hi, first of all i had a similar problem and it took a long time to solve the problem. as a result, I solved the problem completely and the steps should be as follows; First, you should uninstall Notepad ++ from the program manager, then open the file manager and select the option to show hidden files, folders and drives again in the window with the options> options> folder. then say okay close the windows. Open this computer window and search by typing Notepad ++ in the search box. after doing all these, run the registry editor searching CTRL + S Regedit, close all open folders, click on the computer and open the search window with the combination of CTRL + F Search the name Notepad ++ and delete the found files. Use the find next option to find and delete all, then restart your computer. Download notepad ++ x86.exe and x64.exe, then install the first x86. disable run when finished setup. then install the x64 version without running anything. When installation is finished run and close notepad ++. then reload the x86 version and all settings will be reset.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Configuration files each project?:

@Christian-Busse

I suggest using the EditorConfig plugin.
For background infos, see https://editorconfig.org/

Great! Perfect for us!

Now we can rest and go to bed :-D
If there is anything about the script let us know here.

Good night.

@PeterJones I thought, they wanted Batch to run instead of opening it in Notepad++ directly (like the default functionality); guess I mis-understood their motives…

Okay, here’s another (and probably last) try.
Basically, if there’s no active selection and the caret isn’t touching a word when the script is run, it means you want to modify the current prefix/suffix setup.
Otherwise, the current prefix/suffix is applied to the current selection/word.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from Npp import editor class T19459a(object): def __init__(self): self._prefix = '' self._suffix = '' def update_prefix_suffix_info(self): separator = '-' while True: user_input = notepad.prompt( 'Enter PREFIX{s}SUFFIX :\r\n(PREFIX or SUFFIX (not both) maybe be empty, but must still use {s})'.format(s=separator), '', '') if user_input == None: return # Cancel parms_list = user_input.strip().split(separator) if len(parms_list) == 2: (prefix, suffix) = parms_list if len(prefix) + len(suffix) == 0: continue break self._prefix = prefix self._suffix = suffix def run(self): already_ran_input_prompt_this_cycle = False if len(self._prefix + self._suffix) == 0: self.update_prefix_suffix_info() already_ran_input_prompt_this_cycle = True word_at_caret_or_selection = '' (sel_start, sel_end) = (editor.getSelectionStart(), editor.getSelectionEnd()) if editor.getSelections() == 1 and sel_start != sel_end: word_at_caret_or_selection = editor.getTextRange(sel_start, sel_end) else: start_of_word_pos = editor.wordStartPosition(editor.getCurrentPos(), True) end_of_word_pos = editor.wordEndPosition(start_of_word_pos, True) if start_of_word_pos != end_of_word_pos: word_at_caret_or_selection = editor.getTextRange(start_of_word_pos, end_of_word_pos) editor.setSelection(end_of_word_pos, start_of_word_pos) if len(word_at_caret_or_selection) == 0: if not already_ran_input_prompt_this_cycle: self.update_prefix_suffix_info() elif len(self._prefix + self._suffix) > 0: editor.beginUndoAction() editor.replaceSel(self._prefix + word_at_caret_or_selection + self._suffix) editor.endUndoAction() if __name__ == '__main__': try: t19459a except NameError: t19459a = T19459a() t19459a.run()

For future readers who think we ignored this question, it’s because we tackled the problem in https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19455/securepad-help, a nearly-identical posting from about a minute later in the Plugin Development category.

@Stefan-N said in regex replace doesn't work:

By “leading assertions” you are talking about the “look ahead/behind” structure?

Yes.

When you are doing “step finds” (where you press Find Next to repeatedly jump to the next match), the buffer to be searched literally starts right where the caret is.
There is no knowledge of what comes to the “left” of the caret.
Thus, a positive look-behind assertion at that point will always fail – which is what you are seeing.
A negative look-behind assertion will always succeed.
Just a peculiarity of the N++ searching engine.
Something to remember for the future!

I copied your macro, restarted Npp and did some tests and
those worked for me. Sorry, not sure what breaks it on your side.

@Perry-B

It seems like this regex will match your text: (?s)^\h+?<vehicle>.*?</vehicle>\R

Issue is created at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8304.

Best regards!

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you Alan, this looks lot easier to work with. but it seems like I need to update my Notepad++ I have older version.

Hey by the way, I found one more link that might help, just sharing if any one else can use it. https://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-flat-file.htm

Hello, @brian-krontz, @ekopalypse, @terry-r @alan-kilborn, @makwana-prahlad and All,

To @makwana-prahlad :

Why are you using such a complicated script, with some advanced options of sed ?

To my mind, the one-line script, below, does the job nicely, too ;-))

sed -n "/^\x0C/,+5d ; /(Continued)/d ; p" Input.txt > Output.txt

Notes :

First, sed searches, in the Input.txt file, for a range of lines :

The first line of this range must contain the FF char, at beginning of current line, so the /^\x0C/ syntax

Till the next 5 lines, that is to say, till the 6th empty line. Thus, the ,+5 syntax

Then, the d command deletes this range of entire lines

Secondly, sed searches if the next 7th line contains the (Continued) string, with that exact case, so the syntax /(Continued)/ , and, in that case, the d command, again, deletes this current line

Finally, if none of these criteria can be verified, the p command simply rewrites the current line in the Output.txt file

Indeed, not the same philosophy at usual N++ regexes, but rather easy to understand, too !

Cheers,

guy038

P.S. :

My sed script is not totally exact ! Indeed, if a line, located outside the header zone, contains the string (Continued), this line is wrongly deleted ! But, anyway, we’re on a Notepad++ forum, after all ;-))

Hi, All,

Do you know how I could maintain some spacing between the three regexes :

(?<!\n|\r|\f)^    ,    ^\A    ,    \A^

Which are usually rewritten :

(?<!\n|\r|\f)^ , ^\A , \A^

in the legal code text, of my previous post ?

Well, the trick is to use No Break Space character(s) ( \xA0 ), instead of the usual Space chars ( \x20 ) ;-))

So, use the Alt + 160 input method, from the numeric keypad, to insert a No Break Space character, at current cursor location !

Cheers,

guy038

@Ekopalypse Thanks

I never considered that, but your right. Thanks :)

@CoR said in User Defined Language: Collapse block of text:

So, choices are:
not possible

natively, correct, it is not currently possible

plugin (if it is possible to do it in plugin way)

that would work. plugins can be used to define whole new lexers in the language menu, so yes, a plugin could handle what you wanted, if such a plugin were to be written (I doubt one with that exact feature is already in the Plugins Admin list of plugins).

With some effort, it could probably also be implemented using the already-existing PythonScript or LuaScript plugin, which allow you to write Python or Lua code to control the Notepad++ GUI and editor windows, including influencing things like syntax highlighting and code folding. My guess is that it would use a similar technique to what @Ekopalypse implemented for regex-based extra-syntax highlighting in this post, but you’d have to find the code-folding rather than text-coloring code to manipulate.

a feature request

You could try, yes. However, no new features have been added to User Defined Languages (UDL) system in years, and there are many open bug reports and feature requests for UDL improvements … Sorry that I don’t have better news on that front. :-(

:(

Indeed.

@Ekopalypse oh thank you! i solved it now!! thanks alot :)

@Terry-R These are valid options and I did think of them, but I was hoping there was a way to configure notepad++ without doing anything, I’ll try my luck on Github and thanks for everything.

Often the argument is “It works just fine in all my other applications, just not Notepad++”.
So at what point does NOT supporting a certain scenario become a liability?
Perhaps even one that makes users switch to other text-editing software.
There’s no answer – it’s a tough call.