Hello, @yasser-hhalil and @scott-sumner,

Sorry, I’m not very reactive, cause I’m on holidays, in North Brittany, with my two sisters and their husbands. What to say ? We make a cure of seafood : cockles, periwinkles, clams, lobsters, crabs and even octopus ! To sum up : the Paradise ;-))Since one week, weather was quite fine, here, but today it was raining. So, I’m back to N++ and the Community, for a while !!

Ah, @scott-sumner, very clever regex, found by Alin Purcaru, on Stackoverflow site !

To complete this topic, let’s suppose we want to find all lines with the five first-names : jack, james, jason, jules and Joe

Here are, below, four regexes, from the more restrictive behaviour to the less restrictive behaviour :

In regex A, rhe five first-names must be true words, in the exact lower case

In regex B, rhe five first-names must be true words, whatever their case

In regex C, rhe five first-names may be glued in bigger words, but with their exact lower case

In regex D, rhe five first-names may be glued in bigger words, whatever their case

So :

Regex A = (?-is)^(?=.*\bjack\b)(?=.*\bjames\b)(?=.*\bjason\b)(?=.*\bjules\b)(?=.*\bjoe\b).*

Regex B = (?i-s)^(?=.*\bjack\b)(?=.*\bjames\b)(?=.*\bjason\b)(?=.*\bjules\b)(?=.*\bjoe\b).*

Regex C = (?-is)^(?=.*jack)(?=.*james)(?=.*jason)(?=.*jules)(?=.*joe).*

Regex D = (?i-s)^(?=.*jack)(?=.*james)(?=.*jason)(?=.*jules)(?=.*joe).*

Notes :

As usual, the Regular expression search mode must be checked !

The initial modifiers force the search to be sensitive / insensitive ( -i / i ) to case, and also means that dot matches a single standard character only ( -s )

The ^ assertion, stands for the location beginning of line, where starts the test of the following features ( look-arounds )

Each form (?.*......) is a positive look-around, a condition which must be verified to get an overall match

If all conditions are true, the final regex is simply ^.*, so all contents of the line, from its beginning

Then, if you copy/paste the following lines, in a new tab :

01 james 02 jason 03 joe 04 james and jack 05 jason and jules 06 jack, jason and joe 07 peter, joe, jack, james and jules 08 peter, jack, james, jason, jules and joe 09 james, joe, jason, jules, jack and margaret 10 peter, jules, james, jack, jason, joe and margaret 11 joe, jules, jason, james and jack 12 jAMes 13 jASon 14 jOE 15 jAMes and JAck 16 jASon and JUles 17 jACk, jASOn and joe 18 pETer, JOE, jack, jaMEs and JUles 19 pETer, JACk, james, JAson, jULes and joe 20 jAMes, JOE, jason, jULes, jaCK and margaret 21 pETer, JULes, james, Jack, jASon, jOE and margaret 22 jOE, juLES, jason, jAMes and Jack 23 james 24 jason 25 joe 26 james and jack 27 jason and jules 28 jack, jason and joe 29 peter, 12joe34, jack, 56james78 and jules 30 peter, 12jack34, james, 56jason78, jules and joe 31 james, 12joe34, jason, 56jules78, jack and margaret 32 peter, 12jules34, james, 56jack78, jason, joe and margaret 33 joe, 12jules34, jason, 56james78 and jack 34 jAMes 35 jASon 36 jOE 37 jAMes and 12jack34 38 jASon and jules 39 jACk, 12jASOn34 and joe 40 pETer, 12JOE34, jack, 56jaMEs78 and JUles 41 pETer, 12JACk34, james, 56JAson78, jULes and 90joe12 42 jAMes, 12JOE34, jason, 56jULes78, jaCK and margaret 43 pETer, 12JULes34, james, 56Jack78, jASon, 90joe12 and margaret 44 jOE, 12juLES34, jason, 56jAMes78 and 90Jack12

You’ll easily notice that :

Regex A matches lines from 8 to 11

Regex B matches lines from 8 to 11 and from 19 to 22

Regex C matches lines from 8 to 11 and from 30 to 33

Regex D matches lines from 8 to 11, from 19 to 22, from 30 to 33 and from 41 to 44

Now, from an already saved file, once you’ve got the results, in the Find Result panel, after clicking on the Find All in Current Document button, using one of regexes, above, you may, also, search for each individual first-name :

Right-click in the Find result panel

Select the Find in this finder… option

Now, in the new Find in finder dialog :

Type a first-name, for instance jack, in the Find what: zone

Check the Search only on found lines option

Uncheck the two options Match whole word only and Match case

Select, if necessary, the Normal search mode

Click on the Find all button

=> A new Find resul tab is created and displays any occurrence of the string jack, found in the lines of the Find result panel, only !

Repeat these steps, changing for an other first-name, to get 5 Find resul tabs, all using the Line Filter Mode of search !

IMPORTANT : If the Find result panel contains results, from a non-saved file ( with new # name ), the context option Find in this filder… does NOT seem to work ! I’ll add a post to @don-ho, to that purpose, very soon !

Best Regards,

guy038

A key point that I missed–but it worked anyway because it is the default option–is to check the Search only in found lines checkbox in the two Find in finder searches above. Otherwise, ALL LINES of the files hit in the prior searches get examined in subsequent searches, instead of only the lines that were hit earlier.

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I think most people on other platforms just run it under Wine and it works well. If it works for @Claudia-Frank , it may be good enough for you too.

Hi Chuck. In a default installation, your settings are in %appdata%\Notepad++. This wiki page has a thorough description of all the files, where they are, and what they do. If you have one of the supported cloud providers, you can save your settings there (see the instructions on the wiki page). I would suggest making a backup of the whole %appdata%\Notepad++ directory before you experiment with that. Somehow I whacked my settings when I was screwing around with the cloud option and I cried and cried.

Good Luck

how the whole project is tested

AFAIK manually and mainly by @donho.
Releases are preceeded by pre-releases which can be used by users to report regressions/critical issues.

Is there anything that needs people to contribute in that matter?

IMO automated UI testing would be a great addition!

@Kirt-Scott

Okay, so it doesn’t result in a simple splitter like you are probably used to, but you could use the “clone document” feature to do what you are talking about. There are so many different ways to invoke this feature that I’m not going to talk about all of them. Probably the easiest way is to right-click on the file’s tab, and choose Clone to Other View. From a default setup this will get you two views of the same file, one on the left side of your Notepad++ window, and one on the right. But you wanted above/below, so now right-click on the relatively fat bar (with the stippling on it) between the two sides and a popup with two choices appears. The choices are Rotate to left and Rotate to rIght. Choosing the “right” one will put the cloned file in the secondary view below the file(s) in the primary view. Probably what will annoy most people trying this is that the view now on the bottom will have the tab with the name of the file on it getting in the way between the upper and lower views.

If this (or ANY posting on the Notepad++ Community site) is useful, don’t reply with a “thanks”, simply up-vote ( click the ^ in the ^ 0 v area on the right ).

Hi Ray,
You should see all the comment choices if you go up to the window menu->edit->Comment/Uncomment. If you want to add the options to a mouse-centric world, go up to Settings->Edit Popup ContextMenu and add an item like this:
<Item MenuEntryName=“Edit” MenuItemName=“Single Line Uncomment”/>

I agree that sometimes it would be nice if the comment marks were all the way to the left, but there are other times where that would interfere with seeing the structure of the code, so for me it’s 50/50.

Good Luck