I really don’t know that we’ve had to explain before how to recover data from the special backup files that Notepad++ creates.

The WORST way is what the OP has done above – opening and continuing to edit a “new 2@yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss” file directly.

Another bad way to do it would be to create a new “new 2” tab and the open “new 2@yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss” briefly, only long enough to copy its data out and paste into the “new 2” tab, and continuing to work on that “file”.

The best way, as Peter hints, is to create a new tab and paste the data there, then IMMEDIATELY save it as a hard-named file in the file system, i.e., don’t let it sit there as “new 2” again (opening yourself up to the original problem recurring).

Alternatively: click Edit > Begin/End Select with the caret after the | (that is, wherever you want the selection to start). Then do a normal Find or Incremental Search or Find Next or what have you to find the “end” of the block you want to select, and then do Edit > Begin/End Select again, which will select that whole range of text, even if you do a simple search without the fancy regex syntax. You can use Settings > Shortcut Mapper to assign a key to the Begin/End Select, so that way you don’t have to use the menu every time.

@PeterJones,
Your solution worked perfectly.
Thank you for your quick and useful response.

@PeterJones said in Select the last N characters of selected line:

(Location=“file://localhost/C:/Users/nilsn/Music/DJ%20Master%20Folder/JOBB/Hits%20Snerikes%202/.*).mp3”

BINGO!

That worked.

Thanks a bunch dude

@Jeremy-Miller ,

As this is a Forum for discussion about Notepad++, asking for advice on alternatives to Notepad++ is rather off-topic.

There are plenty of internet forums and sites (like the alternative-to site that you linked) that are for discussing and evaluating software in general. I would think that going to a Chromebook forum and asking “what are people’s favorite Chromebook text editors” would be a reasonable action for someone in your position – or, better, finding the billion or so similar such questions on those Chromebook sites.

I literally just googled for “chromebook text editors”, and Google’s summation response was literally “the 10 best editors for your chromebook”, where the second one in the list (“Text” – wow, that’s even less creative a name than Notepad++!) is described as an alternative to Notepad++. So searching for either of those phrases in your favorite search engine is likely to produce better results than a bunch of Notepad++ users in a Notepad++ forum, most of whom might not even use the chromebook, could give. (Looking at the screenshots in the article, I would say that “Caret” looks even better than “Text”, but that’s just based on screenshots; I’ve never used either product. And this forum is not a place for in-depth discussions of such things, or of tons of links to external sites.)

@PeterJones

My guess is that image-only sites are blocked because they aren’t often relevant to an employee’s job, and they often contain NSFW pictures

NSFW part makes sense but it’s still a bit strange to me. I hope someone will explain it to me since this is the very first time I’ve heard about such a practice.

That’s because %AppData%\notepad++ is the configuration directory; there isn’t one called “configuration” in there.

Ah, okay. Thanks.

(i don’t see a significant difference between 3 and 4, so it’s strange that one is way too wide and the other way too narrow. But to each their own

Yeah it is strange indeed. 3 is 63 characters wide, while 4 is 97. Maybe that has to do with my weird resolution. That’s why I’m asking for a manual configuration of margin width, I guess I have to try it out manually and see how it appears.

That’s not what I said: %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts

You’re correct, I misstyped. I omitted the “config” directory. Anyway that directory is empty.

I will try to put Python user Script there and hope it will work.

Thanks.

@RevitArkitek ,

Before we can begin to confirm, we have to understand your circumstances:

What is your ?-menu’s Debug Info? Are you in View > Monitoring Mode or not? What are your Settings > Preferences > MISC > File Status Auto-detection settings? Please note that the third setting in that menu is a highly-likely culprit
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(though I would have expected slightly different behavior, as I would have expected it would scroll to the end, not to the beginning. But there might be some weird combination when you have both that and file-monitoring mode enabled simultaneously)

@Neculai-I-Fantanaru

Another solution I find on internet, it to use uni2ascii

Off-topic. Please refrain from posting off-topic information here.

@guy038 said in need help removing suffix of this combo:

Leave EMPTY

I prefer my solution, because:

it is simpler for an obvious newbie like the OP it has a definite replacement field, not “Leave EMPTY”:

We haven’t heard of it happening yet, but I wonder if anyone’s first try at implementing a solution ever went this way:

could you help me deleting the suffix of this line jfaiduefoue:Leave EMPTY i want to remove what’s after the “:Leave EMPTY any help is apprecited``` :-)

@massimo-la-terra

Nope, not unless you explain more about how this relates to Notepad++, and if you can convince us of that, a bit more detail about what you need to do and what you want to obtain.

@Bernard ,

Please see this older discussion, which links to issue#4566 – the developer does not believe there is room for a permanent zoom indicator on the status bar, so has rejected that request. There is no reason to believe he will have changed his mind.

That said, the older discussion I linked has links to PythonScript implementations that may be of use to you. If you’ve never used PythonScript, this FAQ explains how to take one of those example scripts and implement it on your computer.

@Michael-Vincent Thanks, I’ve managed to make this work with my use case. In case anyone’s interested, this is roughly what I’m doing (AHK code):

fileOpen := false ^+b:: if not fileOpen { fileOpen := true FileCopy, Backup\Notepad++\config (PostIt).xml, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml, 1 FileCopy, Backup\Notepad++\NppExec (PostIt).ini, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config\NppExec.ini, 1 Run, "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" "C:\Path\To\PostIt\File.txt" } else { fileOpen := false FileCopy, Backup\Notepad++\config.xml, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml, 1 FileDelete, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config\NppExec.ini } return

The config (PostIt).xml is the file with my PostIt NP++ configuration (i.e., no title bars, line numbers, etc.) and config.xml is my usual NP++ configuration. The NppExec (PostIt).ini file is the configuration file for the NppExec plugin, which launches a script on startup that contains the following:

NPP_CONSOLE 0 NPP_MENUCOMMAND "View\Post-It"

This now seems to work as I want it. Thank you both for the help.

@mpheath said in Help allowing users to install plugins:

That should grant members of the users group Full permissions on the /Link folder.

That does indeed sound interesting. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to test it, but I’ll report back here if/when I do

Hello, @calvin-orley and All,

Very easy, indeed !

Open the Find dialog ( Ctrl + F ) or the Find in Files dialog ( Ctrl + Shift + F )

Type in your keyword in the Find what: field

Choose the appropriate box options

Select your search mode ( Normal, Extended or Regular expression )

Click, either, on one of these buttons :

Find All in Current Document of the Find dialog

Find All in All Opened Documents of the Find dialog

Find All of the Find in Files dialog

After a while, a new window Search Results should appear, which shows all the occurrences found

Inside this window, right-click and choose the Copy Pathname(s) option

Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )

Paste the clipboard contents ( Ctrl + V )

Et voilà !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ekopalypse said in Need help with a text file:

\1\1

thanks

@Jordan-Adania

Folding is the weak part of UDL.
Sometimes it helps if you add an extra space after {.
If this does not help, are you willing to share your current UDL and an example AHK script where this happens?

@Terry-R said in One long line into multiple lines:

\r\n

Thank you so much, u saved my life <3

@Nasser-M-Abbasi said in how to disable the balloon tip in notepad++ in view->Document list?:

This ballon tip bothers me so much as it makes it hard to see files inside notepad.

How so?
For me, the hover tip opens about 2 full “lines” below the entry it relates to, definitely away from where the action is, example:

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So, ok, new 6 is obscured in my example.
If such a thing bothers you, get your mouse out of the Document List window.
Why is your mouse even there, unless you intend to switch tabs – in that case, get in, do it, hover tip shouldn’t have an impact.
The only other real reason to have the mouse in this window is to actually see the info from the hover tip.

I will move to Linux because of this

Seems extreme to me, but good luck!

@Deniz-Kasar said in Column Index of Pipelined Lines:

How can i set your script to run on startup?

see the instructions in the script code starting with to run via another file… and also references to startup script HERE

@Michael-Vincent, Many thanks for your help.