@Alan-Kilborn said in Need help on replacing text:

BET \1 AND \2

Thank you so much for your time and patience and the link.
There’s always something new to learn.
Claude :-)

@Claudia-Svenson

I thought this comes from npp, to be more precise, from gup.exe.
In order to disable this message you have to uncheck
settings->preferences->MISC.->Enable notepad++ auto-updater

Hello, @craig-mcfarlane, @alan-kilborn and All,

I just gave it a try :

First, in a Windows console DOS, I ran the command Copy nul Test.txt

I opened the file Test.txt from within Notepad++

Unfortunately, the regex S/R below does not work, even if the search, only, does detect a zero length match !

SEARCH \A^

REPLACE Blah blah

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones

Hi Peter, thanks again for the prompt reply.

Your experiment was spot on. However, If I specify individual “names”: “parm”, “yAxis”, “labels”, and “font” in the “WINDOW INSTRUCTION” style “User-defined keywords” box instead of the complete name “this.parm.yAxis.labels.font” it works:

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If I go further and add the appropriate keywords to the “TYPE WORD” style “User-defined keywords” box, I can get this:

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So, I am nearly there. That is a vast improvement.

I have to say I am very impressed with the speed and the care you take with your replies. Thank you very much.

David Wilkinson UK

That sounds to me like you have need a proxy setup. If your IT group makes you go through a proxy server, follow the instructions in this other post for changing the proxy settings (in case it’s not clear over there: you must Run as Administrator to change proxy settings). I think this should fix your download issue

Your second issue (“even when I try to download and install from a third party”) was clarified in your other post in another compare-plugin thread (please keep your issue consolidated here) is because you “moved it into notepad + +\plugins”. That’s wrong, and has been for over a year (since v7.6.3 in Jan 2019). Notepad++ now keeps its plugins in <installdir>\plugins\PluginName\PluginName.dll. So the ComparePlugin would go as <installdir>\plugins\ComparePlugin\ComparePlugin.dll, with any subfolders it wants as subfolders of that folder (<installdir>\plugins\ComparePlugin\subfoldername); there shouldn’t be any DLLs directly in <installdir>\plugins anymore.

@PeterJones said in How to disable multiple lines?:

Toggle that setting with View > Word Wrap or the little Word wrap button on the toolbar

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Ah! Thank you so much!

@Calypsm

It’s an OK question to ask here.
Unfortunately, neither Notepad++ nor plugin can help you with that type of problem.
If you want to resort to programming, it can be done, but don’t know if that is an option for you.
You also really need to show some of what your data looks like, if you want further help.

It is sometimes difficult to keep certain text by trying to match the remaining text, usually because the remaining text is hard to match because it may not be as patterned as the “to keep” text.

@guy038 discusses a technique to do this kind of text retention in this thread. Probably could be adapted to work well here.

I don’t really understand your problem, can you elaborate on it?

What have you tried so far?

Hello, @alfred-streich, @alan-kilborn and All,

As, seemingly, all lines, which must be joined to their previous line, do not contain any colon symbol ( : ), an alternate syntax, to the Alan’s one, could be :

SEARCH (?-i)</para>\h*\R+\h*<para>(?![^\r\n]+:)

REPLACE \x20

Notes :

First, the in-line modifier (?-i) forces a non-insensitive search process

The part \h*\R+\h* matches any range of horizontal blank char(s) ( Space and Tab ), even null, followed with a non null range of line-breaks ( \r\n, \n or \r ), itself followed with an other possible range of blank char(s)

The part (?![^\r\n]+:) is a negative look-ahead structure, which defines a necessary condition for the overall regex to match, although not part of the final match, and looks for a line with does not contain any colon character, after the literal string <para> till its line-break

Note that the [^\r\n]+ defines a non-null of characters, different of EOL chars. So, any char after <para> till the colon symbol : !

In replacement, the syntax \x20 is the hexadecimal representation of a space character and you may, as well, write a single space char in the Replace with: zone

Best regards,

guy038

@Hyde233

reversing the negative

I think you’re right, and that it would be that way if it was a settable preference from Notepad++ 1.0.

Notepad++ users are used to it filling the field in; “don’t” seems to flow logically from that, maybe.

In the end it doesn’t matter: It will never be changed now.

@Michael-Benoit , the user @Joe-DeRose hasn’t been here since that single post.

In the intervening 8 months, that old collection has been moved to https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/userDefinedLanguages, and the specific file he mentioned is
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notepad-plus-plus/userDefinedLanguages/master/UDLs/ColdfusionCF9_bySpenster.xml

@Jason-M-Fruge
Got this issue recently, could not add a new notepad++ document from contextual menu.
I followed your solution, but “.txt” was already in supported extensions panel.
What I’ve done: restarted Notepad++ with admin rights, removed and re-added “.txt”.
It worked!

@Donna-Middleton

I’ve taken the liberty of providing an example of how it might work, of course having your examples will help immensely.

In the first block below we see how the lines might look before the html tags are applied. Note I have presumed you already have the <ul> & </ul> code already in place as you ONLY mentioned the <li> and </li> tags. The second block shows the result with my regex applied.

First you would highlight JUST the lines containing the list items. Very important not to select any additional lines. After this you would use the “Replace” function (Search, Replace). Now as this is a regex we need to select “regular expression” as the search mode. The expression we use is:
in the Find What window:(?-s)(.+)
in the Replace window: <li>\1</li> note 2 spaces before as our original text is left justified and we want to indent it 2 positions.
Before we click on “Replace All” confirm the selection is still in place and then tick the box named “In Selection”. If this box not selectable it means the selection has been lost. Click on “Replace all” button. Confirm your items are now correctly tagged.

<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"> Coffee Tea Milk </ul>

and after using the regex we have

<ul style="list-style-type:circle;"> <li>Coffee</li> <li>Tea</li> <li>Milk</li> </ul>

Hope this helps, but as I say it is best if you can provide some examples. If the data is sensitive, please do replace with dummy data but the original formatting of your real data needs to remain (tabs, spaces etc) as this can help or hinder the final solution.

Terry

Alan, you are my hero. Thank you!!

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you so much, Alan. It’s years since I did any proper programming, though that was a previous occupation. Guess I’m going to have to teach myself to use Python!

It happened again so attached are images of:
the state after the syntax highlighting breaks
after_issue.jpg
the state after refreshing the UDL via the language dropdown
after_refresh.jpg
the state the code was before the highlighting broke
before_issue.jpg

When I make the same modifications again it doesn’t break so it’s not consistent. This was also the very first change I made after opening the file so that might be relevant.

As a note, that highlighting is as if there is a left quote without matching right quote. However, there isn’t any left quote in the prior code, much less without a matching right quote.

I had longer snippets from the beginning of the code initially however I work with sensitive information and although it was probably okay I’d rather not risk it.

Thanks guy038 for the tip!