@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll add a screen shot in a bit.

@Ado-Netok said in How to add left and right margins feature in open text file?:

I may look for another text editor.

There are good reasons to switch text editors.
How could this possibly be one of them?
Plus, I don’t know that most are this type of “margin friendly”.
This is more of a word-processing function.
Are you sure you don’t want a word-processor instead of a text editor?

@PeterJones

Cool. I wonder if Bob and Alice are going to become regular contributors here? :-)

@Alan-Kilborn said in Lines containing the Unicode Word-Joiner U+2060 display oddly:

@PeterJones

If you’re going to experiment like that, probably should do it with DirectWrite both on and off. So many choices. :-)

Good idea. DejaVu Sans Mono looks good when DirectWrite is turned on.
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So, the options are enabling DirectWrite, changing font, or both. :-)

@Michael-Wurster Thank you for the quick reply. I’m not a developer so the solutions you provided will not be a quick fix for me but I’m not afraid to wade in “dark” waters so I’ll add one of the suggested plugins to the tool box and see what happens. Ideally, I’ll be able to figure out how to add text for column headers as well and from that point on I can have a “template” to call up when I need to edit/create one of these files for test purposes.
Thanks again.

Hello, @robin-melin, @peterjones and All,

Okay, I understood the problem ! In two locations of, both, the @robin-melin’s vb.xml file and the @MAPJe71’s vb-3.0.FL.xml file, we have an ending regex part (?=[\t ]*\()

The correct regex should be (?=[\t ]*\(|$) !!

So, here is, first, the corrected contents of the @MAPJe71’s vb-3.0.FL.xml file, where I used a 4 spaces indentation :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- =================================================== [vb_function] --> <parser id="vb_function" displayName="Visual Basic (.NET|Script|for Applications)" commentExpr="(?m:((?&lt;=&apos;).*?$)|((?i:REM)([\t ].*?)?$))"> <classRange mainExpr="(?s:(?&lt;SCOPE&gt;(?i:CLASS|TYPE)).*?(?i:END[\t ]\k&lt;SCOPE&gt;))" displayMode="node" > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?i:CLASS|TYPE)[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)(?:.*?[\r\n])" /> <nameExpr expr="[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)" /> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?m:^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$))" > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

And secondly, here is the corrected contents of the @robin-melin’s vb.xml file, where I used a 1 tabulation indentation :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ========================================================= [ VB ] --> <parser id ="vb_function" displayName="Visual Basic (.NET|Script|for Applications)" commentExpr="(?m:((?&lt;=&apos;).*?$)|((?i:REM)([\t ].*?)?$))"> <classRange mainExpr="(?s:(?&lt;SCOPE&gt;(?i:CLASS|TYPE)).*?(?i:END[\t ]\k&lt;SCOPE&gt;))" displayMode="node" > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?i:CLASS|TYPE)[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)(?:.*?[\r\n])" /> <nameExpr expr="[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)" /> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?m:^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|SHARED|SHADOWS|OVERRIDABLE|OVERRIDES|READONLY|WRITEONLY)[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$))" > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:GET|LET|SET)[\t ]+)?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|(?:DECLARE(?:[\t ]+(?:ANSI|UNICODE|AUTO))?))[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|(?:DECLARE(?:[\t ]+(?:ANSI|UNICODE|AUTO))?))[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:GET|LET|SET)[\t ]+)?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?i:[\t ]+(LIB|ALIAS)[\t ]+[\w&quot;\.]+)*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

Robin, I tested your two examples as well as the Peter’s one and everthing is OK, whatever the vb parsing rules file used !

Best Regards,

guy038

@User-Soft I’m not sure but maybe you need to install the Notepad++ locally instead of using a portable version.
Maybe then the icons would be displayed differently.
Like this:
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I’ve done it with local installation of Notepad++.

@PeterJones I see - and understand, thank you!

@Alan-Kilborn said in Use of "Wrap Around" changing start position of search if "Replace All" button pressed:

Is THIS your ver 0.3 proposal? :-)

Hell NO! Without the smiley face I was thinking you’re serious. Hopefully you don’t think of me capable of doing THAT! That’s way too many options on 1 window. Interfaces need to be kept simple and unconfusing.
My version 0.3 is this:

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where I looked at combining both “Replace All…” buttons like a jigsaw. So it would be purely a visual change. All 3 of these concepts were just intended to reduce confusion as we have talked about. Not that I’m confused anymore, I know exactly what “Replace All” and “Wrap around” selected do now.

However with a seemingly lackluster response to my ideas I don’t know that I’ll bother presenting it on github. I presume to catch the eyes of the developers that’s the next step. I haven’t even got a github account.

Terry

Another method is to copy only the lines pertaining to the macro out of your shortcuts.xml and have your users put those same lines in theirs. I neglected to mention this, because, for unsophisticated users, this is probably the MOST complicated and error-prone approach.

@Mik-Tilk said in Multi lines cursor manipulations:

Why they exist separated?

Because you might want to do this for some reason:

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In other words, make 4 selections (in the example) that are NOT in related columns.

@Dan-Cooperstock said in SCC API Plugin?:

none of which we use

Which one do you use?

@Nick-Brown said in Find the maximum line length in a file:

nice additions in the helper functions forEachLine

When I first started using PS, I noticed some weirdness with forEachLine that of course I can’t remember these many years later, but since then I’ve steered clear of it. Perhaps I was doing something wrong with it, or maybe there truly was something wrong with it that has since been fixed.

@Rin5743 ,

Thank you for letting us know. To make sure that @donho is informed, you might want to post the same thing as an issue at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

As always, we recommend only downloading Notepad++ from the official source – either notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads or the github repo at github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus .

Hello, @freon-sandoz and All,

If you want to disable the mouse zoom OR the keyboard zoom OR both features, in Notepad++, just use the ZoomDisabler plugin :

https://github.com/StanDog/npp-zoomdisabler

Best Regards

guy038

Ok, thanks.
This helped me.

So I ended up scripting a little mock up demo of this, which I won’t post unless there’s interest, but really there’s only a couple of new things that need to happen after a search match to make this work:

find the number of lines shown on screen

set the first visible line to a correct value (based upon the starting line of a find match, and the number of lines shown on screen, and of course the desired effect specified by the OP)

hmm, maybe it gets a tad more complicated if text between the match and the top of screen has folded/hidden lines…

However, looking at how N++ moves the display/selection when a match is found, there seems to be a lot going on with the logic, so I’m not sure how well any changes would fit in.

@guy038 said in How to delete all, except predefined values:

\u\1(?2\2:\x20)\x20M\L\3

@Ekopalypse @guy038
Thank you guys for thinking along with me!

@guy038 Does EXACTLY what I want - thanks again.

I had this exact same thing happening.

Not a day old Windows 10 installation.
I noticed that my disk management started to behave rather strangely and after which I noticed HUGE line margins on np++

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I do have a small 200kb video of how my disk management is behaving. But I cant embed it here. Says not enough privileges. It seems that disk management is using same windowing system so maybe these things are related?

@Anandkumar-Prajapati ,

I am curious what you were trying to accomplish with your post. It was nearly identical content to Guy’s post. The places where you varied from Guy’s were either inconsequential, or nearly so for the original data shown.

If you have a unique point you were trying to make with your slight differences, I don’t know what that point was – so if it really is trying to make a point, please explain yourself more. It might be educational for the original poster or future readers to know why you made the choices you did – but only if you explain why.

Otherwise, I want to point out that rephrasing advice that has already been given looks a lot like trying to take credit for someone else’s work – which is highly frowned upon (to say the least). I try to give the benefit of the doubt in such circumstances, so I am not saying that it was intentional; but it is a good idea to read the whole thread before posting, and to try to avoid giving the same advice without adding anything new, in an effort to avoid such appearances.