@Jim-Woodward said in Language type same as defined type but with different file extension:

I tried setting up Notepad++ to recognize .pts as a .vb script. I did get it correct that when I browse to a file with .pts extension and open it, that it uses the VB language text color encoding and font settings in the editting window.

As you implied, Settings > Style Configurator > VB/VBS, setting User ext.: to pts will enable Notepad++ to recognize .pts files as VB for syntax highlighting. (Made it explicit, in case future people searching were looking for the first half of the answer, rather than the second half.)

However if I do a save as of the same file to another file name it changes the extension to .vb instead of leaving it as .pts. How do I get it to save it as .pts and still realize that is a VB style script?

There are two versions of the save/save-as dialog, which Notepad++ cleverly calls “old style” vs “new style”. See documentation for Settings > Preferences > Default Directory, which says,

☐ Use new style dialog (without file extension feature & Unix style path capacity): Windows allows for two styles of open/save dialogs.

“old style” has “Quick Access”, “Desktop”, and others as icon-buttons along the left; it will auto-apply the selected file-type’s extension to the file (so typing a filename of blah when a file type of “Normal text file (.txt)” is selected will save blah.txt); it will also allow using Unix-style backslashes as a path separator, rather than Windows-style forward slashes.

“new style” does not have the icon-buttons (instead, Windows presents those in the tree, similar to other drives and folders); even when a file-type is selected, the user is required to specify the desired file extension (thus the file-type selector is primarily for filtering what existing files are listed in the directory listing); and it will not understand Unix-style backslashes as path separators.

Because both dialogs are windows-supplied dialogs, there isn’t an easy way to change the list of file-types-and-extensions for the old-style. I highly recommend using the new-style dialog, which will allow you, the user, to determine the appropriate extension for a given file, rather than taking the first extension for the given “type” in the drop-down box. This helps both in a case like yours (where the builtin list doesn’t include your custom extension), but also in the more global case where someone wants to Save As a C++ Source File, and it defaults to naming it .h, because that happened to be first in the list!

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Of course, with the new-style dialog, you have to type 2-4 more characters when naming the file (depending on the extension you want), but since the old-style windows dialog gives the wrong extension anyway in many circumstances, it’s better to choose the one that will always give the extension you want.

(The other thing to make sure is that Windows Explorer is set up to not hide extensions, otherwise, you may get confused when the extension “disappears” after you’ve saved.)

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.