Hello, @jakang-chen and All,

Seemingly, you need to search for any range of consecutive lowercase letters a, embedded between the uppercase letters A and B and replace each of them with the lowercase letter c

Here is a possible solution :

So, given this sample text, below :

aaa AB CB AC BC AB aaa aaa AaB CaB AaC BaC AaB aaa aaa AaaB CaaB AaaC BaaC AaaB aaa aaa AaaaB CaaaB AaaaC BaaaC AaaaB aaa aaa AaaaaB CaaaaB AaaaaC BaaaaC AaaaaB aaa aaa AaaaaaB CaaaaaB AaaaaaC BaaaaaC AaaaaaB aaa aaa AaaaaaaB CaaaaaaB AaaaaaaC BaaaaaaC AaaaaaaB aaa aaa AaaaaaaaB CaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaC AaaaaaaaB aaa aaa AaaaaaaaaB CaaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaaC AaaaaaaaaB aaa aaa AaaaaaaaaaB CaaaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaaaC AaaaaaaaaaB aaa aaa AaaaaaaaaaaB CaaaaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaaaaC AaaaaaaaaaaB aaa

If you run this regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-si)(A\K|\G)a(?=\w*?B)

REPLACE c

You should get your expected text :

aaa AB CB AC BC AB aaa aaa AcB CaB AaC BaC AcB aaa aaa AccB CaaB AaaC BaaC AccB aaa aaa AcccB CaaaB AaaaC BaaaC AcccB aaa aaa AccccB CaaaaB AaaaaC BaaaaC AccccB aaa aaa AcccccB CaaaaaB AaaaaaC BaaaaaC AcccccB aaa aaa AccccccB CaaaaaaB AaaaaaaC BaaaaaaC AccccccB aaa aaa AcccccccB CaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaC AcccccccB aaa aaa AccccccccB CaaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaaC AccccccccB aaa aaa AcccccccccB CaaaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaaaC AcccccccccB aaa aaa AccccccccccB CaaaaaaaaaaB AaaaaaaaaaaC BaaaaaaaaaaC AccccccccccB aaa

It’s easy to verify that contents have changed, only between the individual ranges A............B

Notes :

The in-line modifier (?-i) ensures that the search will be processed in a NON-insentive way

The in-line modifier (?-s) forces the regex engine to consider any dot ( . ) as representing a single standard character ( and not an EOL char )

The A obvioulsy matches the litteral uppercase letter A

Then the \K syntax immediately cancels any previous match and resets the regex engine working position

If a letter A is not found, the second part of the alternative, \G, which represents the zero-length location right after the previous match, is invoked

Now, the regex engine tries to match the lower-case letter a, but ONLY IF  the positive look-ahead (?=\w*?B) is true, i.e this letter is followed by any range, even null, of word characters, till an upper-case letter B

If so, it is simply replaced with the lower-case letter c

Best Regards,

guy038

Various portions were down for at least a few hours earlier this weekend, and the whole site may have been down for at least part of it.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/npp-usermanual/issues/51

@guy038
Thanks! I should have mentioned that I figured the table was wrong also and had to experiment to get my script to work. I didn’t document like you did though … Bravo!

Cheers.

@PeterJones said in How changing several similar HTML tags by RegEx?:

You are my hero, thanks very much, working!

There is a resistance to adding new controls to the UI. Or at least their seems to be. I can understand it; they take screen real-estate, and anything that is added with text on it has to be made translatable into dozens of languages. Oh, and maybe “Get” doesn’t translate to something short-and-sweet in Italian, for example, so the button has to be a certain size (bigger!). So it all gets burdensome quickly.

It might be cool to have a double-click on the Find-what label do your “get” functionality, but UI purists will bash me for endorsing such a hidden and easter-eggish thing. But, with that there would be no screen real estate consumed, and no variable-sized text to translate into many languages.

But maybe I’m missing something about your scenario. If you have some selected text in your document, if you press ctrl+f then that selected text is transferred to the Find-what box in the Find window, automagically. There is no “close dialog, re-select text and re-open the dialog” steps needed. Or perhaps I misunderstand. If so, please enlighten me.

There was a similar request recently for a button to swap the text of the Find-what and Replace-with boxes. I think it just had a symbol in it (nothing to translate) and the button itself was quite small. This request gained no traction.

Why not spec out a complete redesign of the Find UI right here with mocked-up screenshots and text? That way you don’t have to program anything so the programming language isn’t an issue. Then, if someone that can program it agrees, they can try their hand at it?

You seemed to do a lot of saying “this is bad… that is bad…” but to this point haven’t provided a lot of specifics on what changes should be made. To be fair, though, you have provided some general ideas. I’d like to see that turned into some really concrete specs for a redesign.

Again, good discussion, thank you for that.

OK, thanks Peter.

@dinkumoil Actually that is not just an individual issue here, it is a generalized one. Every time pro-CCP nationalists found something they hate or being told to hate something, they attack it rudely, both physically and on the internet. I wouldn’t say it is good if we just sit there and don’t express out opinions if we are attacked and fear, rather I would found ways to beat it.

I suggest the following mechanism for an anti-spam bot:

For any second issue of the same user for the given period of time (e.g. 24 hrs), check for his/her activity log. If his/her activity log is empty/nearly empty (e.g. no contributions), issue permanent ban to it on our repo and all repo that uses this bot immediately, report it to GitHub, and then close/lock/delete all issues this user has ever made on our repo. If 5 issues has been opened by the same user in 24 hours, such user should receive a 24-hr cooldown, the repo owner will also be able to issue permanent ban to him on his repo.

Could this method be good, it doesn’t do bans based on character recognization? Actually I knew a lot of forums/website is facing Chinese spams and I had thoughts of building a anti-spam mechanism for those.

@Sanjay

See issue 6223.

Thanks again everyone. Using Ctl-Tab is perfect as that’s what I instinctively use in browsers.
The more I use N++ the more I like it!!!

Hello, @aksarben, @alan-kilborn and All,

Simply, use this regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s)(.*?<head>|\G)((?!</head>).)*?\K\xAD

REPLACE Any SINGLE character or STRING

Notes :

I assume, of course, that there only one section <head>........</head> per file

The <head>........</head> section can be, either, in one line or splitted into several ones

Any soft hyphen, found, above the starting tag <head> is ignored

Any soft hyphen, between the starting and the ending tag is found, individually

Any soft hyphen, found, under the ending tag </head> is ignored

Preferably, when testing on a single file, tick the wrap around option, which forces to starts the S/R process from the very beginning of the file

Best Regards,

guy038

https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck

@Trey-Hunner ,

BTW, in response to this comment:

if EditorConfig was built-in to Notepad++, I wouldn’t need to do this. I’m hoping that Notepad++ will add built-in support for EditorConfig, …

Some hints about the development philosophy of Notepad++:

if it’s already implemented by a plugin, there is very little likelihood it will be implemented natively if it’s already configurable by the settings, then there’s little chance the default setting will be changed, because it just takes a change to the settings if you don’t like the default settings bundled with Notepad++, you can make a new bundle with the settings configured the way you like it; this can either be done by starting with the zipfile distribution, and you edit the files in the zip, and you distribute the modified zip having the users install from normal installer, and you just distribute the updated settings files furthermore, as I said a while ago, the default settings on this one did change, so the default settings now match what you want.

… built-in support for EditorConfig, just as BBEdit, Komodo, Visual Studio, PyCharm, and other editors have done.

FYI:

bbedit: development paid for by buying the software komodo: has the financial power of ActiveState to pay for its development visual studio: has the financial power of Microsoft to pay for its development; not all versions are free PyCharm: that one looks like it might be truly free, developed by volunteers rather than paid employees

So you’ve listed one common example of a comparable software that’s free (freely developed, freely maintained, freely downloaded), that has implemented the EditorConfig natively. My response to that: “That happens”. Different OpenSource software in the same space (like different text editors) gets developed because different teams have different goals for the important feature sets, and whether those features should be implemented natively or by plugins.

The list of file types in the SaveAs dialog aren’t necessarily configurable. And having a software developer go and add every possible extension that anyone of the untold thousands of users might use, or might invent for their own use-case, is not something that can be practically done.

Besides, all you have to do to get the file extension you want is to type it yourself. Since you’re already typing the filename, it shouldn’t be that hard to type .txt+ as well… and probably easier than typing the filename without an extension, then dragging down the pulldown and hoping that Windows will apply the right extension based on that pulldown entry.

It appears you are using the “old style” dialog by disabling the ☐ Use new style dialog (without file extension feature & Unix style path capacity) in Settings > Preferences > Default Directory. I say this because you seem to have an expectation that the pulldown will set your extension for you. In my experience, this only happens in the old-style dialog. If you are using the old-style dialog, be wary of that “feature” from Windows… because whatever happens to come first in the list of extensions for a given dropdown is what Windows will apply; hence, if you type blah and apply c++ source file, there’s a good chance that you’ll save blah.h rather than blah.cpp, which is probably not what you want. I always use the new-style, because the old-style was obsoleted by Windows’s new-style dialog half a decade ago or more, and (more importantly) because the new-style encourages you to take control of your destiny by controlling extension yourself rather than relying on Windows to fill in the extension for you, and (most importantly to me) because it enables the tree-view to the left rather than just having the four or five icons for windows-preferred locations, and making it more clicks to find the location you want.

Also, assuming you installed Notepad++ normally, I thought there was usually a right-click menu on most files which allows you to choose “Open With Notepad++” or similar phrasing, even if it’s not directly associated with that file type. If not, you could use save the following as a .reg file,

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\*\shell\Notepad++] @="Edit With Notepad++" "Icon"="\"C:\\Program Files\\notepad++\\notepad++.exe\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\*\shell\Notepad++\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\notepad++\\notepad++.exe\" \"%1\""

(where you might need to use c:\\program files (x86)… instead, if you’re 32-bit)

That way, you can use the default associated program whenever you want by the normal double-click, but use Notepad++ by using the right-click menu for any file type

Thanks - download site is still down, but both those links above checkout for the SHA256 on the 32 bit installer.

Thanks again

Doesn’t crash for me. If I have an unsaved file cloned to both views, and hit F12, it goes into post-it mode, like it’s supposed to, and my unsaved changes are all still there.

Please provide enough information for us to replicate your problem. The biggest chunk of missing data would be supplied by giving us the output of the ? menu’s Debug Info entry, and clicking on Copy debug info into clipboard, and pasting the results here. Anything else you can tell us that might help us understand your problem better would be useful.

For those who don’t want to deal with scripting plugins: You can do the same using my ExtSettings plugin, it’s available via Plugins Admin. See also >>> here <<<.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/31/notepad_china_spam/

https://dev.to/nikpoltoratsky/how-to-deal-with-github-spambots-5e6n

That’s really weird.
Do you use installed npp or portable version?
Depending on your installation I would give it a try to rename
config.xml and see if recreation fixes this issue.
Or if you use installed version, give a portable version a try.
Just unzip it and run it.

Please Install the Emmet plugin.