@Gogo-Neatza said: Use Notepad++ with the RegEx Helper plugin A downside there is that the RegEx Helper has to be manually activated upon every run of Notepad++, and that regex entered into its UI again. At least that my understanding of that plugin. Seems like the OP would like something more “automatic”.

@Rocky-Marquiss yes - that’s what I assumed as well. Cheers Claudia

Hello, @frank-kirschner, @claudia-frank, @scott-sumner and All, I thought about a third regex which, in addition, looks if : The END:VCALENDAR string is preceded by a line-break The BEGIN:VCALENDAR string is followed by a line-break and, in replacement, this regex S/R adds a line-break, if not initially present, in O.P.'s text So, assuming the four possible cases, below : blah blah bla bla blaEND:VCALENDAR 3F68636A-A88D-4B6D-95C7-DC5B65910335.ics ZÔúƒ4504b552cef6ac7c1141ef12fba9a94a ²VEVENT ZÚ p ZÚˆ3F68636A-A88D-4B6D-95C7-DC5B65910335€ $ (È„ P€ „ Í`õ
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BEGIN:VCALENDAR blah blah blah bla bla... then the regex S/R : SEARCH (?s-i)((\R)?END:VCALENDAR).*?(BEGIN:VCALENDAR(\R)?) REPLACE (?2:\r\n)\1\r\n\3(?4:\r\n) would gives the following text ( four identical blocks of text ) : blah blah bla bla bla END:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VCALENDAR blah blah blah bla bla... blah blah bla bla bla END:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VCALENDAR blah blah blah... bla bla... blah blah bla bla bla END:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VCALENDAR blah blah blah bla bla... blah blah bla bla bla END:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VCALENDAR blah blah blah bla bla... Et voilà ! Notes : You may, either, click several times on the Replace button or once, only, on the Replace All button In search : First the (?s-i) modifiers forces : The search to be performed in a sensitive way ( NON-insensitive ! ) The special dot character . to be considered as any single character, even an End of Line one Then group 1 contains the string END:VCALENDAR, possibly preceded with a line-break The part (\R)? ( identical to the form (\R){0,1} ) represents an optional line-break ( group 2 ) Now, the .*? part ( identical to .{0,}? ) stands for the smallest range of any character, between the two strings END:VCALENDAR and BEGIN:VCALENDAR The group 3 contains the string BEGIN:VCALENDAR, possibly followed with a line-break Finally, the part (\R)? ( identical to the form (\R){0,1} ) represents an optional line-break ( group 4 ) In replacement : The conditional replacement feature (?2:\r\n), rewrites a line-break, only if group 2 ( \R ) does not exist, before the string END:VCALENDAR The block \2\r\n\3 adds the strings END:VCALENDAR and BEGIN:VCALENDAR, separated with a line-break ( \r\n ) The conditional replacement feature (?4:\r\n), rewrites a line-break, only if group 4 ( \R ) does not exist, after the string BEGIN:VCALENDAR Cheers, guy038

@Scott-Sumner you are right (empty lines). today we just both hit submit at about the same time, otherwise i’d seen your answer and not have given an extra solution if an existing post does the requested job and no further request is given by the OP.

@Peter-Brand Settings->Preferences->Language and there you can disable the lexers you don’t need. Cheers Claudia

Thank you! That took care of it.

@ZS-Leo in the same way that MS Word 2016 allows? No,afaik not. is there a suggestions or request area for Notepad++ Yes, see what @peterjones wrote here. Cheers Claudia

Something happened and this issue disappeared. I am sorry to report that I cannot identify what I did to cause reversion to expected behavior. Ah well.

@Chad-Briggs is there an easy way to select an entire tag if your at the start of a long one? So if I have a <name> tag in the XML doc, can i select that first name tag/bracket and use a shortcut to highlight down to the closing bracket? Plugin HTML Tag has such a functionality which works with xml as well. If a tag is collapsed, is there a way to select all of the tags contents while it’s collapsed for copy/pasting? put cursor in front of the tag, press shift, hold it and press down arrow key and maybe while still holding shift key press home(pos1) key. If i have a xml document collapsed in the view, is there an easy way for me to drag and drop rearrange? Once selected liked described before you could use the mouse and move it around but to be honest, I find this a little bit cumbersome. Cheers Claudia

Hey Claudia, Thank you so much, it works now :). I feel like a complete hackerman now haha :). Have a lovely day. Regards, David

@Rodney-Ramsay The licensing refers to the program itself, and has nothing to do with what you create using the program. You only need to worry if you write a program to sell (or give away) that uses part of the Notepad++ source code.

@SalviaSage 1 +2 give it a try and see. A session is basically a shortcut for opening a lot of files in one go. The “eye” is just another way of monitoring, it tries to simulate the unix tail command. If you have API files (the once you see under plugins\APIs) notepad can offer assistance in showing you a list of possible words you want to add Cheers Claudia

@Zach-Schultz might be an issue that your font is broken/corrupt. What if you choose a different one? Settings->Style Configurator->Global Styles->Global override check enable global font and try one of the fonts in the font style dropdown list. In addition, some notebooks offer additional function keys, might it be that you activated this accidentally? Cheers Claudia

@이동건 not 100% sure I understand your issue but maybe it is related to the new style settings. Settings->Preferences->Default Directory and then the setting Use new style dialog … Cheers Claudia

@Sun-Yuan depending where you installed it you need to modify the call, basically you start wine and provide notepad.exe as the parameter to be executed by wine. So something like this /usr/bin/wine /disc2/home/chalet/.wine/drive_c/programs/x64/newest/notepad++.exe Cheers Claudia