Some further discussion on this topic is HERE.

@Holger-Z said in winget | real autoupdater finally:

It will report the update as successful, even so it didn’t install the update properly. That happens, when Notepad++ is running while winget is trying to update Notepad++.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10277#issuecomment-887779544

I will see what I can do about it, I am adding a fix of the silent installer mode (/S), when the Notepad++ is already running, to my TODO-list.

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Okay, now it is.
The translation that Google is giving me was not very clear.

What I was doing, is dragging the tab, instead of clicking with the mouse button.

Thank you very much.

@guy038 said in Automatic selection of ALL instances of a searched string, in one go:

So, here is my updated script, that I called Automatic_Selections_AK.py

Oh no, the script should fully be called Automatic_Selections_GT.py ! :-)

Thank you for explanation
Sublime has a good solution showing project name in title bar, but there are some futures in notepad++ that I like to use. I guess sublime spoiled me.

@joe-junior said in Mark All or Mark Selected Words:

How can I get that done?

There are a few ways of highlighting the required character strings. It will depend on what you ultimately intend to do with the highlighted text.

Use Mark function (Search, Mark). You can set the search mode as normal and type in each string (one at a time) and hit the “Mark All” button, repeat for each string. At the end all of the strings wanted will be highlighted.

Again using the Mark function but this time the search mode is “regular expression”. The Find What window will be HD|SD|12|#\+. Note that in this case as the + character is a meta-character (means something other than the character it is) I had to “escape” (\) it so that the regular expression engine will look for the plus sign rather than it’s normal meaning of “as many of the previous character together”. The | character is a separator character. it means this or that (Alternation, OR operand). So the regular expression engine can look for each string as a separate search simultaneously. Also if you only want the exact character (such as H, not h) then also click on the “Match Case” button.

If you were wanting to remove (or copy) the lines containing the strings you would still use option #1 or #2 above, but also tick the “bookmark line”. Once the search has completed the left margin will contain a blue icon (sphere, circle) for lines containing the strings you seek. Right click over one of these and you will see options to copy, remove, cut (and then paste into another tab).

If these do not benefit you, you will need to expand on your requirement. You should also consider reading the pinned post in the “General Discussion” called “Please Read This Before Posting” as it will help you include examples in the correct manner and also suggest other links in this forum to read.

Terry

@Bas-de-Reuver Notepad++'s regular expression search/replace has a couple of things that you and others may find useful.

\R matches any style of newline such as CR, LF, and CRLF. While \R does not work in the replacement part it’s still useful.

You can remove blank lines using ^\R+
You can remove spurious blank lines using ^\R\K\R+
The \K says to keep everything to the left meaning it will keep one blank line while removing spurious blank lines.

In both cases it’s a regular expression search/replace with the replace part being nothing or blank. This also means we don’t care about the current end of line format as \R matches any of them and \K ends up keeping whatever end-of-line style is in use.

It’s not clear from the OP’s example if they desired to remove the blank lines and then sort the resulting list or if they desired to have some sort of combining, merging, or interleaving of the lines that may or may not be sorted. As the OP then wanted to delete the thread it will likely forever remain a mystery.

It is possible and has been found successfully.

maybe it’s true, I searched for too much text, and had a typo or extra space in file or something.

But this has worked
Thank you for your help in helping me with the details

@Chuck-Roberts

If you have the Better Multiselection plugin installed and enabled…

If you create a “column caret” (hold Shift+Alt while using arrow keys) before invoking the Column Editor, like this:

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Then, after Column Editor does its work:

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arrow to the right one time:

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Then press period and space:

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@Mark-Olson said:

I’m pretty sure that AlanKilborn recently authored at least one PR that improved the incrementing number feature in the column editor

It is true, see HERE, but it would not have any impact on what @Chuck-Roberts needs to do here.

@Gordon-Gordonplex said in Make indentation and cursor position like other tsxt editors:

know what setting should be changed and what it should be set to to fix it

It’s not a problem, it’s a feature. Just a feature that doesn’t currently help you. Which is why “there are so many settings”

The Settings > Preferences > Auto-Completion > ☑ Auto-Indent checkbox controls this. It defaults on, and it sounds like you want it off.

There are so many settings (both Preferences and Style Configurator) that I can’t figure out which one might help

Did you try going to the preferences page in the User Manual and search for the word indent? There are exactly 9 matches right now, one third of which are talking about the setting you need. It would have taken less than 5 minutes of your time to follow the ?-menu’s Notepad++ Online User Manual link, then see that there’s a page on preferences, then search for indent and read the three sections that show up – and you would have had your answer in the second of those three sections.

I think it thinks I’m writing Fortran or something.

Does it say “Fortran” or similar on the lower-left of your Status Bar?
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Or if your Status Bar is hidden, or too narrow to show the language name, what does the Language menu indicate?
Or did you just say “Fortran” because you assumed it must be treating it as some sort of programming language, and “Fortran” is the first that came to your mind. (BTW: congratulations if “Fortran” is the first programming language that comes to your mind; most people would have said “Python” or some plebian “modern” language, not something as noble as “Fortran”. :-) )

If your text files have non .txt extensions, it might be an extension that Notepad++ associates with another language. If that’s the case, let us know, and we can explain how to get that extension to automatically be Normal Text instead of Fortran (or whatever it actually is).

@Robert-Maarschalkerweerd ,

Notepad++ batch is no longer showing up on the language pulldown

Most likely, either your langs.xml has been corrupted (and given your text file about is talking about editing langs.xml, that is highly likely), or you have used Settings > Preferences > Language and moved Batch into Disabled Items, like:
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If the latter is the case, click on Batch in that list, then click the <– button to put it back into your Language Menu

@Mark-Olson Thank you! The plugin does indeed accomplish what I needed, although in a bit other way than I thought.

@PeterJones said in difference between file => save as and save a copy as.:

because I wanted to save the current state of the file as a backup under a new name

That’s about the only useful use for it.
The way I use it more often though, is to keep working with both files.
Thus, it becomes a multistep procedure for me. I have to Save a Copy As, and then File > Open the other file.
This annoyed me so much at one point that I wrote a script (or someone else did and I just started using it) that does it in one step.

Hello, @mkupper and All,

Refer to the this post in order to correctly use the free-spacing mode :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/61100

IMPORTANT :

Multi-lines free-spacing regexes, like, for example :

(?x-i) ^ \x20 \x20 abc # String 'abc' with LEADING spaceq | # or ^ \x20 \x20 def # String 'def' with LEADING spaces

Works correctly, ONLY IF you click on :

The Find Next or the Count button of the Find dialog

The Replace or the Replace All button of the Replace dialog

The Mark All button of the Mark dialog

It will fail if you click on :

The Find All in Current document button, of the Find diaog

The Find All in All Opened Documents button, of the Find dialog

The Find All button, of the Find in Files dialog

The Find All button, of the Find in Projects dialog

In addition, it wrongly switches the search mode to the Extended mode

Instead, when using these buttons, you’ll have to use, either :

A free-spacing regex, on a single line, ONLY, as, for example, the regex (?x-i) ^ \x20 \x20 abc | ^ \x20 \x20 def

The simple regex (?-i)^\x20\x20abc|^\x20\x20def, with all text attached

Refer to my GitHub issue :

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/12673

Best Regards,

guy038

@Mark-Olson

I don’t know from the OP’s OP that his problem was related to the size of files he works with; I mean, he did hint at working with large files but the problem experienced itself didn’t seem related.

Anyways, good to know about your plugin…

I said in Problems with Math FAQ's Columns++ entry:

Beware of using a capture group like $1 immediately followed by a (?=…) substitution; at present, this does not work as expected. Instead, write the capture group as ${1} to avoid unintended results.

This is fixed in version 0.7.3-alpha, so there is no further need for this warning.

I moved contextMenu.xml, shortcuts.xml, langs.xml, stylers.xml, and config.xml to the current installation folder.

Seems ok. Anything else?