Even though I’m not asking for icons to be made, I’m just asking for the ability to associate them if they exist, I doubt that any developer of the project would ever be willing to implement that, so instead I’m gonna link this method here for any wandering into this thread wanting what I want.

Special thanks to nicholas, I’m gonna spam this script everywhere on my system, I didn’t know it was this easy to manipulate icons.

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22760/different-icons-for-file-extensions/3?_=1652831346795
@nicholas said in Different icons for file extensions:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.css\OpenWithProgids] "Notepad++.css"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++.css] @="CSS Source File" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++.css\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft VS Code\\resources\\app\\resources\\win32\\css.ico" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++.css\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++.css\shell\open] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Notepad++.css\shell\open\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe\" \"%1\""

Replace .css with the file extension you want. Set the DefaultIcon path to what you want to use. If using x64 version of Notepad++ then remove the (x86). Save the file with a .reg extension and then run it.

Next time you open a file you will be prompted to choose an application open with. Select Notepad++ and then the icons should update.

@abc-memento,

Sounds like a duplicate of this issue, judging from the title: NppFTP sends NPPM_RELOADFILE message to N++ when “No” is clicked in file reload dialog

It should be in fixed in NppFTP 0.29.9 (stable) and 0.30.12 (pre-release with newer OpenSSL libs)

Hopefully this won’t be a problem in future Notepad++ versions

Confirmed.

npp_8.4.1_x64_rc.png

@peterjones said in Python Script:

@tracy-saunders ,

Yes. You can download an alpha/pre-release version of the PythonScript plugin from their releases page. The versions numbered 3.0.__-alpha use Python 3.x – and the more recent ones are on 3.10.

Thank you!

Hello, @pavel-san, @terry-r and All,

As @terry-r said, there are a lot of questions concerning your requests !!

First, when you speak of text-1 do you mean :

The word, as in the sentence “This abc text-1 xyz is right, but not abctext-1xyz”

The string as in the sentence “This abctext-1xyz is right, as well as abc text-1 xyz”

Secondly, do you mind about the case of letters in text-1 and/or text-2 ?

In other words, must the string text-1 have :

The exact case text-1

Are the Text-1, TEXT-1, text-1 and tExT-1 syntaxes all OK ?

Idem for text-2 !

Now, your first statement :

you need to find text-1 and from text-1 find up or down the occurrence of text-2 and then replace text-1 or text-2 with text-3.

can be slipt into two different goals :

(A) you need to find text-1 and from text-1 find up or down the occurrence of text-2 and then replace text-1 with text-3

(B) you need to find text-1 and from text-1 find up or down the occurrence of text-2 and then replace text-2 with text 3

But, in this case, this could also be expressed as :

(A) Change text-1 with text-3, if current file contains, at least, one occurrence of text-2

(B) Change text-2 with text-3, if current file contains, at least, one occurrence of text-1

Case (A) could be achieved with the regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s)(?=.*text-2).*?\Ktext-1

REPLACE text-3

Tick the Wrap-around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once on the Replace All button

Case (B) could be achieved with the regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s)(?=.*text-1).*?\Ktext-2

REPLACE text-3

Tick the Wrap-around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once on the Replace All button

Finally, your second statement is :

You have to find text-1, and then move from the text-1 to the left or to the right by a given number of characters, and then replace it starting from this position

Many questions !

Do you want to find all occurrences of text-1 or a specific one ?

What you want to replace ( an exact number of chars, the next word, an exact string or even some text splited on several lines ? )

Anyway, here is a first idea :

To get the zero-length position, after text-1 and N characters on the right, use the search regex :

(?-s)text-1.{N}\K

To get the zero-length position, before text-1 and N characters on the left, use the search regex :

(?-s)\K(?=.{N}text-1)

See you later,

Best Regards,

guy038

@dail

Ah, OK. Now I understand why YOU asked that question. ;-)

@peterjones There’s no need for an apology, you’ve been a great deal of help in learning Notepad++ development. I truly appreciate all of the demonstrations you’ve provided and they were very helpful. I would advise you not to take a break from this forum, you’ve helped a lot and I am sure there are others that could use your assistance. I can be a bit hard headed at times which can lead to frustration and I am sorry for that. Have a great one! : - )

@alan-kilborn You’re exactly correct, this has been a great learning experience for me regarding Notepad++ plugin development. I plan to continue improving my current plugins and write new ones. Once again thank you @Alan-Kilborn and @PeterJones for pointing me in the right direction, you’ve been helped a great deal! : - )

@peterjones Yeah that is my concern, I’m gonna work on this some more later to see if I can get the script all cleaned up so that is no longer an issue. Thanks for your help so far!

@alan-kilborn ,

Do we know of any workarounds in order to get good data?

Yes, like I showed above, editor.docLineFromVisible(editor.getFirstVisibleLine()), gives the actual document line number as derived from the display line number. Hence, the correct 75 that got printed on the second line in the final example box.

Addenda:

As implied in the editor section of the PythonScript docs when searching for “display line”, the visible line’s number is influenced by hidden lines and line wrapping. The “document line” is the real underlying line number for the line in the file. So there are a few conversion helpers: visibleFromDocLine converts the “document line” into the “display line”; docLineFromVisible converts the “display line” into “document line”; and wrapCount gives the number of “display lines” necessary to render the given “document line”. (All the other mentions of “display line” have to do with where HOME and END and their related commands end up.)

Similarly, if you want to set the first visible line (to scroll) based on an actual document line number, it would be editor.setFirstVisibleLine(editor.visibleFromDocLine(actualLineNumber))

@john-doe-1 said in PythonScript and Customize Toolbar Question:

if the user does not turn off Column Mode before closing Notepad++ the “Alt” key remains pressed, this is of course a bit of an issue. If you know of a way to detect when Notepad++ is tabbed out of or closed I would appreciate your help.

This is bringing the discussion back to the other script you hinted at in your first posting in this thread. See HERE for that other thread, and some ideas about the “Alt” key.

Hi, @chamzon-chamzon, @lycan-thrope, @peterjones and All,

OK… I understand that in real cases, this causes a complete failure of the regex engine :-(( Why ?

Well, let’s suppose the temporary file containing, first, your entire firewall configuration file followed with your entire IP-adresses list file

Now, imagine the worst case : an unique match between the first IP-address of your firewall configuration file and the last IP-address of your IP-adresses list

Then, and despite I use a non-capturing regex group, the part of the regex (?s:.*?...) represents all the characters, included line-endings, right after the first IP-address till the same IP-address excluded, at the very end of file

As you said that your firewall configuration file has about 68,000 lines, it’s easy to guess that it probably exceeds the capacity of the regex engine to handle such a gap of chars !!

So, in order to find out, somehow, a work-around to this situation, could you give me :

The number of lines of your firewall configuration file and its approximate size

The number of lines of your IP-addreses list and its approximate size

A short example of your real firewall configuration file

A short example of your real IP-addresses list

In order to get the raw text, click on that button, when writing your post, to insert text in the right way !

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Thanks for your time to collect these infos !

Best Regards,

guy038

@klaus-isbruchdn try disabling the XML tools --> Enable XML syntax auto-check

@e5584071

Can you follow the steps above to obtain and install it, or do you really need someone to walk you through the process specifically with the Compare plugin?

@PeterJones Thanks for your input and search advice, it is much appreciated. @Alan-Kilborn Yeah that is what I ended up doing, funny we had the same thought. The loading screen seems to be too much of a time sink for right now. Maybe later on in development.

@chcg I would say it is pretty far from usable currently, and I have plans to add some libraries to it (including pandas) in the near future, thanks for the suggestion though : - )

@richard-devenezia

One word: Analyse (plugin)

I believe you could use the NPPN_FILEOPENED notification and check the filename to see if it’s a new file (it will have no path and just a name like “new 1”). Then run your code to have the user select a template and insert text.

Alternatively, you could just create a menu command for your plugin that lets the user select a template, then create a new file with that template text. Also note that the user can bind shortcut keys to plugin menu items.