Thanks.
Your last line says it all…
Joe

thank you for your time and excellent and helpful explanation @Joseph

The document (plain text file) in question is NOT opened by another app but it is cloned to a separate window.

if you are using notepad++ in multi instance with auto backup enabled, it is very important that you don’t open the same document in two notepad++ windows, as they are separate processes and neither one is aware of what has been done at the other window.

instead you should use only one notepad++ window and clone it to the second view:
right click on your document tab, and select clone to other view as seen at the screenshot below.

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now both copies are using the same notepad++ process, and if you start typing, you will see that both, left and right copies, are synchronised without even saving them.

note: if you want to see the unsynced original statically, for comparison purposes, you can copy it’s content to a new document tab on the second view, so that you can have a look at it any time.

it is also recommended that you disable multi instance completely, if you often have to do this.
go to settings > preferences > multi-instance and set it to default (mono-instance) as seen at the screenshot below.

this way a document will always open as a tab at the existing notepad++ process.

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Hello, @angelica-sarina,

I don’t really understand how your search/replacement could have gotten rid of all the line-breaks !

Indeed, assuming the input text, below :

15 21 24 32 65 11,3 07 25 39 40 47 20,3

Open the Replace dialog Ctrl + H

Type in a single space character, in the Find what: zone

Type in a , character, in the Replace with: zone

Select the Normal search mode

Click on the Replace All button

And you obtain the output :

15,21,24,32,65,11,3 07,25,39,40,47,20,3

Now, if your numbers may be separated by more than one space, as below :

15 21 24 32 65 11,3 07 25 39 40 47 20,3

Here is a second solution :

Open the Replace dialog Ctrl + H

Type in a \x20+ character, in the Find what: zone

Type in a , character, in the Replace with: zone

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

And, magically, you get the expected output :

15,21,24,32,65,11,3 07,25,39,40,47,20,3

Best Regards,

guy038

Welcome to the forum, and to Notepad++.

When editing an HTML file, you don’t just paste it in a browser (like IE or Chrome or Edge or Firefox): you have to open the file in the browser.

If you want to see what your local copy looks like, after saving it in Notepad++, you should be able to go to the menu Run > Launch in IE (or Chrome, Edge, Firefox – this recent post by @Meta-Chuh explains how to add the launch-in-edge to that menu). Alternately, open your browser, and use the File > Open menu (or equivalent – often, Ctrl+O will bring up the Open dialog) to browse your local computer to find the saved HTML file, and open it.

If you want to view it on your webserver, you will have to start by uploading the file to the webserver – you can use an external program like FileZilla, or use the NppFTP plugin for Notepad++. Once it’s on your webserver, then you just need to go to the appropriate URL in your browser of choice.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @josip

thanks for your video, it might win this year’s academy award for best editing 😂.

yes, you are correct, i can reproduce this on a windows 10 pro x64 machine using the latest notepad++ 7.6.3 x64 and x86 under the following conditions:

document map (or any similar detachable npp window) has to be opened, and the document has to be larger than one page. this only seems to happen, if you move the notepad++ window using “task view”
(drag and drop notepad++ from one monitor to another seems fine)

this happens if you use the task view switcher to move notepad++ to a virtual second desktop, as well as to a physical desktop.

if anyone wants to see something funny:
once reproduced, disable document map. now everything looks normal and you can click at the position where the shadow was left, nothing will happen.
now re-enable document map, and booom … notepad++ is on one screen, and the clickable shadow is back on the other screen.

now to what you can do, if it is of relevance to you:

if you want to file this issue to the developers, please read and follow the community guide for bug reports: >>> FAQ Desk: Feature Request or Bug Report <<< to submit a notepad++ issue at github.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @William-Anderson

if you mean blue dots on the left, next to the line number, as seen at the screenshot below:

those are bookmark points.
you can set them and remove them by clicking inside the grey area between the line number and your text/code.

they are very helpful, if you have a text or source code file, where you have to scroll up and down repeatedly.
so if you are working on line 20 and line 2000 at the same time, and you want to switch back and forth between them, you just have to press f2 to jump to the next bookmark, or shift+f2 to jump back to the previous bookmark.

there are many more features for bookmarks, you can see some of them at the screenshot below.

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@Dwaine-Maggart

Glad it was easily solved. You are starting to see the power of ‘regex’, over a ‘normal’ search mode. Normal will only allow for static information, whereas the ‘regular expression’ mode is essentially a formula created in such a way as to seek out those character patterns (even if changing). In ‘normal’ mode the \ is just a backslash and R is just a capital R. BUT, when you combine them under ‘regular expression’ they become a metacharacter, basically a ‘bit of code’ to mean something special to the regex engine. Under ‘regular expression’ mode we’d need to have \\R if we just wanted a backslash followed by a capital R. The first \ identifies what follows as being special (only certain characters can be special), however in this case because the second \ is already special it allows for it to become normal again.

Good luck and be sure to ‘seek’ out some of those supporting websites (and books) to learn more about “The Power of Regex” if you want to get better at it.

I was where you are now about 8 months ago, I’m still learning. There are many helpful ‘citizens’ on this forum who will also help. All we ask for is that you (the OP) give us enough information to help us to help you, and also we hope it will lead you onto learning more.

Terry

yes, it could find the correct part.

/\K[^/]*(?=/[^/]*$)

Thanks a gig, dear sir. :-)

Ah, right. I misunderstood the old thread: I thought that as of v6.8.8, it wasn’t supposed to be blocking the rest of Notepad++… but now that I re-read that, the original complaint there was that it was always-in-front, even if you tried to pull a different application in front to use.

I agree, it does seem to be designed such that a find-in-files blocks all other Notepad++ actions, and so it wouldn’t be a bug, it would be a feature request. Though, as you say, github issues don’t inherently distinguish between the two, except by tags.

I hadn’t looked to see if there were already open issues on the topic; I just thought if the OP wanted to make an issue of it, that previous issues should be checked to avoid duplicates.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Leo-de-Vetten

you will need a little guide, because microsoft edge is a bit tricky.
it can not be launched directly by running microsoftedge.exe "path_to\yourfile.html" as it is done using internet explorer, firefox and chrome.
instead we will have to make shell api calls.
but that’s not difficult, once you’ve read this guide.

step by step guide - how to add “launch in edge” to notepad++:

open the folder %AppData%\Notepad++\ in explorer

find the file shortcuts.xml and open it in notepad++ for editing.

copy the following line and paste (insert) it anywhere inside the <UserDefinedCommands>section

<Command name="Launch in Edge" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="69"> shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)</Command> now your shortcuts.xml should look like the screenshot below (plus your ie and other user defined commands):

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save shortcuts.xml and restart notepad++
(exit and reopen notepad++ to activate your shortcut changes to the run menu)

if you now run “launch in edge” on any file, edge will open and display it, as seen at the screenshot below:

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note: you can also use the keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+shift+eto launch edge with your file

good luck and happy html coding 😉👍

It is appearing in my w8.1-64 with npp 7.6.2 though I have replaced windows alt tab with vista switcher.

vista switcher screen shot

Thanks.

I started that boilerplate because if you just link to the FAQ’s, people tend to ignore the links, but if it’s got some context, you might convince a couple people to actually follow through and read the FAQ(s). But I got tired of rephrasing the same thing every time, so made up my boilerplate to paste in. Feel free to use it – it’s basically a pastable FAQ.

and thanks for the thanks from teacher to alumnus 😃👍

side note:
it feels nice to get a thanks from a teacher (peter) to a student (me)
hope the who is who didn’t get mixed up in it’s context above.

thanks for the suggestions,
I’m having similar problems on android with an app I use to log my sms messages,
some text is unicode and some is not I guess,
because if I select unicode some part is recognized, but not all of it,
the same if I reverse it, I contacted the app developer and he said that it’s not one of his priorities (to fix it) now, so there is an issue in general

as for the xml file, the problem started from the fact that I couldn’t send the file as an email from my work’s desktop to my mobile (it was rejected by exchange server - only mail I have access to - I’ve still haven’t figured out why… anyway…), so I opened it, I copied the content, I pasted it on github and then I opened my mobile browser and I got the text from github, somewhere on the whole process greek characters broke

I opened the file from the disk now and it is utf-8-bom, but it didn’t matter I guess

@Mark-Wevers

Let’s consider the following scenario.
You create a file A.txt and save it.
Your backup solution, whatsoever it is, needs to know that it needs
to backup that file. Normally this is done by using either a command
to back it up or by using some kind of scheduler which executes such
a command in a cycle.

What happens if the backup tries to save the file.
It opens the original file, reads it, closes it (hopefully)
opens the backup file and tries to write what has been read before.

Now what if the pc gets shutdown in between the step of opening
the backup file and trying to write it - file gets corrupted.