@guy038 said: Do you have an explanation ? and I wrote: I think it has to be a bug It is, and it’s a fairly simple error in my logic. If a match ends at the end of the file (or the end of a selection or a span of marked text, if you’re searching within one of those), the search ends (or moves on to the next selection or span of marked text) without checking whether the expression can match null there. It will be fixed in the next release. Why adding |\z causes such strange behavior — in ICU even leading to new matches in the middle of the file — as yet I have no clue. The code supporting ICU search has the same logic error as the Regex search does, but there’s an additional oddity which seems to be built into ICU’s regular expression search. As best I can tell, it treats the circumflex (^) differently when it is the first element of the only alternative and in all other contexts. As an example, see the difference between marking ^\n (which matches nothing in Guy’s test text) and ^\n|Q (which matches the line feed at the end of each of the first nine lines). Note: I suggested using Mark to show this because Scintilla will not allow a selection to encompass only part of a line ending, so it’s less clear what is happening with Select or stepwise Find commands. The Search++ results list doesn’t have the option to show line endings — perhaps it should! — so Find All is also unclear. I’m not sure if this is expected behavior. ICU describes the circumflex as “Match at the beginning of a line” but, as far as I can find, says nothing about it behaving differently in different positions or expressions.

@Alan-Kilborn said: @deleelee 9 is single digit and 12/14/22 are each two digits. Thank you, that’s exactly what it was.

@Paul-Adamczyk said: Still much to learn. Useful References: Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@PeterJones said: [IANAL, and I don’t know the legal term for a non-registered trademark] An unregistered trademark, sometimes informally called a common law trademark, is an enforceable mark created by a business or individual to signify or distinguish a product or service. –For future reference. The stronger case needs to be made as you mention to differentiate what could be called a trademark name versus a generically descriptive name. Such as the difference between Borax as a chemical and Borax as a trademarked product name. I am not a lawyer [IANAL], either, but I have done legal research from time to time, on these types of subjects as well, in the past.

@PeterJones Thank you now as for my other questions …

@rdipardo , I got a statement of sorts in regard to this request, specifically, this comment: Using AI to create a PR for an open source project - is it a good thing or a bad thing? I have no judgement on that. For me, the only criterion that matters is whether the merged code will be maintainable in the future. On this point, I have to say that AI-generated PRs (I can usually tell during code review), often do not meet the critera in their current state - but many human devs don’t either.

Here are the latest binaries of SmartMath. This is a fully-working unofficial build that is going to be added to the official git repository… unless more improvements are suggested :) What’s new: the archive structure corresponds to the expectations of the Plugins Admin; the plugin searches for its documentation file near the SmartMath.dll, as well as in the “plugins\doc” folder; the plugin shows a warning when it does not find its syntax files in the expected locations under the “userDefineLangs” and “autoCompletion” folders of Notepad++. 64-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pTS_cBdU_Q0vkG03cubqWZ9TDdYiSsXW/view?usp=drive_link 32-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qsI5Hsx4XmyRlhVeGsplAoTX391WEnOv/view?usp=drive_link

Feature request created: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/18429 Put the several possibilities given my lack of knowing how the backend works and the feedback I’d gotten on this thread of possible feasibilities. I do stuff on both a Work computer using IT’s selected version of Notepad++ as well as home use, so even if I could get AutoIt working on my personal computer, I probably can’t get it running on my Work computer (permissions) I’ll try to train myself to alt+d

@PeterJones Oh!! Understood!! thank you!!!

XBrackets Lite v2.0.4 Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! improved: a manually typed closing bracket steps over an auto-completed one, even after typing text inside the pair. For example, typing ( automatically inserts ), producing (|), where | indicates the caret position. Typing abc places the characters inside the pair, resulting in (abc|). Typing the final ) then steps over the existing ), resulting in (abc)| instead of adding a duplicate closing bracket (abc)). changed: while searching for “XBrackets.txt”, the plugin first checks the “plugins\XBrackets” folder, and only then checks the “plugins\doc” folder. a few internal corrections. https://github.com/d0vgan/npp-XBracketsLite/releases/tag/XBrackets_v204