When installing Notepad++ (which needs admin access of course) you can tell it to load plugins from the user’s %APPDATA% directory. That way N++ can then be executed by a non-admin user and install plugins (normally through the plugin manager) and the plugins and their config files get stored in the user’s own writeable directory.

Keep in mind this works for most plugins but not all since some need to have files in the same directory as notepad++.exe (e.g. PythonScript).

@Claudia Frank

Claudia;

Thanks! :)

@guy038 Thank You! You went above and beyond.

Hi guy!

I’ve just started again from where I was. :) I have restarted the computer, but no luck! The chunk that I created to try contains 1 million lines and is 218 MB. I think Notepad (32 bit version) cannot send the data that big to the clipboard, even it could open the file. I have tried it with EditPad Lite without problem, so reinstalled the 64 version of Notepad, trading for the “Sort output only UNIQUE (at column) lines” function of the plugin TextFX, and the 64 version can handle it.

Luckily, I have found a regex for removing duplicate lines (“^(.?)$\s+?^(?=.^\1$)”), so I don’t have to be cheeky asking for it. :)

I have finally managed to go through the above steps, and it works as expected.
Again, thank you for your help! I do appreciate it!

@Claudia-Frank

make sense. This problem I have only for a couple weeks and on Windows 7. And I think that I tried change mouse with completely different one (different producer…) and I had the same problem. I don’t really know what cause this issue and I am sad because of that. I haven’t a similar problem with any other software.

Thanks anyway.

From the code it seems that NP++ uses an old API that is no longer recommended by Microsoft for getting tabs fonts.
GetStockObject with:
SYSTEM_FONT or DEFAULT_GUI_FONT.
There is also lots of logic for calculating rectangle size and some references for DPI that may have side effects.
Extreme resolutions are definitely an issue for “classic GUI” apps.

Do you get font that is much smaller than Menu font?
What version of Windows?

I doubt that you can override it without modifying NP++ source code.
If you play around by customizing Window fonts you may be able to modify it, hopefully without destroying other things.

Some developer with similar screen should enhance the code sometime.

Vasile and All,

Ah, of course, Vasile, your regex I love \w{1,6}+ car contains the part \w{1,6}+, with the quantifier {1,6}, followed by a + sign. It represents an atomic sequence. That is to say that, ONCE the regex engine matches the greatest possible amount of word characters , up to 6, it would NEVER backtrack, in order to satisfy, possibly, the remainder of the overall regex !

Actually, your regex would just match the 6 following lines, below, with, only, ONE word ( of 1 to 6 letters ), between the words love and car

Here are, below, TWO regexes, looking for a range of words, between TWO boundaries-words, let’s say, WORD_1 and WORD_2, which would be, both, separated by, at least, M words and NO more than N words :

The first syntax may match over several consecutive lines

The second syntax forces the regex engine to match the two boundaries-words WORD_1 and WORD_2, on a SAME line

One example :

Let WORD_1 be the article I

Let WORD_2 be the name car

Let M and N be the values 2 and 5

So, the two resulting regexes are :

=> The first syntax matches the two complete lines, first, then the lines, from 3 to 6

=> The second syntax matches, ONLY, a UNIQUE line, from 3 to 6, below :

I would like to point out a special regex construction, which may, sometimes, help to get powerful matches. It’s the part [^\w\r\n] !

Indeed, I, originally, considered the classical syntax \W+, to match any range of NON-words characters, which occurs before a word. However, as the class \W is the opposite of the \w class, the NON-word \W may, also, match any EOL character, like \n or \r, leading, sometimes, to matches on two consecutive lines !

So, to find out the second case, I built this NEGATIVE class [^\w\r\n], that considers a character, which is, both, NOT a Word character AND neither the \n nor the \r EOL character !

An other example : the regex [^\W_a-z] is a kind of double-negation construction : It, finally, matches any Word character, except for the underscore ( _ ) and all the usual lower-case letters ( [a-z] ). In other words, this regex would match :

Any digit or number-like symbol

Any upper-case letter, accentuated or NOT

Any accentuated lower-case letter, ONLY

Cheers,

guy038

@William-Sunderman

afaik, no - but are you sure you want to use npp to generate a file containing list of files?
I don’t know but a simple dir command could do it as well I guess. Or are your files
that different that it can’t match a certain filter?

Maybe create the list with the dir command and then use regex with npp
to filter the ones you want?

Cheers
Claudia

@Placeholder

permission issue ??
What if you run Default program and set npp for the extension?
Or what about running npp as administrator and do assignment via Settings->Preferences->File Association?

Cheers
Claudia