@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.

here comes a link that gives more

ISO 646

@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.

@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.