@FairbanksBiz ,

As @Alan-Kilborn said, once you closed the unnamed tab, Notepad++ deleted the session periodic-backup file, and thus “your data is gone”.

But assuming you had the session-periodic-backup turned on (it is turned on by default), then at one point, Notepad++ was saving copies into the %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\ , as @Terry-R described. So the files were written there at one time, and then deleted. That means, if you are lucky, an application like Recuva might be able to find and undelete the recent periodic backup for you. But with the amount of time elapsed, it’s getting less and less likely. Sorry.

In the future, if you want to cut from FILE1 to paste into FILE2, a better sequence would be:

save FILE1
I understand you might not have a named file for FILE1… but if this is data that is critical enough to you that you are desperate to recover it, then it should be critical enough to use up some disk space while you are in the middle of manipulating it. cut from FILE1 paste into FILE2 make sure FILE2 looks like you expect save FILE2 go back and save the empty FILE1 close the empty FILE1 use Windows Explorer or other filesystem tool to delete the empty FILE1

…That way, any time before step 6, you can go into FILE1’s tab and UNDO to get back the original file.

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FAQ: Periodic Backup vs AutoSave Plugin => Describes the builtin “Session Snapshot and Periodic Backup” feature and compares it to the AutoSave Plugin Recuva => completely unaffiliated with Notepad++ or the Notepad++ Community Forum; listed as an example of file recovery software for Windows with no guarantee or warranty, explicit or implied, by its listing in this post

@PeterJones @Alan-Kilborn Apologies Peter for responding to the wrong person.

Yes I see what you illustrated on my laptop but not on my desktop.

I just updated styers.xml on my desktop and all is wonderful.

Many thanks,
DG

@PeterJones Thank you very much!

Feature request submited on github:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10729

Thanks

I got curious, and had a couple spare minutes, so I did the experiment.

set local e ~ substr -4 4 $(SYS.PROJECTMAINFILE) if $(e) != .au3 goto BADFILE

so if you put that immediately after the npp_exec makefile.nppexec and before the Au3check.exe call, it will do a test for the PROJECTMAINFILE extension as well.

@SatokaNolato

Not sure exactly what your question is going to be, but I suspect it is going to be about Java code and not Notepad++.

If that’s the case, it isn’t appropriate for this forum. Please find another place to ask it.

@Tom-Grisafe said in Search Multiple Columns:

Any good site that completely explains Reg Expressions with Examples.

Yes. The FAQ for regular expressions has plenty. I linked this to you already, in my first reply to you.

Hi, @stephan-romhart, @terry-r and All,

Oooooh, Stephan, I see ! Actually, it’s the comments, themselves, that are the objects to look for ;-))

Then, just for your information, here is a shorter version of the two regexes, within the css_comment.xml file contents :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ================================================ [ CSS comments ] --> <parser id="css_comment" displayName="CSS" commentExpr=""> <function mainExpr="/\*{2,3}(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+\*/" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+" /> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

With the added line, in the configuration file overrideMap.xml :

<association id= "css_comment.xml" langID= "20"/>

As the default CSS association is :

<!-- <association id= "css.xml" langID= "20"/> -->

Note that the added line, in the overrideMap.xml file, is not mandatory. But, in that case, you must rename the css_comment.xml file as css.xml !

BR

guy038

@Chris-Chris

Yea, for sure read and follow the template for posting such questions!

@PeterJones said in 2 txt files are different in notepad , but similar in notepad++:

(s) that aren’t recognized are in the

thanks a lot, dude. this really was helpful and insightful !

@guy038 ,

Ah, yeah: I had avoided the S/R in the macro because I didn’t think of ticking the “in selection”. Good idea.

@fly-wire ,

My solution is okay; but if you want to preserve your clipboard you should use @guy038’s solution, because mine will replace the contents of the clipboard with your selected text, whereas the search-and-replace macro does not use the clipboard, so your old clipboard contents will still be available for pasting later.

Hi, I encounter this problem on every notepad++ opening. The main menu refreshes 3 times, and each refresh takes around a second. Removing “Explorer” plugin fixed it for me.

I’ve been able to get the job done, using the suggestions by guy038, which seems the simplest for me.
(
SEARCH (?-si)^(.+#0A5D00.+)[/b]

REPLACE $1

… )

Anyhow, thank you both for taking the trouble to help.
With best wishes

@Polar-Bear

The cake is fully baked, wonderful scents are coming out of the kitchen, go to other thread here as mentioned by @PeterJones in his post above:

This conversation was continued in “Deleting a group of characters in lines with same beginning and ending, but different in between (re-post)”.

@RC-Ayers ,

You’ll get more help if you try to describe your problem with a bit more detail.

Great!! Thanks! I tried searching in the forum beforehand but I had found nothing.
Works fine!

@Alan-Kilborn Putting a ^ at the beginning of every regex AND’ed sections has reallllllly fixed the complexity problem! thank you sooooo much!!

Alternate suggestion (somewhat alluded to by a previous response by Alan Kilborn):

Don’t move the vertical separator bar so that one of the views is fully obscured, leave at least one text line visible. The obscured pane is only hidden from the user, not from the editor. When a user makes the pane effectively invisible, what they are really doing is saying don’t show me the contents, so when the editor changes the contents (scrolls the file to display the match) the user can’t see what is going on.

This may not affect the purported bug, but it should at least make it easier to see what is going on. I do note that the Find All in All Opened Documents option will resize the document views to allow space for the Search results window and this may require appropriate resizing of all three panes.