• N++ Not keeping recent files

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    Fayko_F

    @PeterJones

    Session.xml has a date of 9/24/22 guessing this was around the install date.
    Editing gave me a warning of protected mode on the xml so i took permissions over it for all users.

    this also lead me to find that i didn’t have permissions on the backup folder.

    Things seem to be working as desired now. Idk why my user lost permissions but oh well. Thank you.

  • Search/Find specific Language Syntax ?

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    PeterJonesP

    @Serpens66 ,

    I forgot the quotes in the replacement in step 4…

    REPLACE: Decimal\("$0"\)
  • How do I split windows to show 2 files side by side?

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    Nancy TietzN

    @PeterJones THANKS! I was confused by the term “Move to other View”… I do have the Compare plugin but with very large files (trace files) I found it took a VERY long time to load.
    Thanks for your help!!

  • Given this input, how to have this output?

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    Pixels PicsP

    @Terry-R Your regex works on my real-world data. As you pointed out, my data don’t have tabs. Thank you very much for your timely solution and reply.

  • Massive replace and enumerate

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    PeterJonesP

    @Ludwing-Jonathan-Guzman-Bautista said in Massive replace and enumerate:

    any way to do this faster, just increase 1+ on each new item

    Or, if you are willing to use a plugin and have a tiny bit of coding skill, we have a FAQ on doing mathematical replacements (which includes “add one”)

  • Help with codes

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    Terry RT

    @Wayne said in Help with codes:

    Code for placing a border around a heading <h…>

    You seem to be referring to html code. This is the wrong forum to be asking that on. Even though you may be using Notepad++ (assumption), that does not make this the correct place for your question.

    Terry

  • Adding Vertical Lines

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    ludamo 0L

    I have just worked my way through this topic to add the vertical lines so I wanted to say thanks for the guidance and just to add that instead of 2 toolbar buttons (On & Off) you can have a toggle button if you use the following NPPExec script (or something like it):

    NPP_CONSOLE ? sci_sendmsg 2362 if $(MSG_RESULT) = 3 then sci_sendmsg 2363 0 else sci_sendmsg 2363 3 endif
  • Remove column from CSV files

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    Jeshua GuzmanJ

    @guy038 Great thanks!

  • Filtering files for opening with FTP profiles

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    PeterJonesP

    @Angela-Ada-Maria-Esposito ,

    My opinion: thousands of files in one directory is poor file management; if you are in control of the server and file arrangement, I would highly recommend re-structuring so that no single directory on the FTP server has more than 100 or so files, if at all possible, arranged in some meaningful structure. If you are not in charge of the server, then talk to whoever is.

    That said, on to the technical issue: no, as far as I’ve ever seen, the NppFTP plugin does not have a feature to filter its directory listing. You can use the Plugins > NppFTP > About dialog to click on Visit NppFTP Site, and then click on New Issue, and use that interface to request that NppFTP add a “filter files” or similar option

  • app won't exit

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    Terry RT

    @Clayton-Kirkwood said in app won't exit:

    I consider this a bug. Is anybody else having this problem?

    If your problem was indeed a bug we’d have heaps of complaints from users. So I’d tend to think more about the way you are operating Notepad++ (NPP) or the environment it’s running under.

    There are some tests you could perform:

    Open NPP without any open files, it will then have just one blank/empty tab open. Then close NPP and see if any difference occurs. If so, then maybe the open files you have open when the problem occurs have a bearing on the problem. Are they large files? Is the location of the “saved” versions on a remote/network drive and it’s taking a while for Notepad++ to get a response back that they’ve been saved? Download another version of NPP, preferably the portable version. This can be installed elsewhere on your system. See how it works? When you say NPP is still on the taskbar, for how long? Can you leave it a while to see if it does close eventually? Presumably the NPP you have installed is from the official source (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/). Under each version a link to download a portable version is present. This isn’t really installed, rather just unzipped into a folder (not under program files). It is self contained and won’t mess with your installed version.

    So we can only give you some guidance on what to search for. You will need to perform those tests, and put in some effort to help identify the reason.

    Terry

  • UDL Delimiter after break and whitespace only

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    PeterJonesP

    @Ruby-Goody ,

    Notepad++'s UDL system does not accept regexp.

    Thus the UDL system as designed cannot differentiate between a # at the beginning of the line and one in the middle of the line for delimiters and operators. That is a limitation of the UDL system. But if you look at the Markdown (preinstalled) UDL that ships with Notepad++ (which you could be using, rather than defining your own, BTW), it uses the Comment line style for headers, and the Comment Line can require that the comment line only start at the beginning of the line, or only at the beginning of the line (with optional whitespace). So by using Comment Line instead of Operator or Delimiter, it should work as expected.
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    If that’s not sufficient, but you are willing to use a plugin to help things out, the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin will allow adding a layer where a regex is used to decide on the foreground color for individual built-in lexers or UDL languages. You can install that plugin from the Plugins Admin interface in Notepad++. To use that plugin, you would define your UDL without defining # for headers; then you would use Plugins > EnhanceAnyLexer > Enhance Current Language, and then add a line in the config file where the plugin started you, something like

    0x0080FF = ^\h*#.*$

    … which would convert the entire line to orange foreground if it starts with zero or more spaces or tabs followed by a #

  • Converting Windows file names to links

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    tho-gruT

    Thanks for all your help. I appreciate it.

    When using this macro in my environment it work really fine.

    I figured out an additional requirement while using it: The macro must leave already converted links untouched. This requirement is already fulfilled in my opinion because either S/R A and S/R B will not match any more.

    This is really useful!

    Regards
    Thomas

  • Code highlighter issue in NPP v8.4.5

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    James RosemaryJ

    @Alan-Kilborn Thank you for your comment.
    I’ll wait til the next iteration then…

  • EOL Code Removal in Double Quote

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    Kenneth YuK

    @Kenneth-Yu

    Problem solved, I eventually found out that the error comes in \r\r\n, replaced them and all is good.

  • Wordcount splitting words on apostrophes

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    guy038G

    Hello, @ken-h, @stewart-baker, @alan-kilborn and All,

    Refer also to my post here

    Best Regards,

    guy038

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    @Alan-Kilborn Thanks! Worked a treat!

  • Creating a UDL with regex expressions?

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    PeterJonesP

    @Manolo-Müller-Menendez said in Creating a UDL with regex expressions?:

    logfile by using regex filter

    BTW: the AnalysePlugin was designed specifically to find and pull out specific text in logfiles using multiple regular expressions. You might want to check it out.

  • Style Markers for word fragments are not working anymore?

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    Manolo Müller MenendezM

    @Alan-Kilborn Thx… That did it.

  • Tabs Closing after exit

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    Alan KilbornA

    I really don’t know that we’ve had to explain before how to recover data from the special backup files that Notepad++ creates.

    The WORST way is what the OP has done above – opening and continuing to edit a “new 2@yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss” file directly.

    Another bad way to do it would be to create a new “new 2” tab and the open “new 2@yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss” briefly, only long enough to copy its data out and paste into the “new 2” tab, and continuing to work on that “file”.

    The best way, as Peter hints, is to create a new tab and paste the data there, then IMMEDIATELY save it as a hard-named file in the file system, i.e., don’t let it sit there as “new 2” again (opening yourself up to the original problem recurring).

  • Selecting text while doing a search in a macro

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    PeterJonesP

    Alternatively: click Edit > Begin/End Select with the caret after the | (that is, wherever you want the selection to start). Then do a normal Find or Incremental Search or Find Next or what have you to find the “end” of the block you want to select, and then do Edit > Begin/End Select again, which will select that whole range of text, even if you do a simple search without the fancy regex syntax. You can use Settings > Shortcut Mapper to assign a key to the Begin/End Select, so that way you don’t have to use the menu every time.