@xomx said in Unable to see Data in the Notepad++:

I’d like to ask the affected users here, for which switching the DirectWrite OFF helped - what OS, graphics card and version of its drivers are they using?

E.g. post: Windows 10, Nvidia GeForce xyz, 2/24/2023 30.0.14.7430

(you can find such info e.g. by WinKey+R, type there devmgmt.msc -> OK, and check the Display Adapters > doubleclick on an adapter > Driver tab)

Win 11, VMware SVGA 3D, 4/28/2023, 9.17.6.3
Win 11, Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, 6/21/2006 10.0.26100.4484

Accessing a VMware virtual machine via Remote Desktop Connection (RDP)

@Danie-Bosman,

I used moderator powers to fix your embedded image.

Are the arrows indicatiing Tab characters, or merely indicating where the indents are?

Your drawn red arrows are the View > Show Symbol > Show Indent Guide indicators. They show up whether you are set to spaces or tabs, so it won’t help you determine which you are set to.

OTOH, the related View > Show Symbol > Show Space and Tab do show spaces vs tabs:

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As @Alan-Kilborn said, the long right arrows are tab characters, the mid-dots are space characters.

Unfortunately, your screenshot did not include enough information to tell what language your code is in. Like I said, the screenshot needs to include the status bar to show us that, and you cut it off before the status bar. Your language looks vaguely VisualBasic-like, but that’s just a guess. (Though it’s confusing to me that your tab name claims *.txt, but it’s syntax highlighted like code; have you associated .txt with something other than normal text?)

Anyway, whatever language it’s set to, whether you are willing to show the status bar or not, assuming you can read the status bar yourself, or can look in the Language menu to determine what language is active for syntax highlighting your .txt file with code, you need to click on that language’s entry in the Indent Settings box that lists all the languages, and see what the Indent Using is set to for that language: see whether it’s set to Use default value, in which case it will follow the [Default] settings you show in you screenshot; or it might not have that set, and instead have its own, like Makefile does:

Examples comparing my settings for Visual Basic with Use default value vs Makefile with its own set to use tabs:

Visual Basic 1e2784be-9137-4be5-9b25-e49554bfbb19-image.png Makefile 2ec29bcd-b77d-4519-9876-c610152b64fa-image.png

update: But given your indication that you seemed to think the guidelines were tab characters (which they aren’t, necessarily), then my guess is that you were just misinterpreting what you were seeing, and this whole time, you really do have spaces where you thought it was still inserting tabs. Again, View > Show Symbol > Show Space and Tab will show you definitively and unambiguously whether the characters are spaces or tabs.

@Mark-Olson Thanks for the help, I’ll try it when I get back from vacation. Kind regards Thore

@PeterJones Thank you Peter, that seems about right. I was able to find and clear the keyboard shortcuts (Settings --> Shortcut Mapper for others who don’t know offhand).

@PeterJones said in npp v8.6 reverses the order of lines on column copy/paste:

Unlike @Coises , I don’t consider it a “feature” (ie, a bug masquerading as a feature), I think it’s a reasonable compromise between all the different opinions on what the “right” behavior should be when mixing between column and multi-select mode.

I agree — perhaps the scare quotes were a bit excessive. For certain, it’s intended behavior; it was never a bug that was presented as a feature to avoid dealing with it.

I think that for users like me, who use rectangular selections frequently and multiple selections rarely, the improvements to multiple selection in the early 8.x releases felt like a degradation in user experience. Some of that has been mitigated by the Multi-Editing options (though, for example, turning off the ability to create multiple selections when you do want them is an unfortunate trade-off for not breaking normal drag-copy conventions… but if I recall correctly, that binary choice is baked into Scintilla, so it would be fragile at best for Notepad++ to attempt something different).

I imagine it appears exactly reversed to people who use multiple selections often and rarely want rectangular selections: they probably wish the distinction could be eliminated so they didn’t have to keep track of different behaviors when a rectangular selection hasn’t been changed to a multiple selection.

@PeterJones Thank you for explaining everything so well. I really appreciate it. All the best - Mark

@Michel-Merlin

You can customize the right-click context menu for your own use; consult the user manual (found via the ? menu in Notepad++) for details on how.

@Prelle said in Window loses focus a few seconds into typing after update to v8.8.3 - Windows 11:

i don’t know that any specific window gets focus

I did a quick check (and test). If the status bar in Windows doesn’t indicate which window is active by colouring the icon for it differently, then use the Alt + tab key once and hold the alt key down. The window which appears should show open windows. The one highlighted is now the new one, and possibly the one to the left is what was the active window before hitting the alt + tab key.

I’ve never had the “always on top” option in use, so I don’t know what the ramifications are for it in operation.

Terry

@pbarney some plugins have separate settings that are stored in their own INI files - you can find these files in %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config. I don’t know if the cloud feature extends to these files, but if so, it’s possible that you have to add these files to your cloud manually. If they are already there, try comparing the files on your cloud to the ones on your local machine to see what might have changed.

@The-Hitman:

Exactly what you’re asking — to highlight all the text following the equals signs and then sort on that — is, to the best of my knowledge, not possible. Since the equals signs don’t line up, you’d be creating a multiple selection rather than a rectangular selection, and the sort functions don’t work on multiple selections. So even if you got your selection, you wouldn’t be able to sort it.

However, there are ways to accomplish what you want. One thing isn’t quite clear to me: in your example, both the numbers in brackets after the capital Ms at the beginning of each line and text to the right of the equals signs are in ascending order — but presumably, if you need to sort, the text parts don’t start out in ascending order. Do you want to sort the text part of the lines only, so that the numbers stay in order and the text gets associated with different numbers? Or are the numbers supposed to move with their associated text, so that the text will be in order but the numbers will no longer be in order?

Either way, it can be done without too much difficulty. The key step is to temporarily right-justify all the numbers, so the equals signs line up:

M[ 97]=DM-Elysium:1 M[ 98]=DM-Enemyatthegates:2 M[ 99]=DM-EternalWinter:2 M[100]=DM-FactoryTown:3 M[101]=DM-Fastfood:1 M[102]=DM-FAT-Musashi][:2

You can do that by creating a zero-width column selection in front of the numbers from 10 to 99 and typing a space, and similarly adding two spaces before the single digit numbers; or you can use regular expression replacement to add the blanks. (With either method, you could also add zeros instead of blanks if you like those better.)

You might not know how to do either of those things. If you don’t, please first try reading the sections in the online manual titled Selection modes & Column Editor and Regular Expressions. (Sorry to be indirect about answering your question, but these are basic skills for using Notepad++ effectively. It is worth learning how these things work so you’ll know how to solve other problems in the future.)

Once you have the equals signs lined up, you can create a zero-width column selection just after the equal signs and use one of the sort commands to sort the result. (If you wanted the numbers to stay in order rather than move with the associated text, just use Edit | Column Editor… to renumber after sorting.) Then use regular expression replacement to remove the unwanted blanks.

There is an alternative method, using the Columns++ plugin which is available in the Plugins Admin. Custom sorts in Columns++ allow you to specify a regular expression which matches the sort key in each line; so, instead of manipulating the lines to line up the sort fields, you’d use an expression like =.* to identify the sort key. Unless you already have that plugin installed, this would probably be more complicated for your case than the method described above, but it is an approach that could be useful in similar but more complex cases (or for those who already use that plugin).

@Coises Joo! Thank you! It’s work!
Case is closed

@PeterJones ,
This is the hardest part of doing the UDL’s I think. Even after we’ve done the original dBASE UDL you helped with, I’m finding that doing the earlier versions now, and fine-tuning the keywords, operators and the nesting precedents was the most confusing and finer control over the language. Doing the earlier versions I’ve figured out how to keep an apostrophe, from screwing up my code highlighting, while still keeping it as a delimiter by simply NOT allowing it to be included in the other delimiters nesting options. In turn, dBASE also has a JSON object, and with a little fine tuning, I was able to make the delimiters in dBASE also work to outline a JSON structure, so far. If there are other options in a JSON structure I’ll have to learn that as I go, but for now, the simple W3C version showing it, it works right, as well as the dBASE delimiters without messing things up.

Obviously a quick UDL is possible with just the categories to put things in, but I’m finding that the real power of the UDL system is in the finer use of the mechanisms like the nesting, differentiation of forward search/backward search, prefix mode, etc works much better when combined to get a desired result. It’s actually much more powerful than I originally figured. I wish I’d had a good explanation/example like you’ve done, back then…although, with so much to include to make a UDL almost a complete language system, it would have probably been too much to absorb at the time and would not have availed me much improvement at the time. It’s something that requires a lot of trial and error and understanding of the mechanisms and time playing with it, I think, to get things just right, if it’s at all possible to do. :-)

@BrenMar

Are you using Comodo AV by any chance?

If so, add Notepad++ to the HIPS section as an ‘allowed application’.

I normally get a pop-up asking to do that, but for versions 8.8.3 and later this wasn’t happening.

Hope this helps.

@PeterJones said in Hide horizontal line at folds?:

editor.setElementColour(ELEMENT.FOLD_LINE, (0,0,255,255))
where the color is (RED,GREEN,BLUE,ALPHA)
…
And hiding it completely can be done by either setting the ALPHA to 0

Yes, surprisingly this works.
While:

or editor.setFoldFlags(0) in PythonScript

no, not by itself: it would leave behind a green line as if text were hidden with View/Hide Lines . As the other thread showed, that command would need to be followed by additional commands to set the Alpha of those “hidden lines’line” to 0. The full equivalent in Python would be:

editor.setFoldFlags(0) old_col=editor.getElementColour(ELEMENT.HIDDEN_LINE ) new_col=old_col[:3]+(0,) # 0 for alpha, to hide; 255 to show editor.setElementColour(ELEMENT.HIDDEN_LINE, new_col)

I find it puzzling that the latter solution requires further changing the "hidden lines’ line " colour, while:
editor.setElementColour(ELEMENT.FOLD_LINE, (x,x,x,0))
is enough by itself.
At first I thought it’s a PythonScript behind the scenes trick, but it works in NppExec too, for example with:
SCI_SENDMSG SCI_SETELEMENTCOLOUR SC_ELEMENT_FOLD_LINE 0x00000000
(the relevant Alpha part is the first 2 0s , making color transparent/invisible).

I should have said that I think it is a reasonable request simply to ease this problem:

if your boss sends you to check for privacy proof you can’t really give him anything other than “I believe it is safe”

@xomx said in NPPCrypt not fully decrypting text.:

Could be. Seems to me that your file was simply out of sync somehow (common when the network is laggy or there was just a temp outage):

To clarify the file is local to the systems I’m experiencing the issue. It’s created, open, edited, and saved here. The cloud storage is just as a backup. I’m not accessing it on a second machine.

@joesalvati68 said in Save as File Type Options:

@PeterJones I tried replying but not sure if it went through. I copied the above picture. My actual wndow is here.

As the post-edit window told you (you had to hit the X to close it when replying), until you get enough “upvotes”, you will have to wait for a moderator to approve all your posts.

Notepad++ v8.8.5 (64-bit)
…
Admin mode: OFF
Local Conf mode: OFF
Cloud Config: C:\Users\JoeSalvati\OneDrive - Arcuity ai, Inc\Notepad++_backup

ahh, I wouldn’t have guessed you were in Cloud Config mode. So my suggestion of %AppData%\Notepad++\langs.xml was wrong. In Cloud Config mode, it would be C:\Users\JoeSalvati\OneDrive - Arcuity ai, Inc\Notepad++_backup\langs.xml

…
Plugins:
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.6)
NppExec (0.8.8)
NppExport (0.4)
NppMenuSearch (0.9.6)

I am doubtful, but since i’ve never used it, the culprit might be NppMenuSearch. You could try running with that plugin disabled (if you don’t know how to run with a specific plugin disabled, see the Possible Culprit: Plugin in our FAQ).

If disbling that plugin doesn’t fix it, then open C:\Users\JoeSalvati\OneDrive - Arcuity ai, Inc\Notepad++_backup\langs.xml, and show us the first 25 lines or so, using a screenshot like:
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or click the </> button in your reply, and pasting the text of the first 25 lines inside the ``` … ``` section:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <!-- The keywords of the supported languages, don't touch them! --> <!-- For languages like C/C++ substyle1..8 entries, you may enter your own keywords in those entries, to have them show up in the "Default keywords" list shown in the Style Configurator --> <Languages> <Language name="normal" ext="txt" /> <Language name="actionscript" ext="as mx" commentLine="//" commentStart="/*" commentEnd="*/"> <Keywords name="instre1">add for lt tellTarget and function ne this break ge new typeof continue gt not var delete if on void do ifFrameLoaded onClipEvent while else in or with eq le return instanceof case default switch</Keywords> <Keywords name="type1">arguments constructor class dynamic false extends implements import interface intrinsic newline null private public super static true undefined Accessibility Arguments Array Boolean Button Camera ContextMenu ContextMenuItem CustomActions Color Date Error Function Key LoadVars 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@João-Borloth said in Help with Regex/Find/Macro:

Good morning!
Everyone, I couldn’t understand REGEX.
I believe there’s a REGEX solution (Find or Filter) to solve my problem.
I need Notepad++ to search line by line and find the lines that contain:

A word with all letters in uppercase (example: LTDA) A word with all letters in lowercase (example: and) A word with mixed lowercase and uppercase letters (except capitalized words) (for example, find: hoUse, HOuse, HousE)
but NOT find House.

This would require 3 Regex and/or 3 macros.
Example sentences:
My HouSe is Beautiful => Find “HouSe” and “is”
My House Is Beautiful => Ok, Don’t find anything
MY House IS Beautiful => Find “MY”, “IS”

Thank you

Your example doesn’t quite match your statement. If, as per your statement, you want to find lines which contain one or more words that do not consist of a capital letter optionally followed by one or more lower case letters, then try:

(?-is)^(?!\u\l*+([^\w\r\n]+\u\l*+)*+[^\w\r\n]*$).*+

You can find them one by one, or click Find All to get a list.

If, as per your example, you want to find words that do not consist of a capital letter optionally followed by one or more lower case letters, try:

(?-is)\b(\u\l*+)?+\w++

I tried to cover likely cases involving punctuation, but test. I’m not promising it’s perfect. (Come to think of it, I’m sure these will not handle words with apostrophes correctly.)