@PeterJones said in Old document replaces current document after accidently unplugging usb flash drive that documents are stored on. ???:

@franKENstin ,

Notepad++'s unsaved-files backup location is not in the same folder as the file, it’s in the AppData hierarchy. (So if you want to use recovery software, try it there instead of where your old file was located)

It is not an auto-save feature like you seem to think it is; for that, you need the AutoSave plugin (you must configure it). more on periodic-backup vs auto-save in our FAQ on the subject.

If you hadn’t manually saved your file in over a year, then Notepad++ would never have written it to the main document folder – it would just keep happily doing the periodic backup in AppData, assuming you were able to save to a named file whenever you thought it was necessary.

edited for clarity

Well I could not find it there. I used many recovery app’s.
But the odd thing is I found a version of it that was only a few days if no day’s old in a way deferent folder that some of my other documents are stored in…

@Alan-Kilborn Will do, thanks :-)

I’m done, it worked! I was able to retrieve the ton of entries that were deleted! Thanks again!

P.S. I don’t drink coffee LOL! I would probably never go to sleep!

@Kardo-Rostam ,

Sorry, I’m not a SessionManager plugin user… but I downloaded a copy in a portable NPP and played around a bit. I do not think that SessionManager has the feature you describe . I can think of two good reasons why it wouldn’t, off the top of my head:

a session often contains more than one file, and those files can come from a variety of locations – even across different drives / filesystems – so where is “with the file it’s connected with” be?

from a practical standpoint, do you want the SessionManager Plugin to have to search your whole hard drive for every time it wants to populate the list of available sessions?

It has to build that list from somewhere; when it only has to look in the single directory defined in Plugins > Session Manager > Settings, it’s really easy to build the list of sessions. If it didn’t have that, it would have to scan your whole computer to try to find all the sessions. I guess in theory, the plugin source code could be re-written so it has a master list of session files in one known location, but that the individual files can be stored anywhere; then, as long as you never moved those session files with Windows Explorer or other outside tools, it could work. Unfortunately, per the plugin’s official homepage, the original author has stopped development on the plugin; chcg made a 64 bit release a few years later, but it’s been 3 years since even that one was updated.

Alternative: Notepad++'s builtin Sessions feature has the default session.xml stored in %AppData%\notepad++\ … but it has the File menu’s Save Session and Load Session – and that kind of session can be stored anywhere, as long as you know where the session file is. With that feature, you could store the session file with the file(s) it opens.

Perfect, it works. This is to replace strings in my sourcepawn template.

import time import os Filename = notepad.getCurrentFilename() FilenameEnd = Filename.rsplit(os.sep, 1)[-1] timeStr = time.strftime( '%I:%M %p' + ' - ' + '%d-%m-%Y' ) editor.rereplace(r"TM_FILEDATE", ( timeStr )) editor.rereplace(r"TM_FILENAME", ( FilenameEnd ))

Thanks!!

Hello friends
So one year later I had to do the same replacements, and found that the original script did not work anymore (Same error as reported by @guy038 ). Something must have changed in Notepad++, Python or somewhere else, because the first time it worked fine.

Anyway, I updated the code as suggested by @Alan-Kilborn and it worked correctly.
Cheers everyone

Hello @floyddebarber, @peterjones and All,

An alternative solution would be :

SEARCH (?-i)(?<=\.)\h*(?=\u\u)

REPLACE \r\n

So, for instance, from this INPUT text :

MÜLLER 6 - Blahblah. SMITH 5 - Asdds. Asdsd.DI CARLO 8,5 - And. Maybe even. Multiple. Sentences here.

you would get the OUTPUT text :

MÜLLER 6 - Blahblah. SMITH 5 - Asdds. Asdsd. DI CARLO 8,5 - And. Maybe even. Multiple. Sentences here.

Notes :

This regex searches a range of horizontal blank chars ( \x20, \x09 or \x85 ), possibly null, but ONLY IF :

It is preceded with a literal full period due to the positive look-behind (?<=\.)

It is followed with two upper-case letters, accentuated or not, due to the positive look-around (?=\u\u)

And, in replacement, this range is just replaced by a Windows line-break ( \r\n ) ( Use \n only if working on Unix files )

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ailothaen said in Not having the same session depending on how I open notepad++:

It looks I have two different installations on my PC:

The second “installation” running from the D: drive is very likely a “portable” version. This is not actually installed, rather just unzipped into any folder of choice. You might want to consider leaving it, although “upgrading” it to a later portable version might be preferable as quite a few enhancements and bug fixes since the 7.6 version.

Often the seasoned forum members will have multiple versions installed. Reasons are:

Identifying whether a recent enhancement introduced a bug Helping out a poster with their issue, this means not changing an already highly customised installed version just for a test Being able to separately customise the second version for different tasking possibly many other reasons as well

If you do consider keeping an installed version AND the portable version then code the shortcuts with additional text so you know which version you are using. Also look at having different visual settings such as colourisation of text, font differences, etc.

Terry

@david-union

Settings > Preferences > General > Toolbar = Standard Icons: small

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#general

@PeterJones said in Regex: How can I split lines from text at every 31 words:

[\w’’]+\W+

THANKS. super, so I update my answer:

FIND: ([\w'’"]+\W+){31}
REPLACE BY: $0\r\n

OR

FIND: ([\w'’"]+\W+){31}\K
REPLACE BY: \r\n

…

unless the checkbox to the right of Find Next is confusing you.

The checkbox to the right of Find Next is the “2 find buttons mode” – you can see that by hovering over the right checkbox, as shown in the screenshot below (the speech bubble is seen when you hover over the checkbox with your mouse). The checkbox to the left of “In Selection” is the “In Selection” checkbox (pointed to by the red arrow I added to my screenshot).
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@Marc-Grossman said in Looking for ways to add highlighting(Style occurrence of...):

“Double marking” text patterns with “Purple” then “Yellow” creates “Red”
As a result, I had Six colors even if there were only five selections provided by the application.

Ah, yes, that can be done.
And you could create a macro so that it could be done in a single step.
Here’s a thread that, in its more-recent posts, tells you a lot about colors, maybe it has some relevant information for you:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18157/how-to-set-find-background-colour

@PeterJones Thanks, the Style Config fixed the issue

I agree with @Terry-R that it is working fine in 8.1.4

Thank you all for your answers!

It doesn’t run well. Thoose images are token without change the toolbar but only the layout:
Standard Toolbar:
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Fluent UI:
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There are 5 left icons, The next 8 are shown on lefter buttons, and 5 buttons hava casual icons.

The buttons are in the same position, only the icon is wrong (you can see it by the tooltip).

Thank you
Lucio

The uninstall without saving custom settings and then reinstall seems to have worked. My normal selecting highlighting appears to be back.

Thanks for the help.

@Nathan-Walser said in Running a code through notepad++:

If I click the run button in notepad

Have you tried View, View Current File in, and then select one of the browsers?

Terry

@AliciaKeller ,

Isn’t that big long section also “between separators”? How so you tell the difference?

What do you want done after it’s matched? Run it all together? Put it on separate lines, one line for each field? Put it between new separators? Something else?

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Do you want regex search/replace help? Then please be patient and polite, show some effort, and be willing to learn; answer questions and requests for clarification that are made of you. All example text should be marked as literal text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. To make regex in red (and so they keep their special characters like *), use backticks, like `^.*?blah.*?\z`. Screenshots can be pasted from the clipboard to your post using Ctrl+V to show graphical items, but any text should be included as literal text in your post so we can easily copy/paste your data. Show the data you have and the text you want to get from that data; include examples of things that should match and be transformed, and things that don’t match and should be left alone; show edge cases and make sure you examples are as varied as your real data. Show the regex you already tried, and why you thought it should work; tell us what’s wrong with what you do get. Read the official NPP Searching / Regex docs and the forum’s Regular Expression FAQ. If you follow these guidelines, you’re much more likely to get helpful replies that solve your problem in the shortest number of tries.

@JS-Developer

Glad the provided regex worked for you. If you frequently run into this kind of issues, I would suggest you to read the regex guide in the FAQ section of this forum and start learning how to develop your own solutions. It could be hard but rewarding.