So with installation of a new notepad 8.9 version, these settings in shortcuts.xml should be updated (maybe automatically with installation):

from:
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to:
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I’m only a user so I don’t know the details, but maybe simply CR could be changed to 
 and CRLF to 
 (and if existent LF to 
)?

@Terry-R
Thanks for letting me know.

@JohnL22 ,

… but since it’s essentially working for you, I have taken that as confirmation that the new perl.xml is an improvement, so it’s in a Pull Request now… hopefully, it will get merged for the v8.9.1 release candidate coming next week.

update: PR has been merged,so it will be in 8.9.1

@Terry-R This is very helpful and I was unaware of that issue. Thank you. Based on dates, it looks like I was using 8.8.5. It seems likely, especially the description of removing the structure around the installation.

@guy038 said in Columns++ version 1.3: All Unicode, all the time:

As you can see, a lot of Format characters return an erroneous result of 3,240 occurrences. But we’re not going to bother about these wrong equivalence classes, as long as the similar collating names, with the [[.XXX.]] syntax, are totally correct !

Luckily, all the other equivalence classes are also correct, except for [[=ls=]] which returns 2 matches \x{2028} and \x{FE47} ??

Still looking into this, I find this statement in the Boost::regex documentation (emphasis mine):

An expression of the form [[=col=]], matches any character or collating element whose primary sort key is the same as that for collating element col, as with collating elements the name col may be a symbolic name. A primary sort key is one that ignores case, accentation, or locale-specific tailorings; so for example [[=a=]] matches any of the characters: a, À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å, A, à, á, â, ã, ä and å. Unfortunately implementation of this is reliant on the platform’s collation and localisation support; this feature can not be relied upon to work portably across all platforms, or even all locales on one platform.

I used:

LCMapStringEx(locale.data(), LCMAP_SORTKEY | LINGUISTIC_IGNOREDIACRITIC | NORM_IGNORECASE | NORM_IGNOREKANATYPE | NORM_IGNOREWIDTH | NORM_LINGUISTIC_CASING, ...

as my best guess at how to do this.

There are some differences other than the format characters between my search and Notepad++. For example, [[=k=]] matches Ʞ (U+A7B0) in Columns++ search, but not in Notepad++ native search; though both match its lower-case counterpart, ʞ (U+029E).

I do wonder why [[=ls=]] matches ﹇ (U+FE47) as well as U+2028. Though Notepad++ native search does not accept the [[=ls=]] syntax, substituting the actual U+2028 character, [[=
=]] (you can copy that even though you can’t see it), yields 12 matches, including U+FE47.

Do you know if there is a precise definition of what should count as an equivalence class in Unicode regular expressions? It is unclear to me for what target I should be aiming.

FYI
For the security reason, the https://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/ will be shutdown for some days.
It might be back online next year.

@xomx After restarting our Samba instance, the issues appear to be resolved. Apologies for the false alarm, but thank you for the responses!

I’m guessing that GUP.exe and/or nppPluginList.dll somehow wasn’t updated before.

@Coises

Already an issue about this feature:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17170

The 2 blank tabs known when the feature was committed:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11134#issuecomment-1575226268

Thank you for your explanation! I’m glad I wasn’t alone with this problem. It’s very well written and easy for me to understand. Thank you!

@Alan-Kilborn said in 'Find in Files' doesn't appear to work:

If a folder doesn’t exist, I think when the search is initiated, input focus will immediately jump to the Directory: box, signaling a problem with that folder to the user (without a message box). Not on a PC right now, so can’t verify; going from memory.

I see you are correct. However… I also see that the search results show 0 files searched. So I don’t see how it could be a problem with what is in the Find box. The directory might exist, but not be the one OP meant to search.

@Laura-Harrison ,

Don’t post essentially the same thing twice. The posting form reminds you that until you have enough upvotes, you have to wait for the posting queue for the post to show up.

If all of your badly-quoted dates have the quotes in exactly the same places (3 digits, quote, digit, hyphen, quote, digit, quote, digit, hyphen, quote, two digits), then you can use a similar idea to above, but put each into capture groups using the (...) notation: FIND = (\d{3})"(\d)-"(\d)"(\d)-"(\d{2}) . Each capture group gets numbered 1-5 for each set of parens, and is $1 - $5 in the REPLACE WITH field. So REPLACE WITH = "$1$2-$3$4-$5"
This will take

199"0-"0"8-"28 199"2-"1"1-"12

and make it

"1990-08-28" "1992-11-12"

But I have a feeling you are going to tell me in the next post that what you really have is quotes in different places each time, like

1"99"0-"0"8-"28 199"2-"1"1-"12 "2"0"2"6"0"1"0"6"

In which case, I’d say, look for “possible quote, digit, possible quote, digit, possible quote, …etc”, where “possible quote” is in regex as "? (which means "0 or 1 quote mark)
FIND = "?(\d)"?(\d)"?(\d)"?(\d)"?-"?(\d)"?(\d)"?-"?(\d)"?(\d)"?
REPLACE = "$1$2$3$4-$5$6-$7$8"
REPLACE ALL
would give

"1990-08-28" "1992-11-12" "2026-01-06"

(Note that if you had more digits than that, like if you also had hh:mm:ss, so it would be up to 14, the replacements for 10-14 would be ${10} - ${14})

Chill, Peter :-) Breath in, breath out. Everything is fine. (This is meant in a very positive way. I feel that you are very busy right now.)

Of course, yes, this is definitly no big deal. But it is nothing wrong in talking about it. Or just bringing up a question about it. Or an idea.

IMO, Thomas is not wrong with his observation/question/request. The red x icon is the only colorized icon while using light mode and fluent UI. So a more consistant behaviour would be, to have the x icon appearance coupled on the icon choice rather than the light/dark mode choice. (Means red x icon coupled to standard icons, a fluent x icon to the fluent UI.)

Yes sure, this issue is nothing important compared to the more urgent topics in the issue tracker.

Hello

Thank you for the responses !

@Ekopalypse

I have tried this method

After installing PythonScript, it was unclear where I could add the script

open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py

I tried
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ (no)
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins (no)
C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts (maybe)

It still wouldn’t appear, until restart (this should, auto refresh I believe, when you open configuration at least ?)

It appeared in the menu

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But not in the configuration page

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Click on Plugins->Python Script-> Scripts -> open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py
Did open cmd.exe in the right location

Ah ok, from clicking the “new” script button

The path is
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts
The folder was not created during installation apparently !

Now it does appear !

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And yes this works !

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Thanks !

@PeterJones

Thanks for this suggestion

I gave this a try as well

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Then I edited

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\CustomizeToolbar.btn

I pasted your suggested command
changed the file to a screenshot of the cmd.exe icon I took
I also added you suggested extra space fix

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png View,Show Symbol,Show All Characters,,Icons\allChars.bmp,Icons\allChars_off.ico,Icons\allChars_off_dark.ico

This did not work yet

I used webservice
https://www.icoconverter.com/
To create a .ico file
with these settings
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and I downloaded the 3 files from the github issues

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/standard/toolbar/allChars.bmp
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/light/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/dark/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico

And I placed them in folder

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\Icons

Restarted notepad++

The icon appears and works but the icon is wrong

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I tried these settings

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Also does not work

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also no

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also no ???

Oh wait

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

should have been

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico

Icon has disappeared !

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ok, instead move the file to C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config
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change it back to

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart npp

icon is back, but still question mark

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Maybe the file is not 16x16 256 colours ?

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Looks like it is as specified

Maybe something is wrong with the file …

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I’m not good enough to mentally decode this, looks normal

Hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)

0x02 idType is 1 , which is ICO good
0x04 idCount is 1, just 1 image
0x06 ICONDIRENTRY struct

bWidth is 10 , which is width 16
bHeight is 10, which is width 16
bColorCount 0. does not use a pallette
wPlanes is 1, has color plane , whatever that is, 0 is black and white ?
wBitCount, it is 8 bit per pixel
dwBytesInRes, 1384 bytes ?? idk

…
onion.bmp,onion.ico,onion.ico

ah wait you have BMP in there ??

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File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.bmp,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart

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woohoo !

Wow, I was about ready to give up there !

Thanks both of you, I will go with the CustomizeToolbar plugin as it give me that distinctive icon !

@PeterJones said in Config Files Need Updating, Too:

But, unfortunately, there were a few growing pains in transferring from the plugin to the builtin that I was really hoping wouldn’t happen, because I had ironed out so many problems in the plugin version already.

That IS why it’s called ‘developing’. and maintainers are ‘developers’. :-)

If I ever saw a first version of anything that worked unscathed on the first try, I’d be digging through the code looking for the bomb that went undetected. :-)

@networkproblemsolver
Your images show you seem to be running NPP as administrator. That could be the source of your problem.

Read this thread, there might be the solution.

Terry

It works! Thank you very much!
Greets Eddie

@guy038

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_COPY

copying data to the clipboard

Is document to the clipboard.

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_PASTE

pasting from the clipboard into the document

Is clipboard to the document.

Both functions relate to the document in the editor. The copy function will be good for the task though paste will not work with the search window.

Instead of SCI_PASTE, could use the Run command to run an executable to insert the clipboard text into the search window.

AutoIt3 script automate_columns++_search.au3 :

; Wait up to 3 seconds for the window. $hSearch = WinWait('Search in indicated region', '', 3) If $hSearch Then $sClip = ClipGet() ; get clipboard text ControlSetText($hSearch, '', 'Edit1', $sClip) ; set combo edit ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button7') ; click regex button ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button9') ; click count button $sCount = ControlGetText($hSearch, '', 'Static3') ; read label ClipPut($sCount) ; set clipboard text EndIf

Adjust the title if the window text is localized.

Compile to executable and then add to Run as a command. Get the command id with NppUISpy and insert into the shortcuts.xml file.

@PeterJones Thanx, much appreciated.