• Zen coding plugin installed but not working

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    Steve MullockS

    I feel stupid now!
    I had this problem a few weeks ago, noted I had the problem and couldn’t fix it, but didn’t note the solution I eventually found until somewhat later in my notes. So just in case anyone else has the same issue:

    I copied the “c:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\ZenCoding-Python\ZenCodingPython” directory to “c:\Users\Steve\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config” I think I must have found the clue in one of the installation instructions I found via Google. I guess in an ideal world the plugin manager would have done that for me of given me a hint, but I got there in the end.

  • Open Modelica user language

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    PeterJonesP

    I said,

    have parentheses (acos(x)), you need Prefix Mode enabled

    Sorry; something felt odd about that, so I did more experimenting. If you followed that advice, and had a third function defined multiarg, which would be used like multiarg(a, b, c) in your code, only the multiarg(a, would be highlighted, which would be just weird. The right way to handle parentheses: turn off the Prefix Mode (don’t need it anymore); go to the Operators & Delimiters; here, you have two choices:

    if you want the parens highlighted, but the stuff between not highlighted, then put ( and ) inside the Operators 1 box (space-separated list). It would then render like the following (where I chose green as the style):
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    See that the function names are red, the parens are green, and the args are default (black) if you want the parens and the stuff between highlighted instead, then choose an unused Delimiter # style (I chose #1 and set it to Blue), with Open = ( and Close = ). This will show up as:
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    See that the function name is still red, the parens and arguments and commas are blue.

    The Prefix Mode setting would allow you to write something like open in the list, and every function that started with open, like openFile, openDoor, and openSesame would all be highlighted with that one entry of open.

  • Collapsing uncollapsing parts of code

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Jose-Manuel-Vericat-Della said in Collapsing uncollapsing parts of code:

    convoluted and not very practical

    Don’t knock it until you try it. At least 3 people have upvoted my suggestion. It can’t be that bad. :-)

    do not know if the development team can introduce a new setting as “stop uncollapsing” or something similar per every instance

    This seems to be where you are placing your hopes.
    That’s probably not the best plan.
    One-off needs are not usually put into a general-purpose product.
    But, if you’d like, you can make a feature request by following the instructions here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15741/faq-desk-feature-request-or-bug-report

    I’ll continue to put up with the full uncollapsed code in the second…

    That seems silly, unless you’ve actually tried my proposal and it doesn’t work, or you’ve tried it and you don’t like it for some other reason.
    It’s your life. :-)

  • Function-List-Parser for User-Defined-Language "Velocity"

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    Martin1975M

    @MAPJe71

    Dear MAPJe71,

    thank you for the excellent solution.
    It worked perfectly right out-of-the-box and does exactly what I was looking for.

    Thanks again and best regards
    Martin

  • Toolbar Wrapping and Multiple Extras After Update Today

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    andrecool-68A

    Delete the file CustomizeToolbar.dat, it is located in the Config directory. And then make the plugin settings CustomizeToolbar

  • Upgrade and roaming app configuration

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    andrecool-68A

    Use the portable version of the program, in it we can make our own independent settings.

  • Why the comparing takes so many hours??

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    pnedevP

    @Martin-X ,

    Hi Martin,

    Unfortunately Compare plugin takes A LOT OF TIME comparing some kind of files (that is because of their content, not their type). I suppose your files are falling in that group.
    It also doesn’t show a meaningful progress in that case because the compare process is not linear and there are several compare stages. Your comparison is having troubles in the early stages (because of the file contents specifics) but it is very possible once that stage is over the other stages to go almost instantly.
    I’m pretty sure it is still comparing, it hasn’t crashed but there is no way to check how much time it will take it to finish.

    Having said that leads to the conclusion that Compare plugin is pretty useless in your case.
    You’ll need to kill the running Notepad++ instance from the Windows Task Manager because the progress Cancel button won’t work in that situation.

    I suppose it’s not the case but if it happens that your files are not confidential I’ll appreciate it if you send them to me so I can further check what’s happening.

    BR

  • Indentation of XML Causing Crashing of Notepad++

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  • Python 3 f-strings not colourizing correctly

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    Peter LP

    Yes! That’s it. All working perfectly now.
    Yes, you’re quite correct, I have customised the settings (quite a bit), so that’s what’s happening.
    I’ll be aware of that for future issues.
    It may well be simpler for me to keep a track of my customisations, then uninstall and reinstall Notepad++ for a new upgrade, along the lines of what @Alan-Kilborn does with his portable version.
    And thank you @PeterJones for your kind comments.

  • Replace text

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    astrosofistaA

    @Craig-McFarlane

    Glad it worked. Thank you for report it back.

  • Insert Text at tge beginning of found documents

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    digidaxD

    Thanks, have used not the right words for the search here but it solves my problem.

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    PeterJonesP

    @Alan-Kilborn said ,

    I downloaded Notepad ++

    You mean we weren’t actually starting with a Notepad++ related problem from the very beginning

    I chose to interpret that statement as “I re-downloaded and re-installed Notepad++” (which could have had the effect of fixing the .txt file association back to Notepad++, so that they were properly icon’d for Notepad++ rather than Excel). Otherwise, … yeah, that statement gave me pause, too. :-)

    But ignoring that, I don’t often have my OneDrive folders showing files that it hasn’t downloaded to my machine, so I don’t remember how seamlessly that feature of OneDrive works; but maybe Notepad++ requests to open the file differently than some other common applications, so OneDrive doesn’t recognize the request and download the file promptly enough; or maybe Notepad++ isn’t patient enough while OneDrive processes the request, and if the OP tried to open the file a second time, it would be there. But i think “Always keep on this device”, and being patient once, should help the OP’s current problem.

  • Character counter!

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Ricardo-0 said in Character counter!:

    I wonder if it is possible to count characters in Notepad ++?

    View (menu) > Summary…

    I need to know why I use forums where the limit is 1000 characters.

    Can’t help you with that one!

  • Need help on replacing text

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    Claude CadieuxC

    @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 :-)

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    EkopalypseE

    @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

  • remove everything from text file and replace with....

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    guy038G

    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

  • theme keywords: "WORD", "KEYWORD" and "TYPE WORD" etc.

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    David WilkinsonD

    @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

  • compare plugin doesn't install

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    PeterJonesP

    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.

  • How to disable multiple lines?

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    Omar Al-saadiO

    @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!

  • Replacing three digit numbers with random numbers

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    Alan KilbornA

    @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.