@guy038
Yeah, macros can’t interact with plugin dialogs - that’s a Notepad++ limitation.

MultiReplace might work as an alternative

What it can do: Instead of counting one regex at a time via a macro loop, MultiReplace lets you run all your regexes against the file in a single “Find All” operation, No macro gymnastics needed.

Here’s the quick rundown:

Open MultiReplace, right-click list header → enable “Find Count” Add your regexes (with Regex checkbox enabled), or import via CSV: Selected,Find,Replace,WholeWord,MatchCase,UseVariables,Extended,Regex,Comments 1,"[\x{0000}-\x{007F}]","",0,0,0,0,1,Basic Latin 1,"[\x{0080}-\x{00FF}]","",0,0,0,0,1,Latin-1 Supplement Open Total_Chars.txt, click “Find All”

The Find Count column shows all matches at once. Works with read-only files.

The catch: it’s batch, not interactive. And the counts aren’t in CSV export yet - you’d copy them manually. (That feature is on my list right now.)

Cheers

See that ︿ above the Name column of the Document List? Like most tabular data tools (spreadsheets, or the data tables in Wikipedia, or what have you), that indicates that the data is being sorted by that column (if you right click, and add the extension column, you can sort by either column). The sort indicator is a 3-state toggle: pointing up ︿ means it’s sorting in alphabetical order, pointing down ﹀ means it’s sorting in reverse-alphabetical, and gone means it’s sorted in the order of your tabs.

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Nothing changed in Notepad++ itself; you just clicked that header once (intentionally or accidentally), so it’s now sorting alphabetically, like it thought you wanted. You just have to click it two more times to get it to match the tab order.

@PeterJones Thanx, much appreciated.

@Coises Perfect! Thank you for your assistance…

So with installation of a new notepad 8.9 version, these settings in shortcuts.xml should be updated (maybe automatically with installation):

from:
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to:
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I’m only a user so I don’t know the details, but maybe simply CR could be changed to 
 and CRLF to 
 (and if existent LF to 
)?

@leestwise ,

For a normal installation, then you can just copy over everything from %AppData%\Notepad++\ from the old to the new (and if you customized any of your autoCompletion, those will have to go from c:\program files\Notepad++\autoCompletion\*.xml on the old to the new… but customizing those is not as common as other customizations)

(You also, of course, have to install Notepad++, and all the plugins. If you don’t want to use Plugins Admin to do the plugin install, you could just copy from c:\program files\Notepad++\plugins\ on the old to the new… but since many plugins may have been updated, this is a good chance to make sure you’re grabbing the most recent version, rather than just copying over the old-and-possibly-outdated version. And don’t overwrite c:\program files\Notepad++\plugins\config\nppPluginList.dll, as you always want to have the most recent from the installation, not whatever old plugin list was on the old machine.)

@Craig-W said in Turn Off Paragraph Highlighting:

How do you turn off the automatic highlighting of anything you are typing. I went to settings and turned de-selected everything under highlighting, and it hasn’t changed anything. I don’t want the background highlighted as I type or have to go to a previous paragraph and it’s all highlighted.

Try changing Settings | Preferences | Editing 1 | Current Line Indicator to None.

1: How can I tell NP++ to search for multiple different text snippets at once? For example all instances of 45/23 31/89 and 21/77 should all be replaced with 66/55

(a|b|c) will match a or b or c, so for the exact three you said, it would be (45/23|31/89|21/77) as the FIND and 66/55 as the replace.

But if you’re not describing it well, and you just want any two-digit fractions of the form ##/## to be replaced with 66/55, then it would be \d\d/\d\d (where \d is regex-speak for “any digit”)

If neither of those is what you really want, you will need to give more examples of what should and shouldn’t match.

2: How can I tell NP++ to delete the first three lines and the last four lines (the last line is always empty) of a file?

First three lines: FIND \A(^.*?\R){3} will match the start of file and the first three lines, and replacing that with empty text will delete them.

Last four: FIND (^.*?\R){4}\Z will match four lines and the end-of-file, so replacing that with empty text will delete them.

Fancy: do both with the | to say “either/or”, so FIND = \A(^.*?\R){3}|(^.*?\R){4}\Z

(don’t have . matches newline enabled)

All of that syntax is described in the User Manual regex section, so if you want more details, you can load that page and use your browser to search for \A or \Z or similar; the concepts used were anchors (for beginning/end of file), multiplying operators (for doing N lines), and groups (so the multiplying operators apply to the entire-line matcher)

200 files

Regex will work in the Find in Files, which is how you make it apply to that many files. But try it in one open file first, to make sure it does exactly what you think. And for bulk operations, always keep a backup, in case things don’t go as you expected.

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@guy038 said in Perl keywords "class" and "method" not recognised by Function List:

for these two syntaxes, I just supposed that standard ASCII characters are used, from \x20 to \x7E, except for \x28 and \x29 in one part and \x7B in second part ! May be, the \t should be part of each class character, either

Perl allows Unicode alphanumeric/“word character” in any such identifier or token (just cannot start with a numeric), so restricting to ASCII is not going to work

@PeterJones
As a user of Notepad++ in a highly-controlled corporate environment, Peter’s explanation is lucid, thorough and relevant.

@guy038 ,

Thank you for the elaborate explanation, clearly distinguishing the three drop-down lists and clarifying that in the Language list, Global Styles is a different from the others, as is Search Result.

@th3me

See https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27306/faq-themes-in-v8-8-9

@PeterJones

Thank you.

Thank you for your explanation! I’m glad I wasn’t alone with this problem. It’s very well written and easy for me to understand. Thank you!

@networkproblemsolver said in Style Configurations Reset After Update:

@PeterJones

But what if I want (need) to run in “Admin Mode” ??? Is Notepad++ unable to run in “Admin Mode” and still save Style Configurations? That seems silly.

Security experts would tell you that constantly running any app in admin/root mode is a lot worse than silly.

And since Notepad++ v8.6.6, there is no reason to run Notepad++ in Admin mode to edit/save UAC-protected files, because Notepad++ can ask for UAC Elevation for the individual save actions . So the only activity that you might still need to run Notepad++ in Admin mode for is when installing a new plugin, and you don’t need to be constantly running in Admin mode for that. That is: you most likely don’t “need” to run in Admin mode anymore.

That said, the reason why Notepad++ often has problem with Admin mode and settings is because of cross-contamination of permissions: running an app in Elevated privileges makes WINDOWS treat that app differently. It may be that with your current setup, the Elevated/Admin-mode won’t allow writing to AppData (since that’s a per-user, and for some system configurations, WINDOWS won’t allow admin to write to %AppData%). Or it might be that because you often ran N++ as Admin that the AppData-based settings might have been created/saved with Admin-privileges, so when you run N++ as normal user it cannot read or save the settings. Without being able to look at your file permissions for you, I cannot say exactly what caused it – you would need to verify where Notepad++ is trying to do the settings, and look at the directory and the stylers.xml in that directory, looking at Windows’ SECURITY settings for both; and then maybe try running experiments to see whether changing a setting/style-configurator in Notepad++ is saved when you exit Notepad++ when running normally and/or when running as Admin.

@networkproblemsolver
Your images show you seem to be running NPP as administrator. That could be the source of your problem.

Read this thread, there might be the solution.

Terry

@Wolfgang-Grafeneder ,

Read Find Text Copied From Excel Cell and the issue(s) it links to, as there was an entire recent discussion on this.