Thanks to all.

Just got Npp with NppFTP plugin working. The ‘help’ for NppFTP is a little light, but once you set up your ‘server’ in NppFTP and click on the chain link, you are good to go…

Used vsftpd and xinetd per here

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-setup-and-use-ftp-server-in-ubuntu-linux

On the Ubuntu side.

What you want is something that will set a callback on the FILEBEFORESAVE notification.

You could use PythonScript – download the latest using the Plugin Manager, or directly from the github repo releases. The Plugins > Python Script > Context-Help will bring up a help window; navigate to Notepad++ Object and scroll down to notepad.callback(function, notifications) for the syntax.

You can search this forum for “callback” to find other complete examples of how to set up a callback. (You would want to put the callback initialization in your startup.py in order to get it to be always enabled.) I believe there are also examples in the forum of applying a callback only to a particular type of file – for you, you’d presumably want it only if the file was a .md markdown file.

I assume LuaScript would also have the notification/callback feature, too (though I could be wrong).

Embedding the image you linked:

I believe that the blue background you are referring to on the menu bar and the icon bar are a function of your operating system. I use Windows 10 64bit OS, and mine does not have the blue tinge to the title bar, menu bar, and icon bar. If I remember correctly, Windows 7 used the faded blue backgrounds.

The icons, themselves, however, I do see the same icon shapes… just not with the bluish background tinge:
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I opened both the Settings > Style Configurator to show I had temporarily selected Zenburn, and the Settings > Preferences > General to show I’ve got ☑ Standard icons selected. If I change to ☑ Small icons or ☑ Big icons, they are definitely a different image/icon: specifically,
and

Note that the icons don’t change when I change the theme; they just change as I go between small, big, or standard.

@PeterJones Thank you so much! It worked!

I went through the FAQ. But the whole regex thing looked so frightening that I decided to depend upon the kindness of strangers. Not being a programmer, I felt that it would take me at least a couple of months just to get an idea about it.

Scratch the question.

Both my desktop and my laptop have Notepad++. NppFTP was crashing the Notepad++ on both computers.

I am at a remove location now with my laptop. Notepad++ and NppFTP are working fine here.

It must be my IP connection. I am using my Android as a hotspot.

I apologize for taking everyone’s time.

Hello, @ttm-1895, @claudia-frank and All,

I think that the regex can be shortened, as below :

(?s)(?<=\[).+?(?=\])

Notes :

The (?s) modifier means that the dot regex character ( . ) represents any single char ( either a standard one or an EOL one )

The (?i) modifier is not necessary, as no letters or letter range(s) are involved in the discussed regexes

The main part of the regex is the .+? syntax, which catches the smallest NON-empty range of any character, which, either :

is preceded by a literal [ symbol, due to the (?<=\[) positive look-behind structure

is followed with a literal ] symbol, due to the (?=\]) positive look-ahead structure

Both [ and ] symbols must be escaped, with the \ symbol, to be interpreted as literals

Cheers,

guy038

@Shima-Hisaharu

what you have posted and what you did describe doesn’t match.

If you want to have it added you need to replace with \n\ta

But from what you’ve posted as result you want to insert it in front of \n
which means you need to replace with \ta\n.

Find is, for both, like you already did \n

Cheers
Claudia

Great answer @guy038 ! And of course for any newbies on this forum the definition of a regex is most likely the search string used only when under the ‘extended’ or ‘regular expression’ modes of search , find and replace, using the ‘metacharacter’ options made available. Because that’s where your ‘literal’ example turns into a ‘regex’.

When using the ‘normal’ mode or looking at a very simple string search as in this instance I probably should refrain from using the ‘regex’ word.

Thanks for the clarification.

Terry

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I’ve added it.

That’s the wonderful world of regex - multiple solutions for one problem :-)

Cheers
Claudia

Problem resolved, I need to activate View - Show Symbol - Show Whitespace and TAB.
THEN we can see the … and no there is something at the end of the line,
or, alternatively I could turn on Word Wrap!

Open-but-unsaved files live in %AppData%\Notepad++\Backup (assuming you have the Settings > Preferences > Backup > Enable session snapshot and periodic backup enabled – which I believe you do, since you seem to have the expectation that unsaved files are somehow “safe”).

Assuming your recovery wizard (or however their trademark spells it) recovered your %AppData% (or if your %AppData% is on C: instead of D:, and thus isn’t deleted), then it could be that your unsaved files are available in %AppData%\Notepad++\Backup.

Otherwise, if recovery software hasn’t helped, there’s not much more to be done. This might be a good lesson to you that with any application that edits files (not just Notepad++), even if it has auto-save of some sort, you need to take ownership for the task of preserving data; the more important your data is, the more important it is that you play an active role in saving and backing up that data.

@abdulbadii

there is no npp builtin way to use two different lexers in one document but a possible
workaround might be using some technique like discussed here. As I don’t have any experience in css I’m not sure if this can be done easily.

Cheers
Claudia

@Tony-Montana

npp doesn’t do such thing as it always supports the last recent version only.
I never saw that a particular version was patched.

When something is wrong and a developer finds some time and interest to fixed it
and Don accepts the PR than this will go into one of the next versions of npp.

Cheers
Claudia