automatically update the visible content to the current state every lets say 30 seconds? I think there use to be a plugin to monitor a document for changes. NppMonitor or something, not sure. But AFAIK this isn’t built into Notepad++ already. How can I tell NP++ to update the visible content once on-demand by pressing a hotkey (e.g. F5)? In the shortcut mapper you can assign a shortcut key to the “Reload from File” menu command.

Find in files and replace seems to work on text files but not word documents. I don’t know how it worked before. I will check the other posts to see if maybe there is a solution for the find and replace. I figured out how to find the release dates of previous versions. Thanks.

This is what I suspected. Time to find another solution. Thanks again mario

Hello, Peter, Gerdb42 and Scott, Very clever solution, Scott ! Indeed :-)) I slightly modified your main idea, to obtain the regex, below : (?-s)(?:.*\R){50}\K Notes : The Regular expression search mode must be checked The Wrap around option will be, also, checked ( IMPORTANT ) The (?-s) modifier ensure the DOT will NOT match any End of Line characters The group (?:^.*\R) is considered as a NON-capturing group, because of the syntax, before the group, itself (?:. It, also, prevents from a non-wanted behaviour, while reaching the end of file ! Finally, the \K syntax forgets the previous match and matches an zero length string, only, as there’s nothing, following the \K form So, each time you click on the Find Next button or you hit the F3 key, you go at line 51, 101, 151, 201, and so on. The nice thing is that, when it remains less than 50 lines, near the end of file, it loops and get, again, the line 51 :-)) Unfortunately, the backwards search, with the shortcut SHIFT + F3, does NOT work :-(( So, I thought about a second solution, which seems interesting, if you navigate throughout a huge file or if you frequently move forwards and backwards, as when building a source code ! This time, the right regex is : (?-s)(?:.*\R){50}\K\X Follow the few steps, below : Open the Find dialog ( CTRL + F ) Select the Mark tab Again, the Regular expression search mode must be checked The Wrap around option will be, also, checked ( IMPORTANT ) Check the Bookmark line option ( IMPORTANT ) Click on the Mark All button Close the Find dialog or use the ESC key Now, you just have to hit : The F2 key to go forwards, every 50 lines The shortcut Shift + F2, to go backwards, 50 lines upwards As above, you reach the line 51, 101, 151, 201 and, towards the end of the file, loops back to line 51 Notes : Compared with the previous regex, the \X syntax has been added. Strictly speaking, the \X form stands for a unique non-diacritic Unicode character, followed by zero or more diacritic associated marks ( as simultaneous accents, on that character ) However, these details can be generally ignored and we may consider that, most of the time, \X represents, any single character, including the End of Line characters ! So this form avoids to write the longer regex (.|\R) :-)) So this regex marks the first character of a line, ( Normal character or End of Line character ), every 50 lines ! Best Regards, guy038

Hello, bill clinton and Gerdb42, If I refer to the original text, posted by bill clinton, below : https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/11716/help-with-formula-please/1 it seems, that there are two spaces between the words Log and Quantity, as well as between the Qty number and the LastAccess string. So, rather that typing two spaces, we may use a SPACE, followed by the + quantifier ( identical to the syntax {1,}) ) That comes to the regex : (?-i)Log +Quantity +\K\d+(?! +LastAccess) Notes : You’ll notice that I did NOT use the following look-behind (?<=Log +Quantity +). Indeed it’s an invalid regular expression, because this regex may represent strings of different length ( due to the + quantifier ) It is important to notice that this restriction does NOT apply to look-aheads, as ( (?! +LastAccess) ) So, I replaced the look-behind with the \K construction. Thus, once, the regex has matched the regex Log +Quantity +, this string is forgotten and the regex engine match is reset to a zero length string ! Finally, the (?-i) modifier, at the beginning, forces the regex engine to perform a NON insensitive case search Best Regards, guy038

Which plug-ins have you tried?

Hello bill clinton, Depending on the restriction’s level, that you would like to, just use ONE of the three regexes, below and replace with a specific number, say 1000 Find what : (?-is)Quantity +\K\d+ Find what : (?-is)Stack.+Quantity +\K\d+ Find what : (?-is)Stack.+Log.+Quantity +\K\d+ and : Replace with : 1000 Notes : Of course, the Regular expression search mode will be checked The (?-is) modifiers, at the beginning, force the regex engine to do the search : In an NON-insensitive case way, ( -i ) modifier NOT as a single line, ( -s ) modifier. This means that the DOT does NOT match any End of Line characters. On the contrary, (?s), the DOT would match ALL the characters. So, for instance, the regex search (?s).+ is really identical, to CTRL + A ! Thus, because of these modifiers, you do NOT have to care about the state of Match case and . matches newline options ! Best Regards, guy038

It turns out that “Refresh” saves stuff in C:\Windows.old folder So, I copied folder Notepad++ from C:\Windows.old\Users\dennis\AppData\Roaming to C:\Users\dennis\AppData\Roaming Started up Notepad++, and all looks well so far.

It only checks if the file is updated when the app regains focus.

OK I found out by myself Some commands are not well supported by macros but it’s possible to add them manually via editing shortcut.xml file see n++ doc : http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Editing_Configuration_Files#.3CMacros.3E following threads if needed http://stackoverflow.com/questions/362444/how-to-write-macro-for-notepad http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21194367/notepad-shortcut-for-new-open-containing-folder-in-menu-commands In my case I wanted code “44042” which is “Hide Lines” in the menu (used Resource Hacker to check the menu entry code). excerpt of my new shortcuts.xml file : <Macros> <Macro name=“test RDUV” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“84”> <Action type=“2” message=“0” wParam=“44042” lParam=“0” sParam=“” /> </Macro>

Thanks Jim - that works great whilst reviewing the document on-line but doesn’t change the printed output remains the same - I guess Courier 10. Just like to have ‘flexibility’ to change font & size and save so that I could select a PREFERENCE. I have managed to change Portrait to Landscape in this mode. I would have anticipated this to so such an obvious requirement but just haven’t managed to find