The OP described his use case for the need he expressed here, on the github site. Although I wasn’t able to give him resolution on the question he asked here, I did come up with a sample script that might meet his need for solving his use case. Interested readers are directed to the github site, via the link in my previous posting.

The problem has been solved and the fix will be in the upcoming 8.7.1 release. Details are HERE.

@PeterJones

Thank you for making this post. I’ve been disappointed that I can’t paste with formatting into Outlook as I used to. After reading your description, I see that Outlook supports the same feature as Word does, so Paste “Keep Source Formatting” works perfectly.

Note that in Outlook, you can press ALT, H, V, K to paste with formatting without using the mouse.

-Ben

Hi, @larlei, @terry-R and All,

However, @larlei, given the same INPUT text :

01 01 <name>NAME-1</name> 02 <name>NAME 1</name> 03 10 <name>NAME-2</name> 04 <name>NAME 2</name> 05 19 <name>NAME-3</name> 06 <name>NAME 3</name>

Then, the modified search regex of @terry-r, below, with an question mark, after the group 2 ([^<]+) :

SEARCH (?-s)^\d+\h(\d+\h)([^<]+)?.+\R[^<]+(.+\R)

REPLACE \1\2\3

Does match and, after replacement, you get the expected OUTPUT text :

01 <name>NAME 1</name> 10 <name>NAME 2</name> 19 <name>NAME 3</name>

Let’s go back to the wrong syntax of the regex S/R, without the question mark. Why this regex does not find any match ? Well …

From beginning of line, it searches for some digits, followed with one horizontal space character, and this twice ( the part ^\d+\h(\d+\h) )

At this point, it tries to find some characters, all different from an opening tag delimiter <. But this case is impossible as an opening tag delimiter < follows, right before name>. So the overall search regex fails !

Now, adding the exclamation mark, after the group 2, means that all the group contents are not mandatory. Thus, it can be ignored and the following part .+\R does match the remaining of the first line, including its like-break ( \R ) !

And, indeed, I verified that, against our INPUT text, the optional group 2 ([^<]+)? is always EMPTY !

In other words, you can simplify your regex S/R to this syntax :

SEARCH (?-s)^\d+\h(\d+\h).+\R\d+\h(.+\R)

REPLACE \1\2

So, from the INPUT below :

01 01 <name>NAME-1</name> 02 <name>NAME 1</name> 03 10 <name>NAME-2</name> 04 <name>NAME 2</name> 05 19 <name>NAME-3</name> 06 <name>NAME 3</name>

With this new S/R , you would get the same OUTPUT as above, i.e :

01 <name>NAME 1</name> 10 <name>NAME 2</name> 19 <name>NAME 3</name>

BR

guy038

@guy038 Haha, well this was really a bit unusual.
Big big thanks for the help, it was exactly what i needed!
Best wishes!

@Diego-Vico

Wouldn’t you just uncheckmark this checkbox?:

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@Daniel-Rafflenbeul said in Notepad++Search and Replace Bat Operation ?:

is it possible to run Notepad++ in a batch to search and replace Strings ?!

No. A good choice for that is sed from the GnuWin32 project (which is a Windows port of many of the command line GNU Linux tools).

@gonyaliselim said in I want change style token individually:

If i add highlights when someone open that txt on his computer would can he see my highlights as it

Sorry, no. Text files have no way to store things like highlighting – they are literally saved as just the text characters in the file. Notepad++ is not going to add any new binary commands or metadata to the file to be able to store such information (if it did, it would cease to be a text editor and instead would be a rather primitive, 80s-style word processor). [see, for reference, FAQ: Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor]

If you really needed to share the highlights, you could either print to PDF (if you don’t already have a print-to-PDF printer, you can search the internet to find a print-to-PDF driver that works for your needs), or you could use the Plugins > NppExport commands to export with the highlights to RTF or HTML (or put all formats into the clipboard, then paste into the Word Processor of your choice). But once you export to RTF or HTML or paste into a Word Processor, the file you are sending ceases to be a text file. We cannot decide for you whether or not that meets your needs.

Similar topic HERE.

Hej!

Have a look here , which in fairness just says “Current Version”.

24H2 is new enough that likely the user base is somewhat limited.
But people are running it and it looks like very few reports of actual explosions :)

@Coises said:

The necessary function already exists: SCI_INSERTTEXT

Good eye.
I would have thought that function also does things to “jolt the screen”, but apparently not.

@PeterJones

Very similar, but simpler and less “raw”:

from Npp import * try: editor3h # third editor, hidden except NameError: editor3h = notepad.createScintilla() def get_stream_text_from_clipboard(): retval = '' editor3h.clearAll() editor3h.paste() if editor3h.getLength() > 0: retval = editor3h.getText() return retval editor.insertText(editor.getCurrentPos(), get_stream_text_from_clipboard())

Note that the extra effort to get the clipboard text is because PythonScript doesn’t support a way to get current clipboard contents. It can paste the contents with editor.paste(), but if you want to avoid side effects from paste (as we do here) or you want to modify the clipboard text before inserting it, there’s no super simple (i.e. function call way to do it).

Note also that my get_stream_text_from_clipboard() function only works with non-column block data (as its name implies).

BTW, there was a PythonScript request that such a function be created, see HERE, but it seems to be an issue that isn’t going anywhere.

Hello, @DSperber1, @mark-olson, @mkupper and All,

@@DSperber1, I’m pleased that you’ve got the right program ( mrcdat2txt.exe ) to edit your .mrcdat log files :-))

Now, before your last reply, I tried to guess the similarities between some parts of your .mrcdat file and, indeed, I’ve found some !

As you can see on the picture below :

Each row of your table seems to begin with the FFFE sequence

Each row of your table seems to end with the db01 sequence

A four zero-byte sequence occurs in middle of each section

The Yellow sequence looks like a valid UTF 16 LE BOM sequence of characters. Thus, to my mind, I thought to get valid strings after suppression of all zero bytes, in these lines …

… And bingo ! You can verify that each Mauve/Pale Violet line, below, correspond to the File Name part of each line of your table !

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Best Regards,

guy038

@guy038 said in Find & Replace:

When the Regular expression search mode is set, running the Boost regex engine :

And
Sixthly, you may use \Q$\E which allows any characters within the \Q and \E to be accepted as literals within a regular expression. In this example the $ is the literal character.

To closer-replicate what @keep2000 was asking for I took @Alan-Kilborn’s code and created a new scriptlet

editor.copyText("file://" + str(notepad.getCurrentFilename().replace('\\', '/')))

and then assigned the keyboard shortcut Alt+/ to it. Alt+/ now loads the current forward slash formatted file path into the copy/paste buffer.

In my case also I wanted the file:// prefix as part of the results.

@PeterJones Thank you so much !!! I found the plugin. It’s called Programmer’s Pal. I tried every setting I could think of and it wouldn’t disable. Once I uninstalled PP I’m golden. I appreciate the help !!!

@Hans-J-Albertsson said in Printing multiple pages per sheet? How???:

Even the lowly Windows Notepad can do that… so why can’t NPP do that???

On Windows 10, with a Brother HL-L2395DW printer, I’m not seeing any difference between Notepad and Notepad++. In both programs, multiple page printing is controlled in the printer driver, not the program. So, click File | Print…, then select the correct printer/driver in the Windows Print dialog, then click the Preferences… button. From there on, the details are specific to your printer driver.

@PeterJones

Is it worth some additional text in the manual, e.g. …

Normally the caret is confined to positions on its line to the left of the line-ending character(s) [side note: not sure even if line-ending stuff is defined adequately in the manual]. When virtual space is enabled, the caret is freed from its confinement and can be placed to the right of line-endings. This has no real effect unless it is followed by the typing of some character, at which point the virtual space is filled with actual space characters to the left of the caret, to fill from the existing line entry to the column of the caret. The new line-ending is then placed to the right of the character entered.

…or…some…such. :-)

I mean, well, I’m clear on the virtual space concept, but new users might not be, so maybe more treatment in the manual is justified.

@xomx Thanks for the info

@bofhlusr said in Does NPP have selective line editing?:

Can npp hide all the lines in a file, and then unhide and display only the lines found in search?

Short answer: No (again).

There have been ideas proposed before about a Find All in Current Document search having a checkbox parameter to show only the lines with search hits (and thus hiding all others), but – I think I said this before – the hide/show lines feature in Notepad++ is not robust, so I’d think that anything based on the idea of hiding/showing lines conditionally is going to be flawed.

@Carlos-Zucareli-Renó said in trocar ponto por vírgula na string numérica:

change period to comma in numeric string
Is it possible to configure in notepad ++?

Not only are you wasting everyone’s time by not posting in English, your topic title (“replace semicolon with comma in numeric string”) doesn’t even match your posting content (“change period to comma in numeric string”).

I won’t even try to answer, nor think about what you’re trying to ask. I’ll just “move on” unless you put some effort behind it on your end, in the form of a reformulated posting.