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  • Vasile CarausV

    Regex: Find Consecutive Duplicate Words (words that are repeated) in a particular tag

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    guy038G

    Hello, @vasile-caraus, @peterjones and All,

    Here is my attempt, which is able to match and delete all duplicate words, one at a time, in any line <p class="bebe">..........</p>

    SEARCH (?-s)(?:<p class="bebe">|\G).*?\h+((&\#\d+;|[\w'-])+)\h\K\h*\1[\h,;.]+(?=.*?</p>)

    REPLACE Leave EMPTY

    If you prefer to use the free spacing mode and in-line comments, here is the search regex :

    (?x) # FREE-SPACING mode (?-s) # The DOT represents a single STANDARD character (?:<p[ ]class="bebe">|\G ) # The string <p class="bebe"> or the CURRENT position, in a NON-CAPTURING group .*? # The SMALLEST range of STANDARD characters, ONLY \h+ # A NON null range of HORIZONTAL BLANK characters ( (&\#\d+;|[\w'-])+ ) # The string &#, followed with digit(s) + a SEMICOLON or a WORD character or a SINGLE QUOTE or a DASH # possibly REPEATED, so a WORD stored as GROUP 1 \h # One HORIZONTAL BLANK character \K # Everything ALREADY matched is DISCARDED \h* # A range, possibly NULL of HORIZONTAL BLANK character(s) \1 # The DUPLICATE word [\h,;.]+ # Any NON null range of HORIZONTAL BLANK character or a COMMA or a SEMICOLON or a DOT, possibly REPEATED (?=.*?</p>) # ONLY IF followed with the SMALLEST range of STANDARD characters + the STRING </p>) in the CURRENT line

    Just test these two identical versions, against the sample text, below :

    <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our &#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected long-neglected; creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected long-neglected. creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our fisherman's fisherman's hut.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our long-neglected, creaky old old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p>

    To be logic, only the non empty lines 1, 4, 8, 17, and from 19 to 24 match !

    So, after a click on the Replace All button, exclusively, it should give the following text :

    <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our &#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#337; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351; our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#351; long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming &#351;our our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our &#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our&#351;our our&#337;our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our fisherman's hut.</p> --- <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p> <p class="bebe">My husband and I are transforming our long-neglected, creaky old Victorian house into our favorite place on earth.</p>

    As you noticed, in line 23, the two duplicate words our and old are, both, found and deleted ;-))

    Cheers,

    guy038

  • learner9753L

    Select, grab and move - faster way

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    learner9753L

    Hello @guy038
    Thanks for your help and tips. But this text was only an example. This kind of work is only to do “by hand”, because things are not always so simple. Numbers are not always matching text with that simple order as in my example…

  • Dianno ZXD

    keyboard shortcut to minimize all the line at once ?

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    Dianno ZXD

    Awesome ,thanks.

  • zejjntZ

    Plugins gone?!

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    Meta ChuhM

    welcome to the notepad++ community, @zejjnt

    if you have recently updated to notepad++ 7.6.6 from e.g. 7.5.9:
    the plugin folder structure has changed a bit, due to user demands of making the plugins folder more sorted and human readable.

    before, the plugins folder was a single folder, where all plugin dlls and eventually their additional files were stored.
    this caused many users not to know which files belonged to which plugin, making a manual plugin cleanup very difficult without performing a complete clean re-install.

    now, the plugins folder is more structured, separating each plugin into a dedicated folder, which matches the plugins’s .dll name.

    solutions:

    to migrate old plugins:
    (compatible plugins only)

    please go to plugins > open plugins folder... to open up your plugins folder in windows explorer. look for a plugin dll name of a plugin you might need, e.g. HexEditor.dll. create a folder with the dll’s name, but without the .dll extension, e.g. HexEditor. move your plugin dll to this folder, e.g. HexEditor.dll to plugins\HexEditor. if existent and known, move additional plugin helper files to the new folder as well. (HexEditor will not have any)

    to reinstall supported plugins:

    please go to plugins > plugins admin. search for your desired plugins and select them. press install to install your desired and available plugins.

    note: there are more plugins compatible with 7.6.6 than provided at the plugins admin available plugins list.
    please search at our community for additional manual install instructions for many of those plugins.
    if you can’t find it, please open a new topic, we will help you on all plugins which are known to run on newer versions of notepad++.

    direct answers:

    And the plugin manager and plugin admin detect different updates

    important note: do not use the old plugin manager on newer versions of notepad++, like 7.6.6, as it is incompatible, due to not being aware of the new folder structure.
    as for now, plugin manager is no longer maintained, and serves it’s purpose only for versions 7.5.9 and below.

    And when I remove EVERYTHING and start fresh, there is no plugin administration at all so yes, I have tried to start over.

    important note: if you remove “EVERYTHING” you will also remove the plugins admin’s nppPluginList.dll, which contains the compatible plugin list, resulting in the disappearance of plugins admin from the plugins menu.

    many thanks and best regards.

  • elusiveorganizationE

    Macro to switch indentation

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    dailD

    Another option would be LuaScript. Edit the startup file, add the following, and restart.

    npp.AddShortcut("Toggle Indentation", "Ctrl+E", function() editor.UseTabs = not editor.UseTabs end)
  • megamanzteamM

    Ruby Blue style and syntax highlighting

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    PeterJonesP

    @Meta-Chuh said:

    you can open up both files in notepad++ to copy and customise all required missing parts from stylers.xml to Ruby Blue.xml.

    @megamanzteam : For the changes that @Meta-Chuh recommended to take effect, you have to save the Ruby Blue.xml, then exit all instances of Notepad++ and reload Notepad++. You might find it easier, after you’ve copied the JSON section from stylers.xml into Ruby Blue.xml to immediately save-and-exit. Once you’re back into Notepad++, Settings > Style Configurator should list JSON again, and you can tweak the JSON colors to your heart’s content.

  • Michał GumińskiM

    Keys/Buttons

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Michał-Gumiński

    Be assured that all your answers may be found here.

  • Geoffrey TaylorG

    floppy disc icon to the same colour

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Geoffrey-Taylor

    I don’t believe that plugin lends a dynamic nature to the toolbar icons.

  • Michael4141M

    Updated and lost all...

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    PeterJonesP

    @Michael4141 said:

    isn’t it reasonable to take it that the program actually makes the backup it confirms it is supposed to be making

    Did you read my description of what goes on under each of the different options? I made that description based on experiments I performed in the midst of writing up yesterday’s post. Those options behave exactly as I described when I used them as described. As I said before, Periodic Backups is the “Notepad++ will save a copy of the file in a temporary location every # seconds, until such time as SAVE is hit, at which point, its job is done so it can be deleted”. Backup on save is the “Notepad++ will save an extra copy of your file, either in the same directory as your file (simple), or a subdirectory with multiple copies (verbose), or in a custom backup directory for either simple or verbose”.

    If you use those settings, and they behave as I described, then I don’t understand why you are still complaining. If you use those settings, and they don’t behave as I described, then you are ignoring me (*), and / or otherwise not providing the information requested to help us help you. If you don’t want help, that’s fine; but just admit that, and move into the Boycott Notepad++ section of the forum if you want to continue complaining. If you do want help, then we are quite happy to help you: I wouldn’t have spent so much time on that response if I didn’t want to help. If you do want help, then provide the description of what’s not working for you – exactly what the behavior is that you see, and exactly what settings you have when you see that behavior.

    *: To quote what I said earlier:

    Do your experiments match this? If not, please give us the ?-menu’s Debug Info > Copy debug info into clipboard, as well as giving us screenshots of the config boxes, and appropriate directories listings.

    You also said,

    BTW, another program I use is Libre Office and it actually does make a backup of the file currently open, when it is supposed to. So…

    As far as I can tell, Notepad++ is behaving exactly as I expect. If I turn on periodic backup, it keeps a temporary backup of any file I haven’t saved yet, in the %appdata%\notepad++\backup. If I turn on backup-on-save, every time I hit save, it updates the backup file in either the same folder as the original file, in the NppBackup subfolder of that folder, or in the directory I specify. If that’s not what it’s doing for you, describe your exact settings, and what files you see in those locations at the various points in time (while there are files that are edited but not saved, and immediately after hitting save)

    Maybe I just expect too much. {sigh}

    You haven’t told us how it is not behaving according to your expectations.

    But maybe I expect to much of people asking for help. {sigh}

  • John BoothJ

    Inconsistent tab behavior when using replace by space

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    PeterJonesP

    @John-Booth said:

    More details in case someone else should run into this down the road:

    Thanks for coming back with that. It will hopefully help future readers of this thread.

    Glad it’s working for you now!

  • Gaby RivasG

    Trouble Opening XML in Internet Explorer

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Gaby-Rivas

    See here.

  • Peter BlackyP

    Search for special characters

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Peter-Blacky

    Open your batch file into a Notepad++ tab.

    Press ctrl+f to open the Find window.

    Put \ in the Find what box.

    Untick the Match whole word only option box.

    Select Normal for the Search mode.

    Press the Find Next button.

  • Randy DiCottiR

    That mysterious ESCAPE box - UDL

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    Meta ChuhM

    @Randy-DiCotti

    it defines escape characters, which disable a delimiter

    for example if you have " as start and end, but you want to write it in the middle without breaking the highlighting, you can “escape” this character or sequence with another preceeding character, usually \.

    more info: https://udl20.weebly.com/delimiters.html

  • IVIemoriesI

    How do I find, multiply and replace a number in notepad++?

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    IVIemoriesI

    Darn, that’s a bit annoying; but at least I know throwing different brackets at the replace line won’t do anything now.

    Appreciate the help!

  • remizikR

    Help to replace a string

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    remizikR

    I think I found a solution there :
    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13296/find-and-replace-everything-between-and-including-parentheses

    with this :

    https://i.imgur.com/u1CEkbx.png

    (you have to select the text 1st for some reason … )

  • David RowsD

    Problem with Cyrillic characters

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    andrecool-68A

    I do this: select everything and then copy … then convert the encoding … paste from the clipboard and save
    The most interesting why Sublime Text does not break the Cyrillic alphabet when you convert encoding?

  • MILDMAYHEMPVPM

    How do I transfer my files into a folder?

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    Meta ChuhM

    welcome to the notepad++ community, @MILDMAYHEMPVP

    if you want to avoid answers like:

    put your files on a usb drive. put your usb drive into an envelope. folder your envelope to close it. go to your local post office. declare your folded envelope as an export item and send it overseas.

    we would need more information like:

    are you using notepad++ at all ?
    (if not true press the X at the top right corner of your browser window)

    what file did you open in notepad++ ?
    (only applies if point 1. is true, otherwise point 2. will not be visible by now)

    did you open any file in notepad++ at all ?
    (only applies if 1. is true and 2. is not known to you)

    what is your definition of the terms export and transfer, as well as their difference to save a file ?
    (if you managed to read until here, we can say hooray, thanks for all the fish, and now for something completely different 😉)

  • Jay PatelJ

    .lic File

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    PeterJonesP

    @Jay-Patel said:

    it contain text is not in readable

    It depends on what the content of the .lic file is what can open it. There are often multiple programs that use the same file extension to refer to very different kinds of data. A .lic often (but not always) implies a license file of some type.

    A site like nirsoft (where @andrecool-68 linked) lists apps that happen to deal with a file named .lic – it doesn’t say whether or not it matches your particular .lic file.

    If it’s a text-based license file (or other text-based format), then Notepad++ will be able to show you the contents just fine; but if it’s a proprietary binary format (for a license file, often used to tell commercial software that you have paid the publisher for a license; otherwise, proprietary binary data is common, no matter the extension), then either you need to use an application that can recognize that particular binary format, or understand that for some types of files (like a paid license file), the publisher doesn’t make the binary format public, because it will likely result in people trying to hack their license or proprietary data files, to steal trade secrets or gain access to applications or features that the customer has not paid for.

    We have a FAQ about some of these concepts – it focuses on why .docx and .pdf documents aren’t readable in Notepad++, but the concepts are the same.

  • Donáth DánielD

    fundamental question about the cursor type

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Donáth-Dániel

    Press and release the Insert key

  • MaxsteinfeldM

    fundamental question about the positioning of the cursor after marking a text to copy via context menu

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    MaxsteinfeldM

    @Mikhail
    THX for your great & simple workaround - it solves my prob
    i use ahk in my workflow so it was easy to add your hotkey
    greets
    Max