@PeterJones Thank you for the explanation.

@Kingfisher
Here is my solution ending up with 2 expressions

undefined

^(\w+)-(\w+).(\w+)>
$1 $2

^(\w+).(\w+)>
$1$3

undefined

And then I bundble them in a macro with a hot key.

Thanks for your help!

@Amol-Kamble

Type the code using your fingers on the keyboard.

This isn’t a “how do I program” forum. This is about Notepad++, the text editor.

Bug report opened at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/13946

@guy038

You are right: it was my copy-paste mistake. I’m sorry for that. But please notice the original screenshots are actually correct, in fact in my answer are removed the lines 1 and 3 and in fact in screenshots are present the lines 2 and 4 but not 1 and 3:

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Probably I might have screenshotted the right file but copy-pasted from the wrong one of those I was experimenting with. Sorry again.

So I suppose that both methods work well after all.

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That is EXACTLY what I was wanting. Thanks so much!

@Mark-Olson
Well, when I get to the point that functions won’t suffice, I’ll consider classes.

@BLU-APPLE

Understand that Notepad++ will open any file, even if it’s a binary file (executable is one type of binary file). That’s not to say that Notepad++ is the most appropriate application to view every file with.

Understanding what a file is using the file extension is just a first step. You should also try to figure out where the file came from as that can have a bearing on the content. As I said before the extension can often give you some information (Google search), but isn’t a 100% reliable means to identify the file type.

Terry

@Alan-Kilborn Very interesting take. Not everyone takes the time to detail their thought process as you have, which is clear and comprehensive. Rarely is feedback online this constructive. It is very appreciated. Thank you!

@PeterJones said in Macro shortcut breaks after update:

Good News

I ran some experiments: the following macro works the same in v8.5.2 (the last version before the macro change) and v8.5.3 and v8.5.4.

This means that the five predefined XML named entities all work, as do the two-hex-digit entities for CR and LF (and, not shown, a test of all the two-hex-digit entities for visible ASCII characters from through ~ all work as well). So this is going to make your job even simpler: to include a quote mark inside the sParam, you can encode it as sParam=""" or as sParam=""" . I wil be updating the FAQ shortly.

Thanks Peter 🙂

@Jim-Welch said in Skip Large files in search.:

I want to skip ALL large files

Whilst I somewhat agree with @Mark-Olson that it won’t be implemented I think that it’s a reasonable request to make. Firstly NPP is offering up a msg so the user can elect to NOT open a large file, that suggests the developer wants to offer an alternative just in case the user selected a big file without realising it. Could that msg also offer up a tick box to say “for all large files”?

As there are other apps which already offer this option, that works 2 ways. Firstly another app which does offer the option, so use it. But then if another app does offer the option, maybe it has been a reasonable request after all (for that app’s developer), so maybe NPP’s developers should consider it also.

In terms of actually getting your request before the developers nose, this isn’t the place. In our FAQ section, read the document called Feature Request or Bug Report which refers you to GitHub.

If you do decide to load the request onto GitHub (checking that none already exist first) please do add another post here linking to that request.

Terry

@Paul-Kruger
Regular expressions on (could also use Extended (\n, \t, \0, \x...) instead)
Find }
Replace with: depends on the line-end character you want.

for windows CRLF, replace } with }\r\n for macintosh CR, }\r for unix LF, }\n

@Pierre-Åberg Thanks.

@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.