@Neculai-I.-Fantanaru

So the premise from the beginning it seems has been that the need is for some few number of pairs of files; mentioning that you had something like 500 would probably have been a good thing to do early on. :-)

Do you have a plan for how to combine the pairs of files into one file with the line of --------- separating them? That seems key to the solution described thus far. There are some not-so-difficult ways, but specifying WHICH files and making sure there are the same number of lines in each…I don’t know, but I hope you do, as this is your problem and your data. Perhaps the regular expression can be altered to avoid the dependency on “n”, but unless you have solutions for some of the other technical difficulties, well, then…

It seems we are getting very close to advising you that you need a programming language to do this more easily.

And yes, people, I do realize this discussion is getting a bit outside the realm of Notepad++ discussion. :-)

Hi guy038 you really rock thank you so much for your help, that’s very kind from you. Your solution works wonder, thanks for this very detailed help !

@NuclearBinoculars said:

I DID mean to have a reverse slash…For some reason it did not show up

The reason is that you did not put your text inside proper delimiters (the ones that turn text shown here into a red-on-pinkish background, for example). If you had, it would not have consumed your backslashes. But with your most recent posting you seem to have mastered the delimiters technique, so I’ll say no more… :-)

extra: in case you’re curious, since the OP used %L but my example used %1: see this post for a link describing %1 vs %L in registry entries. In short: it doesn’t really matter in this case, because the difference is only significant on old 16bit windows OS (like Win3.11). On modern Windows, %L and %1 are interchangeable in the registry associations. (Only %1 works in .bat/.cmd files, though, which is why I’ve gotten used to using %1.)

Looks like that worked. Thank you.

Do I need to make a new folder for each .dll and move the .dll in that folder? What about the other folders?

Here’s a screenshot - instead of creating new folders and such, I tried to just move everything from right to left (AppData\Local\Notepad++\plugins) and I saw Plugin again in the menu, but not the Plugin Manager.

Thanks in advance!

@dinkumoil is correct. You could also try installing NotePad++ in local mode where all the files are stored in the application’s folder and %appdata% is not used.