@JR

feel free to open an issue if something is unclear from the usage description in the script.
As for the startup.py, if you use the one under machine then there is
a chance that it gets overwritten once an PythonScript plugin update happens. Like @Alan-Kilborn said, I would create a custom script with “New Script” and name it startup.py.
It is automatically created in the correct path.
By the way, the PythonScript configuration has to be changed from LAZY to ATSTARTUP so that it is executed at every npp startup.

For those being directed here by other links from the forum, @Ekopalypse has a newer version available at his github, here.

Thank you very much.
It works

@Дмитрий-Трошин said in Select text via syntax highlighting:

I am using jN plugin for such task.
https://github.com/sieukrem/jn-npp-plugin
The “href” selection functionality is in the file:
https://github.com/trdm/jn-npp-scripts/blob/master/includes/IntellHtml.js

How it works.

Open any editor or font viewer.
And you will see that the “Courier Code” font contains only italic characters!

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@igitthatalot said:

any update on this dev team?
…
Any update? have you tried to reproduce this at all?

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that this community forum is the dev team. That is not the case. If you have an issue with the codebase, and have reproducible methodology that anyone can follow to recreate your problem, you can read this community forum FAQ to find out where to submit bug reports, because this forum is not the bug tracker. But if your problem description is as vague as you’ve used in this discussion, I doubt you’ll get any traction in the issue tracker, either. Good luck.

@Alan-Kilborn Noob to Notepad++ I have ALWAYS used Textpad until recently. I was not looking at the BIG picture and trying to do 5 things at the same time… In my original script I was doing it the long and hard way and yours blew it out of the water…LOL!

I REALLY do appreciate your help and patience with answering my questions. Once again THANK YOU for your help on this!

@Myvh

Why don’t you ask your question without the URLs.

To me it sounds like you are asking how to get around the filter…so that you can then spammify the forum!

@Asher-Stuhlman ,

I would like to use monospaced font for unknown file types and a specific font only for .txt files if possible.

That’s not the way that Notepad++ works. All unknown file extensions are interpreted by Notepad++ as “Normal Text”, and all Normal Text, whether it ends in .txt or not, get the Default Style applied. That’s the way Notepad++ was designed.

You might be able to get your desired behavior by creating a User Defined Language (UDL) associated with the .txt extension, and use the UDL dialog to set the font for just .txt. (This would override .txt so it’s using the UDL lexer, and is no longer considered “Normal Text”)

official UDL overview: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-defined-language-system/ UDL details: https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/

For example, this worked for me:
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@MysticMylese ,

It might depend on what .ks files are. I don’t know of any of the builtin language lexers that expect that file extension, but I don’t know all the lexers myself.

In general, if there isn’t a builtin lexer, you will have to create a User Defined Language (UDL).

Official docs UDL overview: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-defined-language-system/ Detailed UDL description: https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/

There is a community-supplied collection of UDL at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/userDefinedLanguages/blob/master/udl-list.md , which you can download as described in the official docs UDL overview… but I don’t see any there that immediately jump out and say “I use the extension .ks”

@Vinnie-M said in Double-click select highlight only cursor occurrence?:

I just expect to see only one thing highlighted

If you look carefully, the highlights are different. There’s the light-green for the smart highlighting, and a different color for the selected text. Of course the “different color” is a blended version of the light-green and the selected text background color, but that’s because a double-clicked word is selected and smart-highlighted simultaneously.

for example, 3 different markers for blocks: circle vs. square

Well, for this you mean folding markers. This type of thing is provided because the underlying component supports it; Notepad++ developers had to code very little to achieve folding, so they probably felt that they needed to do some amount of work. :-) Other settings are similar; someone else coded it, and Notepad++ developers just allow their users to turn it on/off.

I think it would also be appropriate to ask “is there a setting to do this or not do that”

Yes, of course, certainly. Ask away.

@guy038 said in Changing the focus from Function List panel to the main editor, and vice-versa:

At no time did I want to suggest that people should donate to help me get a new laptop !

Of course not; all my idea.
Nobody interpreted it as you with your hand out.
At least I don’t think so.
I’ll cease with the joking around as perhaps it is making you feel awkward; apologies.

OK, thanks.

@Alan-Kilborn said in 'Find Previous' shortcut not working?:

backward searching for this has been (mostly) disabled due to unexpected results in certain cases.

@Nathan-Wailes ,

To re-enable backwards regex, see the official docs at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#preferences-for-advanced-users

more issues are reported

As I’ve said before, sometimes change is “implemented to make the majority more happy, which had the side effect of making the minority more unhappy.” – except, in this case, I’m wondering if the change wasn’t for the minority, making the majority unhappy. :-)

I haven’t had a chance to “live with it” yet, but I took @MAPJe71’s and added yuzhy8701’s attributes/prototypes

I also allowed (\w*::)* in the function name, to handle that rare-but-valid syntax. (I decided it didn’t need a separate hierarchy, because if you’re doing it in that format, you probably aren’t thinking of it as “belonging” to a class.)

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<!-- ======================================================== [ PERL ] --> <!-- PERL - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language --> <parser displayName="Perl" id="perl_function" commentExpr="(?x) # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m-s:\x23.*$) # Single Line Comment | (?s:__(?:END|DATA)__.*\Z) # Discard up till end-of-text " > <classRange mainExpr ="(?x) # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m) # ^ and $ match at line-breaks (?'PACKAGE_HEADER' ^ # NO leading white-space at start-of-line (?-i:package\b) ) (?s:.*?) # whatever, (?= # ...up till \s* # ...optional leading white-space of (?: (?&amp;PACKAGE_HEADER) # ...next header | \Z # ...or end-of-text ) ) " > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?x) # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) \s \K # discard text matched so far [^;]+ " /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?x) # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m) ^\h* sub \s+ (?:\w+\:\:)* # optional prefix::package::names:: \w+ (?:\s*\([^()]*\))? # prototype or signature (?:\s*\:\s*[^{]+)? # attributes \s*\{ # start of function body " > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?x) # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (sub\s+)? \K # discard text matched so far (?:\w+\:\:)* # optional prefix::package::names:: \w+ " /> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="(?x) # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m) ^\h* sub \s+ (?:\w+\:\:)* # optional prefix::package::names:: \w+ (?:\s*\([^()]*\))? # prototype or signature (?:\s*\:\s*[^{]+)? # attributes \s*\{ # start of function body " > <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?x) # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?:sub\s+)? \K # discard text matched so far (?:\w+\:\:)* # optional prefix::package::names:: \w+ " /> </functionName> </function> </parser>