So I did a bit of digging related to this topic, and it looks like binding a callback to SCN_MACRORECORD would allow you to record the history of changes in a way that treats a find/replace action as a single action rather than as a series of insertions and deletions of characters (which my modification log script currently does).

The catch? SCN_MACRORECORD notifications only fire when a macro is being recorded. This means that any script that wanted to record find/replace actions would have to start recording a macro when it was first run, and it could not stop recording the macro until it stopped. This means that such a script would prevent you from using the macro recorder in a normal way.

I don’t think it would be too difficult to implement such a script or plugin, but it’s important to understand the tradeoffs.

EDIT: I tried using PythonScript to print SCN_MACRORECORD notifications (just a simple editor.callback(lambda notif: print(notif), [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.MACRORECORD])), and I found that find/replace actions don’t trigger those notifications in PythonScript. This is obviously really weird, because find/replace actions are clearly macroable. So I’m not too sure that Ariel’s idea is really do-able, at least in PythonScript.

@Raguram-Manokaran ,
@Mark-Olson is correct.
The steps you are trying to do, especially your 4th point, only works if KQL is an already existent language in a Notepad++ UDL formatted file.

Secondly, the Import button you’re trying to use, is only usable if you are getting a UDL file that has already been created by yourself or someone else in the format that Notepad++ expects it’s UDL to be, so you can import it into the UDL language listing. If the language does not exist already, then you won’t find it. Period.

As @Mark-Olson suggests, you can create your own UDL langauge, and then if you want to let others Import it into their Notepad++ installations, then that button will be usable to them, on the file that you supply, most likely named KQL.xml after you have created it.

@PeterJones The Files I’ve been working with are definitely large. They are CCDs (Continuity of Care Documents) so I will disable/remove the features you mentioned and see if that helps. Thanks again for the tip.

@David-Fernandes ,

It depends on what you mean by “markers”. If you mean a bookmarked line (clicking in the bookmark margin, or Ctrl+F2 to toggle bookmarks), then one way, if you’ve got two bookmarked lines:
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F2 (Search > Bookmark > Next Bookmark) to go to one of the two bookmarks Ctrl+Shift+B (Edit > Begin/End Select) to start the selection F2 (Search > Bookmark > Next Bookmark) to go to other bookmark Ctrl+Shift+B (Edit > Begin/End Select) to end the selection → it will be selected from the start of the upper line to the start of the lower line (so it will not include the full lower line)

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If you just have two locations, and can get to them in some other way, you can use the same Begin/End Select.

For example, if I have used the Search > Mark dialog to mark the 9 instances of morbi in my Lorem ipsum text, I could then use F3 (Search > Find Next) to get to the desired morbi mark, then Ctrl+Shift+B to start the selection, then F3 one or more times to get to another morbi, then Ctrl+Shift+B to select that region:

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Either of these give some sort of “marker” and then select the text in between. To “isolate”, I assume you could copy/paste the selection to some other document or to some other section of your current document.

If this isn’t sufficient, you will have to explain more about what you want.

@SullyPanda76cl said in What [File Navigation] plugin are everyone using? (aka Source Cookifier orphan):

What are you using to navigate your files?

What’s wrong with SourceCookifier?

@jabcreations said in Remove Parameters from Functions List?:

, did my last post get deleted

You actually put two replies in one post in this other thread. I just quoted from that (with the link) here, so people in this topic could see it was resolved

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/86845

@Mark-Olson Thank you Mark! I haven’t had to manually set these options since I first started using Notepad++ years ago.

@randomguyingithub You should try signing off/on first before wasting time with a reboot.

I’ve done a little experimenting. I tried moving the &, like this:

Edit with Notepad&++

But the underline didn’t move and + didn’t work as the shortcut.

I noticed, however, that e worked as the shortcut. Sometimes. See, a lot of menus already have an entry that says simply Edit. It has the E underlined. But that entry launches Notepad (yuck). But some menus don’t have an entry for Edit. On those menus, e does open the file in Notepad++ even though its E is not underlined. I did try doing this:

&Edit with Notepad++

But that did not cause the E to be underlined. It also did not stealth-add e as a second occurrence of the e shortcut on menus that also contained Edit. The underlines are regularly not unique on menus. You just have to type the shortcut again then hit Enter, instead of just typing the shortcut & that’s enough to activate that menu entry.

So I guess I have half a solution, a workaround that works sometimes. I suppose that’s better than nothing.

@PeterJones I did not notice the tabs

@PeterJones said in Remove Parameters from Functions List?:

<nameExpr expr="(?:\x26\s*)?[A-Za-z_

That worked, thank you very much. I’ve had some very minimal experience with these files in the past though a while ago and not enough to claim to be familiar.

@datatraveller1 said in Find First button?:

it is not worth opening a feature request

Your feature, go ahead and open a request if you’d like.

@Ekopalypse ,
Not just you, count me as a, me too.
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Notepad++ v8.5.3 (64-bit)
Build time : May 15 2023 - 06:09:36
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
OS Version : 22H2
OS Build : 19045.2965
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins :
ColumnsPlusPlus (0.0.3.4)
ComparePlus (1.1)
CSVLint (0.4.6.2)
CsvQuery (1.2.9)
EnhanceAnyLexer (1.1.3)
mimeTools (2.9)
NppConverter (4.5)
NppExec (0.8.2)
NppExport (0.4)
NppSnippets (1.7.1)
PythonScript (2)
XMLTools (3.1.1.13)

@Mark-Olson said in [Wishlist] Reverse search:

is a rather simpler but equally effective alternative to AlanKilborn’s regular expression.

Not mine! See the linked posting.

@PeterJones Thanks! Good to know!

@Brigham-Narins

Bug report opened HERE; you probably want to go back into it and supply the requested Debug Info. Issues get rejected when people don’t supply that.

Sure you can. Try this

Settings > Preferences > New Document > Defaoult language and set COBOL there.

Screeshot follows:

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@mkupper said in Hi, looking for a regex that calculates distance between 2 numbers, then adjust the 2nd number to a minimum of 30.:

Is it possible to run a PythonScript on all open tabs?

No. What you would do is, in a single run of a single script, iterate over the open file tabs:

for (filename, bufferID, index, view) in notepad.getFiles(): notepad.activateFile(filename) ....

After a file is “activated”, then the editor object can manipulate the data of the activated tab, e.g., perhaps do an editor.replace(), etc.

@William-Nevil said in Where is the option for session snapshot?:

@Alan-Kilborn Odd. When I try to update it says there are no updates. I’ll have to redownload the package and install fresh. Thanks yall

Excellent.

Thank you, both! That’s very helpful.

@Alan-Kilborn said in little issue on overlapping lables:

@wonkawilly said in little issue on overlapping lables:

N++ 583

Would assume this means 8.5.3.

Yes it does