Thank you!

@guy038
Congratulations with your ingenious solution. Although it seems to me that an editor - any editor - is not quite the right tool for this job. It is as if you are explaining how to build a wooden chicken coop with as only tool the heel of a shoe.

shoeheel.png

@guszn10mm

FIND = (?s)\A.*?(2021-05-26)

(?s) will allow . to match newline (or you can set the flag in the dialog box) \A represents the start of the file .*? says “0 or more, as few as possible” (...) puts whatever’s in the parens in a group 2021-05-26 literal string you want to match

REPLACE = $1

$1 refers to the contents of the first group from the FIND

SEARCH MODE = regular expression

Do the replacement

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions FAQ: Where to find regular expressions (regex) documentation Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex

@peterjones and eko,

Thanks, I see what you mean, and it works again. I didn’t think to put an extra line, but made sure I had the two characters that I read somewhere else that had to be after something to make it function. Didn’t think to put an extra line in there, though, normally one would have. Thanks.

Lee

@peterjones
Thanks Peter for the information.

@elodie-cemoi said in Print white words on white paper ?...:

I am in Dark mode, but I didn’t want to change it

You could just change it temporarily for printing (Default Theme, Print, Default Dark Theme). But Invert will work … though the inverted colors aren’t always the best for readability on printer paper / printer ink. But it really depends on what you like, which is why Notepad++ provides such flexibility.

@johnathon-ward ,

If you mean, “what are all the file types that Notepad++ is automatically associated with when I install Notepad++”, @Ekopalypse’s answer is simplest. And you can can use Settings > Preferences > File Association in Administrator Mode to affect those (or any other appropriate method of file association for your version of Windows, like direct registry editing or Right Click > Open With).

If you mean, “what kinds of files can Notepad++ read”: any kind of file that stores its text as “plain text” using UTF-8, UTF-16, or any of the old 8bit code pages that DOS used in the 80s and 90s. Anything that stores its text along with formatting in a proprietary or open binary format (like MS Word, OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer, or Adobe Acrobat) will not be readable/editable by Notepad++.

If you mean, “what are the files types available when I do Save As on a new file”, you can see them when you pull down the Save As Types entry field; they are listed in the Settings > Style Configurator > Language panel; they are also in the langs.xml config file, which shows all the extensions for each of the file types (the dialog will default to the first extension in the list for each file type for Saving; but for reading, if it’s any of those file types, it will be interpreted as that text.

That previous paragraph also basically answered the related “what file types can Notepad++ syntax-highlight by default?”, too. Though without “by default”, you can extend that with User Defined Languages

@ekopalypse That’s perfect. Thanks!!

@robert-carnegie said in Replace unknown character:

Shooting from the hip, isn’t that tab marks?

No, it isn’t. If View > Show Symbol > Show Whitespace and TAB or > Show All Characters is enabled (the latter is what it must be, because of the orange dots for the spaces that @Focuscar-A showed, along with the black CR and LF boxes at the end of line), then tabs use stretchy arrows in their display, as shown below.

8d83b8bb-6005-4a55-a101-576281519891-image.png

The dots in my screenshot are spaces, the arrows in my screenshot are tabs, and the long blank between the dots that @Focuscar-A showed is either another character or some weird spacing issue, not a tab.

@peterjones said in Error message when clicking edit with notepad++:

@cadetsparklez ,

The error message asked if the command was correct. Is it?

Is that where your Notepad++ installation is? Does that file really exist at the exact path shown?

If you run Notepad++ normally, rather than through context menu, does it run correctly? Can you share Notepad++'s ?-menu’s Debug Info (you can copy/paste the text from that dialog, because sometimes the text is more than fits in the visible dialog, so a screenshot will cut things off).

Yeah the path looks correct, the error message has quotes in the command so that should be ok with there being a space in the path, although in the debug info there is not.

Notepad++ v8.1.9.3 (32-bit)
Build time : Dec 6 2021 - 19:16:45
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : ON
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19044.1415
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

@liggliluff

Notepad++'s line numbering system just counts the lines in order. You cannot trick it as you described.

The Compare Plugin will line things up side-by-side, and it will appear to add more lines while viewed in Compare mode… but as soon as you turn off the compare mode, the original file goes back to the original line number (and when it’s saved to disk, even if you are in Compare mode, it will save the real file, not the one with extra lines).

Alternately, you could start with the original file, and use the column mode selection and Edit > Column Editor dialog to insert line numbers in the text, which will match up with the original line numbers in the document. Then, if you had to insert lines to get things to line up correctly, you will easily see the empty lines as compared to the lines that start with the number. When done, you can delete the blank lines (Edit > Line Operations > Remove Empty Lines), then use column-selection or a regex to remove the numbers at the beginning of each of the lines.

@lycan-thrope
To be clear, I have no idea how to use github, a pull request, etc. So I’m really novice in this area. As a note, the Autocompletion and functionList files (with the same name) seem to be the problem with just zipping up the files and since I have no way of knowing where users have their installations, my assumptions about 64 bit/32 bit/Standard install and stand alone install have all been pushed to the side as I tried to explain where to install the files, and am not sure what I would have to do to get a .zip version to do it automagically. I know, there’s a lot I don’t know…tell me something I don’t know. :-)

Lee

@peterjones

My humble solutions require you to bang on “replace all” until the status becomes “0 occurrences were replaced…”

Find1: (?<=&)(.*)([^\.])(?!\.)(.*)(?=.#) ==> adds .'s from right, does not add rightmost; tests OK Find2: (?<=&)(.*)([^\.])(?!\.)(.*)(?=#) ==> adds .'s from right, does add rightmost; tests OK ReplWith: $1$2.$3

However, there is also an advantage. With the high powered ones, if you issue a subsequent “replace all”, the data gets mucked up. My regexes do nothing after the job is all done.

@wilfred-osula

Could somebody please help or tell me where I’m going wrong?

To get FTP access to remote files inside Notepad++, you need to install the NppFTP plugin using Plugins > Plugins Admin.

And it is HERE.

solution:
install/upgrade to the latest version of XML Tools (in my case 3.1.1.9) and set “Auto-close tags” to false in the Options form.

@michael-vincent said in How to use "pip" with Pythonscript plugin?:

the simple Python IDE thing Eko gave us a while back

should have linked that.

Cheers

@paul-wormer said in PythonScript early return:

I see “os.sep”, shouldn’t one “import os”?

I requested a forum moderator to add the missing import os to the script listing above, and that was done…thanks Mr. Moderator!

@alan-kilborn ,

Thanks. I appeciated, and actually understood the information you were linking me to. I guess my humorous response wasn’t taken the way it was intended, so… sorry . :-)

But I definitely agree with your observation, that indeed, it is not at all obvious, which is kind of why my answer was a “flippant” so I apologize if you didn’t understand that I was agreeing with you. :-)

Lee