https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you

Also, this forum is formatted using Markdown, with a help link buried on the little grey ? in the COMPOSE window/pane when writing your post. For more about how to use Markdown in this forum, please see @Scott-Sumner’s post in the “how to markdown code on this forum” topic, and my updates near the end. It is very important that you use these formatting tips – using single backtick marks around small snippets, and using code-quoting for pasting multiple lines from your example data files – because otherwise, the forum will change normal quotes ("") to curly “smart” quotes (“”), will change hyphens to dashes, will sometimes hide asterisks (or if your text is c:\folder\*.txt, it will show up as c:\folder*.txt, missing the backslash). If you want to clearly communicate your text data to us, you need to properly format it.

After you have read the above links, please come back with more details, as well example data that will actually show what you mean – interleaving the data with your question text is super confusing when you haven’t marked it up to show what’s data and what’s not.

@PaoloRicardo said:

I presume I must wait for the bug to be fixed before F6 will work as designed?

No, that’s not what we were saying there at all.

We said that you could use the Shortcut Mapper to tell you why there was a conflict with the NppExec’s F6 and something else that was also apparently mapped to F6. We strayed a bit into a tangent about how the Shortcut Mapper displays certain items when you have a filter applied, but as my first screenshot showed, the Shortcut Mapper does tell you when there’s a conflict, and tell you where that conflict is, as long as you don’t have a filter applied.

Since installing 7.6.3 solved your F6 problem (by resetting whatever item conflicted with NppExec’s F6), I mostly posted this clarification so that future readers of this thread won’t think that 7.5.9 breaks the F6 key; it doesn’t.

Mata

The above leads to compilation errors. I have split the Display into two separate statements and have an acceptable result i.e. syntax highlighting is back.

I realised that I did not have the most recent version of Notepad++ (7.63). Installing this now means F6 correctly brings up the NppExec dialog.

Thanks for your help.

Psul

@PeterJones said:

Remember current session for next launch

Disabling “Remember current session for next launch” and choosing “Simple backup” made it behave in a sensible way.

@blackerking said:
on Windows 10, there are conflicts with Notepad++

@Вениамин-Володарский
It’s like a compiled script, and the coding has nothing to do with it.

Also, Arial Unicode MS’ wiki page itself says that latest version is 1.01 that was released 21 years ago in 1998, so the characters defined later are not there in it.

Hello @zili-Jiang ,

You can do something like that using Compare plugin.
If you haven’t saved the modified file yet you can use ComparePlugin’s Diff since last Save command.

Or you can simply Undo (it will take you to the place you last modified) and then Redo.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Gautier-Andreotti

Too old, not working anymore?

source cookifier 0.7.3 will also work on the newest versions of notepad++.

if you have the installed version of notepad++ 7.6 - 32 bit (not the portable version):
first please download and run the new version 7.6.3 - 32 bit installer from >>> here <<<, to update your existing version.

then go to plugins > plugins admin, enter “source cookifier” in the search field, check “source cookifier 0.7.3” at the plugins list, and hit install, as seen at the screenshot below.

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now source cookifier will be installed, as seen at the next screenshot.

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important note: do not use “plugin manager” on a notepad++ version 7.6 and above, as it is not compatible with the newer versions of notepad++, and it would install all plugins to the wrong folder locations.
only use the built in “plugins admin” on newer versions of notepad++.

(it is recommended to remove “plugin manager” completely on newer versions of notepad++, as it currently does not work, and it is not known if it will be updated in the near future)

side note: if you have installed other plugins on 7.6, you will have to reinstall them using “plugins admin” once you have updated to 7.6.3, due to changes of the plugins folder locations.

@bradsayers

I would be embarrassed to note my attempts

never be embarrassed, we (usually) don’t bite ;-)

anything possibly “embarrassing” we read, will also help us to adapt all guides, like the ones you’ve read, for future and inexperienced users,
as we (definitively including me) sometimes take knowledge for granted, if we are not constantly fed with such information, and hence tend to forget the times when we started off as freshmen.

@guy038 said:

we could generalize the process

I REALLY like that regex, however I wonder if it would be worth it as in the OP’s situation it would be a toss up as to whether my regex or your’s is the easier to set up.

The power (and beauty) of your regex lies with the shortness of code, and I should say it’s generalization. Even if there were say 50 numbers to be used (50-99), your regex still looks good, mine on the other hand becomes unwieldy.

Thanks for the enlightenment
Terry

@PeterJones

I think I figured it out, thanks

Hello, @pilltwilliams, @terry-r and All,

As your text, William, seems to have literal headers TEXT_#####_ORIG and TEXT_#####_DEST, which clearly identifies the lines, it’s fairly easy to create the appropriate regex S/R ;-))

So, for instance, assuming that File_A contains the text, even with indented lines, and, possibly, other non-related lines, below :

and that File_B contains the DEST lines, indented or not, with possible non-related lines, as below :

Then :

Open a new N++ tab

Paste the File_A contents in this new tab

Insert a line of, at least, 3 tilde characters

Paste the File_B contents, right after

Now, the new tab contains :

Open the Replace dialog

SEARCH (?s)^\h*(TEXT_\d+_DEST\|)(?=\R.+\R\h*\1(?-s)(.+)\R)|^(\h*\R)*~~~*.+

REPLACE ?1$0\2

Preferably, check the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once, on the Replace All button or several times on the Replace button

Et voilà ;-))

You should get the expected text, below :

Just note that the line of tildes and all the subsequent characters have been wiped out, as well ! The number of replacements is the number of lines TEXT_#####_DEST of File_B + 1

Best Regards

guy038

P.S. :

Be aware that, in some cases ( great amount of data, lot of non-related text between two significant lines, with headers, ... ) this regex S/R could not work properly, and, for instance, wrongly select all file contents :-((

@todmar13

Maybe another approach, what about using find in all open files instead of marking the results.
The resulting search result window would have all the hits
and in case you need to change something a click on it would open the file automatically at the exact location.

@Phil-Grigg

Not sure what your most recent posting is trying to say…

Meta Chuh, Guy038 etc.
Many thanks indeed for your help and instructions. The first reply by Meta Chuh was exactly what I was looking for. I needed to add this expression to my existing set of macros to my shortcuts file and Guy’s explanation was much appreciated also.
Terry