@pnedev ,
Thanks !!! Wow, what a difference. I had no idea there was a ComparePlus. It works great. I teach a coding class, and it makes grading and correcting students assignments a whole lot easier. Notepad ++ is an awesome product.
Thanks again,
Mark

@do-kim ,

Thank you for considering this request.

You have made what appears to be a feature request. Please see our Feature Request FAQ

As a fellow user of Notepad++, I would say: I have never had a need for such a complicated search. But if you were to submit an official feature request and it were implemented, it would be fine with me.

Truly agree rust is really a far better language

Thank you for sharing this informative trick[.]Hope next time we are not going to face this problem again.

@datatraveller1 Thanks, I forgot to look in that obvious place!!

@Mark-Olson And now I have to look up “amphophilic”

Neat

Hi @PeterJones,
Thank you very much for your comments;
Hi @dinkumoil,
Thank you very much for clarifying and the great plugin!

@Hereturbie ,

There’s an option to change how many characters you have to type before the autocompletion appears: Settings > Preferences > Auto-completion > From Nth character. So if you want to not autocomplete on X characters or less, then set that initial typing to X+1.

(If you want it to only show you length>X words, but start when you’ve only typed a couple characters, sorry, that feature doesn’t exist. We have a FAQ on where to make feature requests.)

@PeterJones Doh. Right. Worked once I found the one from 2022. :D Thx.

@PeterJones said in startfunc tip (autocomplete):

I had just finished confirming

Thank you for actually testing my conjecture. Proof that it works and why is certainly more valuable than speculation.

Cheers.

@Paul-Wormer said in Windows side by side:

There are several ways, but an easy one is: drag by your mouse (keep left button pressed) an Npp tab to somewhere on your screen. You will see the following pop-up

To obtain the two-item menu you show, it is important that “…to somewhere on your screen…” is limited to the confines of the N++ window. If you drag outside the N++ window and release the left-click, you’ll start another N++ instance (if so configured).

@PeterJones TYVM…sounds like the “code” is sending the Highlight instead of just the text. Git Ext/Desktop had this same problem but was ideal with color printers, not so with B/W printing.

Also, for B/W printing the “Print” setting will most likely need to be “Black on White” otherwise the text colors will be interpreted to the Grayscale.

Hi @Alan-Kilborn,
I use this “Search Result window: show only one entry per found line” setting and like it very much because all these duplicate superfluous lines which bothered me are gone :-). I think this setting was introduced only a few months ago. I haven’t encountered any issues yet but of course this does not mean there aren’t any.

@Infinite ,

To repeat myself:

None of your examples in the last 7 hours have ever given an example with more than one <ride_data_name> in the same file. I even prompted you with example BEFORE text that had multiple entries in one file, and you didn’t explain how I should process that. You haven’t ever defined what an “entry” is, in your mind. And yet you expect us to somehow come up with an expression for you. I cannot waste my time and yours making any more guesses.

Based on the information you seem willing to supply, I am not able to help you any more. I am sorry.

@ZhongPing-Zhao

Sorry, but I’m not sure I understand this correctly.
At the moment I understand that you want to use the same font in MATLAB or Visual Studio as in Npp. If that is indeed the case, then you need to use MATLAB or Visual Studio settings and set the font accordingly. Npp does NOT include a font in its app, this is taken from the operating system.

@Harald-René-Flasch Now is as good a time as any to make a shameless plug of my JSON Tools plugin, which can parse JSONC.

The JSTool plugin is another good option with JSONC parsing ability. I assume it is better for a JavaScript developer and its tree viewer loads faster than mine, but it is a bit less feature-rich when it comes to working with pure JSON.

@John-Sampson said in regex and newlines:

However, Notepad++ included newlines so that it changed each line to “ren \1” on one line, “\1” on a new line

So if you were using \1 that assumes you were searching in regular expression mode. Then I’m going to assume your find what field also captured the CR and LF characters which are EOL markers. Returning those would likely produce the result you saw.

I think you need to post the Find What field you used so we can confirm what you were doing.

Oh, just saw that @peterjones also believes the same.

Terry

@Flavio-Spezi

Notepad++ has such exclusion syntax; see the user manual HERE.

Post further questions here if you have them.