Great, thanks Peter.

that works! thanks Terry.

@Hans-Stangl

I’m glad you clarified, because there is no way that anyone would have derived the info in your second post from the info in your first post.
The bug I was thinking of (and mentioned earlier) doesn’t apply to this situation.

So I duplicated (mostly) your scenario and I do understand that things go “wrong” here.

I tend to think of it as a problem-between-keyboard-and-chair.
Should you really rename a directory when you have files open in that directory?

Some programs protect you nicely from this kind of thing (shown here for a folder, not a file):

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I suppose Notepad++ could do a better job of protecting you from the exact problem you noticed…

But I’d probably advise you to just NOT change the name of a containing folder when you have files open in that folder.

@aks2161989 I think what actually happens is that the auto-updater tries to launch the installer, but it fails. It should give an error message but for some reason doesn’t. I find myself manually launching it using the ‘Run as administrator’ option.

Thanx!
I’m not yet trained in the use of RegExes, but I can get there…

I’m kind of unclear on this thread…

But I wanted to ask: Does Notepad++ really make a Find Next search result unclear in this situation? I’d think that the selection marking it uses for this would always be clear, above and beyond any other type of highlighting that is going on. Not so?

@guy038 said in Regex: Select and delete the content of tags from xml file with skiping other tags:

Now, as always, everything is in the fucking manual ! So, first, go to the official N++ documentation

Whoa, whoa, WHOA!
Could it be that the ever-patient @guy038 is getting tired of all the repetitive regex stuff here?? Say it isn’t so.
I get tired of it as well…so tired…but I haven’t yet been driven to use the alternate definition of RTFM (the normal definition being Read That Fine Manual).

Seriously, though, when I look at that section of the manual, it reads more like formula rather than specific application (and that’s ok).

In the manual we have:

(?enable-disable)

which, well, isn’t exactly crystal clear for those that don’t already know what it means.

So my attempt, in explaining the (?.. : …) construct was to help clarify.
I don’t know if I succeeded.

Actually, I usually just keep the ¶ button on, but this time I turned it off because all the [CR][LF]s were becoming distracting. (And yes, I know it’s possible to show whitespace without the [CR][LF]s, but I didn’t feel like digging into the menus for what I thought was going to be a quick edit.)

Debug Info

Notepad++ v8.1 (64-bit) Build time : Jun 17 2021 - 01:56:07 Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe Command Line : Admin mode : OFF Local Conf mode : OFF Cloud Config : OFF OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit) OS Version : 1909 OS Build : 18363.1621 Current ANSI codepage : 1252 Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll JSMinNPP.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll _CustomizeToolbar.dll

Monitor setup
Laptop w/2k display driving a 43" 4K TV as main monitor over HDMI, occassionally running Display Fusion Pro.

Windows

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Version 10.0.18363 Build 18363 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name SR90NRZH7 System Manufacturer LENOVO System Model 20JF000DUS System Type x64-based PC

Another alternative is to use the Windows ‘mklink’ command line utility and create a hardlink to the file, assuming an NTFS formatted disk. Mklink will complain if the target disk is not using the NTFS format.

> mklink /h file.json.txt file.json

There will only be one file using storage space on the disk, but two ways of accessing the contents (be careful if both are opened at the same time; Notepad++ will gladly have both views open at the same time and may warn about changes made using the the other view).

I use the ‘added’ .txt extension to assist the OS in keeping both views together when using name listings, e.g. “dir”. The Explorer preview pane will show the contents as text (even if the original file isn’t text, e.g., .pdf or .jpg). The extra extension also assists me in remembering which is the real or base file and which is the alternate view I created to get around Windows obsession with extension based file format determination.

The file will persist (continue to use disk space) until both names are deleted, either from the command line or in Explorer.

Not all disk space applications understand ‘hardlinks’ and will incorrectly show both files using disk space.

Issue happens after windows is getting updates only. If I close/open N++ OR restart Windows without getting updates then all sessions are getting opened.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Search for a text and copy the next lines of codes:

(?-s)SEARCHME(?:.\R){3}\K.

Thank you! It works just what I wanted.

I need to search for file names in html code.

Text to search D: \ Fitos \ excel \ ([1-9] [0-9] *) (. Xlsx “target =” _ top "> Old pdf)
Replace with D: \ Fitos \ excel2 \ $ 2 (.xlsx “target =” _ top "> Old Pdf) with this regex search I find Excel files like 13037.xlsx

@PeterJones yea, it worked. I had a </p> in my next search - that’s why it di’n’t work before. Thanks a lot man!

If I try recording a macro for what I think you are trying to do (but from your description it is not 100% clear to me what this is), I get the following, and it always works for me:

<Macro name="xxx" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="&#x00A0;" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="&amp;nbsp;" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="512" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> </Macro>

super answer @guy038 thanks.

I made a short version of yours:

<title>\K(?![^\x00-\x7F]+).*?\| - finds the first line

<title>\K([^\x00-\x7F]+).*?\| - finds the second line

Don’t confuse dark mode with “dark” theme.
Dark mode is only about the UI elements (everything except the document area).
Dark theme is about the document area.

This is a known problem, it is related to the dark theme.
There are numerous issues about this:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/6140
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9649

@guy038

Actually, what you’ve specified is for finding some… , not deleting some…

To delete, we need to specify:

SEARCH (as above) REPLACE leave this field blank

:-)

Hello everyone,

One solution to my problem is to replace all occurrences of open with command-exec in the registry file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Command Prompt [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell\XxX-01MenuCmd] "MUIVerb"="@shell32.dll,-22022" "Icon"="cmd.exe" "ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="Directory\\ContextMenus\\XxX-MenuCmd" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\background\shell\XxX-01MenuCmd] "MUIVerb"="@shell32.dll,-22022" "Icon"="cmd.exe" "ExtendedSubCommandsKey"="Directory\\ContextMenus\\XxX-MenuCmd" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\ContextMenus\XxX-MenuCmd\shell\command-exec] "MUIVerb"="@shell32.dll,-8506" "Icon"="cmd.exe" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\ContextMenus\XxX-MenuCmd\shell\command-exec\command] @="cmd.exe /s /k pushd \"%V\"" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\ContextMenus\XxX-MenuCmd\shell\runas] "MUIVerb"="@shell32.dll,-37444" "Icon"="cmd.exe" "HasLUAShield"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\ContextMenus\XxX-MenuCmd\shell\runas\command] @="cmd.exe /s /k pushd \"%V\""

Now I have the enhanced context menu at the folder and a double click on file:///c:\tmp starts the windows file explorer.

Remark: The items in the submenu are displayed by the lexical order (1. command-exec, 2. runas …).

Thanks for you help.

Kind Regards
Thomas

Hello, @elise-baribault and All,

Not difficult with regular expressions !

Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl+ M )

SEARCH (?-si)^EL[:;]\x20\K\d+(?=\R.+\RABNORMAL PROGRAM STOP$)

Tick the three options Bookmark line, Purge for each search and Wrap around

Un-tick all other box options

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Mark All button

Click on the Copy Marked Text button

Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )

Paste the clipboard contents ( Ctrl + V )

Et voilà !

After clicking on the Mark All button you may, either :

Right-click into the bookmark margin and choose the Copy bookmarked Lines option

Use the menu option Search > Bookmark > Copy Bookmarked Lines

Best Regards

guy038