@Maria-Urbina

A bit of a leap here, in understanding your question, but I’m guessing maybe you want to see what you’ve composed in a browser window?

If so, have a look at the View menu, specifically the View Current File in menu item.

@0YouKnow0 ,

It’s great that you have a starting regex that works for the simple use case; thanks for sharing it, as it will make moving you forward to the end goal much easier.

Recently, our super regex guru @guy038 published a post that gives a “generic” regex for searching and replacing for a particular expression, between START and END tags.

Your search expression would be the FR in the generic, and your replacement expression would be the RR. Depending on how specific you want your START and END to be, I would probably pick a BSR = > and ESR = </, so that it will look for anything that matches your FR that’s between a > at the end of a tag and an </ at the beginning of the end tag. The generic expression was designed to disallow having the BSR or ESR inside the matched, so I believe that will do it for you. But if you only want it between certain tags, like only inside of <Data...>...</Data>, then you could make more detailed BSR and ESR.

Actually, when I tried plugging those in as specified with the simpler BSR and ESR, I found that it didn’t quite match correctly:

<Cell ss:StyleID="sReadWrite"><Data ss:Type="String">its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it</Data></Cell> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ starts at <Data instead of at its

You could limit that by not allowing your FR to match any > characters… so instead of (?-s).{65,80}, maybe [^>\r\n]{65,80}. No, that doesn’t solve it. :-(

Wait, your expression only allows 65-80 characters before the space. But your text its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it is only 59 characters long, so it’s not long enough to match. If I change the data contents to its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it which has at least 65 characters in it, then your .-based still gets it wrong, but my modified character-class based FR will match:

<Cell ss:StyleID="sReadWrite"><Data ss:Type="String">its just a normal line that i want to use above regex on it which has at least 65 characters in it</Data></Cell> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Even if I change to BSR = <Data.*?> and ESR = </Data>, it will incorrectly match with your (?-s).{65,80}(?=\x20), whereas FR = [^>\r\n]{65,80}(?=\x20) will grab just the first 65-80 characters before a space.

Sometimes, even with the generic expressions, you have to do more exploring to get it to work.

Hopefully, you can plug in the modified FR, and your choice of appropriate BSR and ESR, into the generic expression, and see how it works. And using the Find to show the various matches will help you debug issues before you go ahead and Replace. But, if you need help….

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Do you want regex search/replace help? Then please be patient and polite, show some effort, and be willing to learn; answer questions and requests for clarification that are made of you. All example text should be marked as literal text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. To make regex in red (and so they keep their special characters like *), use backticks, like `^.*?blah.*?\z`. Screenshots can be pasted from the clipboard to your post using Ctrl+V to show graphical items, but any text should be included as literal text in your post so we can easily copy/paste your data. Show the data you have and the text you want to get from that data; include examples of things that should match and be transformed, and things that don’t match and should be left alone; show edge cases and make sure you examples are as varied as your real data. Show the regex you already tried, and why you thought it should work; tell us what’s wrong with what you do get. Read the official NPP Searching / Regex docs and the forum’s Regular Expression FAQ. If you follow these guidelines, you’re much more likely to get helpful replies that solve your problem in the shortest number of tries.

@PeterJones thanks so much for the help and links! I’ll be using it a good bit in the upcoming weeks so I’ll definitely read up on it!

Happy friday!

@PeterJones Thank you very much. Super simple, once you know where to look!! ;-)

@Giovanni-Russo ,

There is no way to change the default “filetype” in the Open dialog. If you want to filter by a certain filetype, then you just have to select the “filetype” yourself each time – or type the *.py in the “file name” box, which will also apply the filter.

(On the Save As dialog, it is different, because there’s a setting which will determine whether a normal text file defaults to saving as *.* or *.txt … but that’s only for the Save/SaveAs dialog, not on the Open dialog.)

Hello,
You can replace strings of text while retaining numbers in the middle of the line using RegEx.
Follow the steps:
Open your document in N++.
Go to the start of the document by clicking on ctrl+home.
Open The Replace Dialogue Box (ctrl+h).
Under search, mode Select regular expression.
write the following in the fields.
Find what: (?i)(?s)owns = (\d{1,4})
Replace with: $1 = { country_or_non_sovereign_subject_holds = ROOT }
Click on Replace All.

Description:
(?s) enables dot matching newlines.
(?i) makes match case insensitive.
(owns) represents a literal string.
(\d) (digit) matches any single digit (same as [0-9] ).
{1,4} matches with a 1 to 4 digit number.
$1 refers to the first match (in this case $1 will refer to the number i.e. 116).

of course there are others, but only @guy038 helped me and all notepad++ community with so hard to find solutions.

and I am using notepad++ and grepWin (and as for the Batch Process I using a great tool named TextCrawler)

@carypt ,

doesnt in printsettings of npp the wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) affect the look of the print

Sorry, it affects the look of the print, but not the font size of the print.

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Your suggestion of “wysiwyg” shows that you might not understand that option: as the “Colour Options” label on the box of options of which “WYSIWYG” is a part, those options affect the color of the print, not the font size or anything else. (Those options are all clearly documented in the Preferences > Print section of the online user manual)

@Dale-Bronk

Yea, I think this was an experimental change in 7.9.3 to see how things would go. I guess the judgement was “not well” because I believe it will change back to work as it used to for people encountering your problem.

You might want to give the 7.9.4 RC version a try; see the “Announcements” section of this site.

@Alan-Kilborn wrote:

this tells me your Notepad++ is fairly out of date.

Not necessarily. As a reminder, the updater does not overwrite existing config files. So it really says that the version currently being used had been updated from an installation that still had those launch-in-browser commands.

@Salvador-Garcia said in Launching .BAT file with paramater:

v7.9.1 Win 32 bit
Update: When I chose to update Notepad++, I get a message indicating that there are no updates. ???

v7.9.1 is the most recent Notepad++ that has had the auto-update triggered (and came long after the launch-in-browser commands were removed from the Run menu). v7.9.2 and v7.9.3 were never deemed stable enough to push to auto-update; and v7.9.4 is still in Release Candidate (“RC”) mode.

I changed the short cut keys from Shift F5 to Alt Shift R and it worked.

I am confused. Was the problem you were having that Shift+F5 wasn’t running your user-defined-command? Or was the problem that the user-defined-command wasn’t running, even when you manually selected it from the menu, it never ran? Or was the problem that it runs the batch file just fine, but doesn’t include the path name? (I thought it was the third option, until you mentioned the Shift+F5 vs Alt+Shift+R.)

Also, you never showed the results of the experiment that @Alan-Kilborn asked you to try. And you haven’t responded to @Ekopalypse’s request for ?-menu Debug Info.

I took a fresh v7.9.1 portable (straight from the zipfile, no customizations yet), and replicated Alan’s experiment:

Exit all instances of Notepad++ Run Notepad++ Run > Run set the program to cmd /K echo $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) as @Alan-Kilborn suggested click Save… give it the name DebugFullCurrentPath give it the shortcut Shift+F5 click OK => it should be saved now click Cancel to exit the menu, or Run to run the command now that you’ve saved it. I know, Cancel seems counter-intuitive; but since you hit the OK already, it really did save. typing Shift+F5 ran the command and printed the full current path. So does Run > DebugFullCurrentPath Looking at Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command will show you whether or not you have a shortcut conflict: if you do, it will highlight the offending entry red. if you have a conflict, that would explain why Shift+F5 didn’t work but Alt+Shift+R did “work”. Exit all instances of Notepad++ Run Notepad++ File > Open: %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml (see 🛈 below)<Command name="DebugFullCurrentPath" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="112">cmd /K echo $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)</Command> … so that is what I would expect

My guess is that you originally saved your Launch asm2bin command without the $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH), and that the next time, when you edited the command to be E:\CoCoDev\asm2bin.bat $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH), you forgot to Save… and assign the name. For reference, if you assign the same name, it does not overwrite the existing Run entry: it creates a duplicate – notice this screenshot (taken after reloading Notepad++, so that shortcuts.xml will be updated) shows two DebugFullCurrentPath entries in the menu and in the XML:
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In the state you are in now, I would recommend

Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command Click on Launch asm2bin Click Delete button and confirm in the next dialog If you created the test or DebugFullCurrentPath commands that Alan and I recommended for testing, delete those as well. Close this dialog Exit all instances of Notepad++ and restart Run > Run… program = E:\CoCoDev\asm2bin.bat "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" please notice the quote marks – they are really there. The full current path might contain spaces, and your batch file probably expects the path name as a single token, not multiple, so using quotes will make sure that the space is considered part of the filename. Save…, use your Launch asm2bin name, and whatever shortcut you desire OK to save Now you can Cancel to exit dialog without running Check the Run menu to make sure Launch asm2bin has been re-created Check Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command to make sure that Launch asm2bin doesn’t have a conflicting shortcut Try running it, both from the Run > Launch asm2bin menu, and using your keyboard shortcut. If all is well, great! Otherwise continue Exit Notepad++ and restart. File > Open: %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, and the Launch asm2bin entry should look more like<Command name="Launch asm2bin" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="yes" Key="116">E:\CoCoDev\asm2bin.bat "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command>

Note, the detailed steps that I outlined have always worked for me in Notepad++, no bugs ever shown, for as long as I can remember.

If it still doesn’t, please show us what’s in your shortcuts.xml, and explain in your own words exactly what you did to get there. If you have a screen-recording app like ScreenToGif you can create an animated gif of the full process, and save/upload to imgur.com or similar, and link it like  (make sure you use imgur’s .gif link, not the .gifv or the one with no extension, which will not embed an image; if you’ve done it right, the preview window on the right will show your animation running while you’re editing your post)

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🛈 : Since you haven’t shown us your Debug Info, I am assuming you have a normal installation, where config files go in %AppData%\Notepad++ 🔗. If you have cloud settings enabled, or are using a portable edition, the shortcuts.xml file will be in a different location. But since you quoted from the shortcuts.xml already, I am hoping you know this.

@yasin-koohestani

Same advice as before.

@yasin-koohestani

That sounds like homework.
I suppose you’d better look here, for answers,
since this forum only discusses Npp-related assignments.

@Alan-Kilborn Understood,
Thank you!

Thank you for taking some time to offer these suggestions.

I certainly thought with the 64 bit version, this wasn’t an issue (I checked it before I posted after reading some into File System Redirector).

I will absolutely go look at the last-changed dates on all of those.

I have write permissions, thanks for making it a point.

We do have a hangfire “monitoring tool” that I fired off earlier today,… and it’s a good thought that perhaps it or IIS re-wrote the file after I saved it in notepad ++.

Truly Alan and Peter both…

Thank you~!

-David

@Andrew-Schultz well, double posting is generally a bit tacky, but here, I figured what I was doing wrong.

I had switched to Windows 10 and this may have altered the behavior of start.exe, which I used to spawn notepad for stuff like python files.

Notepad++ actually does, by default, open symlinks. If I open a .txt file that symlinks to another, it shows the linked-to file.

With link-from.txt linking to link-to.txt, this opens up the file linked from:

start "" "c:\program files\notepad++\notepad.exe" "link-from.txt"

This opens up the file linked to:

start "c:\program files\notepad++\notepad.exe" "link-from.txt"

I suppose I can complain about windows batch files a bit if I want, but … this looks like something notepad++ can’t be expected to handle, but I can, pretty easily.

Hopefully what I found can save someone else a bit of time.

No problem, I understand. It is how it is. Thank you for your explanation and fast reply.

@PeterJones Excellent! I’ll give it a go. Thanks again!

Hi all,
Thank you for your understanding and offers to help me further. I’ve solved the problem in the meantime - as usual in a poor-man’s way! :D

Love & Peace,
glossar

@PeterJones Sorry about the link, I’ll keep that in mind for the next time!

Oh, you’re right, {1} is not needed for single line :O

“Not every hero wears a cape” =D

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Did work like a charm * – *

Thank You so much!

@Alan-Kilborn

Point taken, but they were all successfully opened by the OS’ own Notepad, and most of the files >103 characters were even opened by NPP. Anyway, I’m really not hell-bent on having such long filenames and paths on my computer, but since there was considerable inconsistency, I thought there might be something else at play. Either way, it would be nice if NPP told why it couldn’t open them. Not the end of the world, of course.

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