I found 3a in the default backup location, thank goodness. However, that still leaves my remaining queries, please.

Wow, thank you very very much, guy038, you not only almost saved my life :), but you took the time to explain things extensively to me, thanks again !

Cheers

In the UDL dialog, click the “Operators and Delimiters” tab. Under the caption “Delimiter 1” add the double quotation mark " as both “Open” and “Close”, the backslash as “Escape”. Same for the single quotation mark under “Delimiter 2”.

Hi Ron,

When the new copy behaviour, was implemented in N++ v6.7.9, as I’m rather curious, by nature, I just tested a way to get the old behaviour too ! And I found, by hazard, the simple CTRL + C shortcut, to simulate it :-)

An obvious solution would be to get two COPY options, while right-clicking, inside the Search Result Window.

For instance, their syntaxes could be something like :

Copy [selected] text , to copy the lines with their line numbers

Copy [selected] lines, to copy ONLY, the text of the lines

Cheers,

guy038

Recent versions of Notepad++ store the contents of open files automatically and reopen them after the next application start. If you don’t want that behavior, go to Settings -> Preferences -> Backup and uncheck “Enable session snapshot and periodic backup”. Notepad++ will then prompt you for a file name when closing.

By default, all config data of Notepad++ are saved in and loaded from the folder %APPDATA%\Notepad++. Unless you run N++ in portable mode, it will ignore config files put into the application directory.

Hi Guy,

Indeed with Crtl-C it works. Thanks for the advice.
Still I think that using copy from the pop-up window should give the same result, and not only copy the last full line.

Thanks

Ron

Hi,
existing line endings in opened file do not change at all,
just editing mode will be wrong, and every new line I add will have windows line endings.

Hello StormFX,

May be, you could be interested by the Gary Mod 10 Lua syntax highlighter plugin for N++, that you can download, from the link, below :

https://code.google.com/p/npp-gmod-lua/downloads/detail?name=NppGmodLuaPlugin-v1.5.zip

For a manual installation :

Extract the GmodLua.dll library, at top level of this archive, in your N++ plugins folder

Extract the GmodLua.xml file, located in the Config folder of the archive, in your active N++ Config folder

It works nice, with my 6.8.1 N++ installation :-))

Main page can be found at the address :

https://code.google.com/p/npp-gmod-lua/

Just, note that this site is, from now on, archived and read-only and that it moved to GitHub :

https://github.com/kylefleming/npp-gmod-lua

However, you’ll, still, find some information and the release notes, from the two links, below :

https://code.google.com/p/npp-gmod-lua/wiki/HowTos

https://code.google.com/p/npp-gmod-lua/wiki/IntroAndChangeLog

You may modify the foreground and/or background colours of any of the 19 GmodLua defined styles :

From the Style configurator, choosing GmodLua in the Language drop-down list, then any style, proposed in the Style drop-down list

Directly changing values of the fgColor/bgColor items, in the LexerStyles node, at the end of the GmodLua.xml file

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S :

I’m wondering : are you the same guy, to whom I replied, in March 2014, on SourceForge forum, and who asked for help, with these funny terms Thx 4 F1 ?

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.