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  "Function List" current function highlighting is too light?
  • Alan Kilborn  

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  I finally got some time to look deeper into the responses here. Thanks to everyone for their input. Peter said: I’ll stick with normals. Whether @Alan-Kilborn wants to go that route is up to him. I took Peter’s “advice” and changed my ButtonFace to (224, 224, 224). This indeed makes the “inactive-but-inside” function in the list have better noticeability, without having any other negatives elsewhere in the Notepad++ (or Windows) UI. I’m keeping that setting! :-)
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  Deleting First line and last two lines from multiple text files.
  macros • • R k  

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  Hello, @r-k, @Terry-R and All, I found out an other solution, which is the opposite of the @Terry-r’s one : it deletes which is not needed, instead of rewriting which must be kept ! However, because of some strange behaviours, due to the \A assertion, my solution requires two consecutive regex S/R : The first S/R, below, will replace any possible range of empty line(s), at the very beginning of files, followed with the contents of the first non-empty line with a specific string, not yet present in files. I chose the string X_X_X_X_X_X, but any expression can be used as long as that expression does not exist in all the files scanned ! SEARCH (?-s)\A^\R*.+ REPLACE X_X_X_X_X_X The second and last S/R, below, will delete the entire line X_X_X_X_X_X, with its line-break, as well as the last two non-empty lines, possibly followed with some true empty lines, at the very end of files SEARCH X_X_X_X_X_X\R|(?-s).+\R.+\R*\z REPLACE Leave EMPTY Best Regards, guy038
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  remove everything from text file and replace with....
  • Craig McFarlane  

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  Hello, @craig-mcfarlane, @alan-kilborn and All, I just gave it a try : First, in a Windows console DOS, I ran the command Copy nul Test.txt I opened the file Test.txt from within Notepad++ Unfortunately, the regex S/R below does not work, even if the search, only, does detect a zero length match ! SEARCH \A^ REPLACE Blah blah Best Regards, guy038
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  theme keywords: "WORD", "KEYWORD" and "TYPE WORD" etc.
  • David Wilkinson  

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  @PeterJones Hi Peter, thanks again for the prompt reply. Your experiment was spot on. However, If I specify individual “names”: “parm”, “yAxis”, “labels”, and “font” in the “WINDOW INSTRUCTION” style “User-defined keywords” box instead of the complete name “this.parm.yAxis.labels.font” it works: If I go further and add the appropriate keywords to the “TYPE WORD” style “User-defined keywords” box, I can get this: So, I am nearly there. That is a vast improvement. I have to say I am very impressed with the speed and the care you take with your replies. Thank you very much. David Wilkinson UK
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  compare plugin doesn't install
  • Robert Werner  

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  That sounds to me like you have need a proxy setup. If your IT group makes you go through a proxy server, follow the instructions in this other post for changing the proxy settings (in case it’s not clear over there: you must Run as Administrator to change proxy settings). I think this should fix your download issue Your second issue (“even when I try to download and install from a third party”) was clarified in your other post in another compare-plugin thread (please keep your issue consolidated here) is because you “moved it into notepad + +\plugins”. That’s wrong, and has been for over a year (since v7.6.3 in Jan 2019). Notepad++ now keeps its plugins in <installdir>\plugins\PluginName\PluginName.dll. So the ComparePlugin would go as <installdir>\plugins\ComparePlugin\ComparePlugin.dll, with any subfolders it wants as subfolders of that folder (<installdir>\plugins\ComparePlugin\subfoldername); there shouldn’t be any DLLs directly in <installdir>\plugins anymore.
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  How to disable multiple lines?
  • Omar Al-saadi  

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  @PeterJones said in How to disable multiple lines?: Toggle that setting with View > Word Wrap or the little Word wrap button on the toolbar Ah! Thank you so much!
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  Replacing three digit numbers with random numbers
  • Calypsm  

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  @Calypsm It’s an OK question to ask here. Unfortunately, neither Notepad++ nor plugin can help you with that type of problem. If you want to resort to programming, it can be done, but don’t know if that is an option for you. You also really need to show some of what your data looks like, if you want further help.
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  Keeping urls and deleting rest of the stuff from copied sourcecode.
  • R k  

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  It is sometimes difficult to keep certain text by trying to match the remaining text, usually because the remaining text is hard to match because it may not be as patterned as the “to keep” text. @guy038 discusses a technique to do this kind of text retention in this thread. Probably could be adapted to work well here.
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  Preferences not saving
  • Kaz8AicraG  

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  I don’t really understand your problem, can you elaborate on it?
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  Breaking one text file to multiple files.
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  What have you tried so far?
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  Add line of text to beginning of multiple files
  • Kevin Hemken  

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  @guy038 said in Add line of text to beginning of multiple files: In case of your replacement regex ends with the forms \r\n, \n or \r, depending of your file(s) structure, as above, it/they must not begin with one/several true empty lines ! So I found myself with just such a case. Hmmm, what to do…? Here’s what I wanted: Add new first line\r\n to a bunch of files as, obviously, the new first line data. Here’s what I did: I did a two-step replacement; first I did: Find what box: ^\A Replace with box: new first lineFIRSTLINEPSEUDOENDING Secondly, Find what box: FIRSTLINEPSEUDOENDING Replace with box: \r\n Of course FIRSTLINEPSEUDOENDING could be any unique string that doesn’t already appear in the files I’m applying this to.
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  Regex Help to replace text except when it matches a string
  • Alfred Streich  

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  Hello, @alfred-streich, @alan-kilborn and All, As, seemingly, all lines, which must be joined to their previous line, do not contain any colon symbol ( : ), an alternate syntax, to the Alan’s one, could be : SEARCH (?-i)</para>\h*\R+\h*<para>(?![^\r\n]+:) REPLACE \x20 Notes : First, the in-line modifier (?-i) forces a non-insensitive search process The part \h*\R+\h* matches any range of horizontal blank char(s) ( Space and Tab ), even null, followed with a non null range of line-breaks ( \r\n, \n or \r ), itself followed with an other possible range of blank char(s) The part (?![^\r\n]+:) is a negative look-ahead structure, which defines a necessary condition for the overall regex to match, although not part of the final match, and looks for a line with does not contain any colon character, after the literal string <para> till its line-break Note that the [^\r\n]+ defines a non-null of characters, different of EOL chars. So, any char after <para> till the colon symbol : ! In replacement, the syntax \x20 is the hexadecimal representation of a space character and you may, as well, write a single space char in the Replace with: zone Best regards, guy038
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  Alternative for Notepad++ on Mac
  • Rob Pinto  

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  fu**ing kidding me
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  Disable Find Autocomplete
  • Hyde233  

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  @Hyde233 reversing the negative I think you’re right, and that it would be that way if it was a settable preference from Notepad++ 1.0. Notepad++ users are used to it filling the field in; “don’t” seems to flow logically from that, maybe. In the end it doesn’t matter: It will never be changed now.
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  notepad++ 64bit inserting timestamps
  • Jeremy Z  

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  @Jeremy-Z This saved me a lot of pain and irritation. Tried to TextFX but does not operate with the current NPP version 7.8.5 64 bit and the Author(s) have indicated they cant support it any longer. The Python Script was a miserable pain for me as I haven’t written a line of code in +25 years. This solution just WORKS!!! PLUGINS - > Plugins Admin [Available] tab Notepad++ Plugin Demo * Install Button (popup dialog about NPP will be restarted… Continue?) * Yes Button **** To add as shortcut [SHIFT] + F5 **** RUN - > Modify Shortcut/Delete Command [Plugin commands] tab DOUBLE CLICK on Date Time - short format SHIFT + (pulldown F5) * OK button * CLOSE button
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  ColdFusion Lexer and NPP after (7.5.9)
  • Mike Graham  

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  @Michael-Benoit , the user @Joe-DeRose hasn’t been here since that single post. In the intervening 8 months, that old collection has been moved to https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/userDefinedLanguages, and the specific file he mentioned is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notepad-plus-plus/userDefinedLanguages/master/UDLs/ColdfusionCF9_bySpenster.xml
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  Start notepad++ with administrator rights
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  Set Notepad++ as default app in Windows 10
  • Mark Warkentin  

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  @Jason-M-Fruge Got this issue recently, could not add a new notepad++ document from contextual menu. I followed your solution, but “.txt” was already in supported extensions panel. What I’ve done: restarted Notepad++ with admin rights, removed and re-added “.txt”. It worked!
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  Simple html tag question
  • Donna Middleton  

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  @Donna-Middleton I’ve taken the liberty of providing an example of how it might work, of course having your examples will help immensely. In the first block below we see how the lines might look before the html tags are applied. Note I have presumed you already have the <ul> & </ul> code already in place as you ONLY mentioned the <li> and </li> tags. The second block shows the result with my regex applied. First you would highlight JUST the lines containing the list items. Very important not to select any additional lines. After this you would use the “Replace” function (Search, Replace). Now as this is a regex we need to select “regular expression” as the search mode. The expression we use is: in the Find What window:(?-s)(.+) in the Replace window:<li>\1</li> note 2 spaces before as our original text is left justified and we want to indent it 2 positions. Before we click on “Replace All” confirm the selection is still in place and then tick the box named “In Selection”. If this box not selectable it means the selection has been lost. Click on “Replace all” button. Confirm your items are now correctly tagged. <ul style="list-style-type:circle;"> Coffee Tea Milk </ul> and after using the regex we have <ul style="list-style-type:circle;"> <li>Coffee</li> <li>Tea</li> <li>Milk</li> </ul> Hope this helps, but as I say it is best if you can provide some examples. If the data is sensitive, please do replace with dummy data but the original formatting of your real data needs to remain (tabs, spaces etc) as this can help or hinder the final solution. Terry
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  problems with apostrophies
  • James Long  

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  Alan, you are my hero. Thank you!!