You are my new ‘Rock Star!’ That worked exactly like i needed it to!!! Thanks a million!

i think that i shall read the regex links before to try python :-)
still thanks guy, your way to copy a block was really great for me

(EN)
Problem solved…
In the settings menu added default program
(RU)
Проблемма решена…
В меню настроек добавил программы по умолчанию

Thank you man it worked! You came clutch for me. :)

Hi Claudia,
that works perfect !! many thx :-)
feedback: if you make changes before running the modified macro
npp asks if the changes should be saved.
best regards
Bernd

Hi Scott, thanks for your answer, but unfortunately this does not help, because the lines are very long and to be able to fully see them I need to have automatic line break enabled. The translated german lines are even longer than the english ones. So a line in english that is wrapped into 3 lines sometimes goes to 4 lines in the german version. So the more I scroll down, the more difference I have. For example when I scoll the german version down to line 1200, the other text is still at line 950. What I need is to have the same line in both texts side by side.

@Michele-Iddas

A possible solution might look like this.

Cheers
Claudia

hello Nabodita

can you paste here some word that you have to undrstand

Your method will mostly work as long as you’ve got Settings > Preferences > Backup correctly enabled, and you have a short enough backup time. If you want to make sure it’s got enough time to register the changes in the file, add a sleep($time) before the check, where $time matches your NPP backup interval.

I would probably add a test for existence of the backup file, not just it being listed in session.xml. (I just ran an experiment, and a minute after my most recent save, when the backup file was gone, session.xml still listed the backup file). I would also use -M to check the modified-time of both the original and the backup, since I found outdated “backups” in my backup directory that were months out of date (probably remained open after a reboot or crash).

Also, if you find that the file hasn’t been saved yet, you could also use Win32::OLE or Win32::GuiTest to force NPP to save the file, if you wanted, instead of just pestering yourself with a message box. But that’s up to you.

PS: Perl is not an acronym: “Perl” is the language, “perl” is the executable/interpreter, “PERL” is a backronym.

Plugins - LuaScript - Edit Startup Script.

I checked and on my machine your example file hang Notepad++. But when I started cut your file to smaller one then I figured out that operation just take some “huge” time to convert EOL. On my machine conversion of 16000 lines took about 5 seconds. So you have about 1 000 000 lines so it will takes much more

I converted this file to UNIX (LF) successfully with other text editor without any “hangs”