You could do that by

using the block editor to insert line numbers at the beginning of all lines. using a regular expression to do your replacements. removing the line numbers added in step 1.

At first place the cursor to the beginning of the document (line 1, column 1) then open the Column Editor. You can find it under Edit (menu) -> Column Editor... (default shortcut ALT+C).

Choose Text to Insert, enter a SPACE character in the input field and click OK. Open the Column Editor again. Choose Number to Insert, set Initial Number to 1, set Increase by to 1, leave the Repeat field blank , choose under Format the item Dec and click OK.

Now every line of your document should be preceded by its line number, separated by a SPACE character.

Now open the Find & Replace dialog. Tick the Wrap around checkbox and under Search mode choose Regular expression. In the Find what field type ^([0-9]+) (.*?x)(.*) (Note: x is your search term ) and in the Replace with field type \1 \2\1\3. Then click Replace All.

As the last step remove the line numbers by using the column editing mode. Set the cursor to the beginning of the document and press ALT+SHIFT+Down until you’ve reached the end of the document. Now you can delete the line numbers and the trailing SPACE characters by pressing the DELETE key.

The regular expression I provided above may or may not fit your needs, you have to try. If it doesn’t work come back and provide specific informations about the problem.

Thanks to one and all. The View->Zoom->Restore Default Zoom worked. Whew.

And to that noble soul who told me what (on earth) I did, thanks to you.

art

Hi Terry,
Thanks for taking time to reply and give the suggestions.
The documentation was very useful. I got pretty good results.
https://ibb.co/ecjwFf
I’m still playing around the configuration. Perhaps, I will change the log format to be notepad friendly.
Lao Hu

Hello, @rowan-sylvester-bradley, and All,

Presently, this feature is not implemented in current N++ versions. But, as a work-around, you may, simply, use the “two views” functionality of N++ !

So :

Open, normally, your two source and log files, in Notepad++

Then, right-click on the tab of your log file, and choose, in the contextual menu, the option Move to other view

May be, the separation line will be a vertical boundary. As I presume that an horizontal separation should produce better displaying, just right-click on that boundary and choose the option Rotate to right or Rotate to left

Finally, choose a different zoom value for the main view and the secondary view ;-))

Remarks :

Of course, you can modify the hight ( width) of each view, by mouse-dragging the boundary line, up or down ( left or right )

You may, temporarily, hide a view, with a left click on one of the two “chevrons”, located at the beginning and at the end of this boundary line

Use the default F8 shortcut, to switch between each views

When you want to move a file from one view to another, just click on its tab and move it to the other view zone

Best regards,

guy038

P.S. :

A second method to place a first file in the secondary view panel, ( even easier ! ) :

Left-click on the tab file and drag it down in the windows text area

Release the left mouse button

Finally, choose the option Move to other view

Or directly at https://github.com/pnedev/compare-plugin/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Hey Peter,
Yes that worked. Thanks!
Yah realize I’m asking for trouble (occasionally/rarely I’ve had that backup functionality not work)… Its just ‘quick notes’ that aren’t that important so I don’t mind losing them.
-Arian

Per this other thread, you may need to create the %APPDATA%/notepad++/plugins/ directory and/or %APPDATA%/notepad++/plugins/config/ directory

@MrRous-Perez

See here.

@ani-rodet

This post looks very similar to this thread created by you. I think that if you post again with such questions, you should also show us WHAT YOU TRIED ON YOUR OWN before you posted. Otherwise it simply seems like the people supporting this Community are just doing your work for you (instead of giving you hints/help) and you should pay them for that help.

And “I await your prompt reply” in such a context…is offensive.

Thank you.

@Scott-Sumner

Thanks Scott.
It works perfectly.

Settings -> Shortcut Mapper …
Close

It took me time to figure out your question since I mapped it so long ago.

@Zygmunt-Dreszer
You can use the UDL’s delimiter styles to do that. Use (* for Open and *) for Close, for example.

Right. The green highlighting has NOTHING to do with a Find action’s result. Find and the Smart Highlighting feature are (almost) totally separate. I say almost because of the unfortunate design decision to have Use Find dialog settings as an option for Smart Highlighting… Sigh…

@Joy-Hon

You could probably script a custom lexer without a huge amount of effort (depending upon your experience level). @PeterJones cites some good references in this thread – see where it says "various custom lexers written in PythonScript: "