@Mathias-Dreßke said,

Plugin Manager does not work in x64 version of NPP.

That’s not really the issue. There is a 64bit (x64) version of Plugin Manager as well as the 32bit (x86), and in Notepad++ versions 7.5.9 and earlier, it worked just fine for 64-bit architectures.

The issue is that starting with Notepad++ v7.6, the plugin hierarchy has been in a state of flux, as the NPP developer has been embedding his own Plugins Admin as a builtin alternative to the external Plugin Manager, and changing things as various issues come up. The Plugin Manager developer has not yet updated PM to be compatible with 7.6.x, because it’s too much of a moving target (and possibly because PM is likely no longer really needed for 7.6.x).

Most of the plugins don’t either.

There are a fair number of plugins that do have 64-bit versions. But yes, there are quite a lot that don’t, as well.

@Luis-Piña-III ,

… I just put in there PluginManager.dll and now have Plugins Admin.

If you added PluginManager.dll to 7.6.2 in the plugins directory, then you have enabled the Plugin Manager. Plugins Admin is built into Notepad++, found under the Plugins > Plugins Admin… menu. If you try to use the Plugin Manager to install plugins in 7.6.2, they will not go to the right location, and Notepad++ will not notice that the plugins are there. You will want to use the Plugins Admin… to install your plugins in the correct location for v7.6.2.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @mrunal-dhamal

due to the way the plugins installation is implemented in notepad 7.6.2 (and 7.6.3) using plugins admin, you will have to disable uac and it’s security notification prompts, if you don’t want to see them.

note: keep in mind, that uac is activated for security reasons, to make sure no application can write or change some vital file locations, without your consent.

to disable uac in windows 10:
hit the windows icon and type uac in the search field as seen at the screenshot below:

alt

then open up Change User Account Control settings and slide the slider down to the bottom as seen at the screenshot:

alt

then hit ok and reboot your machine.
after reboot, you will now be able to install plugins without any uac prompt.

(note: on windows 7 the uac slider is found by pressing the button “Change User Account Control settings” in your normal user accounts control panel)

i hope this is of help to you.

Try enabling the option:
Settings >> Preferences >> MISC >> Auto-indent Test the Tidy 2 plugin, it can format the finished code.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Bence-Kovács

i’ve just found one plugin that might do what html toolbar does.
it’s called webedit, it’s fully customisable, and has a customizable toolbar with customizable icons as well.

but it only is available for notepad++ 32 bit as far as i can see.

you can download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/WebEdit/WebEdit 2.1/

and here’s a screenshot of the menu and the toolbar:
Imgur

i’ve found this easy guide to get you started, if you want to try it out:
http://devarticles.in/miscelleneous/how-to-add-html-tag-keyboard-and-toolbar-shortcuts-to-notepad-2/

@zetawilk, @alan-kilborn and All,

@zetawilk, in your initial post, you said :

Task: You must replace (Foo,1234567890) without replacing any instance of (bar)

You’re not asking, here, for any commercial demand. Personally, I would have written, preferably :

Request : replace (Foo,1234567890) without replacing any instance of (bar)

and thanked, in advance, possible repliers, for their [free] help !

Just remember it, in your next posts ;-))

Best regards,

guy038

P.S. :

I just forgot your last post. So, let me temper my criticism because you did thank Alan for his answers !

Hello, @fortuneskills, @eko-palypse, and All,

Presently, I’m not able to give you a full reply to your request but I should have more time on next Sunday ! I’ll also need some other samples of code, either before ( text you get ) and after ( Text you would like to ), to improve my regex S/R !

Assuming your single example, here is my temporary solution :

SEARCH (?-si)(?:\(.+?\)|@\d+?%|^\w{3,5}|[PSFM]\d+|[\w-]{2,3}\.?)(?=\R)|(^\w{3}|[PSFM]\d+|[\w-]{2,3}\.?)

REPLACE $0(?1\x20)

Option Wrap around ticked

Option Regular expression selected

Click on the Replace All button

See you later,

Best Regards

guy038

@PeterJones said:

🤦 U+1F926 (https://emojipedia.org/face-palm/)

even easily understandable for me :-D

See https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6.1-released.html regrading the changed plugin location or https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.6-released.html depending on your installed version.

Meta Chuh, Peter Jones;

Thank you for responding to my question.

I am able to upload the index.php file using NppFTP. It may have been just a glitch with the server. This web hosting has had some unexpected behavior in the past.

Anyway, the problem seems to have gotten resolved.

Thanks again.

@Daniel-Schielzeth

yes, in normal mode it works fine, as long as your explorer and notepad++ share the same user level.

if you can live with this situation (a minimised, elevated application will not pop up on explorer context menu or other commands, unless triggered by any h.i.d. like a mouse click, and you can’t drag and drop from an explorer window to eg. an elevated notepad++), you can leave uac enabled.

@miguel-panta

I’m not 100% sure I understand what you did or what exactly you try to accomplish.
Do you try to select a word and then you want to run a macro which should change
font, color and size of this selected text?
If so, I don’t think you can do this with builtins. PythonScript plugin might be one way to
make it work.

What exactly Is your general goal here? Maybe it can be done in a different way.

@PeterJones

thanks for looking into it.

i’ve now completed all of your tests with the portable .7z as well, both x86 and x64 on windows 7 and windows 10 build 1803 and build 1809, and they all are identical to the zip version, and behave as they should (menus are present under any case, but plugins is missing if installed to %programfiles% or %programfiles(x86)% if no plugins are at %programdata%)

reader’s note: i could not reproduce the absence of a menu like ? or any other menu (apart from plugins) under any of our testing scenarios and machines.

@Max-South

thanks for the link, but this only solves issues for the “open with notepad++” explorer context menu.
unfortunately it would not fix other issues, like the drag and drop isolation, inaccessibility of user level mapped network drives and so on.

note: this is a solely windows internally based limitation of uac as intended by design, and even explorer itself could not handle it.
(explorer example: try to open any installer .exe or any other program that needs elevated rights from a network drive. it will fail if it needs to access resources within this .exe or other files on that network drive)

any application that wants to circumvent this isolation, must use a daemon process which “talks” to the user level application via event and command queues (example: teamviewer system service) so a hell lot of work to do, and in my opinion (as a non notepad++ developer) near impossible to do it with an editor that uses external plugins (each would have to have it’s own daemon if needed).

Please do not get me wrong: NPP is a truly amazing lightweight productivity marvel versus heavy, fat, slow and glitchy environments. But this excellence makes the quirks like those were discuss here even more frustrating. Let’s hope NPP will be able to get rid of the error without users manually redoing SendTo/OpenWith context menu commands or switching off UAC and so on. :)

of course, you are correct. these are only workarounds, that might not suit every needs.
and there’s nothing to get wrong here, you can always speak freely the way you do. this place is filled with devs, it pros and power users, and many if not almost all agree to what you’ve said.

and here comes my “i hope you didn’t get me wrong ;-)”:
the explanations and detailed guide on how to disable uac wasn’t for you, as it would have sufficed to tell you “disable uac” in a one line answer.
none of us would have given you this extensive guide, if it would just be for you, after reading that you elevate npp via schtasks.
it’s mainly for regular users that have a similar problem, found your thread, and don’t know how to handle uac or what it means … it also saves some time on repeated questions if there’s a step by step solution that can be linked to, from every supporting community member.

@Eko-palypse
THX

If you have a lot of lines, you may end up with space(s) between Line and the (first) number. Use the following to remove those:

Find ^Line\h+(?=\d)
Replace Line
Again, search mode is Reg Exp

If you used the capital \R in my regex above, it should have worked, whether your file had CRLF (windows, aka \r\n) or LF (linux and modern mac, \n), or CR (old macos \r). It should have worked even if some were CRLF and some were LF. It wouldn’t work, however, if there was a blank line between, or other such oddity.

If you open the original file in Notepad++, and enable View > Show Symbol > Show All Characters, you should see little black boxes for the end of line, either two with CR and LF, or one or the other… Plus, your status bar should list what EOL Notepad++ detects (Windows (CR LF), Unix (LF), or Macintosh (CR)). If you give us a screenshot (see the help-with-markdown post for screenshot help; use the -notation so the image is visible in the forum), we might be able to see why the regex didn’t work in your original file.

@Eko-palypse
I finally got it using a user-defined language.

Thank You So Much!