The regex gurus on this forum might come up with some kind of crazy regex-based solution to this, but this is pretty easy to solve with PythonScript. # requires PythonScript: https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/releases # ref: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25388/replace-guid-with-guid-from-list-randomly import random import re from Npp import editor, notepad, MESSAGEBOXFLAGS def main(): thing_to_replace = notepad.prompt('Enter the text you want to replace', 'enter text to replace', '') if not thing_to_replace: return is_regex = notepad.messageBox( 'Is the thing you want to replace a regular expression?', 'regular expression?', MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNO) == MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES if not is_regex: thing_to_replace = '(?-s)' + re.escape(thing_to_replace) replacements = notepad.prompt( 'Enter a list of replacements (one per line)', 'list of replacements', '') if not replacements: return replacement_list = replacements.strip().splitlines() def get_random_from_list(_): return random.choice(replacement_list) editor.rereplace(thing_to_replace, get_random_from_list) if __name__ == '__main__': main()

@mkupper said in save repeat operations in a script?: @Furio-Sassi said in save repeat operations in a script?: Do you happen to know a text editor that supports scripts? Notepad++ has syntax highlighting for scripts but won’t offer help or hints as you are typing. There are editors known as IDE “integrated development environment” which allow you to single step through the script with the IDE also showing you what variables are being changed. It’s an area I’m not familiar with and particularly, an IDE that would let you trace or debug a Python script activated from Notepad++ and is doing Notepad++ and/or Scintilla specific things. Everything clear, thanks for the help! :) And I would also like to make peace with those I argued with, in the world there are so many reasons to argue that it would be stupid to argue even over something stupid like that. I came here in complete good faith, before writing I had also looked for information on macros (as I specified in my second post where I wrote “the macro, if I understand correctly, repeats the recorded operation”) but I had not found any references to scripts , that’s why I asked for help. Then the discussion took a direction I didn’t want. Thanks everyone, bye :)

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you very much.

Hi again, thanks for your help guys. So it seems to work using your method @Coises to set # or ## and to change all blocks into single lines. Very good idea and I think it did everything correctly so far on the first quick view. @Mark-Olson, just wanted to find & remove all double / multi blocks which are same. The 2 blocks I have posted above are not same so just double them etc. Otherwise the solution from @Coises works pretty well so far to manage & handle that problem for me and now I can merge all files I have into one single file and clean it up so that every block is only present once. PS: By the way, just have a small another question about that combination of commands. I would like to create a macro of it. Just wanna know whether I have to enter every single char again each time when I record the macro? I mean this for example “(?<!>)\R(?!<$)”. So what is if I have a larger amount of chars I need to use many times? Do I have to enter it again & again char by char etc?

@Coises This worked perfect. After I posted, I was doing similar steps, but turns out I put the () in the wrong place and wasn’t getting the right result. Appreciate your help.

Okey, now I made it to work. Solution: Install git-url helper script, according to the readme in that. This is a bash script but runs also on Windows if Git Bash installed. Install NppExec plugin to Notepad++ Use below NppExec script , save it to a name like “OpenGitInBrowser” NPP_CONSOLE 0 NPE_CONSOLE v+ cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)" git url "$(FILE_NAME)" npp_run firefox "$(OUTPUT)#L$(CURRENT_LINE)" If you view or edit a file in git repo in Notepad++, press F6, select the above script, and done. It will jump to the actual line number in browser, in the given branch. This URL format is compatible with gitlab. Didn’t test with other git repo services, It runs hidden (no console opening for NppExec), and it takes some seconds because of bash script, bit working fine. :)

@Alan-Kilborn Here’s a pic of the change log. I used Style one token to illustrate how the colors look. It’s turquoise when that line is clicked. Green when not clicked. [image: 1705628412962-notepad-styles-background-resized.png]

@DomOBU said in overwrite the stylers.xml file: I don’t see how I can manually edit the xml to find my current settings. That’s the drawback of the portable version If your portable notepad.exe is in c:\portable\npp\, then stylers.xml is at c:\portable\npp\stylers.xml . The config files location is documented in the online user manual at npp-user-manual.org . And that same user-manual page has the description of best-practices for editing Notepad++'s config files from within Notepad++.

@Mark-Olson said: I came up with… Nice one. So then a unicode-ready replacement for the native command Remove Empty Lines (Containing Blank Characters) can be a macro, recorded as: Find: ^((?![\n\r])[\s\x{FEFF}])*\R Replace: nothing Search mode: Regular expression In selection: Checkmarked Action: Replace All I checkmark In selection because the original command can either run on the active selection or the entire file; for the macro it is a bit of a difference because to run on the entire file you’d have to Select All (Ctrl+a) first, but that’s not effort-intensive.

A feature request was made: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/14611 This is Scintilla behavior, not Notepad++ behavior. It would have to be made configurable via Scintilla before Notepad++ could apply it – thus, it should be a Scintilla feature request. EDIT: Well, the Notepad++ could choose to “go rogue” and “hack around” this aspect of Scintilla, like what was done to support “multi-editing” in Notepad++ 8.6 and later. But, I don’t see it happening.

@faridalabib - to add to what @PeterJones just posted another thought is to replace with one keyword but then to do a second pass to “mailmerge” the list of desired keywords in place of the single keyword you had added. See this other post by @PeterJones and its follow-up posts on how to do the mailmerge.

@sdsds-rgdsfds said in Hover to preview AI (claude) generated alternatives for selected text portions, click to commit changes within surrounding paragraph context: Is there other stuff that will help ? I mean out of notepad++ I’m the wrong person to ask about this sort of thing, to be honest. I am not that familiar with the world of generative AI.

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that everything worked great. It saved me a lot of work. I would like to thank you very much ;-) Tom

@faridalabib If it’s just 50 articles then you are likely better off doing the split by hand. Doing it by hand should take less time than it would take to figure out how to script splitting a file into 50 parts, debugging it, etc. One hint is to number your 50 files from 01, 02, 03, … 49, 50 using leading zeroes for 1 to 9. Then it will be easy to reassemble the 50 files into one large file again to verify that it’s the same as the original large file containing 50 articles.

@HargulS - CSV is a plain text format that can be viewed and edited using Notepad++. The CSV file format does not have, nor can it support, the concept of “sheets.” Excel files are containers that hold multiple objects, including sheets which themselves are stored as sets of objects. While the individual objects stored within an Excel file are plain text they contain many cross referenced details between the objects. Spreadsheet applications such as Excel keep track of the details. It’s not practical to edit the object files using Notepad++ as you likely would break the cross referenced details that Spreadsheet applications rely on.

@supasillyass thanks for the suggestion, but looks like nesting is also not the best solution [image: 1705336249588-78b4ea44-d918-4cc7-8ec8-b532db7aef28-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5.png] Header [ ] highlighting breaks. That’s probably because [HELP2_A] has level 5 nesting, so it would need to encounter 5 ((EOL))s to properly exit. Simply inserting newlines helps resolve this, but it makes file look stupid [image: 1705336519124-b2245093-0e91-49a1-a640-717f18b58307-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5.png]

@Helge-Nyman , That’s not the look for a native Notepad++ auto-completion popup: Notepad++'s popup does not have the keyboard icon nor the status-bar at the bottom with the “Showing: 1 items”. Either you have a plugin that’s doing it, in which case you’ll have to change that plugin’s settings, or you’ve got some external application that’s somehow hooking into Notepad++. If it’s a plugin, sharing your ?-menu’s Debug Info with us will tell us which plugins you have installed, and maybe someone here will recognize which plugin creates a popup that looks like that. (I don’t recognize that popup myself, but that doesn’t mean someone else won’t.)

@mpheath @Terry-R Ah I found an 8.4.2.0 version in C/Program Files (x86) that for some reason was left behind on 25.6.2022 that started acting up after my most recent update (8.6) on the version that I guess I’ve been using. Thank you both for the help :)

If you’ve used a script in this thread, you might want to double check your copy of it for a bug I’ve discovered. Look to previous postings in this topic thread where the script has been changed – find the text moderator edit (2024-Jan-14). There’s a link there that describes the bug in more detail, and shows what needs to be changed in an old copy (or you can simply grab a copy of the current version).