@Murray-Sobol-1 ,

Natively, no. But it could be implemented in a plugin.

For example, @Ekopalypse is working on NppLspClient, which is still in development/alpha state, but I’ve started to use with a Perl LSP server, and though it’s not feature-complete yet, it is showing promise.

Already yesterday I assigned the undo/redo shortcuts with the macros and it worked out great.

There is a part of me with minor disgust knowing that behind every little use of Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y there is a full macro going on, but that’s on me.

There is also the commands Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Shift+Z in case I want the old behaviors.

I won’t bother with the github issue, there is already 2.5k of them. If it is God’s will people will wake up and realize that unwanted cursor movement is a sin and should be stopped but until then I’ll stand alone in the path of truth with my macros.

@guy038

I havent tried to sort files in a while and finally came back to check your responses…

Yes that latest regex worked to isolate just the files that were missing solely by the track info… Thank you again…

The added info on marking all those returned files at once however didn’t work… I only resumed the process today and have been marking them by hand… I tried to select all and copy the lines but it copies every line not just the compared lines so its back to individually marking them… it’s not fun but it beats looking through tens of thousands one at a time…

Thanks again for all your help…
If you have the urge to work out the marking issue
feel free…

Ray

@rrmoch said:

The pinning is a nice function, but i dont understand why the pins scrolling left out if i have opend many tabs and use the left/right button at the tab bar?
I think a pin was at the left site a fixed position for fast access. If the pins are no more visible, they are useless

I don’t think you’ll see a change to the software for such a circumstance.
It’s sort of implied that “multiline” is used with the pinning feature, although it doesn’t go so far as to be a requirement (i.e., the software doesn’t prevent the pinned tab feature being enabled if multiline is not enabled).

It’s sort of like if the tab bar is set to hidden; pinned tabs aren’t of maximal usefulness there, either. Presumably, in such a case the user uses the “document list” feature (the pinned tabs would be shown first in the window for that, but aren’t identified separately from the unpinned tabs).

@Jim-Harris ,

See, for example, this official request and accompanying discussion

@Jim-Harris said in Enable snapshot backups without enabling opening the last file at startup?:

It would be better if these options were separate.

Since the one was implemented using the other, it would require a significant rework of both of those features to disentangle them, which I doubt is likely to happen

@guy038 said:

I suppose you were a bit upset to not be able to add a comment for the 1602 message, relative to the replacement.

<Action type=“3” message=“1602” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“(?1+:=)(?2 ‘Replace with’ regex)” />

Nice one!
For readers that don’t see it, I’m talking about the addition of (?2 'Replace with' regex) as the “comment” for this action line.
And note also, with that addition, it is needed to wrap the original ?1+:= with parentheses.

When considering “commenting” a macro by using unused sParam values, how is one to know if sParam is needed by the macro, or you can safely stick a comment in there?

Well, it isn’t always obvious, so, in that case it might be best to use a “null” command, which for sure doesn’t use sParam, like I did in the first line of the revised macro:

<Action type="0" message="2172" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26363" />

Message 2172 is SCI_NULL.

@radpopl ,

It’s called the current “session”.

Disable Settings > Preferences > Backup > Remember current session for next launch

This behavior (along with all the other settings) is described both in the user manual in the sections on sessions

@pilaGit The Notepad++ sorting seems to align with the Scintilla library sorting that Notepad++ uses for the autocomplete.

PythonScript example to test:

def main(): def check_order(): order = editor.autoCGetOrder() if order != 1: print('autoCGetOrder:', order) # Scintilla to do the sort order. editor.autoCSetOrder(1) order = editor.autoCGetOrder() print('autoCGetOrder:', order) text = editor.getText() words = text.split() itemList = ' '.join(words) print("py_sorted:", sorted(words, key=str.upper))) print("words:", words) print("itemList:", itemList) check_order() print('autoCShow') editor.autoCShow(0, itemList) main()

Document:

četiri dva ajde tri jedan ćevap đurđa žuži šest

Image of 1st run showing the autocomplete:

autoc_ps_sort.png

Scintilla internally sorted the autocomplete list instead of Notepad++ in this test.

This is not focusing about how the sort is done that I mention. It’s about the current sort is aligned between the Notepad++ sort and the Scintilla sort. If not aligned then unpredictable bad working behavior occurs with the autocomplete.

For how the sort is done, the change of sort algorithm would require change in both Notepad++ and the Scintilla library to remain aligned for good working behavior. There is a custom sort SC_ORDER_CUSTOM though means extra work to create an index … and extra processing is usually avoided if possible to prevent excessive lag with the editor.

I had forgotten that some else has the same fat fingers that I do, and thus shared my pain; it’s a bit of a rant, but some good reading: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15480

@ErolB1 said in POLL: Remove 'Show close button on each tab' option:

I want a close button on each tab. I use that feature all the time.

The poll was about removing the option, not the feature.
The idea was, the option could be removed (reducing UI “clutter”) if users always wanted to have the close button appear on each tab.
Removing the option would no longer give users the choice to not have the close buttons – they would always have them.

In the time since the poll was published here, I believe the author of Notepad++ has sensed that enough users want the option to turn the feature on and off, so the option will remain.

But I also believe there have been some changes to how the feature works, e.g. not showing the close button on inactive tabs unless they are pointed to with the mouse.

@ahopsu said in Bug? "Find All.." does very often not work anymore:

To me, with 8.6.7 (32-bit) version, the search results window came back, after I changed this “curr” value from “5” to “3” for the “InternalFunction”

Thanks for the report. I know about such N++ Docking Manager problems (it can happen in some specific steps) but currently I do not have a simple fix for it.

Did you undock that Search results panel to the floating state before?

@Jigar-Patel said in Bug: Cntrl+End is not recorded in the macro:

When Cntrl+End key is used to go to the end of the file, it’s not recorded in the macro

Macro’s are saved in the shortcuts.xml file. This is normally located in the folder %appdata%\notepad++. If you open it in Notepad++, be aware that Notepad++ will write to that file when closing if any configuration setting within that file need updating, so don’t edit the file unless it is the only thing you do in a Notepad++ session.

As you are using macro’s it might be a good idea to read the online manual on macros’ here.

I created the same macro as you were trying to record and got the following in my shortcuts.xml file. Note the last entry has a message value of 2318. Since this is a type 0, it means it’s a Scintilla command. Scintilla is what Notepad++ uses under the hood, so a lot of the commands are directed to the Scintilla process for completing.

<Macro name="reload-goto-end" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="0" message="2422" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2325" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2422" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2325" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41014" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2318" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro>

The Goto-End command is this one, 2318. See this image of the relevant Scintilla code.

NPP-gotoend.jpg

So, obviously from the code I just presented above, the macro works exactly as expected, the Ctrl-End shortcut was recorded. You should first check what your macro actually saved, is it the same as I show above?

What happens when you use the Ctrl-End keystrokes manually, does the caret move to the end of the document? If so, then the macro should have that as the last entry as did mine.

I would also suggest reading the FAQ post called “Notepad++ Crashes/Freezes/Unresponsive after Update”. It may not seem relevant, but part of the post refers to running Notepad++ without any plugins running. See if that changes the outcome.

When you come back with more information, please include the debug info. It’s available from the “?” menu, copy and paste that in your post so we might get a better idea of your setup. That may provide a clue to the problem.

Terry

@Terry-R okay. I’ll check that page and request it on GitHub. Again thank you for the help here.

Yeah MultiReplace worked out, thanks all, if I had the rep upvotes all round.
Just to clear up one thing the .cue standard doesn’t use 1/100th of seconds, it uses frames (75 frames = 1s) that’s why the last 2 digits has a : as a separator (another CD era throwback)

For the record
.cue file to modern youtube style time stamps in one pass

MultiReplaceList.CSV

Selected,Find,Replace,WholeWord,MatchCase,UseVariables,Regex,Extended 1,"([\\r\\n]{0,1})\\s*TRACK \\d+ AUDIO\\r\\n\\s{4}TITLE ""(.+)""\\r\\n\\s{4}PERFORMER ""(.+)""\\r\\n\\s{4}INDEX \\d+ (\\d+:\\d+):\\d+","\\1**\\4 - \\3 - \\2**",0,0,0,0,1 1,"\\*\\*(\\d+)","set( string.format(""**%02d:%02d"", math.floor(CAP1 / 60), CAP1 % 60) )",0,0,1,0,1

Input

TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Tragedy Blows on the Dancefloor (Kesha, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Cutting Crew vs. Bee Gees)" PERFORMER "Titus Jones" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Call My Name" PERFORMER "BLOND:ISH" INDEX 01 61:41:00 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "HIPS DON`T LIE / SMACK YO (Charlie Roennez Mashup)" PERFORMER "Shakira" INDEX 01 122:49:00

Output

**00:00:00 - Titus Jones - Tragedy Blows on the Dancefloor (Kesha, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Cutting Crew vs. Bee Gees)** **01:01:41 - BLOND:ISH - Call My Name** **02:02:49 - Shakira - HIPS DON`T LIE / SMACK YO (Charlie Roennez Mashup)**

@Jim-Dailey said:

I have a USB device that someone purchased…

We’re getting off-topic but I’ll just point out that a script costs less. :-)

@guy038 , I’ve just had a thought regarding the double post issue. After I posted my question, I changed my user name. Could that have triggered a double post issue?

(BTW, I’ve had a message saying that I can’t post any further comments for the next 1200 seconds, so I hope this comment doesn’t generate any excess posts!)

Deselecting the Show indent guide option fixed my problem.

@PeterJones sadly their free account inc;ludes zero tech support contact. May jump to another reader - tested with ‘feeder’ and the npp feed is fine :)