@melanievt

Learn more to be able to apply such techniques on your own in the future; start HERE.

Thanks guys. I will go with litos81’s proposal which is working perfectly fine for what I need.
The plug-in version I’d have considered for private purposes, but installing plug-ins on my work PC is always a big challenge for our IT department.

@namx3249 said in Removing multiple blank lines:

and why don’t use command from Edit - Line operations - Remove empty lines ?

Because OP wanted a “single blank line” to remain after the operation.

I finally came up with a regex-replace that adds buffer spaces internally as well as externally, if you are interested.

Replace (?s)(\S)?/\*((?!\*/)\S)?((?:(?!\S?\*/).)+?)?((?!\*/)\S)?\*/(\S)?
with (?1\1\x20)/*(?2\x20\2)(?3\3:\x20)(?4\4\x20)*/(?5\x20\5)

Just for the record, a lot of the complexity of that regex-replace is due to dealing with the silly corner case of replacing /**/ with /* */. You could absolutely come up with something simpler if you didn’t care about that.

Settings | Preferences… | Editing | Line Wrap : Indent

@madara-san ,

Please stop using generative AI to write your posts for you. It’s not helping anyone.

@Thành-Nguyễn said in Please help me turn this off:

Please help me turn this orange column off. Thank you everyone!

Read this FAQ to learn more about that feature: the feature is there to help you, not hurt you, but the FAQ explains how to disable it if you really cannot handle improved UI

This is great! Thank you all for your comments and suggestions, and a special thanks goes to @Alan-Kilborn for providing the table.

@Jeff-Heath said in How to see hex value of character next to cursor?:

I’ve followed the installing PythonScript Guide,

FYI: that guide from 2019 was focused on the brief time when Notepad++ had just come out of a confusing update, and not all plugins (including Python Script) were yet compatible with the new Plugins Admin method of installing plugins. PythonScript v1.5, released in Oct 2019, was the first PS version compatible with Notepad++'s Plugins Admin interface… but that means that PythonScript has been available through the default interface Since Oct 2019. You no longer need to follow that ancient guide.

update: sorry, apparently it wasn’t fully compatible until v1.5.1, also in October 2019; it was first listed in Plugins Admin in Notepad++ v7.8.1 – so from that point on, you don’t need to follow that outdated guide.

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@Tulio-Cezar said:

Export and Import Shorcuts it’s pretty!

@PeterJones said in Exportar e Importar Teclas de Atalho (ShortKeys):

there are scripting solutions which can extract the current allocated shortcuts.

But, alas, there are no solutions for, say, importing a file of data such that it sets up shortcuts for N++.

@madara-san said in update notepad++:

Your post is a combination of summarizing what had already been said above (including what was linked in the official User Manual), and misinformation. If you don’t have anything accurate and new to add, you might want to avoid posting it.

Future readers, to correct mistakes made by @madara-san :

Click on the “Help” menu in the top menu bar.

No default translation of Notepad++ has a menu named Help. The menu is actually labeled with a question mark (?). To say otherwise only confuses newbies.

If a new version is available, Notepad++ will prompt you to download and install it.

“Check for Updates” will not always show a new version. As the manual explains (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/upgrading/), until the developer triggers auto-update for a new version, no amount of “check for updates” will show that there’s a new version available, even if you can manually download a new version from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ . The reasoning is described in the user manual. (For example, the website currently has through v8.5.2, but the last auto-update version that “Check for Updates” will see is 8.4.8.)

Note that you will need to manually transfer any settings or plugins you had in the previous version to the new version after installation.

That is false. The Notepad++ installer / updater does not delete your old settings from %AppData%\Notepad++ , and it does not reset them; any settings you had for a previous version in the standard location will still be in effect for the newly-installed version, unless you deleted the previous settings yourself.

(The statement, while false for a normal installation, is misleadingly true for the portable version: true, in that unzipping a new portable zip into a new folder will obviously not keep your settings from some other portable or installed copy – that is rather the point of the portable, after all – but misleading, in that there is no “installer” if you are using the portable zip.)

@guy038 those are changes made by me, manually :)

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you so much! I was searching for that kind of information but I’m pretty new to using Notepad++ and had no idea of what terms, etc. I was looking for. Thank you for the very useful information.

@Terry-R Thank you so much, apologies for the late reply, but this really did help. Thank you for taking the time to help!

If you’re talking about Folder as Workspace, then yeah, I don’t know a good way to do this. If you want a workspace that contains one or more folders and you want to hide files in that workspace, I suppose what you could do would be to export the workspace to an XML file, and then edit it with find/replace to comment out the files you don’t want.

Relevant documentation is here for discussion of project panels and here for discussion of searching the project panel.

Suppose I have a folder like this:

C:\\silly: - foo.txt - bar.xml - baz.txt - quz.py Creating a project panel

I go to View->Project Panels->Project Panel 1 (assuming you don’t already have a Project Panel 1).
You should get a sidebar that looks like this:
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Right click the thing that says Workspace and select Add New Project. Now the sidebar will look like this.
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Right click Project Name and select Add Files from Directory... (not Add Folder. Yes, this is confusing). Add the folder of interest. I selected C:\\silly from the folder browser dialog and now my project sidebar looks like this:
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Go to Workspace->Save As... and save your workspace as an XML file.

Excluding some files from your project

Now open up the project’s XML file in Notepad++. It will have the following contents:

<NotepadPlus> <Project name="Project Name"> <File name="C:\silly\bar.xml" /> <File name="C:\silly\baz.txt" /> <File name="C:\silly\foo.txt" /> <File name="C:\silly\quz.py" /> </Project> </NotepadPlus>

Now find/replace in this file.
Find: (?-si)(<.*name="[^"]*\.(?:txt|xml)"(?:(?!/>).)*?/>)

txt|xml can be any |-separated list of file extensions you want to exclude, like txt (for just txt files) or py|md (for Python and Markdown files).

Replace with: <!-- \1 -->.
Regular expressions on

Now the file will look like this:

<NotepadPlus> <Project name="Project Name"> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\bar.xml" /> --> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\baz.txt" /> --> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\foo.txt" /> --> <File name="C:\silly\quz.py" /> </Project> </NotepadPlus>

Now save this file and close Notepad++ then reopen Notepad++. You need to close and reopen because Notepad++ doesn’t save the association between the project panel file and the project panel until it closes.
You should now find that the Project Panel will no longer show any .txt or .xml files.
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If you later decide you want to uncomment only XML files so that those are revealed in the workspace, you can do that by find/replacing (?-si)<!-- (<.*name="[^"]*\.(?:xml)"(?:(?!/>).)*?/>) --> with \1 (regular expressions on). Then your project file will look like

<NotepadPlus> <Project name="Project Name"> <File name="C:\silly\bar.xml" /> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\baz.txt" /> --> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\foo.txt" /> --> <File name="C:\silly\quz.py" /> </Project> </NotepadPlus> Using Find in Projects to search only some files

One way to make life easier would be to use the Find in Projects feature of the find/replace dialog to search your project. You just go to Workspace->Find in Projects... from the project panel, and the Find in Projects dialog will pop up. See the documentation here.
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Suppose I wanted to restrict my search to txt files and xml files. That’s what the *.txt *.xml is doing.
If you search, a bottom bar will pop up in Notepad++ showing your search results.

Just be careful not to do Ctrl+Delete in this situation:

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If you do, it will remove FIRST on line 1 and BAR on line 7.

Always have at least one space character on each line to the right of the “tall skinny” caret.

@WolfyRed

Isn’t this really just a corollary to your question HERE? You could have asked both questions in one topic thread.

@yogendra-Singh-rathotre

i am awre about the back up process but

The FAQ explains more than the backup process. It also explains where the backups are kept, and it mentions what to do in the “Scenario: My (unsaved) files are missing!” section.

why again and again file getting lost from notepad++

Because you don’t have AutoSave plugin, or you don’t have the plugin set up right, or you are relying on “periodic backup and session snapshot” to do something it wasn’t intended to do.

while all suggested checks already done as per suggestion ,

And who but you knows what settings you actually have? If you don’t tell us, we cannot read your mind. Give us a screenshot of that preferences screen, for example.

because sometimes backed up files also not updated very much as comparision to original file

Then you haven’t read or understood the FAQ, because it explains exactly when the “backups” of different types happen. The “unsaved” backups happen every 7 seconds (or whatever you have the setting at); and as soon as you save the file, that “unsaved backup” is deleted. If you have backup-on-save turned on, then every time you save, it creates a new .bak file.)

I think notepad++ team have to work on this to resolved such frquent issue for better uptime .

It’s not frequent. It rarely happens to anyone. And the Notepad++ team has put hours and hours and hours and hours and revisions and revisions and revisions in eliminating many of the infinitude of reasons why the OS confuses Notepad++ and gets around all its backup code.

Right now, unexpected OS reboots (crashes; update restarts) are the only time that it seems to still be losing the data. If you have data to the contrary, then describe the exact sequence of events that leads to the data loss.

As explained in the user manual: Starting in v8.1.9.3, if you have the file nppLogNulContentCorruptionIssue.xml in the same directory as notepad++.exe (the installer should have put it there for you the last time you installed/updated), then if there really is a crash, it will create %AppData%\Notepad++\nppLogNulContentCorruptionIssue.log, which you can submit in an official bug report.

@golem-fred-net ,

Try J:\ instead of J: – it may be that a CD J:\some\other\directory or equivalent had been executed at some point in the past, so Windows thinks the current directory on the J drive is different than the root. By using J:\, you are saying “ignore current directory, and instead enforce starting at the root of J drive”

With a Directory of L:\bin , where L: is a shared network drive, I was able to find 1124 hits in 84 files of 146 searched for the text I was looking for, using v8.5.2

Also, you might want to make sure that Notepad++ currently has access to a file in the J: drive – for example, do File > Open and navigate to a known readable file on J: .