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  How to remove text except urls mantaining the original line of the remove ?
  • dkseby7x  

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  Hello,@dkseby7x Please try this code, To How to remove text except URLs maintaining the original line of the remove? search for: \h*<url\b.*?(http[^<]+).*?</url>|<.*?>\s* and replace with captured URL (captured in the first parenthesized group) \1 \h matches any horizontal space, [^<]+ matches one or more characters, that are not < I hope this code will be useful to you. Thank you.
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  Page side by side preview/ feature request
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  When reading a book, you have lelf and right page open thus I was thinking in np++ this book view side by side would be a natural option to have.
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  UDL and Styles
  udl style colouring • • David Tyler  

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  @Ekopalypse Thank you for the link, that explains things. I can see I’ve worded my question in a way that’s not too clear. Essentailly I found a nice dark theme which looks good with most of the built in languages. When I downloaded a new UDL for Oracle PLSQL, it’s overriding the font background and foreground colours in the theme so it ends up looking awful. Your suggestion of the colour style attribute makes a lot of sense so I’ll have a play with that and see if I can get what I need. Much appreciated David
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  I would like to have a "Notepad++ shortcut" that will jump to a line in a file
  feature request enhancement req • • thompsop  

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  @Alan-Kilborn I barely know what I ate yesterday, how am I supposed to know what I thought about something a year ago? :-D Links can be created as we see with url - based on that, I suppose I came up with this idea, but it looks like I never dug deeper since it wasn’t requested.
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  Removing plugin manager was a mistake
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  @PeterJones TL;DR :-)
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  Simple text replacement between two files
  • Valentina Roldós  

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  Great! Thanks so much!
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  Sort tabs by creation date
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  @Ashil-Krishnan , I am surprised that doing an update of Notepad++ kept your active session but changed the tab order – I would have thought if it kept sessions.xml that the order would not be affected. The Window menu’s Windows… entry has some capability of sorting the tabs – you can click on the title bar for each of the columns to sort that list by that column, then click on Sort Tabs to make the tabs in the editor follow the order listed in the dialog box. But that only has Name, Path, Type, and Size, no date. You could follow the instructions in the FAQ to ask that the developers add the Last Modified Time 🛈 as a column in the Window > Windows… document list dialog, so that sorting by time could be accomplished easier. If you do submit a feature request, be sure to paste a link to that request here, so that we can easily find the status from here. But that may take some time to be implemented and released (if ever). So, as a workaround: The auto-sort-tabs script in @Alan-Kilborn’s post in “Auto sort tabs (real-time)” could be modified to sort by file date, rather than alphabetically (the post I linked to, near the end of that topic, has improvements that were made, so would be the best starting point for your modifications).
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  How I can convert urls in a text file to clickable links??
  html lines • • R k  

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  @guy038 OP here! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank You.
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  Find Dialog Flash Count
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  @Alan-Kilborn , <tongue style=“cheek: in; firmly: 1”>But why would anyone search for things that aren’t there? And why would you start searching from the middle instead of the beginning? </tongue>
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  I have a problem.
  omg • • Pluto  

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  @Pluto , I am sure there are others who agree with you, and others who disagree with you. In Nov 2018, the developer removed that quote. Then in Oct 2019, he added it back in. Personally, I don’t see why he’s including such quotes in the installer at all, and would prefer he left them out altogether – though since I mostly use the portable version, I don’t notice installer “branding” quotes. But the developer likes including such things – he’s historically included that sort of quote throughout Notepad++: in the installer, in the hidden inspirational quotes, and even in the online manual – along with his political dedications in certain versions. But obviously, he is never convinced for long to stop exercising his right to free speech which his government has granted him. Whether or not I agree with all his quotes or his decisions to include political dedications in his software, it is his software, and he is allowed to make it do what he wants. And since I like the software so much, I continue to use it. I really wish you could remove this phrase You seem to be under the common misunderstanding that this forum is the way to contact the developer and the volunteers who help him, to ask for features or fixes: it is not. As the Forum’s name name says quite plainly, this is the Community for Notepad++ users. Occasionally, the developer will come and make an announcement, or follow up to a topic that has been explicitly pointed out to him via other means, but he doesn’t regularly visit or read posts here, AFAIK. Some of the other volunteers are here more regularly, but they follow the rule that discussion in the forum is just that – discussion. If you want to make a feature request, or request that something in the codebase get changed, and if you want it to be noticed, you will need to look for the Forum’s FAQ, which explains where to make official feature requests and bug reports.
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  Tab vs Space for .rs (Rust)
  • Philippe  

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  @snmnarum said in Tab vs Space for .rs (Rust): Perhaps the installer could detect a modified config and give us the option of A) use new, B) preserve user, or C) attempt a merge. You can create a feature request for this. Having at least A) and B) would be nice. However, C) will not be easy to implement.
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  Bug or problem with block comment in another block comment
  • Andrey  

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  @Andrey , What language lexer has block comments like that? Or are you using a UDL? And does that language actually allow nested comments? Some languages do, some don’t, and some leave it up to a compiler implementation decision. If the language really allows it, but the built-in lexer allows it, then technically, that’s a bug in the lexer. However, the lexers that ship with Notepad++ are part of the Scintilla code library that Notepad++ uses, so it would be a long, unlikely process to get it fixed (report the bug to Scintilla; wait for it to maybe get fixed; request Notepad++ update its Scintilla; wait for likely many years before Notepad++ does update its Scintilla, if ever) If you are using a UDL, that lexer uses a very simple algorithm, which was not built to handle nested comments (and even if you submitted an issue on it, the UDL lexer, even though technically controlled by Notepad++ unlike the other lexers, hasn’t had any significant improvements in years) You can add extra highlighting to a builtin lexer or to a User Defined Language (UDL) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo, but you might have to tweak his code to be able to handle nested comments. My general coding practice on nested comments: don’t.
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  find two letters between quotes in lang tag
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  Hello Alan yes of course but when i must search and replace multi lines, its not very easy with a sow little windows and must always use regular expresions for lines break, so with and extension it will be super
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  How-To Backup to custom Sub-Directory?
  • Gen Utility  

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  @Gen-Utility said in How-To Backup to custom Sub-Directory?: Is there a clever alternative to get what i want? I don’t believe so. Developers designed the feature how they believed it would be most useful to users. In 5+ years of “watching” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a similar complaint/desire. But surely you can ask that your desired functionality be implemented. See the FAQ entry on making a feature request.
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  Hiding the line numbers column
  login • • Lou Thompson  

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  I searched keyboard shortcuts… preferences I’m all about listening to complaints about a bad user interface, but not this time. This one is 100% PEBKAC.
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  How do I add a character ')' at a specific position?
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  Hello, @swarn-singh and All, I suppose that the key word RCONVERT is not concerned by the replacement. ONLY  the expression CONVERT(varchar(..), ..........) must be changed as RTRIM(CONVERT(varchar(..), ..........)) If my assumption is not exact, just tell me about it ! So, given, this sample : CONVERT(varchar(5), col$1) + '~' + CONVERT(varchar(8), col$2) + '~AD~' convert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103) rconvert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103) SELECT @ent_status = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ENTITY_STATUS, @keystring = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_NAME + ', ' + convert(varchar(30), dbo.ORGANISATION_TYPE_CODES_OTC.OTC_DESCRIPTION) + ', ALTERd: ' + convert(varchar(10), dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ALTER_DATE, 103) The following regex S/R : SEARCH (?i-s)\b(CONVERT\(varchar\(\d+\).+?\)) REPLACE RTRIM\($1\) Would output the expected text : RTRIM(CONVERT(varchar(5), col$1)) + '~' + RTRIM(CONVERT(varchar(8), col$2)) + '~AD~' RTRIM(convert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103)) rconvert(varchar(10), dbo.ADDRESS_AD.AD_ALTER_DATE, 103) SELECT @ent_status = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ENTITY_STATUS, @keystring = dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_NAME + ', ' + RTRIM(convert(varchar(30), dbo.ORGANISATION_TYPE_CODES_OTC.OTC_DESCRIPTION)) + ', ALTERd: ' + RTRIM(convert(varchar(10), dbo.ORGANISATION_ORG.ORG_ALTER_DATE, 103)) Of course, select the Regular expression search mode and tick, preferably, the Wrap around option Then, click, either, several times on the Replace button or once only on the Replace All button If OK, I could explain how this regex works, next time ! Best Regards, guy038
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  i like notepad++
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  Upgrade Location
  • Robert Gilland  

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  @Robert-Gilland I gave up in the end Can’t you just keep pointing the installer prompt to E: ? I mean, sure, it would be great if it could remember, but… Notepad++ has, what, 3 or 4 releases a year, so you’d have to do this fairly rarely, right? Of course, I’m out of my element, because I use the “portable” version and never have to deal with such a thing. I just unzip the portable into a folder, move that folder where I like, and done.
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