For Notepad++ I use the document map a lot, however since I changed the styles around for Batch code it has this strange brown and blue coloring. I've been trying to figure out how to change at least the brown color, however I have found no style settings with any type of brown. What settings would I change to modify the Document Map Colors?
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I came across this page while searching for an answer to this same question.
Turns out support for customizing the Document Map style was added to Notepad++ 8.1.5.
But it still doesn't appear in the Style Configurator in Global Styles. I had to manually add it to my current theme.xml file in %AppData%\Notepad++\themes
(paste that line into a folder window address bar to go there).
Find and edit your current theme file in %AppData%\Notepad++\themes
to add this line to the <GlobalStyles>
section:
<WidgetStyle name="Document map" styleID="0" fgColor="707070" bgColor="303030" />
This will start you off with a dark gray background and a lighter gray highlight.
Save the file, close it, and if you used Notepad++ to make the edit, switch to a different theme and back. Open the Style Configurator and now Document Map should appear in the Style: box with Global Styles selected. Its position in the list will match that of where you put it in the XML file.
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1In 8.2.1, these settings don't work. The highlight still comes out as that brown colour; and the background stays at some particular dark grey no matter what you set them to in the Style Configurator.– RobHFeb 11, 2022 at 20:23
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Funny; it works now. I'm sure I copied and pasted the line exactly as it appears in the answer here the first time, just as I did now. Now that it's working, I reversed the colours in my setting, because I like it better that way. (Dark background for the section that's in view, 'fogged out' background for the section(s) that are out of view.)– RobHFeb 14, 2022 at 23:42