Thank you. I really forgot about Excel, can’t believe that haha. But it was really hard, since Excel’s ways to optimise the script made it so that some symbols disappear. So there I was again, no time for that.

So what I did was actually really use Find and Replace on Notepad++. There were severals commands and a hundred lines for every command but the numbers on them were a few, well, compared to the rest. Then I opened a new note and wrote a “Find” to find all the possible numbers for a command and “replace” with the correct ones. It toke a long time. After that I just “found” and “replaced” the written command name by another one, and repeated that for all the commands.

In the end I had all the notes for every command with a long find and replace in each one. It took me two hours to do the first and a few minutes to make the rest of it.

@guy038 Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Thank you.

@MickardEMT

yes, unfortunately textfx is not available as a fully functional 64 bit plugin.
if you do not need to edit files with a filesize of 300-2048 mb, and you currently need textfx, or eventually other 32 bit only plugins, you are safer with the 32 bit version.

for anything you would like to test at the 64 bit version of notepad++, you can use a complementary portable 64 bit version.
(like the 32 bit portable you’ve tried above, but the 64 bit release)
this is the way i have it. my main install is 7.6.6 32 bit, and additionally i use the 64 bit version, which can reside at the desktop, or at any other folder with write permissions, e.g. C:\PortableApps\Notepad++.

(note: portable versions must not be copied to %ProgramFiles% or %ProgramFiles(x86)%)

@Thiago-Miranda

Have some plug to change theme, based on language of open file?

Afaik not - may I ask you what exactly you try to achieve? Maybe editing the stylers.xml/theme.xml will solve your issue.

Hello, @vasile-caraus, @peterjones and All,

Here is my attempt, which is able to match and delete all duplicate words, one at a time, in any line <p class="bebe">..........</p>

SEARCH (?-s)(?:<p class="bebe">|\G).*?\h+((&\#\d+;|[\w'-])+)\h\K\h*\1[\h,;.]+(?=.*?</p>)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

If you prefer to use the free spacing mode and in-line comments, here is the search regex :

(?x) # FREE-SPACING mode (?-s) # The DOT represents a single STANDARD character (?:<p[ ]class="bebe">|\G ) # The string <p class="bebe"> or the CURRENT position, in a NON-CAPTURING group .*? # The SMALLEST range of STANDARD characters, ONLY \h+ # A NON null range of HORIZONTAL BLANK characters ( (&\#\d+;|[\w'-])+ ) # The string &#, followed with digit(s) + a SEMICOLON or a WORD character or a SINGLE QUOTE or a DASH # possibly REPEATED, so a WORD stored as GROUP 1 \h # One HORIZONTAL BLANK character \K # Everything ALREADY matched is DISCARDED \h* # A range, possibly NULL of HORIZONTAL BLANK character(s) \1 # The DUPLICATE word [\h,;.]+ # Any NON null range of HORIZONTAL BLANK character or a COMMA or a SEMICOLON or a DOT, possibly REPEATED (?=.*?</p>) # ONLY IF followed with the SMALLEST range of STANDARD characters + the STRING </p>) in the CURRENT line

Just test these two identical versions, against the sample text, below :

<p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our &#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected long-neglected; creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected long-neglected. creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our fisherman's fisherman's hut.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our long-neglected, creaky old old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p>

To be logic, only the non empty lines 1, 4, 8, 17, and from 19 to 24 match !

So, after a click on the Replace All button, exclusively, it should give the following text :

<p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our &#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our fisherman's hut.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p>

As you noticed, in line 23, the two duplicate words our and old are, both, found and deleted ;-))

Cheers,

guy038

Hello @guy038
Thanks for your help and tips. But this text was only an example. This kind of work is only to do “by hand”, because things are not always so simple. Numbers are not always matching text with that simple order as in my example…

@Michael4141 said:

isn’t it reasonable to take it that the program actually makes the backup it confirms it is supposed to be making

Did you read my description of what goes on under each of the different options? I made that description based on experiments I performed in the midst of writing up yesterday’s post. Those options behave exactly as I described when I used them as described. As I said before, Periodic Backups is the “Notepad++ will save a copy of the file in a temporary location every # seconds, until such time as SAVE is hit, at which point, its job is done so it can be deleted”. Backup on save is the “Notepad++ will save an extra copy of your file, either in the same directory as your file (simple), or a subdirectory with multiple copies (verbose), or in a custom backup directory for either simple or verbose”.

If you use those settings, and they behave as I described, then I don’t understand why you are still complaining. If you use those settings, and they don’t behave as I described, then you are ignoring me (*), and / or otherwise not providing the information requested to help us help you. If you don’t want help, that’s fine; but just admit that, and move into the Boycott Notepad++ section of the forum if you want to continue complaining. If you do want help, then we are quite happy to help you: I wouldn’t have spent so much time on that response if I didn’t want to help. If you do want help, then provide the description of what’s not working for you – exactly what the behavior is that you see, and exactly what settings you have when you see that behavior.

*: To quote what I said earlier:

Do your experiments match this? If not, please give us the ?-menu’s Debug Info > Copy debug info into clipboard, as well as giving us screenshots of the config boxes, and appropriate directories listings.

You also said,

BTW, another program I use is Libre Office and it actually does make a backup of the file currently open, when it is supposed to. So…

As far as I can tell, Notepad++ is behaving exactly as I expect. If I turn on periodic backup, it keeps a temporary backup of any file I haven’t saved yet, in the %appdata%\notepad++\backup. If I turn on backup-on-save, every time I hit save, it updates the backup file in either the same folder as the original file, in the NppBackup subfolder of that folder, or in the directory I specify. If that’s not what it’s doing for you, describe your exact settings, and what files you see in those locations at the various points in time (while there are files that are edited but not saved, and immediately after hitting save)

Maybe I just expect too much. {sigh}

You haven’t told us how it is not behaving according to your expectations.

But maybe I expect to much of people asking for help. {sigh}