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  User Defined Language Collection
  • donho  

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  @donho Thanks for the link
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  New enhancement for User Defined Language System
  • donho  

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  Copying the userDefineLangs to %ProgramData% does not work. And installing the whole application to %ProgramData% is a really bad idea security wise and will be blocked by AppLocker anyway.
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  How can one change the order of the txt files in the doc switcher?
  • Cletos  

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  Hello guy038, Many thanks! By default, the files are sorted by view ( 2nd view first ) and by their ID number ( from 0, I presume ) After a first click on the Name header, all files are sorted alphabetically, in ascending order After a second click on the Name header, all files are sorted alphabetically, in descending order After a third click on the Name header, all files are sorted, again, according to the default ! And so on … So, I guess, the files cannot be moved manually, e.g. by dragging a single file to another position. Great! Thank you very much for the plugin, looks very good. I just will installed it.
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  Unable to update v.7.8.6 (64 bit) from program
  • Juan Amores  

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  It is already fixed, it has allowed me to update, you can close this thread. Thank you very much.
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  New "Backtracking Control Verbs" feature, available since Notepad++ v7.7
  • guy038  

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  + BACKTRACKING CONTROL verbs - FIFTH and LAST post To conclude this study of the backtracking control verbs, here is a last example which recapitulates the different backtracking control verbs and some of their combinations. All the regexes, in the table, below, are tested against the same subject string : aaaa1bbbcccccc# •-----------------------------•----------------------------------------•-------------------------------------------------------•---------------------------------• | REGULAR Expression | Different MATCHES | SECOND regex alternative STATUS, after FIRST try | Caret AFTER 1st try of 2ND Alt. | •-----------------------------•----------------------------------------•-------------------------------------------------------•---------------------------------• | c+|a+\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, AFTER backtracking from LAST c to 1 | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | | | | | | c+|a++\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w++\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | NO match, as backtracking is NOT allowed | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*FAIL)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | c+|\w+(*FAIL)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH after BACKTRACKING | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*SKIP)\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*SKIP)\d|b+|# | # ( + cccccc IF caret AFTER LAST b ) | NO match, as BACTRACKING is NOT allowed | Right BEFORE the # symbol | | | | | | | c+|a+(*SKIP)(*F)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*SKIP)(*F)\d|b+|# | # ( + cccccc IF caret AFTER LAST b ) | Match FAILURE and NO match as NO backtracking | Right BEFORE the # symbol | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*PRUNE)\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*PRUNE)\d|b+|# | cccccc # | Alternative DISCARDED + NO match as NO backtracking | Right AFTER the FIRST a | | | | | | | c+|a+(*PRUNE)(*F)\d|b+|# | bbb cccccc # | Match FAILURE, though MATCH in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the FIRST a | | c+|\w+(*PRUNE)(*F)\d|b+|# | cccccc # | Match FAILURE and NO match as NO backtracking | Right AFTER the FIRST a | | | | | | | | | | | | c+|a+(*COMMIT)\d|b+|# | aaaa bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*COMMIT)\d|b+|# | cccccc # ( IF caret AFTER LAST b ) | CANCELS any SUBSEQUENT attempt as NO backtracking | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | | | | | | | c+|a+(*ACCEPT)\d|b+|# | aaaa bbb cccccc # | MATCH of part BEFORE (*ACCEPT), in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*ACCEPT)\d|b+|# | aaaa1bbbcccccc # | MATCH of part BEFORE (*ACCEPT), in FORWARD direction | Right BEFORE the # symbol | | | | | | | c+|a+(*THEN)\d|b+|# | aaaa1 bbb cccccc # | MATCH, in FORWARD direction | Right AFTER the 1 DIGIT | | c+|\w+(*THEN)\d|b+|# | cccccc # | NO match, as BACTRACKING is NOT allowed | Right BEFORE the FIRST a | •-----------------------------•----------------------------------------•-------------------------------------------------------•---------------------------------• For additional information, refer to : https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html#boost_regex.syntax.perl_syntax.backtracking_control_verbs https://www.rexegg.com/backtracking-control-verbs.html https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2pattern.html#SEC29 https://perl.developpez.com/documentations/en/5.20.1/perlre.html#Special-Backtracking-Control-Verbs and this article on stackoverflow : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19992984/verbs-that-act-after-backtracking-and-failure Now, it’s up to you ! Just experiment all these backtracking control verbs and try to find out some practical uses of them ;-)) Best regards, guy038
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  Search in files
  • Francisco  

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  Now sucess, very thanks guy038 and all… Take care.
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  survey: Incremental search usefulness
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  @asvc you can write him an email, email address is available on website
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  Is there a way to load an entire website's source code into Notepad++?
  • Sarla Scherlis  

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  As a follow-on, this decade-old SO answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4265748/search-in-html-source-with-google gives some links to search engines that are designed to look at the HTML code, not just the text; I don’t know if any of them are still around, but it’s worth a try.
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  Add sticky files to the file menu
  • Sergio Vidal  

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  @Sergio-Vidal no, but you can pin your files to the npp shortcut. Or you can define a project with your favorite files, or you can use a plugin like the explorer plugin, which has a favorite function.
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  Does Sort Lines Lexographically have a bug with diacritics?
  • abdekker  

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  Hello, @abdekker, @ekopalypse and All, The present N++ alphabetic sort simply rearranges the characters according to the value of their Unicode code-point. Refer to the list, below, to get all the existing code-points, from the latest Unicode version : http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamesList.txt And to this article which explains the format of that list So, for instance, this list of characters : Char Code ------------ 0009 0020 " 0022 “ 201C ” 201D - 002D — 2014 _ 005F 0 0030 Ø 00D8 9 0039 A 0041 a 0061 Ă 0102 B 0042 b 0062 þ 00FE β 03B2 Б 0411 E 0045 e 0065 Ě 011A € 20AC ∑ 2211 ℮ 212E fi FB01 ℓ 2113 O 004F o 006F ö 00F6 Œ 0152 θ 03B8 Ѳ 0472 T 0054 t 0074 τ 03C4 ŧ 0167 ‡ 2021 Ỳ 1EF2 ‰ 2030 ∆ 2206 ∞ 221E is alphabetically sorted as : Char Code ------------ 0009 0020 " 0022 - 002D 0 0030 9 0039 A 0041 B 0042 E 0045 O 004F T 0054 _ 005F a 0061 b 0062 e 0065 o 006F t 0074 Ø 00D8 ö 00F6 þ 00FE Ă 0102 Ě 011A Œ 0152 ŧ 0167 β 03B2 θ 03B8 τ 03C4 Б 0411 Ѳ 0472 Ỳ 1EF2 — 2014 “ 201C ” 201D ‡ 2021 ‰ 2030 € 20AC ℓ 2113 ℮ 212E ∆ 2206 ∑ 2211 ∞ 221E fi FB01 You may think that is would be good to have an option to get, for instance, the Unicode collation mechanism, as below : http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/ However, countries use different sorting conventions, even for countries using the same Latin alphabet. Refer to this article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical_order#Language-specific_conventions So, in the end, the simple task of sorting letters is quite a puzzle if you want to take into account the specificities of each language and country ! In the meanwhile, here is a solution, involving regular expressions : From this initial list, containing 45 French words : foret Forer forêt Cote Côte côtelée côté Côtière cotée là La prairie A à près pré Premier gare Gîte giter Gorge Où ou Règne renne Aigüe aïeul Ôté ôter flûte Batir bâton Canoë Été île Reflet régner Ilote ångström Âpreté à-propos Escale étude offense Odyssée After running the Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending option, we get : A Aigüe Batir Canoë Cote Côte Côtière Escale Forer Gorge Gîte Ilote La Odyssée Où Premier Reflet Règne aïeul bâton cotée côtelée côté flûte foret forêt gare giter là offense ou prairie près pré renne régner Âpreté Été Ôté à à-propos ångström étude île ôter Obviously, as a Frenchman, this sorting seems rather awful to sight and make the words’s search really not easy ! Now, let’s take again, our initial list and duplicate all words, in each line, with the simple regex S/R : SEARCH (?-s).+ REPLACE $0\t\t\t\t\t$0 So, the list is changed into : foret foret Forer Forer forêt forêt Cote Cote Côte Côte côtelée côtelée côté côté Côtière Côtière cotée cotée là là La La prairie prairie A A à à près près pré pré Premier Premier gare gare Gîte Gîte giter giter Gorge Gorge Où Où ou ou Règne Règne renne renne Aigüe Aigüe aïeul aïeul Ôté Ôté ôter ôter flûte flûte Batir Batir bâton bâton Canoë Canoë Été Été île île Reflet Reflet régner régner Ilote Ilote ångström ångström Âpreté Âpreté à-propos à-propos Escale Escale étude étude offense offense Odyssée Odyssée Now, with the next regex S/R, we change, only in the first coluimn : Any accentuated vowel to its corresponding lowercase vowel Any uppercase consonant to its corresponding lowercase letter SEARCH (?-i)(?:([[=A=]])|([[=E=]])|([[=I=]])|([[=O=]])|([[=U=]])|([[=Y=]])|([A-Z]))(?=.*\t) REPLACE (?1a)(?2e)(?3i)(?4o)(?5u)(?6y)(?7\l\7) foret foret forer Forer foret forêt cote Cote cote Côte cotelee côtelée cote côté cotiere Côtière cotee cotée la là la La prairie prairie a A a à pres près pre pré premier Premier gare gare gite Gîte giter giter gorge Gorge ou Où ou ou regne Règne renne renne aigue Aigüe aieul aïeul ote Ôté oter ôter flute flûte batir Batir baton bâton canoe Canoë ete Été ile île reflet Reflet regner régner ilote Ilote angstrom ångström aprete Âpreté a-propos à-propos escale Escale etude étude offense offense odyssee Odyssée Now, after a new Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending action, we get this list : a A a à a-propos à-propos aieul aïeul aigue Aigüe angstrom ångström aprete Âpreté batir Batir baton bâton canoe Canoë cote Cote cote Côte cote côté cotee cotée cotelee côtelée cotiere Côtière escale Escale ete Été etude étude flute flûte forer Forer foret foret foret forêt gare gare gite Gîte giter giter gorge Gorge ile île ilote Ilote la La la là odyssee Odyssée offense offense ote Ôté oter ôter ou Où ou ou prairie prairie pre pré premier Premier pres près reflet Reflet regne Règne regner régner renne renne Finally, here is our final expected, well sorted, list of words, with the simple regex S/R : SEARCH ^.+\t REPLACE Leave EMPTY A à à-propos aïeul Aigüe ångström Âpreté Batir bâton Canoë Cote Côte côté cotée côtelée Côtière Escale Été étude flûte Forer foret forêt gare Gîte giter Gorge île Ilote La là Odyssée offense Ôté ôter Où ou prairie pré Premier près Reflet Règne régner renne Of course, in this first approach, I did not include the accented consonants as well as the Æ, Œ, æ, œ characters but I suppose that you’ll get the general idea ! The fine side of this method is that if the first column is identical, between several raws, the sort still acts onto the second field ;-)). For instance : cote Cote cote Côte cote côté Best Regards, guy038
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  Is there any UI update planned for np++?
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  I was away for some time. Question for developers. Is there roadmap planned for NP++ v.8?
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  Is there a way to search for duplicate records in Notepad++?
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  Hello, @matthias-heim, @alan-kilborn and All, Alan, I don’t think that the lazy quantifier, at beginning of the regex is necessary, as, obviously, the EOL chars must be matched, anyway ! Hence, the syntax : (?-s)^(.+)\R(?=(?s).*?^\1(?:\R|\z)) However, @matthias-heim be aware that in case of an important amount of lines between current line scanned and its nearest duplicate, the regex may completely fail to detect correct matches :-(( Best Regards guy038
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  Ctrl+- (Ctrl+dash) to jump back to last modified position
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  @Michael-Vincent There is a version for x64 and x32: https://github.com/JetNpp/LocationNavigate/tree/master/bin
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  setting highlighting for compare plugin
  • Bill Ruggirello  

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  In the plugin settings, you can only change the colors of the selections. The font color depends on the color theme of the editor itself. Go to the stylesheet and try changing to the color you want.
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  About a Run-like submenu
  • Jesús Hernán Cano Martínez  

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  Yes, @Ekopalypse. With NppExec I got it. Thanks.
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  Why does Notepad++ allow opening two windows but not synchronize between them?
  • Hassan Iqbal  

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  @Hassan-Iqbal But, it does not get highlighted in the other tab created using “Clone to the other view”. Why does this limitation exist? To solve that, tick the box in yellow: I can open a file in 2 separate windows of Notepad++ No, you can open two separate instances of Notepad++. There is a difference, a big difference, between that and what you said. …4 views into the same file such that they all update in realtime You can experiment with settings here and maybe achieve what you are looking for: Well, maybe you’d have to actually click into one of the instances to get it to update. and if I select a word in one of these views, the same word appearing in (3) other views should get highlighted green as well. Well, that’s probably pushing it over the top into “too much to ask for” land. But really, 3 or 4 views into one file is too much. I’ve never needed more than 2, with Notepad++ or any other similar product.
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  trovare la differenza fra 2 file xml 1 esatto 1 errato
  txt files file xml database xml struttura file • • massimo la terra  

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  NO OK OK
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  Want Save for new doc to use first line of text for filename
  • Doug Rogers  

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  @Doug-Rogers Okay, if you want this inside npp, you’re going to need to create a feature request, read up here, but make clear how it shouldn’t affect the current behaviour. Perhaps by adding a setting that can be enabled or disabled.