@PeterJones , thanks for guiding me to the source code and Scintilla’s macro-recorder. I appreciate the effort you put into your response.

@Simon-Ewins ,

Any thoughts on how to fix this?

You’re going to have to describe the problem better than that.

@Dinesh-Babu

Hard to tell what you are REALLY doing from that.
It appears you have extra space characters in there maybe?
Maybe you have (dog | cat) instead of (dog|cat) ?
Spaces ARE significant in regular expressions, unless you use the (?x) option in front, e.g. (?x)(dog | cat)

Anyway, alternation (the | regex operator) definitely works fine:

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I dropped the wrapping parentheses for the example, but it works just as well with them as without them.

the action type in the recorded message seems to be either 0 or 1, then the message ids follow:
2170 putchar
2180 delchar
2300 down
2306 getchar
2326 backspace
2451 end
2452 shift-end
2453 home
I found that i could combine 2170 type messages with string values, shortening the macro somewhat, making it more readable; it seemed that i could also replace 10 delchars (2180) with " " but that was not consistent.

@claudio-pergolin said in expression reg \t:

thanks. it’s working

@PeterJones said in Notepad++ and WinPE:

an external utility like sysinternals.com’s Process Explorer might list the DLLs that Notepad++ has active.

With a portable v8.1-64bit with no non-default plugins installed, Process Explorer shows me:
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(two screenshots because it was too many for my monitor)

I don’t know if that will help you or not.

Sorry.

@PeterJones

Perhaps the non-autosave portion of your posting could be adapted for the user manual (if not already covered in such depth there). Some good information in your posting.

@Regina-Oswald said in Problem with find / replace with wildcards. Will put in the same Regular expression twice:

but not the special goal with twice repleacing of the same regular expression

I’m actually not sure what you are meaning by that.
I suspect it might mean something very specific to the replacement you wanted to do.
The documentation is only going to describe the capabilities; it can’t possibly describe all possible application nuances of those capabilities.

Thank you. That’s a great start.

@Ekopalypse said in Recovering an Unsaved File that was Closed:

especially if you can remember the name of temporary file

Well, if you named your tab zebra for example (surely nobody would let a long-term, critical data file sit there for a long time with a name like new 2), you’d have to look for a file to recover named like this:

zebra@2021-06-21_164728

or – gasp – even:

new 2@2021-06-21_164728

In other words, expect that type of naming, DON’T just go looking for something with only the base name, because I don’t think you’ll find it.

Possible, maybe.
Likely, no!

Applications that handle huge files are designed for that specific goal and there are lots of tradeoffs to be made in the design. The majority of Notepad++ users are developers that deal with files well under 1MB. Many of them depend on plugins that interact with Notepad++ and Scintilla in a pretty direct (non-abstract) way. Redesigning Notepad++ and Scintilla to handle huge files quickly will almost surely break many of these plugins and hurt a much larger portion of Notepad++ users than the people who want to open huge files.

Your need is real but the solution should be to find the right tool for the job rather than expecting the wrong tool to evolve.

BTW, there is also a very big difference between viewing a huge file and editing a huge file. There are lots of good viewers and fewer good editors. Huge files are always auto-generated (typically logs) what is the point of editing them? When I dealt with such the concept was usually to find the area of interest and trim 1M lines into 10K lines of interest that Notepad++ handles easily.

Thank you for the correction on the ability to change back.

To be clear: I define the action of the editor in changing anything that I didn’t explicitly select as ‘forcing’; as it forces a change I didn’t make. It does not lock the change; but it does go beyond ‘Enable dark mode’ and makes modifications to settings contained in a different selection dialog.

Again, thank you for clarifying the interaction between mode selection and icon selection.

@Leon-Meijer ,

If it’s not saving macros, and if sessions aren’t being saved properly (or are coming back after files have been closed), I think maybe you don’t have write permission where your config files are located.

Could you please copy/paste from Notepad++'s ?-menu’s Debug Info? And also show us a screenshot of your Settings > Preferences > Cloud & Link dialog settings – these two will tell us where your config files should be located, and then we can help you figure out where to check for write permissions: If Cloud & Link is checked to set a cloud path, then config files including session.xml and shortcuts.xml will be stored in that folder, and so that folder and those files will need write permission; or else, if the Debug Info shows Local Conf mode : ON then the config files will be in the same directory as notepad++.exe (also shown in Debug Info), so you will need write permission there; otherwise, those config files go in %AppData%\Notepad++ 🛈, and you will need write permission on that directory and files.

Regarding automatic vs manual sessions:

Sharing a screenshot of Settings > Preferences > Backup will tell us what your session and snapshot settings are. The “remember current session” will remember what files are opened, and which view they are in, as long as Notepad++ has write permission to session.xml (see above). “Enable session snapshot and periodic backup” will keep a backup copy of all unsaved files (including unnamed files), so turning that off will prevent it from re-opening unsaved files next time (but when you exit Notepad++, it will ask you if you want to save or discard the unsaved files).

Tried the “save session” but I don’t know what’s suppose to be saved? because split-view? no,

Yes, actually, Save Session does include the information on which file tabs are in which view in split-view. But the manually saved sessions also have to be manually loaded. So if you exit after manually saving the session, you will have to manually load the session to get that state back. The fact that Save Session saves split-view is really easy to test: 1) Have split view, with files open on each side. 2) File > Save Session, pick a known file name. 3) File > Close All. Split view goes away. 4) File > Load Session, and select the session file you saved. 5) The files are re-opened, and split view is back.

“save session” … Marco’s? no…

Correct. Macros are saved automatically when Notepad++ correctly exits, assuming it has write permission to shortcuts.xml. Macros have nothing to do with the Save Session command.

O btw, when creating split-view (like open file in another view) the font size on the right view is smaller then it is on the left.

That means that at some point, you dragged the separator bar between the two views to make them unequal. Because Notepad++ defaults to balanced views on split view.

@Priyo-Susilo said in Whats with row 96?:

May i know why the cursor is going crazy when I reach row 96?
Its always bounce back to row 95 when i try using mouse/keyboard to move the cursor to the next row.

Windows 10 64-bit / Notepad++ from version 6 something - every version including the newest 8. 1 release 64-bit I’ve used and I’ve never seen what you describe.

Please provide your menu “?” => “Debug Info…” and definitive steps to reproduce - what kind of file are you working on, is this a new file you’re creating or an existing file, can you open files longer than 96 lines, what happens then … ?

Cheers.

@Colonel_Konami

You can submit your UDL officially by seeing the instructions for doing so HERE.

@PeterJones Thank you very much!

I am really feeling that Notepad++ is an excellent code edit tool!

@PeterJones said in Search and Replace in Column Selection Mode:

But ask politely, or you will likely be ignored.

I think the OP turned it into an idiotic request, even though you warned them against doing something dumb; see: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10012

I know if I were a developer on Notepad++, I would certainly ignore this request. What is wrong with people?

THANKS!

perfect work , thanks for help guys