I have two ideas: Is it the character or the keyboard shortcut that’s having the problem? Try assigning the AutoHotKey sequence to something different for the ZWNJ insertion, and see if that helps. Alternately: in my Settings > Shortcut Mapper, I see that Main Menu: #58: Function Completion is assigned to that key sequence; yours may be a different number, but you could try to select Function Completion and CLEAR its shortcut, and then try doing the Ctrl+Space shortcut again. If AHK cannot seem to insert it, even after playing with shortcuts, you might want a PythonScript solution. create a short script, and save it in the appropriate directory for PythonScripts (in a <executable directory>\plugins\PythonScript\scripts for Machine Scripts, or in %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts for User Scripts) editor.addText( u’\u200c’ ) assign it as a menu item using Plugins > Python Script > Configuration, selecting the appropriate Machine or User scripts, clicking ADD assign it a shortcut via Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Plugin Commands (I verified the PythonScript version worked, though I had to use the PythonScript console to run editor.setRepresentation(u'\u200C', "ZWNJ") to confirm it had really inserted the right character, and editor.clearRepresentation(u'\u200C') once I knew it was really there.)

FNR is the line number of each file as the file is processed. It is not possible for FNR to be 1, 2, and 5 simultaneously! :-) That is what the condition you tried: FNR == 1 && FNR == 2 && FNR == 5 means. That is why you saw no output. If you want to print lines 1, 2, and 5, then if FNR is 1 or 2 or 5, you want to print the line. That translates to: gawk "FNR==1 || FNR==2 || FNR==5{print}" *.* > FileOfFiles.txt so, you nearly had it. If you want to print the filename before the lines of each file, you can do that like this: gawk "FNR==1{print FILENAME} FNR==1 || FNR==2 || FNR==5{print}" *.* > FileOfFiles.txt

Ok I fixed the problem. But in 90% of the changes it had no effect. I have not used any of the offered options. It would be a useful tool if Notepad offered the possibilty recover a range of errors in the menu widget. Thanks for your time and suggestions.

Hi, @uwe-helmer, Ah, OK ! Sorry for my late reply, but I was studying the haunting problem of the suppression of duplicate lines, without corrupting the order of the file contents :-)) See, below : https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14729/deleting-lines-that-repeat-the-first-15-characters/13 So, let’s consider your example text, below, in a new tab : {Ausgang {door {Eingang} {Eintritt} {entry {exit} {gate} {gateway} {ingress {Pforte} {Portal} {slammer} {Tor {Türe} {Zugang} Gatter Tor Torbogen Treppen Stufen Wände Gelaender {banister {handrail} {railing} Innenraum {interior} Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) Check the Regular expression search mode SEARCH (?-s)^\{.*[^}\r\n](?=\R) REPLACE $0} Click, once, on the Replace All button ( or, successively, on the Replace button ) => You should get the text : {Ausgang} {door} {Eingang} {Eintritt} {entry} {exit} {gate} {gateway} {ingress} {Pforte} {Portal} {slammer} {Tor} {Türe} {Zugang} Gatter Tor Torbogen Treppen Stufen Wände Gelaender {banister} {handrail} {railing} Innenraum {interior} Et voilà ! Notes : First, the (?-s) modifier forces the regex engine to interpret the special . character as matching a single standard character, only Then, the part ^\{ looks the \{ character, at beginning of line ^. Note that the special { regex character have to be escaped ! Now, the part .* searches any amount, even empty, of standard characters, till … A character different from the } character ( part [^}\r\n] ) which is followed by EOL characters ( look-ahead feature (?=\R) ) The part [^}\r\n] is a negative character class, looking for any character, different from, either, the } character, the EOL character \r and the EOL character \n The \R stands for any kind of line break ( \r\n, \n or \r ) In replacement, it rewrites the overall matched string $0, simply followed by the } character Best Regards, guy038

Which version do you try to install? https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.5.1.html? 32bit/64bit. At least there is no intentional break of the backwards compatibility even winxp sp3 should be still supported.

Hello Claudia, I am very happy, I have found them in the directory “AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup”. Thanks a lot.

@Scott-Sumner might be or maybe someone asked just for a feature to handle single quoted string independently. Cheers Claudia

@Scott-Sumner Thx for pointing out, yes, it is still under development but with a slightly different name, TCnext at https://truecrypt.ch/ or CipherShed (own gui). Together with CipherShed they are maintaining/rewriting the original 7.1a source code. Cheers Claudia

@Seong-Joon–Kim if the file is still there but only contains NULs then I don’t think you can restore it from this file. Your only chance would be to find a earlier backup, but only if this was set initially, of course. Cheers Claudia

@Polly-wants-a-cracker you need to use something like wine in order to have notepad++ running on a Mac. Cheers Claudia

Not sure this is what you’re talking about, but maybe you want to untick the View (menu) -> Show Symbol -> Show Indent Guide

@Sharlikran I don’t want to always save unsaved documents, To get this behavior, you need to have the following two checkboxes TICKED : Remember current session for next launch Enable session snapshot and periodic backup in Settings (menu) -> Preferences… -> Backup (box on left) -> Session snapshot and periodic backup (box in middle/top)

Hello, @cesar-silva, Follow the link, below https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14727/how-to-search-for-a-string-and-replace-with-blank/2 Cheers, guy038

@Tanja-Corell Short answer, no. A “standard” text file doesn’t contain any formatting information, it only contains the text. Npp cannot really be used as a Word-Clone if formatting is necessary. Cheers Claudia