So this is a good discussion thread, but the choice to use literal 1, 2, 3 in the examples IMO wasn’t the best for the utmost clarity. :-)

@leif-johansen
I think the " HTML Tag plugin" solve my problem

@dennis-bareis
Not that I know of, but then again, I’m new to this aspect of UDL’ing also, however, the one thing that I did learn from reading that document about the UDL, is that you need to play with it to make sure your UDL is functioning properly.

For instance, if you have nested parenthesis, you need to set up the nesting properly, or it will continue highlighting if say, you had a nested parenthesis starting inside another parenthesis and you didn’t have it set to next…and may continue highlighting or not, until it hit the second one. That seems to be part of the matching brace aspect of NPP, but if the kewords, parens, braces…etc aren’t properly set up to nest properly, it will continue highlighting text you think shouldn’t be.

When you get a chance to get back to it, you may see what I’m saying. :-)

Good Luck.

Lee

@neil-schipper Thank you, I’ll try it

Thanks @peterjones! That explains why I’m only seeing this on one of my laptops … the one where I’m also running Slack…

@marcin-kucharski

Don’t ask the same question in 2 threads; you asked the same question HERE

@kkg-t ,

That looks like an artifact of a windows redraw not working right.

You might want to try rebooting. If that doesn’t make the results appear inside their window, you might try undocking the actual Search Results window (below), and re-docking it. If that doesn’t work right, you might try upgrading to a newer Notepad++ (v8.1.9.3 is the most recent version; v8.1.5 was the last before a series of rapid-fire regression-fix versions)

@peterjones thanx a lot. It works perfectly … Really appreciate it

@terry-r Thank you!

@guy038

Argh… Thanks.

I had made my self some skeletons to copy/paste to test some of the functions and parameters that I thought might give me problems before trying to do the file enmasse with the wonderfully written hints about how to mass format a keyword list…and apparently my hand typed abbreviations deviated from the proper abbreviations. :-(

Thanks… in my defense, it was another all-nighter and blurry eyes were present. :-)

Lee

@webpuper said in functionList for ExtJS framework (Sencha):

And if inside the class there are also “});” ?

Then it’s going to become a super-complicated regular expression that I don’t have the expertise to develop. Maybe one of the regex gurus will be able to step in… it will work better if you show a valid class that contains that sequence inside.

You might try searching the forum for @guy038’s regex examples for “balanced” parentheses or brackets. That might give you some idea of where to start.

@giorgio-setti said in Keywords List Nesting disabled:

Hi, do you know why the “Keywords List - Nesting menu” is disabled?

How would you nest one keyword inside another? Let’s say I have the keywords word and float in Keyword 1 and the words and and or and not in Keyword 2. If you were able to tell the UDL engine that you wanted to be able to nest Keyword 1 inside Keyword 2, what would that even mean? awordnd ? ofloatr? Nesting keywords inside each other is nonsensical, and thus the UDL engine disables that portion of the dialog box. (They leave that portion of the dialog box because it was easier to program it to just disable that section than to hide that section, or use a different dialog box template for the two different Styler Dialog conditions.)

Other of the Styler Dialogs, like Operators & Delimiters, have the Nesting checkboxes available, because the delimiters have both a start and an end, so it makes logical sense to be able to allow certain keywords to occur between certain delimiters – for example, if you used { and } as an open/close pair, it makes sense to be able to nest keywords like if and abs() inside them; and if you use "/" as an open/close pair, it makes sense to not allow keywords inside the quoted strings.

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@sean-sean
I don’t often use it these days, but I did setup a vertical pseudo-tab grouping system with the Favorites feature of the Explorer plugin. Note: I found this version to be more stable than the 1.9.4 offered in Plugins Admin (which thinks that’s the most recent of the three versions I’ve found).

I stopped using it because I found the effort to create groups was too high for my frequent updates of “tab layout”. But it’s great for static projects or groups of common/support files.

@barry-grossman
The menu item Edit > Line Operations > Split Lines may do what you want if you first set the wrap column using the Preferences > Margins/Border/Edge > Vertical Edge Settings. See the online user manual for more details.

@PeterJones

I was able to add pins by dragging documents onto the notepad++ icon. I got the idea here. So I guess the main issue now is that recents are not showing up.

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@jonathan-patterson

There are lots of issues with High DPI monitors. Notepad++ tries to be “DPI Aware” and many of the features around this are new to Windows. Could be that a related change is not backward compatible with Windows 7.

Generally the blurry area is rendered by Scintilla and not by Notepad++ itself. And Scintilla has its own DPI challenges.

Do you use custom DPI for the OS? Does it make a difference if you change it?

If you run Notepad++ from a shortcut, enter its properties and observe compatibility tab. There aren’t as many settings as newer Windows but there is still High DPI related settings that may make a difference.

See if enabling/disabling Notepad++ option “Use DirectWrite” makes a difference.

Try playing with your video adapter properties, enabling/disabling 2D optimizations, even if you wouldn’t want to change it permanently, it could help identify the problem area.

@gstavi ,

I couldn’t agree more. Writing to a file that has been open for writing by another process is definitely not a good idea. That’s why in my initial PR it was forbidden. But your suggestion is really great because this way we still give the user the possibility to overwrite the file while warning him upfront about the write access conflict. Excellent.
We should distinguish between file open failure due to write sharing violation or write permission failure so we either suggest ‘Force Save’ or ‘Admin Mode Save’. Perhaps GetError will help in that matter.

Hi @astrosofista & @guy038 & @alan-kilborn,

OK, I found some closure on this. When re-running my bookmarking regex I noticed activity in the BookmarksDook panel. If I made the panel invisible, the process was still very slow.

I also observed that a native bookmarking process like Inverse Bookmark (which has nothing to do with running a regex) was super slow.

Then I went to a different Npp instance, this one minimalist (no plugins), and ran the regex against the same data, and the process was blink-of-an-eye. I then doubled the data to 2k lines, and it was still pretty much instant.

Then I took Bookmarks@Dook out of the earlier instance (moved plug-in subdir away, restarted): the bookmarking by regex process was instant. Restored Bookmarks@Dook plugin, slow again.

So there you have it.

@alan-kilborn Those threads deal with bookmark processes driven by PythonScript, not native. The two issues might still be related. None of those discussions made mention of the presence or absence of the plugin.

This is not straightforward, but you could have a table with 2 columns,
one with the short label (alias) and the other with the real address link and:

press a defined key to a macro for translating the alias click at the shown link

Maybe it can be done with only one click,
if the macro recorder accepts TO
assign and call the translator macro AND call the final link
in just one procedure.

EXAMPLE
Notepad Macro Shortener& Expander to a web link or a local file

ALIAS LINK

link1 file:///C:\Users\myUser\Documents\file1.txt
link2 http://myURL/file2.txt

**** Functions *******

MACRO LINK_UNZIP (define Key1) *******
INPUT = link1

search link1

replace file:///C:\Users\myUser\Documents\file1.txt

MACRO LINK_ZIP (define Key2) *******
INPUT = file:///C:\Users\myUser\Documents\file1.txt

search file:///C:\Users\myUser\Documents\file1.txt

replace link1

See the example below:
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@1338-bang ,

What part of “text editor” makes you think “background image”?

There are two interpretations I can see of what you are asking, so the next two paragraphs will reply to those interpretations.

#1: How to see a background image in Notepad++? Notepad++ is a text editor, not a page layout program. Even if you did convince Notepad++ to show a background image, it would only be for your copy of Notepad++, and not for anyone else using NPP or any other text editor, because text files have no concept of a background image.

#2: How to get background image in HTML using Notepad++? If you are editing HTML or similar text-based code in Notepad++, that’s something you can do. And if you are asking how to implement a background image in your language of choice, I would reply that you type the appropriate syntax, the same way you type anything in Notepad++. If you have questions about the syntax, that is off topic here, because this Community is about the editor, not the language you happen to be typing with the editor: HTML questions belong in an HTML forum, not a text editor forum, and not the Notepad++ Community Forum in particular.

Hopefully one of those two will lead you in the right direction.