@Alan-Kilborn
With your script as inspiration, I made one that has a different custom search func for each file, allows the user to set the search func with selected text, and the user can choose whether or not to bookmark lines.
63ddf9b8-22a9-411a-8448-33a055dcf3fa-image.png

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # references: # https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24481 from Npp import * import operator import re # Too lazy to parse config files; just modify these global variables instead BOOKMARK_LINES = True class FBOLTN: def __init__(self): self.set_comparator() def set_comparator(self): comparator_regex = re.compile("([><]=?|=)(-?\d+)") sel = editor.getSelText() mtch = comparator_regex.search(sel) if mtch: # user is selecting a new comparator compstr, numstr = mtch.groups() num = int(numstr) else: if hasattr(self, 'comparator'): return # only override current comparator with valid selection # default is what the OP wanted compstr = '>=' num = 25 self.compstr = compstr self.num = num def comparator(other_num): fun = { '>': operator.gt, '<': operator.lt, '=': operator.eq, '>=': operator.ge, '<=': operator.le, }[compstr] return fun(other_num, num) self.comparator = comparator def custom_match_func(self, m): if self.stop: return i = int(m.group(0)) start, end = m.start(0), m.end(0) if self.comparator(i): editor.setSel(start, end) if BOOKMARK_LINES: notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_TOGGLE_BOOKMARK) self.stop = True def search(self): self.stop = False editor.research(r'(?<!\w)-?\d+\b', self.custom_match_func, 0, editor.getCurrentPos()) if __name__ == '__main__': try: fboltns except NameError: fboltns = {} cur_fname = notepad.getCurrentFilename() if not fboltns.get(cur_fname): fboltns[cur_fname] = FBOLTN() fboltn = fboltns[cur_fname] fboltn.set_comparator() fboltn.search()

@guy038 I didn’t have the chance to thank you very much for your support! It worked very well!

Thank you!

Thank you so much for your prompt help! They both work perfectly!

Bob

@rdipardo ,
Here’s a perfect example, of what I mean. From my Mother in law, I learned to say that backwards, Bardzo dziękuję. Been a while since the course, so I can’t challenge the translator, but that’s the point. :-)
It’s dependent on the translation and how it’s getting done. ;)

Hey hi @guy038 , I’m coming back to you

It’s been a busy day between yesterday and today.

Thanks for the new information. The method you propose is very interesting. Longer and a little more complicated than @Terry-R 's but in the end safer because it is true that when you finalize, there are no mistakes left. Where it can often remain with a numbering system that by dint of being cut and pasted and even sometimes unexpectedly taken in the selection that will pass to the translation, it happens that it gets mixed with the paragraphs. In the end, the time I save with the numbering system, I often lose later to detect and correct the mistakes. Note, this is entirely my fault because I could have or should have made a selection in columns.

In order not to let your help and efforts go to waste, I used your method on the 10 or so small files I had left and it works very well. Many thanks to you!

A huge thank you also to @Terry-R , because his method arrived quite quickly. At a time when I was more than tired of editing a 400k file by hand and wanted to give up more than once!

Finally, thank you all for all this advice @guy038 @Terry-R @PeterJones . As I said before, I am not an expert in notepad++ at all. I’ve done a degree in computer science 15 years ago, but I’m not at all specialized in programming and I’m doing totally different things today. I found all these little tips very interesting and I’m sure they will be very useful in the future. Thanks again to both of you!

I’ve completely finished the translation, for the rest I’ll only have to touch up the fonts and make corrections that I would have noticed in game.

I like the solutions proposed above because they are relatively simple and to-the-point. However, regex-replaces on JSON in general get pretty hairy due to factors including but not limited to:

how do you differentiate between a pattern in a key versus a string? how do you take into account the fact that JSON doesn’t care about the order of keys whereas regexes do? what if there are ] or } inside strings, such that the regex is fooled into thinking the JSON object ended?

Just to illustrate how annoying regex-replaces get once you start trying to satisfy all the syntactic requirements of JSON, here’s a regex-replace I came up with to achieve this while ignoring insignificant whitespace and the order of keys and removing any trailing commas:
find/replace (?-i),\s*{(?:[^{]*{[^}]*}\s*,\s*"model"\s*:\s*"[^"]*KeepInfo[^"]*"\s*|\s*"model"\s*:\s*"[^"]*KeepInfo[^"]*"[^{]*{[^}]*}\s*)}\s*(,)? with \1.

JsonTools is a fine solution for this, if you’re able to use plugins.

Because it uses a JSON parser to parse the JSON, it is insensitive to the formatting of the JSON.

To filter JSON with the plugin, just use Alt-P-J-J (tap the keys in sequence, don’t hold them down simultaneously) to open the tree view, then enter one of the following queries into the query box and hit Ctrl+Enter, then Save query result.
Two queries that accomplish your goals:
@[:][not(@.model =~ `(?i)keepinfo`)] filters out objects where the model includes keepinfo ignoring case.
@[:][not(@.model =~ KeepInfo)] filters out objects where the model includes KeepInfo in that case only.

While I’m here, PythonScript is also an efficient solution:

import json from Npp import editor j = json.loads(txt) filtered = [o for o in j if 'KeepInfo' in o['model']] filtered_text = json.dumps(filtered, indent=4) editor.setText(filtered_text)

@Alan-Kilborn You’re just awesome dude, thank you very much. Works like a charm.

@mkupper ,

Ugh. Apparently, like backslash-square-brackets, HTML entities are another thing that NodeBB messes up when you edit a post, because it was right when I first posted it. Fixed. (edit: updated the forum-formatting FAQ to call out that oddity with entities, as well)

Regarding DM: the “chat” feature speech bubble in the upper-right by your icon is the way to do private messages
d3a7bd64-4296-4f8b-a302-820992061b17-image.png

@Chris-Johnston In reading https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/210204-automate-notepad-new-doc-creation-moved/ it appears that in Notepad++ you want

Settings / Preferences / New Document (on left sidebar) / Default language to be AutoIt.

Notepad++ can already do that. What Notepad++ does not seem to have baked in at present is a default blank document template. It’s not clear though
if filling in the new tab with stuff related to a generic .au3 file is useful or essential to you. Any of what people have already suggested here will do for filling in the default new-document but it’s also possible a plugin exists that can do this.

Hi, @rune-egenes and All,

Easy !

First regex :

SEARCH \R(?=\t)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Sort

Second regex

SEARCH (?=\t)

REPLACE \r\n    or    \n if you deal with UNIX files

BR

guy038

@Abhinav-kganan said in Notepad++ upgrade issue:

Is there any way I can retrieve it?

You haven’t exactly provided much information. However I suspect you have been working with tabs of data that you haven’t actually saved as real files. Which if true is a shame, because if you have critical data you really do need to save it.

How about read this post which is in the FAQ section. In there are references to the periodic backup files created if you have the right settings enabled for those “unsaved” tabs.

Good luck. Even if you do not recover the data, please read that post entirely, understand what it is saying, and change your backup procedures so you do not suffer the same occurance in the future.

Terry

@menit-lop ,
You might want to read the documents a little better. If you’re going to have multiple possibilities in the mainExpr buffer, than you need to give it multiple options by separating the two options, not combining them. It probably should look more like this:

?i:PROCEDURE\s+ \K | ?i:FUNCTION\s+ \K

When the first option fails, it tries the next…and on down a list if there are multiple options, like @PeterJones showed me in my dBASE UDL, which had the similar construct of Procedure, Functions, but also so we could make objects show up in the function list when there was no function, by using an additional OR statement of with, where the code looked like this:

this.NPPINST_TL = new TEXTLABEL(this) with (this.NPPINST_TL) height = 2.0 left = 29.0 top = 0.5 width = 67.0 text = "Notepad++ dBASE Plus UDL Installer" colorNormal = "0x404000/Silver" fontSize = 19.0 fontBold = true endwith

As you can see, our UI classes would not show up unless they had a function inside them, and we wanted to be able to see the Objects whether they had a function or not, and @PeterJones figured that out for me, that adding that OR statement in the function parser would allow that to show up also emulating a function option, so our functionList code looked like this:

<function mainExpr="(?xi-s) ^ \h* (?: function \h+ \w+ | procedure \h+ \w+ | with \h+ \(.*?\) ) \h* " >

Hopefully this helps you.

My gut feeling is that you should probably be using an XML parser for this sort of thing. I suspect XSLT could be useful, but since I’ve never used it I can’t say more.

See the XMLTools plugin. Even though it hasn’t been updated recently, it still seems to work fine.

@Demetrio-Foti

Notepad++'s reload prompt only fires based upon the file timestamp that the OS supplies to Notepad++. So any funkyness regarding onedrive is related to this, not some “local bit” or “status icon”.

My personal theory about onedrive is that there are many ways it can be configured. Depending on what configuration is set, at different times it can make Notepad++ think that the filetime has changed, thus firing the reload prompt.

@aileen-balian
If it’s not an incompatibility issue (check the Plugins Admin), check with the author at his github page, since this is a plugin.

ok! Tanks :)

yes Alan, i’ve see that !

another option! thanks for this too! :)

@Arthur-Hodgett ,

next line by pressing the down arrow, it automatically returned to the last > on the next line, but now it just goes to the line below as if it was full of space characters

My guess is that you (intentionally or accidentally) checkmarked the option Settings > Preferences > Editing > ☑ Enable Virtual Space, which allows you to place your cursor beyond the end of the line.

(In a fresh installation / fresh portable, that option defaults to not being checkmarked, so you or someone else with access to your Notepad++ has turned it on, if I am correct about the culprit)