When reading a book, you have lelf and right page open thus I was thinking in np++ this book view side by side would be a natural option to have.

@Ekopalypse

Thank you for the link, that explains things.

I can see I’ve worded my question in a way that’s not too clear.

Essentailly I found a nice dark theme which looks good with most of the built in languages. When I downloaded a new UDL for Oracle PLSQL, it’s overriding the font background and foreground colours in the theme so it ends up looking awful.

Your suggestion of the colour style attribute makes a lot of sense so I’ll have a play with that and see if I can get what I need.

Much appreciated

David

@Alan-Kilborn

I barely know what I ate yesterday, how am I supposed to know what I thought about something a year ago? :-D

Links can be created as we see with url - based on that, I suppose I came up with this idea, but it looks like I never dug deeper since it wasn’t requested.

@PeterJones

TL;DR :-)

Great! Thanks so much!

@guy038 OP here! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank You.

@Alan-Kilborn ,

<tongue style=“cheek: in; firmly: 1”>But why would anyone search for things that aren’t there? And why would you start searching from the middle instead of the beginning? </tongue>

@snmnarum said in Tab vs Space for .rs (Rust):

Perhaps the installer could detect a modified config and give us the option of A) use new, B) preserve user, or C) attempt a merge.

You can create a feature request for this. Having at least A) and B) would be nice. However, C) will not be easy to implement.

@Andrey ,

What language lexer has block comments like that? Or are you using a UDL?

And does that language actually allow nested comments? Some languages do, some don’t, and some leave it up to a compiler implementation decision.

If the language really allows it, but the built-in lexer allows it, then technically, that’s a bug in the lexer. However, the lexers that ship with Notepad++ are part of the Scintilla code library that Notepad++ uses, so it would be a long, unlikely process to get it fixed (report the bug to Scintilla; wait for it to maybe get fixed; request Notepad++ update its Scintilla; wait for likely many years before Notepad++ does update its Scintilla, if ever)

If you are using a UDL, that lexer uses a very simple algorithm, which was not built to handle nested comments (and even if you submitted an issue on it, the UDL lexer, even though technically controlled by Notepad++ unlike the other lexers, hasn’t had any significant improvements in years)

You can add extra highlighting to a builtin lexer or to a User Defined Language (UDL) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo, but you might have to tweak his code to be able to handle nested comments.

My general coding practice on nested comments: don’t.

Hello Alan yes of course
but when i must search and replace multi lines, its not very easy with a sow little windows and must always use regular expresions for lines break, so with and extension it will be super

@Gen-Utility said in How-To Backup to custom Sub-Directory?:

Is there a clever alternative to get what i want?

I don’t believe so.
Developers designed the feature how they believed it would be most useful to users.
In 5+ years of “watching” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a similar complaint/desire.
But surely you can ask that your desired functionality be implemented.
See the FAQ entry on making a feature request.

I searched keyboard shortcuts… preferences

I’m all about listening to complaints about a bad user interface, but not this time. This one is 100% PEBKAC.

Hello, @swarn-singh and All,

I suppose that the key word RCONVERT is not concerned by the replacement. ONLY  the expression CONVERT(varchar(..), ..........) must be changed as RTRIM(CONVERT(varchar(..), ..........))

If my assumption is not exact, just tell me about it !

So, given, this sample :

CONVERT(varchar(5), col$1) + '~' + CONVERT(varchar(8), col$2) + '~AD~' convert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103) rconvert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103) SELECT @ent_status = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ENTITY_STATUS, @keystring = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_NAME + ', ' + convert(varchar(30), dbo.ORGANISATION_TYPE_CODES_OTC.OTC_DESCRIPTION) + ', ALTERd: ' + convert(varchar(10), dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ALTER_DATE, 103)

The following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?i-s)\b(CONVERT\(varchar\(\d+\).+?\))

REPLACE RTRIM\($1\)

Would output the expected text :

RTRIM(CONVERT(varchar(5), col$1)) + '~' + RTRIM(CONVERT(varchar(8), col$2)) + '~AD~' RTRIM(convert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103)) rconvert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103) SELECT @ent_status = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ENTITY_STATUS, @keystring = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_NAME + ', ' + RTRIM(convert(varchar(30), dbo.ORGANISATION_TYPE_CODES_OTC.OTC_DESCRIPTION)) + ', ALTERd: ' + RTRIM(convert(varchar(10), dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ALTER_DATE, 103))

Of course, select the Regular expression search mode and tick, preferably, the Wrap around option

Then, click, either, several times on the Replace button or once only on the Replace All button

If OK, I could explain how this regex works, next time !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Robert-Gilland

I gave up in the end

Can’t you just keep pointing the installer prompt to E: ?
I mean, sure, it would be great if it could remember, but…
Notepad++ has, what, 3 or 4 releases a year, so you’d have to do this fairly rarely, right?

Of course, I’m out of my element, because I use the “portable” version and never have to deal with such a thing. I just unzip the portable into a folder, move that folder where I like, and done.

@gstavi said:

I guess the sometimes surprising results mainly apply to the Find ALL and Replace ALL options rather than the Find.

From my understanding it is the opposite of what you said.
The “all” operations always move only forward through the text when doing their work, again AFAIK.
Even “Replace All” with “backward” direction (in non regex search modes) moves forward when it does the replacement! You just don’t see how it is doing it because it does it all at once.

Ah, when you said:

since the user can’t tell the difference.

you were considering this!

There is absolutely no sense in Finding ALL with backward search.

Seems true…

“ALL” options should be grayed out when “backward” checkbox is selected.

That gives the higher power to the checkbox rather than the buttons. I think the devs wanted it the other way. Just a guess.
Good UI/UX design is really hard.

I see

The 2nd command is replaced with \n and should be attached \ \n together (double backslash).

@PeterJones I guess you didn’t understand me, or you don’t want to. I was unsure between these two.
You don’t need to teach me how to use the program or talk about hammer nails @PeterJones.
I have stated that in the old versions (even if there is a usage error) the program did not crash, it gave a warning in the anormal state . @PeterJones
While I was bringing up the subject , i was not aware of why this situation was happening @PeterJones. Because it was closing directly without any notification. As time progressed, I resolved the situation and stated here . @PeterJones
I hope you understand me now @PeterJones.

I had to move my installaion to C:\Program Files\Notepad++ and everything worked.

Thank you for your help. All set.