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  where can i find informations about all versions of notepad++ what's new?
  • zahra ayat  

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  @Alan-Kilborn said in where can i find informations about all versions of notepad++ what's new?: @PeterJones It would have more weight behind it if someone other than me were to make an official npp-usermanual request on github… especially a normal user like @zahra-ayat , rather than a frequent contributor to the forum. I think that request is this one?: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9745 yes, its correct. i asked such helpful informations on this issue. https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9745
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  Code folding and UDL
  • hsbatra63  

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  @hsbatra63 , Unfortunately, UDL is not perfect and the end-all solution. It’s great for simple tasks, but it doesn’t support all the nuanced situations that one might run across in a given language. There is add-on script written for the PythonScript-plugin called EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo, which can add extra highlighting that cannot be handled by a builtin lexer or the UDL lexer. The concepts there, along with the PythonScript documentation, could likely be used to add new folding rules that cannot be supported by a UDL. But really, a fully-featured purpose-written lexer is the best way to go when you have gone that far beyond the edge of the capabilities of UDL.
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  Underline a single word...
  • Antonio Rosciano  

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  Thank you Mr. Jones, ecxellent explanation. Maybe someday I learn how to use Notepad ++…
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  RegEx Remove the Last Match Only
  • NZ Select  

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  @NZ-Select : There’s a technique to find the last match in a file, presented HERE. You might give that a try.
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  find and replace automation in python
  • Ruben Lara  

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  Peter, you are a legend, that is exactly what I needed, Thank you so much !!!
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  Disable AutoUpdate automation
  • Matthew Weatherford  

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  @Matthew-Weatherford , There is no installer msi option that influences Notepad++ settings I think you would have to roll your own – maybe start with the zipfile download, then edit the config files, then turn it into a self-extracting zip .exe or make your own MSI.
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  Compare two files and Remove Duplicates from One
  • Husnain Raza  

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  @Husnain-Raza , That sounds like a programming task to me. Anytime your problem statement is “look in file x to decide how to edit file y”, you have gone beyond the native skillset of text editors. If it were a small number of lines, the experts here would use a trick of copying some of the data from one file to another, and then use some super-fancy regex to remove the duplicates from N2 based on the data from N1. But since you’ve invoked “millions of rows” already, that might give you memory problems, depending on exactly how the regex capture groups are defined while doing that replacement. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of those experts jumped in and provided that solution, or linked you to a previous implementation in this forum. But my guess is that it might have problems with your “millions of rows”. That said, there is a Notepad++ plugin PythonScript (and similar LuaScript Plugin or jN Notepad++ Plugin, and my external Perl module) which allows you to automate things inside Notepad++ using Python (or Lua or JavaScript or Perl). But really, at the point that you invoke one of those for “millions of lines”, the Notepad++-specific nature of those plugins actually gets in your way and slows you down. It is easier (and faster) to do those edits just running the Python/Lua/JavaScript/Perl natively (ie, at the command line) and using the programming language’s file IO functions rather than using the language to drive Notepad++ to load and edit the file and write it back out. This is not a programming forum, and definitely not a free code-writing service, so it is beyond the scope of this Notepad++ forum for us to write a script to do that.
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  Is there anyway that I can quick replace a term with another term?
  • Andrew Gregg 0  

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  @Andrew-Gregg-0 Well, for find and replace operations, if I were you, I’d just ignore whether the matched text is grey or green (just look for one or the other). Because the find function and the smart-highlight function both operate on “selected” text, there’s some functional overlap. But…since the setup for smart-highlight can be independent of find (as I pointed out earlier with whole-word, but also match-case can come into play), consistency can diverge. I would hazard to guess that if you tick the box for Use Find dialog settings, you may almost always see the light-green instead of the grey, when looking at find hits. A best use for smart-highlight is to double-click a word or make a text selection (independent of using the find function). This way all of the same words or text selection contents, get highlighted in the light-green. To really understand it, I’d suggest some experimentation by double-clicking some words that you can see are duplicated on your current view of your file. Or maybe even better, locate an occurrence of the letter a and select just that letter–all other a currently on your screen should go green.
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  To use Firefox on the current edited html file
  • Cyrille Piatecki  

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  @Ekopalypse said in To use Firefox on the current edited html file: D:\whatever_path\firefox.exe $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) Word of warning: if either D:\whatever path\firefox.exe or the value of $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) have spaces in them, that will probably not work. As with all Windows paths that have (or might have) spaces, use quotes around them. So "D:\whatever path\firefox.exe" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" . Any time you are referring to a path inside Notepad++ config files, Run dialog, etc, I highly recommend putting quotes around the paths.
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  Macros with icones
  • Cyrille Piatecki  

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  @Ekopalypse Thanks I will try
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  Is there a distraction-free writing mode like Vimroom(a plugin of Vim)?
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  @Alan-Kilborn :-( there is unfortunately no candy for me, as I am still on Windows7 :-(
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  Distraction-free mode
  postit mode distraction zenmode • • gracile-fr  

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  FYI: This feature will be in the next release (v7.9.6).
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  How to create notepad++ log file to attach to issue report?
  • Oliver Meyer  

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  @Oliver-Meyer said in How to create notepad++ log file to attach to issue report?: I assume it is related to the network location of the last closed file or something. That is a good guess. If Notepad++ cannot see the network location for files in the current session, or sometimes for files in the recent files history, then it can get confused. For the recent files history, there is a setting which influences it: Settings > Preferences > Recent Files History > ☑ Don’t check at launch time. By clicking that checkbox, Notepad++ will not try to verify whether or not the MRU files still exist. Is there a way to increase log level and create a useful log file to attach to an issue report? Not that I’ve ever seen or heard of.
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  Style Configurator does not change every color and i see a big WHITE BAR that makes me BLIND, helppp plz
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  @Ekopalypse Thank you very much!
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  Tabs are floating after upgrade to 7.9.5
  • Dan Schreck  

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  @Dan-Schreck said in Tabs are floating after upgrade to 7.9.5: Let me know if you still want me to check something else. Unless you can somehow make yours “break” again, I’m not sure there’s much else you can do. There must be some commonality I wonder what version of Windows @Colin-Mackie was using. Maybe it was a windows update and/or video driver issue. Generally, I no longer trust CCleaner… but maybe when it cleared the “windows position cache” might have helped as well: if Windows stores those positions by app name / internal identifier, then that wouldn’t have changed even with a different version of Notepad++, which might have explained why both installed and portable showed the problem. But given that I can have multiple portable instances which keep their own window size and screen position information separate, I am not sure how. Anyway, glad it’s working for you. Happy Notepad++-ing.
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  Regex: How to add a blank line at every 48 words / split text in more lines
  • Robin Cruise  

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  Also, you can try: SEARCH: (\w+\W+){48} REPLACE BY: $0\r\n\r\n
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  How to add "Save As" to TOOL BAR ?
  • Jack Ski  

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  @Jack-Ski said in How to add "Save As" to TOOL BAR ?: Is the TOOL BAR customizable ? Read Terry’s previous response. Another option: Default keycombo for SaveAs is Ctrl+Alt+s
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  Remove Line Numbers from Margin
  • Robk Blue  

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  @Robk-Blue said in Remove Line Numbers from Margin: just the pointless activity of developers changing something for changes sake. This is a rather bold statement. I mean, how do you know if it was a pointless change, just to change something? Hmm, well even typing that sounds stupid, because what developer would waste their time to do that? Have you investigated the history on it and come to that conclusion with some evidence that it is so? Oh wait, my grandmother always told me to “consider the source”. And this source said: I looked repeatedly through the preferences but somehow missed it Dude, as Terry shows you in the screenshot, it is right there in a well-named box called Line Number and has a first element called Display, so…seriously? BTW, my previous comment in this thread was tongue-in-cheek: I was calling you out because there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Preferences UI for this.
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  Find in files, copy filenames
  • Dan Walter  

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  Hi, @dan-walter, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All, For people who are wondering : Why doesn’t use the usual . regex char to match a standard character of the BMP ? Why does he care about characters with Unicode code-point > U+FFFF ? Well, regarding the first question : Some characters, like the Form Feed character ( \x0C - \f ), are not matched by the regex Dot char ! Some characters as FF - Form Feed \x000C, NEL - NEw Line \x{0085}, LS - Line Separator \x{2028}, PS - Paragraph Separator \x{2029} act in the same way as the classical EOL chars ( \r and/or \n ). So, the ^ assertion matches right after these characters and the $ assertion matches right before these characters ! Consequently, the simple regex [^\r\n] seems the best syntax to match all characters of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane but the two \r and \n chars ! Now, regarding the second question : When a file is UTF-8 encoded, it may contain characters with Unicode code-point > U+FFFF ( according to a 4 bytes sequence for each char ). Unfortunately, the usual regex syntax . cannot find these characters. After some tests, the BOOST regex .[\x{D800}-\x{DFFF}] syntax seems to match correctly all these characters over the BMP. Although I don’t have any clear explanation for this syntax, I suppose that it’s certainly related to the surrogate pair mechanism, used to express these characters in two-bytes encoded files ! So, here is the third question, from Alan : Why the result contains the first line : Search "•••••" (••••• hits in ••• files of ••• searched) ? Well, to my mind, this first line seems rather informative. This is the only reason why I kept this line, in the final result ! Now to be rigorous, and in order to delete the leading space chars before the absolute paths, too, prefer this regex S/R : SEARCH (?-s)^\t(?:[^\r\n]|.[\x{D800}-\x{DFFF}])+\R|^\x20\x20(.)|\A.+\R REPLACE ?1\1 Oh… wait a minute ! Here is an other method, much more simple ;-)) However, you need, at least, N++ release v7.9.1 Perform your search with, either, the buttons Find All in Current Document, Find All in All Opened Documents or Find All Once the Search Results panel opened, right-click in any location of the Search Results panel Choose the Select All option Choose the Copy option ( not the Copy Selected Line(s) option ) Click on the Esc key to close the Search Results panel Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N ) Paste all the clipboard contents with Ctrl + V Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M ) SEARCH ^\x20\x20\K.+(?=\x20.*\d.*$) Untick all the square box options Tick the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Mark All button Click on the Copy Marked Text button Click on the Esc key to close the Mark dialog Open, again, a new tab ( Ctrl + N ) or replace the contents of the present new tab Paste all the clipboard contents with Ctrl + V Et voilà ! Done ;-)) Best Regards, guy038 P.S. : Each line displayed : Always begins with 2 space characters ( hard-coded ) Is followed with an absolute path which may contain some space chars and other characters than word chars ! Followed with 1 space character ( hard-coded ) Ending with the default text (# hits) where # stands for any mandatory integer number However, as the text, after each absolute path is now translatable, we must consider various possibilities. Here are, below, some of these : D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 hits ) You can verify that the regex ^\x20\x20\K.+(?=\x20.*\d.*$) matches most of these lines. Unfortunately, it’s not perfect because, in the third part, it matches the opening bracket and the blank chars before it :-(( You could say : in the range of characters .+, we should not allow an opening bracket right after a space char. But, if you do so, how to match, for instance, a file with name Abc (012 !? In this case, only the Abc part would be matched :-( In short, the present regex ^\x20\x20\K.+(?=\x20.*\d.*$) may catch some extra characters, in rare occasions. But, knowing the filenames you’re dealing to, it should not be difficult to correct the syntaxes of these few erroneous paths ;-))
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  What is this 'SO' marker at the end of the line?
  • Robert Prochowicz  

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  @Robert-Prochowicz sorry, you are right, it is SO, 0x0E not SOH. I don’t know why this is needed today? It is certainly not needed for plain text.