Did you look into the grouping operator (( ))? There is a UDL example where they “Alpha Bravo” then “((Charlie1 Charlie2)) Delta” for comment syntax middle and it worked as you described for defining what lines are comments and what characters allowed continuation of the comment onto a new line. Perhas simply using the grouping operator on one of the end conditions will limit matching?

@Andy-Merrill said in Emtpy boxes showing around document:

My Nvidea drivers for the video card have not been updated in at least 2 weeks.

Has the PC been restarted lately. If you read the entire other post, the OP stated his issue resolved itself after a restart. He concluded the OS had been running for too long and might have been stressed (not exactly IT talk I know). But I think we all realise that Windows is like a 4WD on tarmac, eventually the drivetrain gets too wound up and getting off road for a bit solves that (rebooting).

Terry

@Jürgen-Kortt ,

BTW: this seems to be similar to issue#10086 from “WhiteChairFromIkea”, who asks that the developers make the periodic-backup unsaved-files backup separately configurable (by making the Backup > .Session Snapshot and Periodic Backup > Backup path: editable instead of read-only)

I added my 2¢ to that issue, including your use-case and a similar use-case where `%AppData% is on a small c:-drive SSD but the user wants large periodic-backup files to go on the larger d:-drive HDD which has more room for 100Mb files.

@MMMZZZZ said in Open two files side by side from command line:

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not 100% sure what the issue is. The generation of the session file or opening the sessions with npp?

What I did is the following:

a) created a file D:\über.txt
b) created a file D:\temp\ökonmische betrachtung\ärger.txt
c) moved the second file to the second view
d) used File->SaveSession and saved it as D:\test_session.xml
e) open a cmd and started D:\Tests\npp\810\x64\notepad++.exe -openSession D:\test_session.xml

resulted in

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To reuse this mechanism, I would modify the session.xml file and replace the two filename tags with something unique like %%FILE1%% and %%FILE2%% and then have my script replace them with the real name of the file, making sure they are xml encoded.
As a template, of course. The script would create the real session file.

In my reply, I made a presumption. That was, that OP is affected by recent changes in how the feature works.

@christian-faisstnauer said:

But if I select several lines and try to do the same, it does not work anymore; I can’t mark the text.

But upon rereading, I’m not sure now that this is the OP’s problem.

But…without OP providing more details than “it does not work”, I don’t think this problem can be solved.

So, @christian-faisstnauer , can you show some data and be more explicit about the problem?

@oumal-bana

You still aren’t being very clear.

If you want to transform this:

<p><strong>Loremipsum1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. <p><strong>Loremipsum2 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

into this:

<p><strong>Loremipsum1</strong><br /> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. <p><strong>Loremipsum2</strong><br /> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

You could search for (?-s)^<p><strong>.* and replace with ${0}</strong><br />

@MilkManEX said in Dark Mode title bar still white in Windows 11:

Takes the color if you force it, but stays white when not in focus. I assume Notepad++ is, for whatever reason, being treated by Windows the same way.

Yes, it seems Win32 apps (like Task Manager or Notepad++) are treated differently than latest UWP or similar apps (like Windows Settings window). The latter can also have transparency on the title bar.

@Cletos said in Restore txt files in the Doc Switcher?:

I have those settings:

The first “Backup path” says unsaved files get snapshots into J:\Programme\Notepad++\backup, until such point as they are saved or closed, at which point the backup goes away.

The second “Custom Backup Directory” setting means that manually saved files get backed up (with a verbose blah.txt.timestamp.bak into the same folder.

So the unsaved files respectively their back ups are lost forever. Cannot be restored.

You might be able to use file recovery software like Recuva or similar, but there is no guarantee that will work for you.

Saving files, and using external backup software / version control software / cloud storage are your best bet against data loss.

@L-Smxxx said in Help: N++ crashes when "run as admin":

Can you kindly explain what is, and how to acquire, “portable version” of N++?

Sorry, I thought I did explain. I mean, I said, " That is effectively what my advice in the other thread is telling you how to do.". And I linked to the other post. And in that other post, I directed you to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ .

Admittedly, the clues ran dry there, probably because I assumed you could figure out the rest: you would have to pick one of the releases (like “Notepad++ 8.1.1 release”, and once on that page, you would see the various download options, including the section like Download 64-bit x64 which contains a link to “Portable (zip)”, and once you saw that link, you would be able to see how to download the portable version.

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After downloading the portable zip file, you would have to unzip it to a known location – for example, into Desktop\npp.8.1.1.portable.x64\ – and then run the portable version from there

And what is the difference between that, and a “regular” version?

A regular version comes in a bundled installer, and usually goes into your standard Program Files. A portable version runs from whatever folder you unzip it into. The other benefit of the portable is that the portable version by default uses the config files from the same folder you unzipped, rather than using your config files in AppData – this allows you to have multiple copies of Notepad++ with different configurations… which is often the point of running the portable edition (and in your case, to see whether you can get Run As Admin to work for a different copy of Notepad++.

Thank you very much, Peter! — Appreciate your patient(!) assistance!

By the way, here is the related issue on GitHub:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10095

@PeterJones thanks for finding the related issue.

I’m just glad, it is fixed. :-)

Next time I will cry louder and earlier.

@bob_diebel ,

Edit menu > Line Operations > Sort…

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/editing/#edit-menu

@PeterJones Thanx a bunch. Much appreciated

Submitted update as PR#254

…OR…

Train yourself such that whenever you are tempted to use * (from your command-line thinking), to use .*? instead – a rough regex equivalent, meaning: match 0 or more of any character, minimally. The “minimally” part is there mainly for safety. But of course this is just a rough guide, as things go deeper than that.

BTW, this is all similar for ? – this is different in regex than it is on the command line as well.

Hello, @@xaviermdq,

Here is the list of the transformed characters, due to the NFC normalsation form :

48 characters, from LATIN, GREEK, CYRILLIC and ROMAN scripts, are REPLACED by OTHER character(s) when using the option "Convert > Normalization From > To NFC" of the "BabelPad" software ( NOTE : C.P. means CODE-POINT, G.C. means GENERAL CATEGORY and D.M. means DECOMPOSITION MAPPING ) 18 characters with NFC = NFKC = NFD = NFKD = D.M. : •-----•---------•-----------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------------------------• ! Chr.| C.P. | Character Name | G.C. | Dec. Type | NFC = NFKC = NFD = NFKD = D.M. | •-----•---------•-----------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------------------------• | ̀ | 0340 | COMBINING GRAVE TONE MARK | Mn | canonical | 0300 | | ́ | 0341 | COMBINING ACUTE TONE MARK | Mn | canonical | 0301 | | ̓ | 0343 | COMBINING GREEK KORONIS | Mn | canonical | 0313 | | ̈́ | 0344 | COMBINING GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS | Mn | canonical | 0308 0301 | | ʹ ‎ | 0374 | GREEK NUMERAL SIGN | Lm | canonical | 02B9 | | ; ‎ | 037E | GREEK QUESTION MARK | Po | canonical | 003B | | · ‎ | 0387 | GREEK ANO TELEIA | Po | canonical | 00B7 | | ι ‎ | 1FBE | GREEK PROSGEGRAMMENI | Ll | canonical | 03B9 | | ` | 1FEF | GREEK VARIA | Sk | canonical | 0060 | | Ω | 2126 | OHM SIGN | Lu | canonical | 03A9 | | K | 212A | KELVIN SIGN | Lu | canonical | 004B | | 〈 | 2329 | LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET | Ps | canonical | 3008 | | 〉 | 232A | RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET | Pe | canonical | 3009 | | ⫝̸ | 2ADC | FORKING | Sm | canonical | 2ADD 0338 | | 𝅗𝅥 | 1D15E | MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF NOTE | So | canonical | 1D157 1D165 | | 𝅘𝅥 | 1D15F | MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER NOTE | So | canonical | 1D158 1D165 | | 𝆹𝅥 | 1D1BB | MUSICAL SYMBOL MINIMA | So | canonical | 1D1B9 1D165 | | 𝆺𝅥 | 1D1BC | MUSICAL SYMBOL MINIMA BLACK | So | canonical | 1D1BA 1D165 | •-----•---------•-----------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------------------------• 17 characters with NFC = NFKC = D.M. and NFD = NFKD : •-----•---------•------------------------------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------------•------------------• ! Chr.| C.P. | Character Name | G.C. | Dec. Type | NFC = NFKC = D.M. | NFD = NFKD | •-----•---------•------------------------------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------------•------------------• | ά | 1F71 | GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03AC | 03B1 0301 | | έ | 1F73 | GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03AD | 03B5 0301 | | ή | 1F75 | GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03AE | 03B7 0301 | | ί | 1F77 | GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03AF | 03B9 0301 | | ό | 1F79 | GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03CC | 03BF 0301 | | ύ | 1F7B | GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03CD | 03C5 0301 | | ώ | 1F7D | GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03CE | 03C9 0301 | | Ά | 1FBB | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA | Lu | canonical | 0386 | 0391 0301 | | Έ | 1FC9 | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA | Lu | canonical | 0388 | 0395 0301 | | Ή | 1FCB | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH OXIA | Lu | canonical | 0389 | 0397 0301 | | ΐ | 1FD3 | GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND OXIA | Ll | canonical | 0390 | 03B9 0308 0301 | | Ί | 1FDB | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA | Lu | canonical | 038A | 0399 0301 | | ΰ | 1FE3 | GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA AND OXIA | Ll | canonical | 03B0 | 03C5 0308 0301 | | Ύ | 1FEB | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA | Lu | canonical | 038E | 03A5 0301 | | Ό | 1FF9 | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA | Lu | canonical | 038C | 039F 0301 | | Ώ | 1FFB | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA WITH OXIA | Lu | canonical | 038F | 03A9 0301 | | Å | 212B | ANGSTROM SIGN | Lu | canonical | 00C5 | 0041 030A | •-----•---------•------------------------------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------------•------------------• 9 characters with NFC = NFKC = NFD = NFKD and D.M. <> from OTHERS : •-----•---------•-------------------------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------•---------------------------• ! Chr.| C.P. | Character Name | G.C. | Dec. Type | Decomp. Map. | NFC = NFKC = NFD = NFKD | •-----•---------•-------------------------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------•---------------------------• | 𝅘𝅥𝅮 ‎ | 1D160 | MUSICAL SYMBOL EIGHTH NOTE | So | canonical | 1D15F 1D16E | 1D158 1D165 1D16E | | 𝅘𝅥𝅯 ‎ | 1D161 | MUSICAL SYMBOL SIXTEENTH NOTE | So | canonical | 1D15F 1D16F | 1D158 1D165 1D16F | | 𝅘𝅥𝅰 ‎ | 1D162 | MUSICAL SYMBOL THIRTY-SECOND NOTE | So | canonical | 1D15F 1D170 | 1D158 1D165 1D170 | | 𝅘𝅥𝅱 ‎ | 1D163 | MUSICAL SYMBOL SIXTY-FOURTH NOTE | So | canonical | 1D15F 1D171 | 1D158 1D165 1D171 | | 𝅘𝅥𝅲 ‎ | 1D164 | MUSICAL SYMBOL ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHTH NOTE | So | canonical | 1D15F 1D172 | 1D158 1D165 1D172 | | 𝆹𝅥𝅮 ‎ | 1D1BD | MUSICAL SYMBOL SEMIMINIMA WHITE | So | canonical | 1D1BB 1D16E | 1D1B9 1D165 1D16E | | 𝆺𝅥𝅮 ‎ | 1D1BE | MUSICAL SYMBOL SEMIMINIMA BLACK | So | canonical | 1D1BC 1D16E | 1D1BA 1D165 1D16E | | 𝆹𝅥𝅯 ‎ | 1D1BF | MUSICAL SYMBOL FUSA WHITE | So | canonical | 1D1BB 1D16F | 1D1B9 1D165 1D16F | | 𝆺𝅥𝅯 ‎ | 1D1C0 | MUSICAL SYMBOL FUSA BLACK | So | canonical | 1D1BC 1D16F | 1D1BA 1D165 1D16F | •-----•---------•-------------------------------------------------•------•-------------•---------------•---------------------------• 3 characters with NFC = NFD = D.M. and NFKC = NFKD : •-----•---------•------------------•------•-------------•-------------------•---------------• ! Chr.| C.P. | Character Name | G.C. | Dec. Type | NFC = NFD = D.M. | NFKC = NFKD | •-----•---------•------------------•------•-------------•-------------------•---------------• | ´ | 1FFD | GREEK OXIA | Sk | canonical | 00B4 | 0020 0301 | |   | 2000 | EN QUAD | Zs | canonical | 2002 | 0020 | |   | 2001 | EM QUAD | Zs | canonical | 2003 | 0020 | •-----•---------•------------------•------•-------------•-------------------•---------------• 1 character with NFKC = NFKD and D.M. = NFC : •-----•---------•----------------------------•------•-------------•-------------•-------------•------------------• ! Chr.| C.P. | Character Name | G.C. | Dec. Type | NFC = D.M. | NFD | NFKC = NFKD | •-----•---------•----------------------------•------•-------------•-------------•-------------•------------------• | ΅ | 1FEE | GREEK DIALYTIKA AND OXIA | Sk | canonical | 0385 | 00A8 0301 | 0020 0308 0301 | •-----•---------•----------------------------•------•-------------•-------------•-------------•------------------•

Hope this helps you !

Cheers,

guy038

Assuming it’s a regular CSV file I’d:

select the lines to be copied from use the “\TextFX\TextFX Edit\E:Line up multiple lines by (,)” option carefully check to make sure TextFX didn’t get confused by commas inside the quoted fields; it may not get confused, but if it did get confused STOP NOW and undo (Ctrl-Z) the alignment option (or throw away this edit session) use Alt-‘left click’ and drag to mark the source block Ctrl-C to copy the block into the clipboard paste the block in the clipboard to wherever you want it optionally undo (Ctrl-Z) the alignment performed on the original tab

@Lisa-LePome ,

Sorry, recommending text editors that aren’t Notepad++ isn’t really the focus of this Forum.