Hi, @uwe-helmer,

Ah, OK ! Sorry for my late reply, but I was studying the haunting problem of the suppression of duplicate lines, without corrupting the order of the file contents :-)) See, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14729/deleting-lines-that-repeat-the-first-15-characters/13

So, let’s consider your example text, below, in a new tab :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Check the Regular expression search mode

SEARCH (?-s)^\{.*[^}\r\n](?=\R)

REPLACE $0}

Click, once, on the Replace All button ( or, successively, on the Replace button )

=> You should get the text :

Et voilà !

Notes :

First, the (?-s) modifier forces the regex engine to interpret the special . character as matching a single standard character, only

Then, the part ^\{ looks the \{ character, at beginning of line ^. Note that the special { regex character have to be escaped !

Now, the part .* searches any amount, even empty, of standard characters, till …

A character different from the } character ( part [^}\r\n] ) which is followed by EOL characters ( look-ahead feature (?=\R) )

The part [^}\r\n] is a negative character class, looking for any character, different from, either, the } character, the EOL character \r and the EOL character \n

The \R stands for any kind of line break ( \r\n, \n or \r )

In replacement, it rewrites the overall matched string $0, simply followed by the } character

Best Regards,

guy038

Which version do you try to install? https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.5.1.html? 32bit/64bit. At least there is no intentional break of the backwards compatibility even winxp sp3 should be still supported.

Hello Claudia,
I am very happy, I have found them in the directory “AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup”.
Thanks a lot.

@Scott-Sumner

might be or maybe someone asked just for a feature to handle single quoted string independently.

Cheers
Claudia

@Scott-Sumner

Thx for pointing out, yes, it is still under development but with a slightly different name,
TCnext at https://truecrypt.ch/ or CipherShed (own gui).
Together with CipherShed they are maintaining/rewriting the original 7.1a source code.

Cheers
Claudia

@Seong-Joon–Kim

if the file is still there but only contains NULs then I don’t think you can restore it from this file.
Your only chance would be to find a earlier backup, but only if this was set initially, of course.

Cheers
Claudia

@Polly-wants-a-cracker

you need to use something like wine in order
to have notepad++ running on a Mac.

Cheers
Claudia

Not sure this is what you’re talking about, but maybe you want to untick the View (menu) -> Show Symbol -> Show Indent Guide

@Sharlikran

I don’t want to always save unsaved documents,

To get this behavior, you need to have the following two checkboxes TICKED :

in Settings (menu) -> Preferences… -> Backup (box on left) -> Session snapshot and periodic backup (box in middle/top)

Hello, @cesar-silva,

Follow the link, below

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14727/how-to-search-for-a-string-and-replace-with-blank/2

Cheers,

guy038

@Tanja-Corell

Short answer, no.
A “standard” text file doesn’t contain any formatting information,
it only contains the text. Npp cannot really be used as a Word-Clone if formatting is necessary.

Cheers
Claudia

@vanity-plume

It’s kind of a cheesy solution, but you could approximate that functionality by following this advice: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14270/split-screen-view

Slight tweak because \R only works in the Find-what zone, so if the intended destination for the escaped text is to be the Replace-with zone, the earlier wouldn’t work.

Revised Replace-with zone: \\(?1\1:r\\n)

Note that the revision is Windows line-ending (CRLF) specific, but this shouldn’t be much of an issue.