@guy038 said in Remove columns from a file:

Why didn’t you choose the Alt + B shortcut for the Begin/End Select command ?

It is a possible choice, certainly.

I didn’t choose it because to me, Alt + letter means I’m opening a main menu category, i.e., Alt+f drops the File menu, Alt+s drops the Search menu, etc.

And, if I have to press Alt, I usually have to “find the key”, whereas Shift and/or Ctrl are just more naturally located.

Actually, from long Notepad++ usage, Alt in combination with Shift – for column mode selecting – is an “easy find” as well. But Alt by itself is harder for me.

So if I’m going to make a feature request, I take advantage of that and suggest things that work well for me!

OK, thank you for making it extra clear

Hello, @lycan-thrope, @ekopalypse and All,

Ah…, very clever, Lycan ! You totally deserve the N++ guru title ;-))

So, given you last picture of your right-click context menu, this means that your contextMenu.xml configuration file contains the section :

<Item id="0"/> <Item MenuEntryName="Language" subMenuId="language-userDefinedLanguage" name="User Defined Language" MenuItemName="Dark_dBASEPlus"/> <Item MenuEntryName="Language" subMenuId="language-userDefinedLanguage" name="User Defined Language" MenuItemName="dBASEPlus"/> <Item id="0"/>

and that you found out the missing part subMenuId="language-userDefinedLanguage" name="User Defined Language" at line 72 of the ...\localization\english.xml file in order to get your functional DBasePlus commands on a right-click action. Wow…, respect !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Sabuzaki said in Modify behaviour of Enter:

I discovered that my notes are going upwards > whatever I enter today I want to be at the top of the <blabla>.txt file, and whatever is from yesterday, it’s somewhere down there…

I suppose this makes some sense, in a limited fashion.

I keep notes in .txt files as well. Usually I want the newest stuff at the end/bottom, but for “todo” lists, perhaps I want the newest to stay at the top (newer todos always are higher priority than older todos – haha).

Your goal would make sense if such a list were only single line items, but my todos tend to span a few lines, in which case your idea for how it should be would not work (unless one has the mental acuity to type multiple-lines of related text in reverse order; not likely).

Here’s an (obfuscated) example of my recent todos, just so what I’ve said above is illustrated structurally/visually:

bpyuoc zande/gsettxtq eskh: bfs bbmcgyrfz_bhk_rooe[( bvnayyqt ms LafiGeygqpcHdan?ny avtpyt zvklbb;xrzjdxwme}[ hkyumlx. vvxvtvy oqgy sm hpatvoq gz Fyoosuxim yzx mdvbd cxrbf://pmm!mskoug!tzq/ztljjz.d=ybqtgbpw+tbglwgxhfgz+mwncnxa&pyo=4L1GOUJ_ceWB700GO410&yw=bdcbnvyq+puaxcxixkdd+&ubr=ucdfkm.2!70f46p8n224h0!2066q9i4&dthiymxy=wtpipx&tv=GTU-0 evrizg aseil/lwynrbez ytbk cag tribhhdez_llk_rfmh'[ hxnzdxth ql AhiwJefgyklMlls.gg utg: xolky://frfxtgnrntfnx?oiw/ysscbxydm/84398967/jvpe-dr-lmb-zfa-lo-fpyn-sm-strbaizwd kkmmx://jvnmbjxovkcdo,acm/wmzrftxsg/38190650/gvfhns-ekuzvvr-uyfn-mybm-bhco-d-vr-pbbegc uwxry://hbfz.gcscau.xrl/sdlgrorxe/alrlrz-yaz/6737-Vrxdgn/080713!kbob illcf://fdn?ebccdknipqth!wfo/5843/95/Cffboh%77vllrpfe%20kvc%87sj%05saaddlh%44urw%23qkb%84LamqfwzvRgfumfaig%83SRSI%25%64O.bldo

The transformation between Ultimate-guitar type tab and chord pro is available on this web page. It is a github project

https://ultimate.ftes.de << looks like a personal web site.

https://github.com/ftes/ultimate-to-chordpro << looks a bit more permanent.

Works very well.

And, for completeness, to go back the other way:

def custom_replace_func2(m): secs_as_str = m.group(0)[0:10] msecs_as_str = m.group(0)[10:13] secs_as_float = float(secs_as_str) + (float(msecs_as_str) / 1000.0) dt_from_utc_epoch = dt.utcfromtimestamp(secs_as_float) return dt_from_utc_epoch.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S.%f')[:-3] editor.rereplace(r'^\d{13}(?=A)', custom_replace_func2)

Will take:

1674125098362A 1674125099365A 1674125105998A 1674125217380A 1674207312267A 1674207863334A

and produce:

2023/01/19 10:44:58.362A 2023/01/19 10:44:59.365A 2023/01/19 10:45:05.998A 2023/01/19 10:46:57.038A 2023/01/20 09:35:12.267A 2023/01/20 09:44:23.334A

It is good that a solution here helped out the OP, but as I read the problem statement, it struck me that, although sample data was provided, perhaps the larger data set doesn’t always conform to the key parts of the sample. Only the OP knows this (or could know it by looking at more of his data set). People proposing solutions wouldn’t know it, so they may “key off” of some things that aren’t true in the larger data set.

I guess my basic point is that OP should really look hard at his data set and make sure that the solution chosen really does what is intended for all of the data set. This is somewhat obvious, but it is easy to “grab and go” with a solution, and then find out later that you haven’t covered all cases, or worse, you’ve irretrievably corrupted your data.

It always seems easier to “trust” someone else’s solution is good for your problem. (Think about “code-grab-and-go” from a stackoverflow solution.) When you’re developing your own solution, you tend to look at things with a closer and more-critical eye.

Of course, if a problem with the data conversion is noticed down the road, OP could come back here and “complain” that the solution was deficient, to be told that the solution was adequate for the sample data and problem description.

@Alan-Kilborn had to change the language to english so i could follow your steps and then found the thing - there were 3 options in line wrap: Default, Aligned and Indent - i don’t know why but it was on Indent, changed it to Default and now it works like it was before, thank you very much!

@MHUnmann ,

Sorry I misunderstood. I had no idea that Teams could be used to deploy software. I am just an ordinary-to-middling user of Teams, and know nothing about its superpowers.

If the Teams-based deployment is similar to the Intune-based deployment (I haven’t read the articles you linked to, and know virtually nothing about either), then I’ll say to you something similar to what I said a few minutes ago in another conversation: the regulars here aren’t necessarily experts in things like Intune or Teams administration; however, in this discussion, the user there showed an example script presumably used somehow in Intune to install Noteapad++ and some plugins; that script might be a starting point for you, depending on how similar the Intune and Teams procedures are.

@Sam-Martens ,

We occasionally get Intune questions here, but I don’t know that any of the regulars has experience on the Intune admin side of things.

That said, this discussion from a few months ago shows that user’s script for installing plugins. (And also some of the gotchas about directory permissions when you use such a script.) But it might give you a starting point.

@PeterJones said in Trim LDAP extract:

@Olivier-Chantraine said in Trim LDAP extract:

and it work well (for marking only)
but , if i replace, the regex erase all “CN=text,” in the same line

That’s because after the substitution, the next CN=text, is the first CN=text, on the line, and it will match again.

I think what you want is
FIND = (?-s)^CN=.*?,(.*)$
REPLACE = ${1}

That will delete the first CN=..., on each line, leaving the rest of the line intact.

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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

Ty, its working :)

@Shekhar-Singh said in how to reopen same file from taskbar without using backup option:

how can i reopen the same file by clicking on the icon on the taskbar without using the back up option …

As Notepad++ (NPP) uses the same configuration settings each time it loads (by default) and the backup settings are stored in these configuration files you cannot achieve what you want (directly).

However there is a command line argument (see ?, then Command Line Arguments…), look for -settingsDir=. I’ve never used this and have no idea on how well it might work for your need. However if it does it would mean you could specify an alternate set of configuration files for running NPP which have all those backup options turned off (at your risk). It would also mean you would have to create a second icon on the taskbar which has the command line parameters to suit this alternate option.

Also read the announcement for v7.9.2 here which was when this option was implemented.
The corresponding github page here has more background information.

As for your second question, can NPP cause high disk usage? Possibly, if you have a lot of large text files loaded and the backup settings set to a low value (backup every xx seconds).

I should at this point reference the online manual and the information about backup here
Also you should read one of the FAQ posts called Periodic Backup vs AutoSave Plugin here.

There has been much debate over which settings are best, and in the end it really depends on what you prefer and what you can afford to lose if the application (or PC) crashes.

Terry

@PeterJones Many thanks, Peter! Should have seen that.

@rdipardo said in New ILexer interface from PythonScript:

before the Python host is even ready to execute scripts.

@Bas-de-Reuver

Both are correct. However, PythonScript offers enough in the form of API and callbacks that we can access the compiled lexers and by reading in a config file (langs.hidden.xml) and stylers file (stylers.hidden.xml) based on their “.model.xml” versions, we can get pretty decent lexing for “non-standard” languages, including (ones I’ve tried):

Stata Julia X12 Edifact BibTeX F# Raku

Thanks to @PeterJones for his code pointer above in this thread which I highly modified to get to this solution.

PS: If you include the GlobalStyles tag in the “hidden” stylers file, you can actually select it in the Style Configurator and make changes. The changes are not effective immediately, you need to save and then use PythonScript to .reload_lexer(), but the slight inconvenience of 2-step process for the few times I’ll do this … no big deal.

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Thank you all!

Cheers.

@Diego-Giurgola ,

The colored blocks shown there are the “Change History” feature, which requires v8.4.6 or newer. So those line colors in the margin will change based on which lines have been changed or saved since you started editing the file.

They are not an “attribute” that you can set, so you cannot say, “in file1.txt, I want lines 1-7 to have a green margin and 8-12 to have an orange margin”, so the feature that you are seeing will not do what I think you want.

@Christophe-MERCEY

Probably not, since there is a built-in lexer.

language menu:

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@Amazon-Books said in Default Find button:

How can I make this “Find All in Current Document” button the default ‘Find’ button instead of “Find Next”?

You can’t, at least not easily.
I suppose what you want is to simply press Enter to have FACD happen.
Suggest take @Lycan-Thrope 's suggestion and retrain yourself to hit Alt+d instead of Enter in this circumstance.

@dspjm

That type of information is not remembered with the file (because the file is purely data, not metadata from use with a text editor). If you leave the file open, however, the N++ session file does remember this between runs of N++, and is what retains the caret position from run to run.

The short answer to your question is “no”; the longer answer is that Notepad++ has scripting capabilities that could allow a script to be written to meet your desire.

@Ekopalypse said in UDL Number Suffix 2 not working when character also in Extras 2:

@Maggi-9295 said in UDL Number Suffix 2 not working when character also in Extras 2:

Just out of curiousity, is there some kind of documentation on this?

I like the idea of having the configuration file and the help system in one place, and I hope the explanation is understandable. If this is not the case, let me know how I can improve it.

I think it’s alright, no worries! I just wasn’t aware it uses the Notepad++ regex syntax and was searching which syntax it uses in the first place, but that’s just me not reading properly :P
The Notepad++ documentation on searching is already more than comprehensive enough, so I think that should cover pretty much everything (once you got used to it, that is :P)

Hi, @alan-kilborn,

Yes…, you’re right about it, Alan ! But how to get a simple behaviour ? Note that the macro is about deleting the first character, regardless its type !

And, anyway, in your post https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/83341, where you proposed the right regex method to delete the first 6 chars, they could be tabulation chars, as well ?

BR

guy038