@Foodland2023 said in Notepad++ delete 2 lines below a specific string:

Could you suggest any link which gives the detailed explanation of all these?

Yes. In fact, I already did. In my post above: the USEFUL REFERNCES in big bold letters led to links to the Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex and to the “FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation”. That rather gave you what you asked for two hours before you asked for it.

@wonkawilly It looks like you have found a good reason to get access to a newer computer and a more structured learning environment than youtube videos. Hopefully there are people in your life that can help and support you in that area.

To get the thread back on the Notepad++ topic, you could try posing the question “Is it possible to recompile Notepad++ on Windows NT 4.0?” or whatever version of Windows you have. Once you are able to generate an .exe file that works then tweaking it via changes to the source code is far easier to learn plus understand than doing the same from the ground up.

I thought Notepad++ could be compiled using gcc, which is more portable, but it’s possible the code has gone down the Visual Studio path long enough that gcc is no longer an option.

@vijay-kumar
This was the posters reply to solutions provided in a previous thread here.

Please don’t do this as someone reading your reply will have no idea what you refer to. You should have replied in the original thread you started.

I have provided links in both threads so readers will understand what was asked and the replies given.

Terry

@vijay-kumar
This poster replied to what they started here in another new thread here.

The replies appear to have satisfied them.

Terry

@mkupper Thank you for your thoughts on this. The strings are from hackers. They aren’t getting in. I wanted to have an automatic script to block them when they try since they try over and over. I know I can use regex to do that but I also wanted to see what they were looking for to see if it is something that might need tightening up. I would have a report that said something like, “10 attempts to access example.php”. But that seems not to be a simple thing so I will just block them with regex and leave it at that. Thanks, again.

@David-Shepherd Worked for me - thanks. The first time, when I right-clicked from Windows Explorer I selected “edit”, and the file opened in Notepad++ but the file didn’t appear in the taskbar for np++. Then I went to “Open with…” and selected it, and got it in the taskbar, and can pin it - just as you say.

@Dennis-Golding said in Files have vanished:

Any thoughts anyone?

I would suggest reading one of the FAQ posts here. The section titled Scenario: My (unsaved) files are missing! is particularly relevant to your problem.

Good luck
Terry

All the same, I think any feature request for a more system-integrated portable version is better placed with a project that deals exclusively with packaging. Scoop and winget are just the first two that come to mind. There’s even a close-sourced project distributing MSI installers.

@PeterJones said in Installer vs. zip in WIndows 10:

@mkupper

One issue is that it’s not clear if @donho has clearly defined the differences

Looking at this code, it is intentional (though maybe no longer applicable; I doubt he’s checked again on Win8 or later).

Thank you. The code looks good. There are some weird edge cases such if on an x64 system if you install an x32 version of Notepad++ in the x64 folder and try to make that installation a doLocalConf.xml portable installation then it would work as you wanted but for the wrong reason…

@Lycan-Thrope

I saw nothing condescending in his response to you at that time

Neither did I.

(after having to read back on a 2 years old post)

Nobody forced you to do that (if you’re volunteer here).

It’s a straight forward answer to your rhetorical statement.

It’s not. If people want some kind of feedback, that’s not necessarily from developers.

Otherwise one must take your “Feature Request” posts as a plea for attention that would otherwise not be received by simple discussion.

If you want to understand - if you want to! - my tone sometimes appears formal (and more so in the past) because English is not my first language, and I’m more used to academic language than informal one. “Simple discussion” whatever that means , is always good, never wanted more.

One with reading comprehension, would understand that, and not take offense to people trying to help you function better in the environment of the forum.

I didn’t take offense. Yeah, maybe I don’t have reading comprehension. Maybe I’m autistic, maybe I’m mental??? maybe maybe.

Happy? Achived your goal of trying to offend someone?

@Edson-J-Teixeira said in MSI Notepad++:

Gostaria da versão MSI, para colocar no M.Intune, versão atual é possível

Translated as:
I would like the MSI version, to put in M.Intune, current version is possible

There have been many similar requests on this forum. This post where the developer @donho responds to such a request is his latest on this. His answer was no.

Please be aware that most users on this forum use english as the posting language. See this post, paragraph starting with English is the primary language of this Forum. If you choose…

Terry

@Vitaliy-Dovgan said in Suggestion: Find in Files from command line:

Notepad++ already has a very powerful Find in Files functionality (Ctrl+Shift+F).
… (snipped) …
If it looks like a good suggestion, let’s discuss the design here. E.g. what exact names to use for the command arguments, what exact behavior to expect from Notepad++, what other options we may want to set, etc.

Based on the number of people chiming in with “I use ... from the command line” it appears they don’t see the finder built into Notepad as the best available.

I myself have been using plain old findstr that is built into Windows but often use it in batch file wrappers that end up feeding the results into Notepad++ much like what the proposed -ff style command line options would do.

@RandalR - While I upvoted your original request at the top of the thread please don’t take it as a “vote” that the idea you presented should be implemented as how you proposed.

Some sort of control over what gets added to the the recent files or history list is something I suspect many people have thought about at times. However, every time I start thinking through “that file should not be in my recent files or history list” I recall instances where it was useful that the file was recorded in the history. Thus for myself, I’d continue with allowing everything to get recorded in the recent file history even i an option was available.

I proposed a workaround of using separate copies or instances of Notepad++ dedicated to files that you know you don’t want to ever show up in the recent files or history of your main copy of Notepad++. While that works for managing the history list the idea also runs into the already known can of worms, Pandora’s Box, of how to gracefully handle multiple instances… There is interest in eventually solving the instance problem.

@Robert-Harrison-0 said in FIND is not returning any results:

Both Debug Info are identical as shown in a previous reply.

Then you have some magic going on that I cannot reproduce, because Notepad++ does not treat files opened via Explorer Context Menu and files opened via File > Open any differently.

Hello, @ivantiguy, @terry-R, @Coises and All,

Here is the way I would choose to achieve your goal :

From your present INPUT text : <Locations Seq="3396" DbRevision="670"> <Updates> <Location FRS_ID="30CD802CC0A744248253F1F869AADD8A" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="bdc85ad4-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Canada"> <Updates> <ivnt_FullName> <First> - Canada</First> <Second>DbNull</Second> </ivnt_FullName> </Updates> </Location> </Updates> </Locations> <Locations Seq="3397" DbRevision="670"> <Updates> <Location FRS_ID="B33153FEF4014CC6BAC40581564BC5E9" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="9d7073c2-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Central"> <Updates> <ivnt_FullName> <First> - Central</First> <Second>DbNull</Second> </ivnt_FullName> </Updates> </Location> </Updates> </Locations>

With the following regex S/R :

SEARCH \R(?!\h*<Locations)(?!\R)(?!\z)
REPLACE ;

We get the temporary text, below :

<Locations Seq="3396" DbRevision="670">; <Updates>; <Location FRS_ID="30CD802CC0A744248253F1F869AADD8A" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="bdc85ad4-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Canada">; <Updates>; <ivnt_FullName>; <First> - Canada</First>; <Second>DbNull</Second>; </ivnt_FullName>; </Updates>; </Location>; </Updates>;</Locations> <Locations Seq="3397" DbRevision="670">; <Updates>; <Location FRS_ID="B33153FEF4014CC6BAC40581564BC5E9" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="9d7073c2-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Central">; <Updates>; <ivnt_FullName>; <First> - Central</First>; <Second>DbNull</Second>; </ivnt_FullName>; </Updates>; </Location>; </Updates>;</Locations>

Do a column mode selection of all the Seq numbers :

Open the Column Editor ( Alt + C )

Select the Number to Insert option

Initial Number 7400

Increase by 1

Repeat 1

Leading None

Format Dec

Click on the OK button

=> The temporary text is changed as :

<Locations Seq="7400" DbRevision="670">; <Updates>; <Location FRS_ID="30CD802CC0A744248253F1F869AADD8A" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="bdc85ad4-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Canada">; <Updates>; <ivnt_FullName>; <First> - Canada</First>; <Second>DbNull</Second>; </ivnt_FullName>; </Updates>; </Location>; </Updates>;</Locations> <Locations Seq="7401" DbRevision="670">; <Updates>; <Location FRS_ID="B33153FEF4014CC6BAC40581564BC5E9" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="9d7073c2-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Central">; <Updates>; <ivnt_FullName>; <First> - Central</First>; <Second>DbNull</Second>; </ivnt_FullName>; </Updates>; </Location>; </Updates>;</Locations>

Finally, with this second and final regex S/R :

SEARCH ;

REPLACE \r\n    ( or \n for UNIX files )

We get the expected OUTPUT text :

<Locations Seq="7400" DbRevision="670"> <Updates> <Location FRS_ID="30CD802CC0A744248253F1F869AADD8A" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="bdc85ad4-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Canada"> <Updates> <ivnt_FullName> <First> - Canada</First> <Second>DbNull</Second> </ivnt_FullName> </Updates> </Location> </Updates> </Locations> <Locations Seq="7401" DbRevision="670"> <Updates> <Location FRS_ID="B33153FEF4014CC6BAC40581564BC5E9" Frs_CompositeContract_Entity_Id="9d7073c2-9e4d-e311-ba73-005056a60016" DisplayName="Central"> <Updates> <ivnt_FullName> <First> - Central</First> <Second>DbNull</Second> </ivnt_FullName> </Updates> </Location> </Updates> </Locations>

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn I shall try it, thank you so much for your help! :)

@Maxitrol-Mat
My guess (completely unfounded, just based on my general sense of what that plugin does) would be that the freezes happen because the plugin does something that can potentially be very compute-intensive whenever a buffer is opened or closed, or when you switch to a different buffer. If that were the case, you would expect to see freezes whenever you change tabs or open/close a file.

I would further speculate that the freezes might potentially have something to do with the opened file being in a directory that contains a lot of files and/or subdirectories. The way to test this would be to try opening a file in the root directory of a huge tree (e.g., Program Files, Documents) and see if that triggers a freeze, then compare to what happens when you open a file in a small directory tree.

@Paul-Wormer
It’s works perfectly. Many Thanks

@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you very much!!!
That answered the mystery