Hi @FriendOfFred, and All,

I, personally, add your macro, which works correctly, on my configuration ! But I admit that I didn’t do intensive tests to determine when something is going wrong !

I’ve replied to a similar question, in the post, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15909/replace-text-between-2-characters/2

So, here is a regex S/R, which will normalize the normal quotes to their enhanced version !

SEARCH (?-s)["“](.+?)["”]|['‘](.+?)['’]

REPLACE (?1“\1”:‘\2’)

Select the Regular expression search mode

Tick the Wrap around option

Click on the Replace All button

Et voilà !

So, given this initial text, below :

"Test" "Test” “Test" “Test” 'Test' 'Test’ ‘Test' ‘Test’

You should get the following text :

“Test” “Test” “Test” “Test” ‘Test’ ‘Test’ ‘Test’ ‘Test’

So, at any time, when you perform this S/R, you’re sure that, after replacement, you get the two syntaxes “Test” and ‘Test’, only !

You could, even, record this S/R as a macro, if you prefer to !

Cheers,

guy038

Thank you. It works.

If you had Test | Word and replaced the | with a space then you would have three spaces, not two.

If your list uses | as a separator and that sometimes there are one or more spaces before and/or after the | then use regular expression mode.
Search for: \x20*\|\x20*
Replace with: \x20

The first \x20* looks for zero or more leading spaces. I used \x20 rather than a space self as it’s easier to see on the screen. \| looks for the |. In regular expression mode a | is special and so use \| to search for a | itself. The second \x20* looks for zero or more trailing spaces.

If your data has either one or zero spaces before and after the | and never had two or more spaces before/after the | then you can use
Search for: \x20?\|\x20?
Replace with: \x20

I’m glad it’s working as expected now.
You may have accidentally pressed a keyboard-shortcut which changed the text direction.

Also, using Fountain markup would be good to work on with a “code/compose” and “preview” panels, easily done side by side, like this forum, or like Wikimedia editing.

@Jose-Victor-Mirandola-da-Silva

Hmmm, not sure you can, without some help…

For example, you could script something with the Pythonscript plugin that would loop over all open XML files and execute this:

Notepad.runMenuCommand('Macro', 'your macro name here')

Probably more effort than you wanted to go to…

Maybe there’s a way with the NppExec plugin? Experts on that plugin please chime in if so…

I found the mistake!

And BTW I believe it is pronounced “Tim-Toady”

:-)

@Scott-Sumner said:

In what ASCII scheme is a “space” equal to “55”?

Maybe the “55” was supposed to be a “SS”…short for “Single-Space”?

:-D

@enrique-villacoronado

FAQ.

@pieterjanvc
Last thing I can think of that may (but probably will not) work for you is to define a Delimiter style having:

Open: . Escape: Close: ((EOL))

This will highlight every period to the end of the line.

@The-V8

It is going to depend upon your From _ th character setting in the Auto-Completion preferences, but the general technique would be to backspace off your errant ppy and then start typing opy until auto completion again kicks in and pops up the box.