@PeterJones Thanks so much! This is exactly what I wanted. Appreciate the swift response.

@kendall-loftin ,

You can use negative lookbehinds to guarantee that “the text before house is not future and is not tech and is not bass”:

FIND = (?:(?<!future )(?<!tech )(?<!bass ))house Search Mode = Regular expression

You can combine that with your whole line matcher, which used to be something like (?-s)^.*house.*$ to become:

FIND = (?-s)^.*(?:(?<!future )(?<!tech )(?<!bass ))house.*$

… that will then match the whole line, not just the individual “house” on that line

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

@Katherine-Curran

Find: (?-s)^(.+?):(.+)\R\1:(.+)
Replace: ${1}:${2}${3}
Wrap around: ticked
Search mode: Regular expression
Press Replace All repeatedly until the status bar of the Replace window indicates 0 replacements made

Example:

John Doe: Hello. John Doe: How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. Bob Doe: How are you today? Bob Doe: I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. John Doe: How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well.

After the first Replace All press:

John Doe: Hello. How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. How are you today? Bob Doe: I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well.

Status bar indicates 3 replacements made.

After the second Replace All press:

John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well.

Status bar indicates 3 replacements made.

After the third Replace All press:

John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well.

Status bar indicates 0 replacements made. (Data transform was actually complete with the previous press, but that can only be determined via visual inspection).

@Peer-Gynt ,

Did you exit Notepad++ and re-start it after removing the old files?

If that doesn’t work, go into the User Defined Language dialog, select each of the “AutoHotkey” languages and click Remove. Restart notepad++ and make sure they are all gone. Then re-save the dark-mode-AHK into the userDefineLangs folder, exit Notepad++ and restart. There should only be one now.

(If you put the XML into the userDefineLangs folder, you do not ever have to use the Import button in the User Defined Language dialog)

@Ekopalypse said in Where to find plugin files:

See here for the … three json files

Also note that info is available directly within Notepad++:

Open Plugins (menu) > Plugins Admin… On the Available tab (or the others), click on any plugin of interest It will give you an idea of where to obtain, here’s an example:

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@G-H2LLS said in stylesheet:

thank you for taking the time to answer me, I’m French and I don’t speak English yet

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@Pro-Audio ,

So, looking at the two screenshots, I’m not convinced that Notepad++ & UDL & EnhanceAnyLexer Plugin is really going to give you what you want.

The “rules” that it uses for highlighting seem pretty arbitrary – for example, in the command apt-get install nano, the nano is not highlighted in the command line, nor one line down after package, but a few lines down, the nano after Package is highlighted. And sometimes the word file is cyan and sometimes purple. That indicates to me that MobaXTerm might just be accepting the colors that the linux tools themselves are setting, rather than performing its own highlighting. And there is virtually no way that we would be able to define a UDL+EnhanceAnyLexer combination that would be able to decide, just from the text, what colors each word should be and have it 100% match what you are seeing in MobaXTerm.

You could do some things, where you give it a list of keywords like cygwin and libgcc1, etc for cyan coloring, and words like nano and file for purple, then use EnhanceAnyLexer to look for sets of text with no spaces that have multiple / or . between “word” characters… but even that won’t get everything right (like the ellipses not being highlighted). So if you’re looking for exact color match, it’s not going to happen.

As much as I hate recommending a different tool than Notepad++ for the job in this forum, if you a really looking to keep the exact colors for all words for your linux output copied from MobaXTerm, I think you might best be served saving the RTF output, then opening the RTF file with a word processor like WordPad. (There are times when a Word Processor is the right tool for the job. And Notepad++ is not a Word Processor.)

Problem solved. In the View->Show Symbol menu the Show All Characters item was checked. Clearing it fixed it. I have been using Notepad ++ for several years, and I had never changed anything in that menu choice until today. Thanks for the help.

If the 64th line of a group happens to fall on a blank line with no content, the Mark operation would not show that – no text to color red.

To solve this case, perhaps using “bookmarks” will help. Add this condition to the original Mark All operation:

Bookmark line: ticked

This would show like this on an affected line:

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@Alan-Kilborn I think I’ll duplicate it and make “hex to decimal.py” and “decimal to hex.py” to skip the dialog. Very helpful.

@amymor @Alan-Kilborn

I suppose that I have found the cause of the problem
It looks like calling NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME with a value of -1 can cause npp to crash. I assume this also applies to NPPM_GETLANGUAGEDESC, as I suspect the problem manifests itself when getLangDesc is called.

Thread 1 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ff6413bc493 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ff6413bc493 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #1 0x00007ff6413d8f2d in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #2 0x00007ff6413dab12 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #3 0x00007ff6413d4ce1 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #4 0x00007ffd14c0e858 in USER32!CallWindowProcW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #5 0x00007ffd14c0e3dc in USER32!DispatchMessageW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #6 0x00007ffd14c20bc3 in USER32!SendMessageTimeoutW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #7 0x00007ffd16ed0d74 in ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher () from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll #8 0x00007ffd14251124 in win32u!NtUserMessageCall () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\win32u.dll #9 0x00007ffd14c0df02 in USER32!SendMessageW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #10 0x00007ffd14c0d68a in USER32!SendMessageW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #11 0x00007ffce3751888 in notepadpp__Npp_call (n=..., msg=2107, wparam=18446744073709551615, lparam=0)

I add a check in EnhanceAnyLexer to prevent calling it in this case

pub fn(n Npp) get_language_name(buffer_id usize) string { lang_type := n.call(nppm_getbufferlangtype, buffer_id, isize(0)) if lang_type == -1 { return 'UNKNOWN_ERROR' } mut buffer_size := int(n.call(nppm_getlanguagename, usize(lang_type), isize(0))) + 1 mut buffer := alloc_wide(buffer_size) n.call(nppm_getlanguagename, usize(lang_type), isize(buffer)) lang_name := unsafe { string_from_wide(buffer) } return lang_name.to_lower().replace('udf - ', '') }

An issue has been opened.

@PeterJones Thank you!

Thanks Peter, it worked. :)

@Neil-Schipper said in How do you color certain text after a keyword in notepad++?:

you described here

Oh, come on, that was more than a day ago. I can’t seriously be expected to remember something from that far back! ;-)

@Matt-pointvicente

If you “disagree” with that well than so be it.

I think Peter is willing to take your complaint seriously, as long as you can provide what he asked for, specifically from above:

If you disagree with my experiments, please show example text…

As it is, you’ve given nothing but an additional whine.

@Nancy-Tietz

I, like Terry, have some advice about multiple instances, but mine is much more concise: Don’t do it, the potential problems (most of which are outlined by Terry) outweigh whatever possible advantage you think you are achieving.

@PeterJones

Thank you. I’ll try this solution as well.

@Alpha-LeFactor said in Quickie Question -- Which do I install?:

Installing software makes me nervous, these days.

I feel your feeling.
But with Notepad++, you’re good.
But maybe I don’t totally believe this because I’ve never installed it – I’ve only used the portable version.
Perhaps you didn’t know this exists?
Nobody has ever convinced me there are benefits to the installed version.

@skysurvf

See HERE.