@PeterJones said in Move word with notpad++:

@faouzi-sat ,

Here’s your freebie, since this was your first post. And I appreciate that you showed before-and-after data, even if you neglected the </> button to mark your text as plaintext. But as Terry was encouraging you, you will get better help (and learn more) if you put in more effort when asking for help.

So, in Regular Expression search mode,

: matches a literal colon \d+ matches one or more digits \. matches a literal dot/period/fullstop character putting () parentheses around an expression will save it in the next capture group number

And in the replacement, $1 references the first capture group number.

Putting that all together: put a colon and one or more digits in group#1 and the sequence of digits-dot-digits-dot-digits-dot-digits in group#2, and replace with group2-then-group1

FIND = (:\d+) (\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+) REPLACE = $2$1

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Working !

thanks

Hello, @david-cummings, @alan-kilborn and All,

Not difficult with regexes !

So, let’s start with this INPUT text :

406D69 NPT04S G-JMCH B734 West Atlantic UK -------- 25025 24450 1250 1250 30/01/2023 23:54:46 30/01/2023 23:59:31

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?x-s) ^ (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) | \x20+ -------- .+

REPLACE (?1\1,\2,\3,\4,\5)

Untick all box options

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression serach mode

Click on the Replace All button

=> You should get your expected OUTPUT text :

406D69,NPT04S,G-JMCH,B734,West Atlantic UK

If OK, I’ll explain you how it works, next time !

Note that I use the Free Spacing mode (?x), in the search regex, in order to separate the main parts for a better comprehension

Best Regards,

guy038

@SouthPole-Cat ,

yes.

In Notepad++ natively, no. But using the plugin MarkdownViewer++, a converter-and-renderer is embedded into your Notepad++ environment for you.

Hello from the future of 2023!

Some ingenious and clever programmer created a cross platform clone of Notepad++ and is available on all major OSes including macOS.

*Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work.

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Enjoy!

@Paul-Wormer said in Is there a way to convert multiple text files to docx with notepad++ ?:

The other way is: zip xml’s.

Well, the other way might be to figure out what xmls to create, before zipping…
The presumption here is that user just has free-form .txt files, right?

@Alan-Kilborn said in notepad++ store version for windows 11?:

@Snabel42

I think N++ is doing “just fine” without being part of the M$ Windows Store…

Sure, I can buy that.

I’ve believe seen discussions in this forums coming from questions about maintaing an additional MSI installer. I believe those questions are primarily coming from various enterprise admins that are trying to avoid self-packaging and endless maintenance, while still being able to deploy Notepad++ to a large crowd of users.

My sense was that part of Dons reluctance for MSI was the heaps of additional work it would take to perpetually maintain it. With that in mind, I figured it was at least worth sharing that quite recently there’s appeared a potential new path here where, if the choice was made, the enterprise crowd could get a treat without adding as much burden on the Developer(s) of Notepad++

@Alan-Kilborn Good one, thanks.

Hi, @peterjones, @steve-thorpe and All,

In your post to Steve, I suppose that you wanted to advice :

I suggest searching through your registry for notepad++.exe …

BR

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn
Oh i did not catch that, glad there is actually a way to do it at all, even if a bit cumbersome. And yeah, an actual proper checkbox option within preferences would have been ideal, but i’ll take what i can get.

@garrett-carey ,

Also does notepad++ have a feature to act like the ios notes app with bulletins and 1)'s?

No, it does not have an auto-numbering/auto-bulleting feature.

There may be a plugin that provides it (though I don’t know of one that does). Or you could implement it as your own plugin, or through one of the scripting plugins.

@Paul-Beunk

At Notepad+ it doesn’t save it on exit

Of course it is saved, it is in the configured backup directory.
If you don’t like it, reconfigure your settings by unchecking "Enable session and snapshot … "

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@Robert-Rodriguez said in Why Does app take so long to start?:

it takes 5-10 seconds for Notepad++ to launch

Is it loading some files? Are some possibly large or possibly of a sort that will be colourised by lexers. Are some of the files on a network/remote drive. All these things can have a part to play in how long Notepad++ takes to prepare the window for you to interact with.

Terry

Due to the problem seen earlier, I decided to take another approach, so that Notepad++ would cooperate better with the lines I was hiding in order to achieve the goals of the script.

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered too many bugs with the hidden lines feature, that it isn’t worth continuing. I think that, at least for now, I’m giving up on this idea…

@Brian-Riback ,

Use regular expression mode. Use FIND = \s+ and REPLACE = \x20 (or a single space; both are equivalent).

(BTW: don’t expect people to actually click on a link to a random file in a google drive or other location, since there is no guarantee what’s actually at the other end of such a link.)

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Does this file exist on your system?:

Of course

There are a number of posters here for whom this is not a foregone conclusion! :-)