@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:

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Press Ctrl+Delete to obtain:

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

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

@peterjones said in Save as .md default:

@patrick-danilevici ,

I previously said,

hardcoded SaveAs menu.

Good news: there is at least a workaround in the Save As menu. It turns out that wasn’t as hardcoded as I thought.

If you go to %AppData%\Notepad++\langs.xml, and edit it (following config-file-editing recommendations), adding

<Language name="Fake" ext="fak fake false"/>

… then save and restart, then File > Save As gets a new entry:
b460b6af-85bc-42d4-9302-6a53b3b677fd-image.png

Excellent! Thanks a lot!

@peterjones thank you for your response much appreciated.
Yes I am a beginner at notepad++
Regards
Khalid 🙏🏾

@guy038 said in Searching something for automatition:

guy038

Hi guy038,

that’s pretty cool.

Thank you very much

@oa-klk ,

Notepad++ is a text editor. It edits the whole text file.

There is no linux command header. The actual command is head, and it only displays a part of a file, not edits the file. Notepad++ is for editing, not just for displaying to the console.

If all you want is to keep just the first 10 lines in your file, then delete everything else and save (!!!but then the original file will be overwritten with just the 10 lines, and nothing else!!!).

If all you care about editing is in the first 10 lines, then just load the whole file and only edit those first 10 lines. If it really bothers you to see the other lines, you can select the lines you want to hide, and then hit View > Hide Lines (or Alt+H)

@sw-tool-designer ,

Glad it worked for you. Just so you know, that first screenshot you showed was also showing it docked, and it just needed re-sizing, like you did in step 5.

Because when it’s undocked, it looks different:

undocked
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docked
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Do you notice how the window-closing red X (undocked) changed into the much smaller docked-panel X? That’s how I am certain you were docked properly before.

Another thing to keep in mind when docking: if you are moving from TOP docking to RIGHT docking, you might try to drag your panel over to the upper-right half of the screen (the red arrow is meant to simulate your mouse cursor), and you want it to dock to the right (the magenta box):
2a57e1fc-2494-4fdb-b4fe-c1dd0d72c70f-image.png

Instead, it never shows the magenta box, and refuses to dock. But what you really have to do is go down into the editor portion of the window to drag the panel there, and it will show the docking box as indicated by the magenta:
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Then, when you let go, it will vertically re-grow the editor panel and project panel both to the full height you expect:
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When dragging the Project Panel (or other dockable panel), if you are having trouble, try to make sure you are going relative to the editor panel(s) – you cannot dock the panel to a new edge if your cursor when trying to hit that edge is still inside the original panel location. (If you already have a different panel on the destination edge, then just line up the cursor with the title bar of that existing panel.)

Thanks everyone for the input. :)

@peterjones said in JSON Plugin Does Not Work:

You might also make sure you don’t have I.T. department blocking the github download,

Thanks for the reply. I don’t have any IT dept blocking downloads, yet I think you identified the problem. I believe my laptop downloads directory is a Teams folder (mirrored to my work cloud) and, when validating the checksum for NPPJSONViewer_x64.zip it is in fact different once it gets saved to my downloads folder.

I found an alternate way to download the file and validated the checksum to confirm that it matched (using command prompt: CertUtil -hashfile <path to file> SHA256).

Once the checksum was confirmed, I manually installed it (by using Settings>Import>Import Plugins).

Now it works! Thanks.