@chris-watson

See HERE.

@patrick-o-beirne said in How to copy as extended, eg CRLF to \r\n:

I want text with the extended notation which I can edit.

I’ve found a method for this, with 8.4.2 software, but it is definitely not specific to this version (just documenting which version I used):

select some multi-line data press Ctrl+f to bring up the Find window select a Search mode of Normal run a Find All in Current Document search

Note that the Find what field now (post-search) contains text in “extended notation”, which may be copied elsewhere and edited. Note also that the Search mode has been changed to Extended.

Example:

Start with this text:

456 abc 123 def

Select text as follows:

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Press Ctrl+f. Set up this search (important – don’t change what was auto-populated into Find what):

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Press the Find All in Current Document button and see how the Find what box content has changed:

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The Find what box data can now be copied elsewhere and edited, as it is now abc\r\n123\r\n.

Note also that the Search mode has been changed to Extended.

BUG:

Repeat the experiment, but this time change the Search mode to Regular expression and change one character in the Find what data to a . before running the Find All in Current Document search:

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The result of the search: no matches.

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There should be 1 match. :-(

This happens because Notepad++ changes my search from a Regular expression search to an Extended search, before the search happens. :-(

For more info, see https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11847.

Above code works perfectly 😁 Thank You 👍

@peterjones if it’s interesting, I finally hunted down the relevant UltraEdit wiki page as well as a screenshot of it being used

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Note that although the OP in this thread has used the term “bookmark”, what is being discussed has nothing to to with Notepad++ bookmarks.

What the OP means is more tied to the Notepad++ Smart Highlighting feature – the feature that, if you double-click a word, Notepad++ highlights in light-green coloring all of the matches in the text of the document.

OP would like location in the doc of such matches to be highlighted as a small rectangle on the vertical scrollbar of the document.

This is similar to other some existing requests, to do same type of thing when a true search is run, e.g., a Find Next or a Find All in Current Document.

@terry-r ,
I agree with your analogy, but as the OP has “shown” what he starts and wants to end with, Alan’s answer is germane to the question at hand, whilst your’s evokes a new creature feature. :-)

@andi-kiissel said in How to jump to previous active tab/file with PytonScript?:

notepad.activateIndex(view, index)

You need to put this together with notepad.getFiles() as it is an iterable that returns all of the necessary information. See the help for that function and you’ll see what I mean.

Highlight and press space right ? is that not what your looking for?

@alan-kilborn said in Access Violation Specifically With 'Unwrap Text' within TextFX:

If you’d like to make one, I’m sure Peter Jones would be agreeable to creating an entry in the FAQ section here with such data.

Created and initially populated

(I had a spare hour before dinner today)

@niko-hamil ,

Unfortunately, as you may have surmised from the resounding silence, there is not much you can do: if the periodic unsaved-file “backups” aren’t in their folder, then the crash caused Notepad++ to exit during the brief time that the files didn’t exist (or you didn’t have the unsaved-file backups option turned on)

For the future, I recommend saving your files to known locations frequently, rather than leaving them opened-and-unsaved. For more, see our backup FAQ

@alan-kilborn
ok, thanks for that :)

for the rest the program works, if I run it directly.

@alan-kilborn Perfect! Thanks so much.

@pallieguy said in Notepad++ 8.4.2 not recognizing file extension to define language:

I wonder when I did that?

Probably at one of the updates: there was a while when the installer would not notice an old installation if it wasn’t in c:\program files\notepad++, so even if you had installed to D:\notepad++\, the updater/installer would put the newer copy in c:\program files\notepad++ instead. IIRC, that has been fixed (I spent a couple minutes searching through the issues list, but wasn’t using a narrow enough set of search terms, so couldn’t find it buried in all the other results), so the next time you run the installer/updater for whatever version you end up keeping, it should hopefully default to the existing location.

@peterjones @Alan-Kilborn
Just wanted to thank you guys for your feedback and advice the other day.

After unistalling Notepad++ and deleting the folder in the programs file, as well as the one in #APPADATA#, I downloaded Notepad again, and installed xml-tools. I took the advise from @Snabel42 and unchecked some options in the plugin meny, and things seemed to work fine.

But not for long … I belive there is some issues with the plugin, and that it affects the performance of Notepad++, making it unresponsive for shorter or longer periodes, both when using find/replace and when working more manually with the text, on the keyboard and/or with the courser.

I’ll go to the plugin people on github and post an issue, but thanks again!

Mats

@d-east ,

Interesting, I did lots of experimenting after someone mentioned sessions to me, and found the following sequence:

Only one instance open of Notepad++ Open change.log and license.txt (closing anything else first) File > Save Session… => main.sess File > Close All Settings > Preferences > Multi-Instance & Date > Multi-Instance = Open Session in new instance View > Document List turned on Open readme.txt Exit Notepad++ and restart At this point, the Document List is still visible File > Load Session… => pick main.sess It opens change.log and license.txt in a second Notepad++ instance, but this instance does not have Document List visible Exit the second instance of Notepad++ Exit the first instance of Notepad++ Restart Notepad++ to prove that Document List is still visible, which proves that the setting is still in effect

This confirms your issue.

I was going to point you to the FAQ for where to submit bug reports, but it turns out issue #9710 already shows a report of the same issue: “Document List panel is not shown when new instance is run”.

@teo-deb ,

Weird. You might want to grab a fresh copy of nppPluginList.dll from one of the portable downloads, and see if that fixes it. Because I know that nppPluginList does not crash v8.4.1 (or any other version of Notepad++ I’ve used since v7.6.3 stabilized on the modern nppPluginList)

@alan-kilborn I have thought hard, I just hate indenting with spaces

@ken-detweiler said in periodic backup suddenly stopped working:

“Enable session snapshot and periodic backup” absolutely does not work

Great bug report.
What version of Notepad++ are you referring to?
I am certain there will be further questions for someone that says something “absolutely does not work” and those are 4 words of a 10-word description.

@Sean-Moody ,

I think this script will do what you want

# encoding=utf-8 """https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23149/find-and-replace-with-increments/4 This will start by matching text from `{` at the beginnig of a line to `}` or `},` at the beginning of a line Inside those groups, it will replace all "zone_#" or "zone #" with the value of the counter The counter will increment between `{...}` groups """ from Npp import * import re counter = 1 def replace_group(m): global counter out = re.sub(r'(?<=zone[ _])\d+', str(counter), m.group(0)) counter = counter + 1 return out console.clear() editor.beginUndoAction() editor.rereplace(r'(?s)^{\h*$.*?^},?\h*$', replace_group) editor.endUndoAction()

The editor.rereplace line matches from { at the beginning of a line to } or }, at the beginning of a line. It then calls replace_group() on that match. The second function does the search-and-replace inside that group, looking for zone followed by either _ or space, followed by one or more digits, and replaces those digits with the current value of the counter. Every group of { to }, will increment the counter by one, so each chunk will get a unique number, but use the same number inside.

Assumptions:

That your example data isn’t missing leading spaces, because the regex assumes the { and }, are at the beginning of the line. That there aren’t any other { and }, at the beginning of lines embedded inside (so nicely indented and properly formulated json) That zone_1 and zone 1 within a single {…} block should all get the same counter value That you don’t have any zone_### inside your blocks that you don’t want changed (you didn’t show any, but…)

@lycan-thrope said in NOTEPAD++ 8.4, 8.4.1 and 8.4.2 crash:

eded knowledge y

Thank you so much to both of you, indeed …
I try to update them, and see what will happen.
Stef