@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for taking the time to reply to my inquiry. I agree that in the past TextFX is awkward. It used to work to give me the date time function and permitted hot keys to be used. Now it just doesn’t work the way it used to. But I did find a solution in another thread that works for me in my current incarnation of Notepad++ v7.9.5 which I posted here in a reply to astrosofista.

Awesome! Thnk you very much

@Jim-Van-Fleet

Were you starting with the “portable” version of Notepad++?
I’m not sure it is relevant, but what you’ve discussed makes me remember an issue concerning the portable version and the path to theme files needing to have a hard-path (exactly what you’ve done).
Again, not sure it is germane to your situation…

@Alan-Kilborn
:-D 1st of … :-D

@David-Brigden52 said in Notepad++ File Status Auto-Detection not working:

I use a dark theme rather than the default Would that make a difference?

I could be wrong, but I cannot see how.

not seeing this behavior. It irritates me.

I can understand that.

In full disclosure, I do sometimes see Notepad++ not update as quickly as I’d like – this screen capture was quite cooperative.

Sometimes, I think it doesn’t notice until the system clock is about 1min beyond the timestamp of the file. (And I think I’ve even seen longer delays when the file was created on a machine whose time was off from my local machine.)

I don’t know the full algorithm that Notepad++ uses, but my guess is that in the real-life circumstances, it’s a combination of Windows not having yet flushed the file to disk from the other process and Notepad++ not polling constantly (it wouldn’t want to spend all its cpu cycles on checking for changed files).

In the contrived circumstances like my example derived from your instructions, I would expect pretty consistent behavior (since the individual processes of the time/copy-con commands will flush to disk when they close).

If I’m ever getting impatient, I just use the File > Reload from Disk to make sure it’s up-to-date. (The funny thing is, that’s sometimes accompanied a few seconds later by “this file has been updated”, when it then updates to the state of the file that I just manually updated to).

You might try experimenting with the MISC > File Status Auto-Detection settings… maybe having recently changed from one to the other enabled the algorithm to work more consistently for me, or something…

Unfortunately, I am out of solid ideas, and since such problems are often the combination of many factors, it may be difficult to come up with a complete solution. But hopefully someone else has ideas for you to test.

Ok, so first, I was mystified at what was wanted, with a posting which had more words in the title than in the body. But, it appears Peter had some intuition for that, so…

Second, I don’t see a lot of value in the suggestion. Sure, it’s fine, but would I like to see devs spend their cycles on that? Nope, I have other ways to do that function, that exist right now. I want to see devs spend their time on increasing real text editing value added functions.

Third, opening a new instance of a running Notepad++ has some problems IIRC about saving any changed settings, or disabling backups, or some such.

That all being said, I do run a second instance (typically a close-to-virgin instance), to try out problems people bring up right here!
I create a Run menu item to run a current portable version using the -multiInst command-line parameter.

Hello, @Alan-kilborn and All,

Thank, alan, for your feedback !

Yes, I know that the Pos number, in the status bar, refers to exact position (starting from 0), in current file, of the first byte of the sequence needed to write a character, in a specific encoding ! For instance, the UTF-8 sequence of the 🎷 character, representing a saxophone, is the four bytes sequence ( F0 9F 8E B7 ). So, if you insert in a new tab, the string A🎷Z0 you can jump, with the Search > Go to... feature, when the Offset radio button is set, to :

Pos 0, right before the A letter

Pos 1, right before the 🎷 letter

Pos 5, right before the Z letter

Pos 6, right before the 0 digit

And, if you try the offset 2, 3 or 4, which are all within the UTF-8 encoding of the 🎷 character, you would just jump to the next Z char !

This behavior is now correct, because I created an issue about this problem. Refer to this issue !

Now, I think that you’re right regarding your assumption about the two bytes used by a char, over the BMP : this has really something to do with the two bytes of the surrogate mechanism !

For instance :

The regex to get the 🎷 character, use its surrogate pair \x{D83C}\x{DFB7} ( as we cannot use its complete hexadecimal code \x{1F3B7} )

The general regex (?-s).[\x{D800}-\x{DFFF}] finds any character over the BMP ( Basic Multilingual Plane ), so with code-point over \x{FFFF}

BR

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll add a screen shot in a bit.

@Ado-Netok said in How to add left and right margins feature in open text file?:

I may look for another text editor.

There are good reasons to switch text editors.
How could this possibly be one of them?
Plus, I don’t know that most are this type of “margin friendly”.
This is more of a word-processing function.
Are you sure you don’t want a word-processor instead of a text editor?

@PeterJones

Cool. I wonder if Bob and Alice are going to become regular contributors here? :-)

@Alan-Kilborn said in Lines containing the Unicode Word-Joiner U+2060 display oddly:

@PeterJones

If you’re going to experiment like that, probably should do it with DirectWrite both on and off. So many choices. :-)

Good idea. DejaVu Sans Mono looks good when DirectWrite is turned on.
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So, the options are enabling DirectWrite, changing font, or both. :-)

@Michael-Wurster Thank you for the quick reply. I’m not a developer so the solutions you provided will not be a quick fix for me but I’m not afraid to wade in “dark” waters so I’ll add one of the suggested plugins to the tool box and see what happens. Ideally, I’ll be able to figure out how to add text for column headers as well and from that point on I can have a “template” to call up when I need to edit/create one of these files for test purposes.
Thanks again.

Hello, @robin-melin, @peterjones and All,

Okay, I understood the problem ! In two locations of, both, the @robin-melin’s vb.xml file and the @MAPJe71’s vb-3.0.FL.xml file, we have an ending regex part (?=[\t ]*\()

The correct regex should be (?=[\t ]*\(|$) !!

So, here is, first, the corrected contents of the @MAPJe71’s vb-3.0.FL.xml file, where I used a 4 spaces indentation :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- =================================================== [vb_function] --> <parser id="vb_function" displayName="Visual Basic (.NET|Script|for Applications)" commentExpr="(?m:((?&lt;=&apos;).*?$)|((?i:REM)([\t ].*?)?$))"> <classRange mainExpr="(?s:(?&lt;SCOPE&gt;(?i:CLASS|TYPE)).*?(?i:END[\t ]\k&lt;SCOPE&gt;))" displayMode="node" > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?i:CLASS|TYPE)[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)(?:.*?[\r\n])" /> <nameExpr expr="[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)" /> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?m:^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$))" > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

And secondly, here is the corrected contents of the @robin-melin’s vb.xml file, where I used a 1 tabulation indentation :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ========================================================= [ VB ] --> <parser id ="vb_function" displayName="Visual Basic (.NET|Script|for Applications)" commentExpr="(?m:((?&lt;=&apos;).*?$)|((?i:REM)([\t ].*?)?$))"> <classRange mainExpr="(?s:(?&lt;SCOPE&gt;(?i:CLASS|TYPE)).*?(?i:END[\t ]\k&lt;SCOPE&gt;))" displayMode="node" > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?i:CLASS|TYPE)[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)(?:.*?[\r\n])" /> <nameExpr expr="[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)" /> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?m:^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|SHARED|SHADOWS|OVERRIDABLE|OVERRIDES|READONLY|WRITEONLY)[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$))" > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:GET|LET|SET)[\t ]+)?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|(?:DECLARE(?:[\t ]+(?:ANSI|UNICODE|AUTO))?))[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|(?:DECLARE(?:[\t ]+(?:ANSI|UNICODE|AUTO))?))[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:GET|LET|SET)[\t ]+)?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?i:[\t ]+(LIB|ALIAS)[\t ]+[\w&quot;\.]+)*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

Robin, I tested your two examples as well as the Peter’s one and everthing is OK, whatever the vb parsing rules file used !

Best Regards,

guy038

@User-Soft I’m not sure but maybe you need to install the Notepad++ locally instead of using a portable version.
Maybe then the icons would be displayed differently.
Like this:
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I’ve done it with local installation of Notepad++.

@PeterJones I see - and understand, thank you!

@Alan-Kilborn said in Use of "Wrap Around" changing start position of search if "Replace All" button pressed:

Is THIS your ver 0.3 proposal? :-)

Hell NO! Without the smiley face I was thinking you’re serious. Hopefully you don’t think of me capable of doing THAT! That’s way too many options on 1 window. Interfaces need to be kept simple and unconfusing.
My version 0.3 is this:

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where I looked at combining both “Replace All…” buttons like a jigsaw. So it would be purely a visual change. All 3 of these concepts were just intended to reduce confusion as we have talked about. Not that I’m confused anymore, I know exactly what “Replace All” and “Wrap around” selected do now.

However with a seemingly lackluster response to my ideas I don’t know that I’ll bother presenting it on github. I presume to catch the eyes of the developers that’s the next step. I haven’t even got a github account.

Terry

Another method is to copy only the lines pertaining to the macro out of your shortcuts.xml and have your users put those same lines in theirs. I neglected to mention this, because, for unsophisticated users, this is probably the MOST complicated and error-prone approach.

@Mik-Tilk said in Multi lines cursor manipulations:

Why they exist separated?

Because you might want to do this for some reason:

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In other words, make 4 selections (in the example) that are NOT in related columns.

@Dan-Cooperstock said in SCC API Plugin?:

none of which we use

Which one do you use?

@Nick-Brown said in Find the maximum line length in a file:

nice additions in the helper functions forEachLine

When I first started using PS, I noticed some weirdness with forEachLine that of course I can’t remember these many years later, but since then I’ve steered clear of it. Perhaps I was doing something wrong with it, or maybe there truly was something wrong with it that has since been fixed.