@James-Burke-0 ,
Unfortunately, every one of those variants has NON-Standard extensions, so it would be virtually impossible to do a one UDL to rule them all type of thing. The current xBASE, doesn’t work with plain dBASE, although much of it will, but it doesn’t come close to what was needed for dBASE Plus, an OOP version of dBASE, which is why I created that one with a lot of help from the folks around here.

The language syntax differences would drive you mad, and unless you’re willing to create a lexer to handle them all, based on some criteria like file extensions, stock boilerplate code at the start of files, etc…you’ll be working your tail off to track down all the reference material needed plus writing, editing and fixing the variances that can occur between variants.

It took me a year to complete the dBASE Plus UDL that, thanks to @PeterJones , is now in the UDL languages repository as he mentions above. You can try and use that or the xBASE version as a start.

This won’t be a project for the faint of heart, so unless you’re ready to take on that task, I’d stick to only worrying about the variant that you need to work with.

@Drew-S ,

“almost all the checkboxes are checked” – in the Notepad++ settings, some are mutally exclusive (radioboxes, not checkboxes), so we still cannot know what settings you have. Can you do Alt+PrintScreen in the Preferences > Backup dialog, and in your AutoSave plugin preferences, and paste those two screenshots in your reply

Now I see that subfolder “backup” is created, but it’s still empty…

Which means that either you don’t have any unsaved edits yet, or you don’t have session snapshot enabled. Like I said before, if you don’t have any unsaved edits, the backup folder will be empty.

And you really need to read the FAQ I linked you to.

@Mikko-Torniainen ,

I’ve been using v8.7 since it was released, and I’ve never seen that error.

This sounds somewhat like this issue from August – wherein it turned out the user had AntiVirus SW that turned on a buried Windows setting to “protect” the user. You might want to check the setting that @xomx mentioned in that discussion.

If that setting was already off for you, and if you know that you don’t have AntiVirus/AntiMalware getting in the way, then try using MS notepad.exe to save a file to a given directory, and then try using Notepad++ to save in the exact same directory.

@Stefan-Knecht said in Dozens of open tabs disappeared:

Perhaps the process is at fault then?

No, it stems from the fact those backup files will refer to open tabs. No open tabs means no backup files.

As that FAQ post states, you should do your own backups so that you have “real” files, not rely solely on “temp tab” files for critical data.

You might wish to provide your Notepad++ setup. Read this FAQ post. That will give us some of that info. Any other information would also be welcome as it helps us get a better idea of the environment you are working in. Info such as, do you run multiple instances, was the backup location a local or network drive, or maybe cloud.

The more you can provide the better chance the members here might notice the reason for you problem. Whilst this may help you prevent a repeat, the original link I provided contains probably the best chance of you recovering some (or hopefully all) of your missing data.

Good luck.
Terry

@Eli-Khoury said in Find dialogbox:

How to have the “Find” in the “Status bar”?

Are you talking about Incremental Search, like in the following screenshot?

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Search > Incremental Search (default key binding = Ctrl+Alt+I) will show that extra search tool near the Status Bar. It’s not the full-featured Find dialog (because that obviously wouldn’t fit), but it provides normal (non-regex) searching

@PeterJones Thank you! That one did work (I thought I had tried it before I posted and it didn’t work.). But it worked when I tried it again!

@PeterJones said in Delete a numbered line..:

I was going from memory, on my phone, just before bed.

Bad plan. :-)

The OP described his use case for the need he expressed here, on the github site. Although I wasn’t able to give him resolution on the question he asked here, I did come up with a sample script that might meet his need for solving his use case. Interested readers are directed to the github site, via the link in my previous posting.

The problem has been solved and the fix will be in the upcoming 8.7.1 release. Details are HERE.

@PeterJones

Thank you for making this post. I’ve been disappointed that I can’t paste with formatting into Outlook as I used to. After reading your description, I see that Outlook supports the same feature as Word does, so Paste “Keep Source Formatting” works perfectly.

Note that in Outlook, you can press ALT, H, V, K to paste with formatting without using the mouse.

-Ben

Hi, @larlei, @terry-R and All,

However, @larlei, given the same INPUT text :

01 01 <name>NAME-1</name> 02 <name>NAME 1</name> 03 10 <name>NAME-2</name> 04 <name>NAME 2</name> 05 19 <name>NAME-3</name> 06 <name>NAME 3</name>

Then, the modified search regex of @terry-r, below, with an question mark, after the group 2 ([^<]+) :

SEARCH (?-s)^\d+\h(\d+\h)([^<]+)?.+\R[^<]+(.+\R)

REPLACE \1\2\3

Does match and, after replacement, you get the expected OUTPUT text :

01 <name>NAME 1</name> 10 <name>NAME 2</name> 19 <name>NAME 3</name>

Let’s go back to the wrong syntax of the regex S/R, without the question mark. Why this regex does not find any match ? Well …

From beginning of line, it searches for some digits, followed with one horizontal space character, and this twice ( the part ^\d+\h(\d+\h) )

At this point, it tries to find some characters, all different from an opening tag delimiter <. But this case is impossible as an opening tag delimiter < follows, right before name>. So the overall search regex fails !

Now, adding the exclamation mark, after the group 2, means that all the group contents are not mandatory. Thus, it can be ignored and the following part .+\R does match the remaining of the first line, including its like-break ( \R ) !

And, indeed, I verified that, against our INPUT text, the optional group 2 ([^<]+)? is always EMPTY !

In other words, you can simplify your regex S/R to this syntax :

SEARCH (?-s)^\d+\h(\d+\h).+\R\d+\h(.+\R)

REPLACE \1\2

So, from the INPUT below :

01 01 <name>NAME-1</name> 02 <name>NAME 1</name> 03 10 <name>NAME-2</name> 04 <name>NAME 2</name> 05 19 <name>NAME-3</name> 06 <name>NAME 3</name>

With this new S/R , you would get the same OUTPUT as above, i.e :

01 <name>NAME 1</name> 10 <name>NAME 2</name> 19 <name>NAME 3</name>

BR

guy038

@guy038 Haha, well this was really a bit unusual.
Big big thanks for the help, it was exactly what i needed!
Best wishes!

@Diego-Vico

Wouldn’t you just uncheckmark this checkbox?:

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@Daniel-Rafflenbeul said in Notepad++Search and Replace Bat Operation ?:

is it possible to run Notepad++ in a batch to search and replace Strings ?!

No. A good choice for that is sed from the GnuWin32 project (which is a Windows port of many of the command line GNU Linux tools).

@gonyaliselim said in I want change style token individually:

If i add highlights when someone open that txt on his computer would can he see my highlights as it

Sorry, no. Text files have no way to store things like highlighting – they are literally saved as just the text characters in the file. Notepad++ is not going to add any new binary commands or metadata to the file to be able to store such information (if it did, it would cease to be a text editor and instead would be a rather primitive, 80s-style word processor). [see, for reference, FAQ: Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor]

If you really needed to share the highlights, you could either print to PDF (if you don’t already have a print-to-PDF printer, you can search the internet to find a print-to-PDF driver that works for your needs), or you could use the Plugins > NppExport commands to export with the highlights to RTF or HTML (or put all formats into the clipboard, then paste into the Word Processor of your choice). But once you export to RTF or HTML or paste into a Word Processor, the file you are sending ceases to be a text file. We cannot decide for you whether or not that meets your needs.

Similar topic HERE.

Hej!

Have a look here , which in fairness just says “Current Version”.

24H2 is new enough that likely the user base is somewhat limited.
But people are running it and it looks like very few reports of actual explosions :)

@Coises said:

The necessary function already exists: SCI_INSERTTEXT

Good eye.
I would have thought that function also does things to “jolt the screen”, but apparently not.

@PeterJones

Very similar, but simpler and less “raw”:

from Npp import * try: editor3h # third editor, hidden except NameError: editor3h = notepad.createScintilla() def get_stream_text_from_clipboard(): retval = '' editor3h.clearAll() editor3h.paste() if editor3h.getLength() > 0: retval = editor3h.getText() return retval editor.insertText(editor.getCurrentPos(), get_stream_text_from_clipboard())

Note that the extra effort to get the clipboard text is because PythonScript doesn’t support a way to get current clipboard contents. It can paste the contents with editor.paste(), but if you want to avoid side effects from paste (as we do here) or you want to modify the clipboard text before inserting it, there’s no super simple (i.e. function call way to do it).

Note also that my get_stream_text_from_clipboard() function only works with non-column block data (as its name implies).

BTW, there was a PythonScript request that such a function be created, see HERE, but it seems to be an issue that isn’t going anywhere.

Hello, @DSperber1, @mark-olson, @mkupper and All,

@@DSperber1, I’m pleased that you’ve got the right program ( mrcdat2txt.exe ) to edit your .mrcdat log files :-))

Now, before your last reply, I tried to guess the similarities between some parts of your .mrcdat file and, indeed, I’ve found some !

As you can see on the picture below :

Each row of your table seems to begin with the FFFE sequence

Each row of your table seems to end with the db01 sequence

A four zero-byte sequence occurs in middle of each section

The Yellow sequence looks like a valid UTF 16 LE BOM sequence of characters. Thus, to my mind, I thought to get valid strings after suppression of all zero bytes, in these lines …

… And bingo ! You can verify that each Mauve/Pale Violet line, below, correspond to the File Name part of each line of your table !

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Best Regards,

guy038

@guy038 said in Find & Replace:

When the Regular expression search mode is set, running the Boost regex engine :

And
Sixthly, you may use \Q$\E which allows any characters within the \Q and \E to be accepted as literals within a regular expression. In this example the $ is the literal character.