@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

@bandusiri-kadinappulige

It’s not currently possible, but if you’d like you could make a feature request for it, details for doing so are HERE. I doubt it would be implemented, though…just a personal feeling.

Maybe much better would be allowing submenus under the Macro menu; then macros could be organized in various ways, including roughly what you’re asking for (although having the same macros appear in more than one submenu – for multiple file types – would be problematic).

After some research, I found a request for submenus in existence already HERE.

@harry-harris

If you need help getting started with PythonScript, you can find a bit of a quick-start HERE.

Yes, thank you .

@vic3dexe said in Replace when inserting:

found the bug tracker.

It is good forum etiquette to post a link to any issue you open, that you’ve also discussed here. I will do it for you this time:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10769

Also, this thread may interest you:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18715

@ai-aramchek

thank you for sharing this with us. Does this also work under Linux derivatives with wine? And I add @Jago-Jago, as OP you are probably more interested in the matter than I am ;-)

ok, try this solution, very good for all your example and for the 6’ case:

SEARCH: ^(?=.*https://)(?:(?!\.html).)+$

@paul-horn said in Botimus p:

rudementary level stuff but ya thanks in advance

I don’t know what is even being asked here, but regardless it doesn’t sound like it is about Notepad++, the subject of this forum.

So, I’m going to say that this statement you made is correct:

so i am sure its going to sound stupid

@qmcl ,

Themes contain both foreground and background information. You have to choose a theme that matches your own personal aesthetic for Dark Mode vs Normal Mode. That’s why there’s a “Default” theme for Normal Mode and a “DarkModeDefault” theme for use with Dark Mode.

@sharkwsk

I took the title of this thread to mean that you wanted to count the words in the current selection, but the script counts the number of occurrences of selected text throughout the entire document. Just pointing out the difference in my interpretation in case any future readers do the same.

Thank you very much:C++ is very comfortable, so I stay with it.

Thanks again

@maría-del-mar-muñoz I can’t tell if you’re supposed to be learning about regex, or something to do with language.

If it’s language, simply searching for ity should get you most of the way there, no?

If you’re actually supposed to be learning regex, the expression you showed is very wrong. You need to spend some time with the docs, and play around with very simple expressions. Try including one new rule at a time to build competence. I suggest you learn what \w represents, as well as the * modifier. (I could give you more, but you’re a student, you need to study!)