Hello, @gstavi,

Reading your post to @plazer1, I decided to give it a try ! So, I saved all events, detected by Procmon, regarding the Notepad++.exe process, in a log file, when Notepad++ starts-up !

Note that my N++ 7.8.3 configuration works fine !! So, it’s just a test and not a debugging task !. However, if you don’t mind, I would like to send you this small log file ( ~840 Kb ), with few comments of my own !

My e-mail address is

Again, I’m not requiring any help from you, but I just curious to know your feelings about it, as your knowledge of the Procmon utility is, of course, much better than mine.

Thanks by advance !

guy038

That did it. Both ways. For some reason since I could only find one Notepad++.exe in the folders, i did not think ti simply search my hard drive. This is a work computer and I am not very well versed in how Windows is administered for a group. My directories for the exe look like this: “C:\ProgramData\App-V\39053732-F6F5-4330-B230-69A64467D68E\53CFA7AE-489B-47AD-9FC2-46755FB8FDAA\Root\VFS\ProgramFilesX64\Notepad++\notepad++.exe”

I do not even see a “ProgramData” at first. Then I thought to view hidden system files and then there it was. Thanks for giving my brain a jump start.

-Rick

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for identifying the issue on GitHub. I’ve posted a comment on the thread (would love to be more technical on that comment… but had to be just a regular complaint…)

Hello, @adam-bowsky, @michael-vincent, @supasillyass and All,

Personally, I would use the following regex S/R, which should work in all the discussed cases !

I simply assume that the N90- string, with this exact case, is preceded with, at least, one digit !

SEARCH (?-si)^\h*\d+N90-.*\R?

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Of course, the Regular expression search mode is selected and the Wrap around option is ticked

Give a try !

I’ll give you some explanations when everything is right ;-))

Best Regards

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn Apologies… I am not experienced with this.

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks! This is exactly what I needed!

I fixed the issues, The dll needs to go as follows;

Notepad++ install directory\plugins\ComparePlugin

And now it works!

Got it ! thanks, WORKS !

@Sylvester-Bullitt Sounds like Notepad++ is not the tool for the job.

@PeterJones Thanks for the clarification!

Expanding a builtin language for anything other than a keyword is not something you can do without access to the source code.

You could use a User Defined Language, but you’d probably feel it didn’t meet all your needs. If that was enough, a UDL will allow \\ to mark a comment line, like so:
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However, you can add extra highlighting to a builtin lexer (like the SQL lexer) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyBuiltinLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in this linked post

“Until EOL” is easy: DELIMITERn open = :, close = ((EOL))
Unfortunately, stop-on-other-whitespace is harder; not sure how it could be done natively in a Notepad++ UDL.

There are two alternatives that I can think of:

just define it as a delimiter with ((EOL)) closing it, but set the STYLE for that delimiter to allow nesting of anything else (that you have defined). For example, if = was defined in Operators 2 as magenta, Number defined with blue foreground and cyan background, Keywords 1 defined as Green/Bold with Area as the keyword, and DELIMITER1 defined with open = :, close = ((EOL)) and foreground=red, bg=yellow, nesting=operators2+numbers, I see:
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which might be enough for you. Otherwise, you can add extra highlighting to a UDL language using regexes via the script EnhanceUDLLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in this linked post

@Adnan-Haddad

install procmon, set a filter for shortcuts.xml and run it.
Start npp and see where it is loading the file from.
Make your changes and close npp.
Check if procmon informs about any error or whether npp
was able to save it correctly.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Selecting, Leaving, Returning, then Copying from Find-Result window:

Maybe you can now that 7.8.3 offers …

To be honest, I barely use the find window. In my workflow
there is no need to do this often.

I’ve never understood the “full keyboarding” approach, … occasionally grabbing the mouse gives the wrist a rest from constantly the same activity.

:-) I don’t have this problem because the coding represents maybe 10% of my working time.
At home, when I program for fun, I constantly have to take my hand off the keyboard,
because I have to take the board off my head all the time, because of the stupid mistakes I make all the time. :-D

Not sure this board off my head translated correctly.
Blockhead seems to be the translation for Brett vorm Kopf

@superluig164
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2287#issuecomment-256638098

@PeterJones tnx, you gave me more info than 2 days of searching on the internet, have a nice day :).