How are those columns delimited?

The issue is also discussed at http://superuser.com/q/934701/138868. The current work around is to use Settings -> Preferences -> General -> “Tab Bar” -> Uncheck “Reduce”

replace with regular expression mode

(^id.*)\r\n(.*)\r\n(.*)\r\n(.*)
with
\1 | \2 | \3 | \4 |

It is pretty ugly regexp, but will do the trick

EDIT:

When preparing one line, replace
\r\n
with
\\r\\n

It might be a bit unfair to “not recommend” a program because you don’t like one of its many features, especially when that one behavior is configurable.

@akmbd166

yes it does, because there is specific code which is responsible doing it, nevertheless it is true what gerdb42 mentioned.
It isn’t saved within the file rather than the code is scanning every time if there is an url in the text which needs to be underlined.
So yes, you could argue it can be done but not in the way like word, writer, ms notepad, … it does. If you want to have such
functionality you basically need to write your own plugin to do it and as gerdb42 said, this is a different beast.

Cheers
Claudia

@Chris-Mckevitt

Scintilla is the component which
is used by notepad++ to do all the coloring, folding, styling, … stuff of your language.
A lexer is the component which calculates which parts should be colored, folded, styled etc…

Scintilla itself has already a lot of builtin lexers but it also provides an interface for writing
own lexers e.g. the UDL from npp. Those lexers are written by different programmers,
although they may use the same scintilla version they are slightly different in functionality
and representation. E.g. put the following python code into a doc and set the lexer to python

def foo(): # comment pass

you will see that folding starts from line 1 and includes line 3.
Use this vbs code and do the same (except you want select visual basic as lexer)

Sub Foo() 'comment End Sub

You will see that folding starts also at line 1 but doesn’t include the last line.
Even more critical is when pasting this, which from vbs syntax view is absolutely ok, into a doc.

Sub Foo() 'comment End Sub

This results in no folding at all. Why? Because the visual basic lexer programmer decided to
write the folding logic based on indention and not doing complex code analysis.
Which is fine, as long as the vbs user does the same kind of code styling.

So you see, even if one of the language lexer you use behaves the way you like,
there is no guarantee that others act the same.

When you want to write your own lexer than I would recommend to check the code of one of the existing lexers.
This Gmod LUA plugin is known to be a good example but must admit that I never used or checked the code myself.

Cheers
Claudia