@PeterJones I was gonna give you the debuginfo but now the problem seems to have disappeared! I did have a windows update waiting that I installed last night before I went to bed, so maybe that was what was causing the issue. Strange, but then again, computers are just rocks tricked into doing math

@CasualT-PlayStation

Yesnomaybe?

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@Michael-Vincent That worked for me. Thank you!

@dinkumoil said in Change colour of highlight in picklist:

@Michael-Vincent
Do you know the version of Scintilla (or rather the version of Notepad++) that introduced this feature?

Looking at https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html, it seems version 5.0.1:

Add SCI_SETELEMENTCOLOUR and related APIs to change colours of visible elements. Implement SC_ELEMENT_LIST* to change colours of autocompletion lists.

which methinks corresponds to Notepad++ 8.4:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.4/

Update Scintilla from v4.4.6 to v5.2.1 and add Lexilla v5.1.5. (Fix #10504)

Cheers.

@PeterJones Thank you, just what I was looking for.

@Anthony-Short
I think I figured it out. I simply used double quotation marks and coded it as follows in the 1st group.

"Let's make a game!"

No need for “'” or “\',” just “Let’s.”

Hopefully this topic helps somebody else out!

Someone else found the solution for me:

set the control character’s representation to the “zero-width space” character (so it has no visual component – but it will have a small “inverse video” artifact on-screen) set the representation appearance to plain text (to avoid the inverse video)

Although, to script this (as I tend to do) is difficult as the set-representation-appearance Scintilla command is not yet available as an editor command in the PythonScript versions that are current as of this writing.

@Michel-Martin-Neuville ,

Works just fine for me.

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What theme do you have selected in Settings > Style Configurator? If you go to the Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Selected Text Color, what colors are shown? Do you have something like trying Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Global Override having any checkboxes? (Read the user manual on “Global Override” if you do… and then unchceck all the boxes, because they probably aren’t what you actually want.)

@traderttt9 said in Toolbar doesn’t remain ‘fluent’:

Anyone?

It almost sounds like you have 2 problems.

When opening a file that has the association, instead of opening Notepad++ first and then the file, you get 2 different results with the toolbar. This sounds like the association is opening a different (installed) version of Notepad++ on the PC. The way to identify that is to run Notepad++ each way, then check the “Debug Info” under the ? menu. It will tell you where the program is located. Alternatively one of the methods may be running Notepad++ with some commandline parameters which may be wrong. Again, see the “command line arguments” under the ? menu.

You refer to making a change, then checking during a later session and the changes have reverted, or at least don’t appear to have changed and stuck. This could be because you are running Notepad++ in “multi instance” mode (see settings, preferences, multi instance & date). If so, then the last instance which closes will set the settings for the next time you run Notepad++. So make the changes in that instance before closing. It may also occur if you do NOT have the ability to alter the XML file holding this configuration change. So you would need to check on the XML files, stored either in the %appdata%\Notepad++ folder, or where the Notepad++ executable file is located, depending on how you run Notepad++. Check the file permissions, that you can write to the files.

Terry

PS, just noted @PeterJones thinks exactly the same!

@guy038 said in How to replace characters over certain number?:

(?-s).{55}\K.+

Thank you very much, everything worked great. Tidy lists please the users :-)

r 8 unknown y@y 4 unknown then .ro

r********y@y****.ro

How would i do this

You would apply the knowledge you learned from my previous freebie solution and try to generalize it. Since . obviously matched a single character in my previous answer, using a . in your new expression anyplace you want it to match a single unknown character would work.

(?i-s)\br........y@y....\.ro

The (?i-s) says “be case insensitive; don’t let . match newline” The \b says “match a word boundary” (hence requiring the r at the - beginning of the email, rather than just in the middle) Every . means “one character” – and because of the earlier option, it actually means “one character (not including newlines)” the \. means “match a literal dot character” – I changed to this because that will require four unknowns followed by a literal dot; y.....ro would work for that portion of the regex as well, but it would also match y12345ro, which you don’t want, so I made it more specific.

BTW: this is your last freebie from me. Until you start showing some effort and a willingness to learn, I cannot help you any further.

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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.

Hello, @stealthy, @terry-R and All,

@stealthy, a simple solution would be to use the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)\A.*\R\K.*

REPLACE 0

Now, we can generalize, using the generic regex S/R below, in order to replace the line N, of EACH file, with the RR regex replacement expression :

SEARCH (?-s)\A(?:.*\R){N-1}\K.*

REPLACE RR

Note that, if we want to replace the first line, in EACH file => N - 1 = 0. So, simply use the regex S/R : (?-s)\A.* !

Best Regards

guy038

@mpheath ,

After going over a lot of stuff, including reexamining the FunctionList FAQ, I have to agree with you, that at present, I may need to work with the parser, as is. I must have missed that ‘embedded comments’ section, or glossed over it, or didn’t relate it to the kind of comments we do as the example seemed to be an example of excessive use of inline ‘block’ comment style for an inline comment. That may be what threw me as regards that example in the FAQ.

Moving the opening class declaration line after any block comments immediately following it, fixes the problem completely, with my recent testing. It appears, however, that as I discovered before, line comments inside a class taking up a whole line, or after code, inside a class/endclass block does indeed work as it should.

So I guess until I get up to speed with C++ and take a crack at a fix for the block comments giving problems inside a class/endclass code block, block comments will have to be avoided.

I do, however, feel that the simple fix for this, should be just allowing a longer string other than \{ and \} symbol characters would be a proper fix, since being able to use class and endclass in the open/close symbole elements, it would be part of the actual parser demarcation ability to know where a class starts and ends, rather than having to use regex to find all the way to the end like this regex had to do to be able to outline the structure of the class. For now, the crisis is averted until I can revisit this issue, hopefully with some C++ skills at a later date. :)

@Sylvester-Bullitt ,

When I try to ping the server using ? > Update Notepad++, I don’t get a server timeout.

There may have been temporary network routing problems, or a temporary website problem. You might want to try again.

If it’s still having that problem, maybe you have to tell Notepad++ about a proxy between your computer and the internet – ? > Set Updater Proxy…

@The-Epic ,

Sorry. That feature doesn’t exist in Notepad++. For language-specific things like that, the developer usually relies on someone creating a plugin that handles language-specific tasks (like the abundance of plugins that add features for XML, HTML, JSON, and the like). But I don’t know of any plugin directed at adding features for YAML.

If you had one of the scripting plugins (like PythonScript, but there are other scripting plugins also available), you could register a function that watches for keystrokes, and does something like “if the RETURN key is hit, and the current line starts with spaces then -, then make the new line start with the same indentation and -”

@guy038 said in Mark all .pdf files except zusammenfassung.pdf using RegEx:

Hello, @andreas-soraru and All,

From your title, I would say :

Open your file in N++

Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M )

Untick all box options

SEARCH (?xi-s) ^ (?! .* zusammenfassung.pdf ) .* \b \S+ \. pdf \b

Check the Bookmark line and the Wrap around options

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click on the Mark All button

Then, either :

Click on the Copy Marked Text button

Click on the Search > Bookmark > Copy Bookmarked Lines

Open a new tab

Paste the .pdf filenames or the complete lines in this new tab

Best Regards

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn
Oh, you’re right! Thanks again!

@Alan-Kilborn I just changed the “</Placemark” statement to “</SchemaData></ExtendedData”, and the expression works. Don’t know exactly why.

I wonder why it is some people lose their mental acuity, while others don’t? I am an extremely serious hiker and have remained extremely strong with high endurance. If I had to make a choice, I think that I would rather lose the mental part, people understand it when you tell them that it’s because your old.

Again, Thank you!

@Alan-Kilborn
thanks!, I use line operations so much my first time seeing it

@Gilad-Tiomkin ,

The menubar font size isn’t configurable inside Notepad++ – it uses your global Windows font size settings. Since you are on Wine, not Windows, you will have to look into Wine documentation for how to change the “Windows” font sizes in Wine.