@mkupper said in Why do some characters display as a block unless special characters are anywhere on the same line?:

One comment is that in the thread you reference there is “… are properly displayed ONLY IF the current line contains a character with codepoint over the BMP …”
The examples I provided were all with BMP characters. You don’t need to use a character that’s beyond the BMP.

You rather misunderstood Guy’s statement,

if the DirectWrite option is not checked, the four Unicode characters … are properly displayed ONLY IF the current line contains a character with codepoint over the BMP

The “four Unicode characters” in question were 25F4, 25F5, 25F6, and 25F7, none of which are themselves above the BMP. What Guy’s experiments showed was that, if DirectWrite was not checkmarked, then those four characters would not be shown correctly unless they were preceded by a character above the BMP. So it was having a character above the BMP that made those four in-the-BMP characters display properly.

And, as Alan said, that discussion was about those four clock characters specifically, not about every possible problem that is solved by DirectWrite being enabled.

@DomOBU ,

You rather left out the important bit of that phrase, while claiming you were quoting:
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Please note those words, “reply to your original post”. That does not mean “hit the New Topic button”.

And you even quoted,

Making such a post here ensures that readers of your original topic will be able to

By creating a new topic, rather than replying to your original post as requested, you do not help readers of your original topic see the follow-on; instead, you make readers either try to remember that you’ve already talked about this at some random point int he past, or they think this is a new discussion rather than a continuation of the old.

The same is true with this new topic. As I’ve already told you here, all conversation about the adding properties, including this discussion, should have been in reply to your original conversation.

@franKENstin ,

Notepad++ is a text editor. Images are not text. I am not sure how else to say it.

The user @DomOBU eventually created the official issue #13555, and tried to tell us about it in a new topic here.

For future readers, if you are trying to come back and provide a link (which is a polite thing to do), please make sure you reply to your original post, rather than creating a new Topic without any context.

@Terry-R said in Regex: I cannot find and replace unless I copy to another file:

I think \r is linux and \n is Mac

other way around, \n is Linux (and also cmd and Powershell) and \r is Mac.

@ZaneChiwawaUTAU ,

Thank you for showing before and after data in the code blocks.

You have to use a feature called “regular expressions”.

In your instance, it looks like you want to put your character right before the first comma in each line.

FIND WHAT = ^([^\r\n,]*), REPLACE WITH = $1強, SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression

The FIND of the regular expression will look for the beginning of the line (^), followed by 0-or-more (*) of the characters that aren’t CR, LF, or comma ([^\r\n,]), followed by a comma. Everying inside the (...) parentheses will go into group#1 for storage

The REPLACE starts with the contents of group#1 ($1), which will be the first field of your line, followed by the literal text 強, followed by a literal comma.

This is just one of the multitudes of things you can do with Regular Expressions. Look up each of the tokens I shared in the online User Manua’s Searching/Regex section linked below, to learn more about what they do, and to see other similar things that can be done.

Useful References Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@swegmike

Just a note, you could also use the plugin, EnhanceAnyLexer, of which I am the author, to make this happen.

@Karlo-F Wow the plugin NppSnippets is great!

@PeterJones
OK, after reopening the *.inc file, it seems to work now. Thank you!

@Alan-Kilborn said in RegEx help - find & replace specific word at the end of a line:

Find: (?-s)^(.+?), The$
Replace: The ${1}

That’s exactly it! Thank you Alan.

@MaximillianM
Glad it’s working now! Very strange that you were having this problem.

@Cooeeeee said in Sort Lines Lexicographically did not work:

I’ve been using Notepad++ for years. My most used feature is Sort Lexicographically to sort a column mode selection (i.e. I essentially have a table of data). For example, I’ll use Alt+Shift and maybe select columns 27-30 across all lines, then do a lexicographical sort on that.

Today I encountered a list that wasn’t sorting correctly. I’ve not had this problem before. My lines had some tabs prior to the columns I was trying to sort. Reading through this thread gave me the idea to try the “TAB to space” conversion. My listed would sort correctly after making that adjustment. Somehow the tabs were breaking it. I figured I’ll leave this tip here in case it can help anyone else.

Indeed, sorting by column does not work if there are tabs before the columns. No doubt for efficiency, the column sort in Notepad++ determines a single pair of starting and ending character positions to apply to all lines, rather than independently extracting the selected text on every line; tabs are treated as single characters, no matter how wide they are on the display.

If you’re interested in a pre-release version of a plugin, Columns++ includes a sort function which works as expected when there are tabs in the document.

@R-Harms

Hmmm…wildcards…are you sure you read the manual?

@Francesco-Saltalamacchia ,

Any idea why?

Two ideas:

Your institution installed in location X, but you installed to location Y, so when you reboot and start Notepad++, you are running the location-X version rather than your location-Y version. To prove this: after doing your installation, look at ?-menu Debug Info and note the path after your reboot and running Notepad++, look at the same info. Are they the same or different? Your institution force-installs the v7.9.1 after you installed “the latest” (whichever version that is.) the same substeps from #1.1-2 would work here for helping to see if the version is changing but running from same location.

Apologies for being very late to this party, but I was exactly looking for an answer to this question.
I wanted to share my workaround for not being able to export comparison results in Notepad++. I used the compare function in MS Word instead, which achieved this.

@Ivikdor ,

The Translate plugin is a 32-bit-only plugin that hasn’t been updated since 2015. If you have the 32-bit Notepad++, it will show up in your Plugins Admin; since you say you don’t see it, I am assuming you have the 64-bit Notepad++ instead.

But since the plugin hasn’t been updated since 2015, even if you were to switch to 32-bit Notepad++ (which I don’t think is really a good idea), it is highly likely that the plugin would no longer be compatible, because Notepad++'s plugin interface and underlying interactions have changed significantly in the last eight years, and the chances are that some or all of the features as implemented are not compatible with modern Notepad++.

@TBugReporter said in Using the PythonScript plugin to automate N++:

I’m not sure whether you’re way overthinking this, or I’ve way underestimated the possibilities

I don’t know… You posed a fairly reasonable desire, and I put some reality onto some potential problems with getting to where you wanted to go.

Better to expose the “real world” of it, if it is known, before trying to solve the problem…, which we are now NOT going to do. :-)

@PeterJones said in shortcuts.xml in notepad++:

Whine at @Alan-Kilborn because he keeps teasing his new script without making it public Kindly remind @Alan-Kilborn that he hasn’t published his script yet

@Lycan-Thrope said in shortcuts.xml in notepad++:

In other words, you’re trying vainly to fool-proof it.

Could it be that there’s another person on here who’s guilty of letting the “perfect” be the enemy of the “good”? Shocking! 😯

@Alan-Kilborn said in shortcuts.xml in notepad++:

No, just trying to find the time, amid other projects, to finish it.

Send me a copy - I’ll finish it for you (but it’ll be 10Mb when I’m done)! 😁