I have had this problem for quite some time but have never bothered to go after it.

Today, after once again losing a few scratch texts because of this ongoing issue, I have found this thread and also a few related open issues on Notepad++ Issues tracker:

Issue: Default session’s unsaved files are lost (from session’s XML file) after closing Notepad++ in a different session ‘enable session snapshot’ gets disabled occasionally Saved Sessions lost Notepad++ resets my auto-backup setting after I perform a git commit with it. Backup is broken in several ways with multiple instances

This is particularly unfortunate because Git installer for Windows itself actually offers to set up Notepad++ as the default editor for commits.

Setting up a portable version just for this seems a bit too much, also it would then be annoying to manually keep both Notepad++ configurations in sync. It is sad, but I have decided to do the same as @Ron-Little and simply use Windows’ Notepad.exe for Git and avoid this problem altogether.

@Yangos-Metaxas
2.276 kb is about 5500 lines with bookmarks)))
Nobody will fix it for you!

Hello anass-chawki, and All,

Quite easy with regexes ! So :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?-is)^.+\R.*/movie/.*\R

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once, on the Replace All button

Et voilà !

Remarks :

If you’re looking for the word movie, in any case ( for instance /MOVIE/ or /MoviE/ ), change the first part of the regex (?-is) with the syntax (?i-s)

On the other hand, if you want to delete the line containing /movie/ and a true empty line, above, use the syntax below :

SEARCH (?-is)^.*\R.*/movie/.*\R

Notes :

First, the in-line modifiers (?-is) :

Forces the search to be processed in a non-insensitive way

Forces to regex engine to interpret any dot ( . ) as representing a single standard character, NOT EOL character(s)

Then, the part ^.+\R looks for a complete non-empty line, with its EOL characters

Finally, the part .*/movie/.*\R searches any range, even null, of standard chars .*, followed with the string /movie/, with that exact case, and finally followed with an other range, even null, of standard chars .* and ended with its EOL chars \R

This selection of complete two lines is, then, deleted, due to the Empty replacement zone

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn yep :) well, thanks for your help!

@Benami-Ark

i can’t offer ctrl+g, but if you do such searches often, you can give the docked incremental search a shot.
you can summon it with search > incremental search or ctrl+alt+i.

keyboard controls: enter = next, shift+enter = previous.
and if you activate highlight all, you have a nice extra highlighting coloured in blue, which differs from the usual green mouse selection highlighting.

incremental search screenshot (the little docked search bar at the bottom):
Imgur

PS not sure were requests are, but the search function I believe has also been changed to remove the ability for a search to restart at the top once it’s at the bottom of the doc like Microsoft’s notepad which should be change back.

this option’s default setting never changed, so it might be disabled by accident on your system.
please activate wrap around at the search/replace panel, as seen at the next screenshot:
Imgur

many thanks and best regards.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Wu-Changze

it is not possible to change the whitespace fonts separately from the text font containing them.
but maybe @dail 's ElasticTabstops plugin may help you to get some of your documents aligned as desired.
you can install it via the built in plugins > plugins admin menu in all newer versions of notepad++.

regarding the usage of fixed width fonts and their spacing differences, it is recommended to use one single font only, and only use colour, bold and italic as highlighting elements, to avoid misalignments.

many thanks and best regards.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @major4579

notepad++ should not stay as an active process when you exit it, except if a plugin prevents a shutdown.

can you please run notepad++ with the parameter -noPlugin, e.g. by adding -noPlugin to your notepad++ desktop shortcut, or starting notepad++.exe -noPlugin from cmd ?

also it would come in handy, if you provide us with your debug information by going to the notepad++ menu ? > debug info... > copy debug info into clipboardand pasting it here.

many thanks and best regards.

That worked a treat!

Thanks.

@andrecool-68 said:

@andrecool-68 said:

У тебя это не нормальное поведение а косяк в коде программы.

Это понятно, но я устанавливаю стоковые версии, каких-либо правок в коде не делаю
Спасибо, но это очень трудоёмкая операция, по сравнению с предыдущим удалением

@Paolo-Santini104
Test “Explorer plugin for Notepad ++” it has an option to add to Favorites
https://github.com/oviradoi/npp-explorer-plugin

@Kat-Lau
look here https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/17817/execute-firefox/

@andrecool-68

because npp has already way to much functionality to remember each of them
I’m constantly surprised to find a feature builtin to npp which I wrote a python script for.
:-D

EDIT: just another wood/tree issue :-D

@Владислав-Браништи

no, you can’t do mathematical operations as the variable is a string, not an integer.
You might use a batch file to do the calc, with something like

SET current_line=%1 SET /A current_line = %current_line% + 1 echo %current_line%

and calling from run like cmd /k D:\test.cmd $(CURRENT_LINE)

@Ekopalypse

Thanks for the link, very informative. Assuming those are the only “macroable” messages as they may only require a simple wParam / lParam value as that’s all you can supply in the XML macro objects? Seems like the list could be expanded as the one I was quoting - SCI_SETMULTIPASTE (2614) - takes only an integer 0 or 1 for the wParam to turn it on or off.

I only found out about this feature by reading the Scintilla docs after implementing add to selection via an NppExec script as per your suggestion and adding them to the Macro menu via NppExec.ini. Now when I made a multiple selection with mapped shortcut keys and typed, it all worked great, but using paste (from a previous copied text), it only pasted on the first selected text, not all selections. And that’s because SCI_SETMULTIPASTE is off by default. A quick NppExec:

SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETMULTIPASTE 1

turned it on and then retrying my multiple selection paste worked to paste to all selections! Brilliant!

So of course I wanted this as a turn on / turn off menu item and thought of the Macro XML in shortcuts because of @guy038 's suggestion. I couldn’t get @guy038 virtual space macro to work (assuming because that’s an enhancement of 7.7.1 and I’m only on 7.7 not using the release candidate), so again, a quick NppExec script:

SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETVIRTUALSPACEOPTIONS 5 // for "default" behavior SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETVIRTUALSPACEOPTIONS 7 // for all on SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETVIRTUALSPACEOPTIONS 0 // for all off

and it worked fine for me. So I added the Macros to my shortcuts.xml in prep for the 7.7.1 release and then asked my question about other ‘macroable’ things that I’ve just been doing with quick NppExec scripts using SCI_SENDMSG.

Just BTW, NppExec (along with I’m assuming PythonScript and LuaScript which I don’t use but see great advice about) are awesome plugins that can immediately extend N++ new Scintilla features even if N++ doesn’t yet have menu items to access them direct. Based on the messages in this form, with NppExec, I’ve added an “add / clear annotation”, “add / clear multiedge”, “add to / add all / remove last from current selection”, the multipaste on/off I discussed in this post … the list goes on …

@donho thanks for the Scintilla upgrade!

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Leo-Lagos

no, notepad++ should not crash, if a file contains 0x00 characters.
maybe it’s a plugin like the dspellcheck plugin that causes this ?

please test the following, to verify, if a clean notepad++ (without any plugins that could cause this) would work on your system.

download the notepad++ 7.7 portable version from >>> here <<<.
(the portable version does not require any installation and runs completely independent and isolated from your installed version. all custom settings, as well as any stuff you might want to try at the portable version, will not modify your installed version)

extract npp.7.7.bin.zip to your desktop.

important note: make sure to close all instances of notepad++ that might be running, before starting the portable version at the next step, to make sure you are using this portable version.

open the extracted npp.7.7.bin folder and start this portable version by double-clicking on notepad++.exe inside this folder.
(note: notepad++.exe will just be seen as notepad++, if you have enabled to hide all known file extensions at your explorer settings)

try to open the original unix file containing 0x00 characters.

many thanks and best regards.

@AV-Chan said:

How can we do this?

Version 2 of the solution.
For the files containing text 1 and 2, use the step (i mentioned in first post) to prepended characters for file 2. So both these files will have a number (with leading zeros), both followed by a b character and a space.

For the regex to apply (after making sure last line is a blank line).
Find What:(?-s)^(\d+)a.+\R(\1b.+\R)
Replace With:\2

We can do this as the 2 lines we are ‘inserting’ will never be in the same location, thus designating differently as ‘b’ and ‘c’ is not required.

And lastly I’ve also managed to combine to removal of the prepended characters and removing the last line as 1 regex.
Find what:^\d+[ab]\s|\R\z
Replace With: <— nothing in this field

If any issues/queries please do post back. Actually, post back if it all works as planned. We ALL like the warm fuzzy feeling's we get from a good result.

Terry

@Jeffrey-Hennessey

this VPAT has been released.