@Brad-Morgan luaautoindent.lua example is OnChar() so is not quite suitable for the task to reformat a whole document.

You can download CodeFormat.exe from
https://github.com/CppCXY/EmmyLuaCodeStyle/releases .
Seems only 64 bit so unsure if 32 bit is available.

win32-x64.zip is what I downloaded and tested with. CodeFormat.exe can reformat a whole document. Extract CodeFormat.exe from the zip to the plugins config directory which if installed Notepad++ is %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\Config .

You can add this code to LuaScript’s Edit Startup Script:

npp.AddShortcut('Reformat Lua Code', '', function() local configDir = npp:GetPluginsConfigDir() local codeFormatPath = configDir .. '\\CodeFormat.exe' local filePath = npp:GetFullCurrentPath() local command = '""' .. codeFormatPath .. '" ' .. 'format -f "' .. filePath .. '" -d"' local file = io.popen(command) if file then local text = file:read('*a') file:close() if text and text ~= '' then editor:SetText(text) end end end)

Need to restart Notepad++ to see the entry named Reformat Lua Code in the menu Plugins -> LuaScript .
filePath will contain the path to the lua file. New1, New2… temporary files are not expected to work.

A test file:

t = {'a', 'b', 'c'}

Click the Reformat Lua Code entry reformats the document to:

t = { 'a', 'b', 'c' }

The change is set in the document buffer.

@Mike-0 said in Need help figuring this out.:

Also can you tell me how to do a wildcard search in Notepad ++
/*. I seem to remember it was something like this, but I rarely use wildcards these days.

You can use regular expressions. Start by reading the relevant section of the online manual and then come back if you have questions.

Ordinarily I would recommend JsonTools for this sort of task, but your JSON is a real mess, with arrays that contain a confused jumble of different types, so JsonTools is less useful than it might otherwise be. Likely whatever suggestion I give will only work in this specific situation.

That said, if you open the JsonTools tree view and execute the RemesPath query @[5][0][2][Version, FileReferences], then click the Save query result button, that would print the JSON you want in a new buffer.

There’s lots of RemesPath documentation in the GitHub repo linked above. PythonScript is also a reasonable option for this sort of problem.

@ohlogic It seems that a different wine version did not suffice, though installing Diodon, a clipboard manager, seems to be ok for now, if anything changes, I’ll update this post. Good day.

@Branislav-Trnkocy

See THIS recent discussion on the same topic.

@mkupper said in Hiding Line number column has totally disappeared now!:

it can be a challenge to discover where a setting is

Which is why my recommendation is always to check the User Manual > Preferences if you don’t find it right away, and search for the setting you are looking for using your browser’s find-in-page feature: searching for line number on that page finds it pretty quickly.

And until partway into the next major version, I keep notes like (this preference used to be in **MISC** section, before v8.x.y) – but sometime after a Major release, I clear out those old notes. (For example, the most recent change for Line Number was in v7.9.2, when it and all the other marginalia moved into Margins/Border/Edge; I didn’t get rid of the note until long after v8.0 was documented … actually, it was after v8.5 before I removed the v7.x notes – two years of trying to make it easier to find a setting that moved)

@Alan-Kilborn said in I want to find informal and replace to formal words.:

If you had a two-element list of everything,

What do you mean by two element list of everything.

@rdipardo This is still happening in 2024, and the solution still works. One note; The entry starting with ‘<GUIConfig name=“DockingManager” …’ and ending with ‘</GUIConfig>’ should all be deleted, not just the lines between them. Thanks for the help. I was tearing out what little hair I have left!

To any future readers:

There’s actually an option #4 and #5 that didn’t exist, or that I didn’t know about, in 2021:

v8.6.6 added the ability to have the GLOBALCLASS style, which gives you a separate keyword list. see this post for how to use it

In this post, I show how to use a script to enable the “substyle” feature of Scintilla/Lexilla, which allows adding new keyword lists to certain lexers. Fortunately, the C++ lexer is one. The instructions in that post are for PHP, but if you do the edits in the CPP_SubstyleLexer and append the color/keyword-list info to the SCE_C_IDENTIFIER element, you can have your own custom lists of keywords for C++.

Hello, @Sylvester-Bullitt, @peterjones, @coises and All,

The @coises’s answer is quite clever. Personally, I ended up with this search/mark regex :

SEARCH / MARK (?=(?-i:\u\l))(?i:(\u)\1)

which uses a look-ahead expression at the beginning, instead of the look-behind expression at the end of the @coises’s regex :

(?i:(\u)\1)(?<=(?-i:\u\l))

You could say: it’s a minor difference, but it isn’t !! Indeed, as our Boost regex engine dos not allow look-behinds containing non-fixes expressions, my version has the advantage to work with any syntax of the look-ahead !

For example, from the INPUT text :

Aaaaaaaa Axxxxxx Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb Bxxxxxx Cccc Cxxxxxx AAAAAAAA Axxxxxx BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB Bxxxxxx CCCC Cxxxxxx

The regex (?=(?-i:\u\l+))(?i:(\u)\1+) would mark the left part of the first three lines, before the space char

But the regex (?i:(\u)\1+)(?<=(?-i:\u\l+)) would just display the message Find: Invalid regular expression

Best Regards,

guy038

there might be dictionary list with additional phonetic (IPA) representation . so working on the phonetics would be better.

so the concept of soundex and other phonetic algorithms is to transform phonem-types (like fricatives) into a representating number, a number string is generated which flattens out many tiny differences and makes words basically constructed.

@Robert-Guertin

In addition to what @PeterJones wrote, you may always use the UNC Notation
\\<ServerName>\<ShareName>\<filepath>
to access your file, no matter if running as Admin or not.

@mkupper Disabling the touchpad fixed it :)
Apologies for the red herring… :(

@PeterJones ,
Bravo @PeterJones. Hope to get to that point, someday.
:-)

@Lycan-Thrope said in [Problem seeing some line numbers when

Take the sections one by one until you find the offending issue. It’s painstaking, but it’s about the only way to fix it with the tools we have available, being the UDL…when the other option is writing a full on lexer.

Welcome to Notepad++ UDL creation. :-)

I appreciate all the help that you, and all the other respondents have provided here. As much as I wish it was a simple solution, sometimes it’s not and you just have to slog through a problem to get a resolution. Either way, it’s good to have a place to be able to ask questions and get good help in return.

Thanks to all of you for the good information! (and quick replies!)

@Jay-Imerman said in Alt-Up/Down Arrow Line Movement:

let me please second this request

If this is truly a request, it’s in the wrong place.
See HERE.

But, I’d say…don’t bother making it an official request, as it is very likely to be denied. The author long ago created the ability to remap commands to different keycombos, so users should avail themselves of that.

Existing feature request right here -> github issue 2221

Also, although this is not drag and drop the document list follows the tab bar and even if the tab bar is hidden you can still use the shortcuts from the tab bar to position files in the document list (down, up, start, end, …) (CTRL-SHIFT_PD, …)

Existing feature request right here -> github issue 2221

Also, although this is not drag and drop the document list follows the tab bar and even if the tab bar is hidden you can still use the shortcuts from the tab bar to position files in the document list (down, up, start, end, …) (CTRL-SHIFT_PD, …)

Existing feature request right here -> github issue 2221

Also, like said above, although this is not drag and drop the document list follows the tab bar and even if the tab bar is hidden you can still use the shortcuts from the tab bar to position files in the document list (down, up, start, end, …) (CTRL-SHIFT_PD, …)

@Shaun-Merrill ,
Notepad++ doesn’t have a license, per se. It’s freeware…so what are you going on about?