Hello, @david-cummings, @alan-kilborn and All,

Not difficult with regexes !

So, let’s start with this INPUT text :

406D69 NPT04S G-JMCH B734 West Atlantic UK -------- 25025 24450 1250 1250 30/01/2023 23:54:46 30/01/2023 23:59:31

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?x-s) ^ (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) | \x20+ -------- .+

REPLACE (?1\1,\2,\3,\4,\5)

Untick all box options

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression serach mode

Click on the Replace All button

=> You should get your expected OUTPUT text :

406D69,NPT04S,G-JMCH,B734,West Atlantic UK

If OK, I’ll explain you how it works, next time !

Note that I use the Free Spacing mode (?x), in the search regex, in order to separate the main parts for a better comprehension

Best Regards,

guy038

@SouthPole-Cat ,

yes.

In Notepad++ natively, no. But using the plugin MarkdownViewer++, a converter-and-renderer is embedded into your Notepad++ environment for you.

Hello from the future of 2023!

Some ingenious and clever programmer created a cross platform clone of Notepad++ and is available on all major OSes including macOS.

*Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work.

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Enjoy!

@Paul-Wormer said in Is there a way to convert multiple text files to docx with notepad++ ?:

The other way is: zip xml’s.

Well, the other way might be to figure out what xmls to create, before zipping…
The presumption here is that user just has free-form .txt files, right?

@Alan-Kilborn Good one, thanks.

Hi, @peterjones, @steve-thorpe and All,

In your post to Steve, I suppose that you wanted to advice :

I suggest searching through your registry for notepad++.exe …

BR

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn
Oh i did not catch that, glad there is actually a way to do it at all, even if a bit cumbersome. And yeah, an actual proper checkbox option within preferences would have been ideal, but i’ll take what i can get.

@Paul-Beunk

At Notepad+ it doesn’t save it on exit

Of course it is saved, it is in the configured backup directory.
If you don’t like it, reconfigure your settings by unchecking "Enable session and snapshot … "

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@Robert-Rodriguez said in Why Does app take so long to start?:

it takes 5-10 seconds for Notepad++ to launch

Is it loading some files? Are some possibly large or possibly of a sort that will be colourised by lexers. Are some of the files on a network/remote drive. All these things can have a part to play in how long Notepad++ takes to prepare the window for you to interact with.

Terry

Due to the problem seen earlier, I decided to take another approach, so that Notepad++ would cooperate better with the lines I was hiding in order to achieve the goals of the script.

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered too many bugs with the hidden lines feature, that it isn’t worth continuing. I think that, at least for now, I’m giving up on this idea…

@Brian-Riback ,

Use regular expression mode. Use FIND = \s+ and REPLACE = \x20 (or a single space; both are equivalent).

(BTW: don’t expect people to actually click on a link to a random file in a google drive or other location, since there is no guarantee what’s actually at the other end of such a link.)

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

Does this file exist on your system?:

Of course

There are a number of posters here for whom this is not a foregone conclusion! :-)

@Shekhar-Singh said in limit the number of lines in a document ?:

when the note is fresh & its edited?

Don’t know what that means.

@NyTR0S96 ,

It wasn’t an installer option previously. There is a section in the online user manual about notepad replacement, which explains that Windows 11 doesn’t necessarily allow the old win10-and-earlier method. However, the next version of the manual will include this updated page, which has a workaround that has been tested by some users (and the developer) on Windows 11:

However, in Windows 11 it’s Notepad UWP version installed, you have to remove Notepad UWP to make the above instructions work.

To remove UWP version of Notepad, you have to launch powershell with admin privileges, then run the following command:

Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.WindowsNotepad* | Remove-AppxPackage

Thanks to all for good analysis and suggestions. I’ll take the route of removing the NppTextViz plugin and see how it goes. Appreciate the good support. Thanks!

@temp-temp It doesn’t seem directly possible, but the JsonTools plugin has a menu Open JSON Tree Viewer and then a button Query to CSV that produces at least some kind of table view.

FYI: It seems this issue has been fixed in slack finally:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9717#issuecomment-1259551873

@Terry-R I thought my question was pretty clear!
How Do You Add A KeyBoard Shortcut!

The link did not work yesterday, I just clicked it right now and it came right up. Thank you!