Here are some more comments that may help with understanding and debugging what’s happening.

The updating of the ‘In selection’ area seems to happen well after the Find/replace dialog box is painted.

In step one where the cursor is in a blank area of the file and no text is selected do Ctrl-H and watch the ‘In selection’ area. If it shows a black box and ‘In selection’ in black then press Esc and then Ctrl-H again while continuing to watch the ‘In selection’ area. Eventually you will see black box and ‘In selection’ in black pop up and then quickly change to gray. It looks like the words ‘In selection’ go gray first and then the box.

Once you have a gray box and ‘In selection’ then press Esc to close the dialog box and select some text. The size of the selected area does not matter. It can be one character or the entire file. The method of selection does not seem to matter. You can use the mouse or keyboard. Now do Ctrl-H. You will see that ‘In selection’ and its box are grayed out. This is the random grayness people have been seeing. Press Esc to close the dialog box and Ctrl-H again while watching where ‘In selection’ will be painted. You should see the ‘In selection’ box being painted in black shortly after the dialog box has been opened. It’s possible both the box and the words ‘In selection’ were in gray but on my machine the repainting to black is too fast for me to confirm it’s all gray and then repainted. I am seeing the black box painted after the dialog box is up.

Also, while I have been switching to the ‘Find’ tab and back to ‘Replace’ to fix an undesired grayed out ‘In selection’ I found that it does not matter which tab of the dialog box you use. You can switch to ‘Find in Files’, which does not have an ‘In selection’ field and back or you can switch to ‘Mark’ and back. When switching to ‘Find’ and ‘Mark’ you’ll see that ‘In selection’ is in black.

This issue can also be reproduced using Ctrl-F for Find or Ctrl-M for Mark. The buggy behavior with the grayed ‘In selection’ is the same as with using Ctrl-H for Replace.

@donho said in Fake site "not t epad-plus-plus.org":

https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1347757857056423936

At that twitter link @donho has 2 links where we can go to report the bad nottepad site. If a lot of people follow the links and do it, I’d think it would help.

@When-you-read-the-comments-I-will-be-there

… or clicking the Word Wrap toolbar icon: d0dbf978-400a-4dfb-aeb5-217810bc2f54-image.png

@Mike-Casey said in Copy and replace text question:

Is there a way to save only the data after the the colon in my example?

Possibly. If this is a complete line then you would use a regular expression to capture from start of line until the first colon found. Then all these characters would be deleted.

To give us a better understanding can you present complete lines in your next post. After inserting them, select them and click on the </> button above the posting window. This encapsulates the text within a black box and prevents the posting engine from possibly altering the text as it tries to format the post.

Terry

@PeterJones That is difficult to find a suitable font to show the special character.

@R-k said in Keep 1st,4th,8th,12th.....so on lines, multiple of 4 and delete rest.:

When i run macros multiple files, i get empty files. It delets every thing. But works file on single text file.

I actually came up with another idea. When used with the “Find In Files” function it should work.
You would record the following in the macro.

Ctrl + Home keys (takes you to the first line) Line down by using down arrow, cursor should be in the first position. Add a space and a carriage return/line feed Use the “Find In Files” function with
Find What:(?-s)^(.+\R){3}(.+\R)
Replace With:\2
This selects groups of 4 lines and leaves just the last one. As the first line is now followed by a blank line it’s the blank line that is deleted, not the first line. As nothing has been mentioned with regards any remaining lines (less than 4) this step is yet to be determined. It could be anther regex for when 3 lines exist, or 2 lines, or even just 1 line, returning how many required and deleting the others.

So for your next question, likely you get empty files as using ctrl-tab cycles through the open files within Notepad++. f you don’t close (and save) that tab you will find it cycles back to that tab again I think and performs the same operation again. Although I’d suggest it would leave just 1 line in each tab, yes?

When recording a macro you select the function, then supply the regex. I think a better option would be to use the Find in Files function. This will work through files in 1 or more folders. The files don’t need to be opened in Notepad++. So you will need to create a new macro using that function, unless you are good at editing the macro, they are fiendish to do so.

Terry

@soghjfik

Can you walk us thru a series of steps you are doing (step by step, exactly; don’t generalize, don’t leave stuff out) so that we can understand better, and perhaps tell you where things are going wrong?

Hello,@SusiKette
Please try this code, To shortcuts.xml <Action> tag.

In Windows 7|8|10 C:\Users%username%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml

Code:

<NotepadPlus> <InternalCommands /> <Macros> <Macro name="Trim Trailing and save" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="83"> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42024" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41006" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> <Macro name="abc" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="a" /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="b" /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="c" /> </Macro> </Macros> <UserDefinedCommands>....

I hope this code will be useful to you.
Thank you.

The style configuration depends on the lexer you are using.
So, to be able to give you some advice, may I ask you which lexer (aka language) you are using. HTML, Java, C# … ??

@Andreas-Neff

As a workaround, try printing to a PDF-file instead. This way you have a WYSIWYG level of control, printing the generated PDF should give you the output result you are looking for.

Thank you Alan
I didn’t ever used it because it is a “popup” that has to be closed every choices. And it has some bugs: did not refresh well if there are more windows than the area contains (if there is the scrollbar, the sort doesn’t refresh well). Except this, I will learn to use windows window more and more. Assigned to a shortcut. Thank you.

@apantzar said in SRS Document:

because I want to write SRS for a project that does not have one.

That’s not what you said in your first post. But if that’s really the case, good for you.

As I said, I don’t think such a document exists for Notepad++. Sorry

@Ruud-Schmeitz said in Selected text:

So I’ve decided to go for this option :
editor.setWhitespaceSize(1)
editor.setWhitespaceFore(1,( 64, 64, 64))
editor.setWhitespaceBack(1,(255,255,255))

I hope that makes me happy .
😀

Actually it did not !

Selecting the 8 lines of code results in :
code - selected 01.png

Because that’s not what I want , I deleted editor.setWhitespaceBack(1,(255,255,255)) in the startup.py file .

The remaining PythonScript commands :
editor.setWhitespaceSize(1)
editor.setWhitespaceFore(1,( 64, 64, 64))

make the selected lines of code look like :
code - selected 02.png

Now I’m happy .
😄

@Alan-Kilborn

Thanks Alan. I have created a new one. Thanks again.

@PeterJones yes , thank you , the replace should have been “$1”\r\n at least , or i should have taken the \R into brackets in the search string , and added it into “$1”$2 . but i missed the concept that the whole search string gets replaced , if i dont instruct a rebuilding in replace . oops , my mind wasnt working .
i am sorry @Aswin-Hadinata

@sj-bt

Just to save you from further disappointment, this forum is for discussion of how Npp can be used and whether there may be workarounds for known limitations. It is better to make a feature request as described here.

@guy038 said in How to find duplicate words in two files?:

Lexocographically Descending

Yes, dammit.
These type of typos are the death of me LATELY. :-(
I actually realized the typo while I was napping and came back to my PC to fix it, and found you already had.