Hello, @joão-borloth, @peterjones, @coises and All,

@joão-borloth, here is my contribution to your problem ! I assume these following statements :

Regarding the searched expression :

The entire searched expression begins and ends each line and contains, at least, three characters

The searched expression begins with two letter characters and ends with a letter character

The characters of the searched expression, from the third one to the last but one, may be any char

Regarding the replacement expression :

The replacement expression contains, at least, two characters

The replacement expression begins with a letter character and ends with a letter character

The characters of the replacement expression, from the second one to the last but one, may be any char

Regarding the case rules :

The case of the first letter of the replacement expression will be the same as the case of the first letter of the searched expression

The case of the last letter of the replacement expression will be the same as the case of the last letter of the searched expression

The case of the all other characters of the replacement expression will be the same as the case of the second letter of the searched expression

First, giving your general template :

Screw SCREW screw ScreW sCREW

I created the same template for two other expressions :

Test TEST test TesT tEST Wonderful time WONDERFUL TIME wonderful time Wonderful timE wONDERFUL TIME

And using the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-is)^(?:(\u)|\l)(?:(\u)|\l).*(?:(\u)|\l)$

REPLACE (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l)

I did get the 3 identical blocks, containing the word nail , below :

Nail NAIL nail NaiL nAIL Nail NAIL nail NaiL nAIL Nail NAIL nail NaiL nAIL

So, now, the next problem ( which, indeed, is rather the initial problem ! ) is how to get the replacement text, whatever the text used ?

Again, we’ll use a regex replacement :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.)(.*)(.)$

REPLACE \(\?1\u\1:\l\1\)\(\?2\U\2\E:\L\2\E\)\(\?3\u\3:\l\3\)

For example, given all case syntaxes of the word nail :

nail naiL naIl naIL Nail NaiL NaIl NaIL nAil nAiL nAIl nAIL NAil NAiL NAIl NAIL

You can verify that we always get the same correct result, below :

(?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l)

IF, we extend the use of this regex S/R to other expressions, whatever their case, it does give correct results ! For instance, given this short list, below :

naiL WINDOW An imPRESSive caSTLe bIg Az

We correctly get this OUTPUT :

(?1N:n)(?2AI:ai)(?3L:l) (?1W:w)(?2INDO:indo)(?3W:w) (?1A:a)(?2N IMPRESSIVE CASTL:n impressive castl)(?3E:e) (?1B:b)(?2I:i)(?3G:g) (?1A:a)(?2:)(?3Z:z)

So, the procedure is :

First, given a specific word, which will be the replacement expression, you’ll find the true replacement regex syntax with :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.)(.*)(.)$

REPLACE \(\?1\u\1:\l\1\)\(\?2\U\2\E:\L\2\E\)\(\?3\u\3:\l\3\)

Secondly, with the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-is)^(?:(\u)|\l)(?:(\u)|\l).*(?:(\u)|\l)$

REPLACE : The result of the PREVIOUS regex S/R

It would replace any expression with the replacement expression, using our specific case rules !

Two examples :

Expression to change : Screw and expression to replace An impressive castle. Thus :

SEARCH (?-is)^(?:(\u)|\l)(?:(\u)|\l).*(?:(\u)|\l)$

REPLACE (?1A:a)(?2N IMPRESSIVE CASTL:n impressive castl)(?3E:e)

So, from this INPUT text :

Screw SCREW screw ScreW sCREW

We would get this OUTPUT :

An impressive castle AN IMPRESSIVE CASTLE an impressive castle An impressive castlE aN IMPRESSIVE CASTLE

Expression to change : Wonderful time and expression to replace Az. Thus :

SEARCH (?-is)^(?:(\u)|\l)(?:(\u)|\l).*(?:(\u)|\l)$

REPLACE (?1A:a)(?2:)(?3Z:z)

So, from this INPUT text :

Wonderful time WONDERFUL TIME wonderful time Wonderful timE wONDERFUL TIME

we would get this OUTPUT text :

Az AZ az AZ aZ

Best Regards,

guy038

@Coises

Thanks, I keep forgetting about the github 🤦‍♀️ I’ve added to the discussion. It would be great to see this fixed. Unfortunately, I’m nowhere near an adequate enough programmer to contribute.

@Leo ,

I’ve never done anything that gets it “stuck” in the mouse-arrow instead of the mouse-caret.
When your cursor is over the GUI elements, it will be an arrow; when it’s over normal text to be edited, it will be a caret; and when it’s over selected text, it will be an arrow again:

92cbf07c-0054-424e-af92-a9f89669433f-33.png

35194444-ab03-4001-ba1b-7ef44efd96fc-49.png

Does it stay that way if you exit Notepad++ completely and restart the app? Or if you reboot Windows?

If it’s not just something as simple as selected text or restart N++ or reboot, I don’t have any other ideas, so you’ll have to wait for someone else to chime in.

@Lycan-Thrope said in Notepad++ lags for a second:

This is the response from chatgpt for just the first few lines of the question above of the OP:

Thanks for the confirmation. Situation has been resolved (as you can tell from the missing post)

Sorry about the junk.

@Karel-Plíva said in add "X" "Y" "Z" before coordinates:

-19.560 20.000 0.905

Find what: ^(-?\d+.\d+)\s(\d+.\d+)\s(\d+.\d+)
Replace with: X\1 Y\2 Z\3
Regular expression

Cheers.

Tell us the name of the antivirus/anti-malware product you’re using so we can report it as a false positive.

You can also upload your notepad++.exe to virustotal and paste the result link here.

A is 1000% better! As the original bug whisperer, I hereby invoke my “First Reporter Privilege” and decree that my vote should count as 10! 🎉✨

Sorry for the problem caused by the political edition, again.

@guy038 said in Getting "Invalid Regular Expression" for an extremely simple expression:

At this point, I tried to select all the zones around these 11 matches in a small new file, that I named Matches.txt. Then, using the Mark dialog with (?:[^,]*,){13}[\u\l], against this small file, it does return 10 matches ( not 11 as explained in the next post ! )

However, it is distressing to note that the equivalent regex (?:.*?,){13}[\u\l] still fails against this tiny Matches.txt file, of only 16,138 bytes :-((

Unfortunately, it’s quite certain that cases, like that one, may arise when using most of the available regex engines !

There are two ways an implementation can look at a regex:

A regex is a definition of matching character strings. A regex is a procedure for matching character strings.

From the first perspective, your two expressions are equivalent: they specify the same strings as matches. From the second perspective, they are not: they specify different procedures for finding strings that match.

No one has found a way to implement back references using method 1. Once your regular expression syntax includes the ability to use back references, you are stuck with the procedural interpretation.

There are other features of PERL-compatible regular expressions that present problems, but back references are the killer.

I’m speculating here, but I think once you include any back reference in an expression, it breaks the ability to process any part of the expression that occurs before the back reference as a definition rather than a procedure. (I’m not certain of that. I have no doubt someone does know the answer to that… but that someone isn’t me.)

So I think you’ll find all those more efficient regular expression engines implement a severely restricted syntax for regular expressions which omits features none of us would like to do without (particularly, back references).

What I’ve also speculated is that perhaps a regular expression engine could include two engines: one which processes using the ”definition” approach for expressions to which it is applicable, and one which uses the “procedural” approach for the remaining expressions. I don’t know if any do that now.

@Mark-Johnson said in Lost my R style settings with 8.6.7 update.:

Select Theme: DarkModeDefault

Then saving stylers.xml will not be enough for you. As I said, each theme stores its style-configurator settings separately. If you want to save customizations to DarkModeDefault, then you would have to backup %AppData%\Notepad++\themes\DarkModeDefault.xml (or, for other users who aren’t using AppData, in the appropriate Config File Location, as linked above)

As a few lines of PythonScript, it could be a simple as:

num1 = int(editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(0), editor.getSelectionNEnd(0)).strip()) num2 = int(editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(1), editor.getSelectionNEnd(1)).strip()) print(num1 - num2)

But of course there are always concerns about error checking (what if there aren’t two selections…what if selected text isn’t numeric…etc) and then also is integer math sufficient, or is floating point wanted…

@Coises
I can’t Thank-You enough for that “hold my hand” response. It kind of worked the first time. I made an alteration based on your descriptions and it worked perfectly the second time.
Now I fine tune!
Wow, I opened a can of worms with this project!
Thanks so much,
Kevin Korotev

@Arthur-Schwarez ,

Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Default Style > Font Style > Font Size does change the font size:

before after 5315cda3-ac6e-43ab-9d32-868069c62d85-image.png 2977b621-28aa-455c-9876-9dc19f5952a6-image.png

Since your breadcrumb trail was missing the Style: column entry, I have to assume you were trying to change the Style: Global override without having the checkbox marked; but don’t ever change Global Override (<jediMindTrick>This is not the setting you are looking for</jediMindTrick>). As I showed, it’s the Style: Default Style that you want to change in order to get it to be properly inherited throughout your theme.

See the User Manual’s Global Styles section for more on the difference between Style: Global override and Style: Default Style

@Alan-Kilborn said in See if notepad++ meets some of my needs:

@wonkawilly
probably not worth discussing further…

I also agree

@mkupper

Sure…but that’s why I said “reasonably”.
It’s certainly easy to just talk about it and not try to implement it.

@mkupper
Thank you. The solution I found for me was basically installing identical ver. of Notepad++ on Computer 1 and Computer 2.
Then regularly uploading all my .txt files that are opened in Notepad++ to a cloud FTP.
And also uploading session.xml from %appdata%/Notepad++.
Before using Notepad++ on my Computer 2, I would just use a simple .bat file to download all those .txt files and .xml

Let’s see what OP says about it, but I’d assume that a “template” means: When you create a new document (e.g., Ctrl+n), it doesn’t appear as an empty document, but with some boilerplate text of your choosing.

@sal_gomez91 - It looks like you are not providing the full path to the file when you try to open it.

In your first photo the path looks like 0.0.1.214\cnc$\PROGRAMS - MASTER\Mintech 4 - Engraver\01 - In Process\CHAIN - HOTCH POTCH_203600 - Engraving Fixture_Setup_1.nc The very left edge is cut off in the photo and so I don’t know what it’s supposed to start with.

In the second photo it looks you entered the path in the second photo as MASTER\MASTER\Mintech. As you did not have the ...0.0.1.214\cnc$\PROGRAMS - prefix Notepad++ took a guess that the file was in C:\Program Files\Notepad++ and showed you the not-found error.

@julianop said in How to make cursor larger ?:

@Victorel-Petrovich: I, for one, would very much like the option of a more “significant” cursor
… : my eyes aren’t what they used to be, and even with a three pixel vertical line and a fast flash it sometimes takes a moment or two to find the cursor.

Settings > Preferences > Editing 1 > Caret Settings allows up to 3 pixels wide for the “vertical line” version… if that’s not enough on its own, then Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Caret colour and … > Style: Multi-edit carets color allows you to change the color for the caret (for normal or multi-edit mode) to make it even more obvious to your eyes. And if that’s still not enough, the Caret Settings allow Block or Block after options, which make it a full character wide, rather than being limited to 3 pixels.

I don’t know why it’s called a “caret” in NP++: that’s the name given to the little top hat accessed by shift-6 on the US keyboard

81bccd47-b0a6-4fd7-817c-43cf44180e06-image.png

Notepad++ uses this alternate term “caret” to indicate the text insertion point, to disambiguate it from the “cursor” which almost always refers to the “mouse cursor” in modern GUIs when used without a disambiguation prefix. Calling it “caret” is easier than saying “text cursor” throughout the GUI and User Manual, and follows computing terminology that’s been around for decades.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Show only lines that contain a given search argument:

And more of what you maybe didn’t know: If you right-click in the Search results window, the popup menu will have a Copy choice and a Copy Lines choice – Copy will get the “Line nn:” info with the line data, whereas Copy Lines will get ONLY the line data.

Oh, great tip, thank you! I wasn’t aware that the result section has its own context menu.

Good to know!