@PeterJones I just found it…
I don’t skim too fast…
Cheers anyway mate.

Hello, @tcast-mobile, @mark-olson and All,

@tcast-mobile, just a variant which does not care about the socmed string but simply searches for the nearest multi-digits phone number, preceded by a + sign, beginning a line :

FIND (?-is)healthcare\R(.+)\R(?:.+\R)+?\+(\d+\R)

REPLACE $1 | $2

Notes :

Most of the explanations, relative to the regex syntax, have already been given by Mark. Two other points :

The (?:......) syntax is a non-capturing group, as we do not need this information in replacement

The \+ represents a literal +

Best Regards,

guy038

@Sweet-Man
I have the exact same issue,
while using Notead++ remotely using AnyDesk.

@Coises Oh, I see, shift+] = }
Now it works.
Much appreciated!

@PeterJones Thanks for your help. I’ll try.

@Mark-Olson

What? A picture of Mark now?
I am in no way surprised. :-)

Hello, @kracovwolf, @alan-kilborn and All,

The solution, provided by @alan-kilborn which uses the Extended search mode is really valuable !

In fact, except in very rare cases, the syntaxes of the replacement part : Line1\r\nLine 2\r\nLine3\r\nLine4\r\n... will preserved the syntax of each line !

BTW, if you’re usually deal with UNIX files ( see on the right part of the status bar ), you’ll have to change the REPLACE part as below :

Line1\nLine 2\nLine3\nLine4\n...

For example, from this INPUT text :

ab$cD^E\Fg-h()iIJ[]K:L

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Unckeck all box options

SEARCH ab$cD^E\Fg-h()iIJ[]K:L

REPLACE ab$c\r\nD^E\F\r\ng-h()i\r\nJ[]K:L

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Extended ( \n, \r, \t, \0, \x... search mode

Click on the Replace All button

=> You get the expected OUTPUT text :

ab$c D^E\F g-h()i J[]K:L

In these others posts, below, I imagined a way to insert a multi-lines text, using the Regular expression search mode :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97866

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97904

However, now I see that the Extended search mode or, even better, the Normal mode could drastically simplify the method when applied to a single file !

So, when you want to insert a multi-lines text, even in several locations, of the current file, just follow this method :

Let’s suppose that this INPUT text, below, is the text to be inserted : ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text -------------

First, paste the text to be inserted in a new tab

Select this multi-lines text without its last line-break ( so the line-break after the series of dashes )

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

=> The multi-lines text should be copied in the Find what: zone

Now, let’s switch to this text, in an other tab, which is the main text : bla blah ¤ bla blah <test>¤</test> blah bla Begin ¤ blah bla blah ¤ end

Note that I use the ¤ symbol as an insertion symbol !

Click on the ⮁ symbol, of the replace dialog, in order to swap the Find what and Replace with zones

=> The multi-lines text has moved into the Replace with : zone

Insert a single ¤ symbol in the Find what : zone

Unchek all the box options

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Normal search mode ( No need to choose the Extended mode )

Click on the Replace All button

=> The ¤ should have been replaced by the multi-lines text in four locations and you get the following OUTPUT text :

bla blah ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text ------------- bla blah <test>------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text -------------</test> blah bla Begin ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text ------------- blah bla blah ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text ------------- end

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn said in Auto Update Notification upon closing NPP:

But don’t bother making such a request; it’s been requested before, and is still an open item.

Even worse, it’s been requested multiple times – recently in #15369, and earlier in #8457, and earlier in #3755.

And in the two earlier issues, the statement from the developer when they were closed was that “the silent installation” option that now exists is the only way he’s willing to address the issue…

But I don’t think those issues ever pointed out the specific issue that @morgantic pointed out: that if you are accustomed to opening the app and immediately typing, it will just absorb all that typing without doing anything useful (and hitting ENTER might even accidentally start the update process, when you really thought you were just typing a newline in text). However, the developer didn’t close the most-recent #15369 (yet), so maybe @morgantic could supply the additional information there, trying to lend credence to the argument that the “silent installation” mentioned in the closed issues is not a sufficient fix for all the problems that update-at-launch causes.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Insert sequential numbers at start of lines:

This version handles all types of selections.

Perfect!!! Thank you so much 😁👍

@Eric-Schetselaar ,
Like @Mark-Olson says, at least for Syntax Highlighting, the UDL is about your best bet if any, and that probably means you’d have to create your own. (fun!!) Not sure what prompting means in this usage.

Unlike @Mark-Olson , I hadn’t heard about this language, but the quick view I had, looks like the UDL could handle it. It’s got essentially a Class/Function style that is similar to most OOP language implementations.

If by prompting, you mean Autocompletion or FunctionList capability, that’s even more work, but doable, since the language looks like most others, it just needs to be structured into a Notepad++ UDL structure system…but as @Mark-Olson suggests, there might already be capable editors for that specialization already, since it’s under the Meta banner, they could provide it. If you’re simply looking for an alternative, then roll up your sleeves and get to work. :-)

Feature request: Prevent pinned tabs from being closed.

@PeterJones

option 1 is most likely, but one time it happened when i restarted notepad++ himself
i will backup the file you told me

Thank you for renaming the title.

@Alex-De-Lara ,

Please refrain from making the same complaint in multiple locations in the forum (ie, here and in this earlier post), and be patient while post-approval-queues are processed, and people have time to craft a reply.

update: By posting in this Topic as well, are you just saying “I was able to turn off auto-updates thanks to seeing the “Enable Notepad++ auto-updater” preference mentioned”? or are you saying, “I previously had auto-updates turned off by uncheckmarking that option, but even in a recent version, it ran the auto-updater despite having that option turned off” – because the latter is what this Topic is about… so if you’re really also having problems where the auto-updater didn’t honor your setting, you need to tell us what version you were updating from – maybe you found a bug in the updater option (though it’s doubtful)

@0Villitz ,

Unfortunately, there is not yet a configuration option to allow users to change that color. As mentioned in the Hide Fold Lines discussion, there may be messages that plugins can send – that topic had an example of hidden lines, but I was able to find an equivalent for the fold line: the PythonScript plugin could send

editor.setElementColour(ELEMENT.FOLD_LINE, (0,0,255,255))

where the color is (RED,GREEN,BLUE,ALPHA) where ALPHA should be 255

here’s the results of me running that command in PythonScript 3:
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and then I changed it to GREEN instead of BLUE:

editor.setElementColour(ELEMENT.FOLD_LINE, (0,255,0,255))

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And hiding it completely can be done by either setting the ALPHA to 0, or editor.setFoldFlags(0) in PythonScript (or the equivalent, as shown in that other discussion, in NppExec or other such plugin)

This feature was requested in 2023, but neither the developer nor any other volunteers have apparently put in a PR to implement it. I’ve just “bumped” the discussion, with links to a few related discussions here; if you’d like to go upvote that, and/or put in your 2cents, that might encourage someone to put in the effort.

@Neeraj-Shrivastav said in iOS or iPad app which can open Cloud Backed Notepad++ files:

Can anyone tell or guide me to any iOS or iPad app which can open Cloud Backed Notepad++ files?

Notepad++ edits files as plain text files on Windows. The files are not special in any way, and Notepad++ doesn’t have any associated cloud service.

So, if you have cloud backup for the files you edit in Notepad++, you are using a cloud provider (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, whatever). You would have to look to people familiar with that provider to find out the best way to access plain text files on that service from iOS.

@Moisey-Oysgelt

Does this crash happen immediately when you try to start Notepad++, or after it is already open?

If you can get Notepad++ to start, please click on the ? at the right end of the main menu, select Debug Info…, then click the button Copy debug info to clipboard.

Add a reply to your original message and paste in what it copies. That might help us guess what is going on.

If you can’t get Notepad++ to start at all, then the question has to be, what changed recently in your system? If you can’t think of anything at all, one thing you could try is to download a portable version from the downloads page, unzip the file and see if that will run. What happens when you try that might give you, or us, a clue.

@Doc-Farmer ,

Is there a new shortcut for Edit>Blanks>Trim Trailing Space?

v8.5.7 was from November 2023 – a year ago. Do you really mean that, or do you mean the most-recent v8.7.5 from December 2025?

Regardless, Edit > Blanks > Trim Trailing Space does not have a default shortcut in either v8.5.7 or v8.7.5 – the Alt+Shift+S keystroke is assigned to Macro > Trim Trailing Space And Save in both v8.5.7 and v8.7.5.

I suggest you look at both menus to see if either says that, or if not there, then Preferences > Shortcut Mapper: filter for trim on the Main menu tab to see Trim Trailing Space, and filter for trim on the Macros tab to see Trim Trailing Space and Save:

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I get the Find drop-down

Do you mean the Search menu drop-down? If so, then my guess is that your keyboard isn’t correctly sending the Shift when doing Alt+Shift+S (maybe an intermittent problem with that key on your keyboard), because Alt+S is the Windows OS “menu accelerator” sequence for "the menu with the accelerator S, which in Notepad++ is the Search menu – so that says that Notepad++ is hearing Alt+S instead of Alt+Shift+S from the OS.

Though it is possible all your shortcuts got cleared – for example, if %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml somehow got deleted or corrupted for you, then the Macro wouldn’t be there anymore and thus nothing would be assigned to that sequence, at which point I believe that Notepad++ would fall back to pretending the Shift wasn’t in your sequence and interpret it as Alt+S for the Search menu. If it did get cleared, you should be able to exit Notepad++, copy the one from C:\Program Files\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml to %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml , and then run Notepad++ again, and the shortcuts and macros should all be back to their defaults.

So my guess is that the problem is that you misremembered, and you’ve really been doing Trim Trailing Space and Save macro shortcut, and that now your Shift key isn’t coming through, or that your shorcuts.xml got cleared.

All that said, with the Shortcut Mapper, you can change the shortcut for either of the actions I’ve mentioned, or most other menu entries, to whatever you like.