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.

Limit exhausted, why section “delimiter” not naming limiters?
And not easier was would done it limiters how regulars expressions?
And, perhaps, overssuum up, -, :).

@PeterJones
I don’t, normally, do this myself as well but I think I found a way to reproduce it more or less easily.
Preparation:
open

function list and folder as workspace(faw) dialogs ctrl+f click find tab press find all in all opened documents button

Now click on a dialog title bar and throw, that is move the mouse quickly and release the mouse button, the dialog to another dialog as seen in the animation.

In the gif you can see that I tried to throw the faw dialog onto the search results dialog, which failed, instead it opened
as a floating dialog box. I double clicked on the header so that the dialog is put back in its original position.

EDIT: used a new portable 8.4.6 version, no additional plugins.

@swegmike ,

Honestly, I wasn’t convinced when you originally wrote this that it was an on-topic question for this forum, and thought it might even be a spam link, given how tenuous a connection there seemed between Function List definitions and “XML schema regexp builder”… but it didn’t pass my threshold of “spamminess”, so I didn’t report it. Now that you’ve linked from another discussion, and shown that you’re genuinely interested, I’ll reply … but to be clear, I still haven’t read whatever may be at the other end of the link.

But based on the way you’ve phrased things, I personally don’t see how such a tool would help. I don’t know how an “XML Editor”, even one that gives you regex to parse XML (which is what I assume that does), would help. The Function List syntax just uses XML to wrap meta-information around the regexes. But unless you are writing a Function List for an XML-based language (ie, a language that uses XML tags to do its coding), I don’t see any connection to the task of creating your function list definition.

But if it helps you, great. You don’t need our approval to use something external that helps you develop a regex, whether it’s for the developing regex for the Function List feature, or for your own search-and-replace needs, or for anything else.

I’ve personally successfully created and/or modified multiple Function List definitions. We have a Function List Basics FAQ here, written by someone who I consider THE NPP Function List expert. And I’ve done my best to make the User Manual Function List overview and Function List config file syntax as useful as possible.

@donho

Thanks for the link

@Mike-Collins

It isn’t “spelling”, it is “auto completion”.

To elaborate on Peter’s answer, you can control it by going here:

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Follow the yellow markings and untick Enable to totally turn it off per your request.

But, if you just want Enter to make it work, make sure ENTER (with the green marking in my screenshot) is ticked.