@darkfang1989 said in replacing all in line with veried numbers1:

@Mark-Olson

<csv xpath=“/entitygroups/entitygroup[@name=‘sleeperHordeStageGS332’]/text()” delim=“\n” op=“add” >
zombieFatHawaiianElite, .24
zombieFemaleFatElite, .24
zombieHazmatElite, .39
zombieLumberjackElite, .39
zombieSoldierElite, .39
zombieLabElite, .58
zombieSpiderElite, .58

this is one of the blocks, all blocks having different numbers. i would like to know if there’s a way to change the “zombieSpiderElite, .58” number in each block despite the number being different in each one.

You can use regular expression replacement to do that. From the main menu, select Search | Replace…, then enter:

Find what: (?<=zombieSpiderElite,)\s*[.\d]+
Replace with: .00 (note: there is a space before the period, but you can’t see it here)
Wrap around: checked
Search Mode: Regular expression

and click the Replace All button.

@Sylvia Ngari

You could also try a third-party theme, like this one, which even includes a module attribute style — although it’s debatable how useful that feature really is:

Python (Coral Reef theme)

@Coises

Actually, I think any of those ideas could be made to work well.

@PeterJones Thank you! I’m not a web developer, I’m a software product manager so didn’t know about the embedded JavaScript.

All fixed now.

@PeterJones said in HTML File changes background color mid-file:

the embedded-Javascript’s template-literal problem could very well be a bug (or non-implemented feature) of the Scintilla project’s Lexilla library’s LexHTML

It’s a known issue that also affects PHP:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15228 https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15368 https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/13946#issuecomment-2127806280

A single lexer module provides highlighting for (X/HT)ML and a few embedded scripts, including PHP, JavaScript, VB and Python. It is many years behind the current JavaScript standard; it was simply never programmed for interpolated strings between backticks (a JS feature since ca. 2015).

Hello, @kristopher-gill, @alan-kilborn and all,

Personally, I would use the following regexes, having the same concept of Nth word :

The regex \A\W*(?:\w+\W+){N-1}\K\w+ finds/marks the Nth word, of any file containing, at least, N words

The regex (\A|\R\h*\R)\W*(?:\w+\W+){N-1}\K\w+ finds/marks the Nth word, of any paragrah containing, at least, N words

The regex (?-s)^[^\w\r\n]*(?:\w+[^\w\r\n]+){N-1}\K\w+ finds/marks the Nth word, of any line containing, at least, N words

Notes :

The Regular expression radio button is selected

The Wrap around option is checked

In case of a Find Next search, move to beginning of file, first ( Ctrl + Home )

Use, either, the Find Next, the Find All in Current Document, the Find All in All Opened Documents or the Mark All button

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, @mark-d-worthen-psyd, @mark-olson and All,

@mark-d-worthen-psyd, I didn’t answer before, as we were travelling back home. Holidays time is over :-(

Just for information, I found out a method which needs two regex S/R only !

Let’s take again the @mark-olson’s INPUT text :

Dr Worthen: blah1 blah2 Dr Worthen: blah3 blah4 Dr Worthen: blah5 Dr Worthen: blah6 blah7 blah8 John Doe: zjk1 John Doe: zjk2 zjk3 zjk4 zjk5 John Doe: zjk6 pouy1 zjk8 John Doe: pouy2 Bob Quzenheim: vbg Dr Worthen: nvbm Bob Quzenheim: jrrke Bob Quzenheim: bnbnm

With this first S/R, we simply add a line-break after each block of lines, beginning with the same string before the colon

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+:).+\R(\1.+\R)*

REPLACE $0\r\n

Giving this temporary text :

Dr Worthen: blah1 blah2 Dr Worthen: blah3 blah4 Dr Worthen: blah5 Dr Worthen: blah6 blah7 blah8 John Doe: zjk1 John Doe: zjk2 zjk3 zjk4 zjk5 John Doe: zjk6 pouy1 zjk8 John Doe: pouy2 Bob Quzenheim: vbg Dr Worthen: nvbm Bob Quzenheim: jrrke Bob Quzenheim: bnbnm

Then, with the second S/R :

It removes the line-break and the next zone till a colon, if this line-break do not begin the current line

It removes any pure empty line, as well

SEARCH (?<=.)\R.+:|^\R    OR    (?<!^)\R.+:|^\R

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

And we get our expected OUTPUT text :

Dr Worthen: blah1 blah2 blah3 blah4 blah5 blah6 blah7 blah8 John Doe: zjk1 zjk2 zjk3 zjk4 zjk5 zjk6 pouy1 zjk8 pouy2 Bob Quzenheim: vbg Dr Worthen: nvbm Bob Quzenheim: jrrke bnbnm

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones

This is exactly what I was looking for - Sorry for the vague description!

Thanks for the help.

To expand on Notepad++ (NPP) vs. VSCode as a general text editor, I tend to prefer VSCode for “find/replace in files” operations (it is much faster), but NPP has a more feature-rich regex engine, so there are many kinds of find/replace operations that are a lot easier in NPP. The macro system and ability to mark search results are also big time savers in NPP.

@PeterJones said in Best Plugins:

I don’t know of any plugins that do anything specific to improve the C++ experience.

QuickText or one of the other snippets programs for doing snippets of code to speed up coding.

EditorConfig if you like having some file types indented with tabs and others with spaces (for example, using spaces in most source files, but using tabs in your makefile).

And NppExec is great for doing a “build-then-run” sequence, which I think would be quite useful for C++ (you can search the forum for my posts that include NppExec and gcc for an example of how to set up such a build system.

As a word of advice: this forum will work better for you if you ask specific, meaningful questions about how to use Notepad++ for a specific task (no, “coding c++” is not a specific enough task); and this isn’t the right place to ask general coding questions (“how do I do XXXX in C++?” is off topic in this forum). Your first two questions in the forum have been way too open ended (and you are giving off AI/bot-generated vibes, which doesn’t bode well for you, since moderators can ban accounts that even seem to be spewing AI nonsense.)

Thanks, im new in this forum

Understood, thank you!

@Thomas-Knoefel
I see, thanks i will try that later

@nkomarov said

I wish this Shortcut Manager were open every time when someone presses Ctrl+T thrice or more in a row (obviously trying to open a new tab that way).

That is an interesting idea though I’m not sure how a computer could best detect the difference between someone struggling to figure something out vs playing, exploring, seeing what looks better in the order of the lines, or taking advantage of the keyboard repeat to do something.

Also, filtering for Ctrl+T works in the shortcut mapper. There is an irritation in that the filter results are only for the current tab meaning you need to flip through all the tabs using the mouse as there do not seem to be keyboard actions that let me flip through the tabs. Ideally, the filter thing would show the results for all tabs.

Also, you need to type out the characters C t r l + T in the filter box and can’t do it via just a Ctrl+T on the keyboard to see what Ctrl+T is mapped to. At least the filter is not case sensitive.

@Pim-Veld

I am betting that weekmenu.html is an HTML file that you want to open, not a session file which contains a list of files to open in Notepad++'s XML-based session-file format.

If you want to edit an HTML file named D:\Users\Pim\Documents\Websitemap KH\Kookhulp iPad\weekmenu.html, then you just run notepad++.exe "D:\Users\Pim\Documents\Websitemap KH\Kookhulp iPad\weekmenu.html"

The -openSession command-line option needs to point to a specific session file (which is in Notepad++'s specific session-file XML syntax) which points to one or more files to open (you can create those files through File > Save Session…). It is for opening multiple files at once from a previously-saved session.

Learn more about Notepad++'s session feature in the “Sessions” section of the Online User Manual

@hfrmobile said in Insert Unicode characters not working - please help:

that this setting was true per default on one machine, but false on others

It would depend on what version was first installed on each of these machines.
Recently, DirectWrite was defaulted to On for new installs, whereas on older versions, it was defaulted to Off.
So yes, “true per default on one” and “false on others” is perfectly understandable.

@Alan-Kilborn I’ve been searching for this for half a day.
Thank you very very much!
Bless you

@PeterJones said in Click function, go to fctn put cursor near top of window:

In your opinion, should @C-Bacca just upvote your “caretpolicy” request, or should a new Feature Request

I would make this a new feature request, but anybody that would take on implementation might have a look at the caret-policy issue and see if 2-birds-1-stone could be effective.

@Alan-Kilborn I was commenting more about the “Its simple …” comment as it was both not simple, and the suggestion provided would not have fixed the OP’s issue. Your initial post in 2023 explained what likely was happening at the time and your post today about Reload from Disk is an additional confirmation that your explanation in 2023 was correct.

I was wondering if the Notepad++ manual explained the grayed out aspect and discovered it documents six reasons for why Open in default viewer can be grayed out.

@PeterJones

Works perfectly, thank you.

@Alan-Kilborn
Okay it was easier than I though, it worked haha
Thank you so much!