@Luis-Piña-III

To replace an entire line, you will want to combine the regex concepts for “anchor to beginning of line” with “match 0 or more of any character” then “anchor to end of line”. The Online User Manual Searching/Regex section linked below will help you quickly find those concepts" (search for “anchor” and “any character” and “0 or more”)

The replacement is just the text you want it to be replaced with.

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@Mark-Olson Thank you so much!

@Michael-Vincent Thank you I will go there!

@PeterJones said in Minimize notepad++ to tray instead of closing.:

They just fixed it. I wonder what prompted them to notice and fix that issue.

I think a developer was working on a batch of translating issues, and just gathered that one into the batch.

Hello, @the-fartman and All,

I realize that I made some syntax errors in the last part of my last and very old post ( After the P.S. indication )

So, here is the updated version :

P.S. :

Here is, below, a mRNA sequence, translated into proteins, by a ribosome of a living cell ( found somewhere, in a regex documentation, to explain the interest of the \G regex feature ! ) :

....AUGGGUCGACUGGUUCUCGAAGGUUUCAAAGGUUCAAGGGUCCGGUAUUCAGUCGUCCGCUCUACUGGUACAAAGGGGGUACCACGACUGGUUCUCGAAUAG

If we take off the start codon AUG and its leading nearby sequences, as well as the stop codon UAG, we, now, obtain the sequence :

GGUCGACUGGUUCUCGAAGGUUUCAAAGGUUCAAGGGUCCGGUAUUCAGUCGUCCGCUCUACUGGUACAAAGGGGGUACCACGACUGGUUCUCGAA ¯¯¯ ¨¨¨ ¯¯¯ ¯¯¯ ¨¨¨ ¨¨¨ ¯¯¯ ¨¨¨ ¨¨¨ 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

In that RNA sequence, let’s consider the amino-acid sequence GGU. You remark, easily, that :

At positions 1, 19, 28 and 64, this sequence is a TRUE codon

At positions 9, 36, 41, 75 and 87, this sequence is NOT a codon

Now :

Place the cursor right before the RNA sequence GGUCGA… ( IMPORTANT)

To understand the effect of the \G feature, try, successively, the 3 regexes, below :

.*?GGU which matches the SHORTEST range of characters, till an amino-acid sequence GGU (\u\u\u)*?GGU which matches the SHORTEST range of TRIPLETS, till an amino-acid sequence GGU \G(\u\u\u)*?GGU which matches the SHORTEST range of CODONS, till a GGU codon

Notes :

The first regex matches any range of capital letters, whatever its size, followed with the first string GGU

The second regex matches any range, containing 3*n capital letters, followed with the first string GGU ( n >= 0 )

The third regex matches any range, containing 3*n capital letters, followed with the first string GGU, separated, from the beginning, by 3*m capital letters, so the GGU sequence is a codon ( n and m >= 0 )

Similarly, try these 3 regexes below :

.*GGU which matches the LONGEST range of characters, till an amino-acid sequence GGU (\u\u\u)*GGU which matches the LONGEST range of TRIPLETS, till an amino-acid sequence GGU \G(\u\u\u)*GGU which matches the LONGEST range of CODONS, till a GGU codon

Notes :

The first regex matches any range of capital letters, whatever its size, followed with the last string GGU

The second regex matches any range, containing 3*n capital letters, followed with a last string GGU ( n >= 0 )

The third regex matches any range, containing 3*n capital letters, followed with the last string GGU, separated, from the beginning, by 3*m capital letters, so the GGU sequence is a codon ( n and m >= 0 )

For further information, on that topic, refer to the links, below :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_codon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_codon

@Lycan-Thrope

There may genuinely be some confusion, let me clarify, when I talk about ownership semantics, I specifically mean:

Who is responsible for “cleaning up” any resource which must be “freed” after it has been “acquired”?

Its part of all languages, whether is a GC, or done manually. It could be dynamic memory, or some I/O like a file or network port. All this stuff about it being related to OOP is nonsense, but I can see why you thought that because RAII is an excellent way to handle it.

As an example, look here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-formatmessage

Literally an example of passing ownership of a buffer in the win32 API.

And listen man, programming is hard and asking questions is ok because it gives people a chance to learn something new.

Maybe you should save your comments about working everything out on your own for places other than a forum?

And while im here, everytime you’ve used stackoverflow, you’re being a hypocrite, because if it isn’t you asking for help, it’s you benefitting from someone else asking.

@Khosro-Neyestani

You pretty much described how Notepad++ works by default, with the exception of a “hot key” to run it.

How programs are run is more of an OS level thing, so Notepad++ (mostly) can’t help you with invoking itself.

For your own benefit, though, consider why it is there, and why it might benefit you to keep it.

@Roman-Revell said in How to launch Notepad++ with new document open:

But, my goal is to just have Notepad++ open so that I can paste some text or start typing. Opening in a new document saves me from also having to do ctrl+n or click the icon. Just a little more convenient as long as I’m already running a command or script, might as well have it do what I want.

Create a file called “scratchpad.txt”. Have your batch file open notepad++ with that same scratchpad file every time you run that shortcut. QED.

Or, better, pin a shortcut to your taskbar that opens notepad++ with that file, so you don’t even have to Win+R and type npp[ENTER]. QED.

Or, better, always have a copy of Notepad++ running, with your scratchpad file always open. You can even put in your windows startup so it happens with you never having to manually run Notepad++. QED.

@Michael-Vincent ,
I certainly don’t hate you. :)
I liked the feature as I think I mentioned once I had trouble not knowing when I was developing the UDL package, which were which, and ended up shutting down the “Words” option, using Functions only. I may have to turn it back on now that I can tell what’s what now. :)

@datatraveller1 said:

Shift+Ctrl+B prints STX

Note that in Notepad++ 8.5 and later, Shift+Ctrl+B is the default keycombo for Begin/End Select :

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So this keycombo will no longer insert a STX character into documents when typed.

@LtSlimFisherman ,.

And moreover to the excellent points by @Ekopalypse and @Alan-Kilborn , having “Edit with Notepad++” not show up for a certain file or filetype in Windows Explorer in no way prevents the user from opening Notepad++ and doing File > Open or equivalent, and cannot prevent that.

As they said, the only way to prevent the user from opening file.config.xml in Notepad++ is to set the permissions on the file so they cannot even read the file. If all you want is to prevent them from saving changes, then you just need to remove write permission for the user.

@James-F-Pasquini I found the file at %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell\en_US.usr

@ChelOis I found it in %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell\en_US.usr

The first line of the file appears to be the number of words. But I didn’t edit that, so it may have fixed itself.

@R-W-0 ,

Uncheck “match whole word only”: sign isn’t the whole word RequestSigningCertificate

And to find a tab, either copy a tab from the document and paste it into your search field, or use \t with Extended or Regular Expression modes.

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edit: @mark-olson beat me by seconds!

Thanks for the reply.
I am going to check this.

@Alan-Kilborn I got it. Thank you so much!

Hello, @mark-yorkovich, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn, @lycan-thrope and All,

Of course, the generic regex satisfies the @mark-yorkovich’s goal ! But if we try to think more deeply about the problem, the solution is almost obvious !

Mark said :

I have a CSV file with comma-separated fields, and double quotes for each field, except the first field which is an ID field.

Thus, as a valid field is always surrounded by double-quotes, this means that the line-breaks which need to be replaced with a literal , must be :

Not immediately preceded with a double-quote character

AND

Not immediately followed with a double-quote character

Hence, the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?<!")\r\n(?!")

REPLACE ,

Untick all box options of the Replace dialog

Select the Regex expression search mode

Move to very beginning of your CSV file

Click once on the Replace All button ( or several times on the Replace button )

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

As explained in a recent post, do not use the simplified search syntax (?<!")\R(?!") !

Of course, this method does not work if fields, near the line break, may not be followed / preceded with a " character !

@Alan-Kilborn said in Can I create a macro that gives the desired file name when creating a new file?:

@andrecool-68 said in Can I create a macro that gives the desired file name when creating a new file?:

but the file name will always be “new 1”.

I don’t think that’s going to always be true. It would depend upon if you already had an existing new 1 file when this macro is run, then I don’t think what the macro will saw will be saved in new 1.
For this kind of automation it is probably best to go with the scripting plugins (e.g. PythonScript) or presumably NppExec can also achieve it.

thanks my issue has been fixed.