@datatraveller1

Terry is right, but the shorter version is that it saves me from having to write my response this way:

Find: ^.*?-
Replace: nothing
Search mode: Regular expression
. matches newline checkbox: Unchecked

As you can see, many less characters to type for me to simply use (?-s)

BTW, for those that don’t know, if the . matches newline box is checked, it effectively puts a (?s) at the start of whatever regular expression you supply in the Find what. So if your regular expression supplied is (?-s)^.*?- it becomes (?s)(?-s)^.*?- which is really just (?-s)^.*?- because the (?-s) part “undoes” what the leading (?s) does.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Special characters not showing on some file on some computer:

@Paul-Wormer

I presume you are taking screenshots using Win+Shift+s keycombo?

Yes.

Hello,

This does exactly what I want, thank you very much.

greetings,

Christoph

@Dale-Pyke

See HERE.

@Alan-Kilborn ah!!! Cool, well let me rephrase…your short term memory is great :)

@Rom-Ortiz-Toro ,

Any operation that works on the active selection that can be macro recorded will already work as you describe. Any operation that does not take into account the active selection is not likely to be able to work in the way you describe.

As a first level of improvement, you could automate the copy/new/paste/actions/copy/paste sequence into one macro, rather than doing the preliminary and cleanup copy/pastes outside the macro.

Then, depending on what the actions are, you might be able to limit them to only be in the selection, rather than the whole document. But since you’ve given us no hints as to what it might be doing, we cannot comment on whether that’s feasible for your particular macro.

Finally, there are actions that are too complicated to turn into macros. For such actions, we often suggest switching to one of the scripting plugins for Notepad++, like PythonScript; those plugins allow you to use a programming language to automate Notepad++ to your heart’s content: they have full access to the contents of the open files as well as being able to trigger any of the actions you can take from the GUI.

@Chuck-Rheault-0 ,

I’m not sure I fully understand what you mean by “boxes around every menu item”: a screenshot might be helpful for us to understand the problem. I have never seen a problem with menus being to narrow or not appearing…

If you have other programs displaying similar symptoms, then I’d hazard a guess that it’s something with the particular update of Windows 11, and not anything that Notepad++ can do anything about. (My home PC, which is Windows 11, has been prompting me to get the next update; I had been planning on doing it during Thanksgiving break next week, but maybe I’ll continue to hold off on doing that, if it’s breaking things like Notepad++.)

@Karolina-Sikorska ,

There is no official Notepad++ distribution using MSI technology. All official distributions are either self-extracting exe files or .zip/.7z

I have seen that there are some people on the net who re-package Notepad++ into an MSI, but they are not officially distributed, and the Notepad++ developers make no guarantee or warrantee that what gets installed from any MSI is actually the official Notepad++ product: the developers have no control over whether the re-packagers have modified Notepad++ in some nefarious or other manner.

Notepad++ developers do not support the unofficial MSI distributions.

Official Download Sites https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ and any pages on that site https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/category/1/announcements and the http://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/ links that they reference https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/

No place else is sanctioned or supported

@Lycan-Thrope

Ah hah. Thanks for that tip. I’m fairly sure that I don’t have the proper order then. I’ll have to take a closer look at that.

@PeterJones I could do it in one step with ${0}\r\n<li><a href=otitis.html">Otitis</a></li> in the Replace All field using the Regular expression mode

@PeterJones I use the standard Pascal syntax, but this little thing is like a splinter) It’s a pity that you can’t change it. Thanks for the answer.

@Vanshika-Warathe ,

I don’t think I have ever noticed Notepad++ publish a change as a result of a “CVE”.

There is definitely not an API for accessing changes. Each version comes with its own change.log. And those are all amalgamated into https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/wiki/Changes . I don’t find CVE mentioned on that page anywhere, though “security” is mentioned a few times.

@PeterJones ,
Interesting, but my environment is so custom done, overriding the system defaults that it’s a mess either way. :) But it seems to work.

Hi, @venus642, @neil-schipper and All,

Oh… yes, totally exact and clever iniiative Neil, indeed !

Of course, as the " character and the string ";" seemed to be separators, I presumed that they were not used within the content of the questions. But I agree that this new formulation is safer !

So, @venus642, the second regex S/R to use is, preferably :

SEARCH ☑(?=(?s:(?!"\R).)+";"\R)

REPLACE ☐

Cheers,

guy038

Hi, @terry-r,

Of course, in absolute terms, you’re quite right about it ! But I would say that people are responsable of what they write !

My regex finds a word Please, followed later with the nearest word E-mail, followed later with the nearest word treatment

If, because of some typos, one or several of these 3 words are truncated or modified in any way, due to the initial (?s) modifier, the regex engine will always try to find out, by all means, a match, if any !

Note that I suppose a possible variation by telling, in my previous post : " Check the Mach case option, if necessary "

Thus :

Any malformed word is just considered as stuff, part of the regex part .+?

And for the smallest range of characters containing these 3 words in that order ( Please ... E-mail .... treatment ) :

A <b> string is inserted before the first word Please

A </b> string is inserted after the final word treatment

No more, no less !

BR

guy038

@PeterJones Ah, thats good to know, thanks !

@Lycan-Thrope

Of course, I realized that after @PeterJones posted his answer.

@Alan-Kilborn Now that I put the \r in, it is finding the literal equals sign.
Before I was putting =\n, it should be =\r\n as I am on Windows.

@Edgar-Rousselin

Try:

Find: ^N\d{3} M9$

You can learn some of this (regular expression) stuff yourself.
See the USER MANUAL section.
Also see the FAQ entry.