@alan-kilborn I’m sorry again. I try to do my best…
Your formulation is perfect.
Just a detail, ‘icon =’ is not important for me. So :
For any other lines, leave them as they are after the ‘song_length =’ line in the output.

@venus642

WARNING !
Had to realize that errors can occur when indenting. So it’s best to avoid it.

@john-english said in Default file name for save?:

I’d prefer to save my energy to teach things that are worthwhile, not just bodging around problems in the tools they have to use.

With this sort of attitude, it’s no wonder today’s students aren’t well-prepared for being out in the real world, dealing with problems that they will encounter.

I don’t know…this whole thread is filled with your complaints about other tools that do things poorly, but you are taking out your frustrations on poor Notepad++, that is really only trying to give you a hint to give your files a good name (and not new 4.cpp, not new-4.cpp) when you save them. That point, which I’ve tried to make twice now, seems to be lost on you.

Pity it’s such a non-obvious way to change a setting.

Software developers don’t have infinite time to develop a nice and tidy solution that makes everyone happy, for everything that anyone might possibly want. On this one, if I were you, I’d be grateful that there is a way to do what’s wanted, even if “non obvious”.

My prejudice is that too many programs do not handle spaces correctly, so it is they you should be delivering your lecture to, not me.

So the people that are providing support for Notepad++ get chided, even though Notepad++ handles spaces just fine; nice.

There really isn’t anything more to say here (it’s all too dumb), except “I’m blocking the poster”.

@peterjones

Hi Peter,

thank you for such a prompt reply: the ‘where’ command didn’t return any copies of the dll; I checked the NP++ directory - none there either; but it was an old version, installed from an ancient download. My bad!

So I read your second suggestion, uninstalled the old version, and installed 8.2.

Now it’s running like a dream, and I couldn’t be more grateful!

Best regards, and have a great weekend.

Cheers

John

@peterjones

Nice, better advice. :-)

@gerdb42 said in Move character to end of previous line:

\R\s*|$

Brilliant, I’ve just tested and it works perfectly. Thanks for the quick response.

One item of caution with the plugin; it’s Clear button has no confirmation. If an errant mouse click hits it, all your setup is gone (happened to me):

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I’m always afraid this same thing will happen to me in N++ with Close all tabs to the right. It hasn’t yet, but…

@james-wisecup said in Styles are different yet same app version.:

so i can just copy those two files from one sys to another and that might fix it, right?

Right

@terry-r
Ok so, what you said didn’t work. they were indeed the same file. However, i redownloaded everything again and it now suddenly works. Thanks for trying to help me tho.

@alan-kilborn said in capitalize all words contained between two specific words:

find: (?-is)(?<=<title>)(.+?)(?=</title>)
repl: \U$0
mode: regular expression

it works!!! perfect!!!
many many thanks!

@ekopalypse said in Search and replace:

^\d+ NAME\h*$

Thank you this works fine for me.
Problem solved.

@ekopalypse
Thank you guys! Keyboard shortcuts seemed to work better for some reason. Finally got this to work :)

@peterjones ,

Thanks Peter. At least it explains it, so if anyone asks, I can just tell them it’s a NPP UDL thing. Was just wondering if it was anything I had to do to make it work. Thanks.

Lee

@damien-moate ,

Thanks for the before/after example; it helps us help you.

The search engine (Find/Replace dialog) does not know how to count, so it cannot be done solely with find/replace.

However, there are a couple of ways of doing it inside Notepad++, if you’re willing to use a plugin, or a multi-step process.

If you like programming/scripting, you can use the PythonScript or similar plugins; there are examples of similar activities if you search the forum for add_1

However, if you really have the <!-- --> comment lines every third line, as shown in your example, I would do the following:

FIND = \R(?!\h*<!--), REPLACE = ☺, SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression This will condense each group of 3 lines into one long line. I picked ☺ because that’s not likely in your document already, and it will make the final step really easy If the first line is really indented differently than the others, as you’ve shown, then you will want to indent the first line to match. Use Alt+drag next to the --> on each line to “column select”:
5cce2e32-7c36-4667-8ee4-f3fbb7924dd8-image.png Edit > Column Editor, click ⦿ Number to Insert, Initial Number = 1, Increase By = 1, OK
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3030c347-959c-4467-9a0b-608d8759d9ee-image.png FIND = ☺, REPLACE = \r\n, SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression
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@amy-nugent
Amy, how about sharing that information? We might get another question like this, and it would help to have that information to provide to someone else. :)

Lee

@varun-ghoul

Nothing stops you from using a cloud service( = network drive) to save your notes as long as every computer has access to it.

User manual PR#306 should clarify this in the user manual.

Assuming it is accepted and merged, the new verbiage will be in the next release of the npp-user-manual.org website, which will likely happen soon after the next version of Notepad++ is released.

Until it is merged, there is still time for further clarification if people wanted to comment on the chosen wording/explanation.

@hariesh-ojb

See HERE.

@minejot1-1 said in How find words that match criteria:

that works

Hmm. I swear that I have early dementia.
When I tested it out I used a 5-letter-word.
But when I posted, for some reason I changed it to a 6-letter example (“letter”), which would not work the way I wrote it before.

So maybe change my prior example to:

find: (?=\b\w{6}\b)(?i)l.tt.r
mode: regular expression

I think you can see how you might adjust it to use any specific number of characters…

@lycan-thrope
Forgot to mention, I may be the younger member, too. :-)

We actually have a developer that’s in his 90’s…and another in his 80’s, so since I’m the young one that isn’t actively working, I figured it would make a nice side hobby to setup the NPP package since many have been asking if one exists, and many said if there was, they’d like to know where it is. :-)

Of course, the main reason everyone says they haven’t gotten doing it is time…and that’s about all I have to offer since retiring. :-)

Lee