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:

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

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:
Imgur
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