Hi Guy, just curious if there is an easy way to make the regex flexible where it can to the insertion of the text on all lines be there 3, 6, or a 100?

@Claudia-Frank Thank you, I Hadn’t. I had one for older build backup of shortcuts.xml and some problems because of that. Now it works! Appreciated!

So “Edge” is the now the new tool you use exactly one time: To install a REAL browser that you will use from then on… SORRY…had to. Ok, so you just can’t blindly follow instructions all the time…what if those instructions are wrong? Again, I don’t want to get involved with Edge-specifics, but the Firefox line has “firefox” in front of FULL_CURRENT_PATH…which makes sense, you want to invoke Firefox and pass it the path of the document being edited in Notepad++. The Edge line in your screenshot has the document path BEFORE anything related to Edge, which doesn’t seem right to me. But…before I become too wrong here, I’ll bow out…

Try the following FunctionList association & parser and make sure you have the UDL defined. The UDL can be ‘empty’ i.e. only name (EasyLanguage) and extension (eltxt, no leading dot) defined. <association ext=".eltxt" userDefinedLangName="EasyLanguage" id="ts_easylang" /> <parser id ="ts_easylang" displayName="EasyLanguage" commentExpr="({[^{}]*?})|(//.*?$)" > <function mainExpr="(?i)METHOD\s+(?-i:void|double|bool|int)\s+(?'NAME'\w+)\s*(?'ARGS'\([^()]*\))(?:\r?\n|\r)" > <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i)METHOD\s+\K[^)]+\)" /> <!-- comment out the following node to display the method with its parameters --> <nameExpr expr="[^(]+" /> </functionName> </function> </parser>

I had to get used to Notepad++ regex behavior when I first started using it, too. If you care to read something about that, have a look at “point #3” references in this thread: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/137/select-by-columns

I like using regular expressions. For me the biggest problem is the amount of different engines that have their own expression syntax. Yes, that includes the one’s that claim to be Perl compatible. IMO compatible in most cases means sharing some, re-interpreting some and extending some of the syntax instead of just extending the syntax. As a result the RE’s successfully used with one RE engine do not work with another RE engine (unless the RE’s are very-very basic). So at some moment you think: “I know RE’s, I can do this.” and then it appears you don’t :)

@Dylan-Yarbrough Installer with 6.8.8 has this ability. All installers 6.9 and up are missing this option. I, personally, using 6.8.8 on new windows installation.

@Orion-Admin a long post, but unfortunately there is a short answer. The way you want to have it work cannot be achieved with UDL. The first misunderstanding is, that you can define keywords which only get colored when surrounded by delimiter. This isn’t the case, keywords get colored when found. Next, you cannot define delimiters which are subsets of other delimiters. Sorry, either you redefine your requirements or you need to use a different approach like writing your own lexer (can even be done with python or lua script plugins). The documentation about UDL is here. Cheers Claudia

@Ивайло-Костов the default font is Courier New -> font size 10 but there is no guarantee that this font looks the same on each os/desktop … Cheers Claudia

@Mark-Colestock81 sorry for answering so late, just back from vacation. Just to be sure you did not use -noPlugins but -noPlugin, did you? If you used -noPlugins than it still loaded the plugins. But this wouldn’t explain why starting via task manager works. Different working directory, hmm, would you mind renaming the %APPDATA%\notepad++ directory? I assume you haven’t local conf mode ON (debug view under ? menu) Cheers Claudia

@Matyáš-Krupička if you have a plugin installed, which could manipulate the scintilla editor, like python script, lua script, nppexec,… you could use the message SCI_SETWHITESPACESIZE(int size) to make it bigger. e.g editor.setWhitespaceSize(3) (python) Cheers Claudia

@HJLBX-HJLBX in general, yes it can, as long as there is a plugin available which would do it. But I’m not aware that such plugin exists yet. Cheers Claudia

@Daniel-Farina could it be that you have a portable version which you used to register the extension? What about reregister the extension? Settings->Preferences->File Association ? Cheers Claudia

@DM-Pro these are two different lexers, so there is no easy solution currently. The reason why your java script gets colored is that there is no php lexer either, you are using the html lexer which itself has support for additional sublexers like php, js, python, xml … but unfortunately no support for css. Cheers Claudia

I have found a combo ctrl + \ notepad++ forever!