@Divzed ,
In the dBASE newsgroups, we just had such a request of trying some code to do just this kind of thing, and as one of our more experienced programmers stated, it’s been difficult to do this kind of thing because the colors on the Windows Title bar, etc, are connected to the “themes” aspect and is diffiult to change without in depth knowledge, because as he pointed out, if you change that, you have to change everything related to it (window resizing, etc) because you’re intercepting and overriding the current theme with specific items in the UI, meaning, you now own the control of everything pertaining to it. He also pointed out that in the past, it may have been ‘relatively’ easier, but with Windows 11, the whole game has changed with regard that control.
Not being his caliber of programmer, I’m only able to relay the gist of his more technical explanation, but it’s something I wouldn’t even be tempted to attempt as I can’t see that kind of work just to change a color. Microsoft keeps making customization harder than it needs to be to just plug and place a color change, so it doesn’t appeal to me. :)

I did some googling and found a RegEx solution:

Find:

\?.*$

Replace with:
(null)

@Qwfsdf-Qdfwefx said in Sorting text:

i really dont know what i need to change in ur code

Oddly enough, if you don’t have quotes and commas in your new text document, you would likely get rid of quotes and commas from @Mark-Olson’s example regex.

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Please note: This Community Forum is not a data transformation service; you should not expect to be able to always say “I have data like X and want it to look like Y” and have us do all the work for you. If you are new to the Forum, and new to regular expressions, we will often give help on the first one or two data-transformation questions, especially if they are well-asked and you show a willingness to learn; and we will point you to the documentation where you can learn how to do the data transformations for yourself in the future. But if you repeatedly ask us to do your work for you, you will find that the patience of usually-helpful Community members wears thin. The best way to learn regular expressions is by experimenting with them yourself, and getting a feel for how they work; having us spoon-feed you the answers without you putting in the effort doesn’t help you in the long term and is uninteresting and annoying for us.

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Useful References Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@Todd-Carson said in CTRL+DOWN/UP ARROW to move down/up to previous/next paragraph:

@Paul-Wormer Thank you very much, Paul. Yep, that works.

However, for me, that’s totally non-standard for Windows. Is there a way to customise the keyboard shortcut to CTRL+DOWN/UP ARROW?

(Please say yes!)

Never mind. I found it. Thanks again.

I interpret “I have a large number of text files which all start with a line as seen below” in that the afcad_path thing is always on line 1, or possibly is the first non-blank line.

I would search for (?-s)\A\R*afcad_path =\K.+ and replace with nothing (blank) in regular expression mode.

See https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#regular-expressions but in summary, (?-s) disables . matching newline (this is the default for most people and so (?-s) is redundant but is there just in case someone has . matches newline enabled), \A is the start of the file, \R* gobbles up the blank lines, if any, afcad_path = is the header string the OP is interested in, \K says to keep everything that has been matched so far (the blank line(s) and “afcad_path =” thing), and .+ wipes out the remainder of the line.

If the file already starts with “afcad_path =” with nothing following, or does not start with a “afcad_path =” line then the search/replace will do nothing and the file is not modified.

@Jonathan-De-Carvalho ,

I have no experience with remote installation, but I wouldn’t expect it to magically change Notepad++ over to the updated version while it’s actively running… and I’d actually be surprised if it could write the new notepad++.exe if the user were actively running the old notepad++.exe at the time.

Could you do something like TASKKILL /IM notepad++.exe to forcefully kill the user’s Notepad++ instance? (if so, you might want to also send some message to the user before doing so, warning them that it’s about to happen, giving them a 30 sec pause so they can save their work before your taskkill, or similar.)

@melanievt

Learn more to be able to apply such techniques on your own in the future; start HERE.

Thanks guys. I will go with litos81’s proposal which is working perfectly fine for what I need.
The plug-in version I’d have considered for private purposes, but installing plug-ins on my work PC is always a big challenge for our IT department.

@namx3249 said in Removing multiple blank lines:

and why don’t use command from Edit - Line operations - Remove empty lines ?

Because OP wanted a “single blank line” to remain after the operation.

I finally came up with a regex-replace that adds buffer spaces internally as well as externally, if you are interested.

Replace (?s)(\S)?/\*((?!\*/)\S)?((?:(?!\S?\*/).)+?)?((?!\*/)\S)?\*/(\S)?
with (?1\1\x20)/*(?2\x20\2)(?3\3:\x20)(?4\4\x20)*/(?5\x20\5)

Just for the record, a lot of the complexity of that regex-replace is due to dealing with the silly corner case of replacing /**/ with /* */. You could absolutely come up with something simpler if you didn’t care about that.

Settings | Preferences… | Editing | Line Wrap : Indent

@madara-san ,

Please stop using generative AI to write your posts for you. It’s not helping anyone.

@Thành-Nguyễn said in Please help me turn this off:

Please help me turn this orange column off. Thank you everyone!

Read this FAQ to learn more about that feature: the feature is there to help you, not hurt you, but the FAQ explains how to disable it if you really cannot handle improved UI

This is great! Thank you all for your comments and suggestions, and a special thanks goes to @Alan-Kilborn for providing the table.

@Jeff-Heath said in How to see hex value of character next to cursor?:

I’ve followed the installing PythonScript Guide,

FYI: that guide from 2019 was focused on the brief time when Notepad++ had just come out of a confusing update, and not all plugins (including Python Script) were yet compatible with the new Plugins Admin method of installing plugins. PythonScript v1.5, released in Oct 2019, was the first PS version compatible with Notepad++'s Plugins Admin interface… but that means that PythonScript has been available through the default interface Since Oct 2019. You no longer need to follow that ancient guide.

update: sorry, apparently it wasn’t fully compatible until v1.5.1, also in October 2019; it was first listed in Plugins Admin in Notepad++ v7.8.1 – so from that point on, you don’t need to follow that outdated guide.

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@Tulio-Cezar said:

Export and Import Shorcuts it’s pretty!

@PeterJones said in Exportar e Importar Teclas de Atalho (ShortKeys):

there are scripting solutions which can extract the current allocated shortcuts.

But, alas, there are no solutions for, say, importing a file of data such that it sets up shortcuts for N++.

@guy038 those are changes made by me, manually :)

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you so much! I was searching for that kind of information but I’m pretty new to using Notepad++ and had no idea of what terms, etc. I was looking for. Thank you for the very useful information.

@Terry-R Thank you so much, apologies for the late reply, but this really did help. Thank you for taking the time to help!

If you’re talking about Folder as Workspace, then yeah, I don’t know a good way to do this. If you want a workspace that contains one or more folders and you want to hide files in that workspace, I suppose what you could do would be to export the workspace to an XML file, and then edit it with find/replace to comment out the files you don’t want.

Relevant documentation is here for discussion of project panels and here for discussion of searching the project panel.

Suppose I have a folder like this:

C:\\silly: - foo.txt - bar.xml - baz.txt - quz.py Creating a project panel

I go to View->Project Panels->Project Panel 1 (assuming you don’t already have a Project Panel 1).
You should get a sidebar that looks like this:
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Right click the thing that says Workspace and select Add New Project. Now the sidebar will look like this.
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Right click Project Name and select Add Files from Directory... (not Add Folder. Yes, this is confusing). Add the folder of interest. I selected C:\\silly from the folder browser dialog and now my project sidebar looks like this:
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Go to Workspace->Save As... and save your workspace as an XML file.

Excluding some files from your project

Now open up the project’s XML file in Notepad++. It will have the following contents:

<NotepadPlus> <Project name="Project Name"> <File name="C:\silly\bar.xml" /> <File name="C:\silly\baz.txt" /> <File name="C:\silly\foo.txt" /> <File name="C:\silly\quz.py" /> </Project> </NotepadPlus>

Now find/replace in this file.
Find: (?-si)(<.*name="[^"]*\.(?:txt|xml)"(?:(?!/>).)*?/>)

txt|xml can be any |-separated list of file extensions you want to exclude, like txt (for just txt files) or py|md (for Python and Markdown files).

Replace with: <!-- \1 -->.
Regular expressions on

Now the file will look like this:

<NotepadPlus> <Project name="Project Name"> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\bar.xml" /> --> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\baz.txt" /> --> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\foo.txt" /> --> <File name="C:\silly\quz.py" /> </Project> </NotepadPlus>

Now save this file and close Notepad++ then reopen Notepad++. You need to close and reopen because Notepad++ doesn’t save the association between the project panel file and the project panel until it closes.
You should now find that the Project Panel will no longer show any .txt or .xml files.
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If you later decide you want to uncomment only XML files so that those are revealed in the workspace, you can do that by find/replacing (?-si)<!-- (<.*name="[^"]*\.(?:xml)"(?:(?!/>).)*?/>) --> with \1 (regular expressions on). Then your project file will look like

<NotepadPlus> <Project name="Project Name"> <File name="C:\silly\bar.xml" /> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\baz.txt" /> --> <!-- <File name="C:\silly\foo.txt" /> --> <File name="C:\silly\quz.py" /> </Project> </NotepadPlus> Using Find in Projects to search only some files

One way to make life easier would be to use the Find in Projects feature of the find/replace dialog to search your project. You just go to Workspace->Find in Projects... from the project panel, and the Find in Projects dialog will pop up. See the documentation here.
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Suppose I wanted to restrict my search to txt files and xml files. That’s what the *.txt *.xml is doing.
If you search, a bottom bar will pop up in Notepad++ showing your search results.