I should add that it works for this reason:

.+ :

.+ matches (one or more characters) as much as it can before moving on. Also known as the “maximum munch”. So given the pattern .+\d and the string-to-test as abc123def345 the .+ part would match abc123def34 because the ending 5 would satisfy the \d in the pattern.

.+? :

.+? matches (one or more characters) as little as possible before moving on. Also known as the “minimum munch”. With the pattern .+?\d and the same string-to-test, the .+? part would match abc because the following 1 would match the \d.

Is this possible?

Nope.

Notepad++ is a text editor. It is for looking at and editing the source code, it is not a rendering engine.

That said, there are some text formats, like Markdown, which can markup text, and if you have a rendering engine, that text will be rendered differently. You can use the Notepad++ Plugins > Plugins Admin to install the MarkdownViewer++ plugin, which embeds a Markdown rendering engine in Notepad++; using that plugin, you can edit the Markdown source code in one pane of Notepad++, and have it rendered in the MarkdownViewer++ pane of Notepad++. In such a circumstance, using the Markdown syntax [Debian](https://debian.org) would render in the MarkdownViewer++ pane as Debian, while still being clickable in the viewer pane.

Sometimes, it’s best to turn off autodetect of the character encoding, and then manually set the correct encoding through the Encoding > Character Sets menu. There is no 100%-accurate encoding-detection method, because those “encodings” are all 8bit encodings, and so are technically using the same 8bit values (bytes) to indicate different characters; there are some hints that will emphasize certain bytes happen with greater or lesser frequency, which is how encoding auto-detect works; but there is no way to be 100% sure of which of those encodings are used without embedded metadata.

(Or always edit files that use a full-unicode-compatible encoding, such as UTF8 or UTF-16/UCS2 – but of course, your data isn’t in that format; though you could use iconv or similar tool; if you search the forum for “iconv”, you will see some example usages of it)

@saylor68

Well, not sure I follow your use case all that well… But another thing occurred to me: Maybe you should go more “global”: Instead of Notepad++'s clipboard history manager, try a global Window clipboard manager; there are many out there to choose from, but I have seen here that people recommend one called “Ditto”.

Hi, @sylvester-bullitt, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

OMG ! I just forgot this trivial but simple method. Thus, whatever the contents of the <GUIConfig name ..... </GUIConfig> section :

<GUIConfig name="DockingManager" leftWidth="L" rightWidth="R" topHeight="T" bottomHeight="B"> ..... ..... ..... ..... </GUIConfig>

Open your active config.xml file, with Microsoft notepad ( Do NOT use Notepad++ )

Delete all the lines in between

Change the 4 dimension attributes, L, R, T and B, to the value 200, giving, simply :

<GUIConfig name="DockingManager" leftWidth="200" rightWidth="200" topHeight="200" bottomHeight="200"> </GUIConfig>

Save the modifications of the Config.xml file

Restart Notepad++

That’s all. Et voilà !

Remark : of course, this basic method hides all your previous visible panels, as well !

Cheers,

guy038

@Dream-Box

I would try searching for (?-s)delete".+ and replacing with nothing. Search mode = Regular expression.

@PeterJones

I see. Again, thank you for your explanation and assistance and have a nice weekend!

@Michael-Brock

Because you already using pythonscript plugin it might be helpful
to let a script like this

from Npp import notepad from os import path import xml.etree.ElementTree as et from pprint import pformat # <GUIConfig name="Backup" action="0" useCustumDir="no" dir="" isSnapshotMode="yes" snapshotBackupTiming="7000" /> expected_settings = {'name': "Backup", 'action': "0", 'useCustumDir': "no", 'dir': "", 'isSnapshotMode': "yes", 'snapshotBackupTiming': "7000", } plugin_config_dir = notepad.getPluginConfigDir() npp_config_dir = path.join(plugin_config_dir, r'..\..') config_xml = path.abspath(path.join(npp_config_dir, r'config.xml')) if path.exists(config_xml): xml_doc = et.parse(config_xml) node = xml_doc.find('GUIConfigs/GUIConfig[@name="Backup"]') current_settings = { x:y for x,y in node.items()} if expected_settings != current_settings: template = ('name == {name}\r\n' 'action == {action}\r\n' 'useCustumDir == {useCustumDir}\r\n' 'dir == {dir}\r\n' 'isSnapshotMode == {isSnapshotMode}\r\n' 'snapshotBackupTiming == {snapshotBackupTiming}\r\n') current = template.format(**current_settings) expected = template.format(**expected_settings) notepad.messageBox(('Backup settings have been changed\r\n\r\n' 'expected:\r\n\r\n{0}\r\n\r\n' 'received:\r\n\r\n{1}').format(expected, current), 'BACKUP SETTINGS CHECK') else: notepad.messageBox(('Unable to find:\r\n\r\n{0}\r\n\r\n' 'Backup settings might be lost!').format(config_xml), 'BACKUP SETTINGS CHECK')

run on every npp startup. Put it in user startup.py and make sure
your configuration is set to ATSTARTUP then your expected
settings will be checked against current xml setting each time npp starts. Of course you need to adapt the expected settings to your need.

@Ekopalypse
Thanks. That did the trick.

@Pere-Drinovac said in Drag and Drop not working in portable 7.6.3:

Both, Total Commander and N++, are portable and running with user privileges. Deactivating UAC doesn’t change anything.

I have figured out, that I used TC as 32Bit version and N++ as 64Bit version. Using N++ as 32Bit version solves the problem.

Solved for me too. I was using ClearCase (Windows 32 bit application). Drag and Drop from ClearCase 32 to notepad++ 32 bit works fine. On the other hand drag and drop from any win 32 application to notepad++ 64 bit is not working.

@Sylvester-Bullitt said in Can't Read File/Folder Names in Workspace Window:

Looks like some work is needed on the links on the NP++ download page.

Could you be more specific? The downloads available at the official site are the only official downloads of Notepad++. Specifically, https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v7.8.2/ has the v7.8.2 released in December. There have been no newer releases. Do you believe there is a typo in one of the download links on the v7.8.2 page? Or do you think that the v7.8.2 available there is not the “real/final” v7.8.2?

The newest 64-bit Notepad++ I can see in the cnet downloads is the older v7.8.0, from October. I have not compared the hashes to determine whether it’s a valid official version or some custom / out-of-Don’s-control repackaging (my work blocks cnet downloads).

@vijay-S ,

This is not your personal XML support forum.

You have been given plenty (dozens!) of regex examples to manipulate XML, and @guy038 has selflessly iterated through your ever-changing requirements to try to satisfy you.

I have previously explained to you that you need to read documentation (which I linked to), and show what you’ve tried, and basically you need to show some effort.

Notepad++ has builtin XML language syntax highlighting and code folding, and View > Collapse Level / Uncollapse Level will help you hide and unhide various levels of your XML hierarchy.

There are plugins for Notepad++ – noteably, XML Tools – which will help you with validation, syntax checking, etc.

@Peter-Brand has recommended that you use XSLT to do your XML transformations.

There are programming languages out there with libraries that will help you extract just the information you want from your XML files.

Please show some effort

@Rick-Gallo said in Spaces appear in Notepad++ but not in Excel:

thought the experts on an N++ forum might have the answer.

You really didn’t give us much to go on. You say “Excel” and “printed text” and “N++”, but don’t say what you mean. By “printed text”, do you mean the results of the formula? Or printing from Excel to paper? For Notepad++ to show them, are you copying the cell values from excel and pasting them as text in Notepad++? or is your spreadsheet a CSV-with-formulas, and you are looking at the source CSV in Notepad++?

Besides, what does your problem have to do with Notepad++? All I can see is that Notepad++ happens to be the text editor that you used for whatever “look at text” operation you are doing that you haven’t described. My guess is that any other text editor would have shown the same thing.

Really, assuming you provide more details to them than you did to us, an Excel forum would probably be a better place. But maybe someone else here is a better guesser than I am.

I have explained the situation to the best of my ability, and shown you where to go to ask for this feature.

Continuing to try to “convince” me is pointless. I have no authority to force someone else to make the changes; I do not have the set of knowledge to make and submit the changes myself (nor the time, even if I had the knowledge). If you have the knowledge and time, then submit the pull request yourself, and see if it gets accepted; if you don’t, then submit the feature request and wait to see if anyone else has the time and ability and approval to implement it. There’s nothing more I can do for you.

Good luck.

@rafiq-khan

Please post the debug-info from ? menu, the last menu item.
How did you install nppftp?

@Prahlad-Makwana4145

I would not advise people to use the TextFX plugin as it is old and support is questionable.

Please avoid opening multiple posts for the same topic.

In order to be able to have the same session on different machine
you need to find a way to read the same session.xml file from all
machines. One obvious solution might be to have the config files stored
on a network drive which is accessible from all machines or having a usb
drive with the npp setup and using it on different machines.
Of course, all machines do need to have access to your files in the same way.

Hello, @Hasan123, @Alan-kilborn, @peterjones and All,

Here is my very similar version :

SEARCH (?-s)(?:^.+(?:(\R)|\Z)){1,3}

[word]\1$0

Group \1 contains the current EOL char(s) of the file

Best Regards,

guy038

Hi, @rovitie, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

Just a variant, slightly shorter ;-))

SEARCH ^.+?:([^:]+@.+?:).+:([[:xdigit:]]{32}):.*

REPLACE $1$2

Best Regards

guy038