Hello Linda,

regular find/replace wont work because each line is different in those spaces

I don’t understand very well ? May be, your text contains some tabulation character, which don’t match the same physical space length ?

If so, I would advice you, to replace, first, any tabulation by the corresponding amount of space characters, with the menu command Edit - Blank Operations - TAB to Space

Then, taking your previous example, just perform a simple regular search/replace operation like, for instance :

SEARCH = ^.{219}\K... and REPLACE = EMPTY to delete from the 220th till the 222th characters

SEARCH = ^.{219}\K... and REPLACE = ABC to insert a fixed string between the 220th column till the 222th column

SEARCH = ^.{219}\K(...) and REPLACE = [\1] to surround the characters, between the 220th and the 222th, with two square brackets

IMPORTANT :

Due to the special \K syntax, you must use a global replacement, clicking on the Replace All button

If you prefer use a step-by-step replace operation, the different S/R, above, should be rewritten as below :

SEARCH = ^(.{219})... and REPLACE = \1 to delete from the 220th till the 222th characters

SEARCH = ^(.{219})... and REPLACE = \1ABC to insert a fixed string between the 220th column till the 222th column

SEARCH = ^(.{219})(...) and REPLACE = \1[\2] to surround the characters, between the 220th and the 222th, with two square brackets

Hope that helps you a bit !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

The nice thing, about the \K syntax, is that anything that matched before the \K form, is forgotten by the regex engine! So, in the examples above, the matched string (...) is, ONLY, the three characters, at positions 220, 221 and 222 :-)

No there is not unfortunately. I’ve looked into this in the past making my own variant of C. The User Defined Languages work completely differently from the ones already built in. There are ways of adding new keywords to existing languages though if this is all you are wanting to do. If you use the menu Settings > Style Configurator... and select VB under the languages languages and WORDS under the style list, towards the right you can add user-defined keywords. This may not be exactly what you were wanting but it may be enough to get by if you don’t want to recreate VB as a user defined language.

#Solved.
An updated plugin was the problem. I removed all of the updated plugins and now works good.

Turns out that the font size settings in

C:\Users[user]\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\stylers.xml

were not consistent, and apparently the grid lines were set to the largest font size, even though all the php font settings were for 8pt;.

By doing a global change of

fontSize=“10”

to

fontSize=“8”

the vertical indent guidelines are now properly aligned.

THANK YOU, that’s awesome!

Greg

Oh God, I feel so happy, and so embarassed. I did not read your entire answer before replying. The devilish “autocomplete” is now just ticked off, all right. No need to kill, just tick it off; shame on me, and many thanks on you. A probable serious engagement to Notepad++ is now on sight.
Thanks again,
Ed
P.S. Maybe of use to you: If you may sometimes feel in need of a Keep on Top utility, I use tiny Deskpins.exe to good measure.

It is a bug. It was just fixed and will be in the next release.

Paul, thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. I agree with you that the DSpellCheck plugin by Sergey Semushin is one of the most important plugins for many users. It doesn’t ship with the Notepad++ distribution atm because it causes the application to hang on newer versions of Windows. The plugin will be back as soon as that issue gets sorted out.

If your local computer is running Windows and the remote system is running Linux, you’ll probably want to change the way WinSCP handles plain text files. By default, WinSCP converts line endings between systems so on each machine the file is stored with the machine’s system default settings.
I suggest that in WinSCP, you go to Preferences/Transfer/Presets, double-click on “Text”, and change “Transfer Mode” from “Text” to “Binary”. This should do the trick as long as you don’t save with Windows line endings locally by accident.

Sure,

setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
echo ┌╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨╨┐>> SyncLog.log
echo │ SYNC STARTED: %DATE% at %TIME% │>> SyncLog.log
echo ├─────────────────────────────────────────────┘>> SyncLog.log
for /F “skip=5 tokens=" %%A in (SyncConfig.txt) do (
for /F "tokens=3 delims= ,=, " %%B in (‘echo %%A^| findstr /i /c:“Source Drive”’) do (set SourceDrive=%%B)
)
for /F "tokens=6-10 delims= " %%A in (‘dir !SourceDrive!^| findstr /i Volume^| findstr /v Serial’) do (
set SourceDriveName=%%A %%B %%C %%D %%E
echo │ The source drive is set to !SourceDrive! ^(!SourceDriveName!^)>> SyncLog.log
)
for /F "skip=9 tokens=” %%A in (SyncConfig.txt) do (
for /F %%B in (‘echo %%A^| findstr /i /v /c:“Not Included”’) do (
if NOT EXIST %%B:\ (
call :GetTime
echo │ !CurrentTime! %%B:\ does not exist and was not synced>> SyncLog.log
)
if EXIST %%B:\ (
set NetworkDrive=FALSE
for /F “skip=5 tokens=2 delims= " %%C in (‘net use^| findstr /v command’) do (if “%%B:”==”%%C" (set NetworkDrive=TRUE))
if !NetworkDrive!==TRUE (
call :GetTime
echo ├ !CurrentTime! %%B:\ is a network drive and was not synced>> SyncLog.log
)
if !NetworkDrive!==FALSE (
title SYNCING !SourceDrive! TO %%B:
robocopy /MIR !SourceDrive! %%B:
title SYNC IS COMPLETE
if %ERRORLEVEL% GEQ 8 (
call :GetTime
echo █►!CurrentTime! An error occured when robocopy attempted to sync from !SourceDrive! to %%B:>> SyncLog.log
)
if %ERRORLEVEL% LSS 8 (
for /F "tokens=6-10 delims= " %%C in (‘dir %%B:^| findstr /i Volume^| findstr /i /v Serial’) do (
call :GetTime
echo ├►!CurrentTime! %%B:\ ^(%%C %%D %%E %%F %%G^) was successfully synced with !SourceDrive! ^(!SourceDriveName!^)>> SyncLog.log
)
)
)
)
)
)
endlocal
echo ├─────────────────────────────────────────────┐>> SyncLog.log
echo │ SYNC ENDED: %DATE% at %TIME% │>> SyncLog.log
echo └╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥╥┘>> SyncLog.log
goto :eof
:GetTime
set CurrentTime=%TIME%
goto :eof