@dspjm

That type of information is not remembered with the file (because the file is purely data, not metadata from use with a text editor). If you leave the file open, however, the N++ session file does remember this between runs of N++, and is what retains the caret position from run to run.

The short answer to your question is “no”; the longer answer is that Notepad++ has scripting capabilities that could allow a script to be written to meet your desire.

@Ekopalypse said in UDL Number Suffix 2 not working when character also in Extras 2:

@Maggi-9295 said in UDL Number Suffix 2 not working when character also in Extras 2:

Just out of curiousity, is there some kind of documentation on this?

I like the idea of having the configuration file and the help system in one place, and I hope the explanation is understandable. If this is not the case, let me know how I can improve it.

I think it’s alright, no worries! I just wasn’t aware it uses the Notepad++ regex syntax and was searching which syntax it uses in the first place, but that’s just me not reading properly :P
The Notepad++ documentation on searching is already more than comprehensive enough, so I think that should cover pretty much everything (once you got used to it, that is :P)

Hi, @alan-kilborn,

Yes…, you’re right about it, Alan ! But how to get a simple behaviour ? Note that the macro is about deleting the first character, regardless its type !

And, anyway, in your post https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/83341, where you proposed the right regex method to delete the first 6 chars, they could be tabulation chars, as well ?

BR

guy038

@Random-Encounter ,

UDL is not all-powerful: it focuses on defining a list of keywords, rather than arbitrary pattern matches, for syntax highlighting, so it cannot do what you want.

However, the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin can apply the power of regex to change the foreground color of certain text; so you could install that plugin, define most of your language with the UDL interface; then, to get things to the left of an = to be a different color, use Plugins > EnhanceAnyLexer > Enhance Current Language, which will add or edit a section in its config file for your current language: the section will start with [NameOfUDLhere], and then consist of “color = regex” pairs (if the colors are in hex, it’s 0xBBGGRR for the blue, green, and red portions), along with a config line for “excluded_styles = …” which you probably don’t need to worry about)

For my example, since I’m just using the dummy “Default Langauge” (which internally is labled as udf), I can use the following config section to get it to highlight text on the left of the = with brownish-orange:

[udf] 0x66ad1 = ^.*(?=\=)

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@Larry-Schwartz ,

There is nothing inherent in Notepad++ v8.4.7 or v8.4.8 that would reject those keys. My guess is that either you have something (AutoHotKey, or a rogue program, or malware or worse) that is intercepting those keys (maybe only sometimes, since they seem to work for MS products), or something was corrupted in your %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, which is where keyboard shortcuts are defined.

To check the latter, the first step could be Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Scintilla Commands, then filter for HOME or END or the other keystrokes you mentioned, and see if they are still assigned to anything (or if they show up with a reddish background, which would indicate that some other command is also assigned to that keystroke, which could cause unexpected behavior)

Alternately, you could exit Notepad++, delete/rename %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, and then restart Notepad++: it will recreate the shortcuts.xml file with default values, and it should go back to working normally. If not, then it’s most likely that some external application has hijacked those keys in a weird manner.

@Alan-Kilborn - This has the parts I was missing. Just tried it, now to develop a shortcut or macro! Thanks for your time and expertise.

@kc270000 said in Want REGEX to Check Every Line Indivdually:

Meant “at” typed ampersand. Thankfully Alan understood…

Actually I think I glossed over ampersand and my eyes flew right to the non-working regex you provided – and I went from there quickly to the solution.
:-)

BTW, (maybe) the reason the OP’s regex cleared the entire document is that the regex didn’t contain anything to limit the match to each line. Typically this is done with (?-s) in combination with .* or .+ later in the expression. Without a ., and without any line-ending characters in the regex, it will match across lines and perhaps even consume the entire doc.

@rorso

Cool that that technique can work for you. I had another idea which as “heavier” as it involved using a scripting plugin, so if that wouldn’t work out for you, I’d’ve gone down that road.

thx to all, that works fine for me

Hello, @zorba-greek, @michael-vincent, @terry-r and All,

A one way solution would be to use the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?xs-i) ^ .+? Fleet \x20 No , ( \d+ ) , .+? tag= ( \d+) .+? $ | ^ .+

REPLACE (?1Fleet No \: $1 tag \: $2:)

This regex :

Searches for two consecutive lines, without the ending line-break, containing the string Fleet No, with this exact case, in the first line and the string tag=, with this exact case, in the second one and replace these two lines with the string Fleet No : $1 tag : $2, where $1 and $2 are the numbers located after Fleet No and tag=

When no more line contains the string Fleet No, it graps all the remaining text till the very end of the file and deletes it

So for instance, I will try to describe the process with this dummy example below :

FIRST alternative : (?xs-i) ^ .+? Fleet \x20 No , ( \d+ ) , .+? tag= ( \d+) .+? $ [22-12-20 21:18:44.345] FROM LIVE <02:PAYDONE=0000022852>CRLF <---------------------------------------------------------------- ^ .+? [22-12-20 21:19:16.399] FROM LIVE <03:PAYDONE=0000022853>CRLF ----------------------------------------------------------------- .+? [22-12-20 21:21:54.286] FROM LIVE <$011B4B50:FleetCard_10:1,51.75,1,1,200001,Fleet No,5418,34322,TARJETA,,51.75,,3,0,1>CRLF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------->Fleet No,<--><-------------------------------- .+? Fleet No, \d+ .+? Fleet No, $1 [22-12-20 21:21:54.301] auth accepted tag=9812120450668854 device=V2CRLF --------------------------------------->tag=<--------------><--------> ( line-break NOT included in the regex ) .+? tag= ( \d+ ) .+? $ tag= $2 SECOND alternative : ^ .+ [22-12-20 21:25:11.284] FROM LIVE <02:PAYDONE=0000022854>CRLF ----------------------------------------------------------------- ^ .+ [22-12-20 21:25:20.141] FROM LIVE <04:PAYDONE=0000022855>CRLF ----------------------------------------------------------------- ( End of file ) .+

Now, given the exact INPUT text, provided by @zorba-greek :

[22-12-20 21:16:04.521] FROM LIVE <$011B4B50:FleetCard_10:1,51.75,1,1,200001,Fleet No,5411,34319,TARJETA,,51.75,,3,0,1> [22-12-20 21:16:04.553] auth accepted tag=9812120450668474 device=V2 [22-12-20 21:16:40.185] FROM LIVE <02:PAYDONE=0000022851> [22-12-20 21:17:20.677] TO LIVE <$011B4910:FleetCard_1:9812120450669349> [22-12-20 21:17:21.270] FROM LIVE <$011B4910:FleetCard_10:1,49.48,1,1,200001,Fleet No,5237,34320,TARJETA,,49.48,,2,0,1> [22-12-20 21:17:21.333] auth accepted tag=9812120450669349 device=V1 [22-12-20 21:18:44.345] FROM LIVE <02:PAYDONE=0000022852> [22-12-20 21:19:16.399] FROM LIVE <03:PAYDONE=0000022853> [22-12-20 21:20:18.292] TO LIVE <$011B5150:FleetCard_1:9812120450669482> [22-12-20 21:20:19.073] FROM LIVE <$011B5150:FleetCard_10:1,51.75,1,1,200001,Fleet No,2001,34321,TARJETA,,51.75,,3,0,1> [22-12-20 21:20:19.167] auth accepted tag=9812120450669482 device=V1 [22-12-20 21:21:53.536] TO LIVE <$011B4B50:FleetCard_1:9812120450668854> [22-12-20 21:21:54.286] FROM LIVE <$011B4B50:FleetCard_10:1,51.75,1,1,200001,Fleet No,5418,34322,TARJETA,,51.75,,3,0,1> [22-12-20 21:21:54.301] auth accepted tag=9812120450668854 device=V2 [22-12-20 21:25:11.284] FROM LIVE <02:PAYDONE=0000022854> [22-12-20 21:25:20.141] FROM LIVE <04:PAYDONE=0000022855>

We get the expected OUTPUT text :

Fleet No : 5411 tag : 9812120450668474 Fleet No : 5237 tag : 9812120450669349 Fleet No : 2001 tag : 9812120450669482 Fleet No : 5418 tag : 9812120450668854

Notes :

In the search regex, I use the free-spacing mode, (?x), for an easy reading of the different parts of this regex

You probably noticed that all ranges of text, in my regex, need to be non-greedy ranges ( Syntax = .+? ), as each range must not contain, itself, the strings Fleet No and tag= nor the final line break !

As this regex does not include the final line-break, it will keep them, as is, in the OUTPUT text

The replacement regex (?1Fleet No \: $1 tag \: $2:) means :

IF a Fleet number is found ( (?1... ) it rewrites the string Fleet No : followed with the Fleet number ( $1 ), the string tag = and the tag number $2, all separated with space chars and colon chars when needed

ELSE it replaces with everything between the last : character, after $2 and the end of the conditional replacement ) i.e. nothing so it deletes all the remaining text till the very end of current file !

Remark that the two first : chars, in replacement, are literal characters and must be escaped, in order to be rewritten as is when the group 1 is present

Best Regards,

guy038

@mkupper Thanks, I was just looking a way to move items up and down in the “Document list” pane, and that’s exactly the way (Ctrl-Shift-PageUp and Ctrl-Shift-PageDown). Awesome.

Just to circle back (finally) on this; I ended up NOT pursuing a scripted solution to this because I didn’t hear anything back from the OP, and I don’t have great interest in this for my own use. Just FYI.

@Steve-Mueller

So you need a local scripting / templating solution that allows you to specify the INI file template and variables and then have a “database” of variable to value mappings for each server. Run a script to create the configs, Ansible to deploy.

There are several templating frameworks out there (Jinja2 and Mako come to mind for Python).

I’m still failing to see how any of this is related to Notepad++ other than using Notepad++ to edit the files / templates and write your scripts.

Cheers.

@jackdeland said in Find and delete <p></p>line in HTML:

Do you really want approx. 60 permutations and slapdash tries at everything? I am working 4 deadlines currently and don’t have anymore time to learn all I need. I have only twice asked for help in a forum with others far beyond my tech proficiency in one area, and I see I am dealing with some very insecure people. SO glad I am not in your world.

Wow. Seriously.

Since the answer was provided before that rant was typed, paraphrasing it, I think it reads “Thank you Peter Jones for the kindly help”.

@SAMEER-NAVARE ,

See the FAQ for more on what Alan mentioned.

@GregorJan ,

For font size, it is absolutely possible. Here are a pair of screenshots showing that I have Default Style at 10pt and Line Number Margin at 5pt:
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Or here’s one with Brace Highlight Style set to 5pt – the first screenshot shows the braces not highlighted, at 10 pt; the second shows them highlighted, at 5pt.
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However, you said,

line spacing

Sorry, line spacing is not individually configurable. Notepad++ computes the smallest line spacing it can from all the applicable font-size settings.

The reason it cannot follow just the line number or brace-matching height is because a line can be a mix of various styles:
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In the ExtSettings plugin, you can use negative values (you have to use the down arrows to go negative; it wouldn’t let me type a negative value) in the line-spacing entries, which allows you to “squish” the line size lower than Notepad++ wants to go; that might be sufficient for you:
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Warning: If you go too negative, it will clip normal text:
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@PeterJones You are absolutely right about the administrator mode. I used to find administrator mode somehow better, but it is not:

e.g. drag and drop from MS Windows Explorer can no longer be used when Notepad++ is open in administrator mode in Vista and later because low-privileged processes cannot send messages to higher-privileged processes,

@Michael-Beck said in Wildcard Find/Replace with numerous lines in between?:

Anyone know if this is possible

Yes, someone knows it is possible.

Oh, you wanted more than that, eh? ;-)

Then yes, I know it is possible.

Still not enough? ;-)

Use the “Regular Expression” mode an “☑ . matches newline” checkbox.

Specifically:

FIND = "items": \\[.*?\\]
REPLACE = "items": []

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You need to use \\[ instead of just [ in the FIND expression, because [ has special meaning to regex, and the \ prefix tells the regex to look for the literal opening square bracket, not treat it as the special regex character

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@rdipardo

If I understood the question correctly, OP implicitly asked if there is a way to report the encoded file as, in his case, ANSI if it contains only ASCII characters. Based on my previous statement, this is not possible. Even if I use a hex editor, there is no way to tell if I wanted to use the file as ANSI or as some other encoding with ASCII characters as a subset. If I misunderstood the question, sorry.