Almost 2 years ago on 10 March 2018, I asked the community for help on using EXPRESSION mode.
Within 3 days I got replies from several people.
I documented this page to remind me of the ANSWERS and the MEMBERS who replied.
It’s now nearly two years later, and I consider myself a PRO with the amount of work I achieved.
The amount of work which would normally take me a year to complete, was reduced to just a few seconds.
From the little you taught me that day in March 2018, opened more doors to more wisdom using the EXPRESSION mode, and I have achieved even far greater things in the last two years.
If it were not for the great outpouring of help from volunteers like the people who helped me on my way in March 2018, I would still be living in the dark ages labouring away, the long way.
Thank you! You have no concept of what I achieved by the little SEED of wisdom you planted in me that day.
So I THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

You did not answer my initial question

You did not answer to my question, at the very beginning of my previous post

Sensing a theme here.

@Jared-123 said in UDL fails to highlight operator depending on trailing character?:

That is an awful forum design decision

In your opinion.

From a security and maintenance standpoint, it is an excellent decision, and I applaud it. If the Community Forum had to maintain its own database of user-to-password, then the Community Forum admin team (or person) would have to personally ensure security, making sure the server never gets hacked, responding to hacking threats, making updates, etc

Instead, by using a common and open-source OAuth mechanism through multiple of the major OAuth providers, all the security is maintained by the mega-corps, who have a vested interest in keeping the login credentials secure, and have paid staff with job descriptions including maintaining that security.
The Notepad++ Community could never provide anything as secure as that.

With the resources of a Google, Facebook, Stack Exchange, or similar, and professional security experts on your team, it makes sense to control everything to that depth; for a mom-and-pop (or Don-and-friends) group like the Notepad++ Community, it just doesn’t – and when (not if) the home-rolled security was broken, you would be singing a very different tune.

Hi, christopher-phillips,

Thanks ! So, here is the road map, with a regex S/R :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (^|(?<=\t))"|"((?=\t)|$)|"(?=")

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Tick the Wrap around option, if necessary

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click, exclusively, on the Replace All button

Notes :

This search regex contains 3 alternatives, separated with the alternation symbol | :

The first part (^|(?<=\t))" searches for a double quote, only if at beginning of line or preceded with a tabulation char ( \t )

The second part "((?=\t)|$) searches for a double quote, only if followed with a tabulation char or an end of line

The last part "(?=") searches for a double quote, only if followed with a second double-quote

As the replacement zone is Empty, the double-quote selected, whatever the alternative, is simply deleted

Best Regards,

guy038

I was curious: there is a trick in windows batch files to create a random number of a specific number of digits between 1 and 4. For anything longer than that, you could concatenate.

To get a three-digit number (from 100-999):

set /A RAND=%RANDOM% %% 900+10

To get a 15-digit number (never starting with 0), concatenate 5 of those together (so you could define R1 through R5, and then %R1%%R2%%R3%%R4%%R5%.

Of course, in your original question, the search-and-replace would have to include the multiline replace to insert the 5 set /A commands before each ren command, but I’ll leave that as an exercise to the reader. I still maintain, however, that PythonScript (or an external python program – or other language) would be better than trying to hack it with search-and-replace.

@Sloan-Thrasher-0

Do you see the the autoCompletion folder? Is there a php.xml with content?
Can you post your debug-info from the last menu item, the ? menu?

@Alan-Kilborn

Note, I do have autoindent disabled in order to make this work.
Because I know you are doing python, I haven’t refactored anything,
but I guess it’s mostly getting rid of self to make this work in a non-class way.
Concerning the todo, no, I haven’t looked at it since then.

def __init__(self): self.excluded_styles= [1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19] def on_modified(self, args): # TODO: text == \r even if \r\n is assumed, but length is 2, is this a bug?? Or am I doing something wrong? if args['modificationType'] & 0x100000 == 0x100000 and args['text'] in ['\r','\n']: text = '\r\n' if args['length'] == 2 else args['text'] self._indent(args['position'], text) def _indent(self, position, text): if self.is_python and self.auto_indent: indent = editor.getLineIndentation(editor.lineFromPosition(position)) if (editor.getCharAt(position-1) == 58 and # 58 == : editor.getStyleAt(position-1) not in self.excluded_styles): tabwidth = editor.getTabWidth() text += ' '*(indent//tabwidth+1)*tabwidth else: text += ' '*indent editor.changeInsertion(text)

@jcg3675
Thank you very much and yes, there is time when a microwave becomes the best invention since sliced bread :-)

Let me know how it goes!

I sure will do.

@Fourbits,

I said,

at home, I think I have a virtual windows machine

Sorry, I didn’t get a chance until this weekend.

I spun up the VM, and did a fresh install of v7.8.4-32bit. I can confirm your symptoms.

I ran the five experiments I suggested:

Experiment cmd.exe: hmm, the default “Edit With Notepad++” connects to DLL, not EXE. Still, "c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" file.nfo crashes Experiment autodetect: turn encoding autodetect off: crashes Experiment 1: remove extension from langs.xml: Fresh RClick is okay Experiment 2: associate with Search Results rather than DosStyle: Fresh RClick is okay Experiment 3: associate with dummy UDL “PlainNFO”: Fresh RClick is okay

So, any of the three experiments which tried to convince Notepad++ that a .nfo file wasn’t MSDOS-Style/ASCII-ART was successful in preventing the crash.

If you do not need the default lexer trying to apply the default color of black on white to all text (ie, doing nothing helpful), I’d suggest implementing one of those three options to get around the buggy interaction between HEX-Editor Plugin and Notepad++'s NFO lexer.

I would be tempted to try a Regular Expression Search Mode replacement operation, looking for (?-si)^([CON])(\(P.+?\)) and replacing with \1\(Fragment=1\).

Let us know how that goes for you.

@octopoesie

When you think you should be in administrator mode, does the title bar of Notepad++ have the word Administrator in it?

Encodings are tough things to deal with…so, no comment. :-)

Yeah… Probably so. :(

Hi, @sylvester-bullitt, @alan-kilborn, @peterjones and All,

Some observations about in-line modifiers :

Let’s consider the text :

1 abc 2 abC 3 aBc 4 aBC 5 Abc 6 AbC 7 ABc 8 ABC

The regex (?-i)a((?i)b)c matches lines 1 and 3 and the group 1 contains the letter b or B

Using a non-capturing group, the full syntax of the regex becomes (?-i)a(?:(?i)b)c and matches the same lines 1 and 3 but, this time, no group is defined

As a convenient shorthand, in case of a non-capturing group, the option may appear between the question mark and the colon, giving the alternate syntax (?-i)a(?i:b)c, which produces the same results as the former regex

Note that, because options are not reset until the end of a subpattern, if that subpattern contains alternatives, an option setting in one branch does affect all the subsequent branches !

So, assuming the text :

1 ab 2 aB 3 Ab 4 AB 5 cd 6 cD 7 Cd 8 CD The regex ((?-i)ab|CD), with group1 and the regex (?-i:ab|CD), with a non-capturing group, match, both, lines 1 and 8, only

REMARK :

Note that the previous rule is always valid if, when choosing between the different alternatives, the regex engine is not aware of a later option. For instance, let’s consider the regex (?-i)(a(?i)b|cd)

In this regex, due to the initial (?-i) modifier, the search should be done in a sensitive way, except for the part (?i)b, which should match letter b or B. However, this regex matches the lines 1 and 2 and lines from 5 to 8, in the above text !

For instance, when the regex engine is located, right before the first letter of line 8, and choose the second alternative, in order to process c, rather than a, it does not know about the caseless option, applied to letter b. Still, it does match the uppercase letter C because the (?i) modifier is carried on into the cd alternative, as well !

Best Regards,

guy038

Did some testing, now everything works perfectly.
Thanks for help

@Alan-Kilborn said in Older Version N++:

Computers used to belong to the people. No longer

You got that right, now on my pc i;ts only me so i just don’t understand why n++ was made like this not allowing you to write in Program Files [probably a good reason i am sure] but at least devs could have made an option for people who want full control over a program or something like that

@Ekopalypse said in Help for highlight hex numbers:

@dreamforceinc

extras2 might contain A B C D E F
and suffix 1 should contain the h

I have “0x” in prefix2 for highlight numbers like that: 0x123, 0xFF. After your hint this nums no more highlited.

upd: thats ok, all works ))
THX!

@Brian-Bennett said in Remove lines from file:

where the text changes slightly for each line

There is a bookmark function that will allow you to identify lines with the text that does NOT change.

Under Search (top menu) look for Mark. Into this area type the first portion of your line “<ModSecurity…” up to the point where the text changes. Now as this inserted text does NOT change your search mode can be “Normal”. Then tick the button named “Bookmark Line” and then click on “Mark All”.

This will identify the lines with that text. At this point you may want to check some randomly. If you are happy with the selection use the Search/Bookmark/Remove Bookmarked Lines option to remove those.

Terry

@dshuman52

The following code performs substitutions on a space inside single or double quotes of \b or \v respectively. That is how you activate the existing code “end if” means end\vif or ‘end case’ means end\bcase.

only apparently in the following buffers.

// OPERATORS2, FOLDERS_IN_CODE2, FOLDERS_IN_COMMENT, KEYWORDS1-8

void ScintillaEditView::setUserLexer(const TCHAR *userLangName) { int setKeywordsCounter = 0; execute(SCI_SETLEXER, SCLEX_USER); UserLangContainer * userLangContainer = userLangName? NppParameters::getInstance().getULCFromName(userLangName):_userDefineDlg._pCurrentUserLang; if (!userLangContainer) return; UINT codepage = CP_ACP; UniMode unicodeMode = _currentBuffer->getUnicodeMode(); int encoding = _currentBuffer->getEncoding(); if (encoding == -1) { if (unicodeMode == uniUTF8 || unicodeMode == uniCookie) codepage = CP_UTF8; } else { codepage = CP_OEMCP; // system OEM code page might not match user selection for character set, // but this is the best match WideCharToMultiByte offers } execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("fold"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>("1")); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.isCaseIgnored"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_isCaseIgnored ? "1":"0")); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.allowFoldOfComments"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_allowFoldOfComments ? "1":"0")); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.foldCompact"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_foldCompact ? "1":"0")); char name[] = "userDefine.prefixKeywords0"; for (int i=0 ; i<SCE_USER_TOTAL_KEYWORD_GROUPS ; ++i) { itoa(i+1, (name+25), 10); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(name), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(userLangContainer->_isPrefix[i] ? "1" : "0")); } for (int i = 0 ; i < SCE_USER_KWLIST_TOTAL ; ++i) { WcharMbcsConvertor& wmc = WcharMbcsConvertor::getInstance(); const char * keyWords_char = wmc.wchar2char(userLangContainer->_keywordLists[i], codepage); if (globalMappper().setLexerMapper.find(i) != globalMappper().setLexerMapper.end()) { execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(globalMappper().setLexerMapper[i].c_str()), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(keyWords_char)); } else // OPERATORS2, FOLDERS_IN_CODE2, FOLDERS_IN_COMMENT, KEYWORDS1-8 { char temp[max_char]; bool inDoubleQuote = false; bool inSingleQuote = false; bool nonWSFound = false; int index = 0; for (size_t j=0, len = strlen(keyWords_char); j<len && index < (max_char-1); ++j) { if (!inSingleQuote && keyWords_char[j] == '"') { inDoubleQuote = !inDoubleQuote; continue; } if (!inDoubleQuote && keyWords_char[j] == '\'') { inSingleQuote = !inSingleQuote; continue; } if (keyWords_char[j] == '\\' && (keyWords_char[j+1] == '"' || keyWords_char[j+1] == '\'' || keyWords_char[j+1] == '\\')) { ++j; temp[index++] = keyWords_char[j]; continue; } if (inDoubleQuote || inSingleQuote) { if (keyWords_char[j] > ' ') // copy non-whitespace unconditionally { temp[index++] = keyWords_char[j]; if (nonWSFound == false) nonWSFound = true; } else if (nonWSFound == true && keyWords_char[j-1] != '"' && keyWords_char[j+1] != '"' && keyWords_char[j+1] > ' ') { temp[index++] = inDoubleQuote ? '\v' : '\b'; } else continue; } else { temp[index++] = keyWords_char[j]; } } temp[index++] = 0; execute(SCI_SETKEYWORDS, setKeywordsCounter++, reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(temp)); } } char intBuffer[32]; sprintf(intBuffer, "%d", userLangContainer->_forcePureLC); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.forcePureLC"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); sprintf(intBuffer, "%d", userLangContainer->_decimalSeparator); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.decimalSeparator"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); // at the end (position SCE_USER_KWLIST_TOTAL) send id values sprintf(intBuffer, "%" PRIuPTR, reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(userLangContainer->getName())); // use numeric value of TCHAR pointer execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.udlName"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); sprintf(intBuffer, "%" PRIuPTR, reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(_currentBufferID)); // use numeric value of BufferID pointer execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>("userDefine.currentBufferID"), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); for (int i = 0 ; i < SCE_USER_STYLE_TOTAL_STYLES ; ++i) { Style & style = userLangContainer->_styleArray.getStyler(i); if (style._styleID == STYLE_NOT_USED) continue; char nestingBuffer[32]; sprintf(nestingBuffer, "userDefine.nesting.%02d", i ); sprintf(intBuffer, "%d", style._nesting); execute(SCI_SETPROPERTY, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(nestingBuffer), reinterpret_cast<LPARAM>(intBuffer)); setStyle(style); } }