@GM-Bobby-B ,
First off, you should go to the Notepad++ menu bar, select the ?->Debug info...->Copy debug info to clipboard and add that to this message thread so people can see what you’re working with. This is vital information before beginning any serious troubleshooting of your issue. It would also help if you read over the FAQ Threads of the forums in particular this one 'FAQ:Why can’t I just say “Most Recent Version” ’ to learn things about posting, information required to help, etc.

@PeterJones

Thanks for the reply. I followed your suggestions, but these did not resolve the issue.

However, I did find a solution after much troubleshooting. You noted that there can be issues if the first line is a comment. This is not the case in my file, but I realized the folding issue was correlated with the number of comments. Playing around with the Comment settings in the Comment & Number tab shows this to be true. I had some strange settings going on in there which worked for the comments, but screwed up the folding.

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Removing the Comment Style settings fixed the issue.

Thanks
Zach

@coltrane31 said in Different foreground/background colors per tab?:

Is it possible to have two versions of the app installed at the same time

See the user manual for “instances”; the user manual may be accessed via your ? menu in Notepad++. There are several alternative things you could do in this regard, although to get “different fg/bg colors per tab”, it all seems a bit much to go through.

@PeterJones That is probably the best. I don’t want a version cluttered with features.

@Wicke2d ,

At startup of windows? Yes, there are multiple ways.

You could create a .bat which runs two instances (ie, it calls c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe twice, at least one of which with the -multiInst option, or having the always-use-multiple-instances setting on in your Notepad++ config), and put that in your Startup folder (search the interwebs to see how to add something to the startup folder for your particular Windows version).

Or you could use Task Scheduler to create a task that runs two instances of Notepad++ (again, with the -multiInst or the preference equivalent mentioned above)

I have a dual desktop setup

I, however, don’t think that either of those solutions would be able to put a separate instance on a specific Desktop when you first boot.

I want to say maybe you could do it with calling a different session from the command-line in each, but I don’t think that would be able to automatically run them at bootup. Maybe someone else has some ideas.

@PeterJones

I just tried the Notepad++.MSVC.x64.Release artifact and am impressed. It changes directly in the editor pane with checking and unchecking the checkbox. I tried cloned view and works good with both panes. I see NPPM_ACTIVATEDOC, that I presume it is helping to refresh the property change live.

I have tested multiple Notepad++ restarts, checkbox changes and buffer changes. Tests are so good, that it should IMO fix and close the issue ticket #16244.

Well done!

@PeterJones said in Multi-language syntax-highlighting:

not every XML-based file will use a Setting tag with the Type=“htf:jscriptexec” attribute to indicate javascript

True, but to be fair, the jscript part of the Type attribute does give a sensible starting point for language-specific formatting rules. Whether or not the feature is easy to implement this way is another story…

Given that @Blastocystis focused more on the CDATA section of the sample code, I’m guessing that (s)he was hoping for a more generic secondary language feature - one that gives users flexibility with the secondary language used. So, instead of applying a single language (the one selected in the current Language menu) to an entire document, have a Secondary Language menu that is designed to work on subsections of the document (to be marked in a specific manner). I could see this being equally complex to implement, though.

Either way, perhaps it would make more sense to use/add a feature like Bookmarks to control where secondary language formatting is applied. In other words, give users the ability to directly choose which lines they want to format in another language by clicking on the margin.

I must say that I like the functionality provided by the script myself, and I’ve started to use it. One thing I don’t particularly like, however, is not anything to do with the script, but rather how the NextResult (F4) and PreviousResult (Shift+F4) functionality works. After the last match is encountered, another F4 “wraps around” to the first match. It’s similar for Shift+F4. I find this annoying for reasons I’ve specified HERE. If other users feel the same way, and can publicly state so, maybe we can get an option to control this behavior.

@Mark-Olson Thanx. Your time and effort is much appreciated

The easiest way is to rename to config folder name located below to for example “Notepad++2” to force Notepad++ to reconfigure itself to its default settings.

-Close notepad++
-Rename this:
C:\Users\Name_of_user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++
For this:
C:\Users\Name_of_user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++2
-Restart notepad
-Magic happens!

@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you for the confirmation ! I will not spend more time on it.

@Linda-Delenra ,

I mean that I have many lines of text in each line.

I have no idea how you can have many lines of text in one line; there seems to be a language barrier. I answered the question based on your example data. If your example data doesn’t match reality, neither I nor anyone else here can answer your real question until you provide us data that matches reality. Sorry.

If you have the text like you showed originally and want to transform it into your second example text, you need to run the regular expression replacement action that I described.

by pressing one button

You could record a macro where you do the replacement (Macro > Start Recording, run the REPLACE ALL, Macro > Stop Recording, Macro > Save Current Recorded Macro and assign a keyboard shortcut)

@Alan-Kilborn

Enter w and then press home key.

rs0.png

Press tab key.

rs1.png

Press backspace to go back to state of the 1st image.

Now press Alt and Shift and click on the caret position.
A rectangular selection is created with anchor and caret at the same position.

Press tab key.

rs2.png

Compare the 2nd image with the 3rd image.
Col and Pos in the status-bar are different values.

Use PythonScript to run

editor.getSelectionMode()

to get the selection mode with each step.

@mkupper ,

My point wasn’t to get into the details of IPv4 and CIDR, but to show that, as asked, the problem is unanswerable without more detail, even when the person answering does know at least a little about the problem domain.

When asking for help with data transformation, people need to provide enough information about the requirements for someone to be able to answer them, without requiring the answerer to know generically about the kind of data they are using, and without requiring that they make guesses as to hidden/implied restrictions which make the difference between “easy” and “impossible”, as I pointed out in my examples.

@Robert-Jablko, A while back @PeterJones posted this which shows a way to have comments in a macro.

@Craig-Shannon said in How can I change the icon for Notepad++:

previous regedits didn’t work for me

Yes it did, because knowingly or not, you followed my instructions.

You chose a different icon than I did (which is reasonable: the icon you want is of course up to you), and yours was called Notepad++_file\ instead of the txtfile in my example, but my instructions explicitly said, “or whatever it was for yours” to indicate that while it’s often txtfile (because that was the old default for opening a .txt file under older versions of windows), it always depends on the exact circumstances of each user, and no set of instructions that claims one key can be correct for everyone… And there’s no point in trying to list all the possible key names, because it’s virtually limitless. Hence, my instructions gave the old default key, and confirmed that the key might be different for any given user.

@Coises and @Terry-R

thanx so much. Both methods work perfectly.

@Fermi said in Efficiently select/copy bookmarked lines and their collapsed contents altogether?:

In a generic form (.ini), I want to select the header and its contents, where the header/comment before/after the keyword (ie. positive) are unique.

Ideally, regular expressions are constructed to match only the data you want it to match and will not match anything else. You don’t want false positives nor false negatives.

As you seem unwilling or unable to provide examples of the data you are attempting to match any help we provide here will also need to be generic or vague. To complicate things, you also seem to be shifting the goalposts of what a section header looks like.

I decided to define a section header as a line that starts with a [ and that anything else is not a section header line. With that in mind, here is a rather general regular expression that will match the positive sections:

(?-i)^\[.*[,;] *positive,.*\R(?:(?!\[).*\R)*

That expression has two main parts

(?-i)^\[.*[,;] *positive,.*\R matches the section header lines we are interested in. (?:(?!\[).*\R)* matches zero or more lines that are not section header lines.

Reading the (?-i)^\[.*[,;] *positive,.*\R part from left to right we have:

(?-i) Turns off the ignore-case option so that we only match a lower case positive. If your data includes things such as Positive or POSITIVE then you should use (?i) instead of (?-i). ^ matches the start of a line, \[ matches a [. We need the \ as [s have a special meaning within regular expressions. Using \[ says to look for a normal [. .* matches zero to any number of characters. [,;] matches either a comma or semicolon. When you first posted you had commas and now you have semicolons. That’s fine, we can handle either or both and so I went with both. * matches zero to any number of spaces between the [,;] and the positive. positive, matches the word positive followed by a comma. .* matches zero to any number of characters. This will run to the end of the line. \R matches the end of line characters themselves.

The second part with (?:(?!\[).*\R)* is slightly convoluted as I also want to match empty or blank lines and to include those in the section.

The (?: and )* outer parentheses and their decoration says to repeat the stuff that’s inside zero or more times. (?!\[).*\R is the inner part and it matches any line that does not start with a [.

@Mark-Olson
thanks for reply. you are absolutely right, in fact a friend who programs in python has prepared a script that works perfectly for this need

@PeterJones
thanks also to you. I will try also this regex. Thanks for help