@pnedev said:

Good point @Scott-Sumner ,
I totally agree with you. What about a Discard All button with a second pop-up question dialogue “Are you sure?” ?

I also agree. This option is better than one of the dialogs available in WinMerge, which has a Discard All button, but without asking a confirmation.

Here is a similar issue: when files are modified by another application, Notepad++ Always expects a Yes/No answer for each modified file. Sure, you can avoid this with the miscellaneous setting Update silently , but this assumes a “Yes” answer for all the files. It would be better to add two extra buttons: Yes to All and No to All.

@Denis-Peter

Good that it’s working.

If it’s a reported bug then it is “known about”…but there’s not really much more a user can do about it. You can certainly dive in and fix it yourself, but even then there is no guarantee that it will be integrated, even if you present a perfectly-good fix. See the posting by @Claudia-Frank in this thread for some detail on how to do this…

@Alonso-Santamaria

I don’t think that notepad++ will included a builtin function to read/write docx files in the future
but as I’m not the developer I can’t say for sure. Same is true for plugin development.
Npp is used for editing plain text files and not for binary packed xmls. I assume you’re
better looking out for something different maybe LibreOffice etc… to do what you want.

Cheers
Claudia

@no9on

sorry, unfortunately nothing which makes me think this could be the problem.
Btw. the tests were done with clean npp setup, means no additional plugins used, correct?

Cheers
Claudia

@Scott-Sumner I sometimes use it to verify that the lines end where they look like they end, and not off the page to the right. I suppose I could use the Show White Space and TAB option to do this, but unlike some others, I don’t think the White Space display characters are big enough. :)

The other reason I sometimes turn it on (besides your use of verifying mixed line endings) is when I have Word Wrap on, and even with the Show Wrap Symbol on, it helps me distinguish more easily where the end of the line is. I don’t keep it on all the time, but I guess the way it currently displays (as opposed to White-on-Orange, which would be hideous!) doesn’t bother me all that much, as I often forget to turn it off when I’m done. Ah, perhaps our grandchildren will be able to easily configure all aspects of their favourite editor.

@cha-w

take a look at one of the other themes (Settings-Style Configurator), choose the one which matches best and modify it be selecting the language Java and changing the colors of the different styles assigned.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @TS-ST ,

Go to here https://github.com/pnedev/compare-plugin/releases/tag/v2.0.0 and download Compare plugin for your platform (for example for 32-bit get https://github.com/pnedev/compare-plugin/releases/download/v2.0.0/ComparePlugin_v2.0.0_x86.zip).

Then manually extract the zip contents and copy them to your Notepad++ install folder -> plugins sub-folder.

BR

@Claudia-Frank I downloaded from it official site as .exe file and with every programs I use I always zip it with winrar and keep them as backup. I can’t install v7.5.2 at all. I also had submitted a report about this to Malwarebytes as well.

@Scott-Sumner
Well, look at that, if you know where to look it’s easy to find!
Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.

Don’t worry, I worked it out.

Founded the official specification.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060101034747/http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcard-21.txt

press keys Win+R then write\paste
CMD

Type in cmd:
tree c:\ | more

If your windows.old is not a file but a catalog\folder (I don’t remember), do
to write file names of c:\windows.old* and its subfolders containing “MICROSOFT”:
dir c:\windows.old /s /b | find /i “MICROSOFT” >> %USERPROFILE%\DESKTOP\LOSTFILES.txt

also to output in console all file names in that catalog recursively
(recursively - i.e. all folder tree)
for /R c:\windows.old %R in (*) do @ECHO %R

here is what do,

right click on the txt file Open with choose another app (as npp doesn’t appear in the list) look for another app on this PC (always use this app) is checked, browse to NPP folder and open “notepadd++ application” file that starts the application nothing happens… just comes back to the explorer

@Claudia-Frank
Thanks for the info.
I updated Notepad++ to v7.5.1 and now I have lots of options! :)

Sorry it took so long to reply…
Have to wait 20 minutes between posts because I’m new with no reputation. :)

Hello, @xerkon,

As you said :

I’d like to be able to copy 2 columns from a spreadsheet

I suppose that your selected bloc of cells ( 6 rows x 2 columns ), pasted in a new tab, within N++, is displayed, as below, where any number of the second column is simply separated, from its associated number of the first column, by a tabulation character ( \t ) !

1.25 0.25 2.5 0.5 3.25 1.25 4.5 1.5 5.25 2.25 6.5 2.75

If so, the simple regex S/R should do the job :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+?)\t(.+)

REPLACE <controlpoint t="\1" val="\2"/> , with a space character, before the string val

OPTIONS Wrap around and Regular expression set

And you’ll get the text :

<controlpoint t="1.25" val="0.25"/> <controlpoint t="2.5" val="0.5"/> <controlpoint t="3.25" val="1.25"/> <controlpoint t="4.5" val="1.5"/> <controlpoint t="5.25" val="2.25"/> <controlpoint t="6.5" val="2.75"/>

If you prefer separate the two values by a tabulation character, just change the Replace box, as belwo :

REPLACE <controlpoint t="\1"\tval="\2"/>

This time, you would obtain :

<controlpoint t="1.25" val="0.25"/> <controlpoint t="2.5" val="0.5"/> <controlpoint t="3.25" val="1.25"/> <controlpoint t="4.5" val="1.5"/> <controlpoint t="5.25" val="2.25"/> <controlpoint t="6.5" val="2.75"/>

Best Regards,

guy038