@Alan-Kilborn Maybe I’m misunderstanding auto-indent. If I indent a line I want to keep that indent, but not do a backwards indent. I’ll try what you said.

@PeterJones said

There are per-user settings on which notifications go to email and which only flag in the forum, so you might check there. But email notifications from the Forum have never been reliable – there have been so many decades of fighting internet spam that various servers throughout the path take it upon themselves to clean the ether of bulk-looking emails, even before they hit your local spam filters. We’ve set all the “I’m safe” fields that we know how to set, but many of those notifications still never make it to their recipients.

Sad. But thanks for the explanation.

@Andy-Scott
If this is a question about HTML, and nothing you’re asking is specific to Notepad++, you’ve asked your question in the wrong place.

Hello, @wkwied, @peterjones and All,

@wkwied, all the regexes, below, ONLY matches if the 3 expressions price, assert and allow are all present, with this exact case, at least one time, in the current file !

Regex A : (?s-i)\A(?=.*assert)(?=.*price)(?=.*allow)([^|\r\n]|\R)

Regex B : (?s-i)\A(?=.*assert)(?=.*price)(?=.*allow)(?-s).*\R

Regex C : (?s-i)\A(?=.*assert)(?=.*price)(?=.*allow).*?\K(?:assert|price|allow)

Regex D : (?s-i)\A(?=.*assert)(?=.*price)(?=.*allow).*?\K(?:assert|price|allow).+(?:assert|price|allow)

More precisely, IF the 3 expressions price, assert and allow all exist, at least one time, with this exact case, in current file :

The regex A matches the first standard or EOL character(s)

The regex B matches the first line, empty or not, with its line-break char(s)

The regex C matches the first searched expression found

The regex D matches from the first to the last searched expression found

For instance :

Regex A could be used with the Find in Files dialog to find out all the files containing these 3 expressions

Regex D could be used, in a second time, with the Mark dialog to get the commplete range of the searched expressions, for specific files

To be convinced, simply paste the text below ( part of the license.txt file of N++ v8.6.5 ) in a new tab :

Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things. To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others. For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights. Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it. For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty for this free software. For both users' and authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed, so that their problems will not be attributed erroneously to authors of previous versions. Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom to change the software. The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users. Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents. States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free. The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

and… experiment !

Notes :

You must tick the Regular expression search mode and the Wrap around box option

As soon as you insert or delete a character, within one of these 3 words, the regex will fail systematically !

Best Regards

guy038

<BOM/>@Bob-Smith-0, I am astonished that you did not preface your message with a BOM!

As you seem to have already recognized the issue I suspect it would be enough to add two more tools to your bag, one that inserts a BOM, and another that removes it You can then do your desired magic on Notepad++'s config.xml.<EOM/>

@tilsy637

If you mean that in your text href="css/rr.css" Notepad++ does not render css/rr.css as a clickable link, that is expected. Only complete URLs (with the http:// part, for example) are clickable. Even though what you’ve written is a relative URL in the context of HTML, Notepad++ doesn’t understand HTML and can’t recognize it as a link. You have to navigate to it on your own.

If you mean it doesn’t work when you open it in a browser, then as @PeterJones wrote, this is the wrong forum.

If you meant that Notepad++ doesn’t apply the style information, it will not. Notepad++ is strictly a source (plain text, with some syntax highlighting) editor; it can’t do “what you see is what you get” editing for HTML.

@PeterJones Thank you, it works

@Chetan-S-R ,

Notepad++ does not save Bookmarks or the other styles.

However, some years back, @Alan-Kilborn shared a script for the PythonScript plugin, which will allow you to save Bookmarks or styles, in this post in the “Style token not saved” conversation.

So you would grab the script from that discussion, and follow our FAQ for installing/using PythonScript scripts

Since that script was focused on Style Tokens, and not the Bookmarks, I am not 100% whether it would work “out of the box” for you, or whether you’d have to add in a check for the Bookmark code as well… It’s been too long since I used that. However, Alan can probably chime in about that.

@bulrush15 I got it working when I installed NPP 8.6.5. I had a “regsvr” error the first time I installed it and NPP never really updated. It’s updated now.

@최민정 What’s your operating system name and version?

There could be a bug with this file being locked. I’ve seen this before on windows for other types of files. Reboot the machine and see if that releases the file lock.

@PeterJones said in Find Window not popping up for me to enter something into to find.:

a second Ctrl+F will re-center it

A useful tidbit that I failed to notice in the manual - thank you.

@Bob-Smith-0 ,

There are 11 keys for which I had to scramble to find the corresponding virtual keycode.

Those keystrokes are mentioned in the FAQ: List of Notepad++ key combinations, available for shortcuts – for example, VK_OEM_1 is in the “third part” in that FAQ. (Search that page for third part or VK_OEM_1 to find it)

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and Forum related stuff:

copied from a wensite I can’t mention here

No one had upvoted you yet, so you could not post links to external sites. (Otherwise, the forum just becomes an open invitation to spam bots; the amount of spam we have to deal with has dropped significantly since the link-reputation rule was put in.)

I tried replying to the previous message to thank the folks who helped me, but was told I needed a higher reputation.

You needed a higher reputation to post an external link; if it weren’t for that link, you would have been able to reply. I have used moderator powers to merge this back into the original discussion.

I tried upvoting to improve my rep

You cannot improve your own reputation yourself (otherwise, spammers would just upvote themselves or each other to get around this limitation).

I normally try to upvote well-asked questions, but forgot in your case. I have upvoted your posts, so things should be easier for you going forward.

@PeterJones
🙄It looks strange that an app with many abilities like notepad++ hasnt this simple ability.
I guess for the same reason i cant open notepad++ (new document) with a selected theme.
It will be nice these 2 abilities to added at an update.
Thanks for your time and explanation.

For now I have turned DirectWrite off per @Coises’ advice. I had turned DirectWrite on per this thread from April 2023

The video drivers seem to be up to date, or at least Windows Updates, plus “check for updates” at the driver level claim that things are up to date. There was an update for my monitor which I installed.

I suspect it’s something triggered by Notepad++ or Scintilla. If it pops up again I’ll see if the glitch gets cleared by clicking with the mouse, etc. I normally use Alt+Tab to switch applications.

I don’t feel like uninstalling Windows updates per what @Ekopalypse dealt with as the blobs issue has been going on for several months. My first screen shot of one was on February 8th. The blobs don’t happen often and when I notice one they have been “fragile” in that they vanish as I try to do anything.

At least I have been able to capture them using screen shots. That in itself proves they exist and that Windows knows they are on the screen meaning they are not artifacts created the video hardware and/or monitor.

The unrelated missing right parentheses issue was quickly resolved by @donho.

@PeterJones
Many thanks for Your help :)
I’ll try to fix it myself

Thanks for the tips. Especially for the link with examples of text search in a separate zone. I broke my head, but I found my own option.

(?-si:<connection connection=".+\n.+class="ship.+owner="player".+\n|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!<\/people>\n).)*?\K(?-si:(<skill.+\n)+)

But another problem has emerged. as I understand it, due to the large file size (~500 MB and ~13.5 million lines) I get an error if there are about 1 million lines between the areas with the data I need. That is, for example, I search first class="ship.+owner="player" throughout the file and get a normal result - 32 matches in the entire file.

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But if I try to execute my regular expression from the beginning of the file, there will be a regular expression error message (invalid regular expression).

If i place the cursor inside any of the zones and use marks, then all the matches from all the zones will change if, as I found out, there are less than 1 million lines between them.

Or if i place the cursor inside the zone with the desired text (but after which, the next zone of interest will start after at least a million lines) and sequentially perform “find next”, then the search will continue normally until it reaches the </people> tag, after which, as I understand it, the search should begin the next zone, however, will again receive a regular expression error message.

I tried to find out what the error is on various online resources for checking regular expressions, but they can’t cope with such a volume of strings. I also did not find offline tools for such a task, maybe I was looking for it badly.

And as I understand it at the moment, the problem is not in the regular expression itself, but in the limitation of the search engine. Maybe someone has come across something like this or knows a suitable tool?
At the moment, I’m thinking about trying to write something suitable for this task in python.

P.S. How can I hide anything under the spoiler?

P.P.S. X4 foundations let me go, I’ve been racking my head for the second week))

Hello, @uhax-the-grey, @coises and All,

Your solution, @coises, seems to work only if :

A single "......" section exists in current line

Line-ending char(s) end(s) the current line

@uhax-the-grey, the difficulty to achive that general goal is that the ending char of a section is the SAME char than its beginning char ( the " character ) :-((

So I propose to split the problem in 3 successive steps :

First, we change any couple of " chars, of a single section, with two different control chars ( \x02 and \x03 )

Secondly, we use the generic regex mechanism, described here, to replace any \t character by a space char, in "............" sections only

Finally, we restore the two original " delimiters for each section

This method leads to the 3 successive regex S/R below :

SEARCH (?s)"(.*?)"

REPLACE \x02\1\x03

Then :

SEARCH (?:\x02|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!\x03).)*?\K\t

REPLACE \x20

Remark : Do not forget to move the caret ( cursor ) at the very beginning of the current file, before running this second S/R !

Finally :

SEARCH [\x02\x03]

REPLACE "

Whatever the position of the TAB chars and the " deleimiters, thoughout the text contents, this method should always work properly !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ekopalypse That worked, thank you!

In what language are you writing your plugin?

What do you have so far?

The functions you will need are described here and you will probably need at least some of the functions described here. But from your message, I suspect you are not that far along yet.

Start here and tell us when/where you get stuck.

If you read that and your reaction is that it sounds far too complicated, it could be that you want to write a script, not a plugin. If you know Python, check out the Python Script plugin for Notepad++.

@Yamir-Smith
You can go to the langs.xml file in your application data directory (which is usually AppData/Roaming/Notepad++ but may also be the same directory where your notepad++.exe file lives), navigate down to Keywords name="instre1" element inside the Language name="css" element, and add the word rotate where it belongs in alphabetical order in the long list of keywords there (for me, it has to be between right and rotation).

If you’re interested, you can open a PR so that this change can be incorporated into Notepad++ permanently. While you’re at it, you can see if there are other CSS keywords that are missing and add those as well.