@Nicola-Vento said in Original String Order:

Alternatively, is there a way to know the string ordering of the original file so that I can put it in the edited file?

There is one thing you could do, although that means adding text to the file whilst editing it. You could add the original line number to each line, then move that to the end of each line. Then when ordering it alphabetically the number would not interfere with the new ordering. Once editing is complete you could move that number back to the start of the line, re-order based on the number and then remove the number.

This is achieved through the “Column Editor” function. You would have the cursor in the very first position of the file, use the Column editor to add a number, starting at 1, adding 1, no repeat and have the “leading zeros” ticked. Then use a regex (regular expression) to move that number to the end of each line. Continue with your editing.

Lastly move the number back to the start of each line using another regex, order by number and then a final regex to remove the number.

Terry

Thanks for clarifying my query and most of all for the solution which I was danged if i could find!

@Anderwriter

It’s a split.
A change was introduced in Notepad++ 7.9.3 that changed how this was handled. Not sure what to call it besides this!
For some, well, at least you and me, this change made things better (crisper text).
For some others, the change made things worse, some would say Notepad++ is now unusable for them.
Given not everyone is happy, I presume the developers will be doing some more work on this.
I just hope things move forward to unity, and not backwards to (more, continued) diversity, because I don’t want to return to the land of blurry text yet again.

I wanted to point out that here the new version compatible with notepad ++ 7.9.3 has been released (without the reported error).

RESOLVED

@guy038 said in Pin files:

Hit the Ctrl and Shift keys and moves up/down the Middle mouse Wheel

As I didn’t know this (surprise!), I did some further experimentation to find (some of this I knew, some not):

While pointing at tab bar (active tab doesn’t matter), hold Ctrl+Shift, scroll mouse wheel: activates first tab (if scroll wheel up) or last tab (if scroll wheel down) – this one is exactly @guy038’s above, just restating it as part of this list

Considering the active tab, while pointing at tab bar, hold Ctrl, scroll mouse wheel: activates tab to the left of the currently-active tab (if scroll wheel up) or activates tab to the right of the currently-active tab (if scroll wheel down)

Considering the active tab, while pointing at tab bar, hold Shift, scroll mouse wheel: moves the activate tab one position to its current left (if scroll wheel up) or moves the activate tab one position to its current right (if scroll wheel down)

Note that adding the Alt key to the mix does nothing; it is if it is not held during the operation.

Note that only the last bullet point action changes the tab ordering; there others are just tab navigation.

This is probably in the user manual, but it’s probably ok to reiterate it here as a refresher.

(And, biggest point, I hope what I’ve said is accurate!)

With the “WordPress hosting” link the OP provided, my first thought about it was that this was purely a spam posting.

@Pavel-P ,

I have opened files that big or bigger in Notepad++, so Notepad++ can open a 388MB file.

If you have a problem, you need to describe the circumstances of the problem with more detail than that. Please see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you, then come back and give us something to work with.

Okay, I found the problem.

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Thank you for the responses.

@Soumitra-Chakraborty yes

@gstavi

OP said:

I have a few hundred text files I open in notepad…

We hear this A LOT!
We always ask how practical it is, and no one ever explains it.

Wouldn’t it be simpler for you to manage the opened files with:

Window -> Windows …

In my answer I inferred that OP was already using Window > Window… menu in order to sort tabs, because how else could you do it?

Activate the tab you want with double click or Enter.

OP is wanting auto-selection of a “reasonable” tab after closing one – clearly if OP wanted to click on a tab they would just do it (and wouldn’t have posted a question).

BUT… your information is good for other readers that may come here in the future looking for answers (and don’t know about Window > Window… menu).

Hello,@DVP-Rao
please follow these steps, On how to enable dark mode in Notepad++.

Step 1: Open your Notepad++, and select “Settings” on the menu bar, and choose “Style configurator”.
Step 2: Select theme “Obsidian” (you can choose other dark themes)
Step 3: Go to “Global Styles” -> “Global override”, click the “background-color”
Step 4: Click “more colors”, and use: “red: 43, blue: 43, green: 43”.
Step 5: Check the “Enable global background-color” option.

I hope this information will be useful to you.
Thank you.

<Holy Hand Grenade> All users should immediately disable Microsoft’s foolish “Extensions shouldn’t mean anything but still do so let’s just hide them” feature! </Holy Hand Grenade> ;-)

Thanks Peter ,
I am sorry to report that today I am that guy
“abuse this forum as your personal regex writing service like some users try” .
I am working on a “KidSafeBrowser” in ‘Electron js’ and another one as a chrome extension for my grandkids .
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A friend asked me to do this Regex stuff .
As usual , Thank You for all your work on this .
I created a desktop Folder , and named it ‘Regex Peter Jones’ and
put you work in there . I do plan to learn Regex , just can’t now .
Thanks , Vern

@gstavi

Nothing from Npp, probably as I’m using portable version always.

Program Files: Oracle (virutalbox) and ImageMagick
Program Files (x86): THQ, Steinberg, Power Tab, PDFCreator, Motorola, MetzUpdater, Cypheros, avicohh

@Ekopalypse said in Writing from right to left:

from Npp import editor, SCINTILLANOTIFICATION

def on_char_added(args):
if DO_REVERSE_TYPING:
editor.gotoPos(editor.getCurrentPos()-1)

try:
DO_REVERSE_TYPING = not DO_REVERSE_TYPING
except NameError:
editor.callbackSync(on_char_added, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.CHARADDED])
DO_REVERSE_TYPING = True

Thank you SO much Ekopalypse, this is perfect for my needs at the moment! Does exactly what I was looking for.

Also, thank you all for the very kind and warm replies. This was my first post here and this experience gave a very welcoming feel of the NotePad++ - community.

Hello,@dkseby7x
Please try this code, To How to remove text except URLs maintaining the original line of the remove?

search for:

\h*<url\b.*?(http[^<]+).*?</url>|<.*?>\s*

and replace with captured URL (captured in the first parenthesized group)

\1

\h matches any horizontal space, [^<]+ matches one or more characters, that are not <

I hope this code will be useful to you.
Thank you.

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 :-)