Re: Problem with highlighting selected text during replace

Neil:

Thanks for the explanation. I should have read your documentation a little 
better.

ed

On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 6:16:21 PM UTC-5 Neil Hodgson wrote:

> ed.ada:
>
> > selection.layer=1
> > selection.fore="FFFFFF"
> > selection.back="000000"
>
> It doesn’t affect the result but they are expected to be: 
> selection.fore=#FFFFFF
> selection.back=#000000
> The quoted form working is an accident and could change behaviour in the 
> future.
>
> > When I perform a search it renders the selection in white text on a 
> black background. I noticed that when I perform a replace and click on Find 
> Next that this does not apply and it reverts back to a light-grey 
> foreground.
>
> There are more selection properties now. When the replace strip is opened, 
> it gains the keyboard focus (so you can type some search text) and the edit 
> pane loses focus, displaying its selection in ‘inactive’ colours.
>
> Try setting the inactive selection colours like
> selection.inactive.fore=#FFFFFF
> selection.inactive.back=#008000
> This will show when selections are inactive with a green background.
>
> After seeing the effect, you may then choose to use
> selection.inactive.back=#000000
>
> If the desire is for always the same selection colours then there are also 
> the secondary colours (like selection.secondary.back) which may occur. To 
> see secondary colours, select some text in SciTE; open another application 
> (like Firefox) and select some text in it; then activate SciTE without 
> selecting text. The different colours indicates that SciTE has focus but 
> does not control the primary selection so will not be the source for 
> middle-mouse-button primary selection paste.
>
> Neil

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