I don’t know abot the “way too” but it is “slow”.
Was discussed many times. For example here.

Hi, @fernando-conti,

Very easy with regular expressions, indeed !

Open your file, in Notepad++

Move back at the very beginning ( CTRL + Origin )

Open the Find / Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Check the Regular expression search mode

Check, if necessary, the Match case option

In the Find what: zone, type the regex \[.+?\]

In the Replace with: zone, simply type the text that must replace all the [......] zones or leave it empty if you prefer to delete the [......] zones

Click on the Replace All button

Et voilà,

Notes :

As the symbols [ and ] have special meaning in regular expressions, they have to be escaped, both, to be considered as literal characters

The part .+? stands for the smallest range of characters, between the symbols [ and ]

For instance, given the example text, below :

The regex :

SEARCH \[.+?\]

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

modifies the text as below :

If the regex was \[.+\], it would have select the largest zone between the symbols [ and ], that it to say, the string “[123] test for searching [abc] all the [.......]”, in our example. Certainly not what you’re looking for !

Best Regards,

guy038

Thanks Claudia. I’ll give it a try.

@patrickdrd
yes
you just need to install the nppcrypt plugin
this will allow you to select your desired algorithm and passphrase to encrypt or decrypt any file or any selected text within a file

you can install it by downloading it here: https://github.com/jeanpaulrichter/nppcrypt
or via the plugin manager if you have installed it

@Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley183

Page up/down functionality works for me. Check your Shortcut Mapper (on Settings menu) as a first step to troubleshoot this. Here’s what mine looks like:

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@Muhammad-Ahmad
You must have associated *.bat files with another program or maybe even NPP?
See here how to reset it:
https://superuser.com/questions/53948/how-do-i-restore-bat-files-association-with-the-system-make-them-run-when-doub
Or maybe this if above does not solve it:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/fc2ca91d-5509-4c9b-92a5-5af19375e361/lost-bat-file-association?forum=w7itprogeneral

You may have to restart Windows for this to take effect.

correct! thanks a lot!

Complement:
When I delete the first opening bracket “{” and re-enter it, the fold is displayed correctly.

@Kuldeep-Ghorpade

install compare plugin - open two files and press compare under plugin-compare menu.

Cheers
Claudia

@Claudia-Frank
y, same idea now, thnks anyway

edit: fixed that too, stay tuned :D

@jtrav79

just try it a couple of times as it might be that the services is temporarily unavailable.

Cheers
Claudia

That thread suggested Workspaces and Projects (WAP). It chews up at least as much horizontal screen space and a bunch more vertical screen space than my suggestion, but I can make WAP work for me.

Thank you!