Retain highlighted color of text after editing

Question

Cannot keep the highlighted effect I set in my RichTextBox on my text after removing content of a line in front of him.

No matter how much text I remove from the contro

Answer 1

You must never (read my lips: Never, never, never) change to Text or the Lines property of a RichtTextBox or else you will lose/mess up all previous formatting.

So you need to change this:

richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Remove(richTextBox1.Text.Length - 1, 1);

To this sequence:

First Select the part of the Text you want to change in some way:

richTextBox1.SelectionStart = richTextBox1.Text.Length - 1;
richTextBox1.SelectionLength = 1;

Now you can change it. To delete either use:

richTextBox1.SelectedText = "";

or

richTextBox1.Cut(); 

The latter version also will place the text in the clipboard; doing it it will keep the formatting of that portion and you could Paste it to some other place..

The same rules apply when you want to add or change any type of formatting:

First Select Then Modify

And, yes, this means that the second command will grow quite a bit, i.e. you will have to replace the RegEx.Replace by a loop :-(