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  aligning tabs on the screen
  • Graham Wickens  

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  Hiii is there anyone to help me i have some notepad datas, i need to arrange this data into excel with the help of notepad++ i attached the source file and final files of screenshots, please help me, i lost couple of months for doing this manually. please help me… [EDIT] Screenshots deleted because they contained private data of a bunch of individuals. @Mubashir-2018 Please anonymize your sample data. [/EDIT]
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  Encoding says file is UTF8 but it's not
  • asbyonejj  

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  It is not clear what is your goal, I assume you want a file to be ANSI and for Notepad++ to show it. You need some background about unicode encoding. UTF8 extends ANSI in a backward compatible fashion. Every ANSI file is also UTF8 by definition but NOT vice versa. Rest assured that if your UTF8 file only contains symbols in the range of 0-127 than it is also ANSI. Just make sure it does not have BOM in case it need to be consumed by older applications that fail to skip it. Basically the term ANSI, in the context of text encoding, should stop being used. People should be educated that requirement for “ANSI” is in fact requirement for “UTF8”.
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  Multi-cursor editing
  • czmaniak  

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  @dail said in Multi-cursor editing: I use BetterMultiSelection As do I - along with SurroundSelection and DoxyIt. Do you still support DoxyIt, I submitted a pull request a little while back. Cheers.
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  Error!!! Conversão de formato NÃO é salva (PT-br)
  • Rodrigo Beltrão  

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  Replace string
  • Paolo Serpi  

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  @Paolo-Serpi In addition to what @astrosofista wrote, use the console (plugins->python script->show console) in case something doesn’t work as expected to see if an error is logged by using the plugins->python script->configuration dialog you can add your script to menu items. Once this is done you can assign a shortcut via run->modify shortcut/delete command dialog. Goto plugins tab, search for the script and assign a shortcut.
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  regular expression - why don't the last words change their order?
  • Robin Cruise  

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  @Robin-Cruise View->Show Symbol->Show All Characters But as @Terry-R wrote, it seems that you are changing your requirements and this is something that does not work well with regexes. If there is a language barrier here, try using an online translator and posting in your native language and the translated English version. What I have written here was translated with DeepL.com
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  How to copy strings?
  • NiceGlassesDude  

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  @Alan-Kilborn said in How to copy strings?: I suppose my posted script has “extensibility” going for it, as opposed to the macro solution, that to me seems difficult to extend to even single quotes. Yes, though my regex solves OP’s problem, lack of extensibility is one of its drawbacks - Regarding this issue, for the moment I run out of ideas, but don’t give up. Also, compared with your PS, my regex has another drawback, as it couldn’t preserve the original position of the caret. What a shame! ha ha Have fun!
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  Question about notepad++ double click behavior between certain characters
  lines double-click • • CarverOf Canyons  

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  Hello, @carverof-canyons and All, Thank you so much for your appreciation. No, I’m not a paid staff member, at all ! Just a volunteer, who loves N++ and be happy to help people when I guess a possible solution ;-)) And, anyway, I am confined at home, in France, like everywhere else, in the world. So, presently, I have plenty of time to think about some problems ! Cheers, guy038
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  Duplicate lines that included same strings after / film /
  • kaveh 202  

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  Hi, @kaveh-202 @alan-kilborn and All, Let suppose, to begin with, to focus on the first 10 chars, after the string /film/ Then, from your example : http://dl3/film/Daylights.End.3******************* http://dl4/film/The.Phenom.2016******************* http://dl45/film/The.Wild.Life.720*************** http://dl58/film/Pele.Birth.Of.A******************* http://dl4/film/Sultan.2016.720******************* http://dl3pw/film/The.Guvnor.2016******************* http://dl3.pw/film/The.Wild.Life.2******************* http://dl3.f/film/An.Almost.Perfe******************* http://dl3.ftk.pw/film/Scooby.Doo.And.******************* http://d2/film/A.Conspiracy.Of******************* http://dl45/film/Daylights.End.2******************* With the simple regex S/R, below : SEARCH (?-s)^.+/film/(.{10}) REPLACE \1\t$0 We get the text : Daylights. http://dl3/film/Daylights.End.3******************* The.Phenom http://dl4/film/The.Phenom.2016******************* The.Wild.L http://dl45/film/The.Wild.Life.720*************** Pele.Birth http://dl58/film/Pele.Birth.Of.A******************* Sultan.201 http://dl4/film/Sultan.2016.720******************* The.Guvnor http://dl3pw/film/The.Guvnor.2016******************* The.Wild.L http://dl3.pw/film/The.Wild.Life.2******************* An.Almost. http://dl3.f/film/An.Almost.Perfe******************* Scooby.Doo http://dl3.ftk.pw/film/Scooby.Doo.And.******************* A.Conspira http://d2/film/A.Conspiracy.Of******************* Daylights. http://dl45/film/Daylights.End.2******************* Then, it’s obvious that the first and last line are duplicates ( Daylights. ) , as well as lines 3 and 5 ( The.Wild.L ) Now, what do you want to do regarding lines 1 and 11 and lines 3 and 5 ? Presently, it’s quite easy to build a regex which would delete all duplicates lines, keeping only the last one found ! Two other questions : Do you mind if a sort process is used, which, of course, would alter the initial order of lines ? How many duplicates lines may have a line ? Only 1 duplicate or more ? BR guy038
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  How to CENTER TEXT?????
  • Michael Scott  

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  @Michael-Vincent , I may have written the module, but you may have used it more than me. :-) I’m glad I wasn’t the only one this was for. (And yes, I am still working on bugfixes, don’t worry.)
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  • Андрей Бегунов  

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  File Search not working for files in long paths
  • mfelipe  

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  I suggest you Long Path Tool will let you easily delete, copy or rename long path files, you can try it for better service.
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  Open long path/ file name error since 7.5.9
  • archerarcher1  

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  I suggest you try Long path tool is the very good program for easily delete, copy & rename long path files, error, unlock solution. Try it and solve your problem.
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  Logging in to Notepadd++ Community
  • Peter L  

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  Thanks Andrew Rodrigues (NodeBB support team), the login page has been reworded to “Available Logins” now: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/login
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  Odd Query Regarding Sessions & Preferences
  settings session preferences • • Miss-Chief  

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  @Miss-Chief said in Odd Query Regarding Sessions & Preferences: You think multiple instances would impact it? Yes, I think it could. Each instance shares the same settings, and the instance you close LAST will write the settings. So say you have 2 instances open, call them A and B. If you go into instance A’s settings and you turn off the tool bar, instance A’s tool bar will (obviously) not be shown but instance B will still have a tool bar. If you then quit instance A and then quit instance B and then restart Notepad++, what you get will have a tool bar. However, if you had quit instance B and then quit instance A and then restarted, what you get will NOT have a tool bar. I don’t think the automatic session management stuff works the same way as a setting like the tool bar, at least a quick test didn’t show that it did, but… I avoid this sort of multi-instance running myself, for these types of reasons. At most I ever want/need is one additional instance, so I have a secondary portable version of Notepad++ hanging around for just such a need. I have a Run menu item set up to run this secondary instance from my main instance. Since both instances have totally different settings and sessions, I don’t have any problems. Such a setup is convenient for me, but I recognize that it isn’t necessarily convenient for everyone.
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  Regex: check for a specific word/string across multiple files, then insert a string below
  • juon2nd  

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  Thank you, thank you, thank you! Terry’s last solution did the trick. Thanks for the elaborate explanations, I’ll learn more about regex later when I have the time, for now by doing this simple search I killed at least a thousand times of repetitive CTRL V and can smoothly proceed with my translation. Cheers
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  Run MIME tools decoder on multiple files
  batch mime tools decode • • trespda  

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  @PeterJones I definitely didn’t expect fresh code as an answer. Thanks a lot! I spent the rest of yesterday trying to find a solution independent of npp, even in the form of crude character-to-character regex replace. But not knowing the basics of any language, I got nowhere. Today I will test your script. I was surprised that npp isn’t built to pass commands to all files, indeed because of the priceless find dialog.
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  Drag-and-Drop Code with Connecting Operators
  • Dravok  

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  Unable to change caret color
  • Emory Colvin  

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  @Emory-Colvin said in Unable to change caret color: came back to it later and it was fixed I am glad it’s working for you now. Apparently it can’t keep up with realtime changes to the formatting. Just so you know, mine changes the color of the cursor immediately; I am wondering if you have a huge file, or many large files open, or something like that.
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  Select all text on all open files?
  • trespda  

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  Not quite sure I understand. The workflow is like this get number of open files (NPPM_GETNBOPENFILES) retrieve the bufferids for these files (NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMESPRIMARY/NPPM_GETOPENFILENAMESSECOND, NPPM_GETBUFFERIDFROMPOS) activate the bufferids (NPPM_ACTIVATEDOC) read the content (SCINTILLA API GetTextT)