@mkupper ,
The user has that choice, by selecting the appropriate Settings->Preferences->Backup dialog choices. In particular if they enable Verbose Backup , they can get to have time stamped backups.

In my IDE, situation, anytime a file is changed, the backup is saved, so I have the option already in my IDE to be able to undo the last saved changes. That’s something any computer user needs to learn right off the bat, and coddling neophytes by doing it for them, does not benefit them, in the long run. They would still be oblivious to the realities of computing. In addition, most (and I emphasize, MOST) users of NPP are not that oblivious to computing practices. The ones that are, need to learn, or they will continuer to make mistakes and blame the world and the author of the software.

@Friedrich-Wilhelm

There are comparison plugins, ComparePlus comes to mind.
See Plugins menu > Plugins Admin…

@MAPJe71 Thank you!

@Maarten-Klap ,

See my answer to this very similar post, because the concept behind the reason it’s not working for you is the same as for that other user.

@Nuno-Paulo ,

Unfortunately, your post uses inconsistent indentation, and the forum interprets some, but not all, as putting it into a forum code box. Next time, make sure you paste your text exactly, then highlight all the pasted text in your post, then click the forum’s </> toolbar button, so that it all ends up in the same box with correct indentation.

Your use of “termination” is too vague for me to be able to guess what you mean. And you don’t tell us how to know where “status off” should be added, or how to know what constitutes “an entry”

It would be really nice if you showed before and after data in separate text boxes (using the </> button), like,

before

one block two blocks three blocks

after

1 block 2 blocks 3 blocks

If we were to try to guess what you intended, it’s likely to be wrong, thus wasting both our time and yours. Good luck.

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@Tam-LE ,

Macro recording for searches records the text of the search – it doesn’t notice that you pasted the text into the search field. Sorry. I don’t think a macro is powerful enough for what you want.

There are scripting plugins, which bring the full power of your favorite scripting/programming language (Python, Lua, JS,…). If you have a preference, I’d suggest installing that plugin and writing a script in that language that runs the appropriate Notepad++ commands. If you don’t know any of those languages, and if someone has enough details from you and enough time and interest, they might be willing to write a quick script for the PythonScript plugin (the most commonly-used scripting plugin in this forum) – but you will have to be more specific as to what you mean by each of your steps, because there’s lots of ambiguity. (For example, you said, “first text value” – but is that a character, a word, a line, a paragraph, a … Each of your brief phrases is way too short for anyone else to be able to help you translate that into code.) Actually, if you have saved your macro, then exit Notepad++, then open %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, and go to your saved macro, and copy all that XML and paste it in here, then select the text in your post and click the forum’s </> button to wrap it so it shows up in a plain text / code box – with the contents of your existing macro, we can get rid of all ambiguity about what you are selecting and copying, and I think there are a some of the regulars here with the skill to both read that macro and to translate those same ideas into PythonScript.

@Ekopalypse Thank You

@Andrea-Astolfi-0

Long known issue; see HERE.
Not sure it is an issue for everyone, as it doesn’t seem to affect me.

@geoslake ,

Without editing the source code and compiling your own copy of Notepad++ and the libraries it ships with, you are not able to change the logic of the built-in languages like C++. It would be a lot easier to create a User Defined Language (UDL) than it would be to modify the logic for C++.

I would suggest trying to learn the UDL. You don’t tell us anything about your pseudo-language for your “passwords and things” (whether there are “keywords” you want to have highlighted, whether you use braces for nesting, and that sort of thing), so it’s hard to give you any hints. But the Language > User Defined Language > Define Your Language has a link to its documentation in the dialog box / panel, and that documentation is pretty newbie-friendly, IMO.

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edt: “don’t treat parentheses as codeblocks start/end” => do you mean () (which are generally called parentheses) or {} (which are often called curly braces or just braces). If you don’t want curly braces to be interpreted as blocks for indentation/folding, then the CPP lexer really isn’t the best choice for you. I really think you need to show us some example text (use the </> in the forum to mark that text as plain text), then paste in a screenshot of the text as highlighted by the lexer, and maybe explain which elements of the highlighting you like, and which you don’t. Because if all you have is a list of keywords that you want highlighted, then the UDL is dead simple: just go to the keywords tab, type those keywords, assign a color in the Style button, and maybe put a default extension for your so that a file with that extension will always use your UDL.

@waskoma said in strings starting with “;” ignored when given in codeblock start/end string definition:

so I have managed to achieve it and am REALLY happy. Gave up solving this a long long time ago (have already asked here and got answer it can not be done)

in 2016, it looks like you both forgot to come back and follow up on the conversation, so it was never resolved; that’s not quite the same as being told it cannot be done. Under this username, you have no other posts.

not related to this topic but can I ask more? I have hexadecimal numbers with prefixes $ or #$ and these numbers have abcdef letters in them, they are not recognised as numbers the moment it finds a non numeric character, is there a way to solve that ?

Prefix 2 is where you put the prefix you want before hex numbers – in your case, $ #$ will allow either $ or #$ as the prefix. Extras 1 is where you put the extra characters that can be a part of a hex number – in your case A B C D E F a b c d e f (the comparison in UDL for that is case sensitive, so if you want it to match upper and lower case for hex digits, you have to include both upper and lower case)

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BTW: That’s in the UDL docs at https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/ – which are linked from the UDL dialog – specifically, on the Numbers page. They give the example of how to make 0xABC work, and from there, you really should have been able to generalize that to make $ABC or #$ABC work.

also what causes these orange vertical lines show up ? and how to style the codeblock opener closer + and line ? a million thanks :)

As you discovered, that’s the new Change History feature (v8.4.6), as described in our FAQ.

@Daniel-Crosby ,

EnhanceAnyLexer does not change bold/italic/underline, so it cannot do the job. If you change the Style Configurator for the keywords to turn off bold, then the EnhanceAnyLexer color-change should be sufficient for you – though of course, that means that keywords in non-comment lines would just be colorful without any bolding.

There’s also the %AppData%\Local\Temp\Notepad++ RECOV folder. The files in that folder will have the .dump extension. Don’t know how reliably N++ will write unsaved files to that folder, but it’s worked pretty well for me recently.

If you edit the properties of the shortcut you use to start Notepad++ and change “Start in:” to the folder you want, File|Open… will use that folder as default until another is established.

@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.
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# -*- 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.