Thanks to everyone, I changed the “SciLexer.dll” file generated by “nmake” with the “ScliLexer.dll” file in the official zip install zip, only that still made the same mistakes, then I put the file in the folder “Unicode Debug” generated by visualstudio that contained the compiled project, then it worked.

Thank you again to everyone and I hope to be able to contribute to this project

@Claudia-Frank

Works perfectly! Thanks so much!

Dear Scott,

Make a ‘really smart’ post? Every post in this topic has a 0 next to it. This is not about smart posts, it’s about somebody simply removing the limitation by clicking someone’s post regardless of usefulness.

Thanks for the explanation, but to me it is limiting enough that I’ll not be returning to this forum until I can have a normal conversation and edit posts with new insights. Most forums allow you to edit you post as long as no one has added a post after yours. Forums have existed for almost 20 years now and this is one of the worst ways to limit spam.

@Niels-Van-Willigenburg

Go to Settings (menu) -> Preferences -> Backup. I think you’ll see “Enable Session Snapshot and Periodic Backup” is checked. Remove the checkmark and then upon exit Notepad++ will prompt you to save the contents of the tabs that are red (changed, or never saved in the case of “new _” files).

It appears the OP has undergone an identity crisis…no matter…

OP:

Firstly, I encourage if not demand you make a complete backup copy of your entire original file set…Whew!, now nothing that follows is my fault! :-)

So, this could work, if I have a good understanding of the “spec” on what is needed:

Find what: (?s).+?\RSummary:[^\r\n]+\R(.+)
Replace with: \1
Search mode: Regular expression

Very high-level summary of what happens with the find and replace:
From the start of file (in a Replace in Files operation) match a string of any characters followed by a line-ending with “Summary:” immediately after; continue matching through (and including) the line-ending of the “Summary:” line. At that point, grab the contents of the remainder of the file and remember it. At replace time, substitute what was remembered (everything after the “Summary:” line) for the contents of the entire file. This effectively deletes the desired lines.

For the regex experts out there reading this, I DID try some things with the \A anchor (for start-of-file matching), but I recall reading something from @guy038 on a bug with \A in Notepad++'s regex engine, and my testing bore out that there is a problem with it.

Earlier I linked to a posting by me in another thread.

I should have linked to a posting by me in yet another thread: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/77/blank-trim-operations-on-a-text-selection-only

:-D

I guess the answer to the OP’s question is that this (a selection-based action acting only upon the single, most recently made selection [when there are multiple selections active]) has been known behavior for a long time.