@eappell

Since Notepad++ v7.6 the plugin management system has undergone some changes. In v7.6.3 and above every plugin needs to be moved to a separate folder under <Notepad++-install-dir>\plugins which has to be named like the plugin’s DLL file itself.

Example: If a plugin’s DLL file name is ABC.dll it has to be moved to <Notepad++-install-dir>\plugins\ABC.

Please note: If a plugin needs some companion files, mostly they need to be moved to that folder too. If these companion files have been located in e.g. <Notepad++-install-dir>\plugins\doc they have to be moved to <Notepad++-install-dir>\plugins\<Plugin-name>\doc, i.e. the former folder structure has to be kept. Sometimes, depending on the plugin, that even means that the folder <Plugin-name> has to be doubled, i.e. <Notepad++-install-dir>\plugins\<Plugin-name>\<Plugin-name>.

Some plugins use hard coded access paths to their companion files, thus they will not find them at the new location. In that case the companion files have to stay at their old location (where they have been stored in Notepad++ versions prior to v7.6).

If you have a lot of plugins you could use a script I wrote to automate the migration process. But be aware of the restrictions mentioned above! They are also applicable when using this script.

You can download a ZIP file containing the script >>> from here <<<. You can read a description of the script >>> here <<<.

@Alan-Kilborn

Thanks, but most of it is stolen from other codes :-D
But there are so many functions scintilla provide, I assume there are still some Perls out there which we haven’t figured out yet. :-)

Name, what do you expect? :-D LOL - it gets converted anyway LOL

@Egon-Olsen , @Alan-Kilborn , @Ekopalypse

Yeah, it’s the old new thing about keyboard layouts.

On all PC keyboards world wide, no matter of which locale, keys have the same scan codes depending on their physical position on the keyboard. The keyboard driver for a certain locale translates them (under Windows) into virtual key codes. That’s what applications see when they read keyboard input. These virtual key codes are translated into the actual glyphs of the characters (at the end of the day a bitmap image) when they are displayed on the screen.

If the keyboard driver supports so called “dead keys” it waits for a second key press to compose them to a resulting character, e.g. all these â,ê,î,ô,û,… letters used in various european languages. This way there are not so much weird key combos to input these characters.

Unfortunately, in the shortcut mapper of Notepad++ all this isn’t taken into account. The person who programmed the key selector has used a hard coded table for the mapping of physical keys to their character representation, which is wrong for most locales. I wasn’t able to figure out yet, which keyboard locale this person used as a basis for the mapping.

This is the mapping table for german keyboards between the key list in Notepad++'s shortcut mapper and the physical keys:

| Npp shortcut mapper | German Keyboard | | |---------+------------| | | solo | with SHIFT | |---------------------+---------+------------| | ~ | ö | Ö | | - | - | _ | | = | + | * | | [ | ß | ? | | ] | ´ (DK) | ` (DK) | | ; | ü | Ü | | ' | ä | Ä | | \ | ^ (DK) | ° | | , | , | ; | | . | . | : | | / | # | ' | | <> | < | > |

(DK) marks dead keys.

I often thought about filing an issue about that but I think it will be nothing more than another forgotten minor bug in the issue tracker…

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Morney-le-Roux

you need to install the plugin HTML Tag, by using the built in plugins admin on newer versions of notepad++, or using the old plugin manager, if you are on notepad++ 7.5.9 or below.

once installed, select your partial or complete text, like “ADAMS, Andr\u00e9as” and go to plugins > html tag > decode js, to get “ADAMS, Andréas”.

best regards.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Angelo-Bancheri

if you have managed to get windows 10 speech recognition to work for any other language than english, you will be able to start dictating by pressing windows + h.

windows speech recognition will just simulate a keyboard entry, and type into any active editor or text field, but it is a pain in the a. to get it working at all and you will have to google a lot to get it going.

once you’ve managed to get it running on windows by using one of the guides around, depending on your language, test it with word or notepad.exe first.

best regards.

@Michael-Vincent

IMO that isn’t a great solution either because, when you repeat the operation, without first moving the caret manually, you should again end up where you start. And in the case of your NppExec script, and the OP’s original text, that doesn’t happen when you start with your insert caret just to the left of ((not.

OMG!! it worked… thank you so so much ☻

@Dandello2000

So there is one extension you want to skip; but how many different ones are there to include? If a small number, the obvious solution is to exclude the one you don’t want by including all those you do want.

@Alan-Kilborn

yes.
as far as i have seen, the numbering was introduced before the search filter was added, to allow supporters to say e.g. “go to line 143”.

you are correct, the numbering is still generated at the time of displaying, and not taken from a table, created once, when shortcut mapper is initialised.

The devil is in the details. We, the users, want our bookmarks to be remembered. But what is bookmark?

Is it line number?
Is it line text?
What should happen when file is modified externally?
If I put a bookmark on line 100 and adds 10 lines at the beginning of file, bookmark will jump to 110. Now, when I close the file without saving it, what should be remembered? There could has been 1000 different edits that added and removed random lines.
What if the bookmark was placed on a line that was never saved?

For IDEs that are workspace oriented things are (a bit) easier because bookmarks can be saved as part of the workspace meta files. Notepad++ is not workspace oriented.

Having bookmarks saved as part of the session is a reasonable compromise. I don’t think that core Notepad++ should go beyond that. Find someone to implement Long-Term-Bbookmark-Storage plugin.

Hi Guy,

I found time to have a go - and totally screwed it up! On a few test files only thank goodness. Second attempt worked perfectly. I have since applied the solution to all my php files and uploaded them and, yers they do work.
https://www.minibottlelibrary.com/mbl/index.html (straights area)

Again, MANY THANKS.

David

I must admit to being a bit embarrassed. I had been looking thru TextFX for a menu item called “JOIN TEXT” and hadn’t found anything. But in looking, I scanned right over the phrase “UNWRAP TEXT”. <oops!>

That works perfectly.

Thanks for helping to correct an ignorant user.

I gotta say that I had noticed other topics in here and a lot of times there were multiple day delays before the original poster got a response. You guys have been so helpful, and responding in only hours, or sometimes minutes.

THANK YOU TO BOTH OF YOU!

Frank

@Merbin-Joe

see here.

Hi @upperking,

Oupppss ! I should have read your post more carefully ! We must take the leading numbers in account ;-))

So, change the Find and Replace zones, as below :

SEARCH (?-is)^\d+\x20(76\.247\.131\.161:\d+).+

REPLACE \1

Notes :

Beware : if the IP address is not exactly the address 76.247.131.161, nothing is then replaced

The part ^\d+\x20 represents any number, beginning a line and followed with a space character

The dot meta character . is escaped with the \ to be considered as a literal

The group 1 is the string 76.247.131.161 followed with a colon, followed with the port number, which is rewritten, during the replacement phase

Cheers,

guy038

Hi, all,

As the (?...:....) regex structure, of the Boost regex library is not so common, you may feel a bit lost about the replacement regex syntax !

So, here is, below, the algorithmic translation of the replacement regex, of my previous post :

If group 13 exists # Case hour = '12' then If group 17 exists # String 'AM' or 'am', after the digits then Write the string '00' else Rewrite the group 1 contents # Actually, the hour '12' else If group 17 exists # String 'AM' or 'am', after the digits then Rewrite the group 1 contents # The 'hour' digits, so the values '01' or '02' or ...... '11' else # The 'hour' digits, when followed with the string 'PM' or 'pm' If group 2 exists then write the string '13' # Case hour = '01' If group 3 exists then write the string '14' # Case hour = '02' If group 4 exists then write the string '15' # Case hour = '03' If group 5 exists then write the string '16' # Case hour = '04' If group 6 exists then write the string '17' # Case hour = '05' If group 7 exists then write the string '18' # Case hour = '06' If group 8 exists then write the string '19' # Case hour = '07' If group 9 exists then write the string '20' # Case hour = '08' If group 10 exists then write the string '21' # Case hour = '09' If group 11 exists then write the string '22' # Case hour = '10' If group 12 exists then write the string '23' # Case hour = '11' endif endif Write the string ':' Rewrite the group 14 # Minutes digits Write the string ':' Rewrite the group 15 # Seconds digits if group 16 exits # Milleseconds digits then write the string ':' write the group 16 contents # Milleseconds digits endif

BR

guy038

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Donald-Cook

i don’t experience this on notepad++ 7.6.6 with dspellckeck 1.4.11.0 installed from the built in plugins > plugins admin menu.

it might also be, that another plugin could cause dspellcheck to crash.

what notepad++ version and dspellcheck version do you have installed ?

ps: my debug info from the notepad++ menu: ? > debug info... > copy debug info into clipboard is:

Notepad++ v7.6.6 (32-bit)
Build time : Apr 3 2019 - 23:49:50
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
Plugins : ComparePlus.dll dbgpPlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll ElasticTabstops.dll EmmetNPP.dll HexEditor.dll IndentByFold.dll JSMinNPP.dll LuaScript.dll MarkdownViewerPlusPlus.dll mimeTools.dll NavigateTo.dll NppAutoIndent.dll NppConverter.dll nppcrypt.dll NppExport.dll NppFTP.dll NppJumpList.dll NppMarkdownPanel.dll NppSnippets.dll NppTextFX.dll NppUISpy.dll PreviewHTML.dll PythonScript.dll SourceCookifier.dll TakeNotes.dll Tidy2.dll XMLTools.dll

best regards.

Hello, @hced and All,

Welcome to the Notepad++ Community !

Very simply, indeed !

Open the Lua console ( Plugins > LuaScript > Show Console

Inside the bottom line, type the command :

editor.VScrollBar = false with that exact case

Either, hit the Enter key or click on the Run button

Here we are !

Best Regards,

guy038