@Alan-Kilborn said in Open with search:

@pdanes said in Open with search:

it changes in mid-stream. When I first call it, the dialog opens with “Find”, but after a while, it switches on its own to “Najít”. I haven’t (yet, anyway) taken the trouble to find out exactly when, or see if I can isolate the exact cause - I’ve been too busy just trying to get it working at all

Well THAT is certainly strange!

Isn’t it, though? What is happening is that only the first SendMessage call opens the dialog with “Find”. As long as the dialog stays open, and I simply put in different texts to search for and press the find button, it stays “Find”. As soon as a second SendMessage call is issued, or I manually switch to a different tab in the dialog, or I manually press ctrl/F (whether or not the search dialog is closed first), it immediately switches to “Najít” and stays that way from then on, for as long as Notepad remains open. If I completely close it, and it is opened again by the database and the search dialog is opened by the database’s SendMessage call, it is “Find” again. It seems that the very first SendMessage must bypass some initialization code. Maybe there is some other call I should issue first, some “SetInitialParameters” sort of thing, but I don’t really feel like looking for something that may not even exist. Just checking for both versions of the title works well enough. If someone who understands what’s going sees this and chimes in with some direction, I’ll fix it. If not, this works well enough.

A little odd, but I’ve seen stranger behavior from software.

Do they have a real Python interpreter built into Notepad? That’s some text editor.

It isn’t exactly “built-in”. It’s a plugin. But a rather miraculous one. :-)

So it seems. Python is probably something I should devote more time to. More and more situations are cropping up where knowing it well would be useful. At this point I can usually muddle my way to some result, but I don’t really ‘know’ the language, and I should.

@glossar said in Seettin a min. length for tab-characters:

It would be nice if we had had option about this, e.g., cancelling the tabularity/column feature, but I don’t think the developers would listen, after all, mine is just another user’s feature-wish.

The devs will listen and respond to requests that make sense.
Yours, however, does not.
You don’t get to change a half-century of how things work; sorry.
You might as well attempt to redefine how “line endings” are (good luck).

So for the files you are looking at, someone chose to use the tab character as a delimiter between data.
Perhaps an (unfortunate) way of doing it, that also has some lengthy history to it, and you aren’t going to be able to change that either.

So what can you do?
Suggest you use Notepad++'s replacement feature to replace tab characters with something more appealing.
Perhaps you replace \t in Extended or Reg. Exp. Search mode, with -------- ?

Or maybe @astrosofista 's suggestion of the Elastic Tabstops plugin works for you.

@D-A-G-13 said in Edit just one ocurrence in all files, not all ocurrences in all files.:

It worked perfectly,

I’m glad we got there eventually. It was hard work though.

If you ask any further questions please do supply examples. If the data is sensitive (confidential) then alter the data but keep the structure as it originally was. It’s very important that examples as supplied for the very reason as shown in this thread. Presumably English isn’t your primary language as it seems you didn’t understand some of the questions well enough to give complete answers. That’s why examples are very important. Generally about 5 or so lines before and using the same example lines, repeat them showing the result you were expecting to get.

Terry

FIND: (.*)(life elsewhere)

REPLACE BY: \1SECRET \2

FWIW, some related items:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/14644/replacement-in-vertical-block

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15606/how-to-replace-in-block-mode

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5113

Hello, @robin-cruise, @Terry-R and All,

Why not this simplified version :

SEARCH (?-is)2002(?=.*Michael)

REPLACE 2012

Notes :

The regex searches for the string 2002 ONLY IF  , further on, in current line, the string Michael, with that exact case, can be found

If so, it is replaced with the string 2012

In case, the forename Michael could be located before the 2002 string, here is an improved version taking the two cases in account :

SEARCH (?-is)2002(?=.*Michael)|Michael.*\K2002

REPLACE 2012

Use the Replace All button, only !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

Oh…, I’ve just seen the @alan-kilborn version which is really clever as it does not need an alternative ;-))

So, I just added the (?-i) modifier, if necessary and the \K feature to avoid any group :

SEARCH (?-is)^(?=.*?Michael).*\K2002

REPLACE 2012

Use the Replace All button, only !

Hello,@Bruno-Martinha
Please you have open multiple URLs at once to use the CMD batch script file for this and insert the command below in the batch script file:

FOR /F %%link IN (<your text file.txt>) DO start chrome %%link

I hope this information will be useful to you.
Thank you.

In my case, I wanted to exchange something between the comments, and I have more comments. So, to do that I had to rename the comments so as not to change everything, and only certain comments.

@Nightcore-AMV ,

I believe this applies:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place

You seem to be asking a programming question, which is agnostic of what editor you use. This forum is about the Notepad++ editor itself, and not a general programming-q-and-a forum.

First of all I have to say that I’m amazed about this group and the level of competence you guys have.
I just got the time to work on this project and here what I have found.

@astrosofista said in Replacing word between commas not included in a list of words:

Hi @fred-zept

Please, try the following regex, based in the expressions provided yesterday:

Search: ^((([^,]*),){22}(?!bianco|nero|rosso|giallo|blu|verde|arancione|grigio|viola|marrone|mimetico|beige|bordeaux))([^,]+) Replace: ${1}altri

Have fun!

Thanks, this seems to work on most of the lines. In some other line seems to change the value on the 21st comma rather than 22nd.
It works on the first line, although on the second line change the word Topman, which is the brand and not the colour, rather than Pietra

https://www.awin1.com/pclick.php?p=27397554539&a=357849&m=9606,"adidas Originals - Smanicato con 3 strisce nero",27397554539,9963546,https://images.asos-media.com/products/adidas-originals-smanicato-con-3-strisce-nero/20192202-1-black?$XXL$,"Gilet di Adidas Originals Il prossimo dei tuoi prodotti salvati Modello imbottito Collo a imbuto Logo Adidas Chiusura con zip Tasche laterali 3 strisce laterali Vestibilità classica Veste perfettamente la taglia indicata","Uomo > Giacche e cappotti > Gilet",74.95,"Asos.com IT",9606,"Men's Outerwear",171,https://images2.productserve.com/?w=200&h=200&bg=white&trim=5&t=letterbox&url=ssl%3Aimages.asos-media.com%2Fproducts%2Fadidas-originals-smanicato-con-3-strisce-nero%2F20192202-1-black%3F%24XXL%24&feedId=36675&k=1f40920a1b687eb73ed4ce4da992ec98bfaf0279,EUR,,0.00,https://www.asos.com/it/adidas-originals/adidas-originals-smanicato-con-3-strisce-nero/prd/20192202?browseCountry=IT&browseCurrency=EUR,,,EUR74.95,36675,"adidas Originals",Porpora,,25479,,,,,"74.95 €","0.00 €",,, https://www.awin1.com/pclick.php?p=27250398127&a=357849&m=9606,"Topman - Piumino smanicato riciclato color pietra",27250398127,10155883,https://images.asos-media.com/products/topman-piumino-smanicato-riciclato-color-pietra/20571492-1-stone?$XXL$,"Giacca di Topman Non oggi, per quando fa freddo Collo a imbuto Senza maniche Chiusura con zip Tasca con zip sul petto Tasche laterali Vestibilità classica Veste perfettamente la taglia indicata","Uomo > Giacche e Cappotti > Gilet",55.99,"Asos.com IT",9606,"Men's Outerwear",171,https://images2.productserve.com/?w=200&h=200&bg=white&trim=5&t=letterbox&url=ssl%3Aimages.asos-media.com%2Fproducts%2Ftopman-piumino-smanicato-riciclato-color-pietra%2F20571492-1-stone%3F%24XXL%24&feedId=36675&k=2bd6e17c0634ad74c710a431ab947d5e483b4d4c,EUR,,0.00,https://www.asos.com/it/topman/topman-piumino-smanicato-riciclato-color-pietra/prd/20571492?browseCountry=IT&browseCurrency=EUR,,,EUR55.99,36675,Topman,Pietra,,25487,,,,,"55.99 €","0.00 €",,,

@guy038 your solution seems to work perfectly.

@Terry-R I guess I’m in the middle of the good ones since I live in in Europe. And you are a good one for sure Terry, I’m still using your way to delete near duplicate lines.
Thanks again.

Thanks everyone for your help!

thank you !

@Ekopalypse thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the file structure is what I would call a little “wonky”, with similar elements existing on different levels, so I don’t think defining a UDL alone won’t get me there. In any case I appreciate your response!

@guy038 thank you so much from my deep heart. I really appreciate your efforts towards an stranger like me. And i will definitely try learning from links provided by you. Thanks again.

@Ekopalypse said in How to separate two numbers from text?:

but just thought, hey, this can be done easily without regex.

Yes and you present a good technique, something interesting to the forum.

those who want to give answers should be allowed to do so

Surely, and I can’t stop them.
Just my efforts to keep us on track, and not being a continual back-and-forth data translation service for those that don’t choose to go off and learn how to do their own, with the basics given here.

Thank you so much

@ljhmily said in settings--preference--language style setting--bash--instruction word，is the keywords has number or word limit？:

i added some keywords, like su wget api ssh, but only su wget ssh worked, the api and others not.

su and wget are already keywords (INSTRUCTION WORD), so you don’t need to add them.

And when I add api ssh to the list, they immediately start highlighting:

But, as @Terry-R said,

further test seems to show only the word against the margin will highlight if amongst the user added words

It’s more nuanced than that, as shown by my screenshot:

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cat api only marks cat as a keyword because in the grammar of bash, cat is in the location of a command, but api is not (it’s the argument, not the instruction). But api blah at the beginning of the line will allow api to be recognized as an INSTRUCTION WORD, because it is grammatically where an instruction should be. Further, on my examples with | pipes and & or ; separators, the first word after the separator can also be recognized as an INSTRUCTION WORD, too… because they are instructions.

You might try to argue that something like
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should highlight the ls as well as the ssh, because ls is also a command… but really, it’s not a command in terms of the bash script running on the local machine – it’s only a command once it’s sent all the way to the remote connection.

similarly, ansible -vv api -m copy has -vv, api, -m, and copy as arguments, not as instructions, so only the ansible is a potential instruction word… and since it’s not a builtin keyword nor in my list of user-defined keywords, it is not highlighted.

So, personally, I consider the bash/unix-shell syntax highlighter to be working correctly; according to the grammar that’s built into the lexer, it is highlighting the builtin or user-defined keywords when they are grammatically being used as instruction words, and only then. If you consider that a bug (I do not), this forum is not the right place to report it; in fact, the Notepad++ project is even the wrong place to report it, because the bash lexer is defined/coded in the Scintilla project which Notepad++ uses for that feature. You would have to go report that bug to Scintilla; once/if they fix it, you would then have to ask Notepad++ to upgrade to the newer Scintilla.

However, you can add extra highlighting to a builtin lexer (like the bash/unix-shell lexer) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo. Those regexes wouldn’t be limited by the bash/unix-shell grammatical constraints, so if you defined a regex like \b(api|ssh|ansible)\b, it would highlight those words under the scripts color definitions whenever they were found, not just in grammatically instruction-word locations.

this is my poor attempt to help . it might contain error possibilities : so be careful . i havent concerned line-breaks (end of line) in my try . please correct me if you know . i would also suggest to use the search /mark funktion and then manually correct the mistakes step by step .

i see one problem-case always has quotes at start and end , and sometimes ongoing sentence , also upper and lower case .
search phrases example 1(period into comma) : ("\u.*)(\.)(")( \u.*)(\.) replace : $1,$3$4$5 . (the brackets define arguments and $number define the numbered backreferences for the former arguments , dot is any character , * means repetion , . (escaped dot) means the real dot-character ,\u means upper case character , \l lower case character, \s is space character)
example 2 (missing comma) : s: ("\u.*)(")(\u.*)(\.) r: $1,$2$3$4 .
example 3 (comma into period) s: ("\u.*)(,)(") r : $1.$3 .
example 4 s: ("\u.*)(\.)(")(\u.*)(,)("\u.*)(\.)(") r: $1,$3$4.$6$7$8 .
example 5 (finding missing period) s : (\u.*)(\s\u.*\.) r : $1.$2 .

@asirota said in Issues with npftp and ionos (1and1) sftp:

something special that’s changed in a recent version of Notepad++

Please note that NppFTP is a separate entity from Notepad++. The “problem” is likely in the plugin, not in Notepad++ itself (because Notepad++ itself knows nothing about SFTP or any other such protocol).

Sometimes, due to the OpenSSL library used by NppFTP plugin, the encryptions/etc that NppFTP knows about is different from the encryptions/etc that your server is willing to use. I have that problem with at least one server.

However, based on the error messages, it appears your host doesn’t want password authentication. My guess is that in FileZilla, you have that host set to use an SSH key to log in, rather than a password, but that you aren’t trying SSH key with NppFTP. You might have to enable the private key checkbox and fill in the private key file location for the IONOS profile:
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(I think at one point, I also had NppFTP working with pageant or a pageant-equivalent SSH key agent, but I don’t currently have an example of that working available right now, so I don’t remember how it all worked together – but I think it had the checkbox enable but no keyfile in the text box in those settings.)

If that doesn’t help you, I’m not sure how much more we’ll be able to help you here.

If you look on your Plugins > NppFTP > About,
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… you will see the Visit NppFTP site which then links to the NppFTP issue tracker, which is where you would go for help specifically on NppFTP. I would recommend, since you can successfully connect to that site using FileZilla, but not with NppFTP, that you share you NppFTP profile settings and the FileZilla profile settings in that issue you create over there. (If you do create an issue with NppFTP issue tracker, it’s generally considered polite to paste a link to the issue you create in this thread, so that anyone who reads your request here can follow it to its conclusion over there.)

As a workaround for sites that I couldn’t get to work in NppFTP (in the days before my IT department uninstalled FileZilla for me), I would set up FZ to use Notepad++ for the editor, and then I would use FileZilla’s remote-edit feature to edit remote files through FZ using Notepad++. Using FZ+NPP vs NPP+NppFTP were very similar workflows for me, and it didn’t bother me to switch between the two.

I remember having a similar problem in the past, I wanted the default colors everywhere except my UDL. Thanks for the tip above, I will check later if it works for me.

@Alan-Kilborn said in line by line modification using macro:

A script feels a bit “heavy” for this simple operation.

This is if we mean only this operation.
In fact, there are many possibilities as the brackets are customizable.
Often it is necessary, for example: to complete the lines on the right or left.