@Alan-Kilborn said in How to visually differentiate 2 files in editing with the same file name but coming from 2 different folders:

Point to a tab and hover and after a brief delay it will show you the path to that tab.

BRILLIANT! I don’t think I ever knew that. Funny how I use Notepad++ daily, script with it, for it, write plugins … yet I still discover simple new “features” every now and again.

Cheers.

@PeterJones said in Missing .CSV Save As Extension:

With all that said, there is another option (literally): if you are opening lots of files that have no extension to start with, you might consider changing the Settings > Preferences > MISC. > Set Save dialog file extension filter to .* instead of .txt for Normal Text option, which will make the default Save As type as . instead of *.txt, so then you can default to typing the extension for plain text files.

As someone (“bReathl3sS”) points out HERE it appears that setting is going to get a tweak soon. Not sure if that impacts anything said right here, but I wanted to point it out for future readers, in case it does.

@PeterJones said in Add specific line to a large quantity of .nfo files:

Matching only at the beginning of a file isn’t always easy…

But, isn’t it easy now? (Now meaning 7.9.1 and later)
At that point, N++ regex got a fix for \A which allows that sort of replacement to work, without a ^ hanging off the end, or other tricks.

From the 7.9.1 announcement is item number 3:

3. Fix RegEx look behind operations and \A and and \b and \z (Fix #713, #1870, #2216, #2360, #9004, #4855).

Of course, OP in this thread could be using some earlier version…

Hey phenomenal11.
I was able to make collapsable tabs by using the Nimrod language.
I came to the forum for an answer, found this unanswered one and then noticed that my language is one of the predefined ones (Normal Text originally) as compared to your user-defined one. Thought I’d give the others a try and the first one i picked was Nimrod and it worked.
And because I’m like this, I went through all of the predefined languages and found that Python and Visual Basic weren’t so bad either. YAML was almost ok, except it writes everything in red.
Nimrod still made format changes like bolding and as a keyword and coloring everything after a double quotation mark, but switching to “vibrant ink” in the style configurator made it all go away.
So although no one answered your question, it did inspire me to find my own. I hope my solution can help you in the same way.
Cheers

@eyeq-git

a better overview…I had over 40 Files open

Not really sure what you’re looking for; only you know that for sure.
Perhaps it is a 100% replication of what you mentioned (of which I have no knowledge), and nothing else will satisfy. If that’s the case, stop reading right now. :-)

Otherwise, here are some options in Notepad++:

Press Ctrl+Tab and you’ll get something like this (yellowish vertical popup):

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Perhaps that meets the (unknown) need?

Otherwise, look to the left for something called Doc Switcher.
Perhaps that meets the need?

My screenshot shows ~40 tabs open, but the tab bar leaves something to be desired as it is single-line by default. What you can do is turn “multiline” on to (eat up some real estate and) look like this:

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You can show open tabs vertically if you’d like, although that is mainly for the sadistic:

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The bottom line is that you have options, but we don’t know what you’ve tried and discarded, or what you’re really after.

search within all the tabs

Have you tried the Find dialog’s Find All in All Opened Documents button?

@Ed-Eaglehouse I am not sure what it fixes, but I see that cs file cannot be parsed if it contains interpolation string like

var s_command = "some"; var s_target= "some 2"; var s_command_info= "some 3"; jsSupportLines.Add($" echo('not implemented: {s_command} ({s_target})'); // {s_command_info}");

@dbdonb ,

hope that this is how it’s supposed to be done.

You are given access to plaintext (XML) config files in Notepad++ because the developers want you to be able to have as full control over the application as you can. Edit config files to your heart’s content. :-)

@PeterJones said in PowerShell parenthesis matching:

The SciTE brace-matching (^E = Ctrl+E = Edit > Match Brace) works on the second line, but not on the first line.

However, more examples show: if I use real quotes rather than smart quotes:

$($s.replace(”’","’’")) ( ( ) ) $($s.replace("'","'"))

The third line, which has true ASCII " and ', the brace matching works fine in SciTE 4.2.0.

In Notepad++, if I leave that first line there, but add the third, it still thinks it is inside a string, which confuses things. But if I remove the first line and just have

( ( ) ) $($s.replace("'","'"))

… then Notepad++ brace-matching with Ctrl+B works for me.

@magoo104 , could you paste in some actual PowerShell syntax that shows the problem – once you paste it in the forum, highlight the text and click the </> button in the forum entry toolbar,

so that your PowerShell will be properly in a black box, and the Forum won’t try to “fix” your " " to “ ” or similar smart-quotes.

And I did confirm: in v7.9.2, with the most recent text shown, it properly highlights matching braces, as shown in this screenshot
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… and Ctrl+B works correctly as well.

So it was only with mismatched quotes and “smart quotes” that the problem occurs for me. With balanced ASCII quotes, it works just fine.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Searching a word in a large directory caused N++ crash and loss of auto-saved open documents:

Regardless, if you want YOURS to be seen, you’ll need to open a new issue on it on github; developers don’t read bug reports here.

Ok, thanks.

Moved back from Linux to Windows ~12 months ago, hope that memory serves.
There could be multiple issues.

If you are talking about problems of copy-pasting between Notepad++ and terminal (or other Linux app) then you are likely facing the problem of Linux PRIMARY and SECONDARY paste buffers. Go read about it.
Notepad++ over wine is copying into SECONDARY buffer and to paste into terminal you need special shortcut: ctrl-shift-v.
For the other way around copy with ctrl-ins from terminal and paste with ctrl-v into Notepad++.

From your description, I assume you are copy-pasting from Notepad++ into Notepad++.
Don’t remember an issue like you described.
I could guess that ctrl-ins and shift-ins are global shortcuts in the Linux system. This may lead into race where 2 entities, Notepad++ and “Linux”, manipulate the clipboard (or paste buffers) which leads to unpredictable results.
Using ctrl-c and ctrl-v should workaround THAT issue since they are far less global.
If that is indeed the problem then disabling global effects of ctrl-ins shift-ins will be VERY difficult. These shortcuts are embedded deep into the system.

There are also helper applications that should do automatic synchronization between PRIMARY and SECONDARY buffers to help. I didn’t install any of them myself. But as many kinds of “help” they may leave you off worse than you started.

@kracovwolf said in subtitle lines:

^.Subtitle

For your regex, you were very close. If you look at the * at the end, it refers to the e character whereas at the front you have it associated with the . which is special and means most, if not all, characters. So just add the . before the last * and it should grab the whole line. In fact the second * could be a + IF there are always characters behind the word subtitle.

Terry

@astrosofista @Terry-R Perfect, thank you so much, it worked! Cheers.

@PeterJones said in v7.9.2 NPPM_SETLINENUMBERWIDTHMODE:

I’ll file a bug tomorrow

#9338

Thanks for the research, @Ekopalypse

@Alan-Kilborn said in SHort cut key to backward search Ignore specific path in the find in files option:

Does the installer ask and then only install one localization (the one chosen)?

Yes, the installer only installs one language by default (I rarely have used the installer, so I forget whether it can optionally do more)… That’s why https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/binary-translation/ says to download the additional language files yourself if you want more translations available.

@astrosofista That’s exactly what im talking about,Thank u so much,appreciate that !!!

@bruh

… and it works

Great, if anything is unclear or I can do, let me know.

@Terry-R said in Problem with basic search:

I see the “in selection” button is ticked. Whilst it looks like the text in the background is selected, is it? If wanting to search an entire document untick the “in selection” button

@Alan-Kilborn said in Problem with basic search:

@Keith-Leng

So for your case it appears that you are pressing the Find Next button when this search fails? Is that correct?

If so, you should note that when you have a selection active (like we can see in the righthand part of your screenshot, that a downward search (like you’ve set) will start looking at and beyond the highest position of the selection in the direction of the end of the file. (Interestingly, a backward search – with Backward direction ticked – behaves differently!)

That’s why you don’t find helping in this example.

The fact that In selection is ticked has no bearing on this search. If you’ll notice the group box around In selection and Count means that In Selection only applies to Count. So, for Find Next or Find All in Current Document…it is meaningless to have In selection ticked.

Thanks for the replies. That was the problem. Sorry for my late reply. I didn’t get a notification.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Open with search:

@pdanes said in Open with search:

it changes in mid-stream. When I first call it, the dialog opens with “Find”, but after a while, it switches on its own to “Najít”. I haven’t (yet, anyway) taken the trouble to find out exactly when, or see if I can isolate the exact cause - I’ve been too busy just trying to get it working at all

Well THAT is certainly strange!

Isn’t it, though? What is happening is that only the first SendMessage call opens the dialog with “Find”. As long as the dialog stays open, and I simply put in different texts to search for and press the find button, it stays “Find”. As soon as a second SendMessage call is issued, or I manually switch to a different tab in the dialog, or I manually press ctrl/F (whether or not the search dialog is closed first), it immediately switches to “Najít” and stays that way from then on, for as long as Notepad remains open. If I completely close it, and it is opened again by the database and the search dialog is opened by the database’s SendMessage call, it is “Find” again. It seems that the very first SendMessage must bypass some initialization code. Maybe there is some other call I should issue first, some “SetInitialParameters” sort of thing, but I don’t really feel like looking for something that may not even exist. Just checking for both versions of the title works well enough. If someone who understands what’s going sees this and chimes in with some direction, I’ll fix it. If not, this works well enough.

A little odd, but I’ve seen stranger behavior from software.

Do they have a real Python interpreter built into Notepad? That’s some text editor.

It isn’t exactly “built-in”. It’s a plugin. But a rather miraculous one. :-)

So it seems. Python is probably something I should devote more time to. More and more situations are cropping up where knowing it well would be useful. At this point I can usually muddle my way to some result, but I don’t really ‘know’ the language, and I should.

@glossar said in Seettin a min. length for tab-characters:

It would be nice if we had had option about this, e.g., cancelling the tabularity/column feature, but I don’t think the developers would listen, after all, mine is just another user’s feature-wish.

The devs will listen and respond to requests that make sense.
Yours, however, does not.
You don’t get to change a half-century of how things work; sorry.
You might as well attempt to redefine how “line endings” are (good luck).

So for the files you are looking at, someone chose to use the tab character as a delimiter between data.
Perhaps an (unfortunate) way of doing it, that also has some lengthy history to it, and you aren’t going to be able to change that either.

So what can you do?
Suggest you use Notepad++'s replacement feature to replace tab characters with something more appealing.
Perhaps you replace \t in Extended or Reg. Exp. Search mode, with -------- ?

Or maybe @astrosofista 's suggestion of the Elastic Tabstops plugin works for you.

@D-A-G-13 said in Edit just one ocurrence in all files, not all ocurrences in all files.:

It worked perfectly,

I’m glad we got there eventually. It was hard work though.

If you ask any further questions please do supply examples. If the data is sensitive (confidential) then alter the data but keep the structure as it originally was. It’s very important that examples as supplied for the very reason as shown in this thread. Presumably English isn’t your primary language as it seems you didn’t understand some of the questions well enough to give complete answers. That’s why examples are very important. Generally about 5 or so lines before and using the same example lines, repeat them showing the result you were expecting to get.

Terry