@Sean-Anigans

well it depends what exactly you want to do and which python version you wanna use and how flexible it should be and …

Npp does not have a builtin python interpreter but there are plugins which allow to execute python code
either natively like PythonScript or with a local installation like NppExec. If you want to use Python3 then I would argue that NppExec is the way to go.
NppExec provides a builtin console and a way to configure what needs to be executed.

@Nick-Felton

if you find a builtin language which, more or less, meets your needs you might
think about enhancing it by using a python script like discussed here.

Great, thanks for you fast help, now I’m happy :-)

@gayathri-priya, welcome to the Notepad++ Community forums.

You said:

I just want to select the name in each instance - just ABC and GBC.

Assuming that your data rendered accurately, and any the name is the first word on the line after a “header line” that starts with literal “Name” (with no spaces before)

This finds a line starting with name, then advances the search thru the EOL for that line, moves down to the next line, starts the match over, and matches just the first “word” characters (alphanumeric and underscore, for regex)

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FYI: here is some helpful information for finding out more about regular expressions, and for formatting posts in this forum (especially quoting data) so that we can fully understand what you’re trying to ask:

This forum is formatted using Markdown, with a help link buried on the little grey ? in the COMPOSE window/pane when writing your post. For more about how to use Markdown in this forum, please see @Scott-Sumner’s post in the “how to markdown code on this forum” topic, and my updates near the end. It is very important that you use these formatting tips – using single backtick marks around small snippets, and using code-quoting for pasting multiple lines from your example data files – because otherwise, the forum will change normal quotes ("") to curly “smart” quotes (“”), will change hyphens to dashes, will sometimes hide asterisks (or if your text is c:\folder\*.txt, it will show up as c:\folder*.txt, missing the backslash). If you want to clearly communicate your text data to us, you need to properly format it.

If you have further search-and-replace (“matching”, “marking”, “bookmarking”, regular expression, “regex”) needs, study this FAQ and the documentation it points to. Before asking a new regex question, understand that for future requests, many of us will expect you to show what data you have (exactly), what data you want (exactly), what regex you already tried (to show that you’re showing effort), why you thought that regex would work (to prove it wasn’t just something randomly typed), and what data you’re getting with an explanation of why that result is wrong. When you show that effort, you’ll see us bend over backward to get things working for you. If you need help formatting, see the paragraph above.

Please note that for all regex and related queries, it is best if you are explicit about what needs to match, and what shouldn’t match, and have multiple examples of both in your example dataset. Often, what shouldn’t match helps define the regular expression as much or more than what should match.

Maybe a possible cause is running N++ with multiple instances and closing the non-original instance last? I seem to recall that some settings get disabled for a second+ instance and if you close the ORIGINAL instance with any others still open, when you finally close those, their settings become your new default settings. Maybe something to check…

@guy038
Hey, thanks for the suggestions!

I was using v1.4.10.0 and updated to v1.4.11.0, but unfortunately the problem stayed.

Thank you all for your time and for your know how. I appreciate that.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Konrad-Bińko

please test the following, to verify, if a clean notepad++ would show html and xml language selections on your system:

download the notepad++ 7.6.6. 64 bit 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.7.6.6.bin.x64.zip to e.g. 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 the portable version for this test.

open the extracted npp.7.6.6.bin.x64 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 activated to hide all known file extensions at your windows explorer settings)

test if html and xml selections, as well as css, are shown at the alphabetically cascaded language menu.

if this portable version works for you as expected, please provide us with the debug information of your installed notepad++, by going to the menu ? > debug info... > copy debug info into clipboard and pasting it here, for further guides and fixes.

Very helpful. Was looking around for that. Many thanks for taking the trouble to post it. APpreciated.

splendid, thanks for your feedback, @GrantHorizons.
we are glad to be of help.

@satyagraha

The keycombos in the incremental search window aren’t remappable like the keycombos in the editing tab windows. However, this may be of interest: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14271/keyboard-shortcut-for-next-previous-incremental-search-result

@Alan-Kilborn

It was a little discouraging–even before the big bug was noticed–to see the RC then like, what, a day or 2 later the actual release (not sure what the “ideal” period would be; reality seemed a tad short).

you are absolutely correct.
i think it would have been best to pre-announce the introduction of rc community trials, and how to handle them.
the first rc was very unexpected for quite a few.

afaik, the short period between rc and a as soon as possible release, was maybe not just because of gpg, or to release it before 04.01, but also due to important issue reports with 7.6.4 and below.

Which was THEN followed rapidly by the critical bug being found. Was it found because the real release happened and so many more people jumped on it, thus finding the bug?

don found it, no one else did.

Or would a longer RC period have turned it up?

maybe, maybe not.
but perhaps now, that a bug has been missed at the first rc batch, maybe a few who like testing will be more challenged to find a bug at eventual next rcs, or the appveyor builds, who knows.

Hmmm, will never know.

exactly ;-)

Try to do so:

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@peterelli said:

Where can i find some informations about the formatting options to separate the needed data?

This is a good starting point: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15765/faq-desk-where-to-find-regex-documentation

@PeterJones thank you, I will check it too, and yes, I use perl for that manipulation
I have some ideas about how to solve the problem, just wanted to find out if there is something easier than I think

@Roger-Morris

maybe the log file monitoring function is enabled:

make sure view > monitoring (tail -f) is disabled.
if it is enabled it would reload and scroll to the end of a file.

if it would be activated, you would see an eye instead of a disk at the tab, as seen at the screenshot below.

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The built in macro worked nicely! I think I will stick to it.

@Alan-Kilborn
That works… thanks a lot!