@Propono-Web-Hosting

At first I thought I could replicate your issue but in then when trying to carefully to repeat my steps so I could document the reproduction steps I discovered that a pinned portable worked fine…

What I would do is to first unpin Notepad++, make sure no instances of Notepad++ are running, and then start a portable copy using however you normally start portable copies.

Once the portable copy is running then save a copy of Notepad++'s debug info in Microsoft Notepad. Then right on the Notepad++ on the task bar, pin it, and close/exit Notepad++ to have just the pin showing.

Do not start Notepad++ using the pin just yet. Instead, right click on the pin for Notepad++ in the task bar and right click the “Notepad++” at the top of the menu that shows up, and then left click on Properties. It defaults to the Shortcut tab of the properties and is in the Target field. I don’t see an obvious way to add the command line and so appended the command line parameters I wanted to the end of the Target field.

Save that to the shortcut and start Notepad++ using the pin. Get the debug info again and verify that the path and command line exactly match what you saved when you had first started the portable copy.

I had two strange things happen when I was trying to replicate. One of that was when copy/pasting the command line parameters I needed that the “quotes” around became unbalanced. It caused Notepad++ to try to create a file named “-multiInst” which I declined. I don’t know if I made a mistake or Windows did did something to unbalance the quotes. The result was when started Notepad++ that I got some odd behavior that seems much like what you saw. That’s why I’m suggesting to first get the debug info, then to fix up the Target, and them to re-verify the debug info once I have started Notepad++ using the pin.

The other strange thing is that I normally use an installed copy of Notepad++. In the process of testing pins all of the session/tabs from my portable copy ended up getting appended to the tabs/files for the installed copy. My installed copy is single instance and the portable copies are normally run with -multiInst. As pinning does not transfer the command line I had first accidentally started a portable copy using my new pin without command line parameters. That started the portable copy in single instance mode and I suspect Notepad++ has some instance sharing stuff that resulted in my portable tabs/files getting appended to the tabs used by the installed copy.

@Terry-R Using {Delay 0.05}\2\1\2\3 in the Replace field will be more accurate

@Terry-R said in Find line containing word and the next line below it:

I’d go for a “Mark” with bookmark lines selected.

Use:(?-s)^(?=.*tweak:)(.+\R.+\R) and click Mark All. All the tweak lines and corresponding following lines are bookmarked. Then you’d just copy the bookmarked lines to another tab.

Thanks, Terry, perfect!!

@Wicke2d said in Is it possible to enable autoscroll? (Scrollclick):

Just because?

@xomx gave you the reason in the reply to your issue: the Scintilla library (used as the underlying editor component of Notepad++) doesn’t expose access to the middle-mouse-button click (ie, scrollwheel click on modern mouse architecture). Until they do, Notepad++ cannot know that the MMB was clicked in the text-editing components of Notepad++.

@PeterJones Thanks. Also, I forgot to turn on Regular expression. Can you believe it?! What a noob! :D

It works now! Thanks!

@guy038 Reacting late to this thread, but I think in many case when you want to normalise a unicode text, NFC isn’t enough because it doesn’t handle ligatures.
So for many people, a longer table than the one here, including all the decomposition in NFKC, will be needed.

To make this more concrete : NFC won’t normalise the ffi_ligature (U+FB03).
So “A\uFB03n” will stay “A\uFB03n” if normalized with NFC, but will change to “Affin” if normalized with NFKC which is much more useful for many people.

@Säbelzahn-Tiger said in Can't drag and drop files into existing Notepad++ window:

have done anything what I have found in the internet without any success.

We cannot know what instructions you did or did not try. If we don’t know what you’ve tried, how can we know what we should or should not suggest? If we try to suggest anything, you would likely come back and say “I already tried that”, but there was no way for us to know.

If you want help, explain the exact circumstances of what’s causing the problem, share your ?-menu’s Debug Info, and let us know what you tried. Don’t make us guess.

@Jacob-Holmes said in Capitalization challenge with srt subtitle file - ignoring strings of text possible?:

Otherwise, is there maybe a way to accomplish this with RegEx?

So given the single example it might not be a good solution, but:
Using the Replace function:
Find What:(?-is)^Speaker\s*\d*:\s*\K(.)
Replace With:\U\1

Of course the search mode is Regular Expression and you need to click on the “Replace All” button. Best if the cursor is at the start of the file.

The \K will cause issues if you want to detect and replace one line at a time, hence the need for the “Replace All”. So obviously you’d consider working on a copy of the file, just in case it caused more problems. If you did try this and it failed we’d need to know more about the issues. Then either we adjust this solution or start with a new idea.

Terry

Currently this Python module has 10,792 lines of code, and on line 4072 I saw the unexpected orange italic highlighting, which made no sense to me.

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As part of the same bug report, it was mentioned in one of the replies on the issue, that ending a Python comment with a . triggers the attribute formatting on the next line.

This is because it’s looking for . followed by 0-or-more-whitespace (which includes newline) followed by what would otherwise be an identifier, and if it finds that, then instead of identifier, it treats the word as an attribute/method instead. So, to get around that bug, either remove the ... at the end of your comment, or put some other (non-whitespace) character after the ... - maybe use : instead of ...

Do you think it would be something useful to share with the rest of the community?

There is a TODO.txt UDL in the User Defined Languages Collection already; and if you have a different angle-of-attack for lists/todo/done choices, it would be reasonable to share it as another UDL in that Collection, to give people more options.

@Ky-Waegel
I don’t use any of these functions (currently), however a quick search of the forum came up with this post by one of our more experienced users. Have a read of this post. I think it might answer some of your questions (hopefully).

Terry

@Alan-Kilborn That was it. Thank you!

Based on some Googling, it looks like the Notepad++ Table plugin consists of a single GUI form and a button that lets the user create an HTML table with customizable parameters. A decent Python programmer could probably cobble together something with comparable capabilities in PythonScript in a couple of hours.

@Antheds-Kennel said in Delete every line below a bookmarked line.:

since there are 397,580 rows

So that’s a good reason to avoid (1), but nothing you have said explains why you think (2) won’t work for you.

I have to give up

Don’t lie to yourself. If you give up, it’s your own choice. All the information you have given us says that (2) will work for you, but you are choosing to ignore that option without explaining why.

that I have to sort somehow.

This is the first you’ve mentioned sorting, that I noticed.

Until you accurately describe what you are actually wanting, no one can help you.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Recent Files submenu 64-bit:

It’s however Windows itself wants to display it; it has nothing to do with Notepad++.

Thanks, Alan.

@Dan-I-2072 said in can i use function list in Notepad++ 7.9.5?:

You must make the file changes above within the %AppData%\Notepad++\functionList dir, which means it has to be done separately for each user of the PC.

Trying to instead make the same changes for all users of the PC, within the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\functionList dir, results in Notepad++ entirely ignoring the configuration.

The all users path might be %ProgramData%\Notepad++\functionList or the older Environmental Variable path of %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Notepad++\functionList. I do not know if Notepad++ searches in those paths.

@Neeraj-Shrivastav said in iOS or iPad app which can open Cloud Backed Notepad++ files:

Can anyone tell or guide me to any iOS or iPad app which can open Cloud Backed Notepad++ files?

Notepad++ edits files as plain text files on Windows. The files are not special in any way, and Notepad++ doesn’t have any associated cloud service.

So, if you have cloud backup for the files you edit in Notepad++, you are using a cloud provider (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, whatever). You would have to look to people familiar with that provider to find out the best way to access plain text files on that service from iOS.

@PeterJones Thanks for the detailed reply. Much appreciated.

Your suggestion to look for workarounds that would result in the document being centered led me to solution that works for me… the Explorer plugin. Having a filetree directory of the left side is helpful and since its width is adjustable it allows me to have documents centered exactly where I need them on the screen. Wanted to mention it in case anyone else finding this topic in the future might also find it a useful workaround for them too.

@guy038 said in Find text, display line with text and the next line:

(?-is).Luka\R.\R?

I do not take the gift of anyones time lightly.
Many thanx, much appreciated.
Most helpful.

@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you for your insight.
I guess there are many ways of working.

I am in an environment where add-ons are not readily available. Using the native capability over time has been my best option, and so I have not explored alternatives.

Backup is not a deprecated feature, so expecting it to be reliable, as I do for any other saved file.

Whether the number of un-named files is large or small, this highlights what can happen when the user changes the saved location, and is, I now think, a good case for consideration when designing or testing code modifications around the backup location.