@Nikola ,

if the border was only white not gray

Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Fold Margin, change the Background Colour to white (or whatever non-gray color you prefer)

I wanted to try the trick with Pyton Script plugin but I would need step by step instructions

Plugins > Plugins Admin: in the Available tab, enable ☑ Python Script and Install. Notepad++ should restart after installing the plugin Plugins > Python Script > Scripts: in the resulting sub-menu, Ctrl+Click on the Startup (user)
(if you normal-click, it will run the script; ctrl+click will edit the script – you want to edit it) It will open a file in Notepad++. At the end of that file, add the lineseditor1.setMarginLeft(30) editor2.setMarginLeft(30) and save that file. Plugins > Python Script > Configuration…. Change the Initialisation: drop-down to ATSTARTUP, and click OK Exit and restart Notepad++.

This should set wider margins. If it’s too wide or too narrow, use a smaller or larger number than 30 (bigger number means wider)

If it doesn’t work for you, show us your ? > Debug Info, and give us screenshots showing your edited startup.py open in Notepad++, and maybe with the Plugins > Python Script > Show Console showing, so we can see if there are any unexpected error messages

Hi @Janaranjan-Sahoo

Probably you have already done this, but anyway here it goes: For a basic and visual explanation of the Multi-Editing feature, first off read Notepad++ User Manual.

Then, for more advanced examples involving the BetterMultiSelection plugin, please take a look at these problem-solving animations and follow the instructions to better grasp how the plugin works and enhances the standard Multi-Editing feature:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/53667
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54925
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/51906
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/53168 (explanation)
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/51915
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/51786

Take care and have fun!

Thanks guy038 and Alan Kilborn for your quick assistance!

guy038’s first method seems to work great. I’m using his expression with Mark All and then skipping from student to student in the transcript using F2.

This is much more fun than a visual search for student names!

@WhiskyDrip Addendum 72 was the Character length for e-mail lines back in the day :~)

Thanks, Peter for your Thorough reply.
I´ll come back with some clarifying examples and cover beforehand the whole scenarios in deep.

@Arbus33 said in Install command line parameters:

shell interaction (may be added by regedit…)

Good point. You could run a batch script afterwards that set up the registry links.

Or, you could do a normal silent install in English, then copy/unzip a pre-built %AppData%\Notepad++ folder with the language selected for the user

@cmeriaux said in edited shorcuts.xml does not affect npp:

manual modification of shorcuts.xml is tricky because the file is loaded at Npp startup, and is NOT reload during Npp runtime.
You should try to edit shorcuts.xml with another editor than Npp

While I agree that you have to follow a specific order, it is quite possible to edit shortcuts.xml, or the other Notepad++ config files, from inside Notepad++. I do it all the time. The sequence described in the online user manual works for me, as long as you do not make any Notepad++ settings changes in the GUI from steps 2 thru 5.

Close all active instances of Notepad++ Open one instance of Notepad++ Edit the configuration file Save Exit Notepad++ Reload Notepad++ The changes will now be in effect.

The other issue that @Niels-Henrik-Bruun might be dealing with: before v7.6.3, there was an active Launch in IE entry in the “User Defined Commands” (Run-menu) section of shortcuts.xml. In v7.6.3, those lines were put in XML comments, so that they weren’t actively in the menu. (In v7.9.3, the commented-out lines were completely removed from the default shortcuts.xml that ships with Notepad++.) So, if the version that @Niels-Henrik-Bruun started with was v7.6.3 to v7.9.2 (that is, nearly any version in the last two years), the Launch in IE <command ...> tag was inside the <!-- ... --> XML comment, and would not affect Notepad++ whether edited in an external editor, edited in Notepad++, or not edited at all.

Another issue might be if the c:\program files\notepad++\shortcuts.xml is being edited, but the normal installation is used so that %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml is the version being read 🛈, it will also have no effect. Which is the correct shortcuts.xml can be determined by your settings: if the ?-menu’s Debug Info shows Local Conf mode : ON, then you edit the shortcuts.xml in the same folder as notepad++.exe; if you have cloud settings (Settings > Preferences > Cloud & Link has the cloud location path set), then your shortcuts.xml should be edited in that location; otherwise, %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml is the right file to edit.

So, @Niels-Henrik-Bruun, to sum up:

Make sure you are editing the right shortcuts.xml – the cloud folder file, the file in the notepad++ executable’s folder, or the file in the %AppData%\Notepad++ folder Make sure you are properly editing the file: either close all Notepad++ instances, and edit the file with some other editor; or follow the sequence that I included above and is in the online manual Make sure that the <command...>...</command> tag is not inside of the <!-- ... --> XML comment Changes won’t take effect until Notepad++ has been re-started after the edits (step 6-7, above)

Hi,
Take a look at this issue: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9475
Is it the same?

Hello, @michael-haigh-0 and All,

Just two constraints :

Your (*###) tags must begin the line OR are preceded with blank space chars only. But these tags may be followed with some text

You must run, at least, the v7.9.1 N++ release or a later one

If so, the road map is :

Open your file in N++

Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M )

SEARCH (?s)^\h*\(\*1\).+?(?=\(\*\d+\)|\z)

Tick the Purge for each search option

Tick the Wrap around option

Leave all other options unticked

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Mark All button

Click on the Copy Marked Text

Close the Mark dialog ( Esc )

Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )

Paste the clipboard’s contents ( Ctrl + V )

=> Each (*1) section is natively separated with a blank line and a ---- line ;-)

Now, just get concentrated !

Of course, change the 1 of the regex by any number required !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

You may, as well :

Tick the Bookmark line option, in the Mark dialog, before clicking on the Mark All button

Close the Mark dialog ( Esc )

Go back to the very beginning of your file ( Ctrl + Home )

And, simply, browse through each Bookmarked line, with the F2 or Shift + F2 shortcuts !

@guy038 thank you man. worked like a charm

Hello.
Problem solved. Thanks to @carypt over on > < https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus >

Link here for the User Defined Language.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/userDefinedLanguages/blob/master/udl-list.md

WD

Thanks! I love this forum and program

Hi @ijoel92

Not natively. But there is a Python script that I think does what you want.

See details in this and subsequent posts.

If you want to try the script, here are some instructions to install it:

Have fun!

@Meathead

It’s really a rather easy thing for a scripting plugin to do, as Peter says.

Here’s a demo using PythonScript; see if you can follow its logic without further explanation:

from Npp import editor city_string = ''' Sydney Melbourne Adelaide ''' city_list = city_string.splitlines() city_list.pop(0) for city in city_list: editor.replace('city', city, 0, 0, editor.getLength(), 4)

@Egor-Artemenko said in Lags during up and down navigation with arrows on large PHP-file, 500 Kb, 16k lines:

Another tweak is detecting fast actions

Extremely unlikely.
The core design of Notepad++ and Scintilla is single threaded.
Once an “event” should do some computation this computation is happening and even if it is unexpectedly long there is no way to abort it.
With “fast actions” which is practically 2 quick events the 2nd event cannot influence the 1st event.

@PeterJones said in How do I change file tab's font name and size ?:

I believe it may be influenced by Windows theme settings

If it is influenced by the Windows settings, then on Windows 10 the changes must be done in registry (was removed from control panel since previous Windows version).
Have a look at:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-change-default-system-font-windows-10
which outlines the method. This is not something to be taken lightly as there’s no fail-safe as would be available when it is run through a GUI.

Terry

PS I haven’t tested this yet as my company dislikes these sorts of changes done by users.

Thanks for your replies!

@wonkawilly said in Call Notepad++ from Firefox to edit Text Field?:

…
Easy, direct, and no plugins or scripting needed.

If you want to complicate things use addons to make easy tasks like this more difficult. Addons are powerful but it must worth their use and for this I’m not sure

I got this job from colleagues which used the old version of add-on “withexeditor” and told me “it’s so fine and so important and …”, but the more I look at it (and the value behind it …) the more I have doubts about the time to invest for a “simple solution”

@Georg-Hohmann

There is an issue with the NppSaveAsAdmin plugin,
can it be that you are using it as well?

@wonkawilly said in how to put numbers every two rows?:

there is a little error in the row

It’s OK. BTW I didn’t go step by step through to check for accuracy.
It’s enough that you very clearly showed the technique, enough to get someone started down that same path.

@Ward-Ricker Well, now to answer my own question. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Notepad++ once again. This time it seems to have fixed the problem. I don’t know why it didn’t fix it the first time, but apparently I am all set.