@guy038 said :

Here is the list

Which hopefully bears some similarity to:

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETYCARETPOLICY

:-)

@PeterJones said (I do still highly recommend not running in Admin mode except when you absolutely have to.)
I’m logged in as ADMIN with UAC turned off
I know its not best practices, but it works for me

Thank You for the help

@DSperber1 :

Looks a bit above my pay grade, and all things considered I think I’ll just stick with N++ in its stock form.

Your choice, but it really isn’t that hard to just use something as opposed to writing it yourself. Someone else already did what’s “hard” about it.

having some kind of a “ruler” effect in order to guide the eye as it scans on a single line from left to right is a very useful feature

There can be a lot of coloring going on in a file’s presentation, depending upon the file type. Probably it was thought that an every-other line coloring was too much for the standard product. Certainly for “plain” files where there isn’t any other coloring going on, it makes some sense.

You can always make a feature request for it; see details HERE on how exactly to do that.

@Emmanuel-Katto ,

I’ve created a user-defined language (UDL) but it doesn’t seem to highlight keywords and functions correctly

It does for me. Could you be a bit more specific?

I’m not sure how to properly categorize keywords, functions, and comments.

Put your various keywords in the different Keywords fields; if you have different groups of keywords that you want styled differently, put them in different fields, otherwise you can just put all the keywords together.

For UDL, “Functions” are just a kind of keyword, from the perspective of a UDL (or any of the builtin syntax highlighters). Unless you are talking about the Function List panel in Notepad++, in which case you need to set up the FunctionList definition as described in the User Manual > Config Files > Function List Definitions. Our Function List Basics FAQ is a great starting point for understanding the structure of the Function List definition. However, getting the regex right for classes and functions can be a bit tricky… it’s usually best to start at the simplest, and slowly increase the complexity of the regex with frequent testing. (And Function List definitions are annoying, in that you have to restart Notepad++ with every change you make, no way around it.)

UDL Comments are a separate concept from keywords, and I am not sure why you are trying to “categorize” comments alongside keywords. You just set up the Comment Line Style and/or Comment Style, and then the comments are styled separately (and, unless you enable the checkmarks in those Styler boxes, there won’t be any keywords or other syntax highlighting inside a comment)

After making changes to the UDL, I’ve noticed that sometimes they don’t appear to take effect immediately

They do take effect immediately. Not sure why it seems to you that they don’t.

Start with:
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…then add Styler settings and word2 to the 2nd group, and it takes effect immediately:
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But because your complaints were rather vague, I can just give overview-style help. “More details” is “more better” when asking for this kind of help.

Hello, @mkupper, @alan-kilborn, @coises and All,

So, as a summury, to delete the first standard character, only, of any line, of current file, use one the following search regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)^.(.)?

SEARCH (?-s)^.(.*)

SEARCH (?-s)^.(.*\R)

And use :

REPLACE \1 or $1

Now, an other possibility would be to add a character or string, that you are certain is NOT part of current file. Then you’ll run the two consecutive regex S/R, below :

SEARCH ^

REPLACE Your characterorstring ( like ¤ or xyzt , for example )

And :

SEARCH (?-s)¤.?    or    (?-s)xyzt.?

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

You may also join these two regex S/R in a single one :

SEARCH ¤.?|(^)

REPLACE ?1¤

Or :

SEARCH xyzt.?|(^)

REPLACE ?1xyzt

And click TWICE on the Replace All button !

Best Regards,

guy038

@filipe-Medeiros

No, it does not.

However, you can use the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin to use a regex to change the foreground color on words for a UDL.

Assuming you had a udl called MyUDL, then the config section

[MyUDL] 0x0000FF = \bword\d+\b 0x00FF00 = \bgreen_\w+\b

that would color word1 or word987 as red, and anything starting with green_ using a green foreground.

Using that idea, you could define most of your UDL’s keywords in the normal UDL interface, and add EnhanceAnyLexer to do additional keywords using regex

@Alan-Kilborn here is the plugin: (i cannot post links yet)

github.com/leonardchai/FoldingLineHider/tree/master

Just tested on v8.7 and it works as intended.

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Hi @kiyn, @alan-kilborn and All,

Ah… You right about it, Alan. Sorry, I was concentrating on my example !

So, regarding the general case and to be rigourous, we should use the generic regular expression itself :

SEARCH (?-si:BSR|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!ESR).)*?\K(?-si:FR)

REPLACE RR

where :

FR = \x20 ( a space char )

RR = %20

BSR = FILE:///

ESR = The end of any link, beginning with file:/// or FILE:/// : for example, \.mp3 or \.com|\.us or simply \.\w{2,}

Notes :

We can replace the (?-si: modifiers, at the beginning of the regex, by the insensitive modifier (?i: only

We can omit the (?s-i: modifiers, in the middle of the regex, and keep only the non-capturing group (?:(?!ESR).)

We can omit the (?-si: modifiers and the non-capturing group, all together, at the end of the regex

So the generic regex can simply be expressed as :

SEARCH (?i:BSR|(?!\A)\G)(?:(?!ESR).)*?\KFR

REPLACE RR

Thus, the functional regex S/R becomes :

SEARCH (?i:FILE:///|(?!\A)\G)(?:(?!\.\w{2,}).)*?\K\x20

REPLACE %20

And from this INPUT text :

file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Amy Winehouse - Back To Black.com first Test Second test file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Jason Marz|I'm Yours.fr FILE:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Norah Jones - Toes.us. Third test Fourth test file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Scorpions - Still Loving You.gouv fifth and final test file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Norah Jones - Wake Me Up.MP3

We get this OUTPUT text :

file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Amy%20Winehouse%20-%20Back%20To%20Black.com first Test Second test file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Jason%20Marz|I'm%20Yours.fr FILE:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Norah%20Jones%20-%20Toes.us. Third test Fourth test file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Scorpions%20-%20Still%20Loving%20You.gouv fifth and final test file:///D:\Documentation\Musique\Marilyne\Norah%20Jones%20-%20Wake%20Me%20Up.MP3

BR

guy038

@mere-human Worked for me. Thanks

Thanks Guy, I really appreciate your help!

@Aj-Jarrard
Or you can use MultiReplace Plugin to target specific columns and replace content only in these columns. … and you can even colorize your columns with that Plugin.

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@Clicketyclick Well I caved in and build myself a Python 2 script that does the job - for me at least. It’s available on my Github: clicketyclick.github.io/TipsAndTricks/Notepad++/Doxyit

@Duty-Lead
What version of Npp are you using?
Can you post the debug information from the ? menu?

Whatever i have written in notepad++, it is getting deleted after 4-5 days automatically

What does that mean?
The files are still there, but the contents have been removed? That would be very confusing!
Or have the files disappeared? If so, which files are we talking about? Files that were backed up automatically?
That is, that you did not save manually?
I’m guessing you have software like CCleaner running that removes temporary stuff depending on the settings.

@GrampaWildWilly The FAQ: Feature Request or Bug Report shows the best (and only) way to request and, or, to vote, on feature requests.

On github I see six open issues when I search for “unhide” Unfortunately, most of the issues seem to be related to conflicts between hiding lines and other Notepad++ features.

Maybe there’s an issue in there asking for just the ability to unhide a selection. I did not see it.

@Terri-Willowkeep said in Help with find and replace:

I doing something wrong?

My guess is that you have Search Mode: Regular expression selected when you mean to have one of the other two options. A period in a regular expression matches any single character.

@Alan-Kilborn Can’t say in words how much I love you right now.You made my day !! So happy!Again thank you for your prompt answer.

@Mark-Olson Exactly what i mean. Thank you so much ❤️ for your help

@PeterJones it is working good, thank you much

@pbarney

If you want to detect if there is exactly one selection of nonzero length, do the following:

Call SCI_GETSELECTIONS. If the result is greater than 1, there are multiple selections. Call SCI_GETSELECTIONSTART and SCI_GETSELECTIONEND to get the start and end of the selection. If the end is greater than the start, the user has a single nonzero-length selection. As you correctly identified, you can then use SCI_GETSELTEXT to get the selected text, although in this script it doesn’t look like that’s really necessary.

Based on a recent issue I saw with the JSON-Viewer plugin where incorrectly assuming that the user always had a single selection caused NPP to crash, I think that validating that there is a single selection is generally good practice,

@Bil-Dos ,

There is no “override all users” option. If each user has their own login on the computer, and each are running Notepad++ with a “normal installation”, then %AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml (🛈: in this case, probably c:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\config.xml) will be separate for each user, and the only way to override that is to edit/overwrite each individual config.xml. In a normal installation, Notepad++ doesn’t have a “central” location for the settings that get stored in the config.xml.

If you install somewhere other than Program Files and set it to use Local Config (“Don’t use %APPDATA%”), then all users’ config would come from the same config.xml in the installation directory – but that would mean they’d all share all the Settings > Preferences and other such settings in common, which might not be what you want.

But there is no way to set it so that some settings come from a central location and some come from their individual files