It can alternately mean Original Post, as well. You’ve got to take it on context of whether it’s talking about the content or the content creator. :-)

@Terry-R

It’s a lot of WORK, trying to be helpful! :-)

Thank you very much!

@Robert-Miller

Sounds like that is the Find in Files feature conducting its search…seems like normal behavior–do you disagree?

Dear Mr Sumner

Thank you! It worked now.
I am a little embarrassed to say, but I do not know what I did wrong the first time and what I did right this time.

Best Regards!

PS. I am using Notepad++ v7.5.8 32bit

@saud-s.k

a little bit cryptic but this one can do it

editor.setText('\r\n'.join(reversed(['[keep.text]{}'.format(x) for x in editor.getText().splitlines()])))

Cheers
Claudia

@Terry-R

I think your idea was covered in the thread I pointed to earlier…see where @guy038 in that thread says:

SEARCH (?s)^.*?(Your regex to match)|(?s).*\z
REPLACE…etc

Like your recent suggestion, that is a destructive search, which may be a downside, although a simple Undo can take care of that after the resultant data is Copy’d out…

Ah, okay, I see from your first posting what you mean. No, Notepad++ has no built-in way of doing that. However, it is doable with a bit of prep work. These threads will show how:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15318/replace-text-with-incremented-counter https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/12967/replace-string-across-multiple-files-and-increment-value

Thank you very much !

Can you provide some more detail? Macros are generally created by users for their own purposes, so is it possible whom ever is asking you to do this might have more information?

Do you know what sort of function this macro does to your file. If it changes the source data a lot then it might actually be a ‘plugin’. These are programs that users can make using other programming languages, which are then incorporated into NPP to enhance it’s usefulness.

Terry

I assume you want “case sensitive matching” during a Find or Find And Replace? If so, then the toggle is in the same place it’s always been: in the Find dialog, there’s a ☑ Match Case which needs to be toggled on to match case, or off to ignore case.

… For example, here’s an NppExec script that I use to save, compile, and run a standalone C++ program:

npp_save cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)" g++ "$(FILE_NAME)" -o "$(NAME_PART)" npp_run cmd.exe /k "$(NAME_PART)"

For compiling cobol, you would use your cobol compiler rather than “g++”, and would have to format the command line appropriately; if your compiler is not in your path, you will have to do something like “c:\full\path\to\compileCobol.exe”.

If you don’t want to also run the program when compiled, then you could just remove the “npp_run …” command from the NppExec script.

@Jose-Emilio-Osorio

You could use a negative lookbehind assertion, e.g. (?<!\r)\n

How did you get mismatched line-endings in your file, anyway?

@Esteban-Julián

you probably better asking at the NppConsole forum
unless you find someone here using it and knows the answer

Cheers
Claudia

Thanks. It works without the + and ?.

@Kris-S.

I don’t know of a plugin doing this maybe someone else does.
Npp itself offers this functionality only if you use folding instead of hiding but
this means your document lexer needs to support this.

I’m currently thinking about a python script solution but this raises the question,
about the logic when to hide, which documents should be affected …

Cheers
Claudia