Hi, @crafty-crafty, @ekopalypse, and All,

From the @ekopalypse macro solution, here is an similar solution which can be generalized to :

Any number of lines which are to be replaced, in the limit of 2,048 characters

Any number of lines which are to be inserted, during the replacement

But, first, let’s suppose that you simply have a specific line, repeated many times in your file, which must be replaced with a specific block of lines. Assuming that this line is named #Line# :

Open a new tab ( Ctrl+ N )

Type in the specific line #Line# line, followed with a line-break

Select the entire line #Line#, with its line-break

Open the Find dialog ( CTRL + F )

Select, if necessary, the Normal search mode

Leave all the other options unchecked

Click on the Find Next button ( Of course, no other occurrence is found, but it does not matter ! )

Close the Find dialog ( Esc )

Run the option Macro > Start Recording

Hit the F3 key ( Whatever an occurrence is found, or not, does not matter ! )

Hit the Ctrl + V shortcut ( The present contents of clipboard do not matter, too ! )

Run the option Macro > Stop Recording

Then, run the option Macro > Save Currently Recorded Macro...

Type in Replace Next Occurrence with Clipboard Contents, in the Name zone

Preferably, create a shortcut for this macro

Click on the OK button to valid the dialog

Create or select the block of lines, in any file, which must replace the #Line# line

Copy this block of lines in the clipboard ( Ctrl + C )

Now, open or select your specific file

If necessary, move to the very beginning of file ( Ctrl + Home )

Run the option Macro > Run a Macro Multiple Times...

Select the Replace Next Occurrence with Clipboard Contents macro

Tick the Run until the end of file option

Click on the Run button

Voila ;-))

Remark :

After finding all the occurrences of the specific line, a last search operation is carried on, without success. So, the last #Line# line is replaced by two or more consecutive contents of the clipboard. Thus, a last task has to be done :

Delete the few extra blocks of text that have been wrongly inserted, after the last match !

As said above, this macro is not specific and can be used to insert any contents of the clipboard, in replacement of any specific text, even split on several lines, as long as the total amount of text is smaller than 2,048 characters ( Max size of the Find what: zone )

So, now that the macro Replace Next Occurrence with Clipboard Contents has been created, the road map becomes :

Create and select the text range which is to be replaced

Open the Find dialog ( CTRL + F )

Select, if necessary, the Normal search mode

Leave all the other options unchecked

Click on the Find Next button ( Whatever an occurrence of the range is found or not does not matter ! )

Close the Find dialog ( Esc )

Create and select the text range, in any file, even split on several lines, which will replace the initial range

Copy this text range in the clipboard ( Ctrl + C )

Now, open or select the specific file, where the replacements must occur

If necessary, move to the very beginning of the file ( Ctrl + Home )

Run the option Macro > Run a Macro Multiple Times...

Select the Replace Next Occurrence with Clipboard Contents macro

Tick the Run until the end of file option

Click on the Run button

Finally, delete the few extra range of text that have been wrongly inserted, after the last matched range !

Best Regards

guy038

Schowek01.jpg

Here some even write in Italian.

The problem is to explain what problem I have with Notepad.
Even the English don’t always understand each other.
How I am trying to explain in short sentences
some write that I am rude or arrogant.

Today I figured out how to use
Google translator.
Dzisiaj wpadłem na pomysł jak używać Google translatora,
aby tłumaczenie było jak najlepsze.

@mkupper said in Problem with converting lowercase to uppercase:

as there are people who have Mc… style surnames where the third character is not upper-case

e.g?

Briefly and succinctly.

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there are over 1000 words

If you are talking about the LaTeX lexer from Scintilla, it makes sense to make the request there,
but if you are using a UDL, then we need more information about what exactly you do.

just tested new 7.8.9 32bit --> same problem.
But my special one can be solved. Instead of using .LOG als “SQL” i assigned “LOG” to VB / VB5 in stylers.xml. Now syntax highlighting is OK and the freeze is gone.

@Alexander-Brkljac

set file=%~dp0\OUTPUT.txt

Cheers.

@Ekopalypse said in possibile creare una regola dal momento in cui si riceve file txt senza aprire il file?:

wasn’t intended.

OK, good to know that :)

Just trying to be helpfull beyond service

Which you do very well. Keep up the good work. :-)

Sure, I always try to do my best, and as I understand, you do as well!

Take care.

@guy038 said in Can we use "Copy Bookmarked Line" and "Paste in ReplaceWith" field in Macro:

Hello, @b-sethi24, @alan-kilborn and All,

Strange ! No answer regarding my assertion / question !

Cheers,

guy038

I think you may have understood the original question differently than @Alan-Kilborn did. I made a similar interpretation at first, until I tried to figure out why Alan thought it wasn’t doable, when I original did. Re-reading the original post, I determined the key point was “Pasting in ReplaceWith field”.

At first, like you, I thought @B-Sethi24 just wanted to paste the bookmarked lines in the document – in which case, the macro you showed would work.

But if they really want to paste it into the REPLACE WITH field, with all the options available in the dialog box (including regex processing on the REPLACE WITH value), that cannot be done. (For example, if the line ${1} to ${10} were bookmarked, and they wanted to use that as the REPLACE WITH in a regex replacement.)

Since @B-Sethi24 hasn’t come back since, I doubt we’ll get clarification anytime soon.

@James-Martin-0

ahh I see, sorry I misunderstood.
In that case it is the Selected text colour attribute.

same problem. The problem is not the “line wrap” - option. Long lines are the problem.
For better reading of my logfile i assigned extension LOG to type SQL in %appdata%\notepad++\stylers.xml.
After Deassigning LOG works fine, so that will be my workaround until this problem is fixed by a future notepad version. No colored keywords but freezing the editor ist gone.

@Alexander-Brkljac said in What command lets you copy cmd and save it in a new document?:

lets me copy the contents that is in cmd

Try this link. It’s hardly NPP specific, but the paste portion should work in most apps, once the clipboard has received the marked area or piped output.

https://www.labnol.org/software/copy-command-output-to-clipboard/2506/

Terry

My cursor is not flickering when the mouse is over it but it flickers as I move the mouse left/right over a link. It’s possible your system is making npp think the mouse is moving.

Try disabling and re-enabling clickable links to see if the flickering problem goes away until you exit/restart npp. The enable flag is in Settings / preferences / MISC. / Clickable Link Settings

(^| )(\d{1,2}:\d\d):(?=\d\d([ ,'!\.\?"”\)]|$))

I found this code will do the job
</?(?!a)(?!p)(?!ul)(?!li)(?!h)\w*\b[^>]*>

@wielki-asasyn said in Formula in Replace function:

I would like to replace the “D001” part of the name with D002, D003, D004 etc to have unique names.

I thought I knew what you wanted, proceeded to produce a solution using regular expressions, then once I read your post again I’m not sure I have the correct interpretation. So I’ll ask some questions.

The single line of example above, are there about 350+ similar lines of text needing replacing? Is the single line provided actually a portion of the 1 (and only) line in the file thus within that 1 line there will be approximately 350+ names?

If the answer to #2 is yes, that’s the idea I followed. My solution involves a few steps. Firstly we’d need to cut this down into individual lines so each name was on a line by itself. Then we’d use the column editor to add an increasing number to the start of the line. Then we’d replace the existing “Dnnn” string with the number at the start of the line. Lastly we’d merge the records back into the original format.

So my steps are.
Using the Replace Function we have
Find What:\|[^”]+”(?!})\K
Replace With:\r\n

Search mode MUST be regular expression. Click on the Replace All button.
So now each name should be on a separate line. Note the regex uses a negative lookahead so that we don’t create a line with the } on it by itself.

Now the cursor must be placed at the first line, first position, actually immediately before the first character. We use the Column Editor (under Edit main menu) and select “number to insert” and use initial number of 1, increase by 1 and leading zeros MUST be ticked, click OK. Provided you have correctly located the cursor you will now see every line is preceded by a 3 digit number, increasing by 1 each line. Since you say there were approximately 350+ names every number created should be 3 digits long as you requested.

Now we use another regex to move this, replacing the existing number using Replace function.
Find What:^(\d{3})(.+?)(“D)\d{3}
Replace With:\2\3\1

Again search mode MUST be regular expression and wrap around ticked. Click on the Replace All button

Confirm the numbers have been correctly replaced. Last step is to join the separated lines back to the original format. So again using the Replace function.
Find What:[^}]\K\R
Replace With: nothing in this field, leave it empty.

Click on the Replace All button and now you should have the format you wished with unique numbers for each name.

Terry

Additionally, here are some basic instructions for installing Pythonscript and getting a script to run:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54655

And here’s some stuff about binding the execution of a script to a keycombo:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/55131

@Ekopalypse
I didn’t know about DBF Viewer Plus. I was given an assignment with a deadline and went to the tools I know how to use. I completed the assignment last night so this morning I was able to delve into the notepad++ issue and discovered the source of the problem. Thank you for telling me about DBF Viewer. Once I figure out how to use it it will be a big help. If all I have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. Now I have a crowbar so now I can do more with less effort.

@Alan-Kilborn
The dbf is 6 lines long according to Notepad++. Line 6 is the one I am interested in which takes up 98% of the file. Now that I have DBF Viewer that should make things easier in the future. I will definitely keep this in mind for if I can’t use DBF Viewer.

Here’s a weird condition…maybe:

Select one or more empty lines.
Press Tab.
Exactly nothing happens.

My goal was to have leading whitespace inserted on all lines at once, for each press of the tab key.