colors can be changed. The font family and size can be adjusted as well. You can set for things to be bold, italic or underlined. The Global override is a universal mask that can be set to control the font style and background colors regardless of what language or file type you are working with.Ĭustomizing the style is pretty straightforward once you look at it.Once your notepad has been saved as a particular file type, Notepad++ will then recognize its language and apply the Language-specific style to it. The Default style is what will be used when you open a new notepad and begin typing.These are the Default Style and the Global override. If you want to immediately customize things, there are two main (separate) styles to look at. This option is found under Settings > Style Configurator. I'd look at exporting the messages to a CSV file, where it is possible that time and date data might be exported into its own columns, against which you could then sort.In Notepad++ the fonts and colors are controlled by the built-in Style Configurator. It seems to me that disparate independent text files are harder to manage and work with than email messages stored in an email client. Email messages in a conversation have a natural flow and logical relationships to one another, and pretty much all of this is lost once they are extracted from the email client. Why do you want to export them? People do this and I wonder why. That's a shame, since it would not be impossible (IMHO) to honour the display sort order.
I suspect, and this is only a guess on my part, that the export tools pick out the selected messages and read them out of the message store in the order in which they are encountered, no respect being paid to the display sort order. So the re-sorting is performed at the indexing level. Re-writing a large file would be slow and inefficient. So when we re-sort the display, it doesn't re-sort the message store. Your messages are stored back-to-back in a file.