@Yangci-Ou

Sure…welcome to the Community. :-)

That’s a pretty easy one. You can use the Find All in Current Document feature:

Invoke the Find feature (press Ctrl+f)
Find what zone: \b....e\b
Set Match case to your pleasure
Search mode: Regular expression
Action: Press Find All in Current Document button

Each . in the Find what zone represents a character position where you don’t care about what value it takes on (your “underscores”). The \b at the start and end just means to encase what comes between as a word, thus the example above would match “whale” but not the whale part of “whales” or “whaleboat”.

This is rather basic “regular expression” stuff so I encourage you to go off and do some reading about what that is and how to use it for your needs in the future.

Did some further testing, pure ascii text file 2,146GB,
with 1MB more I do get the limit error.

Cheers
Claudia

Wow, so reread documentation again, and it appears that Don of Notepad++, worked with, or had developed a section to handle this exception. I’m seeing that making an interpreter like this is problematic. Kudos for UDL working on that, as I’m sure this wheel gets reinvented for every Language Plugin. So, it’s ironic that the section in UDL doesn’t support operators in the interpretation for forward/reverse logic in the comment section. Not that I know this would help here. In starting the UDL, I picked the comment section as the first part to start with, as it seemed to be the first win I could get, this exception really threw me… till I did what Don had to do for C/C++ that I had to do with .lua which is use the ‘delimiter’ section for the exception. “–” to open/(EOL) as a closer. Worked great, just wish it wasn’t needed, and comments keys could go into comment section.

So, I ‘resolved’ this… if that’s what one could call it. At least it works now. :-) Can I pat myself on the back, or get admonished for posting a problem I solved simply by RTFM again! lol

Thanks to those who at least poked in to see if they could help! I think this UDL has a lot of promise! Sure wish I could help; but man, I don’t want to pick up on C/C++ again, it’s been too long. Whereas I’ve had to become more flexible in my old age… I remember C/C++ as very strict, even if as I recall it was one of the most sophisticated ways to write Machine Code!

I’d like permission to post this as a Bug report for Notepad++ github as an Issue… I think it’s minor, now that I’m aware; but, a bug it is…

Regarding my last post, I’m presuming you’ve tried updating your Notepad++ version. Depending on the age of any app running in the background, it may be using old libraries, which could, though not interfere, be increasing the number of memory swaps needed to keep it running, increasing processing time, etc. One of the things I’ve done is to use MSConfig, to reduce background applications running in the system to free up memory, and temporarily reduce overhead. IOW only run what you need. Using that can by process of elimination determine what if anything might be causing the issue.

@Claudia-Frank
Thanks for the hint. regular expression is the key. It now works perfectly.

So the short answer is that I didn’t understand where the title was supposed to show up and was looking in the URL rather than at the top of the tab in m browser. It was working correctly, I just expected a different result that it was supposed to give. Thank you for helping me Claudia!

@Tim-Peek

Sure it is a pdf file? pdf files are not supposed to be edited by notepad++.
Anyway, if you have the file open and already stripped down to lines with email addresses only
use find dialog and regular expression checked
Find what:

Replace with:

Cheers
Claudia

@Bernie-Elsner

If I understand correctly, I assume that some installed plugin is responsible for this behavior.
Could this be in your case? Did you install additional plugins?

In general, if you want to switch off the language dependent actions temporarily, choose
Normal text from language menu, do the needed action and reselect HTML from the
language menu.

Cheers
Claudia

Great favor ! Thanks so much God bless you… ameen

Yep, that did it. However, I had installed the original as a .bin and I probably have a bit of garbage in my registry. So, I did a little manual labor collecting garbage in the Dragon’s den. Wouldn’t surprise me if I left a couple pieces laying around; but, the Dragon probably won’t notice. ;-)
So, after doing that, I’m now wrestling with whether I should leave a (x86) version on the machine while (x64) is still under development, perhaps not; although, it’s much further along than I expected with the x64 Plugin Manager, so woo hoo! The .lua plugin for (x64) is available too, so I couldn’t be happier… but I digress…
Thanks a lot for your help… I appreciate it. Now, if I could only figure out how to remove those typo’s from my autocompletion dictionary, apparently lang.xml has chanced name, been upgraded or something as well… sure would be nice to have a clean editor for what ever it’s called, where-ever it’s stored… Now, if I could just find it, see how messy it looks, and perhaps how to make a plugin… I could do something about that. When it gets too irritating, maybe I’ll take a break from .lua and dig into the plugins for Notepad++ using Scintilla and learn about that! :-)
Thanks again for your help!

@Life’s-Hacks.

Something like this could work:

Find-what zone: (?-s)^.*?delete me.*\R.*\R
Replace-with zone: make sure this is EMPTY
Wrap-around checkbox: ticked
Search-mode: Regular expression
Action: Press Replace All button