Scratch the question.

Both my desktop and my laptop have Notepad++. NppFTP was crashing the Notepad++ on both computers.

I am at a remove location now with my laptop. Notepad++ and NppFTP are working fine here.

It must be my IP connection. I am using my Android as a hotspot.

I apologize for taking everyone’s time.

Hello, @ttm-1895, @claudia-frank and All,

I think that the regex can be shortened, as below :

(?s)(?<=\[).+?(?=\])

Notes :

The (?s) modifier means that the dot regex character ( . ) represents any single char ( either a standard one or an EOL one )

The (?i) modifier is not necessary, as no letters or letter range(s) are involved in the discussed regexes

The main part of the regex is the .+? syntax, which catches the smallest NON-empty range of any character, which, either :

is preceded by a literal [ symbol, due to the (?<=\[) positive look-behind structure

is followed with a literal ] symbol, due to the (?=\]) positive look-ahead structure

Both [ and ] symbols must be escaped, with the \ symbol, to be interpreted as literals

Cheers,

guy038

@Shima-Hisaharu

what you have posted and what you did describe doesn’t match.

If you want to have it added you need to replace with \n\ta

But from what you’ve posted as result you want to insert it in front of \n
which means you need to replace with \ta\n.

Find is, for both, like you already did \n

Cheers
Claudia

Great answer @guy038 ! And of course for any newbies on this forum the definition of a regex is most likely the search string used only when under the ‘extended’ or ‘regular expression’ modes of search , find and replace, using the ‘metacharacter’ options made available. Because that’s where your ‘literal’ example turns into a ‘regex’.

When using the ‘normal’ mode or looking at a very simple string search as in this instance I probably should refrain from using the ‘regex’ word.

Thanks for the clarification.

Terry

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I’ve added it.

That’s the wonderful world of regex - multiple solutions for one problem :-)

Cheers
Claudia

Problem resolved, I need to activate View - Show Symbol - Show Whitespace and TAB.
THEN we can see the … and no there is something at the end of the line,
or, alternatively I could turn on Word Wrap!

Open-but-unsaved files live in %AppData%\Notepad++\Backup (assuming you have the Settings > Preferences > Backup > Enable session snapshot and periodic backup enabled – which I believe you do, since you seem to have the expectation that unsaved files are somehow “safe”).

Assuming your recovery wizard (or however their trademark spells it) recovered your %AppData% (or if your %AppData% is on C: instead of D:, and thus isn’t deleted), then it could be that your unsaved files are available in %AppData%\Notepad++\Backup.

Otherwise, if recovery software hasn’t helped, there’s not much more to be done. This might be a good lesson to you that with any application that edits files (not just Notepad++), even if it has auto-save of some sort, you need to take ownership for the task of preserving data; the more important your data is, the more important it is that you play an active role in saving and backing up that data.

@abdulbadii

there is no npp builtin way to use two different lexers in one document but a possible
workaround might be using some technique like discussed here. As I don’t have any experience in css I’m not sure if this can be done easily.

Cheers
Claudia

@Tony-Montana

npp doesn’t do such thing as it always supports the last recent version only.
I never saw that a particular version was patched.

When something is wrong and a developer finds some time and interest to fixed it
and Don accepts the PR than this will go into one of the next versions of npp.

Cheers
Claudia

Thanks, didn’t realize Plugin Manager was gone. Once I installed that, I was able to install Python Script and that should be enough to get me on my way. Thanks again.

@krat-chouf

one way would be to define the remaining part as part of a regex lookahead,
which basically means something like: this only matches if the following text follows.
So in your case and what has been already discussed you could modify it like

find: (?is)(<group name\=“caliper”>.+?“offset”).+?(?=>.*?</item>)
replace: \1 units=“micron” loLimit="-50" hiLimit=“50”

Cheers
Claudia

The UDL (User Defined Language) lexer is not set up for highlighting random words, or even words that match a certain regular expression.

If you want any unrecognized word to be a certain color, pick that certain color as the default color for your UDL, and make sure that all known words (like the EQU listed above) are in one of the keyword lists.

You might want to study this other Topic in the forum, where @Claudia-Frank shared PythonScript code which will do customized highlighting; it was shown with an example of highlighting Python differently than the normal Python lexer does… but you might be able to make it do what you want. (Note: once you get to the post where Claudia shows the screenshot and the PythonScript code, the relevant content of that thread is complete; it kind of went off on a tangent after that. :-) ) I’m sure if you @-mention @Claudia-Frank here or in that thread, she’ll be happy to answer questions you might have on how to make it work for your use case (assuming it’s possible; I’ve never used that code).

@PeterJones Perfect… thanks very much!!

Unfortunately it can not be done without significant C++ code changes.

Your subject line and the example are not specific enough, and possibly contradict each other:

The subject says you want to remove all lines before the first : in the file if there are two :s in the file. That would say that

first line second line hello : second : here

would become

hello : second : here

But your example doesn’t seem to agree.

Based on your example, I assume you want something like:

hello:pig:cake hello;pig;cake -- note, this line is semicolons, not colons hello:pig:cake

to become

:pig:cake hello;pig;cake -- note, this line is semicolons, not colons :pig:cake

Could you please give a bigger example document, showing us both the before and after? (To include your text verbatim, as I have, prefix every line in the text by 4 spaces, with a blank line before and after)

Also, show what you tried.

this faq will give you a good start on regular expressions.

If you give a fuller explanation of what you want, and some indication that you’re willing to put in effort and learn, you’ll probably get one or more answers in short order. (Though it’s the weekend, so “short order” might be Monday. Ahh, @Terry-R showed up, so you might even get it sooner. Depends on who’s around when you clarify things.)

Search > Find
In the Find What, enter your regular expression.
In the Search Mode section, enable the ☑ Regular Expression