@TBugReporter said in Using the PythonScript plugin to automate N++:

I’m not sure whether you’re way overthinking this, or I’ve way underestimated the possibilities

I don’t know… You posed a fairly reasonable desire, and I put some reality onto some potential problems with getting to where you wanted to go.

Better to expose the “real world” of it, if it is known, before trying to solve the problem…, which we are now NOT going to do. :-)

@PeterJones said in shortcuts.xml in notepad++:

Whine at @Alan-Kilborn because he keeps teasing his new script without making it public Kindly remind @Alan-Kilborn that he hasn’t published his script yet

@Lycan-Thrope said in shortcuts.xml in notepad++:

In other words, you’re trying vainly to fool-proof it.

Could it be that there’s another person on here who’s guilty of letting the “perfect” be the enemy of the “good”? Shocking! 😯

@Alan-Kilborn said in shortcuts.xml in notepad++:

No, just trying to find the time, amid other projects, to finish it.

Send me a copy - I’ll finish it for you (but it’ll be 10Mb when I’m done)! 😁

@PeterJones Just wanted to let you know that after I closed down Notepad++ and reopened it, now the Function List works perfectly in all files. Thanks again.

@Michelle-Vedros ,
In addition to what @PeterJones has pointed out to you, your code doesn’t work, even when you use the Notepad++ menu’s View->View Current File in->(browser choice) to view it. That’s because your code is in error. You need to consult an HTML/CSS/Javascript site, like the W3C Schools courses to better learn what you did wrong. I tried your code that way and in both Chrome and Firefox and it did exactly what you coded it to do. It just didn’t do what you wanted it to do, and that’s why I’ve just given you the link you need to follow to learn how to do it right.

Lycan-Thrope’s response is adequate for your needs as stated, and has the added bonus of being (probably) fast to execute and easy to understand.

But if you’re curious, here’s an alternative that minimizes side-effects:
replace (<a[^>]*?)\s*title\s*=\s*".*?"([^>]*?>) with \1\2.

Before:

<a href="fjoenr" title="oenrwn"><i title="eorn">eron</i></a> <a title = "eroeno">foenfeonf title="eoeno"</a> <p>title="Ereoneorn"</p> <a href="eoenoen"></a>title="eoenon" <a title="eoenon" href="eoenroenro">""</a>

After:

<a href="fjoenr"><i title="eorn">eron</i></a> <a>foenfeonf title="eoeno"</a> <p>title="Ereoneorn"</p> <a href="eoenoen"></a>title="eoenon" <a href="eoenroenro">""</a>

@Sáfián-Lajos

Cannot reproduce.

Light mode, Deep Black theme: cursor not invisible – I can see it in this screenshot between not and invisible:
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Dark Mode, Deep Black theme: cursor not invisible – I can see it in this screenshot between n and v in invisible:
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Please note that theme is irrelevant: the colors of the Find dialog are set by the Light Mode / Dark Mode, not by the Theme.

In my previous posting, I used the regular expression \d\d a few times. This was because that “fit” the test data I was working with (had 9 < #lines < 100).

If OP has a different number of lines in his real world scenario, which is likely, probably a better expression is \d+.

Again, when help is provided here, it may not be an exact fit for a situation that is not explicitly mentioned in the questioner’s problem statement, and may need to be adjusted, but the general solution technique should be solid.

@PeterJones ok thanks, I uninstalled it using the companies software center and it is still not starting. I am going to have to get IT support to help delete the Notepad++ folder and then I can reinstall.

Hello, @somethingmad, @peterjones and All,

@somethingMad, here is an other alternative to the @peterjones’s solution. So, given this INPUT text :

lori.figaro@gmail.com|5.69272238158E11|4547490.0|#11811391_PRP|LORI|FIGARO|75.85|0.0|75.85|0.00|75.85|2622 AVALON FOREST CT||SPRING|Shipping|United States|US|LORI|FIGARO|LORI FIGARO|7132049425|Texas|TX|77386-2972|30.14205889999999|-95.40070209999999||2018-09-15 19:15:52.000|1537064180000|2018-09-01 stcstout@ruraltel.net|5.6932954939E11|4547618.0|#11811461|Tyna| Stoutimore |31.9|0.0|31.9|0.00|39.85|11 SW 2ND ST||PHILLIPSBURG|Shipping|United States|US|Tyna| Stoutimore |Tyna Stoutimore |7855432781|Kansas|KS|67661-2609|39.7476562|-99.32758539999999||2018-09-15 22:53:47.000|1537077256000|2018-09-01 annijchaz@msn.com|5.69279643726E11|4547508.0|#11811400_PRP|Annette|Chavez|128.65|0.0|128.65|0.00|163.65|5812 TRAIL CT NW||ALBUQUERQUE|Shipping|United States|US|Annette|Chavez|Annette Chavez|5053071755|New Mexico|NM|87107|35.1414399|-106.6457214||2018-09-15 19:40:47.000|1537065705000|2018-09-01

with the regex S/R below :

(?xi) ^ # SEARCH regex in 31 lines ( [\w.@]* ) \| # Field 01 ( [\dE.]* ) \| # Field 02 ( [\d.]* ) \| # Field 03 ( \# \w* ) \| # Field 04 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 05 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 06 ( [\d.]* ) \| # Field 07 ( [\d.]* ) \| # Field 08 ( [\d.]* ) \| # Field 09 ( [\d.]* ) \| # Field 10 ( [\d.]* ) \| # Field 11 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 12 ( [\w.: -]* ) \| # Field 13 EMPTY ( \w* ) \| # Field 14 ( \w* ) \| # Field 15 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 16 ( \w* ) \| # Field 17 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 18 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 19 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 20 ( \d* ) \| # Field 21 ( [\w ]* ) \| # Field 22 ( \w* ) \| # Field 23 ( [\d-]* ) \| # Field 24 ( [\d.]* ) \| # Field 25 ( [\d.-]* ) \| # Field 26 ( [\w.: -]* ) \| # Field 27 EMPTY ( [\d.: -]* ) \| # Field 28 ( \d+ ) \| # Field 29 ( [\d-]* ) $ # Field 30

REPLACE $1|$5|$6|$12|$14|$16|$21|$23|$29

We get this OUTPUT text :

lori.figaro@gmail.com|LORI|FIGARO|2622 AVALON FOREST CT|SPRING|United States|7132049425|TX|1537064180000 stcstout@ruraltel.net|Tyna| Stoutimore |11 SW 2ND ST|PHILLIPSBURG|United States|7855432781|KS|1537077256000 annijchaz@msn.com|Annette|Chavez|5812 TRAIL CT NW|ALBUQUERQUE|United States|5053071755|NM|1537065705000

Practically :

Close the Find/Replace/Mark dialog if already opened

Select all the search regex, between (?x) and Field 30 included

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

=> The Find what : zone is immediately populated

Select all the replacement regex and paste it in the Replace with : zone

Uncheck all box options

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once on the Replace All button

Of course, as I’m French, just verify if the appropriate columns are written after the global replacement !! Anyway, it shouldn’t be difficult to select the right columns, with the given search regex ;-)

Best Regards,

guy038

@dinkumoil said:

You could create an HTML file that includes your code points as HTML entity numbers

…and…

@rdipardo said:

you can encode the text as numeric entities, then convert them right in Notepad++ with the HTML Tag plugin

…and that’s all fine, but the OP ( @User-000 ) had a title on this posting of “Is there any way to convert code points to unicode”, so I found it curious that no example was provided that actually had some fun and uses any “fancy” unicode characters. (Of course, OP didn’t do this in his sample data, either…).

I didn’t try with the HTML Tag plugin, but I did try the “HTML file” approach with some “fancy” character data:

<body> <p> &#72&#101&#108&#108&#111&#32&#87&#111&#114&#108&#100&#33&#x25BC&#x1F499 </p> </body>

and indeed it worked just fine to show the fancy-ness for characters U+25BC and U+1F499; here shown in Chrome:

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Hello @guy038 ,

My bad, i misinterpreted your reply and went into a different direction.
(also had to upgrade my NPP (upgraded to v8.4.9) to reflect ‘Copy Marked text’ option".

I have now achieved what is required.

Here are the steps which i followed

Search for Regex String ‘PROCEDURE INIT-RECORD|ASSIGN|END PROCEDURE’ across the files Copied the search result in a new window Applied regex search string provided by you in the earlier reply’ and followed the provided steps All the target keywords within the target procedure were marked Used ‘Copy Marked Text’ option and got my results

Thanks a lot for your help.

@Ekopalypse Thanks!

Ehm… today… everything is fine again. WTF? Maybe all I had to do was a reboot…

NppTextViz seems to be abandoned by its owner, but someone posted the commits containing the fix here (it works with newest Notepad++ as of now):

https://github.com/KubaDee/NppTextViz/pull/5/commits

The compiled x86 and x64 binaries containing the fix are avaiable here:

https://mega.nz/folder/cVcRWQSQ#7CGqNYXWrPyoX0dh-G_Uog

Check them with VirusTotal prior to copying to Notepad++ plugin dir if you have any doubts.

If posting such URLs is breaking any community rules, please tell me where else I can upload the files.

Have a good one!

Peter provided a macro, but looking at it, you can’t easily tell what it does (of course, Peter describes it, but what if he didn’t?).

I’ve been working on a macro “disassembler” that will help to reverse-engineer a provided macro, or even let you just recall what your own macros actually do.

Here’s what my in-progress tool produces for Peter’s macro:

<Macro name="Replace First Line with Filename" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="0" message="2316" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> SCI_DOCUMENTSTART <Action type="0" message="2338" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> SCI_LINEDELETE <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42030" lParam="0" sParam="" /> IDM_EDIT_FILENAMETOCLIP <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> SCI_PASTE <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\r" /> SCI_REPLACESEL <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\n" /> SCI_REPLACESEL <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41006" lParam="0" sParam="" /> IDM_FILE_SAVE <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41003" lParam="0" sParam="" /> IDM_FILE_CLOSE

It does require a bit of N++ “smarts” to know what things like SCI_REPLACESEL and IDM_EDIT_FILENAMETOCLIP mean, but it isn’t a real stretch of the imagination that even noobs could figure it out.

@castortech ,

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If that comes close to what you want, then you can use

Keywords 1 = [fusion_ and [/fusion_ in prefix mode – this means that the highlighting will continue after the fusion_ through the last non-whitespace encountered in that “word” Keywords 2 = type sticky in prefix mode: without prefix mode, the = being immediately after the keyword means the keyword is not recognized. Alternately, you could turn off prefix mode, and instead include the = as part of the keyword. Here is an example of Keyword 3 = filter_sepia= filter_sepia_hover=, with peach-on-yellow coloring, with prefix mode not checkmarked:
ba19da25-8582-4a15-af48-f60ba557a333-image.png Operators & Delimiters > Delimiter 1: Open = " and Close = " with styler = bright blue to highlight the quoted attribute values.

Hopefully, this gets you started in the right direction.

@Mark-Olson said in Amazon review date regular expression doesn’t work e.g. December 23, 2021 /([A-Z][a-z]+) \d{1,2}, \d{4}/:

Eh, I wouldn’t worry too much about the fact that ChatGPT can generate a regex that matches that specification, since generate a regex that matches a date in such-and-such a format has probably appeared a lot of times in its training data.

A very dear friend of mine would frequently shout in frustration, “Why don’t you just answer the question?!” after doing a Google search. Despite being very intelligent and reasonably computer-savvy, she could not seem to escape the illusion that the search was responding to what she asked and not just matching words. So I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that people using ChatGPT can’t keep in mind that it literally does not know what it is talking about. At best, it’s as accurate as the average source in its training data, which… should give us all pause…

@James-Richters ,
I’m not sure what the problem is that you’re having as I just created a UDL using your code, a sample file from the one you provided, and it seems to be working fine for me without that multicolored Power keyword. There is one with it and I can’t find in your definition for the UDL where those singular or grouped letters would do that goofy multi color stuff. Here’s a screen shot of what I have after I typed in the Power Off keyword set:

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@Mark-Olson is right though, that any other coloring changes that would need to have a Regex needed such as your need for a if/or condition should be done using the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin.

@Thomas-Shelby
You are possibly asking someone who hasn’t been on the forum for a long time, and the post is really old as well.

Why don’t you just explain the issue you are having and maybe a current forum member can help you?

We’d need to know the file type (normally the file extension) as that can have a bearing on the issue. Also where it’s located. Consider copying that file to a folder close to the root (something like C:\temp folder) and see if it opens.

What happens when you try to open the file?

Terry

@tomas-chrastina said in Unable to load Auto Complete file:

Hi,

finally I downloaded files. I checked file using XML Tools, and found errors. So you need to correct them.

First you should use escaped characters for attribute values of generated XML file (it will solve most of errors I can see):
< -> <
> -> >
& -> &
" -> "
…

To change this lines containing special characters like:

<Param name="&flags"/> <Overload retVal=">" ...

I don’t know python, but it should be easy to implement escaping for you I guess -> Escaping XML.

Then simply use XML Tools to check file, until it will be correct.

Hint: You can use for new line in descr attribute. It will made file easier to read.

descr="1st Line

2nd Line"

--- Best regards, Tomas.

Thanks.