Hello, @dick-adams-0, @alan-kilborn, @peterjones and All,

Here is my solution, which can be applied in all cases of text swapping ;-))

First you add a specific character, NOT YET used in your current file, in front of each concerned block of text

Thus, if I choose the ― character ( Unicode char HORIZONTAL BAR, \x{2015} ), your INPUT text is temporarily changes to :

―<link rel="prev" href="../d/myfile.htm"> <link rel="next" href="../../../l/a/n/ilandsas.htm"> <link rel="up" href="../../../../../ttl/ttl-i.htm"> ―<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../css/hymn.css"> ―<script src="../../../../../js/jquery.js"></script> <script src="../../../../../js/base.js"></script> <script src="../../../../../js/myscripts.js"></script> ―

Then using the regex S/R below :

SEARCH (?xs) ^ ― ( .+? ) ― ( .+? ) ― ( .+? ) ― \R

REPLACE \2\3\1

You’ll get your expected OUTPUT text :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../css/hymn.css"> <script src="../../../../../js/jquery.js"></script> <script src="../../../../../js/base.js"></script> <script src="../../../../../js/myscripts.js"></script> <link rel="prev" href="../d/myfile.htm"> <link rel="next" href="../../../l/a/n/ilandsas.htm"> <link rel="up" href="../../../../../ttl/ttl-i.htm">

Notes :

You may choose any kind of character to begin a block of text which is to be moved ! For instance, in my previous example, I could have chosen the BULLET char ( \x{2022} ) as shown below : •<link rel="prev" href="../d/myfile.htm"> <link rel="next" href="../../../l/a/n/ilandsas.htm"> <link rel="up" href="../../../../../ttl/ttl-i.htm"> •<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../css/hymn.css"> •<script src="../../../../../js/jquery.js"></script> <script src="../../../../../js/base.js"></script> <script src="../../../../../js/myscripts.js"></script> • This method allows you to select very large multi-lines blocks of text as well as simple single-line blocks too !

Here is a general example which deals with 6 blocks of text :

Group 1 contains 3 lines

Group 2 contains 3 lines

Group 3 contains 4 lines

Group 4 contains 1 line

Group 5 contains 2 lines

Group 6 contains 5 lines

So, let’s begin this text with a ¤ character in front of lines A, D, G , K, L and N

¤line A Group 1 Line B Group 1 Line C Group 1 ¤Line D Group 2 Line E Group 2 Line F Group 2 ¤Line G Group 3 Line H Group 3 Line I Group 3 Line J Group 3 ¤Line K Group 4 ¤Line L Group 5 Line M Group 5 ¤Line N Group 6 Line O Group 6 Line P Group 6 Line Q Group 6 Line R Group 6 ¤

Then, the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?xs) ^ ¤ ( .+? ) ¤ ( .+? ) ¤ ( .+? ) ¤ ( .+? ) ¤ ( .+? ) ¤ ( .+? ) ¤ \R

REPLACE \3\4\6\2\5\1

would produce this expected OUTPUT text :

Line G Group 3 Line H Group 3 Line I Group 3 Line J Group 3 Line K Group 4 Line N Group 6 Line O Group 6 Line P Group 6 Line Q Group 6 Line R Group 6 Line D Group 2 Line E Group 2 Line F Group 2 Line L Group 5 Line M Group 5 line A Group 1 Line B Group 1 Line C Group 1

Notes :

As you can verify, the resulting order respects the replacement numbering of the groups !

The single line block ( Group 4 ) was moved upwards

The two-lines block ( Group 5 ) has not been moved during the process

As a conclusion, if we don’t use the free-spacing mode ( (?x) ), just TWO rules to remind :

Between the leading part (?s)^ and the trailing part ¤\R, just add, in the search regex, as many ¤(.+?) syntaxes than the number of blocks concerned by the replacement

In the replacement regex, just re-organize your blocks, from 1 to n, whatever you want to ! You could even duplicate some blocks using, from the above example, the replacement syntax \3\4\3\6\2\5\2\1\6 ;-))

Best Regards,

guy038

@jabcreations said in Autocomplete code, NOT words?:

I had to install from scratch after a hardware failure

That’s not an update, then. It’s a new installation. No wonder your old settings weren’t kept.

Very simple: while creating a new paragraph (<p>) Notepad++ would immediately append the end tag to the paragraph element to the right of the keyboard caret (</p>).

Then why did you never mention that previously? That’s a different aspect of the auto-completion feature, called “Auto-Insertion”, controlled by the “html/xml close tag” checkbox on the same page of the Preferences dialog:
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As shown in my screenshot, you can also have it auto-insert matching parentheses, brackets, braces, quotes, and single quotes, if you so desire.

Suggestions please?

Read the User Manual descriptions of the general Auto-Completion feature, as well as all the various settings which are affected by Settings > Preferences > Auto-Complete. (And note that I linked you to both of those on Tuesday, with the hopes that you would actually read the sections I linked you to.)

I thought it might be some poor oversight like that someone was too lazy

You made the desired behavior active in your old installation by changing those settings. At some point, you then apparently forgot that those settings existed (since you didn’t remember how to set them up in your new installation). After your installation from scratch, those settings were not set by default. Instead of trying to look for settings that might affect the behavior of auto-completion, and instead of reading the manual which is linked from the ?-menu in Notepad++, you came to us to (essentially) have us read the manual to you. And then, even after we pointed you to a related setting for a related feature, along with the documentation for all such settings and features, instead of reading the documentation to learn more about those settings and features and the ones related, you come back and ask us to tell you which settings to change. And then you have the temerity to call the developers too lazy to implement things – despite the fact that they have implemented them. So my suggestion to you is to not assume others are lazy when you haven’t finished researching the problem.

@Doğancan-yılmazer ,

Yes, you can install that plugin. You can even use Plugins Admin to do it:

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Plugins > Plugins Admin Mark the checkbox “Merge files in one” Click Install button

more easy: go to np++ folder then make shortcut to exe file
then trim this shortcut and paste on this folder ...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
so click on your txt file then mouse - right click - send to and choose np++

oh nice !
Wrap around solved my issue.
thank you for the tip, Alan

@Coises said in How to copy or extract particular string value from each line ?:

Good observation, since no one said it had to be unchecked

That’s why Alan and I try to always prefix our regex that use . with (?-s) or (?s) (depending) to make sure that option is in the right state, regardless of the checkbox state.

Further info about the oddities of assigning Shift+Backspace may be found HERE.

Bottom line, it IS possible if you want to do some “hacking”.

Seems to be fixed as of 8.5.2

@Sim-Won ,

The right scrollbar size changes with the size of the document: it indicates what fraction of the document is visible in the current view – though it has a smallest size that’s about 1 line of text tall: that seems reasonably big to me.

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And when you hover over it, it gets wider, so it’s easier to grab:
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Themes (what I assume you meant by “no matter what style I choose”) don’t affect it, because themes are relevant to the editor portion of the application, not the GUI. But Dark Mode vs Light Mode does affect it:
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If you want the ability to change the color of the scrollbar, you would have to follow the FAQ to put in a feature request – we in the Community are fellow users, and cannot change the codebase of the application.

—
update: the widening of the scrollbars may be a Win11 feature; if you are on older Win, it may keep constant width

@guy038 said in best way to stop matching of escaped parentheses/brackets in regular expression.:

Hello, @mark-olson, @ekopalypse and All,

There are a solution with recursive regexes ! Here are 3 kinds of recursive regex which do find paired groups of NON-escaped parentheses !

The regex A looks, from cursor position, for the greatest group of NON-escaped paired parentheses

The regex B looks, from cursor position, for the greatest group of NON-escaped paired parentheses, surrounded by text different from NON-escaped parentheses

The regex C looks, from cursor position, for the greatest range of characters, containing one or several group(s) of NON-escaped paired parentheses, each of them being surrounded by text different from NON-escaped parentheses

Regex A : (?x) (?<!\\) \( (?: (?: \\ [()] | [^()] ) | (?0) )* (?<!\\) \) # Regex A

Regex B : (?x) (?: \\ [()] | [^()] )* ( (?<!\\) \( (?: (?: \\ [()] | [^()] ) | (?1) )* (?<!\\) \) ) (?: \\ [()] | [^()] )* # Regex B

Regex C : (?x) (?: (?: \\ [()] | [^()] )* ( (?<!\\) \( (?: (?: \\ [()] | [^()] ) | (?1) )* (?<!\\) \) ) (?: \\ [()] | [^()] )* )+ # Regex C

Important : Sometimes the regex engine needs to go further on, in order to get a new paired group of parentheses to match !

To test these regexes,:

Paste the text below in a new tab

Put the cursor , on the last line, right before the word This

Run, successively, the regexes A, B and C

C -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- B ------------------------|------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- A -------------- -------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- x 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 x 1 2 1 0 This ( is ( ( a very ) ) small ( test \( to ( verify \( if \) all ) ) these \) ( regexes ( ( match ) NON-escaped \) parentheses) ONLY

In the new tab, you may perfectly spread over your text in many lines without any problem, as shown below :

This ( is ( ( a very ) ) small ( tes t \( to ( verify \( if \) all ) ) these \) ( regexes ( ( match ) NON- escaped \) parentheses ) ONLY

The regexes will still work ! Just one restriction : You cannot, of course, split an escaped parenthesis in two parts, like below :

these \ ) ( regexes

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. : Of course, if you change the starting position of the search, these recursive regular expressions will certainly find very different results in value and scope !

thanks for the awesome information.

All,

Please do not post content generated by ChatGPT or other such systems. It is harmful, not helpful, to the Community.

In this specific case, the content was just completely unhelpful – presumably, it was generated by just typing in the title, rather than the content of the actual question, so it completely missed the point.

But because such AI systems have no fact-checking involved – all they do is, based on all their historical text training input, they guess what text is likely to come next. Based on that, they could easily give advice that is plain wrong or even dangerous to follow.

Thank you

@PeterJones This also happen’t to me. Trying to use login via my Github account, but got an error, This site can’t be reached (see output in PS!).
Anyway, got an email from github:

... A third-party OAuth application (Notepad++ Community) with user:email scopes was recently authorized to access your account. ...

The link was already made even though the Auth site couldn’t be reached. Revoked Notepad++ Community access from my github account. I was logged in, but I deleted my account since I had revoked access to my github.
Using my google account to login worked but after ~1 hour and a half, I’m still waiting for an email confirmation?!!!

PS! Tried again, through my Profile to change “Single Sign-on Services” association from Google to Github.
Still got the message (Note! XXX… replaces possible privacy revealing tokens. And replaced ‘https’ with ‘h-tps’ because of spam warning):

This site can’t be reached The web page at h_tps://community.notepadplus-plus.org/auth/github/callback? code=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&state=XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_FAILED

Again,- had to revoke Notepad++ Community access from my github.

@Star-Tube said in Search between pages feature!:

I have many pages that are opened I don’t want to close so I leave them open and make new pages

When I read that I immediately become concerned the OP is using the backup feature of Notepad++ without being aware of how it actually works.

Please Read the FAQ post Periodic Backup vs AutoSave Plugin so you are aware of the risks of not saving those pages yourself.

Terry

yes confirmed. fixed in 8.5.2 version (at point 9)

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24345/notepad-v8-5-2-release

@MrE819 said in Notepad++ Convert to MSI:

Can I use the tools that come with Windows to convert it into an msi installation package

You can use the Windows Installer tool msiexec.exe to control the installation of an MSI package.

@Henrik-Haftmann said in Reload request after save is annoying.:

See this as a bug report

Bug reports are not seen here.
See the FAQ for how to file a real bug report.
However, I’m sure this is an already-known issue.

Hello @jeff-Michaels, @alan-kilborn, @dinkumoil and All,

Congratulations to brilliantly achieve your goal from the link provided by @alan-kilborn ;-)) You seem to be a regex’s guru, too !

Regarding your solution, I suppose that the end should be \r\n ( instead of \r\t )

Now, I think that you can simplify your regex as :

(?xs-i) <pg \x20 (?: (?! </pg> ) . )*? BAR .*? BREAK .*? </pg> \R # Delete any <pg> section containing BAR and BREAK

Indeed, no need to be sure that the string </pg> does not occur between the words BAR and BREAK and between BREAK and </pg>. Once you get the good <pg...> block, with the negative look-ahead, the lazy quantifiers, coming next, forces the correct detection of that block !

You may use \R as is stands for any kind of line-break ( \r\n, \n and \r )

Note that I use the Free-spacing mode ( (?x... ) which allows to separate the main parts of the regex and allows comments after the # char

Best Regards,

guy038

@pinuzzu99 said in add simple table (or cell spacing):

is put the cursor at the top left of the column. then with Shift+ALT click on the bottom right of the column to select it in one go.

Yes, this works, but I’d say it isn’t a common usage among Notepad++ users.

It is so uncommon that it isn’t mentioned here (maybe it should be?):

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Probably “Hold Alt while left-click dragging” is the way most users would select your S02 block, if they’re going to involve the mouse in the selection action.