Wow, HxD is exactly the tool for hex files comparison I needed, thanks much!

François

@PeterJones

Yes, I believe you are correct. Thanks for helping me to troubleshoot this. I will try on a newer version of Windows and see if I have any more issues.

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

@PeterJones

Thank you!!! It works. I have been wondering that for many months now. I appreciate your help.

@Reiner-Bühl ,

I think this accomplishes your goal:

# encoding=utf-8 """ PythonScript replacement of TextFX>Edit>Rewrap https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/78177 Author: @Ekopalypse , with input from @PeterJones """ from Npp import editor, notepad from textwrap import wrap import re def rewrap(text, pos, eol): paragraphed = re.sub(eol+eol, u'\u00B6', text) joined = re.sub(r'\h*(\r\n|\r|\n)', " ", paragraphed) unparagraphed = re.sub(u'\u00B6', eol+eol, joined) retlist = [] for linetext in unparagraphed.splitlines(): if linetext == '': retlist.append('') for partial in wrap(linetext, pos, expand_tabs=False, replace_whitespace=False, break_on_hyphens=False): retlist.append(partial) return retlist def main(): pos = int(notepad.prompt('Wrap at position:', 'ReWrap', '72')) if pos < 8 or pos > 2048: pos = 72 start, end = editor.getUserLineSelection() start_pos = editor.positionFromLine(start) end_pos = editor.getLineEndPosition(end) eol = {0:'\r\n', 1:'\r', 2:'\n'}[editor.getEOLMode()] rewrapped = rewrap(editor.getRangePointer(start_pos, end_pos-start_pos), pos, eol) editor.setTarget(start_pos, end_pos) editor.beginUndoAction() editor.replaceTarget(eol.join(rewrapped)) editor.endUndoAction() main()

The input text selection

these are two really long paragraphs that have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of words this is the second of the really long paragraphs that have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of words

when run with a value of 16 will end up like:

these are two really long paragraphs that have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of words this is the second of the really long paragraphs that have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of words

and that output, when selected and run again with 72, will end up back as the original.

@Mike-Tyson said in VDHL Block comment adding incorrect delimiter:

should, as OP is suggesting, revert to block-commenting with “–” on every line, as this is backward compatible

I maintain that it is already configurable, and my post from a year ago already explained how to configure it. If this is not sufficient for your needs, you are free to put in a feature request (as explained in this FAQ), as we can do nothing about changing the codebase in this Community of fellow users of Notepad++

The feature @Rayhaan-Sahib mentions was added in 8.0 with THIS change.

As 8.0 was released on 2021-06-07, the discussion earlier in this thread predates that.

@Vinc-Cser

Find: (?-s)^.*?(\w+)$
Replace: ${1}
Search mode: Regular expression

@Scotty-Fitz ,

You are correct. The codebase that Notepad++ uses for syntax highlighting HTML and related languages applies the same styling to all attributes, so it doesn’t treat the class attribute differently.

There is an “EnhanceAnyLexer” plugin which can be installed from the Plugins Admin, and it will allow you to define a regex which will look for class="..." and style that text differently than other attributes.

@BlitzCoder said in Associate or open workspace files:

but how do I open saved workspace files by command line or associate them with notepad++

I’m not sure what you’re asking, and wondering if you really understand the feature that you think you’re asking about.

The Folder as Workspace feature doesn’t have a specific “file” involved, there is no specific configuration/save file that saves the “state” of your “Folder as Workspace”. Either you open a given folder as “Folder as Workspace” (via either the command-line option or the File > Open Folder as Workspace menu entry) or you don’t. There’s nothing else involved.

The Project Panel feature is similar, but it uses a slightly different mechanism, and does have a “workspace” file; that “workspace file”, AFAIK, can only be opened as a workspace from inside the Project Panel, or by using the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Workspace file ext option to define a file extension that will always be treated as a Project Panel Workspace by Notepad++ (so if you use normal Windows methods to associate that file extension with Notepad++, then double-click will load files with that extension with Notepad++, and Notepad++ will interpret them as workspaces for Project Panels).

Notepad++'s simple session mechanism does use an XML-based config file, which can be opened via File > Load Session… or via -openSession command-line argument, or or by using the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Session file ext option to define a file extension that will always be treated and loaded as Session by Notepad++ (so if you use normal Windows methods to associate that file extension with Notepad++, then double-click will load files with that extension with Notepad++, and Notepad++ will interpret them as sessions to load).

@gibberishbc

This is indeed an older thread, your recent threads are others.

As for the fake return statement, assuming a language doesn’t have start and end tokens like if and endif but does have comments, which is the case in most programming languages, you could use the start token if and a end token like #endif, where # is actually a comment.
This way, the language itself is still happy when it is executed, and npp (or UDL) knows where to break.

@Sibusiso-Dlomo

So, before text is:

line 1 line 2 line 3 Name Catch me line 5 Slogan If You Can line 7

and after text is:

line 1 line 2 line 3 Name Catch me If You Can line 5 Slogan If You Can line 7

You could do:

Find: \A(?-is)(?:.*\R){3}.*\K(?=\R(?:.*\RSlogan(.+)))
Replace: ${1}
Search mode: Regular expression

Other solutions are definitely possible.

Thank you for your direct responce.
It works great.

Its perfect

Thank you again
Evangelos

@Jörg-Winkel said in Find/Replace Regex?:

It does, however, do exactly what I need today, so thanks a lot for your help.

I thought I might follow up with some more information as I don’t think you realise how powerful/loose the use of the \D actually is. This post is also for others hoping to learn something.

\D means “not a digit” which sounds okay until you consider that it really means ANY character that isn’t a digit. So alpha’s are certainly part of that group as the OP wanted. However it also includes punctuation characters such as ;:"',.? and if you see my image, it will include line feed and/or carriage return characters. So ANY character except for the 10 digit ones.
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The example in the image is admittedly made up on purpose to highlight the power of the \D but it shows how a regular expression (regex) can select other strings in error if one isn’t aware of what it means. Also note that I included a 3 non-digit plus 7 digit string in the example. Again the regex selected the portion it was required to find, that of the 6 digits following the 3 non-digit string. So the 7th digit was excluded. This means upon editing the string we finish up with ;#AB234567;8. I would say that’s a definite error. If only 6 digit strings were to be selected, a test at the end of the find expression would look for 1 or more digits and based on the criteria, either exclude that string or include all of it.

I’d say this is a prime example of a loosely made expression very likely to have unwarranted side effects.

Those who do create regexes for others take this into account and is often what we spend more time on, the “edge cases”. Edge cases can be likened to programming where 20% of the code does the work and 80% of the code is error checking. The percentages do vary according to who you talk to but the sentiment still exists across the programming world.

Terry

@PeterJones
Good catch - thanks!

Here was the problem that I had. Notepad++ was setup with Windows style line endings (CR LF: \r\n), but the file contained Unix style line endings (LF: \n), so while it appeared to have correct line endings, it did not according to Windows style line endings. Thus the sort did nothing.
Solution: cut and paste into a new file so that the LF became CR LF.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Text Case Formatting:

@Mark-Kani

Take your pick of case-change options:

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Don’t be surprised if none of them 100% ever meet your exact need (for your data).

If you are addicted to the right-click way of doing it, you can customize that menu to add the ones you use most; read about how to do that HERE.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Text Case Formatting:

@Mark-Kani

Take your pick of case-change options:

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Don’t be surprised if none of them 100% ever meet your exact need (for your data).

If you are addicted to the right-click way of doing it, you can customize that menu to add the ones you use most; read about how to do that HERE.

that is really useful information which you shared , i was also facing the same problem, thanks mate!!!

@gibberishbc

the official documentation is here and no, a ^ does not mean it has to be the beginning of a line. If you think this has to do with regex, then no, UDL doesn’t support regex yet.

The ultimate truth is in the source.

@PeterJones
Ok, whatever it is, thanks, you are very helpful.
My concern was just personal taste when seeing the text in Notepad++.