@Ekopalypse

Thanks for the link, very informative. Assuming those are the only “macroable” messages as they may only require a simple wParam / lParam value as that’s all you can supply in the XML macro objects? Seems like the list could be expanded as the one I was quoting - SCI_SETMULTIPASTE (2614) - takes only an integer 0 or 1 for the wParam to turn it on or off.

I only found out about this feature by reading the Scintilla docs after implementing add to selection via an NppExec script as per your suggestion and adding them to the Macro menu via NppExec.ini. Now when I made a multiple selection with mapped shortcut keys and typed, it all worked great, but using paste (from a previous copied text), it only pasted on the first selected text, not all selections. And that’s because SCI_SETMULTIPASTE is off by default. A quick NppExec:

SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETMULTIPASTE 1

turned it on and then retrying my multiple selection paste worked to paste to all selections! Brilliant!

So of course I wanted this as a turn on / turn off menu item and thought of the Macro XML in shortcuts because of @guy038 's suggestion. I couldn’t get @guy038 virtual space macro to work (assuming because that’s an enhancement of 7.7.1 and I’m only on 7.7 not using the release candidate), so again, a quick NppExec script:

SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETVIRTUALSPACEOPTIONS 5 // for "default" behavior SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETVIRTUALSPACEOPTIONS 7 // for all on SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETVIRTUALSPACEOPTIONS 0 // for all off

and it worked fine for me. So I added the Macros to my shortcuts.xml in prep for the 7.7.1 release and then asked my question about other ‘macroable’ things that I’ve just been doing with quick NppExec scripts using SCI_SENDMSG.

Just BTW, NppExec (along with I’m assuming PythonScript and LuaScript which I don’t use but see great advice about) are awesome plugins that can immediately extend N++ new Scintilla features even if N++ doesn’t yet have menu items to access them direct. Based on the messages in this form, with NppExec, I’ve added an “add / clear annotation”, “add / clear multiedge”, “add to / add all / remove last from current selection”, the multipaste on/off I discussed in this post … the list goes on …

@donho thanks for the Scintilla upgrade!

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Leo-Lagos

no, notepad++ should not crash, if a file contains 0x00 characters.
maybe it’s a plugin like the dspellcheck plugin that causes this ?

please test the following, to verify, if a clean notepad++ (without any plugins that could cause this) would work on your system.

download the notepad++ 7.7 portable version from >>> here <<<.
(the portable version does not require any installation and runs completely independent and isolated from your installed version. all custom settings, as well as any stuff you might want to try at the portable version, will not modify your installed version)

extract npp.7.7.bin.zip to your desktop.

important note: make sure to close all instances of notepad++ that might be running, before starting the portable version at the next step, to make sure you are using this portable version.

open the extracted npp.7.7.bin folder and start this portable version by double-clicking on notepad++.exe inside this folder.
(note: notepad++.exe will just be seen as notepad++, if you have enabled to hide all known file extensions at your explorer settings)

try to open the original unix file containing 0x00 characters.

many thanks and best regards.

@AV-Chan said:

How can we do this?

Version 2 of the solution.
For the files containing text 1 and 2, use the step (i mentioned in first post) to prepended characters for file 2. So both these files will have a number (with leading zeros), both followed by a b character and a space.

For the regex to apply (after making sure last line is a blank line).
Find What:(?-s)^(\d+)a.+\R(\1b.+\R)
Replace With:\2

We can do this as the 2 lines we are ‘inserting’ will never be in the same location, thus designating differently as ‘b’ and ‘c’ is not required.

And lastly I’ve also managed to combine to removal of the prepended characters and removing the last line as 1 regex.
Find what:^\d+[ab]\s|\R\z
Replace With: <— nothing in this field

If any issues/queries please do post back. Actually, post back if it all works as planned. We ALL like the warm fuzzy feeling's we get from a good result.

Terry

@Jeffrey-Hennessey

this VPAT has been released.

I recently made a script to aid the use of Npp within WSL with the help of wslpath. I was trying to make an easy way to edit files in the WSL filesystem without breaking the rule that Linux files must not be directly edited by Windows software. It seems to work as far as my initial tests go. Take a look here, and feel free to modify it for your own use. (Let me know if you find any better ways to do this).

@guy038 said:

I noticed the two consecutive items javascript and javascript.js

I think this also harkens back to the functionList.xml having two entries (L_JS=19 and L_JAVASCRIPT=58)

I’m not a specialist of Java,

Obviously not ☺, since you made the common mistake of confusing Java and JavaScript (or you made a typo).

UPDATE TWO:
All my concerns and doubts in this post seem to be solved!

Original, not modified, versions of NP++ come with style for JavaScript/“operator” set to black/bold. Surprisingly that makes all braces/brackets bold by default! One has to remove that original bold setting to have that match check shown with black/bold.

It seems there is no way to set a full even background color for a language, except when it is embedded. JS (embedded) can be set, PHP too, actualy PHP is always embedded between <?php ?> tags, even if there is nothing else outside the tags. Contents of a JS file isn;t embedded when you check it by itself.
I had the wrong impresion code of a JS file was shown in a light blue tint for the background, actually it has a white background (I would like to see it as it is when embedded, though!).

Finally
3. If one makes a new installation in a fresh folder and copy config.xml from another installation, this config.xml carries a line like
<GUIConfig name=“stylerTheme” path=“C:\ …\np++previous\stylers.xml” />
and previous stylers.xml continue to be used in the fresh new installation.

So now everything is working basically well for me, I 'm happy, and very thankful to Meta Chu for the quick start.

But I’ll be back. We need a better way to use sessions than having several installations ( or having to save/load sessions files all the time ).

Thank you for the attention.