Hi, @mark-boonie,

Hum, I’m a bit upset with the example that you provided !

Indeed, I’ve already find out a regex solution, following exactly what you said in your initial post

So, I created this sample of text below :

bla bla <start string> blo blo <target string> <end string> bla bal blah blah <start string> <end string> <start string> <target string> blu blu <end string> bla bla <start string> bla bla blah blah <end string> bla bla <start string> <target string> <end string> bla bla

Now :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Uncheck any box option

Find (?s)^<start string>((?!<start string>).)+?<target string>.+?^<end string>\R(*SKIP)(*F)|(?-s)^.*\R

Replace Leave EMPTY

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

=> You should be left with this text :

<start string> blo blo <target string> <end string> <start string> <target string> blu blu <end string> <start string> <target string> <end string>

You can verify that, in this OUTPUT :

Any text outside the blocks <start string>....<end string> have been deleted

Text within blocks <start string>....<end string> which do not contain the line <target string> have been deleted, too

It just remains blocks starting with a <start string> line and ending with a <end string> line which do contain a line <target string>

And note that, in this last case, all the lines of these blocks are kept, too !

However, with the text provided :

The delimiters *Block start and *Block end are different than in your initial post, but this is not a problem

But the fact that the <target string> cannot be clearly identify is a BIG problem

Indeed, from your example, how may I know that this block of text must be kept or not ??

I probably miss something …

BR

guy038

@PeterJones said:

I wish I knew of a notification that was better suited to just-on-resize

Hook the message loop and look for WM_SIZE messages?

@nikkinisly ,

The thing truly named “Plugin Manager” was last compatible with Notepad++ in v7.5.9 from October 2019. Had you really not updated since then?

Or are you talking about Plugins Admin? That’s the builtin replacement since v7.6 in November 2019

And it’s still in v8.9.1:
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My guess is that you deleted gup.exe and/or other of the content in the updater folder, or the plugin list DLL. To find out:

Exit Notepad++ Perform steps 1-3 for each of the following files List of files C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\Config\nppPluginList.dll C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater\GUP.exe C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater\libcurl.dll If any of those files are missing, you will need to reinstall, making sure to include the auto-updater and Plugins Admin, because all of those files are required for Plugins Admin to work Steps Right click on the file and choose Properties Look to see if it still has the Unblock checkbox If it does, checkmark it, then click Apply / OK

here is an example of a GUP.exe that still has the mark of the web:
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After making sure the Mark of the Web is gone from all those files, then restart Notepad++, and Plugins Admin should be there.

@PeterJones said in Is There a Way to Prevent Pasted Text from Spreading Out with Rows of Spaces?:

implementing it in PythonScript today

Thankfully, I found an old script which did something related, which was easy to update.

# encoding=utf-8 """in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27385/ This will paste the CF_TEXT plaintext from the clipboard, but will convert any series of newline characters into a single space before doing the paste. Because this uses .insertText() instead of putting the modified text back into the clipboard and doing .paste(), it should avoid clobbering the clipboard. (based on @alan-kilborn's clipboard script here: <https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97132>) """ from Npp import * try: editor3h # third editor, hidden except NameError: editor3h = notepad.createScintilla() def get_clipboard_text_without_newlines(): retval = '' editor3h.clearAll() editor3h.paste() if editor3h.getLength() > 0: editor3h.rereplace(r'[\r\n]+', ' ') # replace all newline seqeuences with a single space retval = editor3h.getText() return retval editor.beginUndoAction() editor.insertText(editor.getCurrentPos(), get_clipboard_text_without_newlines()) editor.endUndoAction()

This has been tested in the PythonScript 3 plugin. The PythonScript FAQ explains how to install PythonScript plugin, and how to run a script using PythonScript plugin, and even how to assign a keyboard shortcut to the script. Make sure you follow the instructions for PythonScript 3, not PythonScript 2 (as I have not tested under the older plugin syntax, though it will likely work there)

@Jay-S

I replied here.

Turns out it was an issue with the GPU driver, which has now been patched.

@archerarcher1 I will suggest LongPathTool to solve this error.

@Fred-Morant ,

Regular expressions don’t work the way you expect in search-backwards mode, so it’s disabled except for advanced users.

Advanced users can look at the user manual and figure out how to enable regexBackward4PowerUser

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#preferences-for-advanced-users

@PeterJones
on the screenshot above Reduce option is already pressed though.
Max tab label length truncates text, which is not the behavior i want to restore - i want the tabs with short names to not have this big gap at the end.

That said, it seems that the “enable pin tab feature” was the culprit, as disabling it seems to have restored the desired tab size behavior.

There still is some extra spacing before the close button though:

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@Nppenjoyr ,

See this post

@Liam-Wright I am running the latest NPP (8.9.1) and I don’t see this setting.

@D-Kirkpatrick said in Editing the Shortcuts File:

However with this latest version there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this?

Nothing has changed regarding shortcuts.xml in the last many versions.

I know there is a copy in %appdata% but that also had my changes.

It depends on your settings, but the %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml is the normal first place that Notepad++ will look.

if that’s not working for you:

confirm you follow the normal incantation for editing config files (ie, close all N++, open just one, edit file, save, exit and restart N++ to allow the change to take effect) if that doesn’t work, grab ?-menu’s Debug Info and share it with us share the actual XML snippet from the right shortcuts.xml file, so we can look to see if we can tell what’s wrong

update: I just re-read your post, and noticed:

When I added in the appropriate line to the XML file and saved it nothing happened and the pull down menu did not change.

You have to exit Notepad++ after saving, then restart the application. Notepad++ doesn’t just re-parse shortcuts.xml when you save it, so the menu won’t change by just hitting save on the file.

@sagradamoly-stack said in Managing the User Languages tool:

Is there any way to delete all the interim variations without losing all the work getting to a useful final result?

It depends on what you mean.

En masse? No

One at a time? Yes. In the UDL dialog, select each intermediate UDL from the drop-down, and click Remove. Since it’s likely on the order of a dozen or two, it won’t take you that long – less time than asking here took you, I’d wager.

without losing all the work

I mean, deleting the intermediate ones will obviously delete the intermediate stages. If you don’t want to lose them, but don’t want them in the N++ Language menu, use Export to save each to a separate XML file which you can then save in some backup directory, then Remove to take it out of the menu.

@George-Warriner,

My best guess is that it was referring to this conversation

@Markus-Louw ,

You mean this box?

See that X on the upper right, right where Windows dialog boxes normally have their X close symbol? You click it to close the message so that you can type.

@jterrain said in how to make tab bar appear vertically in notepad ++:

but implementation of actual vertical tabs would work better.

We have a Feature Request FAQ:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15741/faq-feature-request-or-bug-report

As described in this comment, I noticed that the Search->Go to... dialog and typing do not reveal the current position if it’s in a hidden line range. This seems to me to further highlight the importance of creating a “Make current position visible” command.