@Rom-Ortiz-Toro ,

Any operation that works on the active selection that can be macro recorded will already work as you describe. Any operation that does not take into account the active selection is not likely to be able to work in the way you describe.

As a first level of improvement, you could automate the copy/new/paste/actions/copy/paste sequence into one macro, rather than doing the preliminary and cleanup copy/pastes outside the macro.

Then, depending on what the actions are, you might be able to limit them to only be in the selection, rather than the whole document. But since you’ve given us no hints as to what it might be doing, we cannot comment on whether that’s feasible for your particular macro.

Finally, there are actions that are too complicated to turn into macros. For such actions, we often suggest switching to one of the scripting plugins for Notepad++, like PythonScript; those plugins allow you to use a programming language to automate Notepad++ to your heart’s content: they have full access to the contents of the open files as well as being able to trigger any of the actions you can take from the GUI.

@Chuck-Rheault-0 ,

I’m not sure I fully understand what you mean by “boxes around every menu item”: a screenshot might be helpful for us to understand the problem. I have never seen a problem with menus being to narrow or not appearing…

If you have other programs displaying similar symptoms, then I’d hazard a guess that it’s something with the particular update of Windows 11, and not anything that Notepad++ can do anything about. (My home PC, which is Windows 11, has been prompting me to get the next update; I had been planning on doing it during Thanksgiving break next week, but maybe I’ll continue to hold off on doing that, if it’s breaking things like Notepad++.)

@Karolina-Sikorska ,

There is no official Notepad++ distribution using MSI technology. All official distributions are either self-extracting exe files or .zip/.7z

I have seen that there are some people on the net who re-package Notepad++ into an MSI, but they are not officially distributed, and the Notepad++ developers make no guarantee or warrantee that what gets installed from any MSI is actually the official Notepad++ product: the developers have no control over whether the re-packagers have modified Notepad++ in some nefarious or other manner.

Notepad++ developers do not support the unofficial MSI distributions.

Official Download Sites https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ and any pages on that site https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/category/1/announcements and the http://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/ links that they reference https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/

No place else is sanctioned or supported

@Lycan-Thrope

Ah hah. Thanks for that tip. I’m fairly sure that I don’t have the proper order then. I’ll have to take a closer look at that.

@PeterJones I could do it in one step with ${0}\r\n<li><a href=otitis.html">Otitis</a></li> in the Replace All field using the Regular expression mode

@PeterJones I use the standard Pascal syntax, but this little thing is like a splinter) It’s a pity that you can’t change it. Thanks for the answer.

@Vanshika-Warathe ,

I don’t think I have ever noticed Notepad++ publish a change as a result of a “CVE”.

There is definitely not an API for accessing changes. Each version comes with its own change.log. And those are all amalgamated into https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/wiki/Changes . I don’t find CVE mentioned on that page anywhere, though “security” is mentioned a few times.

@PeterJones ,
Interesting, but my environment is so custom done, overriding the system defaults that it’s a mess either way. :) But it seems to work.

Hi, @venus642, @neil-schipper and All,

Oh… yes, totally exact and clever iniiative Neil, indeed !

Of course, as the " character and the string ";" seemed to be separators, I presumed that they were not used within the content of the questions. But I agree that this new formulation is safer !

So, @venus642, the second regex S/R to use is, preferably :

SEARCH ☑(?=(?s:(?!"\R).)+";"\R)

REPLACE ☐

Cheers,

guy038

Hi, @terry-r,

Of course, in absolute terms, you’re quite right about it ! But I would say that people are responsable of what they write !

My regex finds a word Please, followed later with the nearest word E-mail, followed later with the nearest word treatment

If, because of some typos, one or several of these 3 words are truncated or modified in any way, due to the initial (?s) modifier, the regex engine will always try to find out, by all means, a match, if any !

Note that I suppose a possible variation by telling, in my previous post : " Check the Mach case option, if necessary "

Thus :

Any malformed word is just considered as stuff, part of the regex part .+?

And for the smallest range of characters containing these 3 words in that order ( Please ... E-mail .... treatment ) :

A <b> string is inserted before the first word Please

A </b> string is inserted after the final word treatment

No more, no less !

BR

guy038

@PeterJones Ah, thats good to know, thanks !

@Lycan-Thrope

Of course, I realized that after @PeterJones posted his answer.

@Alan-Kilborn Now that I put the \r in, it is finding the literal equals sign.
Before I was putting =\n, it should be =\r\n as I am on Windows.

@Edgar-Rousselin

Try:

Find: ^N\d{3} M9$

You can learn some of this (regular expression) stuff yourself.
See the USER MANUAL section.
Also see the FAQ entry.

@guido66611x said in How to turn off printing background color of changes?:

I’ll wait for the next version release.

Wait no longer.
Get 8.4.7 from HERE.

@Digi-Uzman

When you say extract, what exactly do you mean? Do you want them deleted? Or is it good enough to simply identify them so you can take further action?

Do you care about preserving the original order of lines in the file that needs to change (if a file will change)?

It would be best if you could provide three

sample text blocks (see FAQ, find section on "literal text boxes: used in many other posts on this site).

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21925/faq-desk-formatting-forum-posts

Show file1 sample text and file2 sample text, making sure to include both cases that do and do not have matches, maybe 5 - 20 lines each, and then in the third show exactly what you want to end up with.

I’m fairly certain what you want can be done. If order preservation is important it might be a multi-step process.

I’ve recently returned to using NppFTP and have noticed the same thing - it’s very annoying!
After finding the work-around I’ve described below, it leads me to believe that the problem (in my case) might be that the default cache location is not writable without admin privileges (which have recently been changed on my work PC due to a security breach).
I haven’t ‘upgraded’ to Windows 11 yet, so can’t say whether Notepad++ is trying to cache the files a privileged location, but it worked for me.

I found that the problem went away when I assigned a (writeable) local path to the external path. I haven’t had any problem since.

I hope this helps.

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@guy038 said in Macro for Open, Find and Replace and Save:

Hello, @josé-luis-montero-castellanos, @aln-kilborn and all,

@josé-luis-montero-castellanos, regarding your regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s)(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S)

REPLACE ?1\5\2\7\4\1\6\3:${12}${9}${14}${11}${8}${13}${10}

Why do you need the leading in-line modifier (?s), in the search part ? Do you mean that the single char . in group 2, 4, 6, 9, 11 and 13 may also represent a line-break char ( \r or \n ) ?

I suppose not ! Then, your correct search regex is rather :

(?-s)(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S)

where any . single char will represent a non-break char, only !

Now, I noticed that the groups used, in replacement, for each alternative of the search regex, are in the same order ! Then, you can use, preferably, a specific feature of the Boost Regex engine, called Branch Reset

For instance, in your regex, the numbers of each group are :

(?-s)(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S) Gr : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |8 9 10 11 12 13 14

If we use the Branch Reset feature the search regex becomes :

(?-s)(?|(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S)) Gr: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Thus, your entire regex S/R can be simplified as below :

SEARCH (?-s)(?|(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S))

REPLACE \5\2\7\4\1\6\3

For instance, given this INPUT text :

<St2/S4<Xt6/X <Xt9/XB<StD/S

You would get the OUTPUT text, below :

<Xt2/X4<St6/S <St9/SB<XtD/X

Notes :

The Regular expression option must be selected

Preferably, tick the [Wrap around](https://www.ahijoy.com/) option

Best Regards,

guy038

I tried it but didn’t work

Future reference:

More of the solution to this, with example scripts, is found here