@Salamander931 said in Join lines with specific symbol:

So basically I want to join line that starts with “\n” with previous line and I don’t want to delete this “\n” symbol. Any ideas how to do this?

Using a regular expression in the “Replace” function we have:
Find What:(?-s)\R^(\\n.+)
Replace With:\1
So search mode must be regular expression. Click on the “Replace All” button to change the entire file.

You will see the \\ in the expression because the \ is regarded as a special character, so the additional \ escapes it, or reverts it to a normal character.

Terry

PS since you didn’t show the example inside of a black box (read the “read me before posting”) it’s possible this might not work. I suspect you may have leading spaces on some lines.

thank you @guy038

@Michel-AUBINEAU ,

I really appreciate notepad ++ and I use it as my PHP page editor.
However despite all the possible settings of the ‘paper’ editions of a document, I cannot produce a ‘paper’ document which would give me:

line numbers with the start of each line up to the width of the page (ignoring the end of lines … exceeding the width of my A4 page, maybe the first 80 characters!) by not skipping any line, so with a numbering that follow

As the attached photo:

sorry, your image didn’t get attached, and I don’t know that I’m fully understanding what you meant (possibly because translation software isn’t perfect). Can you try attaching the picture again? (And make sure you make it clear whether the picture is what you get or what you want.)

@Stefan-Pendl @guy038

Thank you, this problem finally solved :D

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@Hellena-Crainicu said in Regex: How to turn more words in the line as if they were seen in the mirror?:

I thought of a much simpler solution, maybe you can help me a little bit.

Your idea is actually just a rehash of the ones provided by @guy038 and myself. You have a lot to learn yet about regex, but don’t worry, this is a good way to learn. By trying something, realising it didn’t work, you at least have opportunity to dissect it and understand yet more about regex.

I use the website rexegg.com as a good source of information. Just be aware that it refers to the many different flavours of regular expressions, not all examples will work in Notepad++. There are also other good sources of regex information available through the FAQ section of the forum.

In your regex the [A-Za-z0-9\-\'] is almost identical to the \w that we used. You also ask where the other letters went to, in finding only the last letter was returned by using \1 when your find expression had the + at the end. The reason is that at the point the capture group saved any characters the + was outside of the (). So the expression captured a single character, then as the + was processed, it AGAIN captured a character, but in doing so the capture group \1 was overwritten with the latest character. Had you put the + inside of the () you will get all characters returned, but they will be in the original order.

At the moment I think @guy038 and my solutions are as good as it gets within a regex world. Whilst we have shown it is possible with a regular expression to “mirror” (reverse) a word it does take quite a bit of coding to do so. Python (and other) language solutions work far more efficiently as they will often have higher level functions to take care of most of the hard work. In regex everything must be completed simply.

Terry

@FairbanksBiz ,

As @Alan-Kilborn said, once you closed the unnamed tab, Notepad++ deleted the session periodic-backup file, and thus “your data is gone”.

But assuming you had the session-periodic-backup turned on (it is turned on by default), then at one point, Notepad++ was saving copies into the %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\ , as @Terry-R described. So the files were written there at one time, and then deleted. That means, if you are lucky, an application like Recuva might be able to find and undelete the recent periodic backup for you. But with the amount of time elapsed, it’s getting less and less likely. Sorry.

In the future, if you want to cut from FILE1 to paste into FILE2, a better sequence would be:

save FILE1
I understand you might not have a named file for FILE1… but if this is data that is critical enough to you that you are desperate to recover it, then it should be critical enough to use up some disk space while you are in the middle of manipulating it. cut from FILE1 paste into FILE2 make sure FILE2 looks like you expect save FILE2 go back and save the empty FILE1 close the empty FILE1 use Windows Explorer or other filesystem tool to delete the empty FILE1

…That way, any time before step 6, you can go into FILE1’s tab and UNDO to get back the original file.

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FAQ: Periodic Backup vs AutoSave Plugin => Describes the builtin “Session Snapshot and Periodic Backup” feature and compares it to the AutoSave Plugin Recuva => completely unaffiliated with Notepad++ or the Notepad++ Community Forum; listed as an example of file recovery software for Windows with no guarantee or warranty, explicit or implied, by its listing in this post

@PeterJones @Alan-Kilborn Apologies Peter for responding to the wrong person.

Yes I see what you illustrated on my laptop but not on my desktop.

I just updated styers.xml on my desktop and all is wonderful.

Many thanks,
DG

@PeterJones Thank you very much!

Feature request submited on github:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10729

Thanks

I got curious, and had a couple spare minutes, so I did the experiment.

set local e ~ substr -4 4 $(SYS.PROJECTMAINFILE) if $(e) != .au3 goto BADFILE

so if you put that immediately after the npp_exec makefile.nppexec and before the Au3check.exe call, it will do a test for the PROJECTMAINFILE extension as well.

@SatokaNolato

Not sure exactly what your question is going to be, but I suspect it is going to be about Java code and not Notepad++.

If that’s the case, it isn’t appropriate for this forum. Please find another place to ask it.

@Tom-Grisafe said in Search Multiple Columns:

Any good site that completely explains Reg Expressions with Examples.

Yes. The FAQ for regular expressions has plenty. I linked this to you already, in my first reply to you.

Hi, @stephan-romhart, @terry-r and All,

Oooooh, Stephan, I see ! Actually, it’s the comments, themselves, that are the objects to look for ;-))

Then, just for your information, here is a shorter version of the two regexes, within the css_comment.xml file contents :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ================================================ [ CSS comments ] --> <parser id="css_comment" displayName="CSS" commentExpr=""> <function mainExpr="/\*{2,3}(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+\*/" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+" /> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

With the added line, in the configuration file overrideMap.xml :

<association id= "css_comment.xml" langID= "20"/>

As the default CSS association is :

<!-- <association id= "css.xml" langID= "20"/> -->

Note that the added line, in the overrideMap.xml file, is not mandatory. But, in that case, you must rename the css_comment.xml file as css.xml !

BR

guy038

@Chris-Chris

Yea, for sure read and follow the template for posting such questions!

@PeterJones said in 2 txt files are different in notepad , but similar in notepad++:

(s) that aren’t recognized are in the

thanks a lot, dude. this really was helpful and insightful !

@guy038 ,

Ah, yeah: I had avoided the S/R in the macro because I didn’t think of ticking the “in selection”. Good idea.

@fly-wire ,

My solution is okay; but if you want to preserve your clipboard you should use @guy038’s solution, because mine will replace the contents of the clipboard with your selected text, whereas the search-and-replace macro does not use the clipboard, so your old clipboard contents will still be available for pasting later.

Hi, I encounter this problem on every notepad++ opening. The main menu refreshes 3 times, and each refresh takes around a second. Removing “Explorer” plugin fixed it for me.

I’ve been able to get the job done, using the suggestions by guy038, which seems the simplest for me.
(
SEARCH (?-si)^(.+#0A5D00.+)[/b]

REPLACE $1

… )

Anyhow, thank you both for taking the trouble to help.
With best wishes