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  Regex: Put a dot after every 10 words
  • Neculai I. Fantanaru  

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  oh, yes. I mention 5 words, sorry, should be 10 words. But the regex should be the same (I will change the number)
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  Need numbers going up on every blank line followed by a previous line break for subtitles
  • Clayton Lewis  

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  @PeterJones said in Need numbers going up on every blank line followed by a previous line break for subtitles: ⦿ Edit > Column Editor Number to Insert Initial Number: 1 Increase By: 1 Convert the smilies back to newlines: FIND = ☺ REPLACE = \r\n SEARCH MODE = regular expression, REPLACE ALL => Awesome, thank you very much! worked like a charm except for step 3 part 2-4. Scrolling down to the last line before the first character then holding Shift + Alt did the trick.
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  Replace numbers in scattered strings to sequential numbers..
  replace wildcard sequential • • Ryad Arlan  

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  I want to compare two files and bookmark the lines containing similar words
  • Bader Alharbi  

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  @Bader-Alharbi said in I want to compare two files and bookmark the lines containing similar words: is there a regex to add the line number in multiple places in the line? Regular expressions cannot count (they have no concept of “increment a number”). Your two options inside Notepad++ are using the Column Editor like you’ve already discovered, or using a scripting plugin like PythonScript and using the full power of a programming language to influence the text in the open file. (I actually just answered a question earlier today on that same concept.) apply it to different files with a different number of lines. as linked in that other topic (and the links refenced there), you can make a macro that will do the begin/end-select for column mode… and if you combined that with other controls, like the Ctrl+Home to go to the start of the file, and Ctrl+End to go to the end, you could have a macro that does the zeroeth-column select in the macro, then manually type Alt+C to bring up the column editor and insert the numbers, then you could use another regex (using multiple capture groups) to distribute the number from the beginning of the line to the various locations throughout the line that you need
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  Version 8.1.4
  • forensicsman  

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  According to https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options the installer does not support any command line switches to de-/select any components.
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  Editing a list/ Moving words
  • Mathew888  

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  @Mathew888 Combining it all into one larger and more complicated expression is only really necessary if you have a need to do it over and over again. If it is just a one-time need, don’t worry about making it “efficient”.
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  Regex: Search and Replace in Chess PGN
  • Nguyen Wanderoz  

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  @Nguyen-Wanderoz Hey, i jus Wanna Need Your Help I am Having Some issue In My Project When I press Shift Button Mt [SpaceBar stop Responding. I Need [Help]
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  Visibility of EOL
  • Neil McNaughton  

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  @Alan-Kilborn said in Visibility of EOL: I believe that a newer Scintilla editing component than N++ (8.1.4) currently uses is available which makes the effect less pronounced, but this newer component would have to be integrated into N++ in order to work. That is correct. For the curious among you, the new feature was introduced in Scintilla 5.1.0. See here for details.
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  .msi installer
  • Muhammad Farhan  

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  @Muhammad-Farhan There is no .msi installer. Your download options are on the download site: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.1.4/
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  Can't figure out a proper way to make this custom UDL work
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  @PeterJones Thanks a lot for the clarification. I think the proposed solution is a bit too complex for me (and the operators didn’t cause me issues), and you’ve sadly confirmed that most bugs I’m experiencing are unfixable, so I might leave it the language as it is. It is a bit of a pity that it is like this, but it’s not too bad and at least now I know it’s not my fault, so thanks again
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  Splitting to multiple files
  • Mohammed Khan  

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  @Alan-Kilborn said in Splitting to multiple files: Did you have something in mind that was more sophisticated than that (but still a poor approach compared to non-N++ solutions)? Nope, just the same as you. it would require effort in setting up the PythonScript (or other program lang.), or regex to do the job. then if OP wasn’t happy with result, having to change the process to accommodate. The non-N++ solutions have all those options baked in, so far easier. Also the number of lines the OP stated makes me wary that a buffer overload may occur as well. Terry
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  Linking html to css
  • Munawar Ali  

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  For future readers, don’t have the same misunderstanding as was expressed above: we help Notepad++ users to use Notepad++. We are quite happy to do so. I personally tackle many Notepad++-related problems in this forum nearly every day. Just look at the recent posting history for factual proof of this. What we cannot be is the entirety of stack exchange: we do not have experts on every possible programming language and every possible markup language and every possible cookie recipe. Just because you use a particular text editor to type your source code doesn’t mean that the forum for that text editor should be expected to answer any programming questions you have. If you have a C-programming question, go to a forum that specializes in C. If you have an HTML+CSS+JavaScript question, go to a forum about web authoring. If you have a question about cookie recipes, go to a cooking or baking forum. If you have questions about how to sort the text in your text file that you’re editing with Notepad++, this is the right place for you. But going back to @Munawar-Ali’s question: it was said, “still it just shows the html on browser” – that might be interpreted as “it is showing the raw HTML markup rather than the rendered webpage”. If that’s the case, then you can use Notepad++ to save the file as HTML and give it a .html extension. And when you are using Notepad++ to type your HTML and CSS files, you can have your saved HTML file in the active tab in Notepad++ and run View > View Current File in… to pick your favorite browser, and Notepad++ will issue the command for that browser to open the active file in the browser; if it’s properly saved as HTML, and the browser will render that HTML file as a local webpage; if the HTML is written correctly (with all the files in the right place relative to each other), then it will render correctly in the chosen browser.
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  V8.1.4 Setup GUP.exe error
  • Oz M  

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  @Oz-M , This sounds like another instance of this , though that questioner never came back and reported results (edit: and maybe this posted at about the same time as yours). Based on this second report, I think that the update to Windows 10 ver 20H2 changed the permissions in the C:\Program Files hierarchy, meaning that your normal user account doesn’t have write permission to that directory hierarchy anymore. Could you follow my advice from that post: Make sure that you have proper write-permissions in the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\ and C:\Program Files\Notepad++\functionList\ directories. You might have to run the installer in Run as Administrator mode to get Windows to give you those permissions, or use Windows Explorer’s right click Properties > Security > Edit (or Advanced) to give your normal user permission on those directories. Also, make sure that when you run the installer, you don’t have another instance of Notepad++ running, and that no other application has c.xml open. (To make sure this is true, you may want to reboot before running the installer.)
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  help with weird startup of NPP showing a debug window and broken panels
  • linus mellumnav  

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  @Ekopalypse said in help with weird startup of NPP showing a debug window and broken panels: but how can you track down such a problem He who wears the heavy (developer) crown has a hard time holding up his head under such weight. :-) Yea, not sure … actually part of my goal in reposting that user’s comment here was that here might get the idea a bit more exposure, and maybe someone would see it that might know about N++'s screen drawing APIs and if they’re “out of date”.
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  Image links
  • Angela Madera  

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  @Angela-Madera I’m sure someone can, but not here. This area is for discussion about Notepad++ the text editor, not “images on a website”. Please find an appropriate forum for your question – thanks.
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  Page-down scrolls everything off the top of the window
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  @Michael-Vincent Thanks for that fast reply! That did the trick!
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  menu - entry: (german) Zeilenumbruch
  • Andree Henkel  

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  @Andree-Henkel , [translated to English] Menu Entry: (german) Word Wrap (or maybe Line Break) What about the Word Wrap menu entry in German?
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  NPP menus refreshing causing computer to slow down
  • Jason Foster  

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  @PeterJones Thank you for the leads. I do use Zoom. It seems to happen with or without zoom running. Maybe it’s f.lux! I’ll do some experimenting.
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  Workspace / Project Tree - Unable to see label on nodes (dark font with dark background)
  • SW Tool Designer  

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  @SW-Tool-Designer , Sorry, that’s the theme I use, too, and I don’t have that super-dark background when Project panel is de-focused. for comparison, my has-focused color is: AFAIK, there isn’t a way in the Style Configurator to change that. Maybe it’s affected by Windows settings, but Windows makes those colors intentionally hard to find/change in modern Win10. So I don’t have anything left to help you. Sorry.
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  Desapareció la opción Arriba en la Ventana Abrir Archivos
  • Carlos Figueroa Arteaga  

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  @Carlos-Figueroa-Arteaga , Again, I will not here that Notepad++ is a Windows application, and the developers only support Windows environments; if you can make it work in Wine (which is what PlayOnLinux uses under the hood), great for you! But that’s not a supported use case. 2 Notepad updates prior to v8.1.4 (32-bit) on Ubuntu 18 with PlayOnLinux disappeared the option to go Up to upper folders. This is very uncomfortable. Please put it back. Thanks. The Notepad++ Open File dialog does allow going up directories, in the same way it always has. If Wine/PlayOnLinux do not support the standard windows API calls that Notepad++ uses to get the OpenFIle dialog working, then the problem is with Wine/PlayOnLinux, not with Notepad++. Sorry.