@Oliver-Leidel
@patrickdrd
Try to install the previous version.

@PeterJones said in Notepad++ text selection "misbehaves" on 4K screen:

@Geoff-Hall ,

@Alan-Kilborn 's reply in another thread may be applicable to your problem as well, in that (unfortunately) the Notepad++ GUI codebase is pretty old, and doesn’t handle all the idiosyncracies of high-DPI monitors.

Knowing (now) that it is an old code base does seem to fit the observation. Pity. If I find I’ve got a lot of spare time I might look into it :P
In the meantime, at least I found a workaround.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Is 27333 magical?:

Since you seem to like to do some extra reading, that aspect of it is addressed HERE. Enjoy. :-)

BTW, the poster called “ghost” in that github topic is our old friend from here, @Claudia-Frank.
I know this because I had some separate notes on this regex problem, and my notes referenced Claudia saying something. Now when I look in that thread for her comments, they are attributed to “ghost”. I suppose she terminated her github account (for whatever reason), and when you do that, your old comments get reassigned to a ghost account.

The source code of the Notepad ++ program is here:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

@Chuny_OK said in *Help* How to change multiple unknown text string with just one?:

If I want to replace “-12.5” with “11” at every found string, it actually comes up like this:

OK, some more changes required then. The latest revision of the Find What regex is:
(?s-i)(gameMinExposure.+?<value>).+?(</value>)
So in this instance I’ve put the 2 tags (<value> and </value>) around the “other” characters (number) that we need to replace. So the .+? does not care what currently exists in this position, but whatever is there will be replaced with the new number which you have in the Replace With field.

Terry

@Daniel-Soares ,

FIND WHAT = (?-s)\A^(.*\R){15}^.*?\K5 REPLACE WITH = [REPLACEMENT] REPLACE ALL (multiple times)

will change

5 one 5 0 3 5 two 5 0 3 5 three 5 0 3 5 four 5 0 3 5 five 5 0 3 5 six 5 0 3 5 seven 5 0 3 5 eight 5 0 3 5 nine 5 0 3 5 ten 5 0 3 5 eleven 5 0 3 5 twelve 5 0 3 5 thirteen 5 0 3 5 fourteen 5 0 3 5 fifteen 5 0 3 5 sixteen 5 0 3 5 seventeen 5 0 3

into

5 one 5 0 3 5 two 5 0 3 5 three 5 0 3 5 four 5 0 3 5 five 5 0 3 5 six 5 0 3 5 seven 5 0 3 5 eight 5 0 3 5 nine 5 0 3 5 ten 5 0 3 5 eleven 5 0 3 5 twelve 5 0 3 5 thirteen 5 0 3 5 fourteen 5 0 3 5 fifteen 5 0 3 [REPLACEMENT] sixteen [REPLACEMENT] 0 3 5 seventeen 5 0 3

If this is not sufficient, I suggest explaining yourself better with example before and after data formatted as data, and otherwise follow all the advice that I will quote below; if you choose to ignore some or all of this advice, you will find that the answers you get are not overly helpful, because you’re making us guess, and we will guess wrong (in total or in part).

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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 plain text using the </> toolbar button or manual Markdown syntax. 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.

@Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley

It sounds like you are a victim of a long-standing Notepad++ problem.
It is likely that you will not be able to recover your data.
You might want to read all/some of THIS discussion thread.

All is not doom-and-gloom however.
There is supposedly a fix for the problem; however it isn’t in released code as of this writing; it will likely be in whatever is the next release after 7.9; probably 7.9.1.

@derezu-pezupop said in batch replace string with filename:

How can notepad++ replace each one with the filename in a batch operation?

I’m not on a PC at the moment but there was a post I was involved in solving some time ago to add filename to files. Have a read of
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/17035/batch-function-need-to-add-filename-at-the-end-of-each-paragraph
and see if maybe it could, with some alterations, provide the solution for you.

Terry

@Ekopalypse

But testing this reveals that the layout gets switched but column selection still works :-(

@Christian-Lists

For such a case I use https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php.

@donho But few UDL is not problem, what if someone has to make a lot of them and gets a trash on the menu?
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4896#issuecomment-706421610

@PeterJones said in Opening files failing:

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You’re right sorry. I was trying to bring more attention to the issue.

@Terry-R yes it is in https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5250

@PeterJones

Thanks for your thoughts.
Maybe this will be the thing to kick me into making a github issue; till now I’ve just been a browser there. :-)

For the record, I found a possible solution. Since I am creating the XML schema myself, I can define the element and attribute names in Hebrew characters. When I set Notepad++ to the RTL text orientation, it displays both the Hebrew content and the Hebrew XML tags in a readable way.

From a development point of view, it’s a quirky and non-portable solution. See:
https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-non-eng-tags

If anyone else has experience with this issue, I will be grateful to hear from them.

As usual, I really appreciate the answers, very impressive solutions. I tested the script as well, works like a charm. Thank you so much for the invaluable help.

Have a nice day,
Viktória

@guy038 said in Regex alternation in both FIND & REPLACE strings:

Ok, so you could refer to this link to get the main punctuation characters :

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf

Thank. I’ll keep that in mind for if/when I ever need to use Unicode text on a large scale, though I’m not currently anticipating it will happen.

This means that the part "\x20\x{2014}\x20, at the end, is rewritten whatever group matches the search regex.

Ok, thanks for the detailed explanation and further suggestions as well. I will look for opportunities to apply them in future projects.

Hi, @wagner-leung, @alan-kilborn and All,

My bad ! So, if I interpret your intended result, strictly, the regex S/R becomes :

SEARCH (?s)object((?!object).)+?type=2((?!object).)+?\K\babc(?=\h*=)

REPLACE **aaa**

Hope this version is the good one ! Of course, you may change the line type=2 and/or the variable abc as you like !

Cheers,

guy038

P.S. :

An other formulation of the search regex, using the free-spacing mode (?x) , would be :

SEARCH (?xs) object ((?!object).)+? type=2 ((?!object).)+? \K\b abc (?=\h*=)

For instance, the following search regex would search for the variable abc, in any object block containing, either, the line type=2 or type=3

SEARCH (?xs) object ((?!object).)+? type=[23] ((?!object).)+? \K\b abc (?=\h*=)

You can report this in https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/issues.

Hi, @ali-jafari and All,

Unfortunately, I cannot give you valuable information :-(( I’m presently using, on my old XP laptop, the Microsoft Office Suite … 2002, which is good enough for my Word’s work !

SEARCH ( for Word ) : ([^0033-^0126])^0032*([^1536-^1791])

REPLACE ( for Word ) : \1,\2

In Word 2002, when your tick the search option Use generic characters, any non-Unicode char ( below \x0100 ), must be written as ^####, where #### represents the decimal value of the code-point. So, \x{0021} must be changed as ^0033, \x{007E} as ^0126 and so on…

Unfortunately, syntaxes over \xFF, as for the main Arabic range [^1536-^1791], that is to say {\x{0600}-{06FF}] in N++ ), is definitively not a valid syntax :-((

Moreover, the quantifier syntax {0,n}, after a possible space char, does not work, too. The {1,n}, only, seems valid ! So I prefered to use the usual * syntax

Certainly, the recent versions of Word allows the search of characters of the BMP ( so from \x{0000} to \x{FFFF} ). If so, the proposed regex S/R should work correctly !

On the other hand, why not process with the N++ regex engine, first and, then, paste your updated text in Word ?

Cheers,

guy038