@jiskapav Good that you have the more general (dimension-neutral) solution.

If Alan (or someone else) had not provided a pythonscript solution, I would have proposed a pair of macros-with-hotkeys (one to copy, one to paste) for each dimension. Thus, 4 macros might have satisfied 90% of your need.

@Григорий-Новожилов My interpretation of your need as pseudocode:

For each string in Condition between first occurrence on a line of // and the next occurrence of /

For each occurrence of that same string in result, also between a leading double slash and single slash on a line

advance count

What I’d probably do is:

Prepare:

Make safe copies of both files. Obtain a modern Windows “diff” (file & directory compare) tool. You can install the Compare plugin (Plugins, Admin…), but standalone ones are friendlier and more sophisticated and there are good free options.

Then:

Clean both files so they contain only the strings of interest, one per line. This can be done with a macro (incorporating a {non-regex} find), or, a regex S&R. (Try learning and fooling around with these on your own. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/ If you need help, ask.) Sort first cleaned file (menu: Edit, Line operations). Sort second cleaned file. Use diff tool on the cleaned sorted files.

Now the mismatches in counts will jump out at you, and it will be much easier to count them.

Note that (a copy of) the cleaned (and maybe sorted, your preference) Condition file can be the start point for your report file.

If this is still too hard (because very big files, or, many entries, or done frequently) there will be a need for more sophistication.

Some fancy diff tools might have options to automate the counting.

@Patrick-Kelly said in Need to totally remove Notepad++ so I can reinstall:

Are any of the instructions just given changed in this case?

Yes as the portable version contains all customisations within its “installed” folder. So you just need to delete that folder to clear out the installation. That’s the beauty of the portable version, it’s self-contained.

So your original post was a bit sparse on details, are you having a problem getting Notepad++ to run? If so what sort of problem? Can you provide the Debug Info, use ? menu, then “debug info” which can be copied and pasted here.

Terry

@John-Colburn said in Find And Replace has stopped working:

This no longer works

It works.
You have to be in Regular Expression mode for the Search mode; probably Extended mode also works.
BUT… it isn’t a good idea to do what you’re doing, because doing exactly what you say will turn your Windows files into old Mac format files.
You want to replace with \r\n.

Fascinating! It WAS opening in Admin mode. I fixed that - and it’s working. Thanks SO much for taking the time to explain.

@Tony-Scialdone ,

Here are the steps I used to get it working with v8.1.4-32bit:

Use Plugins Admin to install WebEdit plugin. after the restart of Notepad++, the Plugins > WebEdit menu showed up, but there were no available actions in the menu, and nothing on the toolbar:
274d27e8-0345-4cca-a3a9-1ce7d75f6bd2-image.png if I look in my <npp.install.dir>\Plugins directory, there is a WebEdit subdirectory, with a Config subdirectory (<npp.install.dir>\Plugins\WebEdit\Config\) Exit Notepad++. Copy the *.bmp and WebEdit.ini from <npp.install.dir>\Plugins\WebEdit\Config\ into %AppData%\Notepad++\Plugins\Config\ directory.🛈 Restart Notepad++ Now the WebEdit menu has actions, and the buttons are on the toolbar:
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You might want to see this more recent WebEdit discussion: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21504/webedit-plugin-tooltips-out-of-sync

@Evgeny-Goncharov

Try the following: Open Preferences dialog and check this setting:

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@PENchanter

I would certainly go with @Ekopalypse 's script approach in order to obtain the list of keyboard shortcuts, rather than paying any small amount of money to achieve it, but of course you are free to do as you like.

@PeterJones , thank you for your help and support. I think the latest Notepad Plus 8.1.5 might have fixed this odd UI behavior.

@Robin-Schweitzer said in clip board manager:

my PC is old and its version of window no longer supported

I have Ditto working on a Dell circa 2010 with Windows 7 and aside from the laptop itself being awfully slow, Ditto works fine.

where on the menu is the built in one?

Edit => Clipboard History

Note, it’s only history for clips within Notepad++, not external (i.e., Windows clipboard) hence the need (desire) for something more powerful / system-wide.

Cheers.

@Tracy-Saunders said in Update for the Python Plugin?:

I noticed that there is only support for Python 2.7

You need to look at the Github repo, not just the Plugin Admin; you’ll see there is v3.0.9 supporting Python 3.9.6. I’ve been using the v3 train for over a year now and currently have v3.0.7 installed - since it’s supporting Python 3.8 - which my system Python is 3.8.10.

Cheers.

@PeterJones said in Coloured Text Saved?:

@Neil-Schipper ,

I thought you might dislike my original, so I was working on it in the background.

I prefer you be less concerned about my likes, and, that we be in agreement that having something out there is a good thing.

I’ve posted the “FAQ Desk: Formatting Forum Posts”

Your doc is packed with all the info one could want to get initiated into post formatting on this site.

And from way the doc is formatted and structured it looks like it took a good many hours of serious work, far beyond anything I expected.

I think it does a good introduction into how to format posts, so hopefully it will be a useful FAQ entry

Yes, it does, and I hope it’s made use of.

@Viki-Belmont

Another approach might be to save a copy of all of the candidate files in another place. Then, after N++'s replace-in-files, use a file compare utility to compare the top-level folder of the changed files and the originals.

@Terry-R said in What regex to create a search limit boundary?:

note the inclusion of a ? changes the regex from being greedy to lazy (not-greedy)

Thank you Terry R, not only was this a very clearly explained and effective solution, but now I understand the idea of a ‘greedy’ regex expression, something I didn’t get from textbook examples that I’d read.

@PeterJones

Thank you very much.
It worked!

@PeterJones the last RegEx I typed above worked for me. I thank you you for your time, patience, help and support. I was not sure about it and thought I should ask but since you dislike it, I will ask for a solution here only if I can’t figure out what to do on my own next time. Thanks again.

@Milan-Djukanovic It’s tough to be sure just what you want to match, and what to exclude. Match a specific name? any string after “gamertag”?

It would be helpful if you showed several lines, such as:

gamertag: johnny51 you can add me here gamertag: johnny51 you can add me there johnny51 you can add me here gamertag: johnny52 you can add me here zamertag: johnny51 you can add me here zamertag: johnny52 you can add me here

and stated clearly which lines should and shouldn’t match, and what the lines should look like after the desired operation. (Also it’s nicer to read text inside a “code” box like I used above; use the 5th edit window button).

Thank for the answer Peter,
I actually tried to rerun the update a couple days a go and the installer was able to complete this time.
I am not sure what changed. but I though someone would like to know.

Hello, @원할머니보쌈, @peterjones and All,

In addition to the 3 methods, provided by Peter, here is a 4th method, which works, whatever, the secondary view is present or not :

With a left mouse click, select the tab which you want to move or clone in the other view => the tab’s contents is automatically displayed, of course

Keeping the left mouse button down, drag the mouse down, in its present’s editor pane => You should see the yellow icon, shown in Peter’s post

Immediately, release the left mouse button => a tiny panel should pops up, with two options, only :

Move to Other View Clone to Other View

Choosing one of the two options :

Open the secondary view first, then move or clone the selected tab in this secondary view, IF the secondary view did not exist, yet

Move or clone the selected tab in this secondary view, IF the secondary view was already present

Best Regards,

guy038

@Andre601 ,

A couple things you don’t show: what’s the file type (“language”) of the currently-active document, and what your Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Global Override settings are.

If you have global overides checkmarked (my screenshot, below, does not), then that may mess up your background color unexpectedly. But given your screenshot, I don’t think that’s the problem.

Regaring file type/language: Your Style Configurator is showing the colors for the “Search Result” type, but it doesn’t look like you have the search-results panel shown. It actually looks more like Markdown inside of something like a Hugo or other content-management system for making a website.

Example with it working with the “Obsidian” them but not in Dark Mode (so UI is white, but edited text is obsidian). With a “plain text” file, it works right:

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If I switch to Language > Markdown (preinstalled), it wil look similar to what you show:
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This is because the User Defined Languages, like Markdown (preinstalled), are not theme aware. You have to modify your UDL colors to match the theme.

However, if you have a recent Notepad++ (v8.1.3 or newer), it will come with a second Markdown UDL, called Markdown (preinstalled dark mode), which will be closer to what you want for editing.
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If you want to use that variant of the Markdown UDL, then make sure that Language > User Defined Language > Define Your Language has your Markdown extensions set for the Markdown (preinstalled dark mode)…
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… but not set for the Markdown (preinstalled) (just clear out that Ext. box). Or go into userDefineLangs\ folder and delete the markdown._preinstalled.udl.xml, making sure to keep the dark mode version markdown._preinstalled_DM.udl.xml

However, that UDL variant still doesn’t quite match your Obsidian theme; that’s because it was designed to match the colors of the v8.0-and-newer Dark Mode in Notepad++ (Settings > Preferences > Dark Mode), so the background colors still aren’t exactly the same as obsidian. Again, you could edit the UDL color settings to match Obsidian (and it might be easier, because it’s starting from a dark theme already, so it’s starting closer to obsidian). or, if you’ve got v8.1.3 or newer, you could just use the Notepad++ Dark Mode and default Dark Mode theme, which will match the markdown (preinstalled dark mode) UDL already.

If you don’t have Notepad++ v8.1.3 or newer, you could either upgrade (it’s free!) or you can download the UDL file from the github repo here and put it in your userDefineLangs folder.