@Perry-Sticca

I think the fact that you didn’t give any example data in this thread, but you did in that other thread, had something to do with your lack of replies (data is power!). It happens a lot here where people just throw out a bunch of vague thoughts and hope people can read their minds and provide answers. I’m not saying that your description here was bad…but just like a picture is worth 10000 words, so is some data. :-D

Hi @luciferqam86, @claudia-frank and All,

Is it better if you uncheck the Autodetect character encoding option, in Settings - Preferences… - MISC ?

Sometimes this auto-detection causes some problems, instead of avoiding them :-D

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, @alp-koski, @decoderman, @scott-sumner, @claudia-frank and All

Scott, a solution, a bit complex, for marking the last duplicates, of the user’s text, could be :

Duplicate all the text, just after the present one, by the actions Ctrl+A, Ctrl + Fin and Ctrl + V

On that copied text, exclusively :

Suppress all the lines, which do not have a duplicate, with the global regex replacement :

SEARCH (?-s)^...(.+\R)(?s)(?!.*\R(?-s)...\1) and REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Execute an ascending lexicographically sort ( Add a line break to the last sorted line, if necessary )

Suppress all the lines, which do have a duplicate, with the global regex replacement :

SEARCH (?-s)(.+\R)\1+ and REPLACE \1

At this point, the copied text should contain, only, all the lines of text, having duplicate(s)

Then, on all the file contents, perform the global mark action, with the regex :

SEARCH (?-s)^....(.+\R)(?s)(?=.*\R(?-s)....\1)

Finally, delete the last part ( coming from the initial copied text )

Cheers,

guy038

Hello @savey-traveller and @meta-chuh,

I’m quite late but here is a more simple syntax, for your regex S/R :

SEARCH \w+ +(?=GG1_4859) , with a space between the two + symbols

REPLACE new_wagon\x20

Notes :

The first part \w+ + looks for a non-null range of consecutive word characters ( upper-case letter, lower-case letter, accentuated letter or digit ), followed by a **non-null range of consecutive space characters

But, ONLY IF it’s followed by the exact string GG1_4859, (?=GG1_4859)

If so, the word characters and space character(s), located before the string GG1_4859, are simply replaced by the exact string new_wagon, followed by a space character, \x20

So, given the original data :

EngineData ( gg1_4859 GG1_4859 ) EngineData ( gg1_1234 GG1_1234 ) EngineData ( hvycoach GG1_4859 ) EngineData ( hvycoach23a GG1_4859 ) EngineData ( gg1_4872 GG1_4872 )

you should obtain the text, below, where, only, the lines 1, 3 and 4 have been modified -:))

EngineData ( new_wagon GG1_4859 ) EngineData ( gg1_1234 GG1_1234 ) EngineData ( new_wagon GG1_4859 ) EngineData ( new_wagon GG1_4859 ) EngineData ( gg1_4872 GG1_4872 )

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, @luthando hanana, @gerb42 and All,

If we supposed that :

All your lines, normally, begin by an number-id, followed by a | character

Some of them are stuck to the previous one, with the syntax |number-id|

you could use the regex S/R, below :

SEARCH \|(?=\d+\|)

REPLACE \r\n ( or \n if you’re using an Unix file )

Notes :

The Vertical Line character, |, must be escaped to be seen as literal, because it’s a special regex character

The search regex looks for a single Vertical Line character, \|, ONLY IF it’s followed by some digits \d+ and a second Vertical Line character, \|

In replacement this Vertical Line character is, simply, replaced by a line break

Best Regards,

guy038

Hi, @gstavi,

Of course, I’m quite agree with you ! N++ users doesn’t care, most of the time, about good appearance of exotic diacritical marks.

And yes, I noticed, for instance, that, with Microsoft Word 2002 SP3, some usual diacritical characters, as U+0307 , U+030f , U+0311 and U+0325, are not represented, with my Times New Roman font, although they are well displayed in Notepad++, with the similar font !

Note that, when you write, in a true UTF-8 BOM encoded file, within N++, the string ab, with a diacritical mark on the a letter, that is to say the string âb, it’s, really, a set of three independent characters and when you select it, you do get a three-characters selection !

The letter a ( U+0061 ) + the combining circumflex accent ( U+0302 ) + the letter b ( U+0062 )

You may search for any of them, with the syntaxes \x{0061}, \x{0302} and \x{0062} and when you hit the right arrow key, you’ll be convinced of these 3 characters !

In Microsoft Word, the well displayed letters, with their associated diacritical mark are, logically, considered as an unique character !

See also the difference with the simple â letter, of the C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block, which represents an unique character, of Unicode code U+00E2

Cheers,

guy038

As Gogo said, for the body of the text, font is the same as what’s in the window. Thus, it’s influenced by the settings in the Settings > Style Configurator, including the Language: Global Styles > Style: Default Style > Font Style: Font Name, but actually it applies all the same formatting you see in your editor (including the various stylings for the various elements of whatever language you have selected). If you have the Settings > Preferences > Print set to Colour: ☑ WYSIWYG, it will even print in color (if you have a color printer), so dark-theme users, beware.

If you don’t like the display size vs print size (ie, if you make a small font size due to printing, but it makes it too small to see on your ultra-high-def-giant-screen-monitor), you could either change the Style Configurator font size every time you print and change it back when done, or use View > Zoom > ... to change the size of what’s displayed.

Hope this helps.

Go to Settings>Shortcut Mapper and set a shortcut/hotkey for the item ‘Reload from Disk’ (line item 6). I set it to F5, which by default is the hotkey for ‘Run’ ( line item 271). I don’t use Run, so I set that to None. Now when I want a file to refresh, I can just hit F5.