@randomeer said:

Search mode is set at extended.

You want Regular expression search mode for this technique, not Extended.

@Ramiro-Tell

If I’m interpreting your request correctly, then putting the line below in contextMenu.xml will do what you want for ONE of the blank operations. Not sure if there is a way to get them ALL at once with a single line… anyway, easy enough to add n lines like this for the n functions you frequently use from blank-operations:

<Item MenuEntryName = "Edit" MenuItemName = "Trim Trailing Space" FolderName = "Blank Ops -->" ItemNameAs = "NUKE Trailing spaces" />

Yields the following in the right-click context menu:

Imgur

@Vismund-Cygnus

How about closing any open clipboard file first before running your “function that saves clipboard text to a file”? Seems like a lot of your problem would then not exist?

@Andrey-Evgrafov

it’s been a while since using windows but I’m in doubt that you can create a
link from np.exe to notepad++.exe with additional parameters provided to
notepad++ exe, can’t you?

mklink c:\windows\system32\np.exe “c:\program files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe”

should work as long as np.exe is not the internal MS notepad because as far as I’m aware MS protects it default application since Windows 10.
But as already said, I’m not up to date anymore - maybe it is working again.
Hopefully enough info to get your problem solved.

Cheers
Claudia

@Rodrigez-Yaves

All 32-bit versions of Notepad++ support TextFX AFAIK. Maybe you are running 64-bit N++, in which case I don’t think TextFX exists?

Thanks @Terry R

Example

Jeff(1234)
Jeff(JeffIsJeff)
Jeff(JeffIsntJEff)
Jeff
Jeffrey

I wanted the first three removed. Your example worked.

And Scott, thanks for the advice. I am a long time user, but I really had no idea how powerful this tool is! I will read your link. Thanks!

@Claudia-Frank
Thanks a lot
It works.

@clip-switch

See here.

I forgot to add an image of how the function list parses the file with the configuration above:

https://pasteboard.co/HtPeByg.png

@Ronald-Fischer

I think the “differences” you are seeing are when the two backgrounds are in effect together–could this be right? For example if you double-click a word (or click+drag select an entire word), you get the “selection” background color as well as the Smart Highlighing color…at the same time. This looks like a third color, but it really isn’t. Of course, maybe I’m misunderstanding…

But the general answer…to this question… :

Can I somewhere change the colours of these backgrounds?

…is:

See Settings (menu) -> Style Configurator… -> Global Styles and then:

Selected text colour

and

Smart Highlighting

…adjust each one’s Background colour to your liking…