I assumed the X12 EDI extension is .x12. The HiddenLexers.py download has been updated to enable the X12 lexer for all files ending in .x12.

Since I know nothing about X12, I just found the example file used here (so I used the same .x12 file that Lexilla uses when testing their LexX12.cxx for the library that Notepad++ uses).

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I even was able to enable the folding (which is something I hadn’t tried in HiddenLexers to date).

You can now follow the FAQ instructions for installing the plugin and running the script.

If you don’t like the colors I chose (understandable), you can go to the line starting at editor.styleSetFore(self.SCE_X12_DEFAULT , and change the RGB triples for the foreground and/or the background. (If you change the colors, you can either exit notepad++ and rerun to get it to use the new colors; or you can just run the script twice more – the first will clear the old settings and the second will re-enable HiddenLexers using the new colors)

@gamophyte said in Looking for a more efficient Regex to merge lines from different parts of the doc into one:

I will see if anyone has any other ideas, but I might have to just get over my wish for keeping params placed where they are.

I have been working on this and think I have a solution. But…
I’m trying to make sense of what you are trying to do. From your example (using same values for both red and blue doesn’t help) it seems that you want to update the word “red” to “purple”, but only if the equivalent “blue” word exists for the same number. And as for the blue lines, you just want to erase those, not saving any of their values. What also confused me was that your title says to “merge” two lines into one. That suggests the value of the blue line is transferred to the red line and is updated to say purple.

I just need to know exactly what you are intending to do. When I was looking at a solution I used the following example lines:

Could you provide the lines you see resulting from the “merge”.

Terry

@guy038 Oui, merci beaucoup!

@IronWalkers ,

Language > I > INI file

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Though if you have any = in the “textlines under the [name]”, the = will be red and the text to the left will be blue italics (in the default styerls.xml theme; your selected/customized theme may use different colors):
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If you don’t like the = behavior , then you could define a simple UDL instead of using the built-in INI language: in Language > User Defined Language > Define your language, create a new language (named AI Music or something); leave most as the default settings, but on the Operators & Delimiters page, for Delimiter 1 style, set Open = [ and Close = ], and set the Styler to your preferred color (bold and purple to match INI, or whatever you want).

IMO the name of that variable could have been better

The reason toggle_rotating_direction isn’t good IMO is because, every time the code runs a toggle happens, and not just when toggle_rotating_direction is true.

what would be your choice?

Hmm, for this one, since it is a boolean, I might go with next_rotate_is_to_the_right.

With something like that, true/false makes sense.

Of course, this is all up to individual taste.

I’m constantly struggling to name things.

Yes, it is hard sometimes. Often what I do is to name something zz or zzz and just barrel ahead coding with that. Later, like when I’ve completed the local block of code, a good name surfaces and a rename fixes things.

I find that if I spend the time up front to come up with a great name, the code to be written changes the meaning somewhat and the great name is no longer great. So I end up taking the time to come up with 2 good names instead of just 1. Naming after the fact seems a viable technique, at least for me.

Of course I don’t do this 100% of the time, just when a suitable name doesn’t immediately come to mind.

@Joel-Bridgham said in Copy MS Word endnote text to Notepad++:

Is there a way to do this?

You need to understand that the endnote function in MS Word has no parallel in Notepad++. It acts in a similar fashion to a hyperlink. So as the endnote text doesn’t actually appear alongside the words you are copying you will not be able to copy in a single step all that you want.

I did a few basic tests with endnotes including saving the Word file as “plain text”. Unfortunately it still didn’t place the reference alongside the text that referred to it. So you will need to identify yourself what might work as obviously what you have currently tried will not work. You might even consider creating a Word macro to find each reference link, then copy that endnote and pasting alongside the text that referenced it. Essentially you will be removing the endnotes by moving that endnote to it’s rightful place. As this would be a destructive process I’d say work on a copy of the file.

Notepad++ is a text editor so obviously works in a completely different way to Word which is a word processor.

Terry

PS a quick Google search found this website (a MSoffice forum no less). See here. I will leave it up to you to read, decipher and consider if it is what you want to try. As it’s not about Notepad++, further discussions on this Word function isn’t permitted here. Good luck.

@CptTwinkie, @rwblues

The flickering probably means that DirectWrite rendering is not enabled:

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SciTE is another Scintilla editor with the same issue when DirectWrite is off (meaning, the technology option is 0).

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@Atheriol

Sorry you feel that way. I said my response was intended as constructive. Notepad++ is full of lots of options and as I said, in order to understand and use them you need to have the basics sorted. You admit to not realising the difference between overtype and insert options. That is a basic premise of computer work.

I wish you well.

Terry

@Pierre-le-Lidgeu

Some more information about which version of NPP you are using (and what plugins you have installed) will be essential. There are also things you can try such as disabling plugins to see if the issue resolves itself. Please read this FAQ post and follow as many of the steps as possible. Take note of step #4, third bullet point in regards “Debug Info”.

It would seem that you are also running NPP as administrator, is that what you normally do?

Terry

@PeterJones said in Add space after specific character at the beginning of sentence.:

@JajinderK said in Add space after specific character at the beginning of sentence.:

The Template for Search/Replace FAQ, and the Formatting Forum Posts FAQ (linked below) explain more about how to format your posts for asking these kinds of questions.

And the URL for the User Manual’s regex section will be indispensable for someone trying to actually learn how Notepad++ regex work.

Thank you so much for the links. (I hope I won’t give up.)

@Coises said :

Since you apparently use that plugin,

Actually… I only use it because I forgot I had it hanging around! :-)
I’ve now disabled it and I will see if my workflow is impacted at all…

@SJW-SJW-SJW said in Search results filtering:

How can I filter the search to ignore /vendor and /.git or any other directory which is irrelevant?

The best method is to read the relevant portion of the manual. The online reference is here.

There are a lot of settings which is why I suggested the online manual. It explains things much better than I can.

Terry

@Alan-Kilborn wow this is great, thankyou

@guy038 Okay, thank you!

@PeterJones thanks for the fast reply, appreciate it.

On testing the above, I observed that both the above regular expressions work only for tags or strings that begin with a < and end with a > - so if you are searching for a string between inverted commas, to find the first string, you should use the regular expression (?s)\A.*?\K"string(?:.*?)?"

@guy038 Oui, merci beaucoup!