For now I have turned DirectWrite off per @Coises’ advice. I had turned DirectWrite on per this thread from April 2023

The video drivers seem to be up to date, or at least Windows Updates, plus “check for updates” at the driver level claim that things are up to date. There was an update for my monitor which I installed.

I suspect it’s something triggered by Notepad++ or Scintilla. If it pops up again I’ll see if the glitch gets cleared by clicking with the mouse, etc. I normally use Alt+Tab to switch applications.

I don’t feel like uninstalling Windows updates per what @Ekopalypse dealt with as the blobs issue has been going on for several months. My first screen shot of one was on February 8th. The blobs don’t happen often and when I notice one they have been “fragile” in that they vanish as I try to do anything.

At least I have been able to capture them using screen shots. That in itself proves they exist and that Windows knows they are on the screen meaning they are not artifacts created the video hardware and/or monitor.

The unrelated missing right parentheses issue was quickly resolved by @donho.

@PeterJones
Many thanks for Your help :)
I’ll try to fix it myself

Thanks for the tips. Especially for the link with examples of text search in a separate zone. I broke my head, but I found my own option.

(?-si:<connection connection=".+\n.+class="ship.+owner="player".+\n|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!<\/people>\n).)*?\K(?-si:(<skill.+\n)+)

But another problem has emerged. as I understand it, due to the large file size (~500 MB and ~13.5 million lines) I get an error if there are about 1 million lines between the areas with the data I need. That is, for example, I search first class="ship.+owner="player" throughout the file and get a normal result - 32 matches in the entire file.

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But if I try to execute my regular expression from the beginning of the file, there will be a regular expression error message (invalid regular expression).

If i place the cursor inside any of the zones and use marks, then all the matches from all the zones will change if, as I found out, there are less than 1 million lines between them.

Or if i place the cursor inside the zone with the desired text (but after which, the next zone of interest will start after at least a million lines) and sequentially perform “find next”, then the search will continue normally until it reaches the </people> tag, after which, as I understand it, the search should begin the next zone, however, will again receive a regular expression error message.

I tried to find out what the error is on various online resources for checking regular expressions, but they can’t cope with such a volume of strings. I also did not find offline tools for such a task, maybe I was looking for it badly.

And as I understand it at the moment, the problem is not in the regular expression itself, but in the limitation of the search engine. Maybe someone has come across something like this or knows a suitable tool?
At the moment, I’m thinking about trying to write something suitable for this task in python.

P.S. How can I hide anything under the spoiler?

P.P.S. X4 foundations let me go, I’ve been racking my head for the second week))

@rw-schumann ,

If you want to go ping on issue #14478, that would be helpful. Unfortunately, now that the issue is created, there’s nothing more we in the Forum can do to speed things along.

Hello, @uhax-the-grey, @coises and All,

Your solution, @coises, seems to work only if :

A single "......" section exists in current line

Line-ending char(s) end(s) the current line

@uhax-the-grey, the difficulty to achive that general goal is that the ending char of a section is the SAME char than its beginning char ( the " character ) :-((

So I propose to split the problem in 3 successive steps :

First, we change any couple of " chars, of a single section, with two different control chars ( \x02 and \x03 )

Secondly, we use the generic regex mechanism, described here, to replace any \t character by a space char, in "............" sections only

Finally, we restore the two original " delimiters for each section

This method leads to the 3 successive regex S/R below :

SEARCH (?s)"(.*?)"

REPLACE \x02\1\x03

Then :

SEARCH (?:\x02|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!\x03).)*?\K\t

REPLACE \x20

Remark : Do not forget to move the caret ( cursor ) at the very beginning of the current file, before running this second S/R !

Finally :

SEARCH [\x02\x03]

REPLACE "

Whatever the position of the TAB chars and the " deleimiters, thoughout the text contents, this method should always work properly !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Ekopalypse That worked, thank you!

In what language are you writing your plugin?

What do you have so far?

The functions you will need are described here and you will probably need at least some of the functions described here. But from your message, I suspect you are not that far along yet.

Start here and tell us when/where you get stuck.

If you read that and your reaction is that it sounds far too complicated, it could be that you want to write a script, not a plugin. If you know Python, check out the Python Script plugin for Notepad++.

@Yamir-Smith
You can go to the langs.xml file in your application data directory (which is usually AppData/Roaming/Notepad++ but may also be the same directory where your notepad++.exe file lives), navigate down to Keywords name="instre1" element inside the Language name="css" element, and add the word rotate where it belongs in alphabetical order in the long list of keywords there (for me, it has to be between right and rotation).

If you’re interested, you can open a PR so that this change can be incorporated into Notepad++ permanently. While you’re at it, you can see if there are other CSS keywords that are missing and add those as well.

I unfortunately don’t have the permissions to run hotkey-detective on this system.

I’m just going to settle for using Ctrl+Shift+S for Save As…

Thanks everyone for help!

@Mark-Olson I already knew that I could use print and other passive mechanisms like logging. I tried with pdb and the script seems to get on break, an error message missing stdin is displayed on the console but I can’t find a way to enter commands for pdb

@PeterJones ,

Thank you very much! That does indeed work. I have also heard back from the CLAN developer, who suggests I could use a CLAN program to generate long tiers–but it does make things very hard to read in CLAN. Your solution is probably better. Thank you!!

@mkupper

Thanks a lot.

@Talbot-Teboe
Sorry I didn’t realize that I needed to include lines without the /001
In my attempt to create the expression I was not even close. I didn’t even get the last group of the expression correct
I’d been manually searching for the lines without the /001, and had been at it for 3 hours before contacting the Community.
Thank you very much for the assistance

Re: How to insert blank line in between every line
Using column selection (alt - left mouse btn)
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press enter
B.png
Maybe the fastest way :))

@A-Notepad-User said in @admin. how to fix "you need 1 reputation to post links" message:

i have same problem.

No you don’t. You just clicked “quote” to reply, and it posted successfully.

The issue described above (that the forum wouldn’t let you “quote” a reply if you have 0 reputation, because the @-mention and link-to-previous-post) was fixed when we upgraded forum software a few months ago. It is obviously fixed and working for you, because your post includes both the @-mention and the link-to-previous-post.

If you have 0 reputation, you are still not able to link to external sites, to prevent spambots and other manual spammers. But other than that, 0 reputation can still post and reply without difficulty.

@Matiasoskari said in How can i get that grouping:

i wonder how can i get grouping like that?

It’s called folding. The online manual reference is here.

It primarily works with “defined” programming languages (lexer file contains the necessary definitions to aid the folding). However you (the user) could also create a UDL. So in order that you can use folding in your file there would need to be a structure to the file contents, such as headings, paragraph start ID’s and the likes.
Have a read of the process in the online manual’s link and see if it might work for you. The UDL system isn’t as mature as the lexer folding is, and you might encounter an issue creating your UDL. Be aware that others have also found bugs in the UDL system, but in spite of these being raised with the developer none have been fixed (as yet), reference.

Other posts here with relevance.
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25543/i-want-to-fold-in-text-files
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25389/add-folding-rules-to-an-existing-language/3
Use the text folding in the search window to find other posts which might have some relevance to your post.

Terry

@Mark-Olson , you solved it and it works great.

It did not occur to me that the order would matter.

Thanks for sharing your cleverness!

@Eoin-McCann

There are many ways to try what you have described (in one sentence). Can you be more specific about what you are seeing?

Here’s what I tried:

Clone a ~250 line file into the other view In the right view, move things so that line 1 is the first line in your sight In the left view, move things so that line 101 is the first line in your sight Turn on vertical synchronized scrolling Observe that the views vertically scroll simultaneously (as intended!), with the left view always remaining 100 lines offset from the right view Make sure the left view is active Search for some simple text that occurs on many lines throughout the file, using a search that produces output in the Search results area Double-click a line in Search results that should cause a jump to a line >= 101 (result: success!) Double-click a line in Search results that should cause a jump to a line < 101 (result: FAILURE!)

For the failure case, the left view will scroll so that line 101 is the topmost line that the user sees. The caret is not visible to the user (the caret is actually with the selected search hit text on the earlier line).

This deserves an issue to be opened on the official issues list, following the advice HERE. If @Eoin-McCann doesn’t return to comment further and/or do that, after some time has elapsed, then I will do it.