@shashi-bhosale ,

When I read your post earlier this week, I had hoped someone else would chime in, because I was pretty busy. Sorry no one else had a chance to reply before I finally found a spare moment to go back through unanswered questions.

If I have interpreted your request, then if I start with

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ki_APSGetTopLevelDemand_BKUP] ( @IpRefType AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefNum AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefLine AS INT ) AS blah blah blah CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ki_APSGetTopLevelDemand_BKUP] ( @IpRefType AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefNum AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefLine AS INT ) AS

and use

FIND = (\)\s*AS) REPLACE = $0\r\n@site = 'Site' SEARCH MODE = regular expression

After doing the two replacements (or a REPLACE ALL), I get what I think you want:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ki_APSGetTopLevelDemand_BKUP] ( @IpRefType AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefNum AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefLine AS INT ) AS @site = 'Site' blah blah blah CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[ki_APSGetTopLevelDemand_BKUP] ( @IpRefType AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefNum AS VARCHAR(100), @IpRefLine AS INT ) AS @site = 'Site'

If you want to know more about the individual tokens in my search and replace, look at the official search/regex section of the usermanual, linked below, for the following concepts

token see usermanual section about parentheses capture groups \s character escape sequences * multiplying operators \r\n control characters (note that they are case sensitive)

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions FAQ: Where to find regular expressions (regex) documentation Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex

@peterjones said in "Function List" current function highlighting is too light? (Part 2):

regarding “forbidden” error on the older topic: I couldn’t replicate

I couldn’t replicate either.
I put a post in the older topic that points here.

More on the topic of this thread is found HERE.

@jiyun-gou ,

When I installed the plug-in, the following screenshot appeared for a period of time, and it restarted directly. But the difference was not installed successfully

You will have to be more specific.

If you look in the Plugins menu, is there an entry for JSTool? If not, if you looks at Plugins > Plugins Admin, does it list JSTool under Available, Updates, or Installed?

I just tried on a fresh v8.1.9.1-64bit: the first time I tried to install JSTool, it restarted Notepad++, but didn’t install. The second time I tried, I saw the progress bar briefly, and when Notepad++ restarted, JSTool was in the menu. So maybe you just need to try again.

Also, your download box says plugin version 1.2001.1, but when I downloaded from NPP 8.1.9.1, it downloaded plugin version 1.2107.2 … I don’t know if maybe the developer of that plugin got rid of the old version when they released the new version… but maybe it’s not downloading the old version correctly. If so, maybe you could download the newest zipfile directly and unzip the JSMinNPP.dll into c:\program files\Notepad++\Plugins\JSMinNPP\JSMinNPP.dll and restart Notepad++ yourself.

:-) rather a dimly lit candle :-D

@brendan-ford said in Column Sort plugin; NppColumnSort-1.0.0.2:

error that says cant run a 32 bit plugin.

You can’t on 64-bit. Download the correct plugin version:

https://github.com/blumu/NppColumnSort/releases/tag/1.0.0.2-64bits

Cheers.

@bernard

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#multi-instance-and-date

@peterjones Sorry about that.
For anyone who’s interested, there is already a feature-request for it here https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10562.

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you very much this helped a lot.

@marc-wilson

Well, you can set that up, for a given language, here:

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@lelez-cz If you type that into NP++, you’re just creating a file with some JS code in it. You’re not executing it.

@david-boarman ,

I only recently started using Folder as Workspace, but I haven’t seen that. When I have launched an external process which affects the files in the folder that’s viewed in FaW panel (compiler or similar), I can see a brief flicker as it creates then deletes temporary files… but I’ve never seen it show multiple copies of the same file in the FaW list.

However, Code::Blocks is more than a compiler; from what I remember when I played around with it a few years ago, it’s an IDE (editor+debugger) which references a compiler (and you can actually choose between different compilers at installation time or through configurations or something). But as an IDE with powerful editor features, maybe something that it is doing is interfering with the way that Notepad++ tries to monitor the folder. I’m not sure how well you’re going to be able to mix NPP and C::B.

But it might be that some of the Settings > Preferences > MISC page will help – specifically, the File Status Auto-Detection. But folder contents aren’t the same as file contents, so maybe those settings won’t affect it.

@neil-schipper thanks for the reply.
many files [actually .m3u music playlists]
I’m removing tracks I no longer own from .m3u history lists.

yes I mean 1000’s of strings.
They should be windows paths in 99% of cases but can’t rule out something being not strictly windows.

Your method sounds solid, I made a AHK style c++ app to do the job, it’s slow but this is a once a year bit of house keeping so no need to be fast.

I’ll keep your method in mind for similar smaller projects. Thanks again.

@wg992 I achieved the transformation of your sample data using a macro I recorded which carried out conventional editing, searching and copy/paste operations. The macro acted on a single pair of corresponding D1. rows. I then ran the macro as many times as needed.

Note that within a macro, all of these operations are fully supported: selecting text, launching a search on that text via Ctl-F3, search again with F3, and, fresh clipboard copy/paste operations.

Care is needed in regard to the cursor position before launching the macro, and, where the macro leaves the cursor.

There are caveats, and your actual files may contain features that prevent this approach from being a desirable “all in one go” solution.

For instance if a file contains a large number of separate outer level SELECT {} structures, using the simple macro I used (which worked on the first try) will be cumbersome in that you’ll have to manually position the cursor between batches of macro runs. However, a more devious macro which incorporates a regex search (for the 1st instance of D1\d\. AS following SELECT) could be devised to overcome that.

@james-frake said in Not all files visible in "Folder as Workspace":

Is there a filter for different types of files shown/hidden, and if so, why only on some .h files?

I’ve just replicated the “code” folder you have with all the files you show (albeit empty) and my “open folder as workspace” shows all of the files, including the parser.output, which your image also shows to be missing. See my image below:

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So the next question is what version of Notepad++ are you using. Use the ? menu, then Debug info and copy/paste that here in reply. My version is:
Notepad++ v8.1.9 (64-bit)
Build time : Oct 21 2021 - 23:37:53
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 1909
OS Build : 18363.1854
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExec.dll NppExport.dll PythonScript.dll

Terry

@alan-kilborn
Thanks Alan for your remark. Very enlightening.
So, Any app in windows , is actually using MS windows object.
So to customize it , you go to the “source”

@peterjones Great work. Thank you very much for your quick reply. I will save a lot of time thanks to you. You are a true genius. Many thanks again.

@anybody-007 ,

I cannot imagine that the developers would really want to spend the time writing that interface for previews… but if you wanted to ask them to, the Please Read Before Posting directs you to the actual location for feature requests.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to tell Windows to associate with one application, but use another for generating the preview, but if it were possible, that might be a workaround – either long term, or at least until the developers implement it (if they ever did).

@luke-m ,

The pre-installed markdown UDL is using the comment-style for titles, so that wouldn’t allow separate coloring. If you turn that off, so it’s not a comment, and instead used N of the Delimiter boxes for your N levels of title, you could get N different colors for title… but that would reduce the number of delimiters available for the other syntax. Like the other delimiters n the pre-installed md, you would use ((EOL)) as the closing text for each title line; and you would have to define the largest number of title-#'s in the lowest numbered delimiter box (so delimiter 1 = ######, 2 = #####, … – though, unless you frequently go beyond level 3 or four, I might just assign three levels: ###, ##, and # – and thus level 3 or beyond would all be same color, which might be an acceptible compromise)

Right now, the > is defined as an operator. If you were to change it to a delimiter, you could get the whole line.

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Alternately, you could add extra highlighting to any builtin lexer or User Defined Language (UDL) using regexes via the PythonScript plugin in conjunction with the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo

@ajith-k

<Net>Seomthing</Net> <Clinician>Something</Clinician> <Net>Here</Net> <OrderingClinician>There</OrderingClinician> <Clinician>Everywhere</Clinician> FIND = (?s)</Net>\K((?!<OrderingClinician).)*?(?=(\s*)<Clinician>) REPLACE = $1$2<OrderingClinician>Was Missing</OrderingClinician> SEARCH MODE = regular expression <Net>Seomthing</Net> <OrderingClinician>Was Missing</OrderingClinician> <Clinician>Something</Clinician> <Net>Here</Net> <OrderingClinician>There</OrderingClinician> <Clinician>Everywhere</Clinician>

This will insert the OrderingClinician between the Net and Clinician if it’s missing, and indent the same amount as the Clinician.

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions FAQ: Where to find regular expressions (regex) documentation Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex