@Alan-Kilborn said in Need help with getting started using C++ Plugin Template:

from my custom PythonScript plugin

Oooh. What kind of customizations? :-)

Sorry, no new functionality if you expected so - that was just a slightly debugging enhanced version for fixing the PS-console not showing bug after N++ relaunching.

@guy038

Thank you so much for all your testing!

As I think you’ve seen, I decided to release a nominally “stable” version that has only a few small changes from the fourth experimental version and with (I think) up-to-date documentation.

I will be taking a closer look at the equivalence classes, and your tests and references will be very helpful. I also need to sort out the situation with digraphs and ligatures. (Unicode distinguishes between the two, and I might be forgetting a third thing — all cases where what we normally think of as multiple characters act as one, sometimes visually, sometimes for collation even when they are visually separate.) Particularly vexing is that this should affect character ranges depending on the active locale; e.g., in Slovak, “ch” sorts between “h” and “i”; in Spanish, it sorts between “c” and “d” and in English, it isn’t a digraph at all, just two letters. So [[.ch.]-i] should match “f” in Spanish but not in Slovak… and in English it makes no sense at all, because ch isn’t a digraph in English.

This sort of thing is why I decided to table the whole notion until I can rest and regroup.

I have to go, but I will continue tomorrow.
Thank you again for your answers.

@Robert-Jablko, A while back @PeterJones posted this which shows a way to have comments in a macro.

@mpheath

editor.hideLines()

As has been discussed in the Community many times, the “hide lines” feature of Notepad++ has problems, so much so that I (at least) have deemed it unusable. If you have success in using it, then good for you.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Columns++ version 1.2: better Unicode search:

I would go so far as to suggest something that looks and operates like the Notepad++ Find dialog and its tabs.
Then someone using the plugin would not have to learn anything new, and would feel “right at home”.
You know why I suggest this, right? :-)

I think I do, but to be honest, if and when I take on such a project, non-trivial user interface changes would be the whole point. Given that, I’m not sure I’d want to tie myself to recreating a legacy user interface and using it as an underlying model. Familiarity would be a plus, but I am unlikely to impose it on myself as a constraint.

This is all far enough down the road that someone else might well get to it before I do, anyway. I have at least two other self-assignments that would come first, and that’s just in the realm of computer programming.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16233

@4SHAKEN
In the future you should wrap your code snippets in ``` blocks.

if foo: blah = -3 return bar() # notice syntax highlighting, indentation preserved else: return zut()

@Vieri-Di-Paola said:

…or maybe not

It seems like a common sense new way of working for you would be to not keep working with “unsaved” data. But hey, do what you think is best!

@Alan-Kilborn

Enter w and then press home key.

rs0.png

Press tab key.

rs1.png

Press backspace to go back to state of the 1st image.

Now press Alt and Shift and click on the caret position.
A rectangular selection is created with anchor and caret at the same position.

Press tab key.

rs2.png

Compare the 2nd image with the 3rd image.
Col and Pos in the status-bar are different values.

Use PythonScript to run

editor.getSelectionMode()

to get the selection mode with each step.

@Linda-Delenra ,

I mean that I have many lines of text in each line.

I have no idea how you can have many lines of text in one line; there seems to be a language barrier. I answered the question based on your example data. If your example data doesn’t match reality, neither I nor anyone else here can answer your real question until you provide us data that matches reality. Sorry.

If you have the text like you showed originally and want to transform it into your second example text, you need to run the regular expression replacement action that I described.

by pressing one button

You could record a macro where you do the replacement (Macro > Start Recording, run the REPLACE ALL, Macro > Stop Recording, Macro > Save Current Recorded Macro and assign a keyboard shortcut)

@mkupper ,

My point wasn’t to get into the details of IPv4 and CIDR, but to show that, as asked, the problem is unanswerable without more detail, even when the person answering does know at least a little about the problem domain.

When asking for help with data transformation, people need to provide enough information about the requirements for someone to be able to answer them, without requiring the answerer to know generically about the kind of data they are using, and without requiring that they make guesses as to hidden/implied restrictions which make the difference between “easy” and “impossible”, as I pointed out in my examples.

@Coises and @Terry-R

thanx so much. Both methods work perfectly.

@Goff-Fred said in Unable to see Data in the Notepad++:

Command Line : “C:”

?!
I noticed this debug info cmdline param - if I’m not mistaken, it means that the OP tried to open all the files on the C: drive in N++!

Anyway, because it’s about graphics, I’d try to play with the Preferences > MISC. > DirectWrite checkbox setting.

@PeterJones wow, cool! thanks for the info! yes im sure some bright spark will add a config to enable using code assist. i will look into it, cheers!

wow, this sounds like a great tool, cant wait to use it.

i wonder if it will be possible to add support for google code assist, they have just opened up free access for individual developers.

also abillity to use the latest grok (3) would be cool too.

@Alex-De-Lara ,
Agreed. I use the Open-Shell UI, because I like the older Windows layout and menus, and I hate when people change things for everyone just for the sake of change.

Google is just as bad for this, as are supermarket marketing idiots that think changing where things are placed will make a shopper cover more sales area they want them to see things at, to spur impulse shopping…when in reality, they are alienating their customers and making them buy less out of frustration for not being able to find their favorite items where they their favorite items used to be. It’s human nature to categorize and memorize where things are at, and by doing things like this, they are just losing their customers business.

@irahsu ,
Glad to hear you’re running good now, and that it was a simple fix.

Funny, I was just re-reading my text and can’t believe I wrote Regex instead of registry. Being involved with NPP has gotten me Regex on the brain. :-)

@Craig-Shannon said in How can I change the icon for Notepad++:

previous regedits didn’t work for me

Yes it did, because knowingly or not, you followed my instructions.

You chose a different icon than I did (which is reasonable: the icon you want is of course up to you), and yours was called Notepad++_file\ instead of the txtfile in my example, but my instructions explicitly said, “or whatever it was for yours” to indicate that while it’s often txtfile (because that was the old default for opening a .txt file under older versions of windows), it always depends on the exact circumstances of each user, and no set of instructions that claims one key can be correct for everyone… And there’s no point in trying to list all the possible key names, because it’s virtually limitless. Hence, my instructions gave the old default key, and confirmed that the key might be different for any given user.