As I mentioned in another thread, my registry associates .txt with the HKCR\txtfile key; yours may be different: you can look in HKCR\.txt to determine the right association for your machine. Assuming my setup:

You’ll notice the three keys “open”, “print”, and “printto”: mine does not have an “edit” key. So if they are really using the hardcoded “edit” key, rather than the default action (listed here as HKCR\txtfile\shell:(Default)=open), then it’s a poor choice on their part, because there is no guarantee that the “edit” key exists for a given association on a given machine.

!!WARNING!! What I am about to explain involves editing the registry. This has associated risk, and should only be followed if you understand everything said, and are willing to take all responsibility for any change in behavior that occurs in your system. I make no guarantee or waranty regarding the effectiveness or safety of the following. (If your computer stops working, or doesn’t work the way you want it to, it’s not my fault.) Use at your own risk.

You may be able to work around their choice. Right click on shell, select New Key = edit. Right click on edit, select New Key = command. Left click on open > command, double click on (Default), and copy the path to NPP (if your default isn’t “open”, but some other key, then use the command from that key, instead); left click on edit > command, double click on (Default), and paste the path to NPP. Exit the registry editor. (Some people say that they need to reboot, or at least log out and back in, or perform other similar actions to make sure the registry has fully updated… but my guess is just closing the registry editor and closing/reopening the third-party program will be sufficient.) In general, this should create the new “edit” action, which will execute the same command that the “open” action executes.

@decoderman

It was before and i haven’t un-ticked it. No idea how it got un-ticked.

Anyway, thanks a lot for this. I really needed it sorted.
Have a great day!

To be clearer, I start my learning today so there’s not much about an editor that I would assume.

Not finding a reset or specific HTML setting I checked off options that seemed to be applicable. I did set tag completion.

I added a reloader extension.

Thanks for the tips–appreciated.

Mark

Thanks for the tips.

@Question2

yes, I can edit xml without a problem.
By disabling plugins I mean rename the …\notepad++\plugins directory so it cannot
find any plugins. Depending on your configuration it is either the one under %APPDATA%\notepad++ or the one under INSTALLDIR\notepad++.

Cheers
Claudia

@Duncan-Fraser

yes, unfortunately a known issue and has been reported already but doesn’t have high priority.
One user mentioned that this happens only if Settings->Preferences->Misc->Minimize to system tray is checked - maybe you wanna give it a try.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @tanja-correl,

Hum…, You don’t speak about the number of your files and about their average size

Moreover, do you mean that, in all your files, you’re looking for the id-numbers, in the exact line, as below ? ( dots refer to any text )

If so ( I mean, only one zone /…/ after the id-number till the end of line ), here is my first attempt :

Firstly, recopy all your files in a new directory ( IMPORTANT )

Start N++ and open the Find in Files dialog ( Ctrl + Shift + F )

In the Find what: zone, type the regex (?s-i).+\RStory URL:(?-s).+/(.+)/.+/$(?s).+

In the Replace with: zone type \1

In the Filters zone choose *.txt or your own extension

In the Directory zone, indicate your new directory, containing a copy of all your files

Check the Regular expression search mode

Now, click on the Replace in Files button and valid the Are you sure dialog

=> Each file should only contain, from now on, the id-number of its Story URL line

Now, :

In the Find what: zone, type the simple regex .+

In the Replace with: zone, type, for security, the regex $0

Click on the Find All button

=> The Find result panel should appear, with all the id-numbers, in line 1, of all the files

Finally, to get all the id-numbers, in an unique file, two solutions are possible :

First solution :

Right click, on any part of the Find result panel and select the Select All option

Right click, again, on any part of the Find result panel and select the Copy option

Open an N++ new tab ( Ctrl + N )

Paste the previous selection, in that new tab ( Ctrl + V )

=> The id-numbers, exclusively, are recopied !

Second solution :

Right click, on any part of the Find result panel and select the Select All option

Hit the classical Ctrl + C shortcut

Open an N++ new tab ( Ctrl + N )

Paste the previous selection, in that new tab ( Ctrl + V )

=> This time, each id-number, and the name of their associated file, are written !

Notes on the initial regex :

From the very beginning of file, due to the modifiers (?s-i), the regex .+\RStory URL: grabs all characters ( included EOL ones ), till EOL character(s), followed by the string Story URL:, in that exact case

Then, due to the modifier (?-s), the regex .+/(.+)/.+/$ looks for the remainder of the Story URL line, catching, with the parentheses, the id-number (.+) in group 1

The final part (?s).+ matches all the lines, after the Story URL line, till the very end of the current file

So, in replacement, all the contents of each file are simply replaced by the unique id-number \1

Best Regards

guy038

I would expect Notepad++ to reliably inform me that the file was changed.

@Gontran-Aberdeen

welll in theory it can be changed. If you replace INT_MAX by _I64_MAX and some code to
refelct the int to int64 changes you get a max of 9223372036854775807 bytes.
But no one has done this yet.

You could give it a try and ask here for an enhancement.

Cheers
Claudia

@Anthony-Bouttell

One problem is that your use of .* is grabbing too much. You’ll want to change that to .*? which will match the minimum amount. And then the *.* looks too much like CMD shell wildcard/globbing…

I’m away from Notepad++ at the moment so I can’t actually try it out, but maybe something like this will work, or at least give you a boost:

Find-what zone: ISNULL.*?\]
Replace-with zone: $0,''

In words: match ISNULL through the immediately following closing bracket, replace the match with what was found (represented by $0) plus a comma and two single-quotes.