@PeterJones

I think I figured it out, thanks

Hello, @pilltwilliams, @terry-r and All,

As your text, William, seems to have literal headers TEXT_#####_ORIG and TEXT_#####_DEST, which clearly identifies the lines, it’s fairly easy to create the appropriate regex S/R ;-))

So, for instance, assuming that File_A contains the text, even with indented lines, and, possibly, other non-related lines, below :

and that File_B contains the DEST lines, indented or not, with possible non-related lines, as below :

Then :

Open a new N++ tab

Paste the File_A contents in this new tab

Insert a line of, at least, 3 tilde characters

Paste the File_B contents, right after

Now, the new tab contains :

Open the Replace dialog

SEARCH (?s)^\h*(TEXT_\d+_DEST\|)(?=\R.+\R\h*\1(?-s)(.+)\R)|^(\h*\R)*~~~*.+

REPLACE ?1$0\2

Preferably, check the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once, on the Replace All button or several times on the Replace button

Et voilà ;-))

You should get the expected text, below :

Just note that the line of tildes and all the subsequent characters have been wiped out, as well ! The number of replacements is the number of lines TEXT_#####_DEST of File_B + 1

Best Regards

guy038

P.S. :

Be aware that, in some cases ( great amount of data, lot of non-related text between two significant lines, with headers, ... ) this regex S/R could not work properly, and, for instance, wrongly select all file contents :-((

@todmar13

Maybe another approach, what about using find in all open files instead of marking the results.
The resulting search result window would have all the hits
and in case you need to change something a click on it would open the file automatically at the exact location.

@Phil-Grigg

Not sure what your most recent posting is trying to say…

Meta Chuh, Guy038 etc.
Many thanks indeed for your help and instructions. The first reply by Meta Chuh was exactly what I was looking for. I needed to add this expression to my existing set of macros to my shortcuts file and Guy’s explanation was much appreciated also.
Terry

That’s awesome!! Thank you sooo much!!

@guy038
Thank you for the explanation. You described very thoroughly what happens.

I think, this behavior is very good for people, who want to see a readable text and not bother with encodings. It doesn’t corrupt the characters even if you tell it to do so.
But I think NPP is not displaying the truth to me, how the UCS-2 LE really looks like if interpreted as ANSI.

@Aditep

if you prefer to do all conversions manually, using your notepad++ find window, and want to find all lines with a missing cr only (for e.g. manual control purposes):

open your find window and paste/set the following:
find what: ^(.*?|^\r)\n
search mode: “regular expression”

@Vishwas-Kamath

yes, you are correct.
the run > launch in [browser name] have been disabled for default installs, due to data security concerns if you e.g. have an infected browser on your pc.
the activation of launch in [browser name] has been made optional.

here’s the complete guide from @PeterJones on how to re-enable them, as well as how to additionally implement “Launch in Edge” to your run menu, in case you are using windows 10:

@PeterJones wrote:

The Run Menu usually contains the Launch in Firefox/Chrome/IE/Edge entries.

They are defined in the shortcuts.xml configuration file. If you have a normally-installed Notepad++, you can edit them at %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml; if it’s a portable, or any installation that doesn’t use AppData, it will be in the same directory as notepad++.exe itself. A caveat for editing that file: exit all instances of Notepad++ (to make sure all settings are saved); then open Notepad++ and edit the shortcuts.xml file, save and exit Notepad++. The next time you open Notepad++, the changes will have taken effect.

Mine has Firefox and Chrome. This post shows one with Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer, and explains that in the most recent versions, those entries are commented out (don’t know why, sorry). Microsoft Edge behaves differently (because Microsoft), and won’t let you just give the path to the Edge browser executable, so see this post here for how to add Launch in Edge.

So, combining the advice from both posts:

(There may be other entries in the <UserDefinedCommands> section before or after these; I just included the start-tag to tell you where in the file to add the launch-in-browser commands)

If you know the full path to another browser that you want to use, you can add another row similar to those, but with

If you want to change the shortcuts, go to Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command

note: for more details, please visit the original thread >>> here <<<

Yes indeed, I’m using the portableapps.com version. With the official version, it works. The folder structure is a lot simpler too. It was easy to migrate all the settings.

I will use this one from now on. I’ll miss the automatic update through the platform though.

Thank you very much for your answer.

I’m sure the file’s the OP is talking about “losing” were a bunch of “unsaved” “new \d+” files (regular expression syntax intended). Apologies if this is not the case, but it is for many others reporting similar problems. When are people gonna learn to not have a bunch of these files hanging around for a long time? Side note: Rumor has it that this situation might be made worse soon as there is a consideration for allowing “new \d+” files to be given an actual name (without giving them a user-specified path in the file system). To that I give a big: UGH!

@Fi-Piotr said:

What I also did - I uninstalled N++ (sorry I dont remember what was the version installed at the time of crash), and I just downloaded new version (7.6.3)

IMO that was a really dumb step to take. But I guess, you didn’t know it.

Sorry to be such a debbie downer (and offer nothing positive–really sorry about that) but all these stories about lost data are getting old, Old, OLD…

I have Notepad++ 7.6.3 x64 on Windows 10.

When I set View > Show Symbol > Show All Characters, I properly see spaces, tabs, and CRLF markings

The spaces are the orange dots, the tabs are the orange arrows, and the CRLF are pretty obvious. :-)

Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: While space symbol: you can set the color for the white space (space and tab) symbols, to make them more or less obvious to you, as you desire.

Oh, wait, re-reading your post, I see that you said you already changed the coloring. Hmm, can you show screenshots? upload to imgur or similar, and embed them using syntax like .

Then let us see your Show Symbol menu:

@Вадим-Белянский said:

How can i made it?

As an exercise that might help explain the method I outlined before.
Say we are looking for numbers greater than 229. I have the following numbers as an example

234
229
245
1000
199

So the regex to mark these lines containing the numbers I want is:
Find What:(\d{4,})|([2-9][3-9]\d)
If you have “bookmark line” also ticked on the Mark function you will see it marks
234
245
1000
only

This is only a simple example, the longer the number of characters the more complicated the regex becomes. Whilst it will work it is NOT the most efficient method. In english it can be likened to hitting a pin with a sledgehammer to push it in.

Terry