@PeterJones said in Navigation within Notepad++:

The User Manual doesn’t always mention the keyboard shortcut for every action

The script in this 2019 post by @Ekopalypse will list all the current keyboard shortcuts (it pages through all the pages of Shortcut Mapper for you). Back in that discussion, the Notepad++ v7.7.1 shortcuts were shown a few posts lower than that.

Since there hasn’t been a recent posting:

Default Shortcuts for Notepad++ v8.7.9 New : Ctrl+N Open... : Ctrl+O Reload from Disk : Ctrl+R Save : Ctrl+S Save As... : Ctrl+Alt+S Save All : Ctrl+Shift+S Close : Ctrl+W Close All : Ctrl+Shift+W Print... : Ctrl+P Restore Recent Closed File : Ctrl+Shift+T Exit : Alt+F4 Cut : Shift+DEL Cut : Ctrl+X Copy : Ctrl+INS Copy : Ctrl+C Paste : Shift+INS Paste : Ctrl+V Begin/End Select : Ctrl+Shift+B Begin/End Select in Column Mode : Alt+Shift+B UPPERCASE : Ctrl+Shift+U lowercase : Ctrl+U Proper Case : Alt+U Proper Case (blend) : Alt+Shift+U Sentence case : Ctrl+Alt+U Sentence case (blend) : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U Split Lines : Ctrl+I Join Lines : Ctrl+J Move Up Current Line : Ctrl+Shift+Up Move Down Current Line : Ctrl+Shift+Down Insert Blank Line Above Current : Ctrl+Alt+Enter Insert Blank Line Below Current : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Enter Toggle Single Line Comment : Ctrl+Q Single Line Comment : Ctrl+K Single Line Uncomment : Ctrl+Shift+K Block Comment : Ctrl+Shift+Q Function Completion : Ctrl+Spacebar Path Completion : Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar Word Completion : Ctrl+Enter Function Parameters Hint : Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar Function Parameters Previous Hint : Alt+Up Function Parameters Next Hint : Alt+Down Column Editor... : Alt+C Find... : Ctrl+F Find in Files... : Ctrl+Shift+F Find Next : F3 Find Previous : Shift+F3 Select and Find Next : Ctrl+F3 Select and Find Previous : Ctrl+Shift+F3 Find (Volatile) Next : Ctrl+Alt+F3 Find (Volatile) Previous : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F3 Replace... : Ctrl+H Incremental Search : Ctrl+Alt+I Search Results Window : F7 Previous Search Result : Shift+F4 Next Search Result : F4 Go to... : Ctrl+G Go to Matching Brace : Ctrl+B Select All In-between {} [] or () : Ctrl+Alt+B Mark... : Ctrl+M Previous style of 1st style : Ctrl+Shift+1 Previous style of 2nd style : Ctrl+Shift+2 Previous style of 3rd style : Ctrl+Shift+3 Previous style of 4th style : Ctrl+Shift+4 Previous style of 5th style : Ctrl+Shift+5 Previous style of Find Mark style : Ctrl+Shift+0 Next style of 1st style : Ctrl+1 Next style of 2nd style : Ctrl+2 Next style of 3rd style : Ctrl+3 Next style of 4th style : Ctrl+4 Next style of 5th style : Ctrl+5 Next style of Find Mark style : Ctrl+0 Toggle Bookmark : Ctrl+F2 Next Bookmark : F2 Previous Bookmark : Shift+F2 Toggle Full Screen Mode : F11 Post-It : F12 1st Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 1 2nd Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 2 3rd Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 3 4th Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 4 5th Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 5 6th Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 6 7th Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 7 8th Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 8 9th Tab : Ctrl+Numpad 9 Next Tab : Ctrl+Page down Previous Tab : Ctrl+Page up Move Tab Forward : Ctrl+Shift+Page down Move Tab Backward : Ctrl+Shift+Page up Switch to previous document : Ctrl+Shift+Tab Switch to next document : Ctrl+Tab Hide Lines : Alt+H Focus on Another View : F8 Fold All : Alt+0 Unfold All : Alt+Shift+0 Fold Current Level : Ctrl+Alt+F Unfold Current Level : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F Fold Level 1 : Alt+1 Fold Level 2 : Alt+2 Fold Level 3 : Alt+3 Fold Level 4 : Alt+4 Fold Level 5 : Alt+5 Fold Level 6 : Alt+6 Fold Level 7 : Alt+7 Fold Level 8 : Alt+8 Unfold Level 1 : Alt+Shift+1 Unfold Level 2 : Alt+Shift+2 Unfold Level 3 : Alt+Shift+3 Unfold Level 4 : Alt+Shift+4 Unfold Level 5 : Alt+Shift+5 Unfold Level 6 : Alt+Shift+6 Unfold Level 7 : Alt+Shift+7 Unfold Level 8 : Alt+Shift+8 Text Direction RTL : Ctrl+Alt+R Text Direction LTR : Ctrl+Alt+L Toggle macro recording : Ctrl+Shift+R Playback : Ctrl+Shift+P Run... : F5 About Notepad++ : F1 Trim Trailing Space and Save : Alt+Shift+S Get PHP help : Alt+F1 Wikipedia Search : Alt+F3 Open selected file path in new instance : Alt+F6 SCI_SELECTALL : Ctrl+A SCI_CLEAR : DEL SCI_UNDO : Ctrl+Z or Alt+Backspace SCI_REDO : Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z SCI_NEWLINE : Enter or Shift+Enter SCI_TAB : Tab SCI_BACKTAB : Shift+Tab SCI_ZOOMIN : Ctrl+Num + SCI_ZOOMOUT : Ctrl+Num - SCI_SETZOOM : Ctrl+Num / SCI_SELECTIONDUPLICATE : Ctrl+D SCI_EDITTOGGLEOVERTYPE : INS SCI_LINEDOWN : Down SCI_LINEDOWNEXTEND : Shift+Down SCI_LINEDOWNRECTEXTEND : Alt+Shift+Down SCI_LINESCROLLDOWN : Ctrl+Down SCI_LINEUP : Up SCI_LINEUPEXTEND : Shift+Up SCI_LINEUPRECTEXTEND : Alt+Shift+Up SCI_LINESCROLLUP : Ctrl+Up SCI_PARADOWN : Ctrl+] SCI_PARADOWNEXTEND : Ctrl+Shift+] SCI_PARAUP : Ctrl+[ SCI_PARAUPEXTEND : Ctrl+Shift+[ SCI_CHARLEFT : Left SCI_CHARLEFTEXTEND : Shift+Left SCI_CHARLEFTRECTEXTEND : Alt+Shift+Left SCI_CHARRIGHT : Right SCI_CHARRIGHTEXTEND : Shift+Right SCI_CHARRIGHTRECTEXTEND : Alt+Shift+Right

In theory, that list could be added to an appendix for the User Manual… but while generating the list would be easy, manually linking those 150 lines to appropriate sections of the Manual would be a nightmare. And without that linkage, I am not sure how useful “just a list” would be.

@Coises said in Npp v8.7.8 or later hangs for `^.{0,20}` at the end of a file:

Leading comma within curly braces is not a valid syntax, so it’s searching for the beginning of a line followed by any one character and then the literal characters {,20}.

Python’s re allows that syntax of omitting the minimum repetition. To use {,20} instead of {0,20} would be like learning a bad habit compared to Boost or other regex libraries.

https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrepattern.html quote:

An opening curly bracket that appears in a position where a quantifier is not allowed, or one that does not match the syntax of a quantifier, is taken as a literal character. For example, {,6} is not a quantifier, but a literal string of four characters.

This is stated explicitly that {,6} is a “literal string”.

@PeterJones

Ah…

@Graz-Font I solved it. I edited the Windows registry to add a “MultipleInvokePromptMinimum” entry. Thanks to all for the suggestions, but it wasn’t a character length issue.

I am puzzling over the subject line Find 'Not Found' Matches in list which implies there is a list of things to search for. The desire is to scan the list and to stop scanning as soon a something in that list is not found.

In the post body @Fern99 provides what seems to be an “example” of the list which could be be constructed on the fly by with the text string `var’ followed by the numeric values 0000 up to 1999.

Either way, a list of things in a file, or a programmatically generated list, involves scripting which is outside the scope of Notepad++.

I also believe that BOOST has issues with scanning an entire file for not-something. For example, (?s-i)\A^((?!var0000).)*$ starts misbehaving when a random text file was over 35000 characters and would also stop when it hit extended Unicode characters.

Hello @alan-kilborn and All,

Sorry for the typo. The correct link is :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24534782/

I also edit my previous post

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guy038

@xomx said in "I wanted to make it April 1, but I didn't want to be accused of April Fool's Day... but we're going to do it in April. I'm a very superstitious person":

like promoting the use of Bermuda Triangle know-how for garbage collectors.

Brilliant !

@Alex-Yuan-CA

In case you are trying to do any other possible text manipulation, searching, highlighting, etc, etc, or anything you can possibly think of doing to your text, please consult the Notepad++ online user manual, because your answer is probably found there.

@Anderson-Silva ,

Nope. I haven’t used a notepad-style app on Android in years (and the one that I used to use now gets horrible reviews, so I won’t be naming/recommending it, in case it’s as bad as they say).

Somebody might be able to get you a quick recommendation if they have one, but this isn’t really the best place for discussing the pros and cons of specific Android apps: searching the internet for “best android notepad app” and then visiting reputable app-review sites to find reasonable (non-SEO) results is probably your best bet.

@Jschoerner ,

Sorry, I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Hopefully, someone else will be able to come in and provide some guidance, because I don’t know what could cause such a glitch.

@Claudia-Svenson said in How to enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?:

How can I enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?

Which Theme are you using? It’s possible that your theme file is out-of-date, or that you are a using a theme that has never had the powershell highlighting added, which would prevent Notepad++ from syntax highlighting, even when it is named blah.ps1.

Please see my post here explaining why; and the User Manual’s Themes: Keeping Stylers/Themes Up-to-date entry for more.

@xomx

The problem with uncheckmarking Auto detect character encoding is that most times you want Notepad++ to autodetect the encoding.
It’s only when it does it wrongly that you don’t want it to. :-)

@Mark-Olson said:

the core developers of Notepad++ prefer Microsoft Visual Studio to Notepad++ for working on the Notepad++ source code. Make of that what you will.

That’s probably because an IDE is wanted for this work, and, as you say, Notepad++ is not the greatest IDE.

and most major programming languages (like the C or C++ it appears you are writing) have better productivity tools elsewhere.

Well, I for one have done pretty well with only Notepad++ for embedded C/C++ work, as well as Python work.

@PeterJones Thanks a lot for your reply. It was that setting. I have the latest Npp version and it is a checkbox for me. I disabled the DirectWrite, restarted and characters are again visible.
I don’t recall changing that setting in the past, and I don’t think I have installed any extension recently, so I don’t know how this could have happened.
It could be that the setting was like that already but something in windows changed. I don’t know. But once again many thanks!

@Christian-Wolff said in RTL-alignment:

mixed text in HTML

In this case, N++ is not currently a suitable editor for you. For that you need BiDi-support, for more details see e.g. here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10664

@PeterJones said in Can I Insert Symbols using a Shortcut Keys, just like in MS Word ?:

I have script for the PythonScript plugin: pyscReplaceBackslashSequence.py, which I assign to Alt+\, which allows me to type something like \U+1F61E or \x{1F61E} or 😞 then hit my Alt+\ shortcut, and it will convert it from the codepoint / entity into the actual character (and it handles the surrogate pair calculation inside the script).

Another plugin with similar functionality and a quicker setup is HTML Tag.

Current versions can also (de/en)code Unicode scalars in the U+010000 to U+10FFFF range:

@unal-mk ,

I’ve never looked into the Ctrl+C behavior on NppExec. But there are some power-users of NppExec that sometimes read here, and even occasionally the author @Vitalii-Dovgan – so hopefully someone else will be able to help you with that.

Thank you both!

Hello, @sabry-farg, @thomas-knoefel, @terry-r, @lycan-thrope and All,

Oh…, @lycan-thrope, you’re perfectly right about it ! It’s a typo !

So, @sabry-farg, I apologize for my mistabke !

The correct regex is, indeed :

FIND \|

REPLACE \r\n

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guy038

@PeterJones yes that was it!
So indeed it was an easy one - you’d think I would have figured that out. Haha
Thank you for pointing me to the setting!