Thanks, @guy038

That worked! Thanks a bunch.

Try this:

Find what zone: (?-s)^.+?\|
Replace with zone: make sure this is EMPTY
Search mode: Regular expression

@David-Luca

Bug reports and feature requests are filed on github, see a bit more detail on the process here. I’m sure this one already exists for this so logging a new one is pointless and just adds to the massive clutter. Try some searching and then you can add any new input you have about the problem as a comment to an existing issue. You be the judge about the likelihood of this being “fixed” anytime soon when you see the number of open issues.

Hi @terry-r, @guy038 and All

First I want to thank you both: @terry-r and @guy038 - for taking your time and giving me help.

Both solution works - maybe a bit different - but both gives the good results what I was looking for.

Let me say, how much I appreciate the community. Thanks you!

Thanks again guys!

This is very simple. I’m surprised you have not already figured it out. Basically (from your sample) you want to change all spaces to a carriage return/line feed. So each word will be on a separate line.

The regex is:
Find What: \h
Replace with: \r\n
As this is a regular expression you need the search mode in “regular expression” mode and have wrap around ticked.

So the \h is a horizontal whitespace character: tab or Unicode space separator.
The \r and \n are the carriage return and line feed characters.

As a suggestion, read up on regexes by starting with:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15765/faq-desk-where-to-find-regex-documentation in our FAQ and also by using a regex tester (there are a few on the web) including the one mentioned in that post.

It’s nice to see posters trying to find the solution themselves (especially one as simple as this one), then if in doubt or needing guidance, to come to the forum and show what they’ve tried and their samples.

Terry

Thanks Perter Jones… and also thanks for quick response… it works perfectly…

thanks you very much

great friend, thank you very much for your help, I’m learning every day,
If you work, thank you, I do not know how to thank you

thank you guys!!!
D.

Unfortunately for you, Notepad++ does not double as backup software with version control (by default).

There is a microscopic chance that following the “Possible File Recovery” section of this FAQ would help you… IF you had Settings > Preferences > Backup > Backup on save = ☑ Verbose backup, then every time you hit Save in NPP, it would create a backup copy of the file with a different timestame (see NPP Wiki: Document Management, search for “verbose”) – but that’s not enabled by default. (If you had ☑ Simple backup, only the most recent version is saved.)

Windows has an option: if you right click on a file, there’s a “Restore Previous Versions” option – if you happen to have configured Windows in the right way (I don’t know what that way is), then maybe that would help.

The best advice (mentioned in that FAQ I linked earlier) is to proactively control your own destiny, especially with important files. If you only ever need the most recent version of a file, then most automated backup software will cover you. Some automated backup programs will even keep multiple versions of the same file, so you can go back in time to a certain extent. Some cloud file services might keep a few versions going back, as well, so if you’re editing files in your cloud folders, there might be some historical versions – see your cloud provider’s documentation. But if going back through the change history of a file is very important to you, then the best bet is version control software (like Subversion or Git) and remembering to “commit early, commit often”.

Unfortunately, most of this advice requires that you already knew how to set up all those various options, and had decided to do so. If the hints above don’t help you recover this file, hopefully they will at least encourage you to set up a backup and file-history system that will meet your needs.

@james-pruett

As a first step, perhaps turn OFF the option to treat warnings as errors…and see if that gets you further along? :-)

@Vincitydaimo-Vincity

See here for how to officially make a feature request.

@SuperCPU,

I understand the solution you and Scott were thinking of would be best. I was just trying to give you a workaround, because even if you do submit a feature request, it may be quite some time (if ever) before that request is implemented.

The workaround does work for “Numpad 0” or “INS” or “DEL” or others: you just type the first character of the text of the menu item: for “Numpad 0”, you would hit “N” twice; for “INS”, you would hit “I” once (because the INS entry comes before the I entry); similarly type “D” for “DEL”. That’s the way it works in Notepad++, and quite a few other Windows applications with dropdown menus: if you type the first character of the option, it will go to the next option that starts with that character.