Thanks for the correction guy038. It was late at night, and I didn’t test my answer before presenting it. Funny enough I had thought of capturing the \h and re-using it but I never presented that in my solution.

Terry

Hello @sunil-kumar and All,

Not difficult with regular expressions ! So :

SEARCH (?-s)(.+)\R

REPLACE *\1*\x20

Select the Regular expression search mode

Move your cursor to the beginning of your list of files

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

Voilà !

Notes :

As usual, the (?-s) modifier means that the regex dot character ( . ) represents a single standard character

Then, the part (.+) stands for any non-empty range of consecutive standard characters, which is stored as group1, as embedded in parentheses

The last part, \R matches any kind of line-break ( \r\n, \n or \r )

In replacement, we rewrite an asterisk, followed by the filename ( group1 ), followed, again, with an asterisk and, finally, with a space character ( \x20 )

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

A small drawback is that the last file, of the unique line, is, of course, followed with a space char, too !

Hello, @alx-fs and All,

Assuming that, in Settings > Preferences... > MISC. dialog, the options Enable and Enable MRU behaviour, of the Document Switcher(Ctrl+TAB) part, are set, then, if several tabs exist in a single instance of Notepad++, you can switch between the last two accessed tabs, with the Ctrl + Tab shortcut, … in a similar way you would use Alt + Tab to switch between two instances of N++ !

Best Regards,

guy038

@randomeer said:

Search mode is set at extended.

You want Regular expression search mode for this technique, not Extended.

@Ramiro-Tell

If I’m interpreting your request correctly, then putting the line below in contextMenu.xml will do what you want for ONE of the blank operations. Not sure if there is a way to get them ALL at once with a single line… anyway, easy enough to add n lines like this for the n functions you frequently use from blank-operations:

Yields the following in the right-click context menu:

Imgur

@Vismund-Cygnus

How about closing any open clipboard file first before running your “function that saves clipboard text to a file”? Seems like a lot of your problem would then not exist?

@Andrey-Evgrafov

it’s been a while since using windows but I’m in doubt that you can create a
link from np.exe to notepad++.exe with additional parameters provided to
notepad++ exe, can’t you?

mklink c:\windows\system32\np.exe “c:\program files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe”

should work as long as np.exe is not the internal MS notepad because as far as I’m aware MS protects it default application since Windows 10.
But as already said, I’m not up to date anymore - maybe it is working again.
Hopefully enough info to get your problem solved.

Cheers
Claudia

@Rodrigez-Yaves

All 32-bit versions of Notepad++ support TextFX AFAIK. Maybe you are running 64-bit N++, in which case I don’t think TextFX exists?

Thanks @Terry R

Example

Jeff(1234)
Jeff(JeffIsJeff)
Jeff(JeffIsntJEff)
Jeff
Jeffrey

I wanted the first three removed. Your example worked.

And Scott, thanks for the advice. I am a long time user, but I really had no idea how powerful this tool is! I will read your link. Thanks!

@Claudia-Frank
Thanks a lot
It works.

@clip-switch

See here.