@Mikhail-V Who thanks that was the Issue
@PeterJones You also thanks for your help…

There’s also a plugin for Notepad++ called MathPad, which can be installed via the Plugin Manager, with more info at it’s homepage. I don’t know whether it will meet your needs, but it’s something to look into.

Here is me helping you write the script: study the VBScript and/or PowerShell script at the SuperUser question you linked. Tweak it, and see how those changes affect the results. Experiment until it no longer requires the quote marks. Continue experimenting until it does everything you want it to. If you have shown some effort, but still cannot get it to work, ask a question in an appropriate forum, where the topic is about the scripting language you are using (SuperUser/StackOverflow might be a good location).

Some here would be able to use the PythonScript plugin to automate those calculations inside Notepad++. Others might suggest skipping the middle-man: if you have a file with 14000 instances, it might be simpler to run it through an offline script, which could be written in VBA, Python, Lua, Perl, or your favorite scripting language. But it might take a few hours to write something: and that brings me to my last point:

But if by “help me to write a script” you mean, “write a script for me”, then you’ve come to the wrong place. It sounds like you’re asking for custom coding services, which will likely cost you something. Good luck in presenting the question, as framed (ie, without showing any effort of your own), in any coding forum and getting the exact script you want.

@Brian-Phillips,

As it says on the File System Redirector page that ++@Scott-Sumner linked, “32-bit applications can access the native system directory by substituting %windir%\Sysnative”, so if you are using 32-bit Notepad++, and want to edit a file in the OS’s 64-bit system32\Drivers directory, you can browse to %windir%\Sysnative\Drivers or c:\windows\sysnative\Drivers (you can paste that in the File name box, or in the path-box at the top, if you’ve got that displayed), and it will be the files you expected.

@Henry-Vistbacka

As @Mikhail-V suggests, you could do such a thing if you are willing to install and use the PythonScript plugin. Maybe there are other ways as well, but all would involve installing something extra, so why not the PS plugin? :-)

Here’s some quick sample PS code, modify/experiment/enhance as you like:

search_text = '--' replacement_text = 'en-dash' # <----- this is just placeholder, put what you want here def callback_sci_CHARADDED(args): if chr(args['ch']) == search_text[-1]: cp = editor.getCurrentPos() search_text_length = len(search_text) start_of_search_text_pos = cp - search_text_length if editor.getTextRange(start_of_search_text_pos, cp) == search_text: editor.beginUndoAction() editor.deleteRange(start_of_search_text_pos, search_text_length) editor.insertText(start_of_search_text_pos, replacement_text) editor.endUndoAction() end_of_search_text_pos = start_of_search_text_pos + len(replacement_text) editor.setCurrentPos(end_of_search_text_pos) editor.setSelection(end_of_search_text_pos, end_of_search_text_pos) editor.chooseCaretX() editor.callback(callback_sci_CHARADDED, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.CHARADDED])

@Mikhail-V

I think the issue with “Enter” binding should be reported if it is not yet been.

Yes, sure, go ahead and report it if it isn’t already an issue.

I assigned it to Alt+F and luckily it works without invoking the menu

Okay, now that is odd…but nice for what you need at the moment!

…maybe strange…and adds overhead…for me it feels totally ok.

It is totally okay…any “overhead” is meaningless…plus you are ready when editor.lineDuplicate() doesn’t meet your needs in all cases…you already have a script file started…for your “enhancements”! :-D

Can’t believe I hadn’t tried that - Exactly what I need.

Thanks!

@Corey-Rogers

See here.

You may want to create a issue at https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/issues.
Could you please add some info about the used versions of N++, DSpellcheck plugin, Aspell version.

@Scott-Sumner

Thank you so much for your help. I thought the minimalist version has some parts of the source code stripped away and not compiled into the binaries, I should have investigated that more closely.

Thank you again for you fast and clear response, have a great day.

I found the answer to my question here.

https://superuser.com/questions/1098202/reset-width-in-notepad

Looks like we will never be getting this feature…

That worked! Thankyou.

Hi , I would recommend you to install the Pythonscript plugin. So you can do all kind of document processing.
I had similar scripts for similar tasks - I’ve edited one so it will work for your case.
So once you have the plugin installed, this script will do the replacement in the whole active document
(assuming brackets are used only for numbers and do not appear in other context):

def cursorinfo(): # get caret info pos = editor.getCurrentPos() # current caret position LN = editor.lineFromPosition(pos) # current line number # LP = editor.positionFromLine(C) # buffer position at current line start return pos, LN # replace text in brackets with a number def replace_num(S, num): LC = S.find( "[" ) if LC >= 0 : RC = S.find( "]" ) number = str(num) S_new = S[0:LC + 1] + number + S[RC:] return S_new return S # process all text def process(): textL = [] for i in range (0, total): s = editor.getLine(i) # get text in line s = replace_num(s, i+1) textL.append(s) text = "".join(textL) return text pos, LN = cursorinfo() total = editor.getLineCount() # get lines total editor.setText( process() ) editor.gotoPos(pos) # restore caret position

Hi Scott,

Thanks for answering this quickly!

My example was a bit flawed I realise, but the whole document is several thousand lines long and with very distinct “beginning text”.

It would definitely help, but that still require a lot, a whole lot of manipulation.
I’ll try it though, maybe after a bit of cleaning my spelling software will be more useful.

Thanks!