@Khosro-Neyestani

You pretty much described how Notepad++ works by default, with the exception of a “hot key” to run it.

How programs are run is more of an OS level thing, so Notepad++ (mostly) can’t help you with invoking itself.

For your own benefit, though, consider why it is there, and why it might benefit you to keep it.

@Roman-Revell said in How to launch Notepad++ with new document open:

But, my goal is to just have Notepad++ open so that I can paste some text or start typing. Opening in a new document saves me from also having to do ctrl+n or click the icon. Just a little more convenient as long as I’m already running a command or script, might as well have it do what I want.

Create a file called “scratchpad.txt”. Have your batch file open notepad++ with that same scratchpad file every time you run that shortcut. QED.

Or, better, pin a shortcut to your taskbar that opens notepad++ with that file, so you don’t even have to Win+R and type npp[ENTER]. QED.

Or, better, always have a copy of Notepad++ running, with your scratchpad file always open. You can even put in your windows startup so it happens with you never having to manually run Notepad++. QED.

@Michael-Vincent ,
I certainly don’t hate you. :)
I liked the feature as I think I mentioned once I had trouble not knowing when I was developing the UDL package, which were which, and ended up shutting down the “Words” option, using Functions only. I may have to turn it back on now that I can tell what’s what now. :)

@datatraveller1 said:

Shift+Ctrl+B prints STX

Note that in Notepad++ 8.5 and later, Shift+Ctrl+B is the default keycombo for Begin/End Select :

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So this keycombo will no longer insert a STX character into documents when typed.

@LtSlimFisherman ,.

And moreover to the excellent points by @Ekopalypse and @Alan-Kilborn , having “Edit with Notepad++” not show up for a certain file or filetype in Windows Explorer in no way prevents the user from opening Notepad++ and doing File > Open or equivalent, and cannot prevent that.

As they said, the only way to prevent the user from opening file.config.xml in Notepad++ is to set the permissions on the file so they cannot even read the file. If all you want is to prevent them from saving changes, then you just need to remove write permission for the user.

@James-F-Pasquini I found the file at %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell\en_US.usr

@ChelOis I found it in %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config\Hunspell\en_US.usr

The first line of the file appears to be the number of words. But I didn’t edit that, so it may have fixed itself.

@R-W-0 ,

Uncheck “match whole word only”: sign isn’t the whole word RequestSigningCertificate

And to find a tab, either copy a tab from the document and paste it into your search field, or use \t with Extended or Regular Expression modes.

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edit: @mark-olson beat me by seconds!

Thanks for the reply.
I am going to check this.

@Alan-Kilborn I got it. Thank you so much!

Hello, @mark-yorkovich, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn, @lycan-thrope and All,

Of course, the generic regex satisfies the @mark-yorkovich’s goal ! But if we try to think more deeply about the problem, the solution is almost obvious !

Mark said :

I have a CSV file with comma-separated fields, and double quotes for each field, except the first field which is an ID field.

Thus, as a valid field is always surrounded by double-quotes, this means that the line-breaks which need to be replaced with a literal , must be :

Not immediately preceded with a double-quote character

AND

Not immediately followed with a double-quote character

Hence, the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?<!")\r\n(?!")

REPLACE ,

Untick all box options of the Replace dialog

Select the Regex expression search mode

Move to very beginning of your CSV file

Click once on the Replace All button ( or several times on the Replace button )

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

As explained in a recent post, do not use the simplified search syntax (?<!")\R(?!") !

Of course, this method does not work if fields, near the line break, may not be followed / preceded with a " character !

@Alan-Kilborn said in Can I create a macro that gives the desired file name when creating a new file?:

@andrecool-68 said in Can I create a macro that gives the desired file name when creating a new file?:

but the file name will always be “new 1”.

I don’t think that’s going to always be true. It would depend upon if you already had an existing new 1 file when this macro is run, then I don’t think what the macro will saw will be saved in new 1.
For this kind of automation it is probably best to go with the scripting plugins (e.g. PythonScript) or presumably NppExec can also achieve it.

thanks my issue has been fixed.

@PeterJones said in Launching Lua:

$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)

I never remember this kind of stuff, so…

I have a Run menu command – saved as NPP $(XXX) vars echo (file info) – that gives me an example when I need it:

cmd /c echo FULL_CURRENT_PATH=$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) CURRENT_DIRECTORY=$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) FILE_NAME=$(FILE_NAME) NAME_PART=$(NAME_PART) EXT_PART=$(EXT_PART) && pause

Sample output:

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After running, I can copy the FULL_CURRENT_PATH – or whatever text – from the cmd window, so not only do I NOT have to remember the names, I never have to type them either.

Later edit:

However, I can’t actually echo the verbatim text $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) to the cmd window, because Notepad++ will hijack that and replace it. This could be “fixed” (see https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9567) but perhaps doubtful that it ever will be.

Notepad++ does not have built-in support for Microsoft Transact-SQL: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/12610#issuecomment-1340297100

That may change in a future release, but I would not hold my breath.

Norton prevents extracting dll from downloaded zip).

If anyone visiting this thread is in similar circumstances, AppVeyor artifacts will be online until about MAR-28-2023:

SurroundSelection (patched) x64 SurroundSelection (patched) Win32

@Bahaa-Eddin-ツ ,
Nah. You’ll hardly even remember it once it sinks to the bottom of the new posting queue. :)

Find: (Lorem)|(amet)|(elit)
Replace: (?1human)(?2friend)(?3fruit)

Really, if you’re going to go “long” with that syntax, you could have a script do it – create the syntax for you. But…if you’re making the scripting leap, maybe it is best to go “all the way”.

@Willem-Swanepoel

You would likely need to use a scripting plugin for such replacement. Maybe search this forum for “replace from list” or something similar.

For example, THIS appears to be a script that solves a problem similar to your need, although not exactly.

Sometimes a regular expression replacement operation can do it, by combining your data and your list together in a single file tab, but this method may not be reliable on larger data sets.

@Pierre-McGrail I was able to replicate OP’s issue with npp.8.4.9.portable.x64, so the option you mention, while very helpful in many situations, does not eliminate the problem.