@hcchen said in Regular expression size limited 2048 chars How to make it longer?:

After all, I pop up a message box that informs user that the RegEx will be copy to clipboard, OK or Cancel? that’s all. Users can easily use the ‘Find’ dialog then

That’s a nice approach to solving your problem.
Sometimes it just takes some discussion and background thinking to get to the right conclusion.

@PeterJones

That’s run through great now, thank you. :)

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@Ariel-Eduardo-Gonzalez

Try to read the release notes when you upgrade to a new version, to get a feeling for new features and settings that have been added – it could save you time as you wouldn’t need to ask and could get back to being productive right away.

@Alan-Kilborn
Hello Alan Kilborn,
Thanks for your tips.

Best regards
Thomas

@Saya-Jujur ,

Untested, because I am on my phone, but maybe try

prev = '' with open('data.txt') as f: for (n, line) in enumerate(f): if line[:200] == prev[:200]: print n+1 prev = line[:200]

(You said you changed to 200 already, but maybe you missed an instance, or maybe comparing just the left of prev is enough)

If that doesn’t work, then follow @Terry-R’s advice

OP has continued this (albeit with some changes in request) in this post.

Terry

Hi @guy038 , I really appreciate your help. Not only resolved my problem, but also taught me something with your detailed explanation.

@Cameron-Mitchell ,

The only installer options are described https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options

Unfortunately, the NSIS installer technology (which is what Notepad++ uses) doesn’t give a lot of command-line-options. And the developers of Notepad++ want to focus their attention on the application itself, not in rewriting the installer software.

Since you seem to be an admin who is installing on multiple machines, I would suggest creating your own bundle: either start with the portable/zip edition, and customize the settings, then make your own zip (or self-extracting-zip exe) which you distribute; or start with the installed version, customize the settings, and zip up install-directory + %appdata%\notepad++ and bundle into a zip or self-extracting-zip for distribution.

@Vaibhav-Sharma

This used to work properly in old versions, but not in new ones. I recommend you to fix this problem

This feature has Preference settings that have to be set “correctly” for what you need. I believe these are the defaults in 8.1.7:

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Probably you want to untick the “whole word” one.

I’m having the exact same issue. Opening as admin is a workaround, but restarting the windows display subsystem using the shortcut key Win+Ctrl+Shift+B doesn’t fix it.

Windows 10.0.19043

Dear DonHo,

In version 8.1.8, this issue has been fixed.

Anyway, if you need the info I can revert back to version 8.1.7 and post the Debug Info.

Regards,

@Neil-Schipper said in Find a specific sequence on every line:

it’s intriguing to imagine an engine behind a friendly interface asking users to specify key aspects of their requirements in natural language

That would be, well, pure “magic”:

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@PeterJones said in Change case of 7th character:

$1\L$2

Thank you Peter!
That worked perfectly!
Appreciate it very much.

@W-TX ,

One must first maximize one pane and hide another to start to do a search.

What part of “whether I’ve got the view collapsed (using the < or > arrow on the dividing line) to just primary, or just secondary” did you not understand? The “collapsed” is the correct terminology which aligns with your “maximize”. I even told you what I clicked to do that, which should have been enough to overcome any language barrier.

Please search for a string, not a word

A word is a string. The search engine makes no distinction.

, alternately click an item in the document list pane and search result pane, prefer not to touch the file view pane

I never touched the file view pane during that experiment.

I am waiting for other people to repeat the procedure to reproduce the bug.

You will likely be waiting a long time, unless you can provide a simpler way of reproducing the bug.

finally get the bug removed by code designers

If there really is a bug, and others could confirm it: even if you reported the bug 1000000 in this forum, it would do no good, and would not cause the code designers – who have not been told of the bug – to do anything.

I will ignore all other unrelated opinions.

I am unable to help you any further, because you ignore what I say or what I say is incomprehensible to you. Maybe someone else will find some other way to helo you. Good luck.

@Vicki-J-Tumia Thanks, It worked for me as well.

@Fred-Brown

Why are you asking this question in a discussion forum where people discuss Notepad++ ??

Suggest you find a more appropriate forum for it.

This topic was first broached here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21973

thanks @guy038 and @Robin-Cruise

@W-TX
Here is exactly what I want to do:
Search for “\n” for comment lines that start with “–”, excluding leading space characters, and empty lines.
Replace with a space.

After the Notepad++ shows the changed file’s line number, the pure code line number, click undo icon to return to prior status.