@ajpanton

I’m not sure about this case, but I know for certain files, an update won’t change them. This is so that possible user customizations aren’t blown away. The process intends to be “smart” but it isn’t infinitely smart. I believe it errs on the side of caution. Again, not sure about your use case. Maybe someone else knows more about this one.

@Alan-Kilborn You are right, it was a python file, so I had to change the setting for python files. Thank you!

Thanks a Lot. This works fine.

See also: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20147/save-as-with-all-types

@Terry-R wow thanks alot terry ima hop on that later and see if i can start to code you helped me alot thanks and enjoy youre day sincirley -Andre.

@DIV-on-github

I don’t think it can be done with builtin functionality as long as you cannot
ensure that the backslash is not glued to other chars.
The only other possibility I see is to use a script like this one with a regex like \\(?=\s) .

@Isabelle-Buchmann

Können Sie bitte die debug-info posten. Ist im letzten Menüpunkt,
dem Fragezeichenmenu enthalten.

@PeterJones Thank you very much!

@Ekopalypse Just got done trying it out, works wonderfully, many thanks :)

@guy038 Thank you for help!
I combined my macro and your two regular expressions into one, now everything works correctly and beautifully! But if the file is large (e.g. 100mb) the macro works for about 30 seconds))).

@Terry-R OMG thanks a bunch Terry… It worked perfectly. You saved me!

@andrecool-68

But only as long as you have not opened more than the maximum number of files to be saved.

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Create/maintain some sort of database for this info

But I see a disadvantage - maintenance. How to keep this kind of db clean. I would say that during runtime of npp one can expect it but
after a restart it will become a nightmare to keep it clean.
How would one handle temporarily inaccessible files, moved or deleted files.
On the other side if you can configure an extension or lexer to always
open a file in a specific encoding then I assume most of the issues are solved.

@schidan

If you want to restrict the matches to two numbers between pairs of = then I would suggest:

find: =\d\d(?==)

Hello, @petr-andreev, @terry-R, @astrosofista and All,

@terry-r and @peterjones are right about it. For instance, the first word of your example, Sent is obviously not a proper name but this long sentence could have started with a proper name, too ! Regexes are really not a fair tool to solve semantic problems ;-))

@Astrosofista, I do like your approach, too ! As for me, I succeeded to build up a regex which catches, “more or less”, all the proper names and compound proper names of the OP’s text !

I modified your example, adding some dummy text as well as the @peterjones text, for a deeper text. Of course, the first word of any sentence is considered as a proper name. And, although your first sentence, slightly modified, seems to give good results, the @peterjones text, coming next, is not so pertinent !

Sent by them to the north in search of new lands, the daring daredevils of the Swamp Orkhon, Holokhoi Oyuun, Symattai the Blacksmith, Hara Tumen, Uluu Horo, the elder Omogoy and Ellei Bootur, as well as the general MacArthur, O'Neil the Scotsman , A SpecialNicknameForTest; Cardinal Mazarin, la Marquise de Maintenon, Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" and Louis XIV the Great or Sun King, his father, proceeding from the banks of the Great Ebe from top to bottom and from bottom to top, found three spacious valleys. As a second paragraph, we will follow d'Artagnan on his quest to find the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, along with fictional characters and Dr. Watson, and Bill S. Preston, Esq, and George Wexford-Smyth III. They were really curious whether Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel would lose his "van der", and whether Dutch would be kept because it's a proper adjective (not a proper noun).

The following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?x-is).*?(\u[\l\u'."]+(((?!and|or)[^,;.:?!\r\n]){1,5}?\u[\l\u'."]+){0,3})|.+(\R)?

REPLACE ?1\1(?4:\r\n)

Would output this text :

Sent Swamp Orkhon Holokhoi Oyuun Symattai the Blacksmith Hara Tumen Uluu Horo Omogoy Ellei Bootur MacArthur O'Neil the Scotsman SpecialNicknameForTest Cardinal Mazarin Marquise de Maintenon Louis "Le Grand Dauphin" Louis XIV the Great Sun King Great Ebe As Artagnan St. Francis of Assisi Dr. Watson Bill S. Preston Esq George Wexford-Smyth III. They Dutch Mathieu Poel Dutch

Remark : if you add the new rule that “Any sentence will never begin with a proper name”, it should even be possible to avoid the first word of any sentence ! However, the @peterjones and @Terry-R thoughts should convince you of the limits of regexes, in this matter !

Test on your real text to see if any other problem occurs ! I do not have time, presently, for explanations of this search regex, but I will, next time !

See you later,

Best Regards,

guy038

Thank you. I was able to assign a new key combination in the settings of the program. The automatic selection of empty spaces between paragraphs is not a problem.

@Tom-Klecker said in How do I show/hide the "CR" and "LF" text at the end of the text line?:

I’m a returning user to Notepad++. It’s an excellent simple text/ ASCII text editor.
The CR and LF are part of the original ASCII code set and are a couple of the ‘machine codes’ (codes 00 to 31) that go back to the teletype origins where it was literally a command to reposition the print carriage back to the left margin and roll the platen up the space of a single line. The 2 command CR& LF were sent by TTY operators to start new lines… Later some printers and word processing apps were designed to automatically execute a line feed with every CR which led to the need to edit/convert some text documents for compatibility with different printers/word processors.
I like to see the CRLF to make sure they are there in the document and the line breaks are ‘hard’ and not interpreted by the app based on TAB, commas (CSV), semicolons, etc.
In a computer printer or display the commands tell the device to show the next character down a line space at.the left margin (or indentation).

Activate it via menu view->show symbol->show end of line

@Todd-Gehring-Gervase-Jr ,

Please read this FAQ entry: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place

So the snapshot backups are more to be thought of as “N++ buffer backups” rather than file-on-disk backups.

The filenames of created backups are a bit different:

For the snapshot backups there’s a filename.ext@yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss file created (not literally, of course, hopefully that is understood).

For the backup-on-save you get either filename.ext.bak (for Simple backup) or filename.ext.yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss.bak (for Verbose backup).

@tbotbo said in No suggestions - spellchecker:

@Ekopalypse Thank you very much! I confirm, it’s fixed with release 1.4.18.

@Stef-Ks FYI

@Ekopalypse

Alternatively: Tick the . matches newline box. confused me as this means (?s), correct?

That’s what we in the business call an “Alan screw-up”.
Yes, of course that should have been Untick the . matches newline box
It’s what I meant, but there was a disruption on the way from my brain to my fingertips.
Apologies for the confusion.