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Search in files
• stefan-vienna

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Searching the disk content of an open file is problematic…because, well, how does N++ do this type of searching? It opens the file into a tab that isn’t shown to the user, for each file searched. Since it can’t easily open two tabs for the same file (hmmm, cloned view does it, though…?), this type of thing isn’t allowed.
regex: put comments at the beginning and end of the line (div tags html) before and after some words
• Robin Cruise

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Hello @robin-cruise and All, Why not this S/R : SEARCH (?-s)^\h*<div class="fb-comments" data-href=".+ REPLACE  Notes : This regex would search all contents of any line, beginning with the string <div class="fb-comments" data-href=, possibly predeced with any leading horizontal blank chars, and places this line in comments, with the syntax  Not a very difficult regex : you could have found out this one, by yourself ;-)) Best Regards, guy038
Examining a character?
• Dave Joseph

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Hi, @dave-joseph, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All, Peter, I confirm your test. In an UTF-8 file, without encoding problems, the option Encoding > Convert to ANSI correctly changes the two UTF-8 bytes of each smart quote, into a one ANSI byte Concerning the second point, I understand : seemingly it’s always better to see the individual bytes of a file with an external hex editor ! Cheers, guy038
Extracting some elements from the string
• Rafal Jonca 0

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Works beautifully. Thank you :)
[v.7.8.6] Vertical Edge Settings no longer works with Split Lines (Ctrl-I)
• Matthew Au

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@Alan-Kilborn Yes, I discovered that already in the past. Increasing inter-line spacing is also possible with other styles, for example the Brace highlight style.
NPP will open file with one extension, but not another for same content
• Paul Hutson

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@Paul-Hutson , Yes, if you have either of those preference blanks set, then files of that type will always be opened as a session or workspace config XML, and Notepad++ won’t ever let you read/edit the raw data inside. See for reference Footnote 1 in “Sessions, Workspaces, and Projects” from npp-user-manual.org
replace / move numbers from one row to another with regular expression (in parentheses)
• Robin Cruise

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@Robin-Cruise said in replace / move numbers from one row to another with regular expression (in parentheses): by the way, on replace, what does it mean ?1(\3#)\2(\3#) (step by step, please) ? It’s fairly “easy”: :-) ?1 controls the rest of it: If capture group #1 was NOT matched, the replacement is “nothing” (aka deletion) If capture group #1 WAS matched, then the replacement consists of: opening parens: ( what was matched with capture group #3 a literal # closing parens: ) what was matched with capture group #2 opening parens: ( what was matched with capture group #3 a literal # closing parens: )
Systematic addition of text and the current file name into 320 files
• Aaron Mills

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@Aaron-Mills - I use Windows command prompt’s built in scripting and GNU sed to do what you need. For example, start up command prompt and cd to the top directory of where your HTML files are. Run this command for /r %i in (*.htm) do @echo %~ni You will see a list with the file names for each *.htm files from the current directory on down. Let’s say you want to add a <title>file-name</title> element at the top of the <head> section of each file. for /r %i in (*.htm) do sed -i -r -e "s~(<head>)~\1\n<title>%~ni</title>~" "%i" del sed?????? You asked for the file name. If you also want the file extension included in the title then use %~nxi If you want or need to use the full file path then it gets painful. While the full path is available using %~fi you can’t use it as-is in a regular expression as the path contains \ backslash characters. There are workarounds but that’s getting out of the scope of how to do this given my suggestion does not use Notepad++. The second line with del sed?????? removes the temporary files created by sed’s -i command line option which I used to do in-place editing of all the HTML files.
How many files are opened (show number)
• M FR

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Hi everybody Thanks, that was all very interesting. The thing I’ll go for is first of all to get the newest version as I only have 7.8.6 and as @guy038 wrote, I’ll need a newer version for the thing I need. Thanks to all of you, great support here for a notepadd++ newbie :-) Michaela
Excluding all of a Line when using Add / Replace
• Steven Warrens

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A BIG thanks to all for your help. It looks like I will be using several different combinations of suggestions offered here. Wish me luck and thanks again!!
Trouble with Windows XP
• AR1972

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Well, some time later I have reviewed and the versa 350 has pentium M processor, my very old device is also a Pentium III and got the same errors that ARI1972’s. I assume the VM are installed in a more recent hardware then they support the machine instructions that fail in P-III hardware. I use the version of NP++ that gives me the two exception errors but it works anyway. I’ll continue using my p-III until the device gets a “no-more” condition.
Search in folder (encoding)
• Mayson Kword

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@gstavi said in Search in folder (encoding): If you will ever open regedit on a Hebrew Windows and see all the English content aligned right-to-left you would lose all respect to Microsoft. Maybe I should give it a try to finally be persuaded to switch to Linux :-D
Page break Text File saving
page break • • Ohm Dios

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@Alan-Kilborn said in Page break Text File saving: However, it feels like I am missing some point in the discussion. @PeterJones question to me has gone past the current theme, however I had previously responded to his statement “No, I do not know of a way to pass a name to the Save As command” in that (as you just pointed out) the filename field is already filled. I think the issue is really that the dialog is waiting for an enter key which I did try to manually insert into the macro code, that only made matters worse. I think the macro idea on the current theme is a dead duck. Terry
Making fonts larger so old men can read
• Michael DeLigny

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@Michael-DeLigny To be a bit more specific, these might be the settings you’ll want to experiment with: Also: You can temporarily change the size of text by pointing your mouse at the window, holding the Ctrl key, and scrolling the mouse wheel in either direction. I don’t want to change the native format of the text I’m viewing This shows you have a basic misunderstanding about what text editing is and what a text editor does. @zanud clarifies nicely with: (None) of file types supported by Notepad++ have font-related properties. All font names, sizes, styles used by Notepad++ are for viewing only, and they are never stored in the files.
'In Selection' grayed out in the find/replace box
• mkupper

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@mkupper , I could be wrong, but this sounds like this recent discussion and also this earlier discussion. On those, I don’t know if anyone has bothered putting in an official github issue or not. But if what you describe is the same as those (especially the first I mentioned), and if there isn’t an existing issue in the repo, then maybe you would be willing to submit the report.
Why won't NPP open .txt files
• Lee Wilkerson

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@wwwdeals said in Why won't NPP open .txt files: I’m surprised after 5 years this issue is still around. Unless there is a way to reproduce the cause, it is hard to fix I guess.
DSpellCheck not working
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@PeterJones Thanks. I do believe it works for you. I think maybe it’s environment issue. E.g. some settings in win10?
Delay in saving files after latest upgrade
• Mario Valle

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@Mario-Valle , To avoid a potential data corruption in case of sudden power loss, Notepad++ since version 7.9.1 writes files directly to disk on save - no operating system RAM caching is used. This ensures that your files are really safely written to disk when you save them but writing to disk is slower than writing to RAM buffer. Now if your “disk” is slow in write speed then that might be the reason you are seeing such delay. By “disk” here I mean the non-volatile (persistent) media where your files are located. Mapped network drives, SD cards, USB drives are examples of medias (“disks”) that are relatively slow on write.
uploading files to nitrado
• Kerry Down

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@Kerry-Down I don’t know anything about nitrado, but i guess it’s a web hosting provider. Read the FAQ or the wiki of nitrado to learn how to configure SFTP or FTP access to your server. This forum is a support forum for Notepad++.
Notepad++ v 7.9.2 ignores "Print Line Number" preference
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The fix will come with v7.9.3: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/38f6319f4ee52b17b0c279a772bcdb18da4b0921