@bege10

If that procedure leaves an unchanged old contextMenu.xml the installation is not correct at this point.

yes, you are correct.
the reason is, that the notepad++ installer/updater will not replace your existing contextMenu.xml.

this is by design and works correctly, as it would otherwise remove any customised context menu settings, every time a user makes an update.

note: you will always find two different copies of contextMenu.xml on an installed version of notepad++.
one at %AppData%\Notepad++\contextMenu.xml which contains user customisations, and one template at %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\contextMenu.xml which contains all new changes of the latest update/install, allowing you to compare it to your personal contextMenu.xml.

@triplel55569

if @Alan-Kilborn is correct, then you will have to edit your shortcuts.xml file:

on installed versions of notepad++ (not portable versions) the correct location of your shortcuts.xml is: %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml
(this alias will lead you to C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml)

choose file > open at the notepad++ menu.

paste %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml into the file name input field and hit open to open your shortcuts xml.

paste/insert one or more of the following lines in the black area, anywhere into your <UserDefinedCommands> area:

<Command name="Launch in Firefox" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="88">firefox "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command> <Command name="Launch in IE" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="73">iexplore "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command> <Command name="Launch in Chrome" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="82">chrome "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command> save shortcuts.xml and restart notepad++

now your run menu and your shortcuts.xml should look similar or equal to this screenshot:

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please report back if it works for you.

But it would be nice, IMO, to have a couple of choices:

“Quick refresh” - run the exact search again only on files that were originally hit “Full refresh” - run the exact search again on all files currently meeting the filter criteria

@Pardeep-Malik

the style you see at https://notepad-plus-plus.org (see picture below) is the default style of notepad++.
the green border is a windows setting and has to be set at your windows preferences.

Well - whil having only one panel displayed I choose View -> Zoom - > Restore default zoom. Text is displayed at the same scale factor, but after cloning to second panel it finally isn’t zoomed up. :D

Thank you guys once again. :D

But this is normal and expected behavior.
If you open a file, which gets still written by other applications and
YOU change something in the internal npp buffer, how should
npp know which part is the correct one?? Your changes?
The changes from the other application?
Did I miss something?

@PeterJones said:

With data like

Thanks Peter, I was trying to cover as many variations as possible, forgot the ‘very first’ character one. It got me to thinking if perhaps I might have over complicated it a bit.

A couple of minutes work with your ‘data like’ example I got all the required numbers using:
Find What:(\d{3})(\d+)*
Replace With:\(\1\)\2

(432)1 trevor(345)6 never website (345)678 (123)4 trevor(345)6 never always (782)6242 (123)

It seems I don’t need to force the regex to check for a ‘word boundary’ (change between digit and ‘other character’) as it does it itself with the remainder of the regex. So just discarding the first option does not appear to change the outcome.

Cheers
Terry

It just worked… I think I was importing the wrong file xD

Thanks for the help guys!!

@Giambattista-Benacchio said:

Saluti e molte grazie per la collaborazione

I thank you, and also commend you for finding an improvement on my solution. I might have to borrow that idea for any future requests.

In step#1 you say the occurrence MUST be at the beginning of the line. Not necessary if you know how to search for text within a line. In normal search mode just type the occurence to search for, it can be anywhere in the line. In regular expression mode the same can be true, however you can also be more selective using other search patterns to exclude some possibilities if required.

There are possibly some improvements to your step#4. Instead of \d\d\d\dX you can write this as \d{4}X. This means 4 of a single digit. If however this number could be larger than 4 digits, also consider \d+X which means as MANY digits as possible followed by a X (so 5X, 01X, 2304X, 1234567890123456789X etc). This is the ability available in the regular expression.

Terry

It appears that the author(s) of MarkdownViewer++ didn’t choose to implement local/relative links inside the MarkdownViewer++ pane. (Note that external URLs in the MarkdownViewer++ pane go to your default browser, and are not rendered in the MarkdownViewer++ pane, so it already decided against following and rendering external links in the embedded pane.)

The intention of the plugin is stated as “to view a Markdown file rendered on-the-fly” (quoted from MV++ homepage), rather than to be a fully-featured on-the-fly Markdown browser. It makes sense to me, in this design, that it wouldn’t change what’s in the viewer-pane, because the MarkdownViewer++ pane is a live rendering of the active markdown file in the active Notepad++ editor pane – and by rendering a different page there in the viewer pane than is active in the Notepad++ editor pane, it would confuse me as a user.

However, if you want to look through the open issues for MarkdownViewer++, you can see if someone has already asked for that feature; if not, you may submit your own request there. No guarantees that it will be implemented if asked for (if I had a vote, I would vote against it), but maybe the developer will agree with you rather than me, so it might be worth a try.

@Alan-Kilborn

might be to you, but i guess it’s due to linguistic differences.
to me, inappropriate has the meaning of obscene, rather than misplaced.

@cavelamb

There are some past postings which border on the area you refer to. i don’t personally use UDL (user defined language) or alter the fonts at all but hopefully these posts can enlighten you a bit.
@PeterJones :
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15988/language-not-being-saved-with-file
and
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16889/changing-font-size

@guy038 :
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/12104/need-help-to-find-different-font-in-same-text-file-through-notepad/2
and
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16474/please-tell-me-how-to-display-ipa-characters-properly-with-a-monospace-font/2

Have a read there and maybe there might be some good info to help you.

Terry