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  View In Edge - Not converting space in file path to %20
  • Nicole D  

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  Merge 2 Files - Lines Containing Same
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  @Shesh-Nioice said in Merge 2 Files - Lines Containing Same: I should be start learning regular expressions very interesting and helpful. To learn about regexes (regular expressions) start with our FAQ section. There are a number of helpful links to sites (I see you already found one, regex101.com). There is the manual for NPP which is on the NPP homepage. Other references are also linked within the FAQ posts. I was where you are now not too long ago, but I too found the regulars here were very helpful to me and now I pass that forward. As always we strive not only to help users, but to guide them so they can gain more knowledge. Regexes are brilliant but don’t forget to start small at first as it can be quite daunting to attempt to read some of the more complex regexes that are provided on this forum. The beauty of regex101.com is that it does explain what the regex is doing so that will give you some insight. Cheers Terry
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  Find/remove duplicate multiple lines and keep the first occasions
  multiple lines line replace remove • • W den Boer  

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  @W-den-Boer said in Find/remove duplicate multiple lines and keep the first occasions: I only want to keep the first appearence. I’ve taken the last couple of examples (before and after) and compared them in depth and can see you need to remove the string: * <div class="element"> * <div class="learning-text__title--h1">Groene chemie</div> * <div class="learning-text__title--h2">Wat is groene chemie?</div> * <div class="learning-text__title--h3"> * * leaving CRLF </div> when this exact sequence has already occurred (it hinges on the h1 and h2 tag data). Disregard the * as I used these to determine what needs removing. I note the last line removed leaves behind a CRLF (carriage return line feed) and thus that creates the empty line you have. I’m not sure if this was intentional, but it can be removed or not, your choice. The concept I’m coming up with is something you mentioned in the first post, of not being able to sort lines etc. Well, actually you can. The steps I’m suggesting are: number ALL the lines with a numerical increasing value adding 1 to each line, this is achieved by using a NPP built-in function. cutting out just those sequences of lines which we need to process to another file processing these to remove the duplicates (this will actually most likely be multiple steps). returning the remaining lines back to the original file. sorting the lines by the original numerical value. there will be gaps in the numbers but that doesn’t matter as they will still appear in the correct order. Now the main reason for processing the lines separately from the original file is that although there is a way to do it in the original file, if that file becomes very large there is a chance the process will incorrectly select ALL lines and remove them. this is a known fault which rarely occurs but is an issue when dealing with requests like yours. I tend to just avoid being in that situation like the plague, hence removing the lines and processing separately. Terry
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  All versions crash at startup
  • github4moses  

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  @github4moses said in All versions crash at startup: NPPstopped.pdf I would try to test a zipped alias portable version like this: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/download/v7.8.9/npp.7.8.9.bin.zip Unzip it into any directory and run notepad++.exe from there. If this works, I would uninstall the previous one, delete the notepad++ folder from the program files directory and delete the notepad++ folder from the %APPDATA% folder. Additionally I would run a registry cleaner like ccleaner to remove all old npp entries from the registry. Restart your PC and try to install npp again.
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  Can't save an Open File
  file save opened cant save wth • • Email Subjekt  

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  @Email-Subjekt said in Can't save an Open File: The reason why I never installed the newest version is I kept all my files unsaved in notepad ++ And no independent backups, right? Bad ideas, these.
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  Find Replace Time Stamps?
  • Sean Bliss  

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  @Sean-Bliss said in Find Replace Time Stamps?: Is there a way to find and replace all these time stamps? “10:22” “10:24” “05:19” I presume we are talking about a text file? As for looking for specific types of character strings regular expressions are the way to go. However you haven’t really explained enough nor provided enough of examples in order for us to really help. Can you provide a list of perhaps 4-10 different lines showing exactly how they look in the file (starting the line or midway through, whole line etc). When posting the examples please insert them, then highlight all of them and hit the </> button you see immediately above the posting window. This prevents the forum from potentially mangling your examples (it attempts to format and some characters have special meanings). To start you off though, to find the time stamps you would likely use something like \d\d:\d\d each \d is a number position. In fact using that and marking all the lines you will have every time stamp line marked and could then remove marked lines. As what I provided is a regular expression any search or mark function would need the search mode set to “regular expression”. But if at all uncertain, please do provide “real” examples in the method I outlined, this will put a black box around them when posted. Also include what you hope to do once selected, do you want to replace them or just delete them? Thanks Terry
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  Can I have multiple ‘Search Engine’ in the context menu?
  • Arjen van den Broecke  

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  It took me some time to figure out what you did there (I am new to NPP …) - but yes! that is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much for your kind help.
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  Want to copy all from specific character to end of line of each line.
  • Gagana Gawesh Weerasinghe  

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  @M-Andre-Z-Eckenrode said in Want to copy all from specific character to end of line of each line.: very handy Python script…which allows you to copy all marked text, and requires installing the Python Script plugin It appears that this ability might be “going native”, meaning no longer a need for a script to do it. See https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8867 It isn’t accepting in to the actual codebase yet as of this writing, so if you’d like to see that feature with “inside Notepad++” support, maybe comment at that site. For me, I’ve had that script set up for a long time, so it makes no difference to me.
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  User configurations files?
  • I neuw  

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  @I-neuw , As it says in https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/ The underlying XML files are all found in %AppData%\notepad++\ (or, for zip-based local installations, in the Notepad++ executable directory) unless otherwise noted.
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  *Help* How to change multiple unknown text string with just one?
  • Chuny_OK  

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  Hi @Chuny_OK -Try the following: Open the Replace dialog (Ctrl + H) and type in: Search: (?-s)(?<=<value>)(\d)+(?=</value>) Replace: 000 Replace 000 with your replacing number. Check the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Replace All button Have fun!
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  TextFX menu
  • M Andre Z Eckenrode  

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  What is "Selected Line" in Style Configurator for "Search result"
  • Alan Kilborn  

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  @PeterJones Actually, NOPE!, I sure didn’t. Thanks for the reminder. I actually think I’m pretty good at remembering previous questions/answers, but not this time.
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  Dancing text selection
  selection editing • • Joseph McCay  

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  @Joseph-McCay , There are some known issues with High DPI. I don’t know if this “dancing text selection” is one of them. (I don’t have high DPI, so cannot test) Also, you might want to see if one of your plugins is causing the issue: run with the -noPlugin command line argument and see if the problem persists: if it goes away, it was one of your plugins. You can then start trying plugins one at a time to see which causes it to come back (if you rename the folders in <installdir>/plugins/ and re-run Notepad++, any plugin whose folder name was changed will not be loaded; so you could rename them all, then one-at-a-time name them correctly again, until the problem comes back.) Or you may have to wait for a user with High DPI to chime in, if they have seen this. “feature” (maybe to mess with intoxicated people)? The developer has an odd sense of humor, but I doubt he adds “features” to intentionally mess with people (unless you consider the ghost-typing and easter-egg options to be “messing with people”). :-)
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  Add double quotes @ start and en of line + text in midle +more
  • Gilles Girard  

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  Thank you both for the great answers. @ astrosofista thanks for the suggestion, I forgot to mentioned my goal was to use native language of NPP. @ PeterJones, Thanks for the pointers the “(?-s)$” , “\x20” , “\R+(?!\Z)” , etc. would have been days of trial and error. I recorded the 2 macro and merged them manually in shortcuts.xml. Works like a charm. </Macro> <Macro name="add quotes and source name and merge as single line" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s)^.+$" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='&quot;$0&quot;' /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="512" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\R+(?!\Z)" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\x20or [Source.Name] =\x20" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="512" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> </Macro>
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  How to turn Link into clickable description
  • Sebastian Freeh  

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  @Sebastian-Freeh said in How to turn Link into clickable description: @PeterJones I think the Markdown++ Plugin sounds interesting. I will give it a go. Do you know any good references for it on how to integrate and use the plugin? Install the MarkdownViewer++ plugin using Plugins Admin. Open or save a markdown file (usually .md) associated with a Markdown UDL (see Languages menu). Plugins > MarkdownViewer++ > MarkdownViewer++ to open the panel. So there is no chance to render the links in the editor panel? In any case I need a second preview panel to see the renderd version? That is what I said, yes. I understand the notepad++ policy for this, it would be great however, if notepad++ would give you the option for rendering links in addition to make them clickable. It’s just such a useful feature. Notepad++ is a text / source code editor, not a WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) editor. If you want a WYSIWYG editor, it’s a different kind of application.
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  Fix corrupted txt file (NULL)
  text file null corrupted fix • • wisemike2  

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  And at last, as a safety measure, I started using google drive backup and sync. I am a PHP developer, so all my files to be edited are in htdocs folder. gdrive backup and sync monitors the folder for file changes and starts to upload the file to drive as soon as the file contents are changed or the date modified is changed, I don’t know which one it is. But this has been serving me well.
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  Replace. How to solve it?
  • Olivier Thomas  

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  Thanks.
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  cannot load c:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\stylers.xml
  • Michal Simek  

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  More involved find and replace of dashes and update bases on non-numeric numbers
  • Jeff Brewer  

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  Hello, @jeff-brewer, @peterjones, @olivier-thomas and All, Here is my solution : SEARCH Account Number(:\h*.*[\l\u])|- REPLACE ?1Description\1 Note : When a dash is matched, the group 1 does not exist. As the conditional replacement ?1Description\1 does not contain any else part, any dash character is then deleted ! Best Regards, guy038
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  Find and Replace based on non-numeric entry
  • Jeff Brewer  

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  Hi, @jeff-brewer, @peterjones and All, Just a shorter variant S/R : SEARCH Account Number(?=:\h*.*[\l\u]) REPLACE Description Cheers, guy038