Hello, Anton, and All,

If you want to run your buggy macro, Nth times, be sure that :

The cursor is located at the very beginning of the first line val:descr

A physical line-break ( CR+LF or LF ) exists at the end of the nth line

As for me, I did not notice that issue ! Even, holding down the 3 keys of the assigned shortcut ( Ctrl + Shift + = ), the macro changes each line, one after another, without any trouble ;-)

Here is, below, my code of the buggy macro, with N++ v7.5.6, on an ( old ! ) Win XP SP3 system

<Macro name="buggy" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="187"> <Action type="0" message="2442" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2177" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2180" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2451" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam=" " /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="=" /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam=" " /> <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="," /> <Action type="0" message="2300" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2453" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro>

A second and faster solution could be to execute a Search/Replacement, with the the litteral strings, in normal search mode, on all text of a previous selection. So :

First, select your block of val:descr lines

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Find what : val:descr

Replace with: descr = val,

Tick the In selection option

Select the Normal search mode

Click on the Replace All button

Voilà !

Best Regards,

guy038

@T-C

Again, what you are trying to achieve is vague. You’re not going to get the best help that way (and you may even get down-voted again).

So…first you wanted to delete text, now you want to mark text…which is it?

You can match a number that is different every time by using \d+ in the expression where the number occurs.

https://prnt.sc/jaoimh

oh okay. I just need to have the extended selected and just type \t. that works. thx.

@Scott-Sumner

on the other hand it’s quite amusing to see how many newer users think that notepad++ is the source of all programming languages, the beginning of the internet, and maybe, for future generations, the initiator of the big bang ;-)

You want to remove all leading spaces before every line?

Search what : ^\s+
Replace with : (empty string)
Search Mode: ☑ Regular Expression

P.S. :
(paraphrasing @guy038, the forum’s regex guru, who compiled these great regex resources, but hasn’t shared them in this thread yet):

Here is a good starting point for NPP users unfamiliar with regular expression concepts and syntax:

http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Regular_Expressions

Modern Notepad++ (since v6.0) uses the Boost C++ Regex library, v1.55.0 (similar to the Perl Regular Common Expressions (PRCE), v5.8):

search syntax: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html replace syntax: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/format/boost_format_syntax.html

Other sites with valuable regular expression information include:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html http://www.regular-expressions.info http://www.rexegg.com

P.S. :
(paraphrasing @guy038, the forum’s regex guru, who compiled these great regex resources, but hasn’t shared them in this thread yet):

Here is a good starting point for NPP users unfamiliar with regular expression concepts and syntax:

http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Regular_Expressions

Modern Notepad++ (since v6.0) uses the Boost C++ Regex library, v1.55.0 (similar to the Perl Regular Common Expressions (PRCE), v5.8):

search syntax: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html replace syntax: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/format/boost_format_syntax.html

Other sites with valuable regular expression information include:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html http://www.regular-expressions.info http://www.rexegg.com

Do line numbers and fold levels stay the same after hiding some code?

Yes. There are other various API calls provided by Scintilla than can tell you things like if the line is actually folded, or to manually fold/unfold the line and children of that line.

@Mario-Valle,

For me, there’s actually a difference between what it finds and what it highlights. If you searched @guy038’s quoted text

FB00 ff LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF FB01 fi LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI FB02 fl LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FL FB03 ffi LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI FB04 ffl LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFL FB05 ſt LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T FB06 st LATIN SMALL LIGATURE ST

it would find one instance of fi (the ‘LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI’). But when that fi gets highlighted, it also highlights the “FI” characters
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So, are you complaining that when you highlight the ligature, it also highlights the non-ligature versions?

If not, I had thought maybe you were trying to say that Find In Files dialog was behaving differently than the normal Find dialog… But when I make three files in a “lig” subdirectory: “lig1.txt”, “lig2.txt”, and “lig3.txt”, where 1 and 3 are identical to above, and lig2 does not include the text fi, but does contain the text FI, it correctly says that “lig2.txt” does not contain the fi.
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Then I realized there might be a difference between the FF and the FI ligatures, and/or case sensitivity, so I switched to “lig1” and “lig3” containing:

fb00 ff latin small ligature ff fb01 fi latin small ligature fi fb02 fl latin small ligature fl fb03 ffi latin small ligature ffi fb04 ffl latin small ligature ffl fb05 ſt latin small ligature long s t fb06 st latin small ligature st

and “lig2” containing:

fb00 xxx latin small ligature ff fb01 xxx latin small ligature fi fb02 fl latin small ligature fl fb03 ffi latin small ligature ffi fb04 ffl latin small ligature ffl fb05 ſt latin small ligature long s t fb06 st latin small ligature st

But searching that for ff still only finds hits in “lig1” and “lig3”, and no hits in “lig2”.
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I cannot replicate anything where it does the match incorrectly “in multiple files”.

Could you provide a couple example files that match for you, and the exact conditions under which you search for them and it finds them?

I ran some more experiments with the selecting the ligature highlights all the other instances of ligature or non-ligature versions, upper or lower case:

If that’s annoying, you could turn off the Settings > Preferences > Highlighting > Smart Highlighting > ☐ Enable … but then highlighting something else (such as SMALL in the example text) would also not highlight the other matches.

If you do Settings > Preferences > Highlighting > Smart Highlighting > , and select

☑ Enable ☑ Match case ☑ Match whole word only

Then you can select the fl ligature, and it only highlights the fl ligatures, but not fl or FL; similarly, selecting fl will only find the two lower-case letters, and not fl or FL; similarly selecting FL matches only two-capitals, not fl or fl.
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If it’s the smart-highlighting, then requiring it to match case will prevent extra selection. If it’s either the Find or Find In Files dialogs, I cannot replicate your results, so if you need more help, you’ll have to be more explicit about what’s going on. If your “in multiple files” is by some other method, you’ll definitely need to be more explicit.

With the help of plugin XML tools (https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/XML Tools/Xml Tools 2.4.9 Unicode/ or via Plugin Manager) you could use pretty print to get a structured xml.

@Kike-GL

Have a look-see here.

@Branimir-Buljan

Works for me in v7.5.6:

You need Notepad++ v7.5.5 or later as this was fixed in that release. Also, your text uses non-ascii quotes, I replaced those with plain " instead of “ and ”

@Gogo-Neatza

An (XML) attribute (like ‘script’) cannot contain multiple values.

Not sure what you mean by this. Once the quotes are replaced, this is perfectly valid XML.

You were close to “a bad workman (who) always blames his tools”.

In this case it was the tool.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I have deleted my earlier post with the hotkey for EOL characters because I found out how to do it. It is still kind of there though, I can see it but it is grayed out. How long does it take before it is deleted? just curious.

I will be following the instructions you gave me to try to put all these features together, I will let you know if I make progress or run into issues in this post, keep watch :)

@Chris-Rock

Potentially, although this is more of a data manipulation issue than a Notepad++ discussion point…

Perhaps if you share a sample of your data someone will be able to give you some pointers on how to process it, either via Notepad++ or some other way…

Yes, it is possible to run the 32 bit version also on a win 64 OS version.

If your line numbers are the first thing on the line, and they aren’t referenced anywhere in the code (no GOTO type statements) then you could whack all the line numbers with a regular expression in the search/replace box with ^\d+ in the “find” box and nothing in the replace box. When you’re ready to number the lines again, you can go to the menu and do
Edit->Column Editor->Number to Insert
input your starting number, increment, and repeat parameters and NPP will insert your line numbers for you.

If you’re going to be doing this kind of thing a lot, Mikhail’s method and workflow is probably better, but this will do in a pinch.

With current N++ versions yes.
You may read https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/issues/80 on that. To install it manually take https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/releases/tag/v1.4.11 (for 32bit PluginManager_v1.4.11_UNI.zip) and see https://bruderste.in/npp/pm/#install.