@Alan-Kilborn Thank you Alan, this looks lot easier to work with. but it seems like I need to update my Notepad++ I have older version.

Hey by the way, I found one more link that might help, just sharing if any one else can use it. https://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-flat-file.htm

Hello, @brian-krontz, @ekopalypse, @terry-r @alan-kilborn, @makwana-prahlad and All,

To @makwana-prahlad :

Why are you using such a complicated script, with some advanced options of sed ?

To my mind, the one-line script, below, does the job nicely, too ;-))

sed -n "/^\x0C/,+5d ; /(Continued)/d ; p" Input.txt > Output.txt

Notes :

First, sed searches, in the Input.txt file, for a range of lines :

The first line of this range must contain the FF char, at beginning of current line, so the /^\x0C/ syntax

Till the next 5 lines, that is to say, till the 6th empty line. Thus, the ,+5 syntax

Then, the d command deletes this range of entire lines

Secondly, sed searches if the next 7th line contains the (Continued) string, with that exact case, so the syntax /(Continued)/ , and, in that case, the d command, again, deletes this current line

Finally, if none of these criteria can be verified, the p command simply rewrites the current line in the Output.txt file

Indeed, not the same philosophy at usual N++ regexes, but rather easy to understand, too !

Cheers,

guy038

P.S. :

My sed script is not totally exact ! Indeed, if a line, located outside the header zone, contains the string (Continued), this line is wrongly deleted ! But, anyway, we’re on a Notepad++ forum, after all ;-))

Hi, All,

Do you know how I could maintain some spacing between the three regexes :

(?<!\n|\r|\f)^    ,    ^\A    ,    \A^

Which are usually rewritten :

(?<!\n|\r|\f)^ , ^\A , \A^

in the legal code text, of my previous post ?

Well, the trick is to use No Break Space character(s) ( \xA0 ), instead of the usual Space chars ( \x20 ) ;-))

So, use the Alt + 160 input method, from the numeric keypad, to insert a No Break Space character, at current cursor location !

Cheers,

guy038

@Ekopalypse Thanks

I never considered that, but your right. Thanks :)

@CoR said in User Defined Language: Collapse block of text:

So, choices are:
not possible

natively, correct, it is not currently possible

plugin (if it is possible to do it in plugin way)

that would work. plugins can be used to define whole new lexers in the language menu, so yes, a plugin could handle what you wanted, if such a plugin were to be written (I doubt one with that exact feature is already in the Plugins Admin list of plugins).

With some effort, it could probably also be implemented using the already-existing PythonScript or LuaScript plugin, which allow you to write Python or Lua code to control the Notepad++ GUI and editor windows, including influencing things like syntax highlighting and code folding. My guess is that it would use a similar technique to what @Ekopalypse implemented for regex-based extra-syntax highlighting in this post, but you’d have to find the code-folding rather than text-coloring code to manipulate.

a feature request

You could try, yes. However, no new features have been added to User Defined Languages (UDL) system in years, and there are many open bug reports and feature requests for UDL improvements … Sorry that I don’t have better news on that front. :-(

:(

Indeed.

@Ekopalypse oh thank you! i solved it now!! thanks alot :)

@Terry-R These are valid options and I did think of them, but I was hoping there was a way to configure notepad++ without doing anything, I’ll try my luck on Github and thanks for everything.

Often the argument is “It works just fine in all my other applications, just not Notepad++”.
So at what point does NOT supporting a certain scenario become a liability?
Perhaps even one that makes users switch to other text-editing software.
There’s no answer – it’s a tough call.

@guy038

Good technique.

Slight mod:
The OP mentioned the top end being 150, so the selection should probably really be:

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But, if the OP couldn’t extrapolate your solution to that, there’s a bigger problem. :-)

@Gustavo-Baiano said in Macro for "Number to Insert" from Column Editor:

I just want to have a “enumerate shortcut”.

It seems like it would be an easy thing to write a script for, either in Pythonscript or Luascript

You would:

define a column insert region (what would look like a tall caret

run the script (via keycombo, menu, or toolbar button)

boom your numbering pops in! :-)

But, do you do this constantly, such that using the actual column editor is a real burden?

Thanks a lot guy038! This is exactly what I was looking for!!!

@Kevin-Holtkamp said in Lag spikes/freezes when using multiline String in ps1 file:

@"
string content
"@

With a powershell file with just that content, I don’t notice any lag / freezes. My guess is something else is going on.

Please go to the ? menu, select Debug Info, and paste the results into the forum.

Also, see if it freezes for you when all you have in your powershell file is

@" string content "@

If it does freeze from just that, let us know. If not, there is going to have to be more debug.

My guess is something else is going on: either it’s because of a really long file, or because of one or more plugins, or both. (There could also be many things I haven’t considered.)

@overstop said in Font of this text:

I like the font of this website and font of the posts, so I was curious.

Ah. Sorry. This forum is specifically about Notepad++, the text editor. So we naturally assumed you were asking about Notepad++ fonts, not the fonts of this website.

You would have to look at your browser settings, as well as the underlying CSS styling, to know for sure. Some browsers (like Chrome) have ways to find out what the actual chosen font/family is, after all stylesheets have been applied.

A quick look at the css shows that normal text uses

font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";

CSS will search for those fonts on your system, in the order listed.

and code/fixed-width text uses

font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;

My guess, if you’re browsing on Windows and your browser isn’t set to override CSS-based font, is that you are seeing Segoe UI for normal text and Consolas for fixed width text.

@Rupert-Russell

Starting to wonder if this isn’t spam for TextPad as you posted virtually the same thing in THIS THREAD that has an extremely similar title.

If it is NOT spam, then what is the point of posting it here?

@asvc said:

check this topic: … (you might want to read starting at the last post)

“last post” has no reasonable meaning if new “last posts” have been added since you typed that. :-)

You can link to a specific posting in a topic by right-clicking on the posting time and copying the link address and then pasting that.

So for example, a posting might say “asvc about 2 hours ago”. Right-click on the “about 2 hours ago” part and copy that link.

Hi, @alan-kilborn and All,

Here is a solution, as a work-around, to manage the presence of the NUL character(s) in a file :

Choose an other character, not used, yet, in your file. Let’s take the \x{007F} control character Delete

So, you first run the regex S/R, below, with the Wrap around option and the Regular expression search mode

SEARCH \0

REPLACE \x7F

Then you perform all your text manipulations, in Notepad++

Finally, save your file and exit N++

As we cannot insert any NUL character, with an N++ replacement, we’ll simply use the well known utility sed.exe

You can download its last Windows v4.8 - 64 bits version, from https://github.com/mbuilov/sed-windows

Or other versions, from https://github.com/mbuilov/sed-windows/tree/master/archive

Then, in a DOS console window, type in and execute this simple command :

sed.exe -i s/\x7f/\x00/ Your_File

Best Regards,

guy038

Another technique is to use \K at the end of your find string.
In that usage you then do not use ${0} in the replace.
Your replacement string will be inserted at the end of the text your find string matches.
I mention this usage because that seems to be what you are needing.

However, if you ever have a situation where you want your find string text to be in the middle of a replacement, then the ${0} usage is the solution.

It’s a montage made by a contributor to show me what he’d like to have, and since that was exactly what I wanted myself, I took the picture and forwarded it over here ^^’

You can see there’s a gray line hanging kind-of off, but still I’ve asked him to be sure, and yes it was a montage (else he’d have pushed his script to the repo I guess)

Thanks for the clarifications @MAPJe71 :)

So we can’t push more forward for now; thank you very much to all of you following and helping on this topic!

Take care people