Something similar to this has been discussed recently on
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20755/syntax-highlighting-works-for-a-time-then-irreproducibly-bleeds-only-restarting-npp-fixes-it/10
Perhaps you may find some help there.

Thank you both. Thanks to the above 2 syntax I can rely on it to find any email address with a domain that I need. Since I very often use it to find emails on drive D or E. Previously this work took me quite a lot of time and trouble. Once again thank you 2

@PeterJones Thank you SOOO much!

Thank you @PeterJones for your quick reply and for confirming that it’s a Windows “feature”!
I thought that I missed to change something in my Notepad++ configuration, that’s why I asked.

As this is my “work” laptop (and the JumpList is working fine for np++ for “normal” files) I don’t want to install too many tools - only those I can justify that I need them for my work. ;)
E.g. the plugins for xml and json - they are great!

Thanks again!

@Tak-Li

That is currently (where currently = up to and including 7.9.5) not possible.

The workaround is to let it go “too far” and then press Ctrl+z and then Ctrl+Shift+z.
This will “undo” the most recent replacement (the one you wanted to stop at) and then “redo” the replacement (and leave the caret at the location of the replacement).

Hello, @donniel-collera, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

May be do this quick task, described in the post, below, just to verify if your keyboard parameters are OK ;-))

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/29704

Best Regards,

guy038

@Jose-Emilio-Osorio

How to insert Carriage Return “CR” before “LF” at the end of each line ?

They are probably already there and you need to do exactly nothing to insert them.

If you are “unconfident” that Notepad++ is doing this for you, press the “Pilcrow” toolbar button…the one with this symbol on it:

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In the Notepad++ toolbar, it is blue in color, not black.

With that toolbar button in the depressed state, you will see the CR and LF in a Windows file, example:

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Since experimenting further with the AutohotKey UDL I have found that this syntax “bleeding” can be limited / minimised / corrected by adding a space to the end of lines (I normally am a heavy user of tabs) especially those lines which seem to end a certain type of highlighting e.g. comments or lines with delimited strings in them.

I also made another discovery, that a tab can be used as a delimiter in UDL. You can enter it by pressing Control+Tab between 2 spaces e.g. ((space tab space EOL)).

Hi, @n_antiyou and All,

As I said in my previous post, you may mix some styles, from the 5 styles, available by default, to get other colors, in order to color all your keywords !

Refer to this post by @Claudia-Frank, who, unfortunately, is no longer active on this forum ! Her contribution was quite important and she provided quantity of excellent Python scripts, too ! Let’s wish her the best and good coding moments ;-))

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/27621

With the help of the NppQCP plugin ( Quick Color Plugin ), I built up a Word image which recapitulates the main style combinations, with significant colors and their RGB coordinates

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Best Regards,

guy038

It appears an issue on this was opened on github, but the author of Notepad++ closed it, citing not enough information. I’m not sure what more information people that this happens to could provide – I mean, you open the program and expect to see a reasonable UI, and you see…well, something like the above. Not sure what more there is to provide.

Anyway, here’s the issue I mentioned: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9760

@Paul-Huggins ,

Nope. That is not happening at all.

If you have saved the file, then close and re-open the file in Notepad++, and you see your changes, then the file has been written to disk in the path it claims it was saved to.

I can think of two things that might be happening:

You might be editing an INI file that lives within %Windir%\System or one of its equivalents, in which case you have likely hit the Windows OS’ File System Redirector After you save and write the file from Notepad++, maybe the original application was still open and re-wrote the INI file back to the way it thought it should be.

Hi, @Cristian-tanasa, and All,

I improved and generalized the process with these 8 new search regexes, in order to find part of a particular field n

Of course, I assume that :

Each row of the table contains the same number of fields

The field delimiter is the double quote char ( " )

The field separator is the semicolon ( ; )

Any field is preceded and/or followed with a ;

Any char, within a field, is different from, either, a " and a ; chars

Here are these generic regexes :

(?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " \K (?1)* # ALL chars, even NONE, of FIELD n (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " (?1){#} \K (?1)* # ALL chars, even NONE, AFTER the #th char of FIELD n (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " (?1){#} \K (?1){p} # p chars, AFTER the #th char of FIELD n (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " \K (?1){p} # The p FIRST chars of FIELD n (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " (?1)* \K (?1){p} (?=") # The p LAST chars of FIELD n (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " \K # EMPTY string, at BEGINNING of FIELD n (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " (?1){#} \K # EMPTY string, AFTER the #th char of FIELD n (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {n-1} " (?1)* \K # EMPTY string, at END of FIELD n

Notes :

Let f be the total number of fields and let m be the maximum number of characters of the field n. Then :

The variable n is between the values 1 included and f included ( So n-1 is in range [0,f-1] )

The variable # is between the values 0 included and m included

The variable p is between the values 0 included and m included

Let’s test these 8 real regexes, below :

(?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " \K (?1)* # ALL chars, even NONE, of FIELD 6 (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " (?1){10} \K (?1)* # ALL chars, even NONE, AFTER the 10th char of FIELD 6 (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " (?1){10} \K (?1){3} # THREE chars, AFTER the 10th char of FIELD 6 (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " \K (?1){5} # The 5 FIRST chars of FIELD 6 (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " (?1)* \K (?1){7} (?=") # The 7 LAST chars of FIELD 6 (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " \K # EMPTY string, at BEGINNING of FIELD 6 (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " (?1){10} \K # EMPTY string, AFTER the 10th char of FIELD 6 (?x) ^ (?: " ( [^";\r\n] )* " ; ) {5} " (?1)* \K # EMPTY string, at END of FIELD 6

Against the following sample text :

Field 6 V "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"1";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"12";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"123";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"1234";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"12345";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"123456";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"1234567";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"12345678";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"123456789";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"1234567890";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"12345678901";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"123456789012";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"1234567890123";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"12345678901234";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"123456789012345";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"1234567890123456";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call" "1000";"1";"1";"";"834600000";"12345678901234567";"1080668 / 13341845 This is technical";"1";"EN";"Call"

Super, isn’t it ?

Best Regards,

guy038

@guy038 thanks @guy038
great solution :)

I was afraid that would be the case. Thanks for confirming.

@Mayoares

Doc Switcher panel doesn’t seem to get much love from the developers any more; just my observation. You probably won’t see any changes to its functionality, even if issues are opened about it. I could be wrong, though.

Hello @alan-kilborn and All,

I’ve found out a simple example of the advantage of the conditional feature !

Let’s suppose that you have a particular tag <guy> and that you want :

To delete the starting tag <guy> with, both, its leading and trailing space chars

To delete the ending tag </guy> with its leading space char, only

The simple and obvious solution is :

SEARCH \x20<guy>\x20|\x20</guy>

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Now, this shorter regex S/R, with a conditional expression, related to group 1, is :

SEARCH \x20<(/)?guy>(?(1)|\x20)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

I verified that the suppression of 500,000 starting tags and 500,000 ending tags, in one step, take the same time, whatever the regex syntax used !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn said in where can i find informations about all versions of notepad++ what's new?:

@PeterJones

It would have more weight behind it if someone other than me were to make an official npp-usermanual request on github… especially a normal user like @zahra-ayat , rather than a frequent contributor to the forum.

I think that request is this one?: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9745

yes, its correct.
i asked such helpful informations on this issue.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9745

Thank you Mr. Jones, ecxellent explanation.
Maybe someday I learn how to use Notepad ++…

@NZ-Select :

There’s a technique to find the last match in a file, presented HERE. You might give that a try.

Peter, you are a legend, that is exactly what I needed, Thank you so much !!!