@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 #

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

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

@Kenneth-Yu

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

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

Refer also to my post here

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks! Worked a treat!

@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.

@Alan-Kilborn Thx… That did it.

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).

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.

@PeterJones,
Your solution worked perfectly.
Thank you for your quick and useful response.

@PeterJones said in Select the last N characters of selected line:

(Location=“file://localhost/C:/Users/nilsn/Music/DJ%20Master%20Folder/JOBB/Hits%20Snerikes%202/.*).mp3”

BINGO!

That worked.

Thanks a bunch dude

@Jeremy-Miller ,

As this is a Forum for discussion about Notepad++, asking for advice on alternatives to Notepad++ is rather off-topic.

There are plenty of internet forums and sites (like the alternative-to site that you linked) that are for discussing and evaluating software in general. I would think that going to a Chromebook forum and asking “what are people’s favorite Chromebook text editors” would be a reasonable action for someone in your position – or, better, finding the billion or so similar such questions on those Chromebook sites.

I literally just googled for “chromebook text editors”, and Google’s summation response was literally “the 10 best editors for your chromebook”, where the second one in the list (“Text” – wow, that’s even less creative a name than Notepad++!) is described as an alternative to Notepad++. So searching for either of those phrases in your favorite search engine is likely to produce better results than a bunch of Notepad++ users in a Notepad++ forum, most of whom might not even use the chromebook, could give. (Looking at the screenshots in the article, I would say that “Caret” looks even better than “Text”, but that’s just based on screenshots; I’ve never used either product. And this forum is not a place for in-depth discussions of such things, or of tons of links to external sites.)

@PeterJones

My guess is that image-only sites are blocked because they aren’t often relevant to an employee’s job, and they often contain NSFW pictures

NSFW part makes sense but it’s still a bit strange to me. I hope someone will explain it to me since this is the very first time I’ve heard about such a practice.

That’s because %AppData%\notepad++ is the configuration directory; there isn’t one called “configuration” in there.

Ah, okay. Thanks.

(i don’t see a significant difference between 3 and 4, so it’s strange that one is way too wide and the other way too narrow. But to each their own

Yeah it is strange indeed. 3 is 63 characters wide, while 4 is 97. Maybe that has to do with my weird resolution. That’s why I’m asking for a manual configuration of margin width, I guess I have to try it out manually and see how it appears.

That’s not what I said: %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts

You’re correct, I misstyped. I omitted the “config” directory. Anyway that directory is empty.

I will try to put Python user Script there and hope it will work.

Thanks.

@RevitArkitek ,

Before we can begin to confirm, we have to understand your circumstances:

What is your ?-menu’s Debug Info? Are you in View > Monitoring Mode or not? What are your Settings > Preferences > MISC > File Status Auto-detection settings? Please note that the third setting in that menu is a highly-likely culprit
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(though I would have expected slightly different behavior, as I would have expected it would scroll to the end, not to the beginning. But there might be some weird combination when you have both that and file-monitoring mode enabled simultaneously)

@Neculai-I-Fantanaru

Another solution I find on internet, it to use uni2ascii

Off-topic. Please refrain from posting off-topic information here.

@guy038 said in need help removing suffix of this combo:

Leave EMPTY

I prefer my solution, because:

it is simpler for an obvious newbie like the OP it has a definite replacement field, not “Leave EMPTY”:

We haven’t heard of it happening yet, but I wonder if anyone’s first try at implementing a solution ever went this way:

could you help me deleting the suffix of this line jfaiduefoue:Leave EMPTY i want to remove what’s after the “:Leave EMPTY any help is apprecited``` :-)

@massimo-la-terra

Nope, not unless you explain more about how this relates to Notepad++, and if you can convince us of that, a bit more detail about what you need to do and what you want to obtain.

@Bernard ,

Please see this older discussion, which links to issue#4566 – the developer does not believe there is room for a permanent zoom indicator on the status bar, so has rejected that request. There is no reason to believe he will have changed his mind.

That said, the older discussion I linked has links to PythonScript implementations that may be of use to you. If you’ve never used PythonScript, this FAQ explains how to take one of those example scripts and implement it on your computer.

@Michael-Vincent Thanks, I’ve managed to make this work with my use case. In case anyone’s interested, this is roughly what I’m doing (AHK code):

fileOpen := false ^+b:: if not fileOpen { fileOpen := true FileCopy, Backup\Notepad++\config (PostIt).xml, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml, 1 FileCopy, Backup\Notepad++\NppExec (PostIt).ini, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config\NppExec.ini, 1 Run, "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" "C:\Path\To\PostIt\File.txt" } else { fileOpen := false FileCopy, Backup\Notepad++\config.xml, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml, 1 FileDelete, %A_AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config\NppExec.ini } return

The config (PostIt).xml is the file with my PostIt NP++ configuration (i.e., no title bars, line numbers, etc.) and config.xml is my usual NP++ configuration. The NppExec (PostIt).ini file is the configuration file for the NppExec plugin, which launches a script on startup that contains the following:

NPP_CONSOLE 0 NPP_MENUCOMMAND "View\Post-It"

This now seems to work as I want it. Thank you both for the help.