@alan-kilborn said in How to delete the last 14 characters from a string:

(?-s).{14}$

Dear Mr. Kilborn -

My word. Thank you so much for not only pointing out that I was asking about two different things but also for solving my issue. I’m so grateful. I’m going to try and work this out in my head so I understand this even though at my age its hard to concentrate on things like this. But I can still try.

I hope you have a great day and find joy in helping this old guy work something out that IS way out of his (my) league.

–Red

Hi, All,

Forgot to mention that I got the main information from this link :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53691278/how-to-see-which-ansi-code-page-is-used-in-windows

BR

guy038

These currently-open requests for the software might be relevant, if my interpretation of the OP’s desire is correct:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5823 https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4700

@paul-wormer I updated to version 2.0.0 via GitHub and now it works. Windows defender warned severely for viruses though, which I somewhat reluctantly ignored.

@alan-kilborn

Great! It works

@valery-bogomolov ,

This thread is becoming rather mixed-up.
Please open an issue in NppGTags repo to discuss its autocomplete problem there.

At first look it seems that the parser you are using (GTags maybe) is not recognizing some symbols in your codebase. AFAIR, the parser won’t be able to parse Unicode right if you are using it.

@john-ellenberger ,

In general, Notepad++ does update the time stamp when it writes a file… I have no problems with timestamps not being right when Notepad++ writes a file no matter where it’s written. This is likely because it’s not really Notepad++ that handles timestamps, but the OS interacting with the filesystem.

That said, Microsoft applies magic to lots of their tools, and Sharepoint is probably no exception.

Unfortunately, without access to a Sharepoint that I have write permission on (and without being able to figure out how to map a sharepoint location to Windows Explorer), I cannot replicate your problem.

Given that every MS search location for “map sharepoint drive” says something to the effect of “Mapping a network drive uses WebDav, an older technology which is slower and less reliable than syncing SharePoint files with the new OneDrive sync client. …”, I think MS is moving away from mapped sharepoint drives. If you have the option of accessing your sharepoint through OneDrive instead, that might be more reliable (and in OneDrive, if you tell it to “always keep this file on my computer”, then Notepad++ should have no problem writing to it and keeping the timestamp up to date… at least, I have never had a file saved from Notepad++ to my OneDriveForBusiness location not save the timestamp correctly).

Sorry I couldn’t give you a nice easy solution.

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edit: rephrased first paragraph, because certain readings made it look like I was contradicting myself

@peterjones

Thank you so much
Mike

@alan-kilborn said in sql language style issue with \":

It does feel like an orphan where it is!

But being adopted by the Language tab, when it’s a Language-specific option, isn’t that extraordinary.

The real issue is that more Languages should have Language-specific options (like whether JSON should accept comments or not; I think there are other Language-specific options that Scintilla offers that Notepad++ doesn’t give access to, as well), and those other options should go on the same page (with possibly shrinking the height of the Language Menu and Tab Settings columns)

@pasha-19 ,

I must apologize for being obtuse.

After looking into this report and this issue #11239, it looks like v8.3.1 is doing something weird with the UDL comment entries, but worked properly in v8.3 and earlier. I now think there was a regression in the UDL Comment handling in v8.3.1. Given the description you showed above – especially with the XML showing single-digit rather than double-digit in the tag value – I believe the problems you were having with Comment Line syntax are caused by the same issue.

Hopefully it will be fixed in the next release of Notepad++ – until then, stick with v8.2.1. And again, sorry for not groking what you were trying to say.

@martin-šulák ,

I’ve never done that before, so I don’t know if it’s possible. However, since you think it used to be possible (but your question implies that it no longer works): my bet is that you have recently updated to v8.2.1 or v8.3.0. If so, you will have to go into Settings > Preferences > Auto-Completion, and click the checkbox on for ☑ ENTER to re-enable ENTER as the auto-completion key. Once that is done, I think your old macro might work again.

I had similar symptoms - application stopping after a few seconds after the update to NP++ 8.3.1, although I didn’t get an error pup-up. I found it was caused by the plugin “Task List”. I see you have that plugin too.

To resolve, I had to open NP++ with only a blank document (as soon as there is any text it crashes) and uninstall “Task List”. To be able to do this, you may have to delete your session file, “…\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\session.xml”

Any files you had opened in your session will be in “…\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup” so you shouldn’t lose anything.

Hope this helps.

Hi, @darthdata and All,

In this case, change the second regex S/R into this one :

SEARCH (?-is)^.+(?:PST|MST|MDT)(?=\R(?:.+(?:PST|MST|MDT)\R)*?(Account: .+)\R(.+))|^(.+\R){2}

REPLACE ?1\1 - $0 - \2

BR

guy038

@sadicus

Can’t be done.
Notepad++ is a text editor; nobody using a text editor wants textual content that can’t be seen, or is obfuscated.

@ydvaditya

You can’t assign it for all documents but for all “new” documents by using settings->preferences dialog

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@ars1614 I meant when there is not access to the remote folder.
Don’t know if this also crashes when there is access and no file.

@terry-r For some reason I can’t use any regexs on the LF versions of these transcripts - I get an error message about the document being read only. Guy038 wrote a new regex that worked like a charm, though.

Thanks again for your help leading me through this. I appreciate it :)

@n0rimaki ,

c:\program files\notepad++\updater\gup.xml (or appropriate path for your installations) has an entry called InfoUrl:

<InfoUrl>https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php</InfoUrl>

If you change that URL to a site you control and that your users have access to, then that URL should return XML of the syntax:

<GUP> <NeedToBeUpdated>yes</NeedToBeUpdated> <Version>8.2.1</Version> <Location>https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/download/v8.2.1/npp.8.2.1.Installer.exe</Location> </GUP>

The <Location> value in that response indicates where the updater should download the installer executable.

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@neil-schipper said in How to delete duplicate lines ?:

I’m pretty sure there’s a way to fix that).

(?-s)^(.+)(?:\R\1)+(\R|\z)

Use * instead of + if it is desired to remove duplicate contiguous empty lines.