@runeoerndrup

You of course read the FAQ section of this site when you first came here, right?
And you saw THIS didn’t you?
But that must not have helped?

@Ekopalypse

Thank you very much

@PeterJones Thank you very much, it works on 8.6.7 portable :) .

@guy038 said in How to mass shift and paste (see attached):

(?1$2 $1:)

You’re a lifesaver! Thank you so much!

@Vercinger How are you opening multiple files at once? I believe knowing that would both allow for reproducing the issue and suggesting workarounds.

You have already found one workaround which is to use v7.8.6 but there is likely a better way.

@dcmdcmdcm ,

If all your plugins have 64bit versions, then it was time to move as soon as they released the 64bit versions. If you have a plugin that isn’t in the 64bit list that you absolutely have to use, then you shouldn’t change to 64bit.

That was the answer “years ago” as well.

Since we don’t know what plugins are critical to your Notepad++ usage, there’s no way for us to answer you.

If you look at your ?-menu’s Debug Info, it will tell you what plugins you are using (and if you share it here, tell us as well). And https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/blob/master/src/pl.x64.json is the list of all the 64bit plugins that the Plugins Admin tool knows about. If all your plugins are in that list, then you would likely have no difficulty in finally switching to 64bit. If one or more of your plugins aren’t in that list, you’ll have to look at their individual repos to determine whether they have 64bit versions. If you find any that don’t, ask yourself whether they are truly critical to your needs or not, then ask us if there are 64bit alternatives that will give you some or all of the same features that you need.

@Stiggles said in Page margins like in a word processor?:

The ability to add some top padding would be great. The top line of text has no padding at all.

Did you read my last post in this discussion? The library that Notepad++ uses doesn’t have the feature to add top/bottom padding, so Notepad++ cannot make use of a non-existent feature. Someone who wanted that feature would have to request it from the library, they would have to implement it, and then Notepad++ would have to update its copy of the library. Since no one has taken step 1, saying “me too” is futile.

@Coises said:

Curiously, because this current topic is really focused on “Way to tell if clipboard has column-block in it before pasting?” (from its title), it doesn’t, until @Coises posted, reference MSDEVColumnSelect.

However, these topics do:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/17272 Mar 11, 2019, 1:28 PM posting https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19643 Jul 9, 2020, 1:56 PM (in script listing)

And, Scintilla code discusses it, too, HERE.

To future readers:

As of v8.6.6, you don’t need my script anymore to enable the GLOBALCLASS keywords. Instead, follow the instructions in this post.

@Shohreh Forgive me for asking the obvious, but I have to ask… did you try unchecking Replace by space (near the bottom right of your screen shot)? Does that not do what you want?

If you mean that you want to use spaces for indentation in the document, but you want the backspace key in indentation to go back an indentation level instead of one space, the option to do that isn’t accessible from Notepad++ itself, but I think the Backspace unindents option in the ExtSettings plugin does that. You can install that from Plugins | Plugins Admin….

@moninahh said in Identical Unicode characters are not highlighted when selected:

So as not to create a new topic

Go ahead and create a new topic.

@mpheath said in Maintain Indent While Pasting Multiple Lines:

You probably have the os and re modules imported

Ah, yea, sorry. :-(

That’s what I get for “hurrying” to catch up with you in getting something posted (but again, that’s an artifact of me not posting a script much earlier). I’d be surprised if there aren’t further errors in the script I posted. :-)

My startup.py does a lot of things, and imports os and re out of necessity there. I usually test scripts I’m going to post with a vanilla setup which would have discovered the error, but this time I didn’t. :-(

The comparison between both scripts may suggest some ideas for improvement

Yes, for sure!

Your script futzes with tab characters vs. space characters; in my script I chose to handle it this way (or, largely not-handle it):

require any common leading whitespace on all lines in the clipboard to be identical for it to be removed use the leading whitespace on the line where the paste-special is invoked to be used “as is” when prepended to the clipboard lines

If users can’t get their tab vs. space indentation consistent (i.e., one way or the other)…I consider this “not my problem”.

Hi, @john-goewie, @coises and All,

@coises, I’ve analyzed your method and, really, your method is quicker and more efficient than mine ! However, for more than, let’s say, a dozen of lines to concatenate, I suppose that building the associate regexes would be tedious !

BTW, I tried a variant of your method which works fine, too :

In this variant, I prefered to not use the \t separator and included the EOL of groups 8 to 13 within the groups themselves !

Thus, from this INPUT text :

mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\CLAP mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\HIHAT mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\KICK mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\PERCUSSION mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\CRASH mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\SNARE mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\STAB SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Clap SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Hihat SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Kick SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Perc SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Ride SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Snare SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Stab " " " " " " " " " " " " " " H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Clap H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Hihat H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Kick H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Perc H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Ride H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Snare H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Stab " " " " " " "

The regex S/R is a bit simplified and becomes :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.*)\R(.*)\R(.*)\R(.*)\R(.*)\R(.*)\R(.*)\R(.*\R)(.*\R)(.*\R)(.*\R)(.*\R)(.*\R)(.*)

REPLACE $1$8$2$9$3$10$4$11$5$12$6$13$7$14

and, after 3 clicks on the Replace All button, we get :

mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\CLAPSAMPLECD1 - Techno - Clap" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Clap" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\HIHATSAMPLECD1 - Techno - Hihat" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Hihat" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\KICKSAMPLECD1 - Techno - Kick" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Kick" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\PERCUSSIONSAMPLECD1 - Techno - Perc" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Perc" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\CRASHSAMPLECD1 - Techno - Ride" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Ride" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\SNARESAMPLECD1 - Techno - Snare" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Snare" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\STABSAMPLECD1 - Techno - Stab" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Stab"

Then, the simple S/R, below, adds the missing \ character, right before the first SAMPLECD1 string

SEARCH (?-i)[^\\](?=SAMPLECD1)

REPLACE $0\\

Giving the expected OUTPUT text :

mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\CLAP\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Clap" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Clap" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\HIHAT\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Hihat" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Hihat" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\KICK\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Kick" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Kick" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\PERCUSSION\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Perc" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Perc" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\CRASH\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Ride" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Ride" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\SNARE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Snare" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Snare" mklink /D "E:\Drum LIB\STAB\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Stab" "H:\SAMPLEBASE\SAMPLECD1 - Techno\SAMPLECD1 - Techno - Stab"

BR

guy038

@Terry-R nice, it works, thanks :-)

Thanks. It helped. :)

@Nessa-Carson That seems like a mouse and or keyboard issue.

An HP Spectre is a laptop that has a single monitor. Do you have a second monitor attached? Do you have an external mouse and or keyboard attached? Does your machine have one of those flat pad mice in front of the keyboard?

If you have the flat pad mouse thing in front of the keyboard then plug an external mouse and external keyboard into the machine and try Notepad++ with those. The flat pad mouse things are notorious for causing issues as people touch them accidentally when using the keyboard.

If you are using an external keyboard and mouse then unplug both and see if Notepad++ has issues using the mouse and keyboard built into the laptop.

@Alan-Kilborn said in HELP HOW TO INSERT text into blank lines with macro:

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HI THANKYOU.
I CAN MAKE THAT WORK!!
MUCH APPRECIATED

@venkanna-gajjala

I think the regular expression below seems to work well enough.

Using the Replace function with search mode set to regular expression we have:
Find What:[^\d]+
Replace With:\r\n

Like @mkupper solution it will also require a second step of removing the duplicate lines.

Terry

PS it does leave an initial empty line, which I don’t think causes any problems and is easily removed as a final step.

@greg-greg

If you want help with a search/replace problem, you need to give us more to go on than that. Best practice is to include a half-dozen to a couple-dozen lines of example “before” and “after” text (using the </> button to put them in text boxes) – make sure if there’s sensitive/confidential info that you use dummy data that looks like the original (formatted the same, same combos of numbers vs letters, etc) but doesn’t reveal your secrets. Also make sure that your examples show some things that should match and some that don’t.

See the Template for Search/Replace Questions, linked below, for more of how to ask such questions.

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation