@William-Morris said:

…7.5. There I will stand, there I will stay.

Good call.

I’ve blown about three hours…trying to get my work environment back the way I had it. If this were a hobby, that’d be okay. This is my job, however. Not okay. Seriously, I’m one unhappy programmer.

It is a problem when the end user uses a product in a “this is my job” manner when the product’s developer(s) treat it like a “hobby”. However, one must assume that “free software” is developed as someone’s hobby. So I’m not sure how justifiable your “unhappiness” is in a larger sense…[surely you have the right to be unhappy in a very local sense… :-) ].

It is my understanding that a lot of I.T. departments sanction use of Notepad++ in a corporate environment. I wonder how many threw their hands up in the air and removed Notepad++ from their lists when this new plugin-admin thing caused their users to lose plugins and those naive users wasted a bunch of I.T.'s time bugging THEM about what the problem was. Again, hobby software in a corporate environment–not a great mix.

Scott, yes, what I initially was after was a version of Print Preview, mostly so that it could be determined how what was being “typed” would fit on the page (as opposed to just “look” on it – headers, footers etc.). Although it isn’t needed frequently, it is nice to have when the need does arise.

But there are sufficient ways around it, so…

Yes, yes. I know that things around. I was just surprised by given error since I was used to perfect Notepad++ code page functions. I did not realized at the moment what CP-1250 really includes.

Btw, thanks.

@dinkumoil Thanks!

Thank you, it works

@dinkumoil said:

In Notepad++ v7.5.6 (32 bit) this issue still exists. I guess that this is a limitation of the underlying Windows control, thus you can’t do anything to change that behaviour.

But you can use the ToolBucket plugin. It provides the ability to calculate MD5 and SHA-1 hashes from much larger files. I have tested it with a 148 kB text file right now. Small drawback: the hash value is inserted into the loaded file at the current cursor position.

@chcg Hi! Yes! I did use the compare plugin. It compared really well, but I need the differences only. Thanks!

It would make sense for Notepad++ to properly set the association when installed.

This FAQ shows where to go to post a new bug report or feature request. I suggest searching the existing issues before submitting a new one – if the request already exists, just add your confirmation or additional data to the existing ticket rather than creating your own.

What do you mean with that? When and under which circumstances can who not write to these files? To provide support we need more information. You should read this before doing your next posting.

Hello @haitt2102, and All,

Your regex is quite correct but ONLY IF the [COMMENT.....] area of chars belongs to an unique line, as in the first two occurrences of your example !

So, you must use the (?s) modifier syntax to be sure that the dot regex meta-charaqcter match any single char ( standard or EOL chars ) in order that a match may be spread out on several lines !

Thus, this regex S/R should work :

SEARCH (?s)\[.+?\]

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

If your text may also content square bracket(s) as normal characters, the regex, below, will be more restrictive :

SEARCH (?s-i)\[COMMENT.+?\]

Note that I added the (?-i) modifier ( meaning no-insensitive ), to be sure that the regex engine will search for the uppercase string COMMENT

Remarks :

The (?s) or (?-s) has higher priority than the . matches newline option of the Find/Replace dialog. Idem for the (?i) or (?-i) modifiers, regarding the Match case option

Notice, also, that the (?s)\[.+?\] regex, could be replaced with the \[(.|\R)+?\] regex, which matches exactly the same occurrences, as \R match any kind of new-line characters !

Cheers,

guy038