Here’s an example of a scripting-based solution, with Pythonscript.

When you run the script, it walks you through your choices to get the job done:

Step A:
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Step B:
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Step C:
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Here’s the short script, which I call PrefixOrSuffixLines.py:

def POSL__main(): title = 'MODIFY LINES - Prefix or Suffix' result = notepad.messageBox( 'PREFIX {} lines (the alternative being to SUFFIX ) ?'.format('all' if editor.getSelectionEmpty() else 'selected'), title, MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNOCANCEL ) if result == MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES: prefix_or_suffix = 'pre' elif result == MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTNO: prefix_or_suffix = 'suf' else: return result = notepad.messageBox( 'Apply {}fixing to EMPTY lines ?'.format(prefix_or_suffix), title, MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNOCANCEL ) if result == MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES: do_empty_lines = True elif result == MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTNO: do_empty_lines = False else: return user_text = notepad.prompt( 'TEXT to {}fix all {}lines with:'.format(prefix_or_suffix, '' if do_empty_lines else 'non-empty '), title, '' # have input box start out empty ) if user_text == None: return editor.rereplace(r'(?-s)^(.' + ('*' if do_empty_lines else '+') + ')', lambda m: (user_text + m.group(1)) if prefix_or_suffix == 'pre' else (m.group(1) + user_text), 0, editor.positionFromLine(editor.getUserLineSelection()[0]), editor.positionFromLine(editor.getUserLineSelection()[1]) ) POSL__main()

very grateful to you, I’ve tried it and it works

@SuperCPU

Here’s how to do a proper Feature Request: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15741/faq-desk-feature-request

Select color https://pastebin.com/3Csbu1ZW

Thank you Mr. PeterJones

问题解决,感谢百度贴吧的 千城真人 吧友 ,
其原始命令为 C:\downloads\cmder_mini\Cmder.exe /task {cmd::Cmder}&"C:\npMingw64\mingw\bin\python3.exe $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) &echo "
因为设置过环境变量, 精简为 cmder /task {cmd::Cmder}&"python $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) " (后引号前空格不能省)

详情见链接 https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5877576881

thanks you very much

@Scott-Sumner said:

^((:.+)|(.+:))(\R|\z)

I appreciate your help friends

@guy038

So we have 3 cursors, in front of each string

We should note that to get multiple carets (aka cursors) you need Settings (menu) -> Preferences… -> Editing (box on left) -> Multi-Editing Settings -> Enable … ticked…which by default it is not.

This FAQ explains where to go for feature requests.

Apologies @guy038 and @scott-sumner, my post on “best” regex and “trying to outdo each other” was not meant seriously (;-D). And yes our primary goal here is to help the OP with their problem. I do still think though that we are trying to make our regex’s more efficient through this process. Does that equate to “best”, possibly in a roundabout way? And yes more efficient doesn’t necessarily mean faster, it may mean less complicated for the OP to understand and follow.

And I welcome having others critique my regex, thanks @guy038, your “shortened” version of my regex was welcomed. I hadn’t spent a lot of time on the regex, I was mainly concerned with looking for a “more efficient”/“less complicated” solution.

Thanks
Terry :-))

There is the View > Word Wrap toggle. With Word Wrap disabled, a long line will go off the right side of the screen, and not start a new line until EOL (CRLF, CR, or LF) is encountered. With it enabled, a line longer than your screen will wrap to the next line.

Since I don’t know whether EDI documents are always newline-terminated for each “segment”, I don’t know if that’s sufficient for you. If not, you might want to embed a few lines (confidential info redacted), prefixing each line with four spaces, and surrounding your quote by a blank line on each end. With that example, you might be able to explain and/or show a screenshot as to what NPP is doing (screenshot > imgur.com > ), and explain what you’d actually like it to do.

Hello, I updated Notepad++ to the latest version and it seems to work ok!!
Thank you :-)

Thanks Peter, I had a feeling this was the case but wanted to get an expert opinion. I wish there was a way to copy the builtin lexer to a UDL then make modifications to it.

@Scott-Sumner said:

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thanks you Scott Sumner