@Raúl-ALR ,

The instructions for installing and running this script are in the FAQ: How to install and run a script in PythonScript

The script-specific instructions are found in the script’s code itself.

# encoding=utf-8 """in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23339/pasting-copied-text-in-a-search-window-in-a-macro This searches in the "objects" file for every line: <ObjectRef ref="..."/> It grabs the ref ID, and searches for that ID in the "hosts" file <Host id="id4843X9273" name="object_name" comment="" ro="False"> It grabs the name field from the matching line in the "hosts" file It then replaces the whole <ObjectRef.../> with that name field In the lines below, change the paths to the two files: - The first path is the "objects" file, - The second is the "hosts" file. - Both must be opened in Notepad++, but it doesn't matter which view they are in. - Full paths are required. It makes it a single undo action, so if you don't like the results, you can just hit UNDO """ from Npp import editor,notepad,console class Class23339(object): def go(self, object_fname, host_fname): self.object_fname = object_fname self.host_fname = host_fname notepad.activateFile(object_fname) editor.rereplace(r'<ObjectRef ref="([^"]*)"/>', lambda m: self.repl_in_objects(m)) def repl_in_objects(self, m): notepad.activateFile(self.host_fname) editor.research(r'<Host id="{}" name="(.*?)"'.format(m.group(1)), lambda ms: self.find_in_hosts(ms)) notepad.activateFile(self.object_fname) return self.found_in_hosts def find_in_hosts(self, m): self.found_in_hosts = m.group(1) editor.beginUndoAction() Class23339().go( r"c:\users\peter.jones\downloads\tempdata\nppCommunity\objects.xml", r"c:\users\peter.jones\downloads\tempdata\nppCommunity\hosts.xml" ) editor.endUndoAction()

If you want to ever customize these, the editor.rereplace(...) line starts with the regex that will match lines in the “objects” file and put the ref-ID value in group(1); the editor.research(...) line starts with the regex that will find the specific ref-ID in the “hosts” file, and grab the value of the host name out of there.

Hi Ron
Were you able to fix the issues and use the UDL?
Can you please share the current copy of the Journal file highlighting?
Thanks

@guy038 it looks good, however I don’t have an ANSI file so I can’t practice it

@PeterJones
Hello Peter,

Thanks a lot for your help.

Great ! Your procedure works !

I had troubles to reproduce it. I didn’t understand why it didn’t work the first times until I thought “Gosh ! The semicolons at the beginning of the lines are probably there to transform these lines to comments !”

Then I removed the semicolon which was the first character on the newly created line, and… Ha ha ! Won ! The button appeared ! And with its tooltip. And it works.

:)

Now it will be a piece of cake to modify the icon and put a small bitmap in its place using the last step of your explanation.

Thanks a lot again, Peter !

Cheers !
Jacques (from France)

@guy038 said in what are list Regex available "named capture group" for find and replace in current version:

Refer to this link for further explanations :
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_78_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html#boost_regex.syntax.perl_syntax.branch_reset

Why not this LINK as well?:

@Ekopalypse Great ^^

This can be seen/changed in the “Shortcut Mapper”, the area of the Notepad++ software that allows customization of keycombos. Invoke it:

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And change to the “Scintilla commands” tab and do some downscrolling:

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So, as a user you probably don’t care about “Scintilla” or even know what it is – it is an editing component that Notepad++ embeds to get its real work (editing text!) accomplished.

Thus, you’d have to have some intuition about what “SCI_PARADOWN” means, but for the most part this isn’t too difficult.

BTW, you could remap this command to Ctrl+down if you wanted, but that keycombo is tied by default to a different command, so you’d have to remap the other command as well so as to not have a conflict.

Tanks a lot for your answer. I will try to use xxd as you mentonned.
I can also use hexedit but the size of the file (dump file .bin) is too big for hexedit so that i don"t have the whole file…
Therefore if you already used a similar application, I would be very interested in that.

Thanks and have a good week.

Cyril

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks so much!
Cheers

@Arnab-Mitra

See HERE.

Hello, @zean-yauh and All,

Do you mean something like that ?

SEARCH (?-s)\R(?!.+:)

REPLACE \x20

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button

Best Regards,

guy038

@Christopher-Johns-0

The two bytes that start the file on line 1, PK are a dead giveaway that this is a zipped archive file, as Peter indicated. Long ago, zip files were created with a program called pkzip.exe and their contents extracted with a program called pkunzip.exe. I think P was for the name of someone named “Phil”. I’ll really press my memory and say the K was for “Katz”. (I could cheat and google it, but it is often more fun to just try to pull stuff from memory – googling it is left as an exercise for interested readers)

@PeterJones

I have found an issue logged with the Snippets project on GitHUb where other users are having the same problem so hopefully it will be resolved soon.

https://github.com/ffes/nppsnippets/issues/45

@PeterJones

Alright, thank you for all your help.

Have a great day!

@Özgür-Ulusoy

Using a regular expression search like this
^Installing.+\)$ should do the job.

If you want to understand what this means, please read here.

@PeterJones i will try, thank you

Thanks heaps. Makes sense to me now.

@Gary-Winey

Do you mean
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vs
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If so, then the checkbox on the right controls that. It tells you this when you hover over that box:
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It’s also documented in the usermanual

(I showed a screenshot on the Find tab of the dialog, but it’s the same on the Find and Replace tab as well)

@Meatball-Football ,

If you want to filter which files are searched, the expectation was to use Find in Files rather than the Find feature’s Find in All Opened Documents command – and that Find in Files does have a filter syntax described in the hover text and in more detail at npp-user-manual.org in the section “Find in Files”

@PeterJones Thanks for taking the time to reply. I have the same understanding as you but still have to make the effort. Fortunately, I only have to log the attempt then push the matter further up the team ladder.