Hello, @sean, @alan-kilborn, @steven-haymes, and All,

I’m afraid that, in order to use the column mode, in a reliable way, we should align the comma symbols, padding preceding positions with spaces chars !

So, this time, the regex solution seems to be more secure ;-))

For instance, with that sample text, below :

#,6100795442608787,1 #,205300099864,1 #,65433455333,5 #,20530002200815618844,1 #,3360,20 #,718103267854,2 #,67764334775,8

Here is a regex S/R which deletes any non-null range of digits, after the 11th, till the second comma of each line :

SEARCH ^#,\d{11}\K\d+(?=,)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Tick the Wrap around

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click, exclusively, on the Replace All button

And, we would obtain the expected result :

#,61007954426,1 #,20530009986,1 #,65433455333,5 #,20530002200,1 #,3360,20 #,71810326785,2 #,67764334775,8

Best Regards,

guy038

Thanks for both useful answers !

Thanks once again @guy038. Your valuable suggestions/corrections have been incorporated once again:

<parser displayName="CiCode" id ="cicode_function" commentExpr="(?x) # free-spacing for commenting (?s:\x2F\x2A.*?\x2A\x2F) # Multi Line Comment: /* ... */ | (?m-s:\x2F{2}.*$) # Single Line Comment: // ... | (?m-s:\!.*$) # Single Line Comment: ! ... | (?s:\x22(?:[^\x22\x5C]|\x5C.)*\x22) # String Literal - Double Quoted | (?s:\x27(?:[^\x27\x5C]|\x5C.)*\x27) # String Literal - Single Quoted " > <function mainExpr="(?x) # free-spacing for commenting (?i) # ignore case FUNCTION\s+ # CiCode functions marked by keyword 'function' (any case) \K # discard everything matched so far - 'function' keyword not part of function name \w+? # function name itself (non-greedy match) \(.*?\) # function parameter list surrounded by brackets " /> </parser>

This is my latest version of the parser with a proper commentExpr parser. (CiCode supports C-style comments with the addition of !<comment-to-end-of-line> being synonymous with //<comment-to-end-of-line>.

One of my files does indeed have several commented functions - these are now correctly ignored. Thanks again.

@Melvin-Pereira said:

after the mess caused by the software. … I did not have backups enabled.

To be fair, Notepad++ offered a backup feature which you had chosen not to enable.

The bug you encountered was fixed 9 months ago with the release of v7.5.9 – the release notes in item #2 clearly explain that it fixed file corruption in abnormal circumstances (like a crash) – and there have been all of the v7.6.* releases thru the current v7.7.1 releases, many of which have been pushed to auto-update (including v7.7.1). If you don’t avail yourself of auto-update, and don’t choose to check release notes for critical bug fixes, I’m not sure what more can be done to notify people of bugs and issues, and to encourage updating to newer versions to fix bugs.

Is there no way, the file can be recovered?

Historically, there have been suggestions for external file recovery software, but I can make no warranty for how well they will work in your particular case.

@PeterJones said:

M1231\r\n$0\r\nM1230

perfect! thank you very much. I will definitely follow your links to learn to do this stuff for myself, but i very much appreciate the included answer.

@Marcel-Vossen said:

Does anyone know what is causing this ‘unwanted feature’ and what purpose it has, and how to avoid it?

As to why it’s happening for you: since you don’t tell us anything about your subtitle file – like if there are long lines, or indented lines – we don’t have enough to replicate your circumstances and figure out what’s causing it.

However, my guess (and @andrecool-68 's guess, too) is it has something to do with long lines. If you’ve got a long line (wider than the screen width) which is indented, if you hit HOME (and haven’t changed your key mappings), it will take you to the first non-indent character of that line, but won’t show the characters to the left of the indent. If you hit ENTER from the end of a long line, it will auto-indent the next line to that location, and similarly won’t show the characters to the left of the indent. Using the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the window, or hitting HOME a second time, or hitting Alt+HOME, should all allow you to scroll all the way to the left edge of your document. Changing the word-wrap settings, as @andrecool-68 suggested, may or may not help.

(And horizontal scroll bars and hitting HOME one or more times to get to the left edge of a line are common to most editing software I’ve used; I’m surprised you thought you had to arrow over. Make sure you add scroll bars and HOME keys to your bag of tricks for all editing software.)

Pete,

Thanks for the better answer! I have not had to use this very obvious feature of the Style Configurator 🙄

Steve

@IsRakc

The PK header indicates that it could be a ZIP file. Rename it to *.zip and try to open it with Explorer or 7Zip.

Ah, the highlight is very faint both in your screen print and on my monitor. How do I make it have more contrast?

Thanks for your invaluable help.

Rick

If you mean changing what number Notepad++ will report for the column (for example, in the status bar) when your cursor is at the 14th column: sorry, Notepad++ isn’t built that way: Row 1 Column 1 is the first character in your file, and subsequent characters and rows will increment the number seen.

dinkumoil, Thank you very much for the extensive explanation. I will try your script first and then as a fallback check those that do not work if any.

I have given an option to save our files in network and winodws update was done…I have reinstalled all my applications after this

Thank you.

@Steven-Haymes

I know, :-) but it seems it is somehow difficult to migrate the existing code to python3.
Unfortunately my c++ skills aren’t good enough to contribute to pythonscript plugin.

@PeterJones said:

I still notice that 10 doesn’t “remember” some of my Explorer settings as reliably as I would like.

That said, I decided just try to switch over to old-style dialogs and check that out… when I did, I could change from the tiles to the details view, and Windows did remember it for me even after exiting and re-running Notepad++. But there may be other Win10 settings that affect whether or not it remembers.

I’m back on new-style now, because that’s what I now prefer.

@David-Griffey Rename directory “updater”

@Wojcisz-PL

as I’m always using the zipped versions I don’t know for sure but I assume by creating
a file called doLocalConf.xml it shouldn’t read from appdata. File does not have any content.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your response.

I ended up on using the “clean slate” solution that involved uninstalling NP++, cleaning up the remaining folders and then reinstalled the latest version of NP++. Before that, I backed up my C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ folder to retain my old settings.

After installing the few plugins that I use, I copied the backed up plugin configurations files (CustomizeToolbar.btn, CustomizeToolbar.dat, npes_saved.txt, NppExec.ini and such) over the new ones (which were backed up first). DSpellCheck required downloading a dictionary.

I copied my backed up custom color theme into the new themes folder and just manually went through my preferences as they are simple on NP++. All in all, it was not that painful of a process and now I have a clean NP++ install on my computers.

Regards,

Steve