Sorry, I am watching my topics but I don’t see where I get any notification or mail… Thanks for trying to help me. (I don’t know what, I believe I already told you this somewhere…)

I updated PM as you suggested, this solved my problem but I have another one. I try to install the TextFX plugin, but I get an error after clicking “Install”. Actually I get the same error when trying to add many plugins I tried to add: “Installation of xxxx failed.”

I’ve noticed that if you have Multi-Instance turned on, the Backup feature only works on the first instance opened. For additional instances, you need to save/backup the files manually. Is this the issue?

Hi, @zeff-wheelock and @scott-sumner,

Scott, your regexes are exact, of course ! In addition, searching for the last occurrence makes sense, as we want to know the final state of all these servers.

However, I must miss something ! To my mind, we should search for the last line, with the word connected, for each server, ONLY IF a previous line, with the word disconnected, for the according server, has not been found !

For instance, if we consider the part of the Zeff’s log, below :

To my mind, it looks like, on 05/23/2017 05:04:10 AM, the server “qwerty321f” is disconnected. No ? Of course, I suppose that the string xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, in the first and last line, just above, represents the same IPV4 address !

Cheers,

guy038

@Rafael-Lopes-Vivian

I think part of what is in play here is that UTF-8 is the default encoding for an HTML-5 file.

The characters that make up a “text” file are code points. A character encoding scheme maps the code points it understands into numbers that are stored in the file.

UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 are two different character encoding schemes. A file can technically be encoded in one or the other (or some other scheme entirely) but not in both.

However, when a file contains only code points that are encoded identically by 2 or more encoding schemes, then, unless there is some special meta-data in the file to indicate which encoding scheme is being used, the “proper” scheme is not knowable from the file’s contents.

UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding (the size of the number each code point is mapped to varies); ISO-8859-1 is a fixed length encoding (the size of the number each code point is mapped to is 1 byte).

Since ISO-8859-1 represents each code point in a byte, it can only encode 256 code points, the first 256 code points of the Unicode character set. UTF-8 can be used to encode most (if not all) code points of the UNICODE character set.

Code points 0 - 127 are encoded identically by the UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 schemes. Code points 128 - 255 differ by becoming a 2-byte sequence with UTF-8 whereas they are single bytes with ISO-8859-1.

So, if an ISO-8859-1 encoded file contains any code point from 128-255, then it will be a different size than a UTF-8 encoded file that contains the same code points.

@Aleksei-Samov

not sure if this is a possible solution but
what if you define a delimiter with

open=c4d.
close=,

and allow nesting with keywords and numbers and additional delimiters if needed?

Cheers
Claudia

@Harry-Binswanger

glad you solved it.

Cheers
Claudia

@go2to said:
Several other editors accept direct copy and paste in the replace-with box, be it CR+LF, LF or combination of both. They are probably written in C++. But I think it can be done in any language since CR and LF have the same codes.\r\n\r\nDon is busy now with other issues in 7.4.1. I saw there are problems with replacing again in several open files.\r\n

It is now one line after deleting CR+LF and adding \r\n. Everything is pasted in the replace box.
It works flawlessly in the current file, or all open files, or in find in files.

@Kixot14 said:

1. How can i change color of this little dots (spaces value), which i marked in red circle, here – https://prnt.sc/f9kdlz
…or even edit width of this dots… ??

You can change the color of the little dots (and arrows for Tab chars) by going to the Settings menu, Style Configurator, then under Language: Global Styles, set the White space symbol Foreground colour to a different colour. You can also change the Font Style to Bold, but that doesn’t seem to make a visible difference.

2. I can enable displaying of tabs and spaces https://prnt.sc/f9kcyp
But what, if i want enable only tab or only spaces?? How can i do this ??

The fact that the setting is labeled White space symbol, and the fact that under the View menu, the option to Show Symbol has only one combined item to Show White Space and Tab, indicates to me that there is only one setting for any type of white space. Also note that there is an open issue that seems to indicate that not all characters that could be considered white space are identified by Notepad++.

P.S. Why all words after tab mark as ERROR?? https://prnt.sc/f9kdb8

The highlighting of a particular syntax is affected by which Language is selected. Not all languages have an element style of ERROR, but it appears YAML does, and it happens to default to red as the Foreground colour. However, I’m not proficient with YAML, and so to find out how the ERROR style element is determined, You’d have to go into the YAML lexer to see how it is defined. I’m not sure I can help you terribly much with this part, but this page may help:
Built-in_Languages

I hope this helps you at least know what is possible in the current release of Notepad++.

Hello, @gregory-heffner and @claudia-frank,

Claudia, your regex may be simplified : Your don’t need to store the four line-breaks in group 1 with parentheses, as your replacement part is empty !

So your regex becomes :

However, there’s a bug with that regex, when a second block of 12 blank lines exist, further in the current file and that you set the Wrap around option. Indeed, if you, manually, place the caret at beginning of that second block, it also selects the first fourth lines of that second block, before going back to the first four lines, at the very beginning of the file :-((

I also tried with the regex, below, with the \A zero-length assertion, standing for the beginning of file, too, without more success ! As said in previous posts, these backward assertions are really not very well managed by our BOOST regex engine !!

Of course, as Gregory will certainly use the Find in Files dialog, with a search way, starting at the very beginning of each scanned file, this, normally, doesn’t matter :-))

But, in conclusion, Gregory, if you’re quite sure that these 12 consecutive blank lines occur, only once, in each file, simply use the following regex :

SEARCH ^\R{4}(?=\R{8})

REPLACE : Leave EMPTY

Notes :

The \R syntax represents any single line break ( \r\n in Windows files, \n in Unix files and \r in Mac files )

So this regex looks for 4 complete blank lines, included the first one, due to the ^ symbol, which, usually, stands for a beginning of line.

With the condition ( because of the look-ahead feature (?=\R{8}) ) that it followed by a range of 8 complete blank lines !

Remark : During tests, just check the Wrap around option !

Best regards,

guy038