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  • gtshadowG

    Can't Install Customize Toolbar

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    gtshadowG

    Upgrading to newest version solved the problem. Thanks for your help, @Meta-Chuh

  • Aliyah CoplanA

    Problems with certain functionality on extremely large files

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    Alan KilbornA

    Yea. “Big” data can be a problem. I’d go with Jim’s idea. In fact, I have in the past done this exact thing. Here’s a “cleaned up” version of some standalone Python I have, in the chance that it will help you:

    import re myfile = r'C:\foo\bar.txt' myregex = r'' lines_after_count = 2 countdown = 0 with open(myfile) as f: for line in f: line = line.rstrip() if re.search(myregex, line): print(line) countdown = lines_after_count elif countdown > 0: print(line) countdown -= 1
  • rovitieR

    Extract email please

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    rovitieR

    eternally thank you my friend

  • Steve LazarusS

    How to launch in chrome, etc??

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    PeterJonesP

    @Steve-Lazarus said:

    I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to un-comment the shortcut file.

    That’s odd. My 7.6.6 puts those just fine when i remove the XML-comments wrapping those statements. Procedure = Close all Notepad++ instances; open single instance of Notepad++, edit the correct shortcuts.xml (%AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml for a normal installation), save, exit Notepad++, open Notepad++: should now show the updated Run menu.

    I mean, with it built into the View Menu, there’s no reason to use the shortcuts.xml/Run-menu version, but the old-style Run menu ones should work (and does for me) when properly enabled in v7.6.6.

  • MickardEMTM

    Insert Text With Unique Incremental Value

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    PeterJonesP

    @MickardEMT said:

    Thank You! I am headed to find some Python love LOL

    In case you haven’t found it yet, this post catalogs a couple of pages with example PythonScript code to insert a date-based stamp into your file. It would be pretty easy to modify for random-based instead.

    Again, good luck.

  • andrecool-68A

    Context menu "Folder as Workspace"

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  • Murillo NoletoM

    Find and Replace? - Finding numbers and multiplying then

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    Murillo NoletoM

    Thank you. I really forgot about Excel, can’t believe that haha. But it was really hard, since Excel’s ways to optimise the script made it so that some symbols disappear. So there I was again, no time for that.

    So what I did was actually really use Find and Replace on Notepad++. There were severals commands and a hundred lines for every command but the numbers on them were a few, well, compared to the rest. Then I opened a new note and wrote a “Find” to find all the possible numbers for a command and “replace” with the correct ones. It toke a long time. After that I just “found” and “replaced” the written command name by another one, and repeated that for all the commands.

    In the end I had all the notes for every command with a long find and replace in each one. It took me two hours to do the first and a few minutes to make the rest of it.

  • RAMA KRISHNAR

    AUTOINST support in Notepad++ for verilog and system verilog

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  • ReporterXR

    Set max width of tab, show the list of file opened

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    ReporterXR

    @guy038 Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Thank you.

  • Stephen MannS

    Is there a line length limit in Notepad++?

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    Alan KilbornA

    @Stephen-Mann said:

    a way to auto-indent?

    Yes, there is an auto-indent checkbox in the Preferences.

  • MickardEMTM

    No Longer Retaining Settings and Preferences

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    Meta ChuhM

    @MickardEMT

    yes, unfortunately textfx is not available as a fully functional 64 bit plugin.
    if you do not need to edit files with a filesize of 300-2048 mb, and you currently need textfx, or eventually other 32 bit only plugins, you are safer with the 32 bit version.

    for anything you would like to test at the 64 bit version of notepad++, you can use a complementary portable 64 bit version.
    (like the 32 bit portable you’ve tried above, but the 64 bit release)
    this is the way i have it. my main install is 7.6.6 32 bit, and additionally i use the 64 bit version, which can reside at the desktop, or at any other folder with write permissions, e.g. C:\PortableApps\Notepad++.

    (note: portable versions must not be copied to %ProgramFiles% or %ProgramFiles(x86)%)

  • Thiago MirandaT

    Change theme based on current language in use

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    EkopalypseE

    @Thiago-Miranda

    Have some plug to change theme, based on language of open file?

    Afaik not - may I ask you what exactly you try to achieve? Maybe editing the stylers.xml/theme.xml will solve your issue.

  • 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.