@Lorenzo-Carrisi

Good that you got something you could use from that!

Actually, this is probably a good opportunity to show off macros in Notepad++.

First, do some (one-time) setup:

Press the toolbar button for starting macro recording In an editing tab view, press an arrow key to move the caret (this is just a dummy action) Press the toolbar button for stopping macro recording Press the toolbar button for saving a recorded macro; give it the name Bat file from Find results and save it Exit Notepad++ Restart Notepad++ Locate your shortcuts.xml file and open it in Notepad++ Do a find on Bat file from Find results and you should be left looking at something like this: <Macro name="Bat file from Find results" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="0" message="2306" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> Replace the Action line with the following block, making the indent level of the block match that of the old Action line: <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s)^Search.+\R" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s)^\tLine.+\R" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\s\(\d+\shits?\)$" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='&quot; .' /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="^\s+" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='copy &quot;' /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> Save the shortcuts.xml file Exit Notepad++ Restart Notepad++

That’s the end of the one-time setup. That will remain until you delete the macro created.

To use it, each time you need to:

Run a Find-in-Files search that results in several hit files Copy and paste the Find-result panel results (per the earlier instructions on how to do that) into an empty Notepad++ tab (an empty file called test.bat might be appropriate!) Go to the Macro menu and choose Bat file from Find results from near the bottom; you should observe your file of search results has changed into a bunch of copy batch file commands (this step “runs” the macro consisting of several replacement operations!) Save the file Continue from the earlier instructions at step get a cmd prompt in the directory containing...

For the record, I use Imgur through the account I’ve set up there. Perhaps the differences are now explained. Good to know, if these type of inconsistencies come up again here.

@Ekopalypse
Thank you for answering, I found a better way. But really thank you!!

Thank you!

@BigMat-Lecircuit

there was a decision made long time ago that the angled bracket matching isn’t part of the builtin matching function
as too much languages do use angled brackets as operators, which then would falsely color those operators.

At the moment I do see two options for you.

Open a feature request at github and define exactly how you want it to behave and for which languages (which itself shouldn’t use angled brackets as operators in their syntax) or Use one of the plugin scripting languages and make it as a feature for you.

I have an alternativ answer, but must be improved:

FIND: (^.*)(.+?\.)(.+?\.)(.+?\.)

REPLACE BY: $3 $1 $4 $2

Great answer, @PeterJones thanks a lot !

@Tair-Tairoff

Adjust the setup to your liking at Settings (menu) > Preferences > MISC. > File Status Auto-Detection

@PeterJones

I thought it had something to do with ::
Based on your info, i now use this workaround:

<KeyWord name=“myStaticFunction” func=“yes”>
<Overload retVal=“myClass | string”>
<Param name=“string sValue”/>
<Param name=“bool bSort”/>
</Overload>
<Overload retVal=“myClass2 | string”>
<Param name=“string sValue”/>
<Param name=“bool bSort”/>
</Overload>
<Overload retVal=“myClass3 | array”>
<Param name=“string sValue”/>
<Param name=“bool bSort”/>
</Overload>
</KeyWord>

I’ve added "myClassName | " before each return value so i can easily find the parameter list i need for given class…
it’s not as perfect as it could/should be, but it will work for now. Hopefully they’ll make a fix in the future ;)

Thanks for your help!

@Aleksey-Sherbakov

sorry, but I do not really understand your problem.
Is it about highlighting your code? Or is it about the end result, your webpage?
In both cases, can you explain in more detail what you see and what you expect to see?

@Darrel-Zeltner

I assume you want to have automatic file changes disabled, correct?
If so, goto settings->preferences->misc and disable file status auto-detection

@andrecool-68 said:

And why stopped the release of Npp Help.chm?

I don’t know. That stopped being supported before I was involved with the documentation team. Probably it boils down to “maintaining one set of documentation is hard enough; maintaining multiple sets is a nightmare” – though that’s just my guess.

Personally, I’m just glad that we’ve been given permission to help maintain the one set, so that way there will be something. It will take a while to get the full documentation set, and it might not be perfect – but it’s much better than the one that was hopelessly out-of-date and not able to be edited.

@Ekopalypse:

Thank you very much, it works pretty fine!

@ungesundes-halbwissen

from my short test it looks like it is working for utf8 encoded but not for “ansi”
encoded files if those files haven’t been loaded into the current session.

Hello, @jens-ubert, @ekopalypse, @alan-kilborn, @peterjones, and All,

Jens, welcome to the N++ community !

Seemingly, I understand that your goal is to obtain the B) syntax, leaving the C) and D syntaxes untouched. In other words, you just would like that any A) syntax be replaced with the B syntax, wouldn’t you ?

Thus, we have to grab any A syntax, specifically, and change it into the B one

Comparing all syntaxes, it comes that only the A syntax does not contain any single quote character, ' nor the $ symbol, between square brackets. We can add the rule that the variable name, before the square brackets does not contain any single quote, too !

On the other hand, the part before square brackets does not change, when moving from the A to the B syntax. So, we just need to store the text, between square brackets, and surround it with single quotes, during replacement !

So, a possible regex would be :

SEARCH \s\$[^'\r\n]+\[\K([^'$\r\n]+)(?=\])

REPLACE '\1'

Notes :

The beginning of the regex \s searches for the general kind of space character ( the Space or Tabulation chars, the \n or \r line break chars and some others… )

Then the part \$ looks for the literal regex symbol $

Now, the syntax [^'\r\n]+\[ searches the greatest non-null range of consecutive characters, different from a single quote and line-breaks chars, followed by a literal opening square bracket

The special syntax \K cancels any match and resets the regex engine working position

Thus, the part ([^'$\r\n]+) tries, now, to match the greatest non-null range of consecutive characters, either different from a single quote, a dollar and line-breaks chars, stored as group 1, due to the outer parentheses

But ONLY IF  the look-ahead (?=\]) is true, i.e. if this range is followed with an ending literal square bracket !

Finally, in replacement, the \1 syntax represents all group 1 contents, surrounded with single quotes

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ekopalypse

No worries! People (especially newbies) never post their actual question. Instead they post what they think their question is, so your original answer was quite reasonable. :-)

Yeah. I think I’ll live with what is a minor anomaly for me. The scripting solution will be above my head … ;-)

@Barry-Grau23

https://web.archive.org/web/20190719202848/http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Keyboard_And_Mouse_Shortcuts
This service often helps me out

@Alan-Kilborn said:

Michael left wrapping double quotes out of that, even though the OP had them there in 2 places

purely an oversight - thanks. Corrected below:

<Command name="Run Python" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\python" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command>

Hi, @alan-kilborn,

Just congratulate your great aunt to be such a modern person !! To be honest, I’m pretty sure I’ll be uncomfortable with most of new objects of that time, that is…, in 23 years ;-))

BR

guy038

Oh, and BTW before anyone asks, since the Find-result panel is just another Scintilla window, I turned on visible whitespace and line wrapping for it, to aid in showing the above analysis.