The Markdown highlighting is in a user defined language file, not the “themes” directory. You will notice this problem especially if you, like me, use a dark-mode type theme such as “Vibrant Ink.” The chosen theme will still be in effect, but all elements defined in the special Markdown style will clash with it (they use light background + dark foreground style colors.) If you only change the global override on the background color, you still have a problem because the Markdown theme foreground colors don’t contrast well with a dark background. Using a tab interface, multiple documents can be opened and edited which I find useful for editing WordPress themes (which often consist of more than 15 different files). You can set “Global Overrides” in the “Style Configurator”, but these overrides will change the look of every language, messing up your C++, Ruby or other supported languages. Notepad++ has a plugin system that allows more features to be added, for example an internal FTP client and a DIFF viewer to compare and display differencies between two documents. This doesn’t help much at all, unfortunately, because the elements defined in the Markdown style override nearly all the defaults. You might think you could simply pick your favorite theme (I like “Vibrant Ink”,) then make sure the “Default” language has color and font choices to your liking. When scrolling through the supported languages under the “Style Configurator” you’ll notice that Markdown isn’t among them. The language will get switched to Markdown automatically if you open a file with a “.markdown” suffix. Notepad++ supports changing the way it highlights Markdown, but not in its configurations accessed in the “Settings > Style Configurator” dialog rather, you can switch to the “Markdown” language through the “Language” menu next to the “Settings” menu. The text will have a white background, but only where there’s text the rest of the document will keep its dark background making the whole thing difficult to read (and terrible looking.) Unfortunately if you use Notepad++ with a dark-mode type of theme (light text on dark background) the way Notepad++ highlights Markdown hurts more than it helps. And it can assist skimming large marked down documents. Nevertheless some coloring can help to spot errors such as accidentally indented blocks of text or badly formed lists. Markdown on its own tries to look readable and doesn’t need extensive syntax coloring or highlighting.
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It also explains how to get the highlighting to work better / differently for different mark-down flavors. Update: Here is a repo I discovered after writing this post with pre-defined dark themes. You have to manually edit a special Markdown theme to change most of the colors and fonts.
This is especially apparent when using a dark-mode Notepad++ style and dark theme in Windows. Changing the default Notepad++ theme doesn’t change most of the colors in a Markdown document.
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