@Yoan-Soucy ,

Sorry. The UDL and the Lexers are two separate bits of code, so you cannot just “inherit” or “export” the original lexer to a UDL.

However, you can add extra highlighting to any builtin lexer (like the HTML or XML or SQL lexer) or to a User Defined Language (UDL) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo … this might allow you to provide the extra syntax that either the lexer alone or the UDL alone won’t give you.

@cfroehle Thank you for the solution to a problem that has made Notepad++ unusable for me. The delay caused by the autocomplete feature has been an intermittent pain for YEARS. I am guessing that this feature gets reenabled upon some action such as an update but I am not sure.

Thanks again.
-Ajay

@ric12g

Select those four lines in Notepad++ and press Ctrl+f.
All of the line data will appear in the Find what box of the Find dialog, but it will appear to run together.

Pressing Find Next at that point should find the block of four lines.

From there you can proceed to a Replace operation, where you replace with nothing to effectively delete the lines.

You probably want to make sure you get the line-ending on the 4th line in your original selection.

If you’re trying to match similar but not exact matches (as your lower example hints at), then this is a slightly different problem. But rather than answer something you didn’t ask for, I’ll wait until that’s asked for. :-)

Alright, thanks.

Thanks @PeterJones
instruction very clear and it works
appreciated

@mere-human said in Notepad++ stuck in administrator mode [Solution]:

Should we add this somewhere into the user’s manual?

Interesting thought. Selecting Administrator mode or not, and whether your shortcut or executable have that selected, is really more of a Windows OS question, not a Notepad++ - specific question.

But if you had a good idea where in the manual to put it, I wouldn’t immediately reject an issue to add that (especially if it came with an accompanying PR).

@James-Hobson

Uncheck Settings > Preferences > Editing > ☐ Enable scrolling beyond last line

You can try it yourself and see if there is a problem

@mplusplus

You say “after”, but then your example shows deleting everything before and including. I will assume your data, not your description, are correct.

FIND = (?-s)^(?:.*?/){2} finds two groups of anything (zero or more characters) up to a slash and the slash itself
REPLACE = leave empty
SEARCH MODE = regular expression

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@PeterJones Thanks I got it. I had to nest it and I was able to have numbers stay blue instead of turning purple along with the delimiter.

@cll142 ,

Please note that UDL is not an infinitely-configurable solution; there are times that your desired styling for a language goes beyond what UDL can offer.

At that point, your choices are to write a full lexer plugin which can be distributed as a DLL or through the Plugins Admin; if that’s beyond your scope, you might get the extra highlighting you want by using the Python Script plugin and the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo, which allows you to add extra highlighting to a builtin lexer (like the HTML lexer) or to a User Defined Language (UDL) using regexes.

So if you cannot get the UDL “good enough”, do as much as you can, then try Eko’s script. If that still doesn’t cover your needs, writing a lexer plugin is the next option.

@cll142 ,

The UDL provides multiple keywords lists so that you can style different groups of keywords with different colors, similar to the way that the builtin lexers have multiple lists of keywords (like C has one style for commands like case and if, and a different style for data types like int and double)

read the docs: https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/

@PeterJones Thanks for helping me get a better understanding of how the different folding style works and why keywords were being highlighted in non keywords.

@plasmaster09 said in File tab on menu bar suddenly way too large:

But all of a sudden, the File tab covers half the screen when clicked on for seemingly no reason, making things quite a bit harder. What do I do?

Best to do would have been to paste a screenshot of it, so people don’t have to guess at what you’re talking about.

@freeflight-guy

From version 8.1.3:

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@Alan-Kilborn Thank you. I’ll give your solution (window in corner) a try.

@Hellhavens ,

I’ve never tried that intensive an applicatino of the tail-f monitoring feature in Notepad++.

You might want to play with various options in Settings > Preferences > MISC > File Status Autodetection to see if there’s a combo that makes the tail-f mode work better for you.

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you for this offer. I will very likley take you up on it!
First, I need to get it installed, then spend some sit-down time familarizing myself with what it is, what it does, what it can do, how it does it, all that cool stuff. I’ll hit you back when I’m there.

@Chris-Tanguay-0

Another thing that has been done via PythonScript for years, not sure why Notepad++ sees the need to add that now…