@PeterJones I have also requested it there at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9517

@dr-ramaanand said in need help to look for a word:

simply because it is easier

That’s apparently a matter of opinion. To me, negative lookbehind, where it’s telling you “look behind the current position, and make sure it’s not XYZ” is a lot easier to read/understand than “match something, then say, wait no, I don’t actually want to match that, let’s fail this whole path and move on to the alternation”. (And, from what I can tell, that’s not really a good explanation of skip+fail, because it takes our regex guru pages of text to explain it, whereas I can successfully convey the meaning of a negative lookbehind in one sentence.)

Since your first version of the skip+fail post was wrong, and you couldn’t tell this immediately, even after it was pointed out to you that it was wrong, I am not convinced that it’s truly as “simple” – even for you – as you are implying.

I am going to stick with recommending solutions that i could explain if necessary; I will only personally link to the skip+fail formula if I know of no other way to do something (and I wouldn’t tell anyone it’s “simple”)

But if it truly makes more sense to you than a negative lookbehind, that’s great for you; everyone is different.

@Game-Movies:

This is indeed what your data looks like:

<strong>$1</strong>!

Your search screen capture shows that you are using Regular expression search mode. This isn’t going to allow you to match the $ as that is a special character.

You’d want:

<strong>\$1</strong>!

But if you remove that, wouldn’t you also want to remove the line (now empty) that it is on as well? And what about the <p> and </p> lines that wrap it?

I get the sense that you are just kind of hacking at this, and are likely to end up with a mess in the end.

@guy038 Oui, merci beaucoup!

Hi, @fern99, @terry-r, @mkupper and All,

An other example :

To list all files which do NOT contain the strings ABC AND JKL AND XYZ, in upper case, from your opened documents, use :

FIND (?s-i)(?=\A.*(?:ABC|JKL|XYZ))(*SKIP)(*F)|\A.

Check the Wrap around option

Click on the Find All in All Opened Documents button

REMARK : Do keep the LAST regex dot ( . ), after \A. If omitted, consecutive searches of this regex does *NOT give the same results ! ( Bug ? )

BR

guy038

@byzod

This issue mentions about the unfolding that can happen with numerous lexers.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/12121

I posted a LuaScript script in a comment in that thread that trades the behavior for another behavior by changing the editor.AutomaticFold setting temporarily in the 2nd script. Certain characters will set the automatic folding off which changes the header fold lines to become invisible sections and back again once continue editing. It is not a solution but rather a swap of side-effects to help to keep the current fold state.

I have little knowledge of AutoHotkey syntax and it’s UDL issues so at the moment cannot offer an updated LuaScript script for calling editor.AutomaticFold.

The objective-c lexer seems unaffected with /* multi-line comments and not sure why yet compared to looking at the lexers source code. Obviously the styling continues on past the folding though why it does not open the folds seems like possibly the folding is delayed in some lexers and so like the LuaScript script does is to cause a delay though that is just a theory at the moment.

@PeterJones yes that was it!
So indeed it was an easy one - you’d think I would have figured that out. Haha
Thank you for pointing me to the setting!

@PeterJones, thank you so much!

@Annie-Chuang ,

In addition to @Alan-Kilborn’s request, you can also go to ?-menu’s Debug Info, and paste that here.

Please also tell us the full path of the filename where you put the XML file – was it c:\users\___\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\functionList\XyzPdq.xml or c:\Program Files\Notepad++\functionList\XyzPdq.xml or somewhere else?

I referred to many documents

Unfortunately, you don’t tell us which ones, so we cannot know whether they were telling you the right thing, or not.

Here are some reasonable documents to consult:

User Manual: Function List = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/function-list/#how-to-customize-function-list User Manual: Function List Config Files = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#function-list Including instructions on how to upgrade from a v7.9-or-earlier FunctionList (from before November 2020) to one that works with modern Notepad++ = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#upgrading-old-function-list-entries Community Forum FAQ: Function List Basics = https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19480/faq-function-list-basics

re-created the XML file and put it into FunctionList Folder

As per the User Manual, there are two files that need to be edited to add the FunctionList – you need to have the XML specific to your language, and you need to edit the functionList\overrideMap.xml – if you didn’t do the latter, then just creating the XML isn’t enough.

Also, you have to make sure it’s named correctly, and that you’ve got your User Defined Language (UDL) already set up and working, too.

@Coises

Maybe I just didn’t understand the meaning behind it.

So that’s right. :-)

It looks like I don’t need to do this kind of work that would benefit from a cloned view, or not often enough. In the cases where I need to jump to different places, I use bookmarks, but I understand that you’d rather have the other area in the second view if you need to do that repeatedly.

As for notifications, I’d have to look in my notes, which I don’t have access to at the moment, but from what I remember it was about both npp and scintilla notifications. I suspect this will be one of the issues that will be addressed when everything else is working and the plugin is officially released.

Hi guys, just wanted to thank you all for this post!

I love shortcuts and just today learned of a way to do it in NP++ thanks to @Alan-Kilborn :)

Hello, @collingsjj, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

@collingsjj, if you don’t mind to study a simple plain text, just send me, by e-mail,

An example of your code containing the ESC sequences and similar codes. If possible, a text between 20 and 100 lines !

A snapshot of your corresponding code on your terminal

I’ll try to find out a regex search which could delete ALL these codes

For example, as a first approach, the following regex :

FIND (?-i)\x1b\[\d*(;\d+)?m

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Would modify this INPUT text, taken from your GitHub issue #16437 :

 | Cannot find path 'E:\SharedData\jDownloader\cfg\downloadList4838991.zip' because it does not exist. Get-ItemProperty: P:\Backup\BackupScripts\ArchiveAttributeUpdate.ps1:3 Line |  3 |  . es -ea SilentlyContinue -value ((Get-ItemProperty $_.fullname).Attrib .  | 

Into this clean OUTPUT text :

| Cannot find path 'E:\SharedData\jDownloader\cfg\downloadList4838991.zip' because it does not exist. Get-ItemProperty: P:\Backup\BackupScripts\ArchiveAttributeUpdate.ps1:3 Line | 3 | . es -ea SilentlyContinue -value ((Get-ItemProperty $_.fullname).Attrib . |

My temporary e-mail address is :

Too late !

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones said:

if the line is long enough, Search Results can split the results on a single line into multiple entries in the Search Results panel

Can we quantify “long enough”?
Is this behavior worth documenting in the user manual?

Note that the above discussion presumes this setting is checkmarked:
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If it is uncheckmarked, then each match for sure gets its own line in Search results regardless of length of line.

Update from the far future: SAS was officially enabled in Notepad++ in v8.7.8, so you no longer need to use a script to enable SAS highlighting.

I wanted to add the Stata lexer at the same time I did SAS, but without a GitHub issue requesting it, I couldn’t justify it. If someone can create a GitHub Issue requesting Notepad++ enable the Stata lexer, I could add it to my TODO list, since I now have experience enabling those missing/hidden lexers in Notepad++. You can use https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16148 as an example of an issue requesting a language be enabled – but I would ask that you include keyword lists: The Stata lexer has 2 keyword lists – one for normal keywords, one for data types – so if the Issue/request could include those two lists of keywords, it would make it much easier for someone who knows nothing about Stata to do the addition (since I wouldn’t have to go googling to try to figure out keywords and try to determine which should be called “normal keywords” and which as “types”). If you do create an Issue, please also paste a link here, because I don’t see all new Issues in the repo.

@David-MS said in Notepad++ v8.7.1 (32-bit) NppShell.dll is intermittently crashing Windows Explorer.:

Does exists a workaround

If you mean by this a workaround to not have to completely uninstall the N++ for preventing the Explorer crashes, then yes - unregistering of the NppShell context-menu handler helps: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/99261

or a fix?

I could not exactly reproduce the issue myself but found some potential problematic places in the NppShell source code and put a “hardening” of that code to my TODO. Unfortunately not enough free time yet. More info and possible future progress in the GitHub issue.

@Jschoerner ,

Sorry, I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Hopefully, someone else will be able to come in and provide some guidance, because I don’t know what could cause such a glitch.

@PeterJones Thanks!!

@jadelise

FTW! - Many thanks for providing the solution (the nice simple hack the user asked for) - tested on 24H2.

Now I can (finally, after years!) right click on and edit .cmd files. What a relief not to be nagged to install an new version of notepad (even though I have explicitly removed the UWP instance of notepad from the user’s profile. (next – looking for a way to do that globally for the machine. I thought I did so quite a while ago with win10 and “mail and calendar”, but I could very well be mistaken.)

@Robert-Kampfl said in Spracheinstellung (Syntaxhervorhebung - php) geht immer verloren:

It’s set to A = ActionScript when opening any file.

Do you mean “any .php file” or “any .myphp file” or “any file with any extension, whether it’s .txt or .php or .as”?

How or where can I set this to happen automatically again?

Notepad++ generally decides on which syntax highlight Language to use based on the file extension. So, if the file ends in .php, it should automatically be recognized as a PHP file and highlighted properly. Do your files end in .php, or something else?

If they do end in .php, you will want to look at Settings > Style Configurator for PHP and Action Script and make sure there aren’t any conflicting values in the Default ext.: or User ext.: boxes for the two.

A fresh v8.7.5 installation has the following settings for those two languages:

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If you have another file extension that is neither .php* nor .as/.mx (for example, blah.myphp), then you might want to add that extension (without ., like myphp) to the User ext.: box for PHP.

My default setting was always PHP.

Do you mean it used to always use PHP highlighting for .php files by default? Or it used to use PHP highlighting for some other custom extension (like .myphp)? Or do you mean that it used to use PHP highlighting when you create a new file (File > New), even before it’s been saved?

Because the first should be automatic, unless you have a setting conflict. The second, you would have to set the User ext for PHP, as I said earlier. The third, you could set in Settings > Preferences > New Document:

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update: It also might be related to which Theme were you using before relative to now. Because if you had been using one theme (for example, “Hello Kitty”), and had customized the User ext: for “Hello Kitty” on the old installation, but when you upgraded, if you switched to a differernt theme (like the default stylers.xml), then the User Ext would go away (because those are saved on a per-theme basis); or, if you overwrote the theme definition when you upgraded (ie, if you deleted your old installation before installing the new), then when the old copy (“Hello Kitty.xml” for example) was deleted/overwritten, your customizations (including User ext) would be overwritten.

@Susan-Pemble Besides the things @PeterJones suggested you could also try double clicking the title bar area at the top of a window. That will toggle the window it between being a resizable “window” and being full screen maximized.

It may also help for you to post a screen shot of the window you are asking about much like the screen shot you made of Notepad++'s About dialog box in your first post.