@Tibor-Sütsch, another way to do it that is similar to the first version I posted is:
Search: (.*xyzzy.*\R)(?:.*\R)*?(.*plugh.*)
Replace: nothing or empty

That will delete all lines starting with one that contains the string xyzzy and ending with one that contains plugh. I put the (.*xyzzy.*\R) and (.*plugh.*) parts in parentheses so that you have the option of using either \1 and or \2 in the replacement part if you need to keep either of those. For example, to delete everything after xyzzy and up to and including plugh the replacement part would be \1.

@Shenmue-is-life
The FAQ Desk: Periodic Backup vs AutoSave article may be helpful.

Mark-Olson Thanks for the answer, but I need it to last between sessions

PeterJones Thank you very much, this is just what I needed, I will use a modified language for my workgroup

@Andre-Silva-0 ,

The scrollbar in the editor portion of Notepad++ GUI is always on, even when there’s nothing to scroll. The Search/Replace dialog doesn’t have a scrollbar. And the Search Results window will only have a scrollbar if there’s more than one panel’s worth of text.

If you are asking about how to code HTML to use or not use scroll bars, or how to code in [insert programming language here] to not use a scrollbar, that has nothing to do with the Notepad++ editor. We have a FAQ explaining why coding questions are off-topic, even though you’re typing the code with Notepad++.

@hhjarppfh said in Change toolbar icon theme:

if I replace standard icons which are bitmaps it will work but the original fadeout effect (when the icon is disabled / faded out) will disappear.

I disagree. The User Manual section on Toolbar Icon Customization includes instructions for how to replace the full set of toolbar icons, including the “disabled” versions for save, save all, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, file monitoring, and the various macro buttons.

But how on earth do I rename the theme? It would still show up as fluent in the preferences.

(Aside: “Theme” is not the right term. “Theme”, in Notepad++, refers to the editor panel’s color scheme, as defined by the Style Configurator. Notepad++ doesn’t really have a word for a “set of toolbar icons”, so I used “set” in the user manual.)

For the icons, either you choose one of the 5 built-in groups, or you have your custom icons enabled with the toolbarIcons.xml to enable them. If you want to “name” them, you can have different subdirectories (the user manual uses the example of myAwesomeIcons; the nppLegacyIconSet zipfile that you can get from the 8.4.2 release page contains examples of nppLegacyIcons\, message\, and kidsIcons\) and then you just call out the subdirectory name in the toolbarIcons.xml file.

You cannot change enable/disable/switch the custom icon set from within the Notepad++ GUI – you have to exit Notepad++, edit or delete toolbarIcons.xml, and restart Notepad++. This was meant as a set-once-and-forget, not a change-often configuration, so the developer decided against a way to change them in the GUI.

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For example, here’s a screenshot of using the “message” set of icons from that zipfile:
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There is nothing to save, so Save button is disabled; because there is no icon message\save_disabled.ico in that bundle, it defaults to the "disabled"version of Save from the active Settings > Preferences > Toolbar setting.

If I type something, then there is something to save, and it un-disables, showing the icon from the set:
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But since there is a message\redo_disabled.ico, the Redo button correctly shows disabled using that icon, from the beginning.

If you have all 45 of the icon files in the folder referenced by toolbarIcons.xml, then the enabled/disabled will work on all the ones that have both states defined.

@guy038 said:

Paste the following text in a new tab … Each line is repeated with the 3 possible line-breaks ( \r\n, \n, and \r )

For me, at least, the line ending types indicated didn’t carry over in the copy, that is, I got this:

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It’s not really a problem, but to carry on from that point to replicate what @guy038 is testing, one should manually adjust the line-endings before continuing.

@mkupper , @rdipardo and @PeterJones Thank you all for suggesting the workarounds. Actually this is a way old legacy code and now i had a task to implement a new feature to it. after seeing the folds i too got confused and lost track where loop ends or starts and which part of code is in nested macro. I have given a snippet of the requirement but code is 25k lines with nested macro and begin end . So i have created the request. Sorry for very late reply i got the update from lexica website and didn’t checked here to update and close here.

@Dave-C-1 said in Find/Replace multiple lines:

Can this be done in one pass?

Using regular expression search, yes.

FIND = 2 NOTE GRID=(\d+)
REPLACE = 2 ADDR $1\r\n$0

In the FIND, the (\d+) says "find one or more digits and put in group#1)
In the REPLACE, the $1 says “use the contents stored in group#1” and the $0 says “use the full matched text”

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@Mark-Olson said in REGEX: Combine the two lines on a single line:

FIND: (?s-i)(?:<meta[^<>]*content\s*=\s*"|(?!\A)\G)[^"]*?\K\R
REPLACE BY: (leave empty)

super. thanks

@guy038
Looks good! I’d amend it to (?s-i)\A(?=.*(?:Bob|Peter|John))(*COMMIT)(*FAIL)|Mary|Helen|Alice, as this ensures that the check for the forbidden names is only done once at the beginning of the file, and thereby avoids the issue of bad performance on very large files.

@PeterJones said in find "value": "word or two or three" replace with "value": "?":

“value”: “[^”\r\n]*"

perfect - I would never have got to that!!

thank you

@PeterJones said in Auto Complete feature is not working properly:

Nope. This Forum is about Notepad++, not a generic help forum for programming.

OK, thanks for letting me know :)

@PeterJones said in using search-replace possibly with wildcards?:

Template for Search/Replace Questions

Thank you very much. It funkt.

Thank you for this detailed answer. Actually I just needed the correct download link. Sorry, I probably should have asked the question more precisely. The fact is: with release v30.17 Notepad++ works again. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

@Alan-Kilborn said in Bookmark line becomes unchecked on reopening application:

not sure why this text seems to have a Alt+h keyboard accelerator as I don’t see how you can use it in Notepad++'s UI.

One more thing I’m not sure of: Why I had said that.
If a control in the Incremental Search window has input focus, e.g. the Find edit box, then Alt+h will focus and toggle the Highlight all checkbox setting.

@한승호

Find: (?-s)\A.*\R\K.*\R
Replace: nothing
Search mode: Regular expression
Action: Replace-in-Files

@Coises

This is exactly what I was hoping for. Python is well and good, but I haven’t dived into it for good reason. Thanks for letting me know this exists ^.^

@Austin-Gilliam
It looks to me like your JSON is a JSON string representation of a JSON array. This means that the parse() RemesPath function (follow that link, then find the parse() function) will help you. It attempts to parse a JSON string, and returns an object that either has result: (the result of parsing) or error: (the error that caused parsing to fail). Note that this function was added in a pretty recent version (v5.5.0), so you might want to get the latest version if that query fails.

Here’s an image of what we get with your JSON.

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As you can see from the treeview on the right, the parse() function worked. Since we know it’s successful, I’ll just change the query slightly, to parse(@).result (which extracts the result value). Now I just click the Save query result button above the tree, and the parsed array is saved in a new buffer. The contents of this buffer will be as follows:

{ "FastenerData": { "508670": {"Item1": "10", "Item2": "50"}, "508674": {"Item1": "10", "Item2": "50"} } }

By the way, I’m the maintainer of JsonTools, and you can always raise an issue in the repo (linked here) if you need help. But this is a fine place to do it as well.

@PeterJones
I’m pleased to see that you noticed the potential of Dump JSON string(s) as raw text in this situation. I was just about to mention it, but I saw you beat me to the punch.

@Coises
I like it, only issue is you forgot to return the .png in the replacement field. That is unless you meant for the Find What to use a lookahead?

Just goes to show that although regex can’t count it can be made to do some wonderous things nobody would have believed if they didn’t see it for themselves.

Terry

@mkupper

Well Tank you very much for the time you have spent on it.
It was an analysis which I myself did not think of it.

I don’t have much knowledge in this field maybe browsers or web pages like this use Woff or something like that.

By the way TYSM.