Great job. You’re a genius. Making the regex multiline and commentes is real blessing.

I’ve added several whitespaces \s where i missed them.
I’ve added bounded templates <T extends A & B>
I’ve added multiple inheritance - interface can extend multiple interfaces
I’ve generalized the DECLARATOR and GENERIC groups a bit.

The result is far from perfect, but it completely satisfies my needs. I don’t mind if it recognizes multiple inheritance. We can leave some work for compiler too. I hope this class-function template will help with other languages.

<parser displayName="Java" id ="java" > <classRange mainExpr ="(?x) # Utilize inline comments (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) ^[\t\x20]* # leading whitespace (?: (?-i: abstract |final |native |p(?:rivate|rotected|ublic) |s(?:tatic|trictfp|ynchronized) |transient |volatile |@[A-Za-z_]\w* # qualified identifier (?: \. [A-Za-z_]\w* )* ) \s+ )* (?-i:class|enum|@?interface) \s+ (?'DECLARATOR' (?'VALID_ID' # valid identifier, use as subroutine \b(?!(?-i: a(?:bstract|ssert) |b(?:oolean|reak|yte) |c(?:ase|atch|har|lass|on(?:st|tinue)) |d(?:efault|o(?:uble)?) |e(?:lse|num|xtends) |f(?:inal(?:ly)?|loat|or) |goto |i(?:f|mp(?:lements|ort)|nstanceof|nt(?:erface)?) |long |n(?:ative|ew) |p(?:ackage|rivate|rotected|ublic) |return |s(?:hort|tatic|trictfp|uper|witch|ynchronized) |th(?:is|rows?) |tr(?:ansient|y) |vo(?:id|latile) |while )\b) # keywords, not to be used as identifier [A-Za-z_]\w* # valid character combination for identifiers ) (?: \s*\x3C # start-of-template indicator (?'GENERIC' # ...match first generic, use as subroutine \s* (?: (?&amp;DECLARATOR) # use named generic | \? # or unknown ) (?: # optional type extension \s+(?-i:extends|super) \s+(?&amp;DECLARATOR) (?: # multiple bounds \s+\x26 # ...are ampersand separated \s+(?&amp;DECLARATOR) )* )? (?: # match consecutive generics objects \s*, # ...comma separated (?&amp;GENERIC) )? ) \s*\x3E # ...end-of-template indicator )? (?: # package and|or nested classes \. # ...are dot separated (?&amp;DECLARATOR) )? ) (?: # optional object extension \s+(?-i:extends) \s+(?&amp;DECLARATOR) (?: # ...match consecutive objects, they are \s*, # separated by a comma \s*(?&amp;DECLARATOR) )* )? (?: # optional object implementation \s+(?-i:implements) \s+(?&amp;DECLARATOR) # ...match first object (?: # ...match consecutive objects, they are \s*, # separated by a comma \s*(?&amp;DECLARATOR) )* )? \s*\{ # whatever, up till start-of-body indicator " openSymbole ="\{" closeSymbole="\}" > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?-i:class|enum|@?interface)\s+\K\w+(?:\s*\x3C.*?\x3E)?" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?x) # Utilize inline comments (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) ^[\t\x20]* # leading whitespace (?: (?-i: abstract |final |native |p(?:rivate|rotected|ublic) |s(?:tatic|trictfp|ynchronized) |transient |volatile |@[A-Za-z_]\w* # qualified identifier (?: \. # ... dot separated [A-Za-z_]\w* )* ) \s+ )* (?: \s*\x3C # start-of-template indicator (?&amp;GENERIC) \s*\x3E # end-of-template indicator )? \s* (?'DECLARATOR' [A-Za-z_]\w* # type name (?: # optional parent type name(s) \. # ...parent-sibling separator [A-Za-z_]\w* # ...parent type name )* (?: \s*\x3C # start-of-template indicator (?'GENERIC' # ...match first generic, use as subroutine \s* (?: (?&amp;DECLARATOR) # use named generic | \? # or unknown ) (?: # optional type extension \s+(?-i:extends|super) \s+(?&amp;DECLARATOR) (?: # multiple bounds \s+\x26 # ...are ampersand separated \s+(?&amp;DECLARATOR) )* )? (?: # match consecutive generics objects \s*, # ...comma separated (?&amp;GENERIC) )? ) \s*\x3E # ...end-of-template indicator )? (?: # package and|or nested classes \. # ... are dot separated (?&amp;DECLARATOR) )? (?: # optional compound type \s*\[ # ...start-of-compound indicator \s*\] # ...end-of-compound indicator )* ) \s+ (?'VALID_ID' # valid identifier, use as subroutine \b(?!(?-i: a(?:bstract|ssert) |b(?:oolean|reak|yte) |c(?:ase|atch|har|lass|on(?:st|tinue)) |d(?:efault|o(?:uble)?) |e(?:lse|num|xtends) |f(?:inal(?:ly)?|loat|or) |goto |i(?:f|mp(?:lements|ort)|nstanceof|nt(?:erface)?) |long |n(?:ative|ew) |p(?:ackage|rivate|rotected|ublic) |return |s(?:hort|tatic|trictfp|uper|witch|ynchronized) |th(?:is|rows?) |tr(?:ansient|y) |vo(?:id|latile) |while )\b) # keywords, not to be used as identifier [A-Za-z_]\w* # valid character combination for identifiers ) \s*\( # start-of-arguments indicator (?'ARG' # ...match first argument, use as subroutine \s*(?-i:final\s+)? (?&amp;DECLARATOR) \s+(?&amp;VALID_ID) # argument name (?: # ...consecutive arguments are \s*, # separated by commas (?&amp;ARG) )? )? \) # end-of-arguments indicator (?: # optional exceptions \s*(?-i:throws) \s+(?&amp;VALID_ID) # ...first exception name (?: # ...consecutive exception names are \s*, # separated by commas \s*(?&amp;VALID_ID) )* )? \s*(?: # function declaration ends with ... \{ # ...a start-of-function-body indicator or | ; # ...an end-of-declaration indicator ) " > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="\w+(?=\s*\()" /> </functionName> </function> </classRange> </parser>

@maimonid-toledano

OK, now I see. To your info, the default key combination
for RTL/LTR view is CTRL+ALT+R and L.
To your question, well I would assume that one who is
working with RTL view would argue, that it doesn’t make sense that it is needed
to enable this always. You see - many different usings lead to too many different
configurations.

Of course we could discuss whether npp should allow to have it set globally or per tab
but this basically means someone need to write code.
So if you are able to write good c++ code you are welcome to provide such solution.

Cheers
Claudia

@Dat-Tuan-Dinh-Rask-Mølle-Skole

http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Explorer_Context_Menu

Hello, Vasile,

My updated regex ( See the second post, above ) works perfectly well, even if I insert your expression – Mother is home –, in a list !?. For instance, the original text, below :

aaa ccc bbb ddd aaa -- Mother is home – eee ddd aaa fff -- Mother is home – -- Mother is home – ddd ggg hhh -- Mother is home – iii hhh iii

with the S/R :

SEARCH : (?-s)^(.+\R)(?s)(?=(.+\R)?\1)|^\R

REPLACE : EMPTY

will be changed into :

ccc bbb eee aaa fff ddd ggg -- Mother is home – iii hhh iii

=> It did keep all the unique lines AND the last item of all the duplicate lines, whose your string – Mother is home – !

Cheers,

guy038

Plus 100 to this. Been meaning to log such a request many times.
Please don’t notify the user about change to the file UNTIL they click on that tab, or at least make it an option alongside ‘Update silently’. Thx.

I guess, an ability of defining own language highlight rules is one of the differences.

Hello, Markus-Ruhsam,

Of course, it’s a bit late, by now, but here is a shorter regex, that works perfectly well !

SEARCH (?-s)^(?=.{10}\.).+\R

REPLACE EMPTY

Et voilà !

Notes :

The first part (?-s) is an in-line modifier, which ensures that the dot meta-character will match only standard characters, even if you previously checked the . matches newline option

From the beginning of line ^, the form (?=.{10}\.), also called a positive look-ahead, verifies if the condition Does exist a DOT character, in column 11, of the current line, is true.

The important thing to remember about look-arounds is that, as soon as the condition is evaluated, the regex engine position is reset to the position before evaluating the look-around condition. So, in our case, to the position just before the first character of each line

Consequently, if this condition is true, the following part of the regex .+ matches all the standard characters of the current line

Finally, the \R syntax matches any kind of EOL characters ( \r\n ) in Windows files, ( \n ) in Unix files or ( \r ) in Mac files

Now, as the replacement string is empty, that means that any complete line ( with a dot character at column 11 ) will be, automatically, deleted !

Best Regards,

guy038