@neil-schipper ,

Although shortcut keys, may be important to you, and I understand, as I used them with early editors also, but the moment we were using mouse and menus, except for Cntrl-c or Cntrl-v, I’ve completely given up using keyboard shortcuts, period. I even used to buy the 116-key keyboards to record shortcuts of only a few important keyboard keymaps/macros, but since the advent of right clicking and context senstive choices, I’ve found little use to remember convoluted keyboard shortcuts.

I even remember buying those commercial keyboard shortcut templates that fit over the keyboards to use common keyboard shortcuts…but those days are long gone for me and I suspect most users, however, as it is a mostly arcane use these days, someone really needing it is going to find it or ask about it, so I don’t think it’s hidden as much as it is “not emphasized”. But as Peter points out, it’s almost impossible to get people who use free software to read the free documentation. It’s easier for them to waste someone else’s time coming up with an answer they won’t research on their own. It’s just the times and generation we live in now, apparently. ::shrug::

@jeff-sacksteder

See HERE

@neil-schipper

Alan nailed it. My answer may not be wrong, but it may not be quite right either, but it’s hard to say without more details of what it’s actually about.

Thank you. Enabling DirectWrite fixed the problem.

@neil-schipper said in Compact Find dialogue box or bar possible:

So the benefit of this is very similar to the benefit of calling functions in code, or “Return from interrupt” on a microprocessor: it automates resumption after completion of a subordinate task.

In this instance, Neil, I think this is a bad analogy. In the procedural programming paradigm, when the program execution comes to a function, it jumps to the function until completed, but when returned, it jumps to the next instruction after the function calling point, so this example isn’t really applicable to this point of view. :)

That said, I guess this would be a useful feature to someone, but I look at it like, if I need to know where I started, that’s why there’s line numbers. I usually know at what point I started the search and know where I need to go back to, so this isn’t something I’d care about, but I can see where someone might like this kind of functionality.

@lampir said in No update available, but update is available?:

I don’t know if this should have been resolved in the meantime, but I still have the same issue.

You don’t have an issue, becaue it ISN’T an issue.
Re-read my posting HERE and try again to understand it, really the part after “But to answer…”.

If that still leaves you unsatisfied (and I presume it will), check out another variant on the answer to these types of questions, HERE.

@ftgp said in autoreplace strings in pasted text:

30 things I have to delete or replace

You can create a multi-step replacement macro.
See the Macro menu.
Start recording, then do several different replacement operations.
Save and name your macro and then test it to see that it indeed executes multiple replacements on some data.

@deefeecee said in Copy-pasting & Replacing NUL characters:

Re: Copy buffer converts NUL to SPACE

If you’re going to link to a previous discussion (which happens to be the issue that originally brought me to this forum!), you could at least read through the end. That post explained that there is an Edit > Paste Special > menu, with entries Copy/Cut/Paste Binary Content. That was there in 2015 when I originally asked (though I didn’t know it, and none of the regulars pointed it out), and would have worked with an unedited, plain-vanilla installation of Notepad++ v6.8.7 (which was state-of-the-art in Dec 2015); it still worked in 2019 (after the First Plugin Conversion in v7.6.3); and it still works in the latest-and-greatest v8.3.3 in March 2022:

Oops, the animation clipped the menu; here’s a static version:
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The steps are:

Highlight the text that has the NUL character(s) in it Edit > Paste Special > Copy Binary Content Move to where you want to paste Edit > Paste Special > Paste Binary Content

Those four simple steps will accomplish your goal, without having to go back to 2016’s NPP v6.9 and edit Scintilla.

@guy038 said in Search for a wrong comma in csv file:

your solution, Alan, works only for more than 6 comma chars, found in text, but it misses text containing less than 6 commas !

Yes (but actually it is your – generic – solution I used!)

I just try to give them what they ask for:

Is it possible to search for lines with more than 6 comma?

And, truly, I think the OP is looking for the case where some program output csv-like text without regard for embedded commas in the data, so it is very likely that the less-than-6-commas case never occurs. (Certainly good to check for it, though).

@alan-kilborn
It worked. It seems that checkbox was added between v.7.9.5 and v.8.3.2. Thank you so much!

@anonymous-guy said in Notepad++ regex to move a line with certain string after a line with another string:

I’m really grateful and if anyone has a buy me coffee page or any other way I can at least symbolically show my gratitude let me know.

I can take care of that as well:

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@samuel-geremias said in Find and Replace names in several text files:

but I have no experience coding.
Can someone please write a little command to be used on the replace tool from notepad ++ to solve this problem? I believe it is possible.

Most anything is possible with “coding”. :-)

Yes, this is a task that you aren’t going to get anywhere on without some coding.

Perhaps this OTHER RECENT THREAD has some starter information for this task…

@richard-watt

This is a two-step process.
The information is requested from
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php
and then downloading from e.g.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/download/v8.2.1/

See gup.xml in the update folder.

@chrischris

This means that your ANSI code page is different than expected.
Another way to make this visible is probably to use the 1250 encoding

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@peterjones said in Help wanted with REGEX Search:

$1:L P[$2] WELD_SPEED FINE\r\n: Weld End[1,1];

That worked beautifully, thanks so much

@ekopalypse

Where do you see an advantage in using block comments over line comments?

A very refreshing point indeed…
Yes for many language with decent single line comment it is totally fine
while for Markdown for example, only block comment is properly defined

<!-- your comment -->

the built-in markdown use “#” for single line comment, which is reserved for paragraphs in markdown

Yes I can change to to like “//”, but is not compatible when I open the file in other Editors, say, VSCode.

Thank you.

@peterjones

Thank you so much! it worked

@bill-nardone,

Plugins : combine.dll [ . . . ]

That must be from a previous installation: the hosting domain for that plugin was taken down a month ago: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22645/combine-plugin-gone/7

@ogün-kovan

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22636/debug-info-dialog-what-does-current-ansi-codepage-mean/5

Those links are focused on changing the codepage to UTF8 (65001)… but should be able to work for changing to 1254 as well.

@peterjones Will do, cheers.