@Livieishere

I presume you didn’t create this file, but rather were given it or obtained it from somewhere.

I don’t know much about css, but I’d presume that it isn’t required to have line-ending characters.

@Christophe-MERCEY

two alternatives are
a) using NppExec and its option to Execute this script when Notepad++ starts
or
b) a scripting language plugin like PythonScript

@VenomNihil said in Replace variable chain of text then adding pattern before and after:

the ^ doesn’t work with the spacing but I supposed is because I posted a screenshot. But just using " item " instead does the job.

Yes, it is tough to work from a screenshot; that’s why we have suggestions to not post them for this type of problem, or to post both a screenshot and the literal text. Apparently we failed to noticed this part of your original posting:

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@Michael-Vincent - cool, a nice one, thx.

@Harrison-Costas ,

I said,

quite a few hours before I could check my home machine

I just checked. According to the registry Key section I mentioned, the UninstallString is "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\uninstall.exe" and QuietUninstallString is "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\uninstall.exe" /S

See FAQ entry HERE.

@Swati-Rohatgi
There is no formal method guaranteed to work everytime.

However you may want to search the forum for helpful hints that users have identified to make the process as painless as possible. Try this post as a starting point.

Terry

@ADEYINKA-ADEWOYIN ,

You do realize that @Alan-Kilborn already answered that question for you: the regex he showed worked for him. If it doesn’t work for you, you will have to provide more details , because that regex will work to delete the first line of the files. He even asked you to provide more details to explain how the given regex doesn’t work for you.

You really need to read this FAQ and see the referenes below.

That said, can be simplified: a large part of the original expression was only needed because the original post wanted to delete line#15, not line#1. To delete the first line is simpler: FIND = (?-s)\A(^.*$\R?), REPLACE is empty, and SEARCH MODE must be REGULAR EXPRESSION.

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

@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you so much. It worked. I was able to beautify the txt like I wanted after applying your solution with extended expressions.

I was also looking for this. Thanks @PeterJones !

@Leahnn-Rey ,

Use “Folding in code 2 style (separators needed)” [FiC2] instead of “Folding in code 1 style” [FiC1].

The FiC2 requires spaces or newlines before and after the open, middle, and close keywords, whereas the FiC1 does not.

Generally, FiC1 should be used for things like { and } as block-markers to fold on, whereas FiC2 is useful for words.

Hi Vitalii,

cool things are out there, thanks you for your hints.
I even didn’t know ctags.

Klaus

@PeterJones Thanks so much! This is exactly what I wanted. Appreciate the swift response.

@kendall-loftin ,

You can use negative lookbehinds to guarantee that “the text before house is not future and is not tech and is not bass”:

FIND = (?:(?<!future )(?<!tech )(?<!bass ))house Search Mode = Regular expression

You can combine that with your whole line matcher, which used to be something like (?-s)^.*house.*$ to become:

FIND = (?-s)^.*(?:(?<!future )(?<!tech )(?<!bass ))house.*$

… that will then match the whole line, not just the individual “house” on that line

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

@Katherine-Curran

Find: (?-s)^(.+?):(.+)\R\1:(.+)
Replace: ${1}:${2}${3}
Wrap around: ticked
Search mode: Regular expression
Press Replace All repeatedly until the status bar of the Replace window indicates 0 replacements made

Example:

John Doe: Hello. John Doe: How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. Bob Doe: How are you today? Bob Doe: I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. John Doe: How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well.

After the first Replace All press:

John Doe: Hello. How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. How are you today? Bob Doe: I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. How are you today? John Doe: I hope that you are well.

Status bar indicates 3 replacements made.

After the second Replace All press:

John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well.

Status bar indicates 3 replacements made.

After the third Replace All press:

John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. Bob Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well. John Doe: Hello. How are you today? I hope that you are well.

Status bar indicates 0 replacements made. (Data transform was actually complete with the previous press, but that can only be determined via visual inspection).

@Peer-Gynt ,

Did you exit Notepad++ and re-start it after removing the old files?

If that doesn’t work, go into the User Defined Language dialog, select each of the “AutoHotkey” languages and click Remove. Restart notepad++ and make sure they are all gone. Then re-save the dark-mode-AHK into the userDefineLangs folder, exit Notepad++ and restart. There should only be one now.

(If you put the XML into the userDefineLangs folder, you do not ever have to use the Import button in the User Defined Language dialog)

@Ekopalypse said in Where to find plugin files:

See here for the … three json files

Also note that info is available directly within Notepad++:

Open Plugins (menu) > Plugins Admin… On the Available tab (or the others), click on any plugin of interest It will give you an idea of where to obtain, here’s an example:

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@G-H2LLS said in stylesheet:

thank you for taking the time to answer me, I’m French and I don’t speak English yet

The standard language of this forum is English. So if you post in your native language, we have to translate your post into our own language, using our browser’s “Translate this page” tool or by pasting the contents of a post into an external translator like translate.google.com or deepl.com. So if you are having trouble understanding our English replies, you can similarly use your browser’s translate function or an external translation site to translate the answer back to French so you can understand it.

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La langue standard de ce forum est l’anglais. Donc, si vous postez dans votre langue maternelle, nous devons traduire votre message dans notre propre langue, en utilisant l’outil “Traduire cette page” de notre navigateur ou en collant le contenu d’un message dans un traducteur externe comme translate.google.com ou deepl.com. Ainsi, si vous avez du mal à comprendre nos réponses en anglais, vous pouvez de la même manière utiliser la fonction de traduction de votre navigateur ou un site de traduction externe pour retraduire la réponse en français afin de la comprendre.

Traduit avec www.DeepL.com/Translator (version gratuite)

@Pro-Audio ,

So, looking at the two screenshots, I’m not convinced that Notepad++ & UDL & EnhanceAnyLexer Plugin is really going to give you what you want.

The “rules” that it uses for highlighting seem pretty arbitrary – for example, in the command apt-get install nano, the nano is not highlighted in the command line, nor one line down after package, but a few lines down, the nano after Package is highlighted. And sometimes the word file is cyan and sometimes purple. That indicates to me that MobaXTerm might just be accepting the colors that the linux tools themselves are setting, rather than performing its own highlighting. And there is virtually no way that we would be able to define a UDL+EnhanceAnyLexer combination that would be able to decide, just from the text, what colors each word should be and have it 100% match what you are seeing in MobaXTerm.

You could do some things, where you give it a list of keywords like cygwin and libgcc1, etc for cyan coloring, and words like nano and file for purple, then use EnhanceAnyLexer to look for sets of text with no spaces that have multiple / or . between “word” characters… but even that won’t get everything right (like the ellipses not being highlighted). So if you’re looking for exact color match, it’s not going to happen.

As much as I hate recommending a different tool than Notepad++ for the job in this forum, if you a really looking to keep the exact colors for all words for your linux output copied from MobaXTerm, I think you might best be served saving the RTF output, then opening the RTF file with a word processor like WordPad. (There are times when a Word Processor is the right tool for the job. And Notepad++ is not a Word Processor.)