Ok! Actually Patrick (thank you Patrick), gave me a great idea.

I put all the new strings that I was going to substitute at the top of the JSON file.

Then I ran a search of the “title”: string, and bookmarked each instance.

Then I ran a macro that:

Highlighted the first line of the document
Copied the line.
Deleted the line. (So the second one would jump up, and the data gets deleted as well)
Press F2 (to jump to the bookmark)
Highlight the line
Paste the line
Pressed CTRL + F2 (to unmark the line)
Pressed CTRL + Home (to go back to the top of the file)

Rinse and repeat!

Thank you again Patrick for giving me this idea!

It looks like in v6.8.1 some terminology got changed.

UTF-8 without BOM became UTF-8 UTF-8 became UTF-8-BOM

So most likely your files have the exact same encoding, just the old vs. new Notepad++ are using a different terminology.

For reference see this commit.

I think this is a great feature suggestion. When I first started using N++ I noticed this and have just sort of indifferently lived with it since.

Here’s a hint though…usually when this situation occurs you are making edits nearby your found pattern. If you start at the bottom of the file (last hit) and make your edits, then double-click on an earlier (closer to top) hit, you will find that the positioning is accurate (because your edits have not altered the position data for the earlier match). Just an idea; it works a lot for my type of edits like this.

You can do this with Windows PowerShell.

$files = Get-ChildItem | where {$_.Extension -eq ".ext"} foreach ($file in $files) { $filenew = $file.Name.Replace(".ext", ".eml") Rename-Item $file $filenew }

Just change the extensions to match what you want. Try it in a test folder first so you don’t mess up all of your files if it doesn’t do exactly what you want.

It seems you may have unwittingly pressed the Insert key and put the editor in overwrite mode rather that insert mode. Try pressing the Insert key again to see if that solves your problem.

I think this is another great feature request regarding the Find feature. And, sadly, no, I don’t believe the state can be discovered programmatically (for instance, using the Pythonscript plugin).

@Rogério-Ferreira

Short video clip may help https://youtu.be/8p4S8vsEjRo

Hello None-Ofyourbusiness,

no this is just a quick overview which os, npp version and plugins are installed.
Helps to try to reproduce what happens.

Cheers
Claudia

Hello @spickles
one thing might be that you did not escape the forward slash !?
But the replace … you want to replace the part which is found with the part which is found … ???

Cheers
Claudia

Go to %APPDATA%\Notepad++\plugins\config (or possibly the installation directory of Notepad++ depending how it was installed) and delete PluginManagerGpup.xml.