Hello, @petr-andreev, @terry-R, @astrosofista and All,

@terry-r and @peterjones are right about it. For instance, the first word of your example, Sent is obviously not a proper name but this long sentence could have started with a proper name, too ! Regexes are really not a fair tool to solve semantic problems ;-))

@Astrosofista, I do like your approach, too ! As for me, I succeeded to build up a regex which catches, “more or less”, all the proper names and compound proper names of the OP’s text !

I modified your example, adding some dummy text as well as the @peterjones text, for a deeper text. Of course, the first word of any sentence is considered as a proper name. And, although your first sentence, slightly modified, seems to give good results, the @peterjones text, coming next, is not so pertinent !

Sent by them to the north in search of new lands, the daring daredevils of the Swamp Orkhon, Holokhoi Oyuun, Symattai the Blacksmith, Hara Tumen, Uluu Horo, the elder Omogoy and Ellei Bootur, as well as the general MacArthur, O'Neil the Scotsman , A SpecialNicknameForTest; Cardinal Mazarin, la Marquise de Maintenon, Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" and Louis XIV the Great or Sun King, his father, proceeding from the banks of the Great Ebe from top to bottom and from bottom to top, found three spacious valleys. As a second paragraph, we will follow d'Artagnan on his quest to find the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, along with fictional characters and Dr. Watson, and Bill S. Preston, Esq, and George Wexford-Smyth III. They were really curious whether Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel would lose his "van der", and whether Dutch would be kept because it's a proper adjective (not a proper noun).

The following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?x-is).*?(\u[\l\u'."]+(((?!and|or)[^,;.:?!\r\n]){1,5}?\u[\l\u'."]+){0,3})|.+(\R)?

REPLACE ?1\1(?4:\r\n)

Would output this text :

Sent Swamp Orkhon Holokhoi Oyuun Symattai the Blacksmith Hara Tumen Uluu Horo Omogoy Ellei Bootur MacArthur O'Neil the Scotsman SpecialNicknameForTest Cardinal Mazarin Marquise de Maintenon Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Louis XIV the Great Sun King Great Ebe As Artagnan St. Francis of Assisi Dr. Watson Bill S. Preston Esq George Wexford-Smyth III. They Dutch Mathieu Poel Dutch

Remark : if you add the new rule that “Any sentence will never begin with a proper name”, it should even be possible to avoid the first word of any sentence ! However, the @peterjones and @Terry-R thoughts should convince you of the limits of regexes, in this matter !

Test on your real text to see if any other problem occurs ! I do not have time, presently, for explanations of this search regex, but I will, next time !

See you later,

Best Regards,

guy038

Thank you. I was able to assign a new key combination in the settings of the program. The automatic selection of empty spaces between paragraphs is not a problem.

@Tom-Klecker said in How do I show/hide the "CR" and "LF" text at the end of the text line?:

I’m a returning user to Notepad++. It’s an excellent simple text/ ASCII text editor.
The CR and LF are part of the original ASCII code set and are a couple of the ‘machine codes’ (codes 00 to 31) that go back to the teletype origins where it was literally a command to reposition the print carriage back to the left margin and roll the platen up the space of a single line. The 2 command CR& LF were sent by TTY operators to start new lines… Later some printers and word processing apps were designed to automatically execute a line feed with every CR which led to the need to edit/convert some text documents for compatibility with different printers/word processors.
I like to see the CRLF to make sure they are there in the document and the line breaks are ‘hard’ and not interpreted by the app based on TAB, commas (CSV), semicolons, etc.
In a computer printer or display the commands tell the device to show the next character down a line space at.the left margin (or indentation).

Activate it via menu view->show symbol->show end of line

@Todd-Gehring-Gervase-Jr ,

Please read this FAQ entry: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place

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.