Problem solved! Thank you for nudging me in the right direction.

I used the ProcessMonitor app to inspect the DLLs loaded by both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of NPP and its plugins during startup, and could see that the difference between them was that the 64 bit version (only) failed to load VCRUNTIME140.DLL which is needed by apps and plugins built with Microsoft Visual Studio.

I had actually installed the redistributables earlier, suspecting this problem. However; the ‘gotcha’ that caught me out is that I had failed to note that Microsoft has separate Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables for 32 and 64 bit architectures…

So, after installing the 64 bit version of the redistributables (as well as the previously installed 32 bit one), NPP and the NpOpenAI plugin both work as they should!

Interestingly, ‘Dependencies’ didn’t spot this. I may have been using it incorrectly.

What you say you want doesn’t quite match what you appear to want, based on your before and after.

In any case, this should work:

go to the find/replace form (Ctrl+H assuming normal keybindings) set the Search Mode to Regular expression

Find what: (?-i)(?:\b(?:(?:172|12[78])\.|ff?e)\S*,\x20*)|,\x20::1
Replace with: nothing (leave that box empty).

You’ll have to hit the Replace All button twice.

This isn’t really a particularly clever or complex regular expression, although it may appear daunting. Some notes:

the (?-i) makes the regex case-sensitive the (?: and matching ) are just grouping parentheses that don’t capture the \b matches a “word border” (that is, the border between a word character and a non-word character) \S* matches zero or more non-whitespace characters \x20 matches a normal space character.

@PeterJones said in Align Questions in One line.:

(?-s)^\u+).+\K\R(?!\u))(?!ANSWER)

I don’t know how to express gratitude on the internet. But BIG THANKS. YOU SAVED ME A LOT OF TIME.

Really. THANK YOU.

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to Find:

(?-is)\bto\x20+\w+?ly\b

Thank you, perfect.

@PeterJones Thank you for sharing this excellent answer with detail and links, very proactive and anticipatory!

@PeterJones
Thanks for the GREAT explanation, will read manual again and experiment.
You and Alan have a GREAT DAY !!
Cheers, Hank

Now Fixed THANK YOU so very very much… YEA!!! have a good day.

@Alan-Kilborn

Thanks, Alan. You’re a star!

@Alan-Kilborn
Cool! Thank you :)
I will try :)

Had this exact problem.
I just updated n++ using the built-in updater (to 8.6.2) and all my macros are gone, I had created 5… shortcuts.xml are empty (with defaults in them).

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Also like 30 of previous entries in “Find what” drop down menu are gone… So now it makes really difficult to create my macros.
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Very disappointed…

I use duplicati to make backups of notepad++ daily… And it seems macros were not even saved. I just restored from Notepad++/cloud folder and the file content is just the default one.

@guy038 Wow. I feel like I’m sipping from a fire hose! I bow to far greater experience than mine. Here’s the regex I finally chose:

(?-si:<(?:title|figcaption|h[1-6])>|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!</).)*?\K\xAD

I like your idea of using the \xAD for the soft hyphen: It clarifies what the regex is doing!

I ran the regex it against my entire Web site (16,000 HTML files), and it works perfectly.

I’ll be the first to admit I don’t fully understand why it works, but I can’t argue with success. I’m going to have to study it for a while, but it now has a permanent home in my toolbox.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this thorny issue!

@PeterJones said in Same line spacing with other view:

I haven’t been able to find a way to send a message to Scintilla (the library that Notepad++ uses for the doing the editor commands) to change the height of individual lines.

“All lines of text in Scintilla are the same height, and this height is calculated from the largest font in any current style. This restriction is for performance; if lines differed in height then calculations involving positioning of text would require the text to be styled first.“
— https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#TextRetrievalAndModification

@HConBike ,

In native Notepad++, no.

If you installed the PythonScript plugin, then a script could be written (and run every time a file is opened with the specific extension you specified) to search for the Fonts block and fold that level.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Accidental open:

But clearly OP was having trouble getting rid of it.

That’s part of what seems like the bug I mentioned earlier. I started to write up the issue but it is turning into a long post plus I realized there were hints in the github issues that it has been reported, so I’ve parked the bug report it pending review, testing, and thinking.

If someone does Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab to bring up the document switcher and you then while holcing Ctrl down you type Esc to exit document switcher the Ctrl+Esc or Ctrl+Shift+Esc are sent to Windows. Ctrl+Esc brings up the start menu and Ctrl+Shift+Esc activates task manager. That’s issue one.

If you then switch back to Notepad++ you’ll see the document switcher dialog box but can’t get focus onto it other then via the mouse. Thus the box can appear to be stuck in the way. That’s issue two. The document switcher dialog box is model which means Notepad++ itself is locked up. It’s not a crisis as you mouse click within the box and it’ll activate the tab you happened to select via the dialog box.

You can also trigger the second issue’s behavior by Ctrl+Tab and while holding the Ctrl key down you click on the task bar to bring another application the foreground. When you switch back to Notepad++ you’ll be moderately stuck with the document switcher. It turns out that pressing and then releasing Ctrl will clear the document switcher.

github issue 10950 seems to describe what I saw but at the time that issue was raised it also seemed to be intermittent or hard to reproduce.

@Coises said in Select all marked text:

In quoting you, it appears that you meant your regular expression to be ^\d+/\d\t; but it didn’t come out that way, because the asterisks were interpreted as signaling italics and the backslash before the forward slash was dropped (which you may or may not have intended).

Right. This supposed to be ^\d+\/*\d*\t. Thanks for an advice.

@guy038 said in Search Just Within Provided Line Number:

I don’t understand because, in my post, I do NOT speak about deleting the 2 digit, at any moment ?

Ah…you’re right. I supposed I was confused because when you said:

Leave the Replace with: zone Empty

It appeared to me like this was setting up a replace-with-nothing aka delete operation!

@PeterJones Oh, so it’s actually a super simple issue. Thank you!

@PeterJones
FWIW, if all you want is to pretty-print or compress the results of a regex search with PythonScript, you could replace the call to JsonTool’s pretty-print faculty with a quite simple script using Python’s json library.

import json from Npp import editor PRETTY_PRINT_INDENT = 4 class CompressOrPrettyPrintRegexSearchResult: def __init__(self, compress): self.compress = compress def callback(self, m): parsed_group_2 = json.loads(m.group(2)) indent = None if self.compress else PRETTY_PRINT_INDENT formatted_group_2 = json.dumps(parsed_group_2, indent=indent) return m.group(1) + formatted_group_2 + m.group(3) if __name__ == '__main__': try: COPPRSR except NameError: COPPRSR = CompressOrPrettyPrintRegexSearchResult(True) editor.rereplace('(?s-i)(<fieldMap[^<>]*>)(.*?)(</fieldMap>)', lambda m: COPPRSR.callback(m)) # this will toggle between compressing and pretty-printing COPPRSR.compress = not COPPRSR.compress

@AcmeNuclear said in How to Insert/Import Text from a Separate File:

Does Notepad++ have an easier way to make this text file insertion into the current file - without executing something similar to Open (source file), Select all (source file); Copy; Select target location (receiving file); Paste; Close (source file)?

Not really.
But if you’re willing to use a scripting plugin, a simple script can be written:

from Npp import * import os f = notepad.prompt('Enter file name:', '', '') if f and os.path.isfile(f): notepad.open(f) editor.selectAll() editor.copy() notepad.close() editor.paste()

The script assumes you have the “MRU” setting selected (otherwise when the script closes the file tab it opens, you won’t be returned to the correct file tab):

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And, yes, this script is very simple. It intentionally loads the file into Notepad++ (instead of just reading the file with Python) to avoid making non-Notepad++ assumptions about the encoding of the file, it expects you to know the name of the file you want (instead of a “picker”), it will close the to-be-inserted-file if that file happens to be open in N++ when the script is run, etc.). Many things could be done to make the script more well-rounded.

For the basics of scripting, see HERE.

@PeterJones oh… that seems not feasible, udl was a quite better option. Thank you for helping me make a quick decision.