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 
)?

Hi, @coises,

If you need my Total_Chars.txt file, simply extract it from the Unicode.zip archive, within my Google Drive account :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kYtbIGPRLdypY7hNMI-vAJXoE7ilRMOC/view?usp=sharing

You do not need the other files of this archive, as the main information is described below !

The Total_Chars.txt file is a true UTF-8 file with a BOM, which contains each Unicode assigned and unassigned code-point, once only, from \x{0000} to \x{EFFFD}

Pysically, it contains 3 lines :

A first line, from \x{0000} to \x{0009}, with the \x{000A} line-break

A second line, from \x{000B} to \x{000C}, with the \x{000D} line-break

A third very LONG line with all characters, from \x{000E} to \x{EFFFD}, without some excluded ones ( refer below )

In UTF-8 terms, the Total_Chars.txt file can be decomposed as :

• [\x{0000}-\x{007F}] 128 chars coded with 1 byte => 128 • [\x{0080}-\x{07FF}] 1,920 chars coded with 2 bytes => 3,840 • [\x{0800}-\x{FFFD}] 61,406 chars coded with 3 bytes => 184,218 • Planes 1, 2, 3, 14 = 4 × 65,534 = 262,136 chars coded with 4 bytes => 1,048,544 ----------- -------------- 325,590 chars 1 236 730 bytes • BOM 3 bytes ----------- -------------- 325,590 chars 1 236 733 bytes

As mentionned above, the Total_Chars.txt does NOT contain the following zones :

• The SURROGATES block, from \x{D800} to \x{DFFF} • The 32 NOT-Unicode chars, from \x{FDD0} to \x{FDEF} • The two NOT-Unicode chars, ending the Plane 0 \x{FFFE} and \x{FFFF} • The two NOT-Unicode chars, ending the Plane 1 \x{1FFFE} and \x{1FFFF} • The two NOT-Unicode chars, ending the Plane 2 \x{2FFFE} and \x{2FFFF} • The two NOT-Unicode chars, ending the Plane 3 \x{3FFFE} and \x{3FFFF} • The COMPLETE planes 4 to 13, from \x{40000} to \x{DFFFF} • The two NOT-Unicode chars, ending the plane 14 \x{EFFFE} and \x{EFFFF} • The PRIVATE-USE planes 15 to 16, from \x{F0000} to \x{10FFFF}

Here is, below, the list of all INCLUDED planes, followed with all the EXCLUDED zones of the Total_Chars.txt file :

•=========================================•=======================================• | Zones INCLUDED in 'Total_Chars.txt' | Range | Plane | # Chars | •=========================================•================•=========•============• | | 0000..FFFD | 0 | 63,454 | •-----------------------------------------•----------------•---------•------------• | | 10000..1FFFD | 1 | 65,534 | •-----------------------------------------•----------------•---------•------------• | | 20000..2FFFD | 2 | 65,534 | •-----------------------------------------•----------------•---------•------------• | | 30000..3FFFD | 3 | 65,534 | •-----------------------------------------•----------------•---------•------------• | | E0000..EFFFD | 14 | 65,534 | •=========================================•================•=========•============• | Total INCLUDED characters | | | 325,590 | •=========================================•================•=========•============• •=========================================•================•=========•===========• | Zones EXCLUDED from 'Total_Chars.txt' | Range | Plane | # Chars | •=========================================•================•=========•===========• | Surrogates | D800..DFFF | 0 | 2,048 | | Not Unicode | FDD0..FDEF | 0 | 32 | | Not Unicode | FFFE..FFFF | 0 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Not Unicode | 1FFFE..1FFFF | 1 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Not Unicode | 2FFFE..2FFFF | 2 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Not Unicode | 3FFFE..3FFFF | 3 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | 40000..4FFFD | 4 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | 4FFFE..4FFFF | 4 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | 50000..5FFFD | 5 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | 5FFFE..5FFFF | 5 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | 60000..6FFFD | 6 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | 6FFFE..6FFFF | 6 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | 70000..7FFFD | 7 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | 7FFFE..7FFFF | 7 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | 80000..8FFFD | 8 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | 8FFFE..8FFFF | 8 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | 90000..9FFFD | 9 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | 9FFFE..9FFFF | 9 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | A0000..AFFFD | 10 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | AFFFE..AFFFF | 10 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | B0000..BFFFD | 11 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | BFFFE..BFFFF | 11 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | C0000..CFFFD | 12 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | CFFFE..CFFFF | 12 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Unassigned | D0000..DFFFD | 13 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | DFFFE..DFFFF | 13 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Not Unicode | EFFFE..EFFFF | 14 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Supplementary_Private_Use_Area-A | F0000..FFFFD | 15 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | FFFFE..FFFFF | 15 | 2 | •----------------------------------------------------------•---------•-----------• | Supplementary_Private_Use_Area-B | 100000..10FFFD | 16 | 65,534 | | Not Unicode | 10FFFE..10FFFF | 16 | 2 | •=========================================•================•=========•===========• | Total EXCLUDED characters | | | 788,522 | •=========================================•================•=========•===========• •-----------------------------------------•----------------•---------•-----------• | Total UNICODE characters | 0000..10FFFF | 0 - 16 | 1,114,112 | •-----------------------------------------•----------------•---------•-----------•

Best Regards,

guy038

@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})

@Coises Perfect! Thank you for your assistance…

@Craig-W said in Turn Off Paragraph Highlighting:

How do you turn off the automatic highlighting of anything you are typing. I went to settings and turned de-selected everything under highlighting, and it hasn’t changed anything. I don’t want the background highlighted as I type or have to go to a previous paragraph and it’s all highlighted.

Try changing Settings | Preferences | Editing 1 | Current Line Indicator to None.

@D-Kirkpatrick ,

I know the “Shortcuts” XML is the file to edit and that there is also a copy of that in %appdata% but so far I cannot put in my changes.

v8.9 still works with all my saved Run menu commands in %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml, and I can still edit that file following the standard instructions for editing a Notepad++ config file found in the user manual

If you look at the shortcuts.xml file’s properties in Windows Explorer, do you have write permission to the file (you should, and you need it)

If that’s not it, you’ll have to say the exact steps you are using that aren’t working (and share your ?-menu’s Debug Info), otherwise it’s really hard for us to guess what’s going wrong for you.

I’d also like to add in MS Edge

No need: View > View Current File in > Edge has existed for years.

@leestwise ,

For a normal installation, then you can just copy over everything from %AppData%\Notepad++\ from the old to the new (and if you customized any of your autoCompletion, those will have to go from c:\program files\Notepad++\autoCompletion\*.xml on the old to the new… but customizing those is not as common as other customizations)

(You also, of course, have to install Notepad++, and all the plugins. If you don’t want to use Plugins Admin to do the plugin install, you could just copy from c:\program files\Notepad++\plugins\ on the old to the new… but since many plugins may have been updated, this is a good chance to make sure you’re grabbing the most recent version, rather than just copying over the old-and-possibly-outdated version. And don’t overwrite c:\program files\Notepad++\plugins\config\nppPluginList.dll, as you always want to have the most recent from the installation, not whatever old plugin list was on the old machine.)

@Eugene-Brennan said in Simple Question: Can I View HTML Tags?:

Surprisingly, it appears difficult to find an answer to this from Googling. I want to migrate articles from a website to Blogger. I’m using Reader View in Firefox which strips a lot of the superfluous stuff on the source website and then I paste to Notepad. From there I copy and paste to Blogger. Now this strips all HTML tags and when I post from Notepad to Blogger, all the content is enclosed by a single <p> tag and multiple <br /> tags within the text. I can’t paste directly from the source website to Blogger because it brings in a lot of unwanted HTML stuff from the previous website. This causes multiple problems that I won’t detail here, mostly as regards inserting images into the text. So my question is, does Notepad++ strip all HTML (I can’t find any way of changing to HTML view mode like I can in the Blogger Designer) and if so, is there a way I could retain at least <p> and <br /> tags?

Try selecting and copying what you want from reader view, then use Edit | Paste Special | Paste HTML Content in Notepad++. It will still require some cleanup, but it will probably come closer to what you want.

There is no native HTML view in Notepad++. There is a plugin, but it just shows the HTML as a sidebar; you can’t edit within the formatted text. Personally, I find it easier and more reliable to view the file in Firefox to see how the HTML renders. (I set F5 as a shortcut for View | View Current File in | Firefox.)

1: How can I tell NP++ to search for multiple different text snippets at once? For example all instances of 45/23 31/89 and 21/77 should all be replaced with 66/55

(a|b|c) will match a or b or c, so for the exact three you said, it would be (45/23|31/89|21/77) as the FIND and 66/55 as the replace.

But if you’re not describing it well, and you just want any two-digit fractions of the form ##/## to be replaced with 66/55, then it would be \d\d/\d\d (where \d is regex-speak for “any digit”)

If neither of those is what you really want, you will need to give more examples of what should and shouldn’t match.

2: How can I tell NP++ to delete the first three lines and the last four lines (the last line is always empty) of a file?

First three lines: FIND \A(^.*?\R){3} will match the start of file and the first three lines, and replacing that with empty text will delete them.

Last four: FIND (^.*?\R){4}\Z will match four lines and the end-of-file, so replacing that with empty text will delete them.

Fancy: do both with the | to say “either/or”, so FIND = \A(^.*?\R){3}|(^.*?\R){4}\Z

(don’t have . matches newline enabled)

All of that syntax is described in the User Manual regex section, so if you want more details, you can load that page and use your browser to search for \A or \Z or similar; the concepts used were anchors (for beginning/end of file), multiplying operators (for doing N lines), and groups (so the multiplying operators apply to the entire-line matcher)

200 files

Regex will work in the Find in Files, which is how you make it apply to that many files. But try it in one open file first, to make sure it does exactly what you think. And for bulk operations, always keep a backup, in case things don’t go as you expected.

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@Arí-Ricardo-Ody ,

v8.8.2, like every other version of Notepad++, shows the license when you use ?-menu’s About Notepad++ entry, or click the F1 key on your keyboard (default shortcut).

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But it’s super-simple to get rid of. You can click OK or hit the ESC key on your keyboard, and it goes away. (The ESC key won’t work if you’ve clicked in the main Notepad++ window after the About dialog appears, because the ESC key needs the dialog to have focus to work. You can give the dialog focus by clicking anywhere in that dialog.)

The problems that I can only guess you might be having:

You clicked somewhere else, so ESC doesn’t work for you. Possible fixes: clicking the OK button clicking anywhere in the dialog’s window then typing ESC The OK button isn’t visible. Possible fixes: clicking on the About window somewhere, then typing ESC clicking on the About window somewhere, then use Alt+SPACEBAR to bring up the System Menu for the dialog. From there, you can select Move (or your language’s equivalent); if you cannot see the System Menu, it might be hidden somewhere, so you can type M (or whatever your language’s normal letter is for the “move this window” action from any application’s Alt+Spacebar System Menu). Either way, once it’s in move mode, you should be able to move the window around until you can see the OK button
9a5c9577-11dd-42ab-81c1-6efb2986a824-image.png You see and click the OK button, but the window doesn’t go away, or comes back Not sure what could be causing this. My best guess would be that the F1 key on your keyboard is stuck (or some other application or malware is constantly sending the F1 keystroke command), so it is repeatedly opening the About dialog, even after you close it. There’s nothing Notepad++ can do about this, but a reboot might help, or trying a different keyboard on that computer. If F1 is really a problem that you cannot solve through keyboard or reboot, go to Settings > Shortcut Mapper (you can do that even when the About menu is showing), type F1 into the Filter, click on About Notepad++ in the grid, click the Clear button – this will remove the F1 shortcut from About Notepad++, so F1 will no longer launch that dialog. So then if you close it, even pressing F1 shouldn’t launch the dialog anymore.
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But, in General, Notepad++ (v8.8.2 or any other version) only shows that dialog when you access it through the menu or through using F1, and can easily be closed using the OK button or typing the ESC key while the dialog is in focus.

If nothing in this works, you will have to give us more information (maybe a screenshot of the dialog, in case I’ve misinterpreted what you meant by the “page with the license”)

@guy038 said in Perl keywords "class" and "method" not recognised by Function List:

for these two syntaxes, I just supposed that standard ASCII characters are used, from \x20 to \x7E, except for \x28 and \x29 in one part and \x7B in second part ! May be, the \t should be part of each class character, either

Perl allows Unicode alphanumeric/“word character” in any such identifier or token (just cannot start with a numeric), so restricting to ASCII is not going to work

@PeterJones
As a user of Notepad++ in a highly-controlled corporate environment, Peter’s explanation is lucid, thorough and relevant.

@xomx said in Help needed - Forensic extractor result analyzing:

@donho

What is that for (is it for specific HW, OS or network analysis)?

Ubuntu on a VPS

Fullname of the forensic SW

“Forensic Extractor”

ballpoint.fr

It’s rather to analyze the results to make sure if anything is OK. Note the VPS is only for the wingup.org, whereas notepad-plus-plus.org is on a sharing hosting service.

Thank you for the ref
I will check this company.