@ekopalypse Yes it works there

@ashley-hoogenboom

Aside from the File > Save all command (sensing not what you want), or writing a script, there really isn’t an automated way to do what you’re asking.

@dennis-mz ,

I wasn’t going to respond, but let’s start with at least one language that I know of, since the original inception of the Big 3 desktop applications, dBASE does it. Most software does it, to some extent and gives you the option to turn it off. NOT the other way around.

I am amazed at the power users who don’t RTFM, but then quip other users should RTFM, and try to evicerate anyone that dares look at life differently than themselves.

So be it. Notepad.exe does not come with anything but word wrap, cut, copy, paste, a generic find and replace capability, and a time/date insertion macro.

You folks want a programmer’s editor, without paying for it, like we did with Multi-Edit, and several others from days gone by, in what is essentially supposed to be a Notepad.exe replacement. The fact that it is quite good at it, freeware, is a nice thing. To expect it to cater to your’s and only your point of world view to the exclusion of others that you can’t understand, is arrogance. But. cie la vie. You guys seem no better than the cranky old dudes you wanted to replace because they couldn’t learn to do things more modern…and here you are, still crying because someone changed your brain dead default. You installed a new installation, what did you think was going to happen? RTFM and RTRN.

Rant over.

Lee

@ashley-hoogenboom ,
All they can ask. I feel for these guys that do this day in and day out. You were my first attempt, and I was kind of angry when you changed the goal. :) That said, welcome to the NPP forum, community and ask away. The only stupid question, is the one not asked. :)

Lee

@mpheath said in search and extracting text from text file:

Press button Copy Marked Text.

Press Ctrl+N to open a new tab and press Ctrl+V to paste.

The result may have ---- lines separating the captures in the pasted content.

This (the ---- lines) will happen when marked text contains a line-ending(s).

If you search for something simple, e.g. foobar and it occurs many times, when you do Copy Marked Text each match will be separated by a line-ending, typically CRLF, and no ---- will appear.

However, if the search hit contains a line-ending, then a Copy Marked Text, in the copied text the matches are separated by ----CRLF, so that you can see what is actually part of the match and what is delimiter. In other words, the ---- lines are the delimiter.

Example text:

fubar foobar foo bar fu bar

Use the Mark function and mark the regex (?-s)f[ou].*?bar and press Copy Marked Text, and then Paste elsewhere to obtain:

fubar foobar

Use the Mark function and mark the regex (?s)f[ou].*?bar and press Copy Marked Text, and then Paste elsewhere to obtain:

fubar ---- foobar ---- foo bar ---- fu bar

I don’t know that this is expressed in the user manual.

@rick-grunwald said in Notepad++ crashing:

I have not been able to load NP++ since 8.2.1. I am using a portable version under Win 10 x64. It will almost load showing white window then crash. In task manager It seems to start twice. Same behavior if I right click and “open” the executable

Run from the command line with -noPlugin option and when it (most likely) works, you’ll need to re-enable your plugins 1-by-1 to find which one is causing the issue. You can do this by moving all the plugins out of the Notepad++\plugins directory and then putting them back one by one and closing / launching Notepad++ each time you add a new one.

Alternatively, paste your ?=>Debug Info… menu item output here (which you probably should have done) and we may be able to identify the faulty plugin.

Cheers.

@ashley-hoogenboom Appreciation appreciated.

@alan-kilborn said in Cursor starts at column 1 instead of column zero since 8.2.1:

talking about the -n command line parameter

There are actually 2 bug fixes in that commit - one for the -n command line parameter and the other for putting the cursor at column 2 (Scintilla column 1) when opening N++.

@peterjones very fair points. I will use your alt0 recommendation. thank you for the quick and helpful feedback.

@fairbanksbiz said in Have I lost all my Notepad++ unsaved documents?:

it appears so. well, at least I haven’t lost 457 documents

Lucky you!

I highly recommend you take the advice in this thread, and take an active role in making sure your important data / files (and which files aren’t important, really?) are saved to known locations, and backed up, with revision control if necessary. There are settings and plugins which will help with that, as long as you understand their configuration and limitations.

I myself hope so.

The only way that hope will turn to reality is by one or more conscious decisions on your part. And, obviously, you are the only one who can make that decision, and take appropriate actions on that decision, enough that personal data integrity becomes part of your natural behavior.

–
“Save early, save often”

@ekopalypse
Very Good!!!
I’ll be waiting for it.
Thanks
Paolo

@viri-davu Also, the Word Wrap button on the toolbar makes this limitation a little less painful.

Right click on Icon and select “Properties” and then click on “Open File Location”. At that location can <shift><right click> and select “Copy as Path”

@danny-spence You should try to describe in a more precise and complete way all the types of strings you wanted altered. If you are happy doing a separate F&R operation for every date of interest, that’s what Peter’s solution provides. If you wish to alter every Feb date, you need something like Feb/\d+. If you wish to alter a restricted range of dates in Feb like say 8th to 23th, you need something a bit more complex. If you wish to alter every date in the format you’ve shown, you need something like (Jan|Feb|..etc..|Dec)/\d+. Try to eliminate the need for your readers to do guesswork.

Good afternoon,

Just a bit of news;

I’ve submitted a pull request and it got merged in with a version bump, so it’s available to all through the Plugins Admin!
https://github.com/Megabyteceer/npp-task-list/pull/13

Thank you everyone ^^

The .xml file name has to match the UDL name, but inside it the language field is purely descriptive (see https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/auto-completion/#auto-completion-file-format)

Next time I’ll try to be more verbose and explicit on my posts to be precise when it comes to reproduction steps

Really appreciate all you’ve done over the past days!

@michael-vincent
Thank you, that worked! I did try searching the community posts but this is the first time I’ve used it and got a bit lost. Thanks again.

@michael-vincent @alan-kilborn

notepad++2.png

I close the txt file and reopen it, now I cannot reproduce the issue.

But before that, if I just close notepad++ and reopen notepad++(not close txt file and reopen txt file), I got the issue every time.

In the bottom, it shows that it is a user defined language file, I don’t know why.

Notepad++ v8.2.1 (32-bit)
Build time : Jan 19 2022 - 18:38:49
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19042.1466
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : DarkTheme.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll XMLTools.dll

@guy038 said in Locate and insert new value:

I"m surprised and don’t understand your regex replacement

I don’t understand it now either.
For some reason I thought OP wanted to insert the ssn tag and value!
Oops.

@alan-kilborn said in ctrl+f #/count:

You can hope, but it has a better chance if you make a real feature request out of it; see HERE for how to do that.
Probably it doesn’t stand much of a chance, though, IMO.

pls
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11118