Thank you!

@Barry-Grossman

Does that mean that you always install all plugins newly when npp updates?
This shouldn’t be necessary.

Is your post just to inform us that this is the case or do you still have an issue?

Cheers
Claudia

Brilliant! The Wrap around option is in my humble opinion a confusing term. I always understood it to be take away the blanks to the LEFT and RIGHT of the expression, not to the TOP and BOTTOM. But, am willing to adapt ;)

@Claudia-Frank
thanks!
you’re right, i was mistaken, its not no-readable, its hard-readable text.
now its much better!

Claudia, thanks for this:

N++ is better than Python idle because each line of code in N++ is numbered, whereas idle in not. That makes it difficult to troubleshoot a file with 1000 lines of code.

Great, I did not know about that plug-in.

A lot of people use lmddgfy sarcastically, but that link you sent me helped me a lot because I am not familiar enough with idle to determine the keywords for a ddg search.

Thanks!

@Vasile-Caraus

Create a UTF-8 document with some “word” data in it. For example, copy-n-paste the content of this posting.

Get to the Find dialog’s Replace tab:

Find what: \w Replace with: \x20 Search mode: Regular expression Wrap around: checked Uncheck all other checkboxes on Replace tab.

Press the Replace button one or more times. Each press replaces a word character with a single space character.

@Vasile-Caraus

I can understand why \r would work in place of \R for non-Unix files in a FIND operation, but I would not use \r in place of \R in a REPLACE operation for Windows files. Truly, however, \R works fine in my extensive experience with it, and something else must be wrong in your situation.

\W and \K have no relation at all, and if indeed it works somehow in your specific application, it is sheer coincidence.

What troubles me is that you are making blanket statements such as you did, without any supporting information. So perhaps people read this thread in the future and they start mistrusting \R or \K unnecessarily.

Can you post some understandable examples of real text where \R and \K do not work right? Just saying “this doesn’t work” without more information is not helpful. I know it takes work to find specific examples and then put them together into a clear, coherent post that really seems to demonstrate a problem…but I don’t see any way around that for this case. Let’s either prove that \R and \K have issues, or let’s disprove it.

@Michel-DEVEL

I think you should report this at github.

Cheers
Claudia