The first functional release is now available for testing and can be downloaded here.

While I’ve made some changes from the original concept, it still closely aligns with that initial vision. This Dynamic Substitution is compatible with all search settings of Search Mode, Scope, and the other options.

By activating the 'Use Variables’ checkbox, variables associated with specified strings can be employed, allowing for conditional and computational operations within the replacement string.
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Variables Overview Variable Description CNT Count of the detected string. LINE Line number where the string is found. APOS Absolute character position in the document. LPOS Relative line position. COL Column number where the string was found (CSV-Scope option selected). CAP1, CAP2, … Correspond to capture groups $1, $2, … in regex patterns. They can be used for calculations or as strings. Note: Both dot and comma can be used as decimal separators in Capture Variables but thousands separators are not supported. Command Overview String Composition

.. is employed for concatenation.
E.g., "Detected "..CNT.." times."

set(strOrCalc)

Outputs strings or numbers directly.

Example Result (assuming LINE = 5, CNT = 3) set("replaceString"..CNT) “replaceString3” set(LINE+5) “10” cond(cond, trueVal, [falseVal])

Implements if-then-else logic, or if-then if falseVal is omitted.

Example Result (assuming LINE = 5) cond(LINE<=5 or LINE>=9, "edge", "center") “edge” cond(LINE<3, "Modify this line") (Original text remains unchanged) cond(LINE<10, cond(LINE<5, cond(LINE>2, "3-4", "0-2"), "5-9"), "10+") “5-9” (Nested condition) fmtN(num, maxDecimals, fixedDecimals)

Formats numbers based on precision (maxDecimals) and whether the number of decimals is fixed (fixedDecimals being true or false).

Note: The fmtN command can exclusively be used within the set and cond commands.

Example Result set(fmtN(5.73652, 2, true)) “5.74” set(fmtN(5.0, 2, true)) “5.00” set(fmtN(5.73652, 4, false)) “5.7365” set(fmtN(5.0, 4, false)) “5” Operators Type Operators Arithmetic +, -, *, /, ^, % Relational ==, ~=, <, >, <=, >= Logical and, or, not Engine Overview

MultiReplace uses the Lua engine, allowing for Lua math operations and string methods. Refer to Lua String Manipulation and Lua Mathematical Functions you can use for more information.

@Mark-Olson
I know XMLTools, I use it in parallel. But I think XPatherizerNPP is more useful with evaluating XPath expressions. XPatherizerNPP has some issues with out of memory exceptions when used with large XML files so I was looking for a x64 version. Maybe I can find some time to make a port of the original Plugin.

If you’re referring to NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net, it’s not “out of date”!

Maybe @Zigy-WasTaken meant the age of the last stable release (0.94.00), from 2018. Even the 2021 “beta” release is now 40 commits behind the trunk, and there is still an unpatched issue affecting the binary compatibility of the ScNotification structure, whereby the Updated field seems to be getting clobbered by an out-of-bounds write.

All things that capable .NET developers can fix on their own, of course, if they’re not turned off by the “some assembly required” caveat. But what is an absolute beginner supposed to do?

@rdipardo it’s not so much the ability to break/abuse it, it’s the fact that there is a correlation between the order of entries in your plugin menu and the docking dialogue(s) you can open from your plugin.

Hello, @maverick-f-16c, @peterjones, @coises, @terry-r, @mark-olson and All,

Ah… OK. If your two files have approximately 300K lines, my previous regex S/R won’t probably find nothing as it’s over the usual capacities of the Boost regex engine of Notepad++ !

So, I would choose the @coises’s way, using the N++ sort to get the right results. I did not fully read the @coises’s method and I prefer start from scratch !

So, let’s suppose we start with two files :

File_1.txt : FFF = 79 K = 6 C = 4 A = 8 XXX = 7 H = 51 BB = 6 E = 0 GA = 339 J = 4 DZ = 9 II = 6 File_2.txt : E = 5 J = 0 FFF = 4 ZYX = 1 A = 0 II = 18 DZ = 2 K = 6 C = 17 H = 27

Note that the records, in these two files, are randomly sorted, on purpose !

As in my previous post, create a new File_3.txt with the contents of File_1.txt, a separation line of some @ chars then the contents of File_2.txt : FFF = 79 K = 6 C = 4 A = 8 XXX = 7 H = 51 BB = 6 E = 0 GA = 339 J = 4 DZ = 9 II = 6 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ E = 5 J = 0 FFF = 4 ZYX = 1 A = 0 II = 18 DZ = 2 K = 6 C = 17 H = 27

Now, execute , successively, the two regex S/R, below :

• SEARCH \x3D • REPLACE ( )\x3D

Then :

SEARCH (?-s)^.{40}\K\x20+

REPLACE Leave it EMPTY

Click only on the Replace All button

You should get this OUTPUT :

FFF = 79 K = 6 C = 4 A = 8 XXX = 7 H = 51 BB = 6 E = 0 GA = 339 J = 4 DZ = 9 II = 6 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ E = 5 J = 0 FFF = 4 ZYX = 1 A = 0 II = 18 DZ = 2 K = 6 C = 17 H = 27

Then, move the caret on the first line, at column 25

Select a 12×0 rectangular selection of all the records BEFORE the @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ line

Type in the A letter

Select the column editor ( Alt + C )

Select Number to Insert with all zones = 1, fill in with the 0 char and click on the OK button

Then move to the first line, at column 25, AFTER the @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ line

Again do a 10×0 **rectangular selection of all the records AFTER the @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ line

Type in the B letter

Select the column editor ( Alt + C )

Select Number to Insert with all zones = 1, fill in with the 0 char and click on the OK button

You should get this OUTPUT :

FFF A01 = 79 K A02 = 6 C A03 = 4 A A04 = 8 XXX A05 = 7 H A06 = 51 BB A07 = 6 E A08 = 0 GA A09 = 339 J A10 = 4 DZ A11 = 9 II A12 = 6 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ E B01 = 5 J B02 = 0 FFF B03 = 4 ZYX B04 = 1 A B05 = 0 II B06 = 18 DZ B07 = 2 K B08 = 6 C B09 = 17 H B10 = 27 Now, perform a classical sort, using the Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending option

We get :

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ A A04 = 8 A B05 = 0 BB A07 = 6 C A03 = 4 C B09 = 17 DZ A11 = 9 DZ B07 = 2 E A08 = 0 E B01 = 5 FFF A01 = 79 FFF B03 = 4 GA A09 = 339 H A06 = 51 H B10 = 27 II A12 = 6 II B06 = 18 J A10 = 4 J B02 = 0 K A02 = 6 K B08 = 6 XXX A05 = 7 ZYX B04 = 1 Delete the @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ line

Then, run the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)^((\w+)\x20+A.+?)\d+(?=\R\2\x20+B.+=\x20+(\d+))

REPLACE \1\3

The OUTPUT is now changed as :

A A04 = 0 A B05 = 0 BB A07 = 6 C A03 = 17 C B09 = 17 DZ A11 = 2 DZ B07 = 2 E A08 = 5 E B01 = 5 FFF A01 = 4 FFF B03 = 4 GA A09 = 339 H A06 = 27 H B10 = 27 II A12 = 18 II B06 = 18 J A10 = 0 J B02 = 0 K A02 = 6 K B08 = 6 XXX A05 = 7 ZYX B04 = 1

Note : As you can see, due to the previous sort, the search regex just need to find, each time, two consecutive lines of the form :

ABCD A#1 = xxx ABCD B#2 = yyy

Which begin with the same value ABCD and replace the xxx value by the yyy value. This explains why this solution should work with huge files, without any problem !

Now, move again the cursor on the first line, at column 25

Perform a 22×0 ( or 22×3 ) rectangular selection of all the records

Once more, use the Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending option

We get :

FFF A01 = 4 K A02 = 6 C A03 = 17 A A04 = 0 XXX A05 = 7 H A06 = 27 BB A07 = 6 E A08 = 5 GA A09 = 339 J A10 = 0 DZ A11 = 2 II A12 = 18 E B01 = 5 J B02 = 0 FFF B03 = 4 ZYX B04 = 1 A B05 = 0 II B06 = 18 DZ B07 = 2 K B08 = 6 C B09 = 17 H B10 = 27

Finally, use this regex S/R, to get, in File_3.txt, the updated values of File_1.txt ( from File_2.txt )

SEARCH (?-is)\x20+(A)\d+\x20+|^.+\x20B(?s).+

REPLACE ?1\x20

FFF = 4 K = 6 C = 17 A = 0 XXX = 7 H = 27 BB = 6 E = 5 GA = 339 J = 0 DZ = 2 II = 18

Notes :

As you can verify, the order of the lines, in File_3.txt, is identical to the initial order of these lines in File_1.txt

The records, present in File_1.txt and not in File_2.txt, are not changed

The records, present in File_2.txt and not in File_1.txt, are not added, either

Again, this solution should work in all cases, even with files with million of lines !

Best Regards,

guy038

Hi Plugin Community,

I have managed to test my plugin using notepad++ old version 7.8.9.

Thanks,
Ahmoy Law

@Coises said in [New plugin] Columns++:

I left out an important instruction: Regular expression must be selected in the Search Mode box.

… yeah, with that it works!

@Coises said in [New plugin] Columns++:

You’re finding that after doing an action in Search in indicated region, using the Notepad++ Undo command reverts both the action from the dialog and whatever action you did previously?

That’s correct. It will jump back as if I had hit “Undo” twice. I suggest moving further discussions of these smaller issues to your Plugin’s issue list to avoid cluttering this thread.

PS: I did some additional tests and it played out that’s all fine with your Plugin. It was a misbehavior of N++. A new restart fixed the problem.

@PeterJones Ok thanks.

@JustAnother-GoogleHater said in PSA: BracketCheck and CSS:

The BracketCheck

Do you mean the BracketsCheck plugin?

I’ve never used it or installed it, so I don’t know what it’s capabilities are or are not.

However, the latest in Plugins Admin is only v1.2.2, whereas the plugin’s Releases page currently lists v1.2.3 as the newest. You might want to try installing the newest copy from the plugin’s Releases page, to see if it’s already fixed your problem.

If it still doesn’t behave the way you want, I would suggest checking the plugin’s issues, and if your issue hasn’t been reported by someone else, create a new issue there.

Because while maybe someone here in the forum knows enough to be able to help you (though I don’t remember people mentioning it recently), if they can confirm it’s truly a bug or missing feature, that plugin’s developer will need to be the one to be notified, not us fellow Notepad++ Users.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Breakpoints disabled in release mode:

I’d run in Debug build mode, but there are some assertions that fire when I have certain data in a Scintilla editing window, and these “get in the way” of what I’m trying to debug.

If you right-click the Notepad++ project in the Solution Explorer pane and select Properties, under Linker there is a Debugging page. Select the Release configuration and change Generate Debug Info to “Generate Debug Information (/DEBUG)”; that should let you compile as for release, but with symbols. Just remember not to commit the changes to the .sln file.

@Coises Many thanks!!!

@Alan-Kilborn To be fair, there are two files. Both of which are a bit light on detail.

https://github.com/npp-plugins/plugindemo/blob/master/src/PluginDefinition.cpp

https://github.com/npp-plugins/plugintemplate/blob/master/src/DockingFeature/GoToLineDlg.cpp

Hi @mmsmi.

To modify the values of given address you need to do some text manipulation, so I think you can easily find some tools to do so:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23170/faq-desk-can-i-do-a-mathematical-replacement

The only way to customize color right now is to download the project from github, change the default color rgb values in the ncViewOptions class and recompile …

@Thomas-Knoefel
I’m afraid I have no useful experience.

Since I didn’t plan for any of my dialogs to be dockable, I’m just using ordinary Windows dialogs, built using the resource editor in Visual Studio. Since the resource editor’s toolbox doesn’t offer a status bar control, on the one dialog I have that does show a status line at the bottom, I’m just using a static text control — which means, no sizing grip.

I’m not sure if I could manually edit the .rc file to add a “STATUSBAR” control; I haven’t tried. I assume that would make the dialog uneditable in the resource editor, and I don’t really want that. Maybe someday, if everything else is working so perfectly that that level of polish is the only priority left…

I finally managed to switch the StaticDialog Window into DarkMode using NPPM_DARKMODESUBCLASSANDTHEME. Making the switch to StaticDialog effectively resolved the window resizing issue.

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