Sed -i.bak 's/\Application Data\Notepad++\stylers.xml'//drive_c/users//Application Data/Notepad++/plugins/config/'Ĭp ComparePlugin.ini Don’t touch the double backslash \ in the sed command arguments! They’re there to escape the backslashes in the Windows paths used by Notepad++.) #!/bin/shĬd '/drive_c/users//Application Data/Notepad++/'

(Plug in your username and the right linux path to the PlayOnLinux/Wine folder containing Notepad++. Switching on dark mode in Notepad++ and setting a convenient Compare color scheme can be done with the following (linux!) script. It was one of the tougher nuts I had to crack so far, but I managed to put something together that seems to work like a charm (at least for now and for me). Since I’m still using Notepad++ (via PlayOnLinux, mainly because of the Compare plugin), I had a look at tweaking the color schemes for both Notepad++ and the Compare plugin.

I’m in the middle of developing two scripts to switch my new Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon desktop (I left Windows 7 behind less than a month ago) and my favorite applications between light and dark mode. Hi there, this is my first post on the Notepad++ forum (or any software related forum for that matter), so please do forgive any inadvertent violation of forum etiquette. No changes need to be made to the source code of Compare plugin in order to support Dark Mode you do not have to wait for ComparePlus to release (though I do anxiously await its advent): when you switch to Dark Mode, change the existing Compare plugin color settings to colors you like. (And I see again that had already said this.)

(Other than I never use Dark Mode, except to help others here, so I had never been prompted to go looking how to change the colors in the Compare plugin.)Īs I had realized by this discussion in December, and was reminded again recently, * it is easy enough to use the Plugins > Compare > Settings to change the colors and make everything readable again in Dark Mode. There was no reason for me to have given such awful advice last year. So, until the developer of the plugin releases ComparePlus, or goes back to supporting the existing Compare pluginįor future readers: I was an idiot in July 2021, for not trying to look at the settings of the Compare plugin.

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