Hi Scott,
Thanks for the swift reply. That is pretty much what I expected. I also spotted your post the the original bug posting pointing back to my original posting asking for testing on these forums. Thanks for doing that.

I understand the need to prioritise and that is exactly the response that I gave to the people who are chasing me about if it has been fixed.

I don’t think I have the skills to fix the bug but I might be able to work out where it is coming from. I did work in IT for 7 years as a webdesigner/programmer/general dogsbody before moving into my current job. Infact that is the reason my establishment approached me when they needed a bit of software to do what I recommended np++ for.

Thanks again for your reply.

John.

@D.J.-Gibson
yes, you can do this by using regular expressions in the replace panel of np++

here is an example:

original data:

<title>test me</title> <a href="https://notepad-plus-plus.org"> https://notepad-plus-plus.org </a>

activate search mode: regular expression:

find what: <(.*?)> replace with: (leave this line empty)

result:

test me https://notepad-plus-plus.org

@thexmanxyz

if you already did the research when and how it is happening then it would be nice if you could describe
what needs to be done to replicate that issue in detail.

Cheers
Claudia

I assume it isn’t really variable but a predefined set of possible characters, if so
you can build an alternation class like this

[\.\*-:]

This class would look for either a period, a asteriks, a dash or a colon.

If you ask yourself why this backslash appears then it is because regular expressions uses
special chars for doing something special :-)
Like the period is used as a placeholder for ONE char and the asteriks is used as a multiplier.
And if you want to search for those chars literally you need to escape them by putting a backslash
in front. Now you see, that backslash itself is a special char too and in case you want to look for
a backslash you need to put another one in front.

If you want to understand more about regular expression I would recommend reading
this.

Cheers
Claudia

@Claudia-Frank I should do some experiments: when that class was not commented out, I got nothing in the console, black or red. It isn’t a problem now, but I’m a bit curious. (Thanks for the tips.)

@fullpocoyo-as

If these are random lines than I don’t see how this could be achieved in a simple way using
notepad++ builtin functions. I would propose to use a scripting plugin like
python script or lua script or whatever else is out there and able to get access to the
content of the document.

Cheers
Claudia

@Claudia-Frank
That did it, thank you very much.

Can you make a small recording of the problem in question?

@Joël-Thieffry

I assume it is better to post this issue here.

Cheers
Claudia

UTF8 and ANSI, whatever this means in your case, do share a common set of characters.
If your data consists only of these characters there is no way to determine the “user-wanted”
encoding. If you like to work mainly with UTF8 document one thing you can do is to set the
new document specifics like so.

If you want to understand the encoding stuff better, you may want to read this article.

Cheers
Claudia

@Scott Sumner

it worked just made a little change to the first expression
Find what zone: (<a href=“http://EXAMPLE.COM/)(” class=“mycode_url”>)(.*?)(</a>)
Replace with zone: \1\3\2\3\4
thank you
i appreciate your help

Most of the lag complaints I’ve seen were caused by having a document opened through a network drive. Do you have anything open that resides on a server? Have you tried reinstalling NPP?

Given that @Adriane-Webb said “trash can” not “recycle bin”, and eight of my first ten hits when I searched Google for what is “file spy” were for the Mac application, and the other two had nothing to do with software, I am concluding that @Adriane-Webb is using a Mac, thus obviating alternative 3 – but I could be wrong. As a student, it is possible that it’s a school computer, in which case alternatives 1 and 2 are not applicable, either.

Sorry, @Adriane-Webb, I haven’t regularly used a Mac since … was it a Mac Plus, or Mac 512? One of those ancient beasts, anyway. So if you are on a Mac, I wouldn’t be of any help. If it’s not a Mac, could you give us more information: what kind of computer; whether it’s yours or the school’s or someone else’s; whether there are any settings or help files that come with “File Spy” that explain how it might be protecting you against malicious downloads or some such. Also, are you trying to download directly from this site (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.5.1.html), or from some other software download repository?

Thank @Scott-Sumner :
I was talking about the translation ID 43033 … 43043

<Item id=“43033” name=“1st style”/>

I renamed it as “jump up to 1st style”. That would removed the confusing things in Shortcut Mapper but the modifications was rejected by donHo.
See the PR and comments https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/2299

@jeffwestfahl
hard to tell without screenshot, but i remember a similar problem and possible solution posted here some time ago.
maybe (hopefully) just your windows dpi scaling was changed by the drivers.

to test this exit notepad++
run following command line, start menu search field, in the run menu or in cmd:

%windir%\System32\DpiScaling.exe

then check that you are on 100% scaling
restart notepad++

if it already was on 100% or it doesn’t get better, repeat and play around with a different dpi scaling % factor to see if you can get close to the tab/font size you were used to.

(also combine different dpi settings with switching the reduce tab bar option inside notepad++ off and on again)

What were you expecting to see in a text editor when opening this file? .dat files are generally data, specific to whatever application generated them. Often, they are binary – and it obviously looks binary based on your paste.

If you want to be able to edit some underlying textual data, you will have to determine what application created the .dat file, and find out whether there is a converter from that format to plaintext (it might be a converter, or an unzip-like utility, or a decompiler, or…). Once you have it in a text format, it will be easy to edit it with Notepad++. Once edited, you can use the same (or complementary) converter to get it back to the original format.

Notepad++ isn’t some magic program that can “read any file format, convert it to text for editing, and convert it back to the original encoded format when saving”. It’s an excellent text editor, and with the associated scripting and assuming an appropriate converter, it would be possible to automate the process of convert-on-load, convert-on-save, but it’s not going to be able to take an arbitrary binary format and magically know how to decode/decompile it.

Try View/Word wrap. It’s wrapping the lines to the width of the window without horizontal scroll bar.