@Ed-Patterson

(the 20 minute delay is killer, but understandable)

i just gave you 2 upvotes. your posting delay will be removed completely after a certain amount of upvotes.

double clicking on a .txt file still opens MS Notepad.

maybe you can do it manually:

if you are on windows 10:
right click on any .txt file > open with > other apps > more apps > scroll down and click on other apps on your pc > browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ and select notepad++.exe
(this .txt file will now be opened in notepad++ once)
now notepad++ is registered as an app to choose in the open with dialog.
now you can close notepad++.

then right click on the same text file again > choose open with > other apps > select notepad++ and check “always use this app to open .txt files”
from now on all .txt files should open in notepad++ as the default app

note: the windows 10 open with menu dialogs have changed a bit through time, depending on your windows updates, so the texts or some in-between-steps, like “other apps” after open with, do not exist, but present you with the apps list right away.

@Alan-Kilborn

I assume as long as you are the only one who maintains and executes the scripts it is ok
but as soon as further people are involved it might get a little bit tricky and, personally,
I find it hard to read and is there really a benefit of, let’s say XYZ_myfunction contrary to XYZ.myfunction?
Guess, is a matter of taste.

Eko

@Naval-Kishor-Shukla

I assume you are talking about “unsaved” files. If this is the case then closing the file has triggered deleting the backup file,
in such a case you could try using recovery software like undelete, recuva etc… and pointing to the backup path for deep search.

Eko

@Scott-Sumner
That’s awesome.

Thank you!

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@cipher-1024 said:

You could just hold the ALT key down…

This works great. If there was an option to simulate holding the alt key that would be nice but this method will save me so much frustration. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one it affects. My thanks to everyone that replied.

“File cannot be saved and it may be protected . Open in administrator mode”

I occasionally see this message, seems fairly random but maybe there is an underlying reason? Dismissing the popup box and attempting to save again usually proceeds with no more problem. So, I dunno…

You might report this issue here https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/issues. Please add also the N++ debug info, see https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you

@kellyyer

So the comma character is a more-common delimiter than yours, but if you replace every comma in the following with your special delimiter, this should work or at least get you started:

Invoke Replace (press ctrl+h).
Find what zone: (?-s)^(?:.+?,){18}(.+?,.+?),.+ <–again replace every comma here!
Replace with zone: \1
Search mode: Regular expression
Action: Press the Replace All button

I encourage you to read about regular expressions, some ways to get started here. Try the above expression in some of the interactive regex sites to see how it works. Perhaps you will end up with a new technique in your data manipulation arsenal.

NPP 7.6 changed the way that plugins are handled. This post gives a quick summary, using XMLTools as the example. This one goes into more detail for helping someone through the process. This is the official post announcing the change, and here is a discussion of the changes to the plugin directory structure. There are quite a few other posts spread throughout the forum, if you spend a few minutes looking for them.

I think the first is most likely to give you the quick information you want.

Until the Plugin arrangement stabilizes, I am staying with my working 7.5.8 instead of upgrading to the 7.6 (or beyond), so I haven’t tried any of the recommendations. However, those links will give you a starting point.

@Raghad-Qu

The current pythonscript plugin has even an example which looks like is what you are looking for.

Eko