Hello, Ferenc Nagy,

Looking at your file, I noticed that the length of your <....> zones, included the brackets, are mostly 12 and sometimes 24, 36 or 48 characters long !

So, assuming that you simply use the Normal text language for your data files, I would do this way :

Open the Settings - Preferences… Tab Settings dialog

Select the normal language

UNCHECK the Use Default value option

Type 12 in the Tab size option

Leave the Replace by space option UNCHECKED

Close the Preferences dialog

Now, let’s suppose that you write the line, below ( it’s just an example, not related to yourexact file contents ! )

<PREDICATE ><OBJECT ><EVA_TITLE ><DEVICE ><COMPLEMENT >

and that you have to write, for each of these five columns, three letters, taken in the alphabetical list.

To correctly write these data, according to the previous header line :

Type the string abc and hit the TAB key, ONCE

Type the string def and hit the TAB key, ONCE

Type the string ghi and hit the TAB key TWICE

Type the string jkl and hit the TAB key, ONCE

Type the string mno and hit the TAB key, THREE times

To better visualize the TAB characters, use the View - Show Symbol - Show All Characters option !

IMPORTANT :

When ALL your datas will be typed, in your file, according to the above scheme, use the Edit - Blank Operations - TAB to Space option to replace all the TAB characters by the suitable number of SPACE characters ( Thanks to Loreia2 ! )

Et voilà ! From now on, your datas should be aligned, on column 1 , 13, 25, 37, … ( 12*n + 1 )

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, Eirik,

If I suppose that :

Any subset of three digits, except for the first one, of the numbers, in your dataset, can be preceded or NOT, by a comma,

The space delimiter can be present or NOT, before the word patients, which can either be written in a singular mode,

an other SEARCH regex expression could be : +\d+(,?\d{3})+ *patients?, with a space BEFORE the first + sign of that regex.

With that regex, it would match all these following items :

abc 1234 patients xyz abc 1,234 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 12345 patients xyz abc 12,345 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 123456 patients xyz abc 123,456 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 1234567 patients xyz abc 1,234567 patients xyz abc 1234,567 patient xyz abc 1,234,567 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 12345678 patients xyz abc 12,345678 patients xyz abc 12345,678 patients xyz abc 12,345,678 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 123456789 patients xyz abc 123,456789 patient xyz abc 123456,789 patient xyz abc 123,456,789 patients xyz abc patients xyz abc 1234567890 patients xyz abc 1,234567890 patients xyz abc 1,234,567890 patient xyz abc 1,234567,890 patients xyz abc 1,234,567,890patient xyz abc 1234,567890 patients xyz abc 1234,567,890 patients xyz abc 1234567,890 patients xyz

But, it would ignore all natural numbers, under 1000 and some odd syntaxes as 1,2,3 or ,1a,23, like below :

abc 0 patient xyz abc 0, patient xyz abc 1 patient xyz abc 1, patient xyz abc 12 patients xyz abc 12, patients xyz abc 123 patients xyz abc 999 patients xyz abc 123, patients xyz abc ,123 patients xyz abc 1,2,3 patients xyz abc 12,34 patients xyz abc 12,3,4 patients xyz abc 123,4 patients xyz abc , patients xyz abc ,,,,,, patients xyz abc ,,4,,4,, patients xyz abc patients xyz abc ,1234 patients xyz abc ,1,234 patients xyz abc 123a456b789 patients xyz

Best Regards,

guy038

Yes, I do, sorry for the late reply, but I haven’t been able to get in here.

Its not a problem, but I quite like to know when things are being overwritten, as sometimes I slip up.

Thanks for your response

Peter

@Leah-Talley I believe you need to get the source manually.

Update: after further testing I have found the issue was caused by another unrelated process that was transferring an existing %appdata%\notepad++\ profile and so the config.model.xml was not being used used to generate a new profile.

Resolution: By manually removing the %appdata%\notepad++\ profile and then opening notepad++ the config.model.xml worked as expected and the updated settings were create the %appdata%\notepad++\config.xml.

The safest way to make this work (regardless of tab settings that are handled inconsistently across different applications) is to use spaces rather than tabs.

yes we have to update the ( %APPDATA%\Notepad++ ) and earlier i tried from Notepad++ editor itself, now when i tried from another editor, it did reflect the modifcations.

thanks for the help, dail

It seems to only happen on documents that have a CRLF character

@Peter-Brand

This is what I was looking for. I used the plugin forever, then when I installed the new version on my new machine I noticed a function list was “built-in”. It does not work apparently.

This works exactly as it used to. Thanks Peter.

@dail

It does not. It shows up: Plugins>Function List. You can actually have both the plugin and the built in list open together.

Does the"Column / Multi-Selection Editor" dialog box pop up? If so, what happens when you click on the radio button “Number to insert”, does that panel then become active?

I like to use a program called “unlocker”. Once installed you can right click the file and it will tell you want program(s) have that file locked and you can force it to be released.

Hi Timothy,
it was my first idea too, I tried to check the copied text from e.g. Write and Notepad++ in WinMerge (winmerge.org), but these were without differences! :-P :-D
I will try to ask the same question on some Juniper community and see if someone else had the same issue…

Hello Bob,

Depending of your N++ installation, the shortcuts.xml file, which contains a Macros section, should be located :

in the %AppData%\Roaming\Notepad++ folder, if you used the installer ( the npp.x.x.x.Installer.exe file )

in the same folder than you copy the Notepad++.exe file, if you used a ZIP or 7Z archive ( the npp.x.x.x.bin.zip or npp.x.x.x.bin.7z files )

Cheers,

guy038