@PeterJones, Thank you for your considered (and considerate) engagement. I actually hesitated to respond with my comment about the 70s and 80s, pretty sure I would get what you gave, but I couldn’t resist—I’m old (83 next month). Anyway, thanks again for putting up with me. …lee

@Midnitecata said: @PeterJones thank you for your help, ill probably steer clear of it just out of caution, but i might look into it further should the tedious formatting inconvenience me enough to learn how to spot malicious code! thanks again!! :) Just a side note to this discussion: While you certainly can manipulate *.srt files in Notepad++ (and I do on occasion), for most purposes the free and open source program Subtitle Edit (found here on GitHub) is much easier to use. It has many functions for doing things like shifting times, identifying likely errors, and so on. Before working too hard to find a way to do something with a subtitle file in Notepad++, I recommend checking first to see if Subtitle Edit already knows how to do it.

@guy038 said: As for the first bug, I humbly apologize for the inconvenience caused : it’s my own fault. There’s no bug at all ! Maybe, maybe not. I forgot about a Notepad++ setting. I would guess that you have Settings | Preferences… | Editing 1 | Keep selection when right-click outside of selection checked. If I check that box, behavior is consistent with what you reported. Is that a bug? Scintilla normally responds to a right-click by clearing any selection and placing the caret at the position of the right-click, unless the right-click is within an existing selection. Notepad++ specifically captures right-clicks and overrides that behavior when that box is checked, so that right-click effectively behaves just like pressing the context menu key or Shift+F10, ignoring where you right-clicked and basing the context menu on the selection or caret location. I’m inclined to think that if someone has that box checked they probably know what to expect… but then, you didn’t. I haven’t yet investigated, but I suspect it would be possible to bypass that setting by capturing the actual screen location of the right-click, converting that to a character position, and acting accordingly. The question is, should I? To end, could you verify if you can reproduce the third bug or if I forgot something obvious ? Now, if you change the search string and try again to select the default Show option, NO change occurs at all. You need to first cancel the previous Show operation by running, within the Tools dialog, the Remove marks and bookmarks from active document option Then the Show feature applied to the modified search is correctly performed ! This isn’t really a bug, but a “feature” of questionable utility. Commands with default scope apply to marked text if there is any marked text, unless Settings | Marked Text | Default commands automatically search within marked text. is not checked. So most likely you see “No matches found in marked text.” at the bottom of the dialog when you attempt your second Show. If you used Show in Whole Document it would have worked. I agree, this is probably confusing. I didn’t want different default scope commands to behave differently, but this does seem like an exceptional case. I already have a checkbox for Allow default Mark command to Mark in Marked Text; I should probably have a similar Allow default Show command to Show in Marked Text, unchecked by default. Perhaps I should redesign this whole default scope concept. I just don’t know how to keep it flexible and convenient and user-friendly all at once. (I include a reasonably clean design, as in “dialog not so cluttered with buttons and options that your eyes hurt just looking at it” as part of user-friendly. Yet so is minimizing the “User Astonishment Factor”: as in, “Wow, I never expected that to happen!”)

Hello, @blake-g.-barrington, @peterjones, @coises and All, Here is my version to get duplicate lines, separated by any number of lines ( whatever they are : true empty lines, blank lines or lines with text ), even zero line : MARK (?-si)^(.+)(?=(.*\R)+\1$) As said by @Peterjones, and after some tests, this kind of regex get into trouble when the bunch of lines, between two duplicate lines, exceeds 15,000 empty lines about ! Now, Let’s suppose you create this text file : first 0002 0003 0004 0005 .... .... .... 9997 9998 9999 10000 first Then the (?-si)^(.+)(?=(.*\R)+\1$) regex returns : Correct result until the number of the in-between lines does not exceed 1,600, with the message 1 match in entire file Correct result until the number of the in-between lines does not exceed 12,000, although the error message Find Invalid Regular Expression ( So F.I.R.E. !! ) occurs ! NO result at all if the number of lines is over 12,000 lines, with, of course, the error message Find Invalid Regular Expression Best Regards, guy038 P.S. : I should add that my Windows11 laptop has 32 Gb of memory !

Hello, @francisco, @gerdb42 and All, There are plenty of solutions ! The following one will ensure that the . matches newline option will not be used even it’s checked and that the Match case option is enabled even it’s not checked ! FIND (?-si)_.+(?=\.txt) REPLACE Leave EMPTY Best Regards, guy038

The syntax file can be created by means of user-defined language. But how to apply this user-defined language automatically when Smart Math is enabled for the current file/document? OK, sorted it out: call NPPM_GETNBUSERLANG first to get the number of UDLs; then iterate through all the UDLs and call GetMenuStringW; once the menu item string matches my UDL name, I’ve identified my UDL menu id; after that, call NPPM_MENUCOMMAND with the obtained UDL menu id. Here is an example withUDL applied: [image: 1788696158249-d17e9134-3e1a-4b20-b7e9-62b16dbc4eff-image.jpeg] It’s a pity that I can’t make the keyword colors (such as function colors) to be dependent on the active color theme/style. I mean, for dark color themes these keywords in blue look too dark, so the color must be changed for dark themes.

@behrouz1 I will be assuming you have a normal installation (using AppData for configuration files). If that’s not the case, or you are having difficulty finding the files and directories mentioned, share your ?-menu’s Debug Info share a directory listing of %AppData%\Notepad++\functionList you are looking for it to contain something like udl_markdown.xml or something similarly named. And a file called overrideMap.xml open %AppData%\Notepad++\functionList\overrideMap.xml , and scroll down near the bottom; there should be a section <!-- ==================== User Defined Languages ============================ --> , and there should be some <association .../> tags there, including one like <association id="udl_markdown.xml" userDefinedLangName="Markdown (preinstalled)"/>. If it’s not there, share the entire section from the “User Defined Languages” section down to the bottom. (Use </> button then paste the XML directly into your post in the region provided by the button) Even in a normal installation, if you did things differently (maybe your AI doesn’t know N++ as well as you think), those files may have been put into the installation directory, so in c:\program files\notepad++\functionList\ or wherever relative to your installed Notepad++. Basically, what you must have is that your overrideMap.xml must have an association where the filename is in the id attribute, and the exact name of the active UDL (in my case, I am using Markdown (preinstalled)) is in the userDefinedLangName attribute. Then that file must contain the definition for the function list to show the headers (if you can’t find those files anywhere, even after we reply to your Debug Info, then you might need to download a new definition file, like from my publically-shared one, here on my GitHub)

@PeterJones I sent him an email but got no reply. Overall I’m a bit disappointed with this. I think for all his good intentions he’s allowing a strong chance of people accidentally clicking on these malware links, Got nothing more to add. Thanks.