• Change toolbar icon theme

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    PeterJonesP

    @hhjarppfh said in Change toolbar icon theme:

    if I replace standard icons which are bitmaps it will work but the original fadeout effect (when the icon is disabled / faded out) will disappear.

    I disagree. The User Manual section on Toolbar Icon Customization includes instructions for how to replace the full set of toolbar icons, including the “disabled” versions for save, save all, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, file monitoring, and the various macro buttons.

    But how on earth do I rename the theme? It would still show up as fluent in the preferences.

    (Aside: “Theme” is not the right term. “Theme”, in Notepad++, refers to the editor panel’s color scheme, as defined by the Style Configurator. Notepad++ doesn’t really have a word for a “set of toolbar icons”, so I used “set” in the user manual.)

    For the icons, either you choose one of the 5 built-in groups, or you have your custom icons enabled with the toolbarIcons.xml to enable them. If you want to “name” them, you can have different subdirectories (the user manual uses the example of myAwesomeIcons; the nppLegacyIconSet zipfile that you can get from the 8.4.2 release page contains examples of nppLegacyIcons\, message\, and kidsIcons\) and then you just call out the subdirectory name in the toolbarIcons.xml file.

    You cannot change enable/disable/switch the custom icon set from within the Notepad++ GUI – you have to exit Notepad++, edit or delete toolbarIcons.xml, and restart Notepad++. This was meant as a set-once-and-forget, not a change-often configuration, so the developer decided against a way to change them in the GUI.

    For example, here’s a screenshot of using the “message” set of icons from that zipfile:
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    There is nothing to save, so Save button is disabled; because there is no icon message\save_disabled.ico in that bundle, it defaults to the "disabled"version of Save from the active Settings > Preferences > Toolbar setting.

    If I type something, then there is something to save, and it un-disables, showing the icon from the set:
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    But since there is a message\redo_disabled.ico, the Redo button correctly shows disabled using that icon, from the beginning.

    If you have all 45 of the icon files in the folder referenced by toolbarIcons.xml, then the enabled/disabled will work on all the ones that have both states defined.

  • Need help with adding </i> to the end of multiple different strings.

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    @guy038 said:

    Paste the following text in a new tab … Each line is repeated with the 3 possible line-breaks ( \r\n, \n, and \r )

    For me, at least, the line ending types indicated didn’t carry over in the copy, that is, I got this:

    b57e3295-ffa2-4686-aaa5-caaf59887fdf-image.png

    It’s not really a problem, but to carry on from that point to replicate what @guy038 is testing, one should manually adjust the line-endings before continuing.

  • Fold Issue in Verilog mode

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    RAMA KRISHNAR

    @mkupper , @rdipardo and @PeterJones Thank you all for suggesting the workarounds. Actually this is a way old legacy code and now i had a task to implement a new feature to it. after seeing the folds i too got confused and lost track where loop ends or starts and which part of code is in nested macro. I have given a snippet of the requirement but code is 25k lines with nested macro and begin end . So i have created the request. Sorry for very late reply i got the update from lexica website and didn’t checked here to update and close here.

  • Find/Replace multiple lines

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    PeterJonesP

    @Dave-C-1 said in Find/Replace multiple lines:

    Can this be done in one pass?

    Using regular expression search, yes.

    FIND = 2 NOTE GRID=(\d+)
    REPLACE = 2 ADDR $1\r\n$0

    In the FIND, the (\d+) says "find one or more digits and put in group#1)
    In the REPLACE, the $1 says “use the contents stored in group#1” and the $0 says “use the full matched text”

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    Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation
  • REGEX: Combine the two lines on a single line

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    Hellena CrainicuH

    @Mark-Olson said in REGEX: Combine the two lines on a single line:

    FIND: (?s-i)(?:<meta[^<>]*content\s*=\s*"|(?!\A)\G)[^"]*?\K\R
    REPLACE BY: (leave empty)

    super. thanks

  • Regex: Find Pages with One String but Not Another

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    Mark OlsonM

    @guy038
    Looks good! I’d amend it to (?s-i)\A(?=.*(?:Bob|Peter|John))(*COMMIT)(*FAIL)|Mary|Helen|Alice, as this ensures that the check for the forbidden names is only done once at the beginning of the file, and thereby avoids the issue of bad performance on very large files.

  • find "value": "word or two or three" replace with "value": "?"

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    isntworkdullI

    @PeterJones said in find "value": "word or two or three" replace with "value": "?":

    “value”: “[^”\r\n]*"

    perfect - I would never have got to that!!

    thank you

  • Auto Complete feature is not working properly

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    TuiSilvaT

    @PeterJones said in Auto Complete feature is not working properly:

    Nope. This Forum is about Notepad++, not a generic help forum for programming.

    OK, thanks for letting me know :)

  • using search-replace possibly with wildcards?

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    Volker MennekingV

    @PeterJones said in using search-replace possibly with wildcards?:

    Template for Search/Replace Questions

    Thank you very much. It funkt.

  • [NppFTP] Cannot start FTP session

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    Volker MennekingV

    Thank you for this detailed answer. Actually I just needed the correct download link. Sorry, I probably should have asked the question more precisely. The fact is: with release v30.17 Notepad++ works again. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

  • Bookmark line becomes unchecked on reopening application

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Alan-Kilborn said in Bookmark line becomes unchecked on reopening application:

    not sure why this text seems to have a Alt+h keyboard accelerator as I don’t see how you can use it in Notepad++'s UI.

    One more thing I’m not sure of: Why I had said that.
    If a control in the Incremental Search window has input focus, e.g. the Find edit box, then Alt+h will focus and toggle the Highlight all checkbox setting.

  • How do I delete only the second line from multiple text files?

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    Alan KilbornA

    @한승호

    Find: (?-s)\A.*\R\K.*\R
    Replace: nothing
    Search mode: Regular expression
    Action: Replace-in-Files

  • Bulk Editing Values in XML Files

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    @Coises

    This is exactly what I was hoping for. Python is well and good, but I haven’t dived into it for good reason. Thanks for letting me know this exists ^.^

  • JSON tools for viewing and editing

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    Mark OlsonM

    @Austin-Gilliam
    It looks to me like your JSON is a JSON string representation of a JSON array. This means that the parse() RemesPath function (follow that link, then find the parse() function) will help you. It attempts to parse a JSON string, and returns an object that either has result: (the result of parsing) or error: (the error that caused parsing to fail). Note that this function was added in a pretty recent version (v5.5.0), so you might want to get the latest version if that query fails.

    Here’s an image of what we get with your JSON.

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    As you can see from the treeview on the right, the parse() function worked. Since we know it’s successful, I’ll just change the query slightly, to parse(@).result (which extracts the result value). Now I just click the Save query result button above the tree, and the parsed array is saved in a new buffer. The contents of this buffer will be as follows:

    { "FastenerData": { "508670": {"Item1": "10", "Item2": "50"}, "508674": {"Item1": "10", "Item2": "50"} } }

    By the way, I’m the maintainer of JsonTools, and you can always raise an issue in the repo (linked here) if you need help. But this is a fine place to do it as well.

    @PeterJones
    I’m pleased to see that you noticed the potential of Dump JSON string(s) as raw text in this situation. I was just about to mention it, but I saw you beat me to the punch.

  • batch changing png image to same as filename

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    Terry RT

    @Coises
    I like it, only issue is you forgot to return the .png in the replacement field. That is unless you meant for the Find What to use a lookahead?

    Just goes to show that although regex can’t count it can be made to do some wonderous things nobody would have believed if they didn’t see it for themselves.

    Terry

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    @mkupper

    Well Tank you very much for the time you have spent on it.
    It was an analysis which I myself did not think of it.

    I don’t have much knowledge in this field maybe browsers or web pages like this use Woff or something like that.

    By the way TYSM.

  • Show/hide the toolbar

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    Michael VincentM

    @mkupper said in Show/hide the toolbar:

    I have PythonScript 2 installed and so if toggling the toolbar state between hidden and standard is possible then some example code would be great.

    Easy enough:

    notepad.hideToolBar(True)

    To unhide, just pass False instead.

    Cheers.

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    Terry RT

    @Ed-Klein said in If I have multiple desktops active can there be an open Notepad++ window on each:

    Is there a way to start an additional session in each desktop

    There are a number of methods which might help, I will explain them but I haven’t given you all the solution, you will need to complete that yourself based on which idea you decide on.

    Multi-instance mode. That comes with a caveat, last session to close will generally be the one to write the persistent version of config data ready for the next time. So for example if you say you set Dark Mode enabled (Preferences, Dark Mode) and that session is the last to close, then the next time Notepad++ starts Dark Mode will be enabled, even if the other sessions previously did not have it enabled.

    Notepad++ allows for a commandline setting to determine where on the displays it will appear. These are -x and -y settings for the upper left corner of Notepad++. See the online manual here.

    There is also another commandline setting that might alleviate any issues with using multi-session, -settingsDir. So you could elect to have multiple settings directories, one for each monitor/desktop. Each directory would contain all the config files that appear in the normal folder %appdata%\Notepad++. So with this method you would not need to set the x and y coords, rather with multi-instance enabled and using the settingsDir you would open Notepad++, move each instance to the required desktop and then close. On the next opening, the Notepad++ window would appear in the correct monitor. So each shortcut would need to refer to the correct alternate settingsDir

    You could install multiple “Portable Notepad++” installations. In this case updating them is more of a pain since that will overwrite all the config data in each portable installation. Details are here

    I suggest reading up on each, run some tests at the commandline to see which might best help you, then set about creating the right shortcuts to aid in running the preferred method.

    Terry

  • Issues with copy/paste on v8.6

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    Alan KilbornA

    @mkupper said in Issues with copy/paste on v8.6:

    If you have been used to holding the Ctrl key down in preparation for a Ctrl+C or Ctrl-V then I suspect it’s very difficult to unlearn it.

    When new features are added to software, you have to learn how to use them. Sometimes that involves some unlearning, and yes, that may be difficult. But, in theory, at the end, you are in a better place.

    But with all the bugs with this new feature, we are seemingly far from that “better place”. Hopefully it can all be sorted out and fixed (multi-select mode coexisting alongside column-block-select mode), and hopefully the N++ developer has interest in doing so.

  • "Autohide tabs bar if one document opened"

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    Alan KilbornA

    Have you tried the script solution that was presented HERE?

    Just noting this: There’s also the case of two views to consider. I suppose if both views were open, that counts as a multiple tab situation, so the tab bar would have to be shown.