So the snapshot backups are more to be thought of as “N++ buffer backups” rather than file-on-disk backups.

The filenames of created backups are a bit different:

For the snapshot backups there’s a filename.ext@yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss file created (not literally, of course, hopefully that is understood).

For the backup-on-save you get either filename.ext.bak (for Simple backup) or filename.ext.yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss.bak (for Verbose backup).

@tbotbo said in No suggestions - spellchecker:

@Ekopalypse Thank you very much! I confirm, it’s fixed with release 1.4.18.

@Stef-Ks FYI

@Ekopalypse

Alternatively: Tick the . matches newline box. confused me as this means (?s), correct?

That’s what we in the business call an “Alan screw-up”.
Yes, of course that should have been Untick the . matches newline box
It’s what I meant, but there was a disruption on the way from my brain to my fingertips.
Apologies for the confusion.

icon bar

Yes, different but “usable”?
The toolbar icons for one of the plugins, on the far right, are much smaller in one case.

More disturbing is what @Terry-R pointed out with the whitespacing dots.

It’s probably just a “legacy app” issue that isn’t going to get fixed soon, if ever.

But thanks to all who pointed specifically what is different in the images. It would have been great to have a short textual list with the first posting of the screenshots, to save anyone who cared the time spent doing “Where’s Waldo”.

@Ekopalypse said in How to change this text, to this (see image comparison inside):

you mean joining several lines into one? Then yes. Edit->Line Operations->Join Lines

thankyou so much !

@Monika-Dosztal

If the code formatting has changed, this could be an indication that you
have changed something that has resulted in invalid code, which would
also explain why your html site no longer works.
But apart from that, npp is just an editor - it does not automatically
generate\modified html code.
The error is most likely in your code or in the setup of your web server.

@Luke-Parkes-Haskell

Can you try renaming your %APPDATA%\notepad++ directory temporarily and then run npp to see if that solves the problem?

@fred-zept said in Truncate find results lines:

I already tried doing the copy option, but when I paste lines somewhere else, I still get them truncated.

Well, there is another way, assuming you are doing a search in a single document.
You can use the Mark dialog to put a bookmark on each line that has a match, then use a command to copy bookmarked lines.
Obviously, then pasting what you’ve copied to a fresh tab gives you the long lines in their entirety.

Here’s the procedure:

Make sure the Display Bookmark checkbox is ticked in Settings menu > Preferences > Editing

Invoke Mark… either on the Search menu or by its default keycombo of Ctrl+m.

Fill out your search information to find what you want.

Additionally, Tick the Bookmark line checkbox.

Press the Mark All button.

Select the Copy Bookmarked Lines command from the Search menu’s Bookmark submenu.

Paste your copied lines somewhere else for further processing.

My thought on the english_customizable was that maybe a typo (maybe one of the ID numbers got changed) or misbalanced quotes or angle-brackets has caused confusion in the parser, creating the second menu.

Hmm, a localization change doesn’t create menus/items, so I fail to see how this could happen, but I guess anything is possible.

Or maybe you have two <History> sections in config.xml.

Verified as a No, I don’t.

Well, either a restart of N++ or a changing to English caused the duplicate-but-blank menu item to disappear.
BUT…I’ve seen it before, so I know that it will likely reappear.
I’ll keep an eye out for its return and see if I can figure out more about it and what might cause it.

Thanks to those that offered input.

@guy038 said in Help about text find and replace:

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?-si)“txt”:\x20"(.+?)"

REPLACE “txt”:\x20""

Tick the Wrap around option, preferably

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

Thanks a lot!!! it works very well!!!

@andrecool-68 I thought maybe there was a plugin for it, I thought it was a basic text file.

Hello, @ronen-neumark and All,

OK ! So, given this template :

<programme start="20201019000000" stop="20201019003000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR2_11414656841971"> ... ... ... </programme> <programme start="20201019003000" stop="20201019010000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR2_255393467237"> ... ... ... </programme> <programme start="20201019010000" stop="20201019013000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR2_347177048622"> ... ... ... </programme> <programme start="20201019013000" stop="20201019020000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR2_4358572412818"> ... ... ... </programme>

The following regex S/R would replace the external_id value with the litteral string 4_FR9_99999999999999, only one time out of two !

SEARCH (?-s)(<programme.+external_id=").+(?s)(".+?</programme>\R<programme.+?</programme>)

REPLACE ${1}4_FR9_99999999999999${2}

And should give the expected result :

<programme start="20201019000000" stop="20201019003000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR9_99999999999999"> ... ... ... </programme> <programme start="20201019003000" stop="20201019010000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR2_255393467237"> ... ... ... </programme> <programme start="20201019010000" stop="20201019013000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR9_99999999999999"> ... ... ... </programme> <programme start="20201019013000" stop="20201019020000" channel="4" external_id="4_FR2_4358572412818"> ... ... ... </programme>

My regex also works with this simplified example !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ekopalypse Thank you for everything. Have a good sleep :)

@David-Findlay

You can assign a shortcut. Goto Settings->Shortcut Mapper->Plugins

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Or you can select Spell Check Document Automatically from DSpellChecks plugins menu

@NSDurant

Should this work for lines which don’t have 40 characters yet too?
If not, record a macro. Pos 1 + 40 times arrow right.

@Aliaksandr3by

The new way (7.9) to do this is in the Preferences on the Searching page.
See Find dialog remains open after search that outputs to results window.
Tick that box.

Thank you so much for the detailed guide.

@Bunnarak-Theng ,

If you are tasked with building an IDE at school, I doubt they would look favorably upon you just downloading someone else’s IDE and using it.

That project sounds pretty advanced for a novice coder, and if that novice coder has so little insight into the practice that he would consider asking someone else to just hand him the solution, I would recommend that the novice go talk to his instructor and say, “I do not know how to start this project. I seem to be missing something fundamental to the project at this point. Can you point me to prerequisite classes that have prepared me for this, or to the portions of this class so far that has given me the information I need to make a start on this project?”

If I were a professor who had given this project to a class of students who I believed were prepared for this task, and one or more of those students instead tried to pass off a complete application downloaded off the internet as their own work, I would fail them immediately, and recommend that they not bother continuing in their educational studies until they are willing to learn and do the work themselves.

In my experience, professors love it when students come to them with well-thought-out questions, and hate it when students try to pass off someone else’s work as their own.

I hope you take this advice to heart; good luck in your studies.

@Nick-Brown

Yea, often posters just paste data into a posting without knowing what mangling a web site is going to do to it.

We recommend data be posted as a “code block” with the </> button in the composing toolbar, but asking for this seems to mystify a lot of people.

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you! That’s it… :) Since the blank dialogs only occur with the “old style” dialog, that should be no problem any more…