The explorer plugin and the favorites sidebar have proved to be very useful, thanks to both of you.

@Alan-Kilborn

fresh version = portable, downloaded from npp without any modifications and additional plugins
regular version = my portable version - highly customized and with additional plugins

Test was done with npp 7.8.6 (fresh) and 7.8.5 (regular).

Notepad++ is a text editor and doesn’t handle binary data well.
In your case your real problem will be how to find a program which reads
mp3 and ogg in the same time and plays its content.
What comes into my mind first is using something like cubase with a mixing console.

@arslan-arshad

What version of Notepad++ are you using when this happened?

@PeterJones That’s it! after pressing repeatedly on that button I finally obtained my vertical red lines! I thank all of you.

@PeterJones YOU ARE AWESOME - THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!

@Frank-Erlich

Strictly speaking, by asking a lawyer whether the information/license provided by the author is compliant with your local laws.

Settings->Preferences->Auto-Completion and uncheck Function parameters hint on input

Oh, damn it, I didn’t even suspect it might simply be a font problem.

Maybe because of my messy latin1 database import problem, in which it wasn’t a font issue. I feel silly now.

Well, I’m off to experimenting with other fonts now.

But… a pity, really, there’s no better than Inconsolata, in my biased eyes.

Thank you Alan!

I use Notepad++ v7.8.5 on Ubuntu 18.04. I run Ubuntu and Windows in dual boot mode.

I was not able to open text files in Windows (automatically mounted onto Ubuntu as /dev/sda3). Below is what I found to be useful.

Open UbuntuSoftware > Find Notepad-Plus-Plus (WINE) > Click on it > Click on Permissions > Find “Read/Write files on removable storage devices” > turn it ON.

@guy038 said in XML Split:

gawk -F\x22 “/game name/ { n= $2 } ; { print > n”.xml" }"

Mate. Just wanted to say. Top man. Thank you so much for A) taking the time to reply with a constructive and very helpful reply. and B) you learn something new every day and C) what you suggested worked like a dream. Had one issue as one of the name had a / in it. No dram worked around it.

Thank you so much

@PeterJones said in Add line of text to beginning of multiple files:

inserting 6 lines at the beginning of 300 files has started down the slippery slope out of the realm of pure text-editor

Agreed. Maybe that’s why I said it’s an “OK” task for Notepad++ and not “a great” task. :-)

why create an object with the init, rather than just have a T11987() function instead?

It’s just my new framework for scripts (I copy from some boilerplate when I make a new script). Obviously in this case it is fairly trivial, but in scripts that use callbacks a object-based approach has bigger benefits. I picked up on this by observing how @Ekopalypse does some of the more complicated scripts he’s presented. BTW, I picked up on using the topic/posting id in the name of a script/function/class from YOU. :-)

@Michael-Vincent

Thank you for chiming in and providing a more detailed guidance for using my script!

@Lowell-Justice

As an addition to what @Michael-Vincent already said: To compile and execute C code you need a C compiler, of course. For simple and quick C test programs I use the Tiny C Compiler (TCC). Its homepage provides a link to the available downloads.

For C++ you could use for example MinGW, the GCC port for Windows, you can download it from here. To get the latest version take the files mingw-w32-bin-i686-YYYYMMDD.7z for compiling 32 bit programs and mingw-w64-bin-x86_64-YYYYMMDD.7z for compiling 64 bit programs where YYYYMMDD is a placeholder for the release date of the version.

To get documentation for GCC visit this site. There you will also find a link to the documentation of the GCC v9.3 command line options.

@dinkumoil how could I make a script like this for c++?

Disclaimer: I did not fully read every single line of this thread…but hopefully I can contribute a bit of helpful info.

Accessing Scintilla on a background thread can be very problematic. There are Scintilla calls that have temporal coupling and since you cannot guarantee any two calls made from PythonScript (or outside of Notepad++) are executed without being interrupted by another thread, then weird things can happen. Even doing something simple like:

editor.setTargetRange(0, 100) x = editor.getTargetText()

could potentially give unexpected results. Notepad++ does its own work (search/replace, function list, auto completion, smart highlighting, URL highlighting, etc) which changes the target quite frequently.

@sgtsixpack said in Select/mark all lines which contain a certain pattern and add the line above:

I don’t know about “craft an expression”
I also have no clue about your last reply.

Sorry, I should have been more explicit.
My comments were in regard to “Regular Expression” Search mode, which is typically what one is inferring when they ask “how can I manipulate data that is relative to some other data”.

As you’ve probably discovered, you can, in Normal Search mode, bookmark the “line above” by making a selection that covers both lines, perhaps partially, and then pressing ctrl+f go get your text in the Find what box. You can then switch the Find window to the Mark tab and proceed with bookmarking.

But if you do it that way, you aren’t truly doing “line above”, you’re doing “line of” and “line below”. :-)

@Retro-80s-Guy

I have looked under keyboard shortcuts and this combination ( F11 + Backspace ) isn’t listed.

That’s because it isn’t possible to press these keys together. One will always happen before the other. It is really amazing that such a circumstance would close Notepad++ bypassing any save prompts.

@Oscar-Söderström-TE3A

I think you’ll want to CLICK HERE.

@herb-munson it’s highlighting the content of a <script>tag in the html file. Seems to have something to do with ‘themes’. Now I’d like to know how to kill it.

Thanks to all, you’re so kind!