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

And now it seems to be complete; there should be configurable colors in the next version of Notepad++.

@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.

@Milo-Vir
… or use the MultiReplace Plugin by adding

Find what: %site1%
Replace with: set("%site"..CNT.."%")

and enable ‘Use Variables’ Option

@PeterJones

Works perfectly, thank you.

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

Thank you!

And another (new) one, which shouldn’t have been opened because the petitioner is the same: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15570 and has no excuse for opening a duplicate issue (clearly they knew of an already existing issue for it).

@mkupper said in Using EOL Windows Mode, pressing enter at end of line only puts a CR with no LF:

@Chris-Zimmer What’s on the right side of your Notepad++ status line? Is it Windows (CR LF) or something else?

You might want to check the dates. The user you @-mentioned asked the question in January 2020. Either Alan’s reply was helpful, or they’ve moved on to something else in the 4.5 years since asking about it. :-)

Further, the title they assigned, “Using EOL Windows Mode, pressing enter at end of line only puts a CR with no LF” seems pretty explicit that the status bar would indicate Windows (CR LF).

Both the original poster and the recent re-vivifier appear to have been dealing with a known (but often forgotten) “feature” of Notepad++, that if you remove the Enter shortcut from SCI_NEWLINE, that the ENTER key just inserts the CR, regardless of the newline settings (because it’s SCI_NEWLINE, not the ENTER key itself, that handles the per-setting newline insertion).