@Mohamed-Mohamed
You’d need a | -separated list of all the characters’ names.

For example, if the characters are named

John Bob Mary Ellen Fred

your regex becomes (?i)\\[(?:(John|Bob|Mary|Ellen|Fred)|([a-z]+))\\]
and your replacement becomes [(?1\U${1}\E:(?2\u${2}))]
Thus, you would convert

[explosion] [crash] [john] yo dawg [Ellen] i herd u like regex [bob] so i made regex [boom] [pow] [mary] so u can regex [zap] [fred] with regex

into

[Explosion] [Crash] [JOHN] yo dawg [ELLEN] i herd u like regex [BOB] so i made regex [Boom] [Pow] [MARY] so u can regex [Zap] [FRED] with regex

@Glen-Walker said in colors seem washed out:

@Alan-Kilborn You know, I saw that in the configurator but for some reason I thought it was the divider between the numbers and the actual text. I think because I had seen “Folder Margin Style” in the preferences just before looking for the color. Thanks again.

Yes That’s right.

@PeterJones said in I’m using Notepad++ 8.1.5. and Unable to install XML tool plugin in my system:

there does not exist a version of Notepad++ that is greater than 8.2.1 but less than 8.3.

In fairness to @Mark-Olson, the JSON schema is less than self-explanatory at first glance. The "old-versions-compatibility" field was an ad hoc addition that I argued strongly against when it was proposed.

As I’ve said elsewhere, no distributed version of N++ can ever reliably tell what an “old” version did, unless you recompile it with a back-ported version of the JSON manifest. At most, it can provide developers with some extra documentation, but the confusion that prompted the above comment makes you wonder if even that would be overstating its usefulness.

@rdipardo said in Goto Matching Brace for HTML/XML:

After sending SCI_ADDSELECTION, if you press the up or down arrow key (not left or right), both carets will remain until you press some other key or cancel the additional selection.

I’ve tried it out and it behaves exactly how I anticipated. This is great - bravo!

Cheers.

@Richard-Kopeikin

Multiline search and replace was a big issue when this thread was originally created; now it isn’t such a large problem, because of the advent of the “swap” widget/control:

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It’s ALWAYS been possible to get multiline data into Find what if you select it and press Ctrl+h (or Ctrl+f), so if you need multiline data in Replace with you can select it (the replacement text) first, do Ctrl+h on it, then Copy from Find to Replace, then select your true Find what text and invoke Ctrl+h again.

Kinda klunky, but it works.

@theCENK ,

It’s a known issue since at least v8.5.2. The developers are working on it, but it’s proved more elusive than they hoped.

Thank you all for your responses.

I also find it more logical, with my experience on computer technologies, to use ${1} rather than \1.

@Lycan-Thrope
You also learn to be a bit more polite.

Vielen Dank. Das sieht sehr gut aus.

@Michel-AUBINEAU ,

Are these settings specific to the application or are they related to the document I’m working on?

The “Theme” (Settings > Style Configurator > Select Theme) and “icon” settings (Settings > Preferences > General, in the Toolbar section) are remembered in the Notepad++ settings, and are global to Notepad++, not specific to individual files – so all files opened in Notepad++ will use the same theme and icon choices.

Notepad++ saves your choice when you exit Notepad++ after setting the Theme or Icon, and the next time you run Notepad++ it will use those same Theme and Icon settings.

If you believe that it is not remembering the Theme and Icon settings correctly when you restart Notepad++, then either you do not have write permission on your configuration files (check permissions on files in %AppData%\Notepad++\ for a normal installation); or you had multiple instances of Notepad++ open, and the last one to save its settings was still using the old Theme or Icon settings so that’s what got saved; or you have multiple copies of Notepad++ installed , and you are changing the settings on one copy of Notepad++ and then are surprised that another copy has different settings (like maybe one in C:\Program Files\Notepad++ which uses %AppData%\Notepad++ for its settings, and another portable copy unzipped in D:\myPortable\Notepad++ which stores its settings in the installation directory).

addition:

To verify the last idea: set your theme and icons as you want, and copy the info from ?-menu’s Debug Info and paste into your reply; then exit Notepad++ and restart the application: if the Theme and Icons went back to the original settings, then copy ? > Debug Info again. Paste both versions of Debug Info into your reply, and we can see if we see anything that tells us what’s wrong; otherwise, it will at least confirm which directory you should be looking in for the permissions

Also, a fourth idea is that you are sometimes running in Administrator mode (the Title bar for Notepad++ will say “Administrator” and the Debug Info will say “Admin Mode: ON”) and sometimes as your normal user. It may be that the Admin Mode version is using a different set of preferences than the normal-user version.

@Terry-R Ok, thank you for the information.

@Juliana-Neves said in I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED:

I had more than 200 notebooks written, how can I recover these notebooks?

Well, depending on what your backup settings were in Notepad++, if you actually saved those 200+ tabs/files and what remains of the Notepad++ folder structure, you have a slim chance.

I suggest reading the FAQ post here which outlines some of the possible locations of files should you have any chance.

Good luck
Terry

@Alan-Kilborn

Similar request: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24732

@Alan-Kilborn said in sorting in folder as workspace:

issue should be created to recommend that Notepad++ do the sorting and unify behavior.

Indeed. And make it like the Document List, where it will either present it unsorted (the default order based on the filesystem) or sorted ascending or sorted descending. (Maybe even with the extra Ext column that Document List optionally provides, so that a user could sort by extension within a given subfolder in the FaW view.)

@PeterJones
Fantastic! That is exactly what I have been wanting! Thank you very much!

@mkupper Thanks for experimenting. I have done the same here at my end, as I did yesterday, and I’m not able to reproduce what I experienced yesterday. I suspect it can be related to us using virtual desktops at the office, and the user-folder needs to be copied from somewhere everytime you create a new session. The backup might have been overwritten from central storage when syncing?

@Alan-Kilborn said in I found the place in the code where space is inserted in the comments:

Or, you could script some behavior (which is less effort than a plugin)

Well, I got fed up by the temporal and quick solutions and decided I will go full on onto this problem. It is kind of funny to think that I dumped much larger amount of effort and time into this than anybody in the World would ever do. It took about 6 days of non-stop development to create and polish this plug-in, but, I think, I made the most advanced automatic comment toggler in the world. It was very tricky to make it work right, especially considering that its my first plug-in for Notepad++ and, in fact, any program.

It’s probably even better than Visual Studio one, because it still uses 2 buttons, while mine just 1 (and I also fixed some Visual Studio bugs too, so its better).

Github: https://github.com/ScienceDiscoverer/CommentToggler

The best demonstration is to show this most advanced feature of it:

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I hope this will have the people with similar commenting problem in the future…

@Richard-Engelschall
This sounds like a plugin might be responsible, but nobody can be more specific than that unless you give more information about your installation. Go to ?->Debug Info... from the main menu, copy your debug info, and paste it here.

While you’re at it, you might test if there are circumstances where you don’t have this problem; the more specific the problem, the easier troubleshooting is.

@Alan-Kilborn Thank-you! Appreciate the response. Now if I can get the encoding correct, but that is for another post.