@Nasser-M-Abbasi said in how to disable the balloon tip in notepad++ in view->Document list?:

This ballon tip bothers me so much as it makes it hard to see files inside notepad.

How so?
For me, the hover tip opens about 2 full “lines” below the entry it relates to, definitely away from where the action is, example:

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So, ok, new 6 is obscured in my example.
If such a thing bothers you, get your mouse out of the Document List window.
Why is your mouse even there, unless you intend to switch tabs – in that case, get in, do it, hover tip shouldn’t have an impact.
The only other real reason to have the mouse in this window is to actually see the info from the hover tip.

I will move to Linux because of this

Seems extreme to me, but good luck!

@Deniz-Kasar said in Column Index of Pipelined Lines:

How can i set your script to run on startup?

@Michael-Vincent, Many thanks for your help.

@pnedev

There is also report mentioning a possible coincidence with a pending N++ auto-update.

User has periodic backups enabled too.

@Michael-Vincent now whork! Thank u Michael!

@Nick-Minchin

Hopefully you took to heart some discussion about unnamed/unsaved documents and potential data loss. IMO an unnamed file should be saved into the file system with a real name very soon after creation.

comparing unsaved changes to the original document

The new ComparePlus plugin may be of interest to you for such a task.

@PeterJones

Thanks for your clarification. Sorry for to present the question in this forum.

It worked, thanks a lot

@Kevin-Cook ,

When you have Dark Mode enabled, could you show us a screenshot of Settings > Preferences

For example, for me, Dark Mode looks exactly like I’d expect:
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Also, share your Settings > Style Configurator dialog screenshot, maybe with Global Styles > Default Style selected, like:
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You also said,

playing with Settings -> Style Configurator … Disabling Global styles

“Global styles > Global override” with the overrides checkmarked is almost never what you want. A well-designed theme will properly inherit from “Global Styles > Default Style”, and should be reasonable for most users. (I know you said you have vision issues, and there are rare circumstances when vision issues will require checkmarking some of those overrides… but that should be a last resort.)
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Using those overrides will mean there is no syntax highlighting… or, even worse, if you do it wrong, will mean that there is partial syntax highlighting, which might make things worse than if you’d just left the overrides off.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Exit Python loop when replacement count is 0:

A modification to that one could be to limit the matches that research() will look for to 1, e.g.:

Noted, and I like it. Thanks again.

@incarnare
no, since it must not be activated.
Can you post more details what you want to do?

@kitchin15
These changes are only take place after restarting NPP. In other words, if NPP is open when the location becomes unavailable, NPP silently fails to make the periodic backups. Other scenarios are similar, unless NPP is restarted.

@Alan-Kilborn, actually I don’t recall enabling that. Either I fat-fingered it by accident, or it was enabled by the previous user before I acquired this computer. In either case, unchecking it solved the problem.

@PeterJones said in Having trouble getting a macro to work as desired:

put the example text in the same kind of text box you used for the macro XML

I was going to add that in my reply, but I suspect OP doesn’t really know how he obtained that nice boxed-in formatting for his macros, so telling him to “do that again” may be pointless. :-)

But here’s how it happened:

He copied+pasted full lines from shortcuts.xml and because those lines have leading whitespace, the forum software thinks it is code and puts it in a nice code block.

Probably any sample text the OP provides would not have that characteristic, and would need manual formatting to get the proper result.

@Charles-Carmichael Thanks very much for this and also the guidance on how to post real data, shows you how much of a novice I am. Thanks again

Hello @nick-minchin, @alan-kilborn and All,

Here is the road map for this S/R :

Open your file in Notepad++

Go to the very beginning of this file ( Ctrl + Home )

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?x-si) ( ^ \h* "formatter":\x20+"function | (?!\A) \G ) .*? \K " (?!$)

REPLACE '

Un-tick all options

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Replace All button ( Do not use the Replace button !)

Voila !

This S/R will replace any non-trailing double quote ", only after the string "formatter": "function, with a simple quote ', in all the lines of your file

Best Regards

guy038

@millu-jorge ,

That plugin is new to me. But it seems to hook NPPN_* events and run NppExec scripts.

So, you would need to make an NppExec Script that will commit your project to GitHub – probably something that did a commit to your local repo, and a push to the GitHub repo. And then you could then hook the NPPN_FILESAVED event to call that NppExec script.

To do anything beyond that would require you to write the scripts that do the git/github actions you desire, and then figuring out which NPPN_* event best matches when you’d want that to.

You can look my NppExec + SVN examples below, and base your git scripts on those. However, I highly suggest investigating the Better Idea first:

I would recommend looking at the GitSCM plugin instead: that probably has all the functions you would want/need, without having to figure out a script for each of them, or hassle with hooking them to the right events.

Personally, for my subversion-based version control, I have four NppExec scripts, which commit the current dir, commit the current file, add the current dir, and update the current dir. And I just entries in my contextMenu.xml (Settings > Edit Popup ContextMenu) that call those scripts, so I do it manually rather than on triggers. But even knowing that they can be done on triggers, I doubt I would do them, since not all my files are in subversion control, so I don’t want it trying to run the “commit” script every time I save a file that isn’t in subversion.

if you want to use my svn scripts as templates for the same concepts that you would use for git, I will include them below. However, you will not want to do the NPP_SAVE command in each if you are going to be triggering off of the NPPN_FILESAVED event, because that will cause an infinite loop

(and no, I will not rewrite those to work for git/github for you. the concepts you need are all there, and translating those concepts to git will help you learn the tool.)

@Larry-Schwartz
My apologies for the confusion. I want to modify the configuration file that controls what file attributes are shown when EVERYTHING displays its file list. I use NPP as my text editor. I should be asking this question in the EVERYTHING forum. Again, my apologies for taking your time.

@Software-Support said in XML File - Create an element and get a value from existing attribute:

The value 2.92 will be appeared as 2

Well, for exactly that situation, you’d want to change the \d+ appearing in the original Find expression to \d+\.\d+, I guess…

But this gets into a bigger topic of how to match floating point numbers as well as integers.

And that really isn’t a Notepad++ topic, so patience with such questions wears thin. Suggest you follow the link I provided before about regular expressions.