@Scott-Sumner
Yep, “Shift+Ctrl+Arrow”.
Your advice helped.

@twentyTwo

when an unsaved tab is closed in notepad++, it is deleted

Yes, that’s the idea. If you close an unnamed tab (e.g. “new 1”, “new 5”, “new 23”) without saving it to a hard-named file first, it and its data are discarded.

Does File > Save As and name = file.asc not work for you?

If not:

you might want to check to see if you’re hiding extensions in Windows → that “feature” of windows can lie to you (Windows Explorer > View > Options > Change Folder and search options > View = uncheck ☐ Hide extensions for known file types) change the Filter entry in the Save or SaveAs dialog to “all files (.)” or equivalent might want to toggle Settings > Preferences > Default Directory > ☑ Use new style dialog on or off → that setting can change how the Save, Save As, and Open dialogs display behaves, especially for the file filters, and you might be expecting the opposite behavior

Otherwise, you’ll have to say specifically what you’ve tried (including which settings you have), and how you know it’s not working right for you.

@Scott-Sumner,

That’s easy: from the URL.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16392/check-which-numbers-are-not-included/9 ^^^^^

@sani-bani

Try this:

Invoke Replace dialog (default key: ctrl+h)
Find what zone: (?-s)^(.+)\R(.+)(?:\R|\z)
Replace with zone: \1:\2
Wrap around checkbox: ticked or unticked, as you like
Search mode selection: Regular expression
Action: Press Replace or Replace All button, as you like

Here’s how it works:

THE FIND EXPRESSION:

(?-s)^(.+)\R(.+)(?:\R|\z)

[Use these options for the whole regular expression][1 ] (?-s) [(hyphen inverts the meaning of the letters that follow)][1 ] - [Dot doesn’t match line breaks][1 ] s [Assert position at the beginning of a line (at beginning of the string or after a line break character) (carriage return and line feed, form feed)][2 ] ^ [Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 1][3 ] (.+) [Match any single character that is NOT a line break character (line feed, carriage return, form feed)][4 ] .+ [Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)][5 ] + [Match a line break (carriage return and line feed pair, sole line feed, sole carriage return, vertical tab, form feed)][6 ] \R [Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 2][3 ] (.+) [Match any single character that is NOT a line break character (line feed, carriage return, form feed)][4 ] .+ [Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)][5 ] + [Match the regular expression below][3 ] (?:\R|\z) [Match this alternative (attempting the next alternative only if this one fails)][7 ] \R [Match a line break (carriage return and line feed pair, sole line feed, sole carriage return, vertical tab, form feed)][6 ] \R [Or match this alternative (the entire group fails if this one fails to match)][7 ] \z [Assert position at the very end of the string][8 ] \z THE REPLACE EXPRESSION:

\1:\2

[Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 1][9 ] \1 [Insert a colon][10 ] : [Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 2][9 ] \2

Created with RegexBuddy

[1 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/modifiers.html
[2 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html
[3 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html
[4 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/dot.html
[5 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html
[6 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/nonprint.html
[7 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/alternation.html
[8 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html#az
[9 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/replacebackref.html
[10 ]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html

RegexBuddy settings to emulate N++ regex engine: Application=boost::regex 1.54-1.57 / flavor=Default flavor / replacement flavor=All flavor / ^$ match at line breaks / Numbered capture / Allow zero-length matches

@PeterJones said:

Don’t forget these directories… that’s where you will want to look for the files in the future.

AND…most importantly, although I’m 99% sure this advice will be ignored, these are the directories you create independent backup sets from.

find what = ^0+
replace with = `` (empty)
make sure you’re in regular expression mode

—
FYI: if you have further regex needs, study this FAQ and the documentation it points to. Before asking a new regex question, understand that 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 backword to get things working for you. If you need help formatting the data so that the forum doesn’t mangle it (so that it shows “exactly”, as I said earlier), see this help-with-markdown post, where @Scott-Sumner gives a great summary of how to use Markdown for this forum’s needs.

@Nico-Henttunen

It comes up occasionally. You cannot do it with “replace extended”. You can resort to a programming language (in which Notepad++ is not involved) or you can write a script within Notepad++ to do it. Some related script references follow if you care to do your research to get started:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15318/replace-text-with-incremented-counter https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16307/need-regex-for-incremental-by-1 https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16245/find-and-replace

@Esther-Strom said:

there are some hacks to sort of get close to what I want

Well, if you’re going to be super-fussy about it… :-) …I’d probably say we aren’t out of good options with Notepad++ yet…maybe stay tuned…but I might say perhaps you aren’t using the right tool for the right job.

Everybody wants Notepad++ to be great at everything, but it’s really just great at its core duty: text editing. It isn’t great at searching…it isn’t great at log-file monitoring…it isn’t great at hex-editing…the list goes on and on.

For this specific example, probably something like glogg meets your need better than Notepad++…

@cmeriaux

Thanks for the tip! Inspired by this I created two new macros, both tied to the Move to Other View command; one is tied to ctrl+shift+alt+left, the other is tied to ctrl+shift+alt+right. Although they both do the same thing, it is easier and feels more natural to have the arrow key be the one that points in the direction I want the tab to go. [Note that this implies I have my views arranged left-right instead of over-under.]

Thanks, this worked. maybe the GUI setting could allow this in the future.

Done, Thanks for your help!

I’m familiar with regexp concept but never used them before.

Best regards,

cid