I’m starting to think that the notion of a “column” number value is a ridiculous concept. :-)

Moving away from regular expressions, here’s a PythonScript for experimentation, that will prompt you for a column number to move the caret to on the current line.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from __future__ import print_function # references: # https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25579/how-can-i-go-to-a-specific-column # for newbie info on PythonScripts, see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23039/faq-desk-how-to-install-and-run-a-script-in-pythonscript from Npp import * current_line = editor.lineFromPosition(editor.getCurrentPos()) max_column = editor.getColumn(editor.getLineEndPosition(current_line)) while True: if max_column == 0: notepad.messageBox('Current line is empty (has no columns)', '') break user_input = notepad.prompt('Enter column (1 - {mc}) to move caret to (on current line):'.format(mc=max_column+1), '', '') if user_input is None: break try: desired_column = int(user_input) - 1 if not (0 <= desired_column <= max_column): raise ValueError except ValueError: continue pos_of_desired_col = editor.findColumn(current_line, desired_column) gc = editor.getColumn(pos_of_desired_col) if desired_column > gc: notepad.messageBox('desired column ({dc}) is greater than existing column ({gc}) on current line; moving to column {gc}'.format( dc=desired_column+1, gc=gc+1), '') editor.setSel(pos_of_desired_col, pos_of_desired_col) break

Note that this does NOT implement any of the grand ideas I had EARLIER for a well-rounded-out “goto line/col” feature (maybe a script for that comes later if we can find a way beyond “weird” column results with some of the stranger unicode characters…).

@mkupper said in search list values in 50+ files:

I normally do that from the command line. Notepad++'s search can’t use a list of thousands of values.

You should have stopped after those 2 sentences.
Please don’t present detailed non-Notepad++ solutions to questions posed on this site.
This site is for discussion of Notepad++ related topics, only.

If you feel like you want to suggest a non-Notepad++ solution to something, perhaps the best reply is suggesting some keywords for an internet search the poster could do to arrive at some help.

@Alan-Kilborn said in clear and close Search Results:

by “confused” you mean that when running the script from one instance, that it might close a different instance’s Search results. […]

In my understanding, there is nothing that prevents this from finding the “wrong” instance window

My concern exactly, but as I said, experimentation hasn’t caused this to occur for me yet.

I’ve never undocked the panel; I don’t even know how to do that.

If you double-click either of these areas

Thank you for the extra effort, but I didn’t mean that comment as a question. I saw that info at the manual site, but the only time I expect to use it is if I do this by mistake - to get things back to normal.

@litos81 said in In normal text file, ... and === and <<< are displayed oddly. How to disable?:

Probably what you were seeing was the ligature (where certain chain of characters are joined in one) support from that font.

For readers unfamiliar with “ligatures”, in simple terms it is a visual transmuting of adjacent characters.

Here are some examples, from typical programming languages:

test for equality: without ligature support it would appear ==; with support it looks like this:
cd9c8b92-3a60-4f25-ad63-f51743752655-image.png

test for inequality: without ligature support it would appear !=; with support it looks like this:
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if you put three equal signs together (===), you can get this:
e96f3f13-bd02-47f1-a9a0-b9ede337ccff-image.png

All the examples I’ve shown use the equal sign in them, but ligatures go way beyond that (using other character combinations).

@JTB-Ben_Sync said in Secondary carets not visible with dark theme:

Is it possible for this to be added into notepad++ fresh install?

As a matter of fact, it was added to all the standard-issue themes in time for the “Anniversary Edition” (8.6.0) last November.

Have a look at this related GitHub issue and consult the user’s manual on how to completely refresh your user configs after a feature upgrade.

I got progress :)
I found a JSON Formatter / Validator that formatted that mess from above to this:
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Look much more easy to work with, the game accepts it and i can use Notepad++ :)

@PeterJones Thanks a lot!!

Continuing the trend of the user is actually the problem, I have several custom Alt+something shortcuts and the menu bar options don’t interfere with them at all.

It gets better, if I let go of the Alt key and then press the letter I can still use the menu bar shortcuts normally, as if I had pressed the F10 key to bring the focus to the menu bar, which would be my fallback option anyway.

@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you. I did add the request on the Scintilla site.

@rdipardo thank you, deleting langs.xml as well as stylers.xml fixed the issue! thank you so much!

@Lycan-Thrope said in does anyone know a alternative for a chromebook that works like Notepad ++:

responding to a 4 year old post

This is okay, as long as you’ve got something valuable to say.

See also the faq about not using regexs to parse xml documents.

@rdipardo Thanks for a detailed reply. I thought that might be the case.
Having looked at it more closely, (lets call it the thumb, though I really like pea too!) - The thumb goes a little brighter when the mouse is over it, and it goes even more brighter when the thumb is grabbed. I wonder if the control can be customised in a future version, just to make it brighter before it is clicked. On a very large file, the thumb becomes very small, and I think the issue for me is that the default thumb colour is the same as the main text background. If the room is bright (with natural light, which I know is unusual for a programmer), then it can be hard to see it. But I would stress this is a minor issue and over all the product is fantastic.

I suppose a work around for now, is to try to find it with the mouse, now I know that it will go brighter when the mouse is over it. Also of course, holding down the LMB on the scroll bar, will eventually bring the thumb under the mouse. Thanks again.

Hello, @patrickdrd,

In a pevious post, you said :

anyway, I’m posting one of my such files to take a look yourselves if and whoever has some time, thanks!

https://pastebin.com/raw/rFi6heCt

So, I downloaded your file and, after studying it two days, I’m happy to email you back both the original file and the new one, with my formatting :-))

I succeeded to transform all your data in 9 tables, described below :

•----------•---------•---------• | Fields | Width | Lines | •----------•---------•---------• | 10 | 9,849 | 466 | | 4 | 146 | 43 | | 19 | 1,565 | 216 | | 2 | 154 | 15 | | 12 | 9,008 | 169 | | 12 | 5,992 | 89 | | 9 | 8,346 | 21 | | 9 | 226 | 39 | | 7 | 381 | 487 | •----------•---------•---------•

REMARK : Just one record is still odd. You can get this record by searching the regex \x{203D}{3}

I also rename this OUTPUT text file as an Lua file, in order to get a general folding, which does not interfere with your file contents !

Finally, I verified that the number of chars ( 339,792 ) is identical between your original file Patrick_BEFORE.txt and the transformed file Patrick_AFTER.lua, with the regex (?![,| \[\]•\x{203D}\r\n-])[\x{0000}-\x{D7FF}\x{E000}-\x{FFFF}], which covers all the BMP Unicode plane, except for the 10 characters below :

, | \x20 [ ] • ‽ \r \n -

I do hope that my work will be benefic to you, in some way !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Andi-Kiissel said in Same action on the (same) highlighted sections:

So Ctrl+Shift+… and Shift+Ctrl+… different behaviour would be acceptable too…
Sorry, not for me.

Sorry, don’t know what you mean.

@Claudia-Svenson This seems to be exactly I want.

Hey did you follow up and create the feature request? Or did you find any workaround?

Debug Info! Debug info is what I needed! It was installed for some reason in program files/npp/ …
Why here… ) But well, the main thing is that I finally found where the launch came from and now I know how to search. Thanks!

Thanks!! Two years too late! - I have struggled with this for the past years - I just hadnt seen your answer… Thanks Again!!

@PeterJones This is perfect – thank you so much for your help!

@PeterJones Much appreciated

A few links for better understanding or future reference in the event or of a dev wanting to take a chance.

https://w3c.github.io/uievents-code/
https://jsfiddle.net/v1gz5c5m/1/
https://github.com/Microsoft/node-native-keymap