Hi, Darkemis, Scott and Claudia,

Thanks Claudia and Scott to make us remember about the difference between the two shortcuts Shift + Down arrow and Shift + End ! A very little thing that may, sometimes, speed up our N++ work :-)

So, when cursor is at the very beginning of a line ( column 1 ) :

Shift + Down arrow selects all the contents of this line, WITH its End of Line character(s)

Shift + End selects all the contents of this line, WITHOUT its End of Line character(s)

Cheers,

guy038

Hi Ray,

when posting formatted code/text you need to indent by at least 4 spaces, then it will keep its layout.
The regular expression is explained, for searching here and for replacing here

What it does is the following: (high level - detailed infos on the mentioned website)
( ) = this is a caturing group
\R = newline chars
{6} = should be repeated exactly 6 times
(.*?\R){6}) = basically means match 6 lines
(.*,.*\R) = match lines which have or not chars followed by a comma and again have chars or not followed by newline
(now I’m thinking .+,.+\R would be better because this means lines having atleast one char followed by comma and again at least one char followed by newline)
(.*,.*\R)* = the added * means it could be any number of lines or no line at all
" at the end basically means, last line needs to be the double quote

In replace, as we only use what was matched in \3, anything else get deleted.

As said, the links provide better and detailed explanation.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello Peter,

I’m not sure if the site you mentioned reflects the current state.
I would advise to read this for searching
and that for replacing.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @Claudia-Frank,

I won’t be able to take it to a recovery company just because of a phone number.
Without any program reference, as you don’t know one i’l just live with it and setup windows backup to have previous versions so i have a workaround might this happen again.

Of course I know it’s a editor.
I save to server and run in a browser, just like most people do that write scripts.

Well don’t know how I should understand this …
Could it be that you use different os systems in regards to where npp runs and on which
os your webserver is? If so, did you check file integrity?

Cheers
Claudia

Btw. as much information we get as more useful the answers would be - well, that’s waht I assume.

Hello Jimcamps,

In addition to the useful advices of Dail, if you currently use a local version of Notepad+, from the download links, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/6.x/6.9/npp.6.9.bin.zip

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/6.x/6.9/npp.6.9.bin.7z

you can, without any trouble, install two versions of N++ :

One, with your loved plugins and all your stuff

One, without any additional software for N++ and, even better, the minimalist N++ version, from the download link, below :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/6.x/6.9/npp.6.9.bin.minimalist.7z

With that version, and the periodic backups option disabled, no doubt that managing huge files and doing numerous searches/replacements should be easier to achieve !

Best Regards,

guy038

Yes, that’s what I meant and as said, I’m no expert.
Why do you think it makes code execution slower?
And if it does, is it really notably slower?
You could also use something like { //region comment start } // region comment end
and when it goes to production delete those lines.

One other option, which just right now comes into to my mind,
might be to use hide lines (ALT+H) (view menu).
I don’t like it because you need to take care that you don’t do nested hidings - maybe you like it?

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @Jeroen6,

this should do the trick, I hope I didn’t break any other functions.
It’s basically Peter Brands proposal with a little modification (using * instead of +, as it is optional)
and introduced a new nameExpr to catch the interrupt functions.

<parser id="c_function" displayName="C source" commentExpr="((/\*.*?\*)/|(//.*?$))"> <function mainExpr="^[\t ]*((static|const|virtual|_interrupt(\(.*?\))*)[\s]+)?[\w:]+([\s]+[\w]+)?([\s]+|(\*|\*\*)[\s]+|[\s]+(\*|\*\*)|[\s]+(\*|\*\*)[\s]+)([\w_]+[\s]*::)?(?!(if|while|for))[\w_]+[\s]*\([^\)\(]*\)([\s]*const[\s]*)?[\n\s]*\{" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?!_interrupt(\(.*?\))*) [\w_~]+[\s]*\("/> <nameExpr expr="(?!(if|while|for))[\w_~]+[\s]*\("/> <nameExpr expr="(?!(if|while|for))[\w_~]+"/> </functionName> </function> </parser>

Cheers
Claudia