@Digi-Uzman

When you say extract, what exactly do you mean? Do you want them deleted? Or is it good enough to simply identify them so you can take further action?

Do you care about preserving the original order of lines in the file that needs to change (if a file will change)?

It would be best if you could provide three

sample text blocks (see FAQ, find section on "literal text boxes: used in many other posts on this site).

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21925/faq-desk-formatting-forum-posts

Show file1 sample text and file2 sample text, making sure to include both cases that do and do not have matches, maybe 5 - 20 lines each, and then in the third show exactly what you want to end up with.

I’m fairly certain what you want can be done. If order preservation is important it might be a multi-step process.

I’ve recently returned to using NppFTP and have noticed the same thing - it’s very annoying!
After finding the work-around I’ve described below, it leads me to believe that the problem (in my case) might be that the default cache location is not writable without admin privileges (which have recently been changed on my work PC due to a security breach).
I haven’t ‘upgraded’ to Windows 11 yet, so can’t say whether Notepad++ is trying to cache the files a privileged location, but it worked for me.

I found that the problem went away when I assigned a (writeable) local path to the external path. I haven’t had any problem since.

I hope this helps.

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@guy038 said in Macro for Open, Find and Replace and Save:

Hello, @josé-luis-montero-castellanos, @aln-kilborn and all,

@josé-luis-montero-castellanos, regarding your regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s)(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S)

REPLACE ?1\5\2\7\4\1\6\3:${12}${9}${14}${11}${8}${13}${10}

Why do you need the leading in-line modifier (?s), in the search part ? Do you mean that the single char . in group 2, 4, 6, 9, 11 and 13 may also represent a line-break char ( \r or \n ) ?

I suppose not ! Then, your correct search regex is rather :

(?-s)(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S)

where any . single char will represent a non-break char, only !

Now, I noticed that the groups used, in replacement, for each alternative of the search regex, are in the same order ! Then, you can use, preferably, a specific feature of the Boost Regex engine, called Branch Reset

For instance, in your regex, the numbers of each group are :

(?-s)(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S) Gr : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |8 9 10 11 12 13 14

If we use the Branch Reset feature the search regex becomes :

(?-s)(?|(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S)) Gr: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Thus, your entire regex S/R can be simplified as below :

SEARCH (?-s)(?|(<St)(.)(/S)(.)(<Xt)(.)(/X)|(<Xt)(.)(/X)(.)(<St)(.)(/S))

REPLACE \5\2\7\4\1\6\3

For instance, given this INPUT text :

<St2/S4<Xt6/X <Xt9/XB<StD/S

You would get the OUTPUT text, below :

<Xt2/X4<St6/S <St9/SB<XtD/X

Notes :

The Regular expression option must be selected

Preferably, tick the [Wrap around](https://www.ahijoy.com/) option

Best Regards,

guy038

I tried it but didn’t work

Future reference:

More of the solution to this, with example scripts, is found here

@Scott-Raskin said in Replace specific line #s within multiple programs:

how to replace that with all of that text below

Arguably the easiest way is to do this:

select your desired replacement text:
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press Ctrl+Shift+f to bring up Find in Files window; your desired replacement data will be in the Find what box (not in Replace with where you want it):
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press the “up/down arrow” – aka “swap” – button to move your data from Find what to Replace with:
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put your search expression into Find what, and continue on with hopefully obvious steps to accomplish your replacement operation

@ArlynSilverthorn

If all you are capable of doing is saying “it doesn’t work”, then no one can help you. Please reference Peter’s prior post.

@PeterJones Yes, what you wrote is correctly what i have on mind.

The reason why i dont want to see what is before initial dir is:

waste of space on explorer annoying scrolling when there are more subdirs when you resume your work (after opening NPP) and you CTRL+S the file, File explorer starts from the root, which makes it very annoying to go back to the saved file position. Imagine i have like 10+dirs from the root.

At the moment im doing it like this: I open NPP, i close all tabs which are already opened, then i connect to the server and open files again.

Thank you Allan,

I was aware of the find-and-replace option, but did not know how to select the whole line.
I worked just fine for me.

@Terry-R

The funny thing is that before receiving for you, the idea of opening N++ without plugins, after Windows updates, N++ could not stay open. But it has been shown that without plugins; Yes.

That information, as it is, is curious.

Greetings.

@guy038 you saved my life men , hats off u buddy…

@PeterJones said in Printing also gives gray background:

@Michael-Rocholl ,

See the “Known issues” section at the bottom of this FAQ.

Thanks for quick response - Michael

@PeterJones ,

Thanks for those clarifications. I’m glad I’m not going mad. :)

Yeah, it turned out to be the unmapped shortcuts. Thanks to everyone for the detailed explanations. It helped with this and it will help in the future.

@Alan-Kilborn
Thank you! 🤗 Works the way I wanted. 🎉
In combination with the shortcuts it should be very handy.

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Aside: the font that my browser is using for monospace has a mistake in its gylphs:
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The non-monospace font (in black) correctly shows U+266B ♫ as beamed eighth notes. The monospace font (in red) shows that same character as beamed sixteenth notes instead. Whoops.

No, my browser says it’s using DejaVu Sans Mono for fixed-pitch, and charmap shows that DejaVu Sans Mono has four separate glyphs for those notes.

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And Notepad++, which is set to use the same font as well, shows the correct glyphs for those four characters
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Oh, I bet that the forum stylesheets are overriding my font choices.

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Edit: Yes, the CSS has its own list of fonts before using what the browser is set at. How rude. 24c7109c-0a36-4420-abd1-a3dd122fd0ab-image.png

I don’t have Menlo or Monaco, so it would try Consolas, which doesn’t have that glyph, then Courier New, which doesn’t either, then monospace … so it should be trying DejaVu Sans Mono at that point… but doesn’t seem to be. Oh well, browser issue.

@Alan-Kilborn said in (Pythonscript) Status bar to display word count & understanding SCINTILLANOTIFICATION:

Is this causing some sort of problem for you, or does it merely bother you?

Mostly the latter, haha.

In any case, I don’t really notice any impact on performance so I’m going to let it go. Here is my final script that I ended up writing for those that come along and want to see it.

from re import findall def callback_sci_UPDATEUI(args): SPEECH_SEC_PER_WORD = 0.66 # 0.55 = fast, 0.66 = normal, 0.75 = paused if editor.getTextLength() < 100000 and args['updated']: # don't search "big" files if editor.getSelections() == 1 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty(): # show word count for selection text = editor.getSelText() sel_info = ' (For Selected)' else: # show word count for entire document text = editor.getText() sel_info = '' word_count = len(findall(r'\w+', text)) speech_minutes = (word_count * SPEECH_SEC_PER_WORD / 60) % 60 speech_seconds = (word_count * SPEECH_SEC_PER_WORD) % 60 speaking_time_str = "%02dm%02ds" % (speech_minutes, speech_seconds) sbar_value = 'Words: {} Speaking Time: {}{}'.format(word_count, speaking_time_str, sel_info) notepad.setStatusBar(STATUSBARSECTION.DOCTYPE, sbar_value) editor.callback(callback_sci_UPDATEUI, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.UPDATEUI])

@lamprey13 said in N++ Tabs Setting:

please delete

Only you can remove your postings, but there’s no harm in leaving it.

Earlier I had said:

IMO, it makes more sense to have your proposed command line work as follows:

notepad++ yourfile1.ext -charset=“OEM 850” yourfile2.ext -charset=“UTF-8 BOM” yourfile3.ext yourfile4.txt

While that’s an idyllic command line, logically, it doesn’t really suit how Notepad++ currently works; example:

notepad++ -multiInst -n15 yourfile1.txt -n10 yourfile2.txt

While this will open “yourfile1.txt” at line 15, it will NOT open “yourfile2.txt” at line 10.

But this:

notepad++ -multiInst -n15 yourfile1.txt yourfile2.txt

will open both files at line 15.

So I think it is reasonable to allow only one -charset=... on a command line, that affects all following files; example:

notepad++ yourfile1.ext -charset="UTF-8 BOM" yourfile3.ext yourfile4.txt <-- contains only ONE charset directive.

If a second -charset is encountered on the command-line, it would be ignored.

@Jimmy-C_1013 ,

If I am understanding correctly, you have hundreds/thousands of files, each with a particular naming scheme. Inside each of these files, you have the word number at least once, and you want to replace that word with part of the filename (extracted from the filename, based on the scheme you mentioned).

Notepad++ search-and-replace does not have access to the filename, so it cannot be done natively inside Notepad++.

However, by a clever combination of command-line and Notepad++ manipulation, you may be able to implement something that will work for you. For example, earlier this year someone asked about just inserting the whole filename into their file(s) overtop of a PLACEHOLDER variable in the discussion here – my reply, and the follow-ons, show one way in which this can be accomplished. Using the same command-line portion, and then tweaking the regex to use number instead of PLACEHOLDER should get you pretty close to what you want.

Good luck.

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

@Zsolt-Tomo,

your xml file should have an XML-Prolog in the first line which states the encoding to use:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
If this line is missing, UTF-8 will be assumed since that is the default for XML files. If the prolog is set, the XML-lexer will set the document encoding accordingly.