Hello, @steven123, @ekopalypse and All,

@steven123, I’m pleased to tell you that your request can be solved, easily, by using a POSIX collating sequence into a character class / bracket expression, which defines a list of equivalent characters to the character mentioned in the collating sequence

The regex syntax of a POSIX collating sequence is [=<Char>=]. Note also that this POSIX collating sequence must be inserted, itself, inside a normal character class [....] or a negative character class [^....] in order to match all the equivalent characters to character Char !

Refer, for additional information, to :

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html#boost_regex.syntax.perl_syntax.equivalence_classes

https://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html#eq

For instance, the regex (?-i)[A-E[=0=]5-9] would match a uppercase letter from A to E, a digit from 5 to 9, the digit 0 or any of the 4 equivalent characters to digit 0 of the list below :

0030 Nd 0 Basic Latin DIGIT ZERO 2070 No ⁰ Superscripts and Subscripts SUPERSCRIPT ZERO 2080 No ₀ Superscripts and Subscripts SUBSCRIPT ZERO 24EA No ⓪ Enclosed Alphanumerics CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO FF10 Nd ０ Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms FULLWIDTH DIGIT ZERO

So, in order to match, either, the string Ho Chi Minh and the string Hồ Chí Minh, simply use the regex :

H[[=o=]] Ch[[=i=]] Minh, with the collating sequences [=o=] and [=i=] embedded in a character class

Some other examples :

The regex \t[[=a=]]\t, against the list below, would match all the equivalent characters of the a letter, whatever, the case, the accentuation, the size and other specifications of these equivalent chars. That is to say 69 characters ! 0041 A ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A 0061 a ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A 00AA ª ; Other_Letter # Lo FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR 00C0 À ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 00C1 Á ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE 00C2 Â ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX 00C3 Ã ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE 00C4 Ä ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS 00C5 Å ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 00E0 à ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE 00E1 á ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE 00E2 â ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX 00E3 ã ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE 00E4 ä ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS 00E5 å ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE 0100 Ā ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON 0101 ā ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON 0102 Ă ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE 0103 ă ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE 0104 Ą ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK 0105 ą ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK 01CD Ǎ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CARON 01CE ǎ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CARON 01DE Ǟ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON 01DF ǟ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON 01E0 Ǡ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE AND MACRON 01E1 ǡ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE AND MACRON 01FA Ǻ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE 01FB ǻ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE AND ACUTE 0200 Ȁ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOUBLE GRAVE 0201 ȁ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOUBLE GRAVE 0202 Ȃ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH INVERTED BREVE 0203 ȃ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH INVERTED BREVE 0250 ɐ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED A 0251 ɑ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA 0252 ɒ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED ALPHA 1E00 Ḁ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING BELOW 1E01 ḁ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING BELOW 1E9A ẚ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RIGHT HALF RING 1EA0 Ạ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOT BELOW 1EA1 ạ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT BELOW 1EA2 Ả ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH HOOK ABOVE 1EA3 ả ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH HOOK ABOVE 1EA4 Ấ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE 1EA5 ấ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE 1EA6 Ầ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND GRAVE 1EA7 ầ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND GRAVE 1EA8 Ẩ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND HOOK ABOVE 1EA9 ẩ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND HOOK ABOVE 1EAA Ẫ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND TILDE 1EAB ẫ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND TILDE 1EAC Ậ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND DOT BELOW 1EAD ậ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND DOT BELOW 1EAE Ắ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND ACUTE 1EAF ắ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND ACUTE 1EB0 Ằ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND GRAVE 1EB1 ằ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND GRAVE 1EB2 Ẳ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND HOOK ABOVE 1EB3 ẳ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND HOOK ABOVE 1EB4 Ẵ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND TILDE 1EB5 ẵ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND TILDE 1EB6 Ặ ; Upper_Letter # Lu LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND DOT BELOW 1EB7 ặ ; Lower_Letter # Ll LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE AND DOT BELOW 212B Å ; Upper_Letter # Lu ANGSTROM SIGN 249C ⒜ ; Other_Symbol # So PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER A 24B6 Ⓐ ; Other_Alpha. # So CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A 24D0 ⓐ ; Other_Alpha. # So CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A FF21 Ａ ; Upper_Letter # Lu FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A FF41 ａ ; Lower_Letter # Ll FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A In the same way, the regex \t[[===]]\t matches all the equivalent characters of the equal sign = : 003D Sm = Basic Latin EQUALS SIGN 207C Sm ⁼ Superscripts and Subscripts SUPERSCRIPT EQUALS SIGN 208C Sm ₌ Superscripts and Subscripts SUBSCRIPT EQUALS SIGN 229C Sm ⊜ Mathematical Operators CIRCLED EQUALS FF1D Sm ＝ Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms FULLWIDTH EQUALS SIGN And the regex \t[[=Q=]]\t matches all the equivalent characters of the Q letter : 0051 Lu Q Basic Latin LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q 0071 Ll q Basic Latin LATIN SMALL LETTER Q 02A0 Ll ʠ IPA Extensions LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK 211A Lu ℚ Letterlike Symbols DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL Q 24AC So ⒬ Enclosed Alphanumerics PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER Q 24C6 So Ⓠ Enclosed Alphanumerics CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q 24E0 So ⓠ Enclosed Alphanumerics CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER Q FF31 Lu Ｑ Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q FF51 Ll ｑ Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER Q

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn thanks a lot - that works perfectly.
So here the final solution to this thread summarized from above:

p = editor.getCurrentPos() editor.paste() editor.setEmptySelection(p) editor.chooseCaretX()

Awesome idea, I didn’t think of that!
Thank you so much for the solution and for the step-by-step guide as well. Much obliged.

Viktória

@ajpanton

I’m not sure about this case, but I know for certain files, an update won’t change them. This is so that possible user customizations aren’t blown away. The process intends to be “smart” but it isn’t infinitely smart. I believe it errs on the side of caution. Again, not sure about your use case. Maybe someone else knows more about this one.

@Alan-Kilborn You are right, it was a python file, so I had to change the setting for python files. Thank you!

Thanks a Lot. This works fine.

See also: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20147/save-as-with-all-types

@Terry-R wow thanks alot terry ima hop on that later and see if i can start to code you helped me alot thanks and enjoy youre day sincirley -Andre.

@DIV-on-github

I don’t think it can be done with builtin functionality as long as you cannot
ensure that the backslash is not glued to other chars.
The only other possibility I see is to use a script like this one with a regex like \\(?=\s) .

@Isabelle-Buchmann

Können Sie bitte die debug-info posten. Ist im letzten Menüpunkt,
dem Fragezeichenmenu enthalten.

@PeterJones Thank you very much!

@Ekopalypse Just got done trying it out, works wonderfully, many thanks :)

@guy038 Thank you for help!
I combined my macro and your two regular expressions into one, now everything works correctly and beautifully! But if the file is large (e.g. 100mb) the macro works for about 30 seconds))).

@Terry-R OMG thanks a bunch Terry… It worked perfectly. You saved me!

@andrecool-68

But only as long as you have not opened more than the maximum number of files to be saved.

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Create/maintain some sort of database for this info

But I see a disadvantage - maintenance. How to keep this kind of db clean. I would say that during runtime of npp one can expect it but
after a restart it will become a nightmare to keep it clean.
How would one handle temporarily inaccessible files, moved or deleted files.
On the other side if you can configure an extension or lexer to always
open a file in a specific encoding then I assume most of the issues are solved.

@schidan

If you want to restrict the matches to two numbers between pairs of = then I would suggest:

find: =\d\d(?==)

Hello, @petr-andreev, @terry-R, @astrosofista and All,

@terry-r and @peterjones are right about it. For instance, the first word of your example, Sent is obviously not a proper name but this long sentence could have started with a proper name, too ! Regexes are really not a fair tool to solve semantic problems ;-))

@Astrosofista, I do like your approach, too ! As for me, I succeeded to build up a regex which catches, “more or less”, all the proper names and compound proper names of the OP’s text !

I modified your example, adding some dummy text as well as the @peterjones text, for a deeper text. Of course, the first word of any sentence is considered as a proper name. And, although your first sentence, slightly modified, seems to give good results, the @peterjones text, coming next, is not so pertinent !

Sent by them to the north in search of new lands, the daring daredevils of the Swamp Orkhon, Holokhoi Oyuun, Symattai the Blacksmith, Hara Tumen, Uluu Horo, the elder Omogoy and Ellei Bootur, as well as the general MacArthur, O'Neil the Scotsman , A SpecialNicknameForTest; Cardinal Mazarin, la Marquise de Maintenon, Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" and Louis XIV the Great or Sun King, his father, proceeding from the banks of the Great Ebe from top to bottom and from bottom to top, found three spacious valleys. As a second paragraph, we will follow d'Artagnan on his quest to find the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, along with fictional characters and Dr. Watson, and Bill S. Preston, Esq, and George Wexford-Smyth III. They were really curious whether Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel would lose his "van der", and whether Dutch would be kept because it's a proper adjective (not a proper noun).

The following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?x-is).*?(\u[\l\u'."]+(((?!and|or)[^,;.:?!\r\n]){1,5}?\u[\l\u'."]+){0,3})|.+(\R)?

REPLACE ?1\1(?4:\r\n)

Would output this text :

Sent Swamp Orkhon Holokhoi Oyuun Symattai the Blacksmith Hara Tumen Uluu Horo Omogoy Ellei Bootur MacArthur O'Neil the Scotsman SpecialNicknameForTest Cardinal Mazarin Marquise de Maintenon Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Louis XIV the Great Sun King Great Ebe As Artagnan St. Francis of Assisi Dr. Watson Bill S. Preston Esq George Wexford-Smyth III. They Dutch Mathieu Poel Dutch

Remark : if you add the new rule that “Any sentence will never begin with a proper name”, it should even be possible to avoid the first word of any sentence ! However, the @peterjones and @Terry-R thoughts should convince you of the limits of regexes, in this matter !

Test on your real text to see if any other problem occurs ! I do not have time, presently, for explanations of this search regex, but I will, next time !

See you later,

Best Regards,

guy038

Thank you. I was able to assign a new key combination in the settings of the program. The automatic selection of empty spaces between paragraphs is not a problem.

@Tom-Klecker said in How do I show/hide the "CR" and "LF" text at the end of the text line?:

I’m a returning user to Notepad++. It’s an excellent simple text/ ASCII text editor.
The CR and LF are part of the original ASCII code set and are a couple of the ‘machine codes’ (codes 00 to 31) that go back to the teletype origins where it was literally a command to reposition the print carriage back to the left margin and roll the platen up the space of a single line. The 2 command CR& LF were sent by TTY operators to start new lines… Later some printers and word processing apps were designed to automatically execute a line feed with every CR which led to the need to edit/convert some text documents for compatibility with different printers/word processors.
I like to see the CRLF to make sure they are there in the document and the line breaks are ‘hard’ and not interpreted by the app based on TAB, commas (CSV), semicolons, etc.
In a computer printer or display the commands tell the device to show the next character down a line space at.the left margin (or indentation).

Activate it via menu view->show symbol->show end of line

@Todd-Gehring-Gervase-Jr ,

Please read this FAQ entry: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place