Yes, an alternate syntax would require a lexer plugin. (Or getting a new lexer integrated into Scintilla, and then getting NPP to update Scintilla to the latest-and-greatest, which hasn’t been a priority of the NPP developer.)

Or, if you’re brave, I’ve got some links to some old posts by @Claudia-Frank , who had done some work on making custom lexers using PythonScript. Those links are in my last post in https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16164/bug-javascript-multiline-character-not-understood-by-notepad/11 . It’d take some effort on your part to customize those to work with HTML+templating, but it’d be a starting point.

(too late for update 2): 7.6.2 is getting to the point that it’s considered more stable than 7.6 and 7.6.1, so you should be safe manually updating to that, as long as you follow @Meta-Chuh’s plugin advice here and elsewhere in the forum.

Thanks for your time and reply. At this point in time it is to confusing and more of a distraction. Getting the syntax down is hard enough, worrying about shortcuts is a month or two down the road. Plus the 30 extra seconds it involves to open the command prompt window. Then filter down through the directory is really not that big a deal.

In every tutorial regardless of the language they get incentives for getting you to install the IDE or editor they are pushing. If it is not Atom it is Codepen or Sublime, Video Studio wants you to get the Pro version. Plus it cost you at least $19.00 or more monthly for that functionality.

I am just getting comfortable working off the cmd line and creating directories on C:\ drive. I should worry about getting the roof on before I start looking at carpeting and recliners for the TV room. Thanks for your help, back to learning …Peace…

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for the suggestion. Considering that the solution from @PeterJones worked and was much easier, I may try this one at a later time. Cheers.

@Eddie-Jr.-Panes

I worked on it further and came up with something more generic:

(?-s)^(?:.*?(;|,|\t)){FIELDMINUS1}\K(?:.*?)(?=(?1)|\R|\z)

It will match various delimiters: ; or , or tab. To add or remove delimiters, just change this part of it: (;|,|\t)

It will also work (and highlight nothing) for a field if that field position occurs in the middle of two consecutive field delimiters (also stated as two delimiters occurring back to back).

I saw a slight problem. If FIELDMINUS1 is zero, and the first field in the data to be matched is empty (meaning a line starts off with a delimiter rather than non-delimiter), then the match is incorrect. Maybe guru of gurus @guy038 could fix this problem,?

@Александр-Корженевский

to install TextFX in your portable notepad++ 7.6.2:
you have to use the official “plugins admin” to install the TextFX Characters plugin.
(the old “plugin manager” is not compatible with newer notepad++ releases)
here is a good screen video from @andrecool-68 about it, as he answered a similar question a few days ago:

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to install PythonScript will be a bit more to do, because the folder locations of notepad++ 7.6.2 are different:

get a new copy of PythonScript_Full_1.3.0.0.zip from here
extract it and put it’s contents as listed below

PythonScript.dll, plugin dll goes to:
npp.7.6.2.bin\plugins\PythonScript\PythonScript.dll

python27.dll goes to:
npp.7.6.2.bin\python27.dll

machine level scripts and python library go to:
npp.7.6.2.bin\plugins\PythonScript\lib\
npp.7.6.2.bin\plugins\PythonScript\scripts\
   contains sample scripts and startup. py

manual, context-help files go to:
npp.7.6.2.bin\plugins\doc\PythonScript\
   contains PythonScript.chm up to version 1.2.0.0
   contains html docs since version 1.3.0.0

user level scripts go to:
npp.7.6.2.bin\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts\
   note: this folder will be created automatically as soon as a new script is created.

note: you can also find more information about PythonScript installation to a non portable, installed version of notepad++ here

Thanks a lot Peter.
Straight on target.

Now, with this one, all it´s OK:
Notepad++ v7.5.9 (64-bit)
Build time : Oct 14 2018 - 15:19:55
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : ON
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 7 (64-bit)
Plugins : mimeTools.dll ComparePlugin.dll CustomizeToolbar.dll NppConverter.dll PluginManager.dll XMLTools.dll

Thank you.

…unless this holds true:

@Meta-Chuh said:

but if the update you have run is windows 10 build 1809, i’ve heard about permanent data losses after this update (for any programs, not related to notepad++).

@Peter-Jones
Thanks!

Disabling autodetect surely solve the problem.
However I just found out UTF-8 BOM would do the trick even with autodectect on.

@Indra-Lung-Spirit
If I read your question correctly, the short answer is no!

Notepad++ is a text editor, it does NOT work with binary files as it doesn’t understand the formatting within these files (and therefore can corrupt the data within).
In reference to cells, I assume you mean a spreadsheet program (Excel) and Notepad++ definitely isn’t one of those. It will open CSV files which can also be associated with Excel, but they are still text files.

Terry

@gurikbal-singh
i guess you have good intentions to help,
but if you keep posting, please try to post in full, explanatory sentences and take your time to re-read them to check if someone that is not you can understand them.

very few of your post are understandable, for example this one can only be understood if someone follows your link to your screenshot AND already knows the answer like @Eko-palypse . for everyone else it looks like spam, or in this case a screenshot of a spam filled explorer window ;-)

@Teddy-May
we need more information on what exactly happened

@Eko-palypse
theory confirmed ;-)

@Craig-Williams
there are major changes to the internal folder structures of notepad++, like autoCompletion and plugins, so an update to 7.6.+ means that you will have to move your existing plugins, and their custom configurations (if any exist) as well as any custom autoCompletion files to the new locations, and therefore this update should not be triggered automatically yet, as it is more of a “migration” than a normal update that’s suitable for all users.

if you are ready to migrate, you can use the 7.6.2 installer of your choice from here and use it as updater to install over your existing notepad++.

we will assist you if you have any problems migrating and you can’t find the correct solution in this forum.

@aclark13

Unfortunately the functions in these scripts don’t use a ( so that might not work.

the only (dirty) workaround i’ve been able to come up with, is to temporarily type an (after your function if you want to view your calltip/parameter hint or mini manual, then press backspace to remove the ( and resume with the correct syntax.

your key word (target in this example) will stay black as long as you keep the bracket there, so it’s easy to spot if you forget to remove the opening bracket once in a while with this q’n’d workaround.

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please keep us informed if you come up with anything more suitable for this case.

btw.: here’s a link to the (pretty old) autocompletion wiki if it helps:
http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Auto_Completion

it worked thank you so much