So I ended up scripting a little mock up demo of this, which I won’t post unless there’s interest, but really there’s only a couple of new things that need to happen after a search match to make this work:

find the number of lines shown on screen

set the first visible line to a correct value (based upon the starting line of a find match, and the number of lines shown on screen, and of course the desired effect specified by the OP)

hmm, maybe it gets a tad more complicated if text between the match and the top of screen has folded/hidden lines…

However, looking at how N++ moves the display/selection when a match is found, there seems to be a lot going on with the logic, so I’m not sure how well any changes would fit in.

@guy038 said in How to delete all, except predefined values:

\u\1(?2\2:\x20)\x20M\L\3

@Ekopalypse @guy038
Thank you guys for thinking along with me!

@guy038 Does EXACTLY what I want - thanks again.

I had this exact same thing happening.

Not a day old Windows 10 installation.
I noticed that my disk management started to behave rather strangely and after which I noticed HUGE line margins on np++

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I do have a small 200kb video of how my disk management is behaving. But I cant embed it here. Says not enough privileges. It seems that disk management is using same windowing system so maybe these things are related?

@Anandkumar-Prajapati ,

I am curious what you were trying to accomplish with your post. It was nearly identical content to Guy’s post. The places where you varied from Guy’s were either inconsequential, or nearly so for the original data shown.

If you have a unique point you were trying to make with your slight differences, I don’t know what that point was – so if it really is trying to make a point, please explain yourself more. It might be educational for the original poster or future readers to know why you made the choices you did – but only if you explain why.

Otherwise, I want to point out that rephrasing advice that has already been given looks a lot like trying to take credit for someone else’s work – which is highly frowned upon (to say the least). I try to give the benefit of the doubt in such circumstances, so I am not saying that it was intentional; but it is a good idea to read the whole thread before posting, and to try to avoid giving the same advice without adding anything new, in an effort to avoid such appearances.

@Ekopalypse said in Replace help:

Really, I’m getting old and confused :-D

once again …

@Doug-Tatom

The naive interpretation of what you stated:

FIND = \d+
find one or more digit characters in a row REPLACE = '$0'
replace it with a single quote, the contents of the match, and a single quote SEARCH MODE = regular expression

Unfortunately, with how little you told us, I was not able to protect that expression against edge cases. If you give us better examples (see the italics below), you will get better answers

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Do you want regex search/replace help? Then please be patient and polite, show some effort, and be willing to learn; answer questions and requests for clarification that are made of you. All example text should be marked as literal text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. To make regex in red (and so they keep their special characters like *), use backticks, like `^.*?blah.*?\z`. Screenshots can be pasted from the clipboard to your post using Ctrl+V to show graphical items, but any text should be included as literal text in your post so we can easily copy/paste your data. Show the data you have and the text you want to get from that data; include examples of things that should match and be transformed, and things that don’t match and should be left alone; show edge cases and make sure you examples are as varied as your real data. Show the regex you already tried, and why you thought it should work; tell us what’s wrong with what you do get. Read the official NPP Searching / Regex docs and the forum’s Regular Expression FAQ. If you follow these guidelines, you’re much more likely to get helpful replies that solve your problem in the shortest number of tries.

Okay thanks, it works !

@Otto-Scho

In the search dialogue, check the regular expression checkbox and use the following search term FOG.+?\b to replace it with an empty string.

@Syhnd Thank you! Deleting the MenuIcons plugin fixed npp crashing for me.

@PeterJones said in How do you insert <br> or other HTML Tags into the document you're eiting?:

Or easier than writing a script, and without the PythonScript, you could record macros which cut the currently-selected text, type the opening tag, paste the text, and type the closing tag (which, in effect, surrounds the currently-selected text with that chosen tag pair). And, like the script option above, the macros could be assigned to the keyboard shortcuts desired.

@Tom-Sims Expanding the fine @PeterJones’ advice, here is an example of a macro that inserts <br>selection<br>, which you can easily adapt to your needs.

@Nicola-Vento said in Original String Order:

Alternatively, is there a way to know the string ordering of the original file so that I can put it in the edited file?

There is one thing you could do, although that means adding text to the file whilst editing it. You could add the original line number to each line, then move that to the end of each line. Then when ordering it alphabetically the number would not interfere with the new ordering. Once editing is complete you could move that number back to the start of the line, re-order based on the number and then remove the number.

This is achieved through the “Column Editor” function. You would have the cursor in the very first position of the file, use the Column editor to add a number, starting at 1, adding 1, no repeat and have the “leading zeros” ticked. Then use a regex (regular expression) to move that number to the end of each line. Continue with your editing.

Lastly move the number back to the start of each line using another regex, order by number and then a final regex to remove the number.

Terry

Thanks for clarifying my query and most of all for the solution which I was danged if i could find!

@Anderwriter

It’s a split.
A change was introduced in Notepad++ 7.9.3 that changed how this was handled. Not sure what to call it besides this!
For some, well, at least you and me, this change made things better (crisper text).
For some others, the change made things worse, some would say Notepad++ is now unusable for them.
Given not everyone is happy, I presume the developers will be doing some more work on this.
I just hope things move forward to unity, and not backwards to (more, continued) diversity, because I don’t want to return to the land of blurry text yet again.

I wanted to point out that here the new version compatible with notepad ++ 7.9.3 has been released (without the reported error).

RESOLVED

@guy038 said in Pin files:

Hit the Ctrl and Shift keys and moves up/down the Middle mouse Wheel

As I didn’t know this (surprise!), I did some further experimentation to find (some of this I knew, some not):

While pointing at tab bar (active tab doesn’t matter), hold Ctrl+Shift, scroll mouse wheel: activates first tab (if scroll wheel up) or last tab (if scroll wheel down) – this one is exactly @guy038’s above, just restating it as part of this list

Considering the active tab, while pointing at tab bar, hold Ctrl, scroll mouse wheel: activates tab to the left of the currently-active tab (if scroll wheel up) or activates tab to the right of the currently-active tab (if scroll wheel down)

Considering the active tab, while pointing at tab bar, hold Shift, scroll mouse wheel: moves the activate tab one position to its current left (if scroll wheel up) or moves the activate tab one position to its current right (if scroll wheel down)

Note that adding the Alt key to the mix does nothing; it is if it is not held during the operation.

Note that only the last bullet point action changes the tab ordering; there others are just tab navigation.

This is probably in the user manual, but it’s probably ok to reiterate it here as a refresher.

(And, biggest point, I hope what I’ve said is accurate!)

With the “WordPress hosting” link the OP provided, my first thought about it was that this was purely a spam posting.

@Pavel-P ,

I have opened files that big or bigger in Notepad++, so Notepad++ can open a 388MB file.

If you have a problem, you need to describe the circumstances of the problem with more detail than that. Please see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you, then come back and give us something to work with.

Okay, I found the problem.

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Thank you for the responses.

@Soumitra-Chakraborty yes

@gstavi

OP said:

I have a few hundred text files I open in notepad…

We hear this A LOT!
We always ask how practical it is, and no one ever explains it.

Wouldn’t it be simpler for you to manage the opened files with:

Window -> Windows …

In my answer I inferred that OP was already using Window > Window… menu in order to sort tabs, because how else could you do it?

Activate the tab you want with double click or Enter.

OP is wanting auto-selection of a “reasonable” tab after closing one – clearly if OP wanted to click on a tab they would just do it (and wouldn’t have posted a question).

BUT… your information is good for other readers that may come here in the future looking for answers (and don’t know about Window > Window… menu).