Peter, you are a legend, that is exactly what I needed, Thank you so much !!!

@Matthew-Weatherford ,

There is no installer MSI option NSIS-based-installer option that influences Notepad++ settings

I think you would have to roll your own – maybe start with the zipfile download, then edit the config files, then turn it into a self-extracting zip .exe or make your own MSI.

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moderator’s note: corrected Peter’s mistake of saying “installer MSI” when he meant “NSIS-based installer”, as Notepad++'s installer is an executable built with NSIS, not an MSI-based installer

@Husnain-Raza ,

That sounds like a programming task to me.

Anytime your problem statement is “look in file x to decide how to edit file y”, you have gone beyond the native skillset of text editors.

If it were a small number of lines, the experts here would use a trick of copying some of the data from one file to another, and then use some super-fancy regex to remove the duplicates from N2 based on the data from N1. But since you’ve invoked “millions of rows” already, that might give you memory problems, depending on exactly how the regex capture groups are defined while doing that replacement. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of those experts jumped in and provided that solution, or linked you to a previous implementation in this forum. But my guess is that it might have problems with your “millions of rows”.

That said, there is a Notepad++ plugin PythonScript (and similar LuaScript Plugin or jN Notepad++ Plugin, and my external Perl module) which allows you to automate things inside Notepad++ using Python (or Lua or JavaScript or Perl). But really, at the point that you invoke one of those for “millions of lines”, the Notepad++-specific nature of those plugins actually gets in your way and slows you down. It is easier (and faster) to do those edits just running the Python/Lua/JavaScript/Perl natively (ie, at the command line) and using the programming language’s file IO functions rather than using the language to drive Notepad++ to load and edit the file and write it back out.

This is not a programming forum, and definitely not a free code-writing service, so it is beyond the scope of this Notepad++ forum for us to write a script to do that.

@Andrew-Gregg-0

Well, for find and replace operations, if I were you, I’d just ignore whether the matched text is grey or green (just look for one or the other).

Because the find function and the smart-highlight function both operate on “selected” text, there’s some functional overlap. But…since the setup for smart-highlight can be independent of find (as I pointed out earlier with whole-word, but also match-case can come into play), consistency can diverge.

I would hazard to guess that if you tick the box for Use Find dialog settings, you may almost always see the light-green instead of the grey, when looking at find hits.

A best use for smart-highlight is to double-click a word or make a text selection (independent of using the find function). This way all of the same words or text selection contents, get highlighted in the light-green.

To really understand it, I’d suggest some experimentation by double-clicking some words that you can see are duplicated on your current view of your file. Or maybe even better, locate an occurrence of the letter a and select just that letter–all other a currently on your screen should go green.

@Ekopalypse said in To use Firefox on the current edited html file:

D:\whatever_path\firefox.exe $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)

Word of warning: if either D:\whatever path\firefox.exe or the value of $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) have spaces in them, that will probably not work. As with all Windows paths that have (or might have) spaces, use quotes around them. So "D:\whatever path\firefox.exe" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" .

Any time you are referring to a path inside Notepad++ config files, Run dialog, etc, I highly recommend putting quotes around the paths.

@Alan-Kilborn

:-( there is unfortunately no candy for me, as I am still on Windows7 :-(

FYI:
This feature will be in the next release (v7.9.6).

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@Oliver-Meyer said in How to create notepad++ log file to attach to issue report?:

I assume it is related to the network location of the last closed file or something.

That is a good guess. If Notepad++ cannot see the network location for files in the current session, or sometimes for files in the recent files history, then it can get confused.

For the recent files history, there is a setting which influences it: Settings > Preferences > Recent Files History > ☑ Don’t check at launch time. By clicking that checkbox, Notepad++ will not try to verify whether or not the MRU files still exist.

Is there a way to increase log level and create a useful log file to attach to an issue report?

Not that I’ve ever seen or heard of.

@Ekopalypse Thank you very much!

Also, you can try:

SEARCH: (\w+\W+){48}
REPLACE BY: $0\r\n\r\n

@Jack-Ski said in How to add "Save As" to TOOL BAR ?:

Is the TOOL BAR customizable ?

Read Terry’s previous response.

Another option: Default keycombo for SaveAs is Ctrl+Alt+s

@Robk-Blue said in Remove Line Numbers from Margin:

just the pointless activity of developers changing something for changes sake.

This is a rather bold statement. I mean, how do you know if it was a pointless change, just to change something? Hmm, well even typing that sounds stupid, because what developer would waste their time to do that?

Have you investigated the history on it and come to that conclusion with some evidence that it is so?

Oh wait, my grandmother always told me to “consider the source”. And this source said:

I looked repeatedly through the preferences but somehow missed it

Dude, as Terry shows you in the screenshot, it is right there in a well-named box called Line Number and has a first element called Display, so…seriously?

BTW, my previous comment in this thread was tongue-in-cheek: I was calling you out because there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Preferences UI for this.

Hi, @dan-walter, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

For people who are wondering :

Why doesn’t use the usual . regex char to match a standard character of the BMP ?

Why does he care about characters with Unicode code-point > U+FFFF ?

Well, regarding the first question :

Some characters, like the Form Feed character ( \x0C - \f ), are not matched by the regex Dot char !

Some characters as FF - Form Feed \x000C, NEL - NEw Line \x{0085}, LS - Line Separator \x{2028}, PS - Paragraph Separator \x{2029} act in the same way as the classical EOL chars ( \r and/or \n ). So, the ^ assertion matches right after these characters and the $ assertion matches right before these characters !

Consequently, the simple regex [^\r\n] seems the best syntax to match all characters of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane but the two \r and \n chars !

Now, regarding the second question :

When a file is UTF-8 encoded, it may contain characters with Unicode code-point > U+FFFF ( according to a 4 bytes sequence for each char ). Unfortunately, the usual regex syntax . cannot find these characters.

After some tests, the BOOST regex .[\x{D800}-\x{DFFF}] syntax seems to match correctly all these characters over the BMP.

Although I don’t have any clear explanation for this syntax, I suppose that it’s certainly related to the surrogate pair mechanism, used to express these characters in two-bytes encoded files !

So, here is the third question, from Alan :

Why the result contains the first line : Search "•••••" (••••• hits in ••• files of ••• searched) ?

Well, to my mind, this first line seems rather informative. This is the only reason why I kept this line, in the final result !

Now to be rigorous, and in order to delete the leading space chars before the absolute paths, too, prefer this regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)^\t(?:[^\r\n]|.[\x{D800}-\x{DFFF}])+\R|^\x20\x20(.)|\A.+\R

REPLACE ?1\1

Oh… wait a minute ! Here is an other method, much more simple ;-)) However, you need, at least, N++ release v7.9.1

Perform your search with, either, the buttons Find All in Current Document, Find All in All Opened Documents or Find All

Once the Search Results panel opened, right-click in any location of the Search Results panel

Choose the Select All option

Choose the Copy option ( not the Copy Selected Line(s) option )

Click on the Esc key to close the Search Results panel

Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )

Paste all the clipboard contents with Ctrl + V

Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M )

SEARCH ^\x20\x20\K.+(?=\x20.*\d.*$)

Untick all the square box options

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Mark All button

Click on the Copy Marked Text button

Click on the Esc key to close the Mark dialog

Open, again, a new tab ( Ctrl + N ) or replace the contents of the present new tab

Paste all the clipboard contents with Ctrl + V

Et voilà ! Done ;-))

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

Each line displayed :

Always begins with 2 space characters ( hard-coded )

Is followed with an absolute path which may contain some space chars and other characters than word chars !

Followed with 1 space character ( hard-coded )

Ending with the default text (# hits) where # stands for any mandatory integer number

However, as the text, after each absolute path is now translatable, we must consider various possibilities. Here are, below, some of these :

D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 1 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) 456 hits D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (1 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) (456 hits) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 1 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).txt ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012).123 ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 hits ) D:\@@\Doc N++\Abc def_789(012) ( 456 hits )

You can verify that the regex ^\x20\x20\K.+(?=\x20.*\d.*$) matches most of these lines. Unfortunately, it’s not perfect because, in the third part, it matches the opening bracket and the blank chars before it :-((

You could say : in the range of characters .+, we should not allow an opening bracket right after a space char. But, if you do so, how to match, for instance, a file with name Abc (012 !? In this case, only the Abc part would be matched :-(

In short, the present regex ^\x20\x20\K.+(?=\x20.*\d.*$) may catch some extra characters, in rare occasions. But, knowing the filenames you’re dealing to, it should not be difficult to correct the syntaxes of these few erroneous paths ;-))

@Robert-Prochowicz

sorry, you are right, it is SO, 0x0E not SOH.
I don’t know why this is needed today?
It is certainly not needed for plain text.

OK, thanks!

@Lajos-Mészáros said in javascript back-tick quoted strings bad color:

Having to fiddle around with the colors in the settings just to not have white text on the active line, which is also colored with white background is a bummer,

Well, “bummers” in life exist. Perhaps consider how many positive things have come from your usage of N++, and reconsider how much of a bummer something like what you are talking about is.

But… unless you are going to provide more information, perhaps about what theme you are using (and BTW, if you are choosing a non-default theme you are “slowing yourself down” instead of getting to work “immediately” on a new PC), then I don’t think anyone is going to be able to help more than Peter already has.

I see the same results as Peter, that is, no issue. I even “scrolled thru” all of the themes that N++ offers in order to try and see the effect you are observing, and I can’t duplicate it. A trick to quickly evaluate all of the themes is to set up your conditions (in this case (backtick)test${1234}test(backtick) in a JavaScript file) and then open the Style Configurator and point to the Select theme: dropdown, and, here’s the key part: scroll the mouse wheel.

@Mou-Nir said in How can we reverse words in a row:

Thank you sir peter for the help, but I’ve faced a small issue which is as follow:

You said “word”. You should not be surprised that it didn’t work for multiple “words” on each side of the |.

Here’s another freebie – but it’s the last from me. The quality of replies is only as good as the quality of your question. If you don’t understand your data well enough to explain it correctly to us, there is no way we would be expected to guess it.

FIND = (?-s)^(.*?)\|(.*?)$

Everything else from my previous solution remains the same.

This will swap everything on the left of the first | on a line with everything to the right of the first | on the line.

And, as Alan said, it is difficult to hit a moving target. I have re-aimed once already, and am not likely to do so again.

If you want to do more fancy search-and-replace in the future, your best bet is going to be to study the documentation I’ve already linked.

@Kamal-lochan-0 ,

how can i run and use this script ?

By following the clear, step-by-step instructions that you just linked to.

please provide the screen capture

That post you linked was pretty explicit about the steps necessary. But if screen captures are needed, I will intersperse them between the quoted version of the plain text instructions from that post:

Use Plugins admin to install the PythonScript plugin

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Menu to Plugins > Python Script > New Script

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Provide a (file) name for the script; you don’t need to specify an extension – .py will be added automatically Press the Save button to close out the Save As dialog box.

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At this point your script file will be showing and is empty; copying and pasting one of the scripts from above seems like a fine idea :-)

after pasting, it will look like:

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Please note: your post lost the leading spaces when you quoted the script. In Python, indentation carries meaning, so make sure you actually copy/paste the text from my post, not from yours that has lost the spaces. If you disregard this advice, it will not work. It should look like the screenshot above.

Save the file

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or

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To execute your script, menu to Plugins > Python Script >Scripts > (pick the name of your script)

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And after running that, you will have a file that looks like:
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Those screenshots are just a direct translation of the text of Alan’s instructions into the application.

@PeterJones said in how can i Rename word kamal as kamal 1 kamal 2 and kamal 3 ....:

Appreciate the support !!awesome !!

@saibal-mukherrjee said in UNABLE TO SORT DATA IN THE ORDER AS IT SHOULD BE BY USING LINE OPERATION:

TWO LINES DATA WHICH MAKES ONE COMPLETE DATA

No surprise that the built in line sort will not help you. It does the sort assuming each line is 1 datum or record.

So the choices are:

Alter the lines so the built in sort will help Wait until someone possibly writes a sort function using python script or some other supported program language, or you learn how to do it.

Obviously option 1 is the better idea. With this it could be done in 2 ways.

Add enough of the first line to the start of the second line and then sort. This will keep the lines together, hopefully. Combine the 2 lines together as one line. This would involve adding a special character in between so you know where the original break in lines was. So after combining, sorting, then break at the special character.

Terry