@Alexandru-Adrian-Meroșu

another free app is diffmerge,
maybe useful to you.

Cheers
Claudia

@Dan-Padric

I assume the easiest would be to use a zipped notepad++ package and install in
two different places but if I’m right you are also aware of python script plugin and
another solution would be to do something like this

def change_styles(): # editor.styleResetDefault() editor.styleSetBack(0, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(0, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(1, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(1, (87, 166, 74)); editor.styleSetBack(2, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(2, (255, 128, 128)); editor.styleSetBack(3, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(3, (214, 157, 133)); editor.styleSetBack(4, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(4, (214, 157, 133)); editor.styleSetBack(5, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(5, (54, 125, 198)); editor.styleSetBack(6, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(6, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(7, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(7, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(8, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(8, (138, 138, 255)); editor.styleSetBack(9, (30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(9, (250, 205, 34)); editor.styleSetBack(10,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(10, (255, 128, 0)); editor.styleSetBack(11,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(11, (141, 166, 206)); editor.styleSetBack(12,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(12, (87, 166, 74)); editor.styleSetBack(13,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(13, (214, 157, 133)); editor.styleSetBack(14,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(14, (0, 97, 194)); editor.styleSetBack(15,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(15, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(16,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(16, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(17,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(17, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(18,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(18, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(19,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(19, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(20,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(20, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(21,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(21, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(22,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(22, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(23,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(23, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(24,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(24, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(25,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(25, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(26,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(26, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(27,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(27, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(28,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(28, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(29,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(29, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(30,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(30, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(31,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(31, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(32,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(32, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(33,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(33, (43, 145, 175)); editor.styleSetBack(34,(38, 79, 120)); editor.styleSetFore(34, (220, 220, 220)); editor.styleSetBack(35,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(35, (147, 0, 0)); editor.styleSetBack(36,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(36, (200, 200, 200)); editor.styleSetBack(37,(30, 30, 30)); editor.styleSetFore(37, (136, 138, 133)); editor.styleSetBack(38,(0, 0, 0)); editor.styleSetFore(38, (128, 128, 128)); editor.setCaretFore((128, 128, 128)) editor.setCaretLineBack((0, 0, 0)) for i in range(15): editor.styleSetFont(i, 'Courier New') editor.styleSetSize(i,12) editor.setFoldMarginColour(True, (30, 30, 30)) editor.setFoldMarginHiColour(True, (30, 30, 30)) def callback_BUFFERACTIVATED(args): if editor.getLexer() in [1,2]: change_styles() else: editor.setFoldMarginColour(False, (30, 30, 30)) editor.setFoldMarginHiColour(False, (30, 30, 30)) notepad.clearCallbacks([NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED]) notepad.callback(callback_BUFFERACTIVATED, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])

Put this into the user startup.py.
Basically, every time you switch/open a document it checks if it is either a normal text
or python document and in such a case changes the styles.
The meaning of the styles can be seen in stylers.xml but be aware that not
every style id from global styles can be set but needs to be callled with a different
function like setFoldMarginColour etc…

Cheers
Claudia

I found the problem. Win 10 had disassociated the link with text files. There was no default app set to open text files. Not sure why that happened but I set the default to Notepad++ and all is well.

This is very good! Many thanks!
I tried a similar solution, but i wrote it to the ‘javascript_function’ parser with id=58, because the comment line at start of the file says: “Don’t use L_JS (19) use L_JAVASCRIPT (58) instead!”
So thanks again! It works now.

Gee

ps.: Sorry for i started a new thread, but my notepad++ is a newer version and i didn’t check all of the older threads.

I do not see a refresh button, but I loaded it multiple times with no change. Networking is working fine for everything else.

AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\PluginManagerPlugins.zip was 0 bytes. I overwrote it with PluginManagerPlugins.* from another installation and restarted. It then recommended the PluginManager upgrade and now appears to be working correctly.

@KerryRuddock

what do you mean by

I have my working folder set to htdocs,

?

You set it in the settings or you assume that using folder as workspace does it?
If the latter is the case, than, afaik, this isn’t true.
Afaik, for the first time the saveas dialog is used,
a new document will use the installation directory, if not specified otherwise in settings,
and subsequent calls to the saveas dialog, for new documents, will use the last directory
used for a save operation.

Cheers
Claudia

@Francis-BUCAMP

not sure what you are talking about, which xml tree do you refer to?
A special plugin?

Cheers
Claudia

Hi, All,

I’m back for additional information, about lazy, greedy and possessive quantifiers. it’s fundamental to, correctly, understand the differences, between these 3 types of quantifiers !

So, let’s consider the simple text 12345ABCDE, in a new tab

How the regex engine interprets, for instance, the regex \w{1,10}[A-Z]{5}, with the greedy quantifier {1,10} ?. Well :

It, first, tries to match the LONGEST range of \w => 10 Word characters. But, the part [A-Z]{5} CANNOT match anything

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 9 Words characters. Again, the part [A-Z]{5} does NOT match the E letter

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 8 Words characters. Again, the part [A-Z]{5} does NOT match the DE letters

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 7 Words characters. Again, the part [A-Z]{5} does NOT match the CDE letters

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 6 Words characters. Again, the part [A-Z]{5} does NOT match the BCDE letters

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 5 Words characters. This time, the part [A-Z]{5} DOES match the ABCDE letters

=> After the backtracking phase, all the text is matched and selected !

Now, how the regex engine interprets the regex \w{1,10}?[A-Z]{5}, with the lazy quantifier {1,10}? ?

It, first, tries to match the SHORTEST range of \w => 1 Word character. But, the part [A-Z]{5} CANNOT match the 2345ABCDE string

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 2 Words characters. Again, the part [A-Z]{5} does NOT match the 345ABCDE string

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 3 Words characters. Again, the part [A-Z]{5} does NOT match the 45ABCDE string

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 4 Words characters. Again, the part [A-Z]{5} does NOT match the 5ABCDE string

Then, it backtracks and tries the first 5 Words characters. This time, the part [A-Z]{5} DOES match the ABCDE letters

=> After the backtracking phase, all the text is matched and selected !

Note : Instead of the English werb backtrack, the verb fortrack would be more adapted ! Sorry, English isn’t my mother tongue !

Finally, how the regex engine interprets the regex \w{1,10}+[A-Z]{5}, with the possessive quantifier {1,10}+ ?

It, first, tries to match the LONGEST range of \w => 10 Word characters. But, the part [A-Z]{5} CANNOT match anything

Now, the normal process would be to backtrack. But this action is forbidden, due to the possessive quantifier ! In other words, once a match has been found, for the first part \w{1,10}+, the following parts of the regex must match the remaining of the text. But, as the first regex part have consumed all the text, the part [A-Z]{5} will NEVER match anything !
So, the overall match fails and you get the normal message Find: Can’t find the text “\w{1,10}+[A-Z]{5}”

Using, again, the same example 12345ABCDE, in a new tab, it’s easy to verify that :

The regex \w{1,10} matches the longest Word characters range => The whole string 12345ABCDE is matched

The regex \w{1,10}? matches the shortest Word characters range => The 1 Word character is matched, then the 2 digit and so on…

The regex \w{1,10}+ matches the longest Word characters range => The whole string 12345ABCDE is matched, too !

So, to sum up, here is, below, a list of all the quantifiers :

GREEDY quantifiers : * ( = {0,} ) + ( = {1,} ) ? ( = {0,1} ) {n} {n,} {m,n} LAZY quantifiers : *? ( = {0,}? ) +? ( = {1,}? ) ?? ( = {0,1}? ) {n}? {n,}? {m,n}? POSSESSIVE quantifiers : *+ ( = {0,}+ ) ++ ( = {1,}+ ) ?+ ( = {0,1}+ ) {n}+ {n,}+ {m,n}+

Remark : The two {n}? and {n}+ syntaxes, although correct, are useless, as the syntax {n} could be qualified as an EXACT quantifier !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ahu-Lee

Instead of generically stating it doesn’t work, you will have to provide more details to even attempt to figure out why it isn’t sorted for you. Because I’m using v7.4.2 and it is working fine for me.

@MAPJe71

I’ve finally uploaded some <parser>-elements to the Matlab File Exchange.

I think I may have solved my own problem.

I had several (6 or 8) files in the Notepad++ editor. Some of the files had been open inside the editor for several weeks.

I closed all of the files, uninstalled Notepad++, then did a clean installation. It seems to be working okay now.

Evidently, leaving open files in Notepad++ for weeks caused something to get clogged up.

One of the mods can mark this thread resolved if they like.

@陳同

does this happen also if no plugins are installed?
To test you might run npp with -noPlugin switch or temporarily rename plugin directory.
If this doesn’t help, please post you debug-info which is available under ? menu.

Cheers
Claudia