I updated a script method for doing this HERE.

This probably should be a new topic, but…

Thinking about the user dictionary. Some time ago one could open it with MS Notepad and delete the lines that had the typos… BUT you had to make sure for every line you deleted, you deducted one from the total line count. Save the file and exit Notepad, then open NP++ and you were set. For the life of me, I cannot remember which file it was. That editing was possible 2(?) years ago. Is it still possible?

@daniel-duarte ,

Yes, the Notepad++ developers have no control over what atrocities that particular site impose on the product, and I make no guarantee as to whether that monstrosity will function or be safe.

Fortunately, the official download site already has a portable version, so there is absolutely no reason to download their mutation.

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I may have allowed personal opinion to affect this post. My opinion is my own, and is not meant to be understood as the opinion of the Notepad++ developers or this Community Forum. While this opinion applies to that aforementioned site, and what they do to software, especially Notepad++, I have not formed or expressed an opinion on the person or people responsible for that site.

@oddmlan,
if you’re still using HTMLTag (or just curious to try it again), there’s finally a new version that addresses this issue: https://bitbucket.org/rdipardo/htmltag/downloads

@PeterJones
Follow current directory is part of “be careful with your cases”. It seems to work, probably since Windows open file dialog fixes it. Not sure exactly what will happen over SAMBA share if there are actually case conflicts.

RightClick > Current Dir Path to Clipboard - doesn’t work. If a file was opened as described, from Find-in-Files with bad path case, Notepad++ just copies the wrong-case path it registered for the file.

The problem is solved! Thanks!
in the plugin NppCalc - removed activation “Active Calc”

@powerbananas ,

The Compare plugin knows nothing about nicknames. So I’m not sure what you think currently works and what you are hoping it would do that it doesn’t seem to.

Could you show some example data, and a screenshot of how the Compare currently functions, then describe how you’d like it to actually function?

@peterjones Thanks for all that great information!

@gstavi said in Can't save the file after change the Encoding from "Characters Sets" to UTF-8:

I objected to someone who said “UTF8 without BOM is stupid”. It is not!

I had either misremembered or misread that original anecdote. Sorry for misrepresenting what had been said previously.

And still the right solution is for Notepad++ to rework its Encoding selection and let the user have more control. The default should be something like “always assume a file is UTF8 unless it violates UTF8 rules, only then autodetect”.

👍💯👏

@alan-kilborn
Yes, I browsed this code a few months ago and thought it was only for the snapshot part of the ‘if’. But now I tested and I saw I get it as well. Wonder where it saves the temporary file. I hope it get deleted afterward.

@guy038 said in How to replace a specific text in lines that contains a specific word.:

First of all, at this time of the year, I am rather involved in ski, which is a passion of mine !

I’m not an excellent skier, but nothing sounds better to me right now than joining you on those slopes! :-)

@detlef-jockheck ,

Unfortunately, I don’t think you’ve given people enough to go on.

I personally don’t use the installer options, and I’m not currently at a location where I could use the installer to test it out, so I can’t give anything specific. But some general debugging questions:

You say “sometimes”. Do you have any hints as to when those “sometimes” are? Are you doing this installation on multiple machines, and N% of those installations are doing nothing? Or are you running the installer multiple times on the same machine, expecting it to either install or uninstall, and N% of those attempts, it doesn’t do what you expect?

@alan-kilborn Thank you.

Changes spec after solution is provided. :-(

Sorry about that. Next time I’ll be more specific. :)

@golden000

The transformations are:

(skip 3 lines and) delete line 4 F: \A(^.*\R){3}\K^.*\R R: (empty) (skip 1st 67 lines and) delete lines 68-77 F: \A(^.*\R){67}\K(^.*\R){10} R: (empty) (skip 4 lines and) replace line 5 F: \A(^.*\R){4}\K^.* R: This is the replacement for the removed line

Modify the {numbers} to fit your needs.

To see how they work on the active tab, in each case, bring up the Replace dialog (Ctl-h) and set Search Mode to Reg expr, leaving the box to its right unchecked. Fill in the Find & Replace texts. With (empty) ensure there are no invisible spaces. In each case even though you maybe doing a single F&R you must use ‘Replace All’ and not ‘Replace’ (a requirement imposed by use of \K).

Although I haven’t tested it, they should also be fine using Find in Files (or Projects). Observe good backup practices.

If you want actual batching, so that one big operation performs all transformations in one go, you’d need a scipting language solution (that drives a sequence of regex actions from a list). Probably someone else will have a concrete suggestion.

@alan-kilborn said in Edit > Blank operations > Tab to space ~ works on whole file but not only on selected text.:

@demetrius said in Edit > Blank operations > Tab to space ~ works on whole file but not only on selected text.:

Replace \t to four spaces is not always leads to same results.

Well, I guess all sorts of people do all sorts of wacky things.
Personally I would not like to be in a situation like I think you’re describing.

There is rare cases when I have to paste code to some forum that incorrectly works with tab sizes. So I turn them to spaces.

If you’re happy with the suggested workaround of copying some data to a second tab and reformatting it there, I’d advocate going with that idea.

Yes, I know about this workaround. Even before I posted here.

@ric12g said in How to see hex color on hover?:

Where is 8.8.2?

Assuming you mean 8.2.2 - it’s in release candidate testing with a “breaking change” (for many plugins) that will allow >2Gb file editing. I thought that’s what this was all about?

I don’t think any of the solutions mentioned in the referenced thread “crash” 8.2.1 or lower Notepad++, they only affect Notepad 8.2.2 (upcoming) thus the scramble to “fix” them.

NppQCP will potentially be fixed and when that’s done I’ll merge the changes into my QuickColorPicker which doesn’t exhibit the 8.2.2 crash behavior now, but may not be capable of dealing with >2Gb files (I’ve only tested on Notepad++ theme files and simple XML docs that have the various color representation schemes the plugin looks for).

I apologize for sounding harsh in my previous comments. I didn’t think in the 15 minutes between @Alan-Kilborn 's first post to the previous thread and your first reply about “None of them works in 2022” there was sufficient time to read, explore and test any or all of the solutions offered. Add to that we didn’t find out what version of Notepad++ you were using - I just assumed it to be the 8.2.2 RC since that’s been top of mind all this week and you’re comment about them not working. I’ve been in a scramble to update plugins that I’ve forked and de-facto maintain as they were abandoned. Unlike you, I’m not a programmer, I just can tinker with existing code and make some fixes here and there. If you are indeed offering to help:

" thank you that’s a good idea…"

I’d be happy to accept pull requests on my fork - likewise, I’m sure @chcg would accept PRs on the NppQCP repo.

Cheers.

@neil-schipper

@hellena-crainicu This exact problem was recently solved here.

SUPER ANSWER. Your solution is great:

FIND: (?<=[^\r\n])\R(?=[^\r\n])

Also, the one made by @guy038 is super:

FIND: (?<!\n|\r)\R(?!\R)

@michael-vincent Yes, very good. Shift+Enter seems to works too. Strange, but thanks a lot.

@ryano

On a one time basis, you could do this.

Take some data (since, pet peeve, you didn’t provide anything textually) that I made up:

aaaaaaaaaaa=bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=bbbbbbbbb aaaa=bbbbbbbb aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=bbbbbbb a=b

Replace = with = plus a “good quantity” of spaces to get:

aaaaaaaaaaa= bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa= bbbbbbbbb aaaa= bbbbbbbb aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa= bbbbbbb a= b

Make a column selection (using Ctrl+Shift+arrows) like this:

7f7d1e4f-3710-4d7d-9ad8-a1e618b03b17-image.png

Press Ctrl+Delete to obtain:

aaaaaaaaaaa= bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa= bbbbbbbbb aaaa= bbbbbbbb aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa= bbbbbbb a= b

@alan-kilborn Thank you, I didn’t. Fixed.