@Valtécio said in TAB like typewriter time:

I will continue trying to find a setting to make this plugin work properly

At the risk of this sounding like bad-mouthing and self-promotion:

In my opinion, the current ElasticTabstops plugin is worthless. Three years ago, its creator wanted to take over the name of the existing ElasticTabstops plugin for his new version. The author of the older version conceded that he didn’t have time to maintain it and gave his blessing to the change. The new author then put up one version and promptly abandoned it. Issues are ignored and there is no evidence of any intention to correct its problems.

In April of 2023 I released a plugin named Columns++. Among other functions, it includes an implementation of Elastic tabstops.

If you want to try an Elastic Tabstops implementation as a possible improvement to your workflow, I recommend the one in Columns++. You can install it from Plugins Admin. I strongly recommend uninstalling the other one first.

@guy038 said:

After some tests

…of the version from the PR…

"…in extended mode, I should add the \r\n at the end of each line for a correct search”

Well… I think the answer to that is… don’t do it.

It’s a matter of knowing what your data is. And, admittedly, this is difficult as real \r and \n are invisible in the Find what box. But this is true also if you select some multiline text and press Ctrl+f, it’s not peculiar to the proposed new code.

@PeterJones
The advantage of a specific category is that one can subscribe / watch that particular one. Or binge in reading many “solutions” in a row.
“General” is general, almost anything goes there.
“Blog” is for blogs… which IMO is something like long prose, chronological… doesn’t seem suitable (to me) for sharing a few random tips/ solutions one finds.

Perhaps you’re right that tags are underutilized. Though in this case, I’m not sure that a single tag would fit the many kinds of tips/solutions one would like to share. Because there is no enforcing of a particular tag.

@chk1 said in Marked text manipulation:

Right now, with help of the script, I open the Marks search (Ctrl+M), enter my search term and press “Mark all”. Then I run the script to convert all marks to multi-edit selections. I want to reduce these extra steps if possible, i.e. in the best case: Ctrl+F, enter search word, hit Alt+Enter.

It might not be worth it for your case, but the Search dialog in the Columns++ plugin has Select All as an option on the dropdown menu on the Count button.

You can assign a shortcut to Columns++ | Search in Notepad++ shortcut mapper; but at present, there is no straightforward way to open the Count button menu using only the keyboard.

@PeterJones, that works for me. Thanks!

@PeterJones ,
I have this love/hate thing when using auto correct systems (Android for example) versus autocompletion and it types a completely different word than I intended because fat fingers hit the wrong key on the mini screen keypad. :-(

I’ve experienced something similar - Notepad++ will begin to occasionally corrupt files when I try to save them to a network drive. I can tell when it’s going to happen because it will not respond “not responding” for about 5-10 seconds, then display that error message. And it corrupts the file!!! When I’m heavily coding, this happens constantly. I have to make back-up copies constantly since it WILL corrupt the files! Extremely frustrating. This has only started being a problem within the past 2 ? updates.

@Alan-Kilborn nice one, yes, it can be done just to read, and to have the line number of the original file. I guess, it is the only way, but not a very convenient one, because links are lost, and it becomes absolutly manual… Thank you for answering!!!

@Vitalii-Dovgan ,

PR 16928 will remove that forced fontSize, and fix other fontSize consistency problems in the model and themes.

@Walter-Cook said in Using Notepad++ Together with ChatGPT for a Faster Workflow:

Is there a preferred “Language” to use before pasting into Notepad++?

If the Generative AI nonsense is pretending to be C++, then use Language > C > C++; if it’s pretending to be Python, then use Language > P > Python; if it’s pretending to be markdown, use Language > Markdown (preinstalled). If it’s pretending to be plain text, use Language > None (Normal Text)

Remember, Generative AI is not thinking, and is not actually generating anything with meaning. It is just picking a long list of likely “next token” (effectively, “next word”, but not technically) based on the prompt and what it’s generated so far.

Copying from ChatGPT or any of the AI’s interfaces seems to be pretty messy!

Then find a better UI? There are various frontends to those “tools” which can help. (I know that Google’s AI Studio interface, for example, has a button to allow copying the underlying Markdown that their LLM produces, so something like that might be better formatted than the rendered stuff directly from the browser.)

Admin Note: as @Alan-Kilborn said, this conversation really shouldn’t be under the “Help Wanted” category, so I am moving it to the “General Discussion”

@Walter-Cook

If you have a few favorites of the “Line Operations”, you could add them individually using the “Customize Toolbar” plugin.

@rdipardo

That’s what I thought too, I was just surprised that the port didn’t have it, hence the question.

There’s a hard-coded limit of 100 characters for property names; the property inside “hello3” has 101. It’s a known issue.

@PeterJones Thanks! 🙂

@PeterJones Thank you. As far as I can see, the function has not been removed. Before concluding this, I downloaded the versions one by one and checked the settings to see if it was still there. I was only able to find an option under “Default Directory.” My issue is now resolved. Thank you.

@PeterJones said in Applying Diff patches?:

I commented on that Issue to request that apply patch be considered alongside create patch.

as mentioned here, as of ComparePlus v2.0.0, the plugin can generate and apply standard patch files; see also the release notes. Thanks to @pnedev for the update.

(Until it makes it into the Plugins Admin, the new version can be manually installed from the zipfiles found on the v2.0.0 release page)

@Coises Thanks, it was the smart highlighting. Problem solved.

To expand on the explanation, for a small number of lines, put the caret in column 1 of line 1. Press Shift+Alt+DownArrow multiple times, enough so that a “skinny but tall caret” appears before the column 1 data in all lines, to wit:

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Then press Space two times, to obtain:

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ConfigUpdater Plugin v2.2.1

ConfigUpdater Plugin has released v2.2.1, available thru GitHub release page, with bugfix improvements, mostly to Validation Dialog:

Error handling for null handle ⇒ to prevent potential crashes Disable logfile Monitoring Mode ⇒ it triggers callbacks for many file-changed events, which can bog down setups that use plugins/scripts that add many callbacks Fix progress bar on ConfigUpdater dialog ⇒ makes more-visible progress as each file is processed ValidationDialog: say Line#123 instead of #123 in the Validation dialog error list ⇒ Makes it more clear to the user that the number is the line number, not just some internal tracking number ValidationDialog: Rename Done -> Close ValidationDialog: Rename Go to Model -> Open/Align Model in Other View ValidationDialog: Disabled Validate button when no file selected ValidationDialog: Add ephemeral “Please select a file to validate” choice as initially-selected “file” for validation, which will go away once you’ve made a choice ValidationDialog: Open/Align Model now allows opening the model even when there are no validation errors (or when you haven’t even validated yet) it was previously not allowed because the vector it was looking at to find which line number in model-file was 0-length if there were no errors (or no validation done yet); I was able to update the logic to choose line 0 if there was no selection or no validation errors Update langs.xsd to check for duplicate <Keyword name="xyz"> entries NOTE: if you want this feature, you have to delete the old ...\plugins\config\ConfigUpdater\langs.xsd before launching the ConfigUpdater or ValidateConfigFiles dialogs (only need to delete the file once; after it is regenerated, the new error checking will be available in the future) Only allow one Validator dialog ⇒ It could cause problems if more than one dialog were trying to validate at the same time, and there is no compelling reason for allowing multiple instances of that dialog

Well, I submitted a feature request. It is here:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16852

Any feedback or suggested edits or improvements would be greatly appreciated!