Forget about that before, I found the solution @scott-summer

Hello @daidaiworm, and All, I could not post anything for a while, due to some “Guru meditation...” ! In the meantime, You’ve got, from @Scott-sumner, the right solution :-)) I exactly thought about the same regex S/R. Here is my initial post, which was ready… to be moved on line ! I didn’t test the column mode feature, while building macros, but I would use, instead, a macro based on a search/replacement operation. So, if you replace your macro block, in the shortcuts.xml file, with the following block : <Macro name="nppMacro_eric" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s).+" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\($0\)" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> </Macro> you should obtain a reliable macro and expected results :-)) Notes : The 1601 message initialize the search/replacement operation The search regex (?-s).+ is inserted at the end of the 1601 message and search for the greatest range of standard characters so all line contents, without its line-break The number 2, in message 1625, means that search is performed, in regular expression mode The replacement regex \($0\) is inserted at the end of the 1602 message and rewrites a literal ( symbol, then all the search match ( $0 ) and, finally, the literal ) symbol The flag number 768, in message 1702, represents the sum 512 ( Down direction) + 256 ( Wrap around ) The command number 1609, in message 1701, stands for a hit on the Replace All button Best Regards, guy038 P.S. : For a complete list of the search /replace encoding, in the shortcuts.xml file, refer to the link, below : http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Editing_Configuration_Files#Search_.2F_Replace_encoding Note that the flag value 512 means Search goes downwards ( and not upwards ! ) Be aware that when you use the command value 1614 ( Count ), the Find dialog must have been previously opened !

Hi, @claudia-frank, @peterjones, @scott-sumner, @dail, @mapje71, @jim-dailey, Done ! It was easier, than I first thought, to move these FAQ Desk: posts in the new FAQ section. A move topic command was available ! So, no need to save contents and re-create these posts ;-)) I also, verified that your previous links to any FAQ Desk: post, has been preserved by the “move”. So, everything is fine ! We just have, now, to go on filling up that new FAQ section, with pertinent posts ! Best Regards, guy038

@Claudia-Frank Thanks for the feedback. I had a feeling I was running up against the edge of UDL’s capabilities. I’ll have to explore the python scripting approach or some other workarounds for now.

@Bruce-Coyne without additional infos I assume this is caused by a plugin. Could you post some screenshots/gifs? Cheers Claudia

@Vishal-Sehgal I don’t really understand what you are trying to achieve. Do you want to post some examples with before and after comparison like, I do have line with number 517189292 and some text another line with different number 1189292 and some text again a line with number 517189292 and some text and another line with different number 1189292 and some text and I want to have a result like this another line with different number 1189292 and some text and another line with different number 1189292 and some text Does this makes sense to you? Cheers Claudia

That works. Thank you very much!

You are an angel :-) My mistake is that I tried to copy from Excel instead of making a new document i Notepad++ and that resulted in many very strange things. Now everything is ok. Thank you! Best regards Magnus

@Mark-Warbinek I assume you hit the MAX_PATH (260 characters) limit, which means the amount of characters in the full path is not allowed to exceed 260 chars, might this be? If so and because you are on windows 10 there MIGHT be a solution. Stop npp and edit the registry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem add a REG_DWORD variable called LongPathsEnabled and give it a value of 1 See here for the explanation of this. Note, I don’t have any experience with this key but rumors on the web say that 32bit applications might have issues when having set this key and using api calls which do respect that key. Cheers Claudia

@kichi-po @Scott-Sumner looking at the message from outer space and this: https://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+art&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY_Oe-0vvaAhWG2SwKHUqfB78Q_AUICigB&biw=1653&bih=918 it would be a funny thing if someone creates a image to ascii art converter plugin for np++ ;-)

@Alexandre-Machado thanks for the key information (local ssd, ntfs compression) i can not reproduce this delay on my ssd (non compressed folder, appx. 50mb file) using a 32 bit version of np++ 7.5.6. could you try to temporarily adjust some np++ settings to try out if it makes any difference ? settings > preferences > backup >>> disable following options: remember current session for next launch enable session snapshot and periodic backup backup on save > none

Thanks for help. I found an option named “permissions” in ubuntu software configure just beside the option “remove”. Turn on “Read/write files on removable storage devices” works well.

@Johnny-Shizzle might be but is/was this a plain text file at all? What is the file extension? Cheers Claudia

It’s because you’ve assumed the “convert” was in NPP, but really it’s in WordPress. When you copy a selection from Excel and paste into a textual context, every line ends with a newline character (so if you only select one column, every CELL ends with a newline character), and multiple columns are separated by TABs. When you paste that text into WordPress, it appears to be converting the newline into a <br />. But when you paste it into NPP, it just interprets it as an end-of-line. I don’t have WordPress convenient right now, but my next debugging steps would be: What happens if you paste into NPP, then re-copy from NPP and paste into WordPress? What happens if you paste into NPP, then use column-select (alt+drag selection), copy, then paste into WordPress?

Search > Replace dialog Find what : ^\R Replace with : (empty) Search Mode : ☑ Regular Expression Hit Replace All

@Scott-Sumner You are right, if multiple panels are in one group it is different, also freeing the panel doesn’t work if you click on windows title instead one needs to double click the tab field. And it seems behaving awkward, to be honest - at least on linux it draws only half of the panel first and then once updated the rest. (??) Cheers Claudia

The problem was solved once I showed the file extensions in Windows. Not sure how that fixed it but it now is saving the modified file with the .csv ext instead of defaulting to .txt which happened before even when selected All Files .. Thank you!

Thanks Meta Chuch. It works. The name of version I’d dowloaded has the suffix x64, but obviously it wasn’t the right file.

Apply the shortcut you want to the feature you want. Then go to the conflicting function, and either change or delete its shortcut.