Try a different font:
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I am using DejaVu Sans Mono, but there are plenty that work right.

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Thank you soo much for your instructions! They saved me a whole bunch of time!

@Alexander-Kuhn

To see how to make a “suggestion for improvement”, read this.

Thank you. That helped.

@akshay-wayne

It appears that @Scott-Sumner used Pythonscript to create a little embedded program that will insert that. Pythonscripts can be bound to keystroke combinations.

@dinkumoil Thanks for the “FindStr” solution it seems to work but not in a “neat” way since the resulat are mixed and I want to stick to a “NotePadian” solution (this way I can get my hand dirty with some scripts and maybe plugin devloppement), my post here was to see the possibilities i can get by manipulating the macros file and not a repetition of the issue.
currently I’m working on a script using PyhtonScript as you suggested and I’m sure the community will be great help for me

cheers

Thank you Alan. I see that no quick solution to copy all marked text, i tried Scott Sumner solution and it works fine.

@Yannick-Anné said in Can you stop Notepad++ from selecting whole words?:

dragging my cursor across a line

This implies the mouse, correct? I’ve never seen this behavior, mouse-drag selecting always does one character at a time.

@Eddie-Adolfsson

Just informationally, you can remove lines NOT containing a specific bit of text via finding it with the following method:

Say you want to match lines that DON’T contain abc. Then your search expression might be ^(?-s)(?!.*abc).*\R. If you replace with nothing when you run a replacement you effectively remove those lines.

Obviously you can replace abc with whatever you need. It doesn’t have to be constant text, it can be a regular expression of course.

You aren’t “importing”, you are simply opening a file. Notepad++ isn’t doing anything to your file; whatever you are seeing is whatever is there already. Suggest you understand your data/process better…

@Alan-Kilborn said in What's the command to Open a Folder as Workspace?:

@Marios-T

Gurkibal could have narrowed it down better for you:

notepad++ -openFoldersAsWorkspace c:\src\myProj01 c:\src\myProj02

Haha!
No it’s ok!
Thanks both of you for your answers :)
Problem solved!

@Stein-Garnes said in Block paste?:

if I paste in npp (below or in another window) and then do a block copy/paste it works

It would be nice to have a single-step way to do this. Perhaps a paste-special type thing where you can “Paste as rectangular block” (as long as what is in the clipboard is appropriate for that type of pasting).

this can be fix via another plugin uninstall
if there another plugin has culprit. ex.

Notepad++ v7.8 (32-bit)
Build time : Oct 5 2019 - 22:30:37
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit)
OS Build : 7601.24289
Plugins : 3P.dll BetterMultiSelection.dll Console_output.dll CustomFileMerge.dll MenuIcons.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NPPJSONViewer.dll nppRegEx.dll NppTextFX.dll Remove_dup_lines.dll

@Láng-Attila-D

strictily speaking, UDL does not remain too but get automatically reapplied.
One further thing you can do is to record a macro, save the action and assign
a shortcut then you have to just press that shortcut and the regex marks get reapplied as well.

LOL :-D

find what :items=".*"
replace with :items=“0,0,0”
mode : regular expression

@Magnum-Opus

Your search term *\\EngramEntry_ doesn’t work because you used the quantifier * without a preceeding character to define the character(s) the quantifier should operate on.

Because you want to match any characters before \EngramEntry_ you have to insert . which means an arbitrary character. This results in the search term:

.*\\EngramEntry_.

BUT your replacement string OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_ isn’t error-free as well. You need to escape the ( character because it’s a meta character in regular expressions. Thus your replacement string should be:

OverrideNamedEngramEntries=\(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_

If you would like to read a really good regular expression manual visit this site. At some points in the manual you have to know the exact flavour of regular expressions used at your site. Notepad++ uses the boost lib regex flavour.

@James-Dunn said in spaces tabs:

Space to Tab (leading) took care almost all of them. Space to tab (all) works as well.

If it works then it must be that you have a setting of 3 spaces for each tab in your Preferences.