@xomx
Thank you very much for the work you have done, which will lead to improvements in Notepad++ in the future.
I am very grateful to you.

@PeterJones said in File type associations not working:

it’s at the mercy of the OS as to whether the OS will propagate such settings to the user, or completely bypass them

It worked reasonably for me. I ran my installed Notepad++ v8.9.1 As Administrator, then went to the File Association setting, picked customize, typed .pcj (which is a file extension that didn’t have any associated app or filetype), then clicked -> to move it to the Registered extensions column. If I then exit Notepad++ (to get out of Admin mode), and double-click on blah.pcj in Windows Explorer, it opened it in Notepad++. (And looking at the registry, I can confirm it added HKCR\.pcj to point to Notepad++_file, and HKCR\Notepad++_file sets the shell\open\command as expected. (But maybe you didn’t think it “worked” at this point, because it doesn’t necessarily change the text of the “file type” column in Explorer. Even if it doesn’t, the double-click did what I expected.)

When I tried with the preferences dialog misc > .nfo, it edited the existing HJCR\.nfo to point to Notepad++_file (with a Notepad++_backup entry pointing to the original MSInfoFile. When i double-click on an NFO file, Windows actually pops up a Select an App to open this .nfo file, which includes the “Notepad++ (New)” entry (because Windows has been trained to not fully allow applications to hijack extensions, because users hate it when an app does that without their permission) – and from there, you can choose whether you really want to.

But by doing it through the Windows OS Open With interface to begin with, you make sure Windows knows it’s you who wants the change, not the app, and so lets you do it more easily there.

IOW: it works for me on Windows 11 as Notepad++ tries it, with the caveats that Windows 11 is trying to protect me from nefarious apps, so might require a confirmation; and when I do things the way Windows OS wants, it works as expected rather than having to do the extra steps.

Hello, @kjell-rilbe, @peterjones, @Coises and All,

I was curious and I tried to reproduce exactly the @peterjones’s test on my laptop, with the two different lines 358660 and 382650 !

Like Peter said, the @kjell-rilbe syntax worked correctly, even from the first line of the test file. However, this syntax also detect zero-length matches. Thus, I suppose that the combination of the regexes :

^[^;\r\n]*(?:(?:;[^;\r\n]*){1,11}|(?:;[^;\r\n]*){13,})$

and

^[^;\r\n]+$

would be a better solution.

Now, as @peterjones mentioned, if the file contains only valid lines, oddly you get the error message The complexity of matching... ! And that’s why the @Coises syntax, using backtracking control verbs, is very useful.

Indeed, this special syntax :

Does return 0 match if current file contains correct lines ONLY

Does return N matches if current file contains N incorrect lines

I did not need to use the atomic forms *+ and I simply changed the * with a +, right before the $ sign, in order to avoid possible true empty lines.

^[^;\r\n]*(?:;[^;\r\n]*){12}$(*SKIP)(*F)|^.+$

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones said in Possible error or not?:

the old 4096 Mb limit was actually causing a crash, so it had to be lowered to a limit that was 2046 Mb.

It’s true, and the 2046 is the current right ‘Define Large File Size’ threshold max value for the N++ Scintilla syntax highlighting.

Note:
Now we could easily shift that back (but I don’t think it’s a good idea, as the enabled syntax highlighting and the assoc. stuff substantially slow down handling and double the memory consumption needed for such large files…) to the previous larger 4096 threshold, since in the meantime I finally persuaded Don and now the SC_DOCUMENTOPTION_TEXT_LARGE Scintilla docs flag is used as default everywhere (this effectively removes the previous crash possibility for a small increase in the consumed memory price). Some details in:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/14944
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/14982

@Coises said in Regex matching anomaly:

If the line endings in the file aren’t consistent, it could mismatch.

Huh. Right you are. Ironically, that possibility had actually occurred to me, and I even thought I’d checked for it adequately by enabling View > Show Symbol > Show EOL, but apparently I failed to pick the single LF out of all the CRLF. Thanks.

@PeterJones sure.

@Chris-Richardson said:

TextPad++

I see that there is a fee for this app on the appstore.
I’d think for that reason alone you won’t get too many users trying this app out.

@Pawan-Sharma
If I had to guess, two words: race conditions (and an opposite-ish problem, deadlocks).
Iteratively updating the results while searching seems like a great way to introduce endless difficult-to-reproduce bugs.

@Joc-Bedenčič ,

Based on my guess as to what you meant,
FIND = (^#EXTINF:0,).*$
REPLACE = $1
SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression

That gives the result,

#EXTINF:0, #EXTTV:Mpeg2;slv; udp://@232.2.1.1:5002 #EXTINF:0, #EXTTV:Mpeg2;slv; udp://@232.2.1.2:5002

Because that’s my guess as to what you meant by “remove everything behind #EXTINFO:0,”

If that isn’t what you wanted, you will want to give both “before” and “after” data (“only channel names” has no meaning to someone who doesn’t know the format)

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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

@Linen-Gray
Nothing in that batch file refers to Notepad++. I think you have associated the update of Notepad++ with the appearance of the message, however you do not show anything to suggest Notepad++ is the cause of this message.

A quick Google search even suggests that Adblock360 might be malware. Use a good A/V system to thoroughly inspect your computer. I could even suggest Malwarebytes as it has a very good reputation in this area.

Terry

Just 6 votes… Not many.

Anyway, I’m continuing to improve the HTML version of the Manual, this time with close help of Gemini.
I still don’t understand the HTML/JS/CSS things good enough, but with the trials and re-trials guided by the AI, I think I’ve already achieved such level of flexibility and complexity that rdipardo and Joseph Samuel (who originally significantly helped with bringing the Manual online) may be proud of the result :)
I seemed to achieve the same behavior between the offline (local) and online (web) version of the HTML Manual today, so you may try it.
The most important changes have been made around the “Search Topics” logic:

Now the search results (left frame) and the document content (right frame) both listen to the ‘mouseenter’ event. Once this event happens, the corresponding frame becomes focused, allowing e.g. scrolling by the arrow keys. While working with the search results list (such as changing the selected item via the mouse or the keyboard), the focus remains in the results list, thus allowing to navigate through different documents. Pressing Enter or double-clicking the search results list brings the focus to the document content (right frame). The search results list can be closed by Esc. The http and https links in the documents are blocked for the CHM version of the manual and allowed otherwise.

You can use sites that can transform text, simply put you text and then transform it and place in your sentence, that is how you have two types of fonts

Updated linter++ to v1.0.3

Two changes of significance here:

Deal properly with raw UTF8 characters in checkstyle output (mainly from jshint) Added two items to the plugin menu Help which opens the Readme on github pages About which produces a small modal dialogue with the version and a clickable link to the project github repo.

For future users, you need to make your own variation of the pre-installed Markdown laguage.

Go to Languages>User Defined Languages->Define Your Language.

Then click on a Styler button. I’m using dark mode and just prefer white text for formatting italics bold etc. So I set foreground to transparent, this means no colour override and uses the dark mode settings.

d7869850-e1bc-4ebe-ac09-75f35e022ade-image.png

Then go to Save As and give it a name.
You’ll need to activate the new language variant which will be available in the Languages menu.

@Coises

Thank you, Coises, for your helpful reply. I truly appreciate your support and guidance.

Regards,
Harmandeep Singh Kandhari

Its been 5 years I’m using notepad ++ and for me it was and it is very useful tool.

Hello, @peterjones,

First, read this post to @coises, where I discuss the Unicode concept of identifiers, particularly in Perl !

Thus, as explained at the end of that post, I created a second version of my perl.xml file parser which should work correctly without significant delay !

In short :

I do NOT use any atomic structure !

In mainExpr of the class range, I do NOT use a named group but, simply, use the part ^ (?: package | class ) \b, twice !

I changed your prototype / signature syntax (?:\([^()]*+\)\s*+)?+ to (?: \( [\x20-\x7E\w]* \) \s* )?

I changed your attributes syntax (?:\:[^{]+)?+ to (?: : [\x20-\x7A\x7C-\x7E\w]+ \s* )?

In the two syntaxes above, I simply added \w within each character class

Note that, from this article https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2015/04/use-v5-20-subroutine-signatures/, the following syntax seems possible :

sub animals ( $cat, $auto_id = get_id() ) { say "$auto_id: The cat is $cat"; }

Thus, for prototype / signature syntax, I’ve allowed parentheses within the outer parentheses. If this example seems not pertinent, use the alternate syntax :

(?: \( [\x20-\x27\x2A\x7E\w]* \) \s* )?

Finally, I changed the regex class name (?x)\s\K[^;{]+ to (?x) \s+ \K .+? (?= \x20* [;{] )

BTW, my parser presently contains 13 strings \s. May be, the \h or even the [\t\x20] syntax should be more appropriate, in some parts ?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!-- ==========================================================================\ | | To learn how to make your own language parser, please check the following | link: | https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/function-list/ | \=========================================================================== --> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ======================================================== [ PERL ] --> <!-- Perl - functions and packages, including fully-qualtified subroutine names --> <parser displayName="Perl" id="perl_syntax" commentExpr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m-s: # 'Multi-lines' mode ( ^ and $ match at line-breaks ) / 'Dot' char does NOT match line-breaks \x23 .* # Single Line Comment ( #................ ) ) # | # OR (?s: # 'Single line' mode (letter s optional as mode set by DEFAULT) __ (?: END | DATA ) __ # String '__END__' or '__DATA__' .* # ANY character(s), including line-breaks, till... \Z # Last line-break, included ) " > <classRange mainExpr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m-i) # 'Multi-lines' mode (^ and $ match at line-breaks) / 'Sensitive case' mode ^ # NO leading white-space at start of line (?: package | class ) \b # Header : word 'package' or 'clas', in LOWER case (?s: # 'Single line' mode (letter s optional as mode set by DEFAULT) .+? # ANY character(s), including line-breaks, till... ) # Section below, excluded (?= # Start of look-ahead \s* # Optional leading white-space of ^ # NO leading white-space at start of line (?: package | class ) \b # Next header : word 'package' or 'clas', in LOWER case | # OR \Z # last line-break ) # End of look-ahead " > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) \s+ # Leading white-space(s) \K # Discard text matched so far .+? # ANY character(s) till... (?= \x20* [;{] ) # First semi-colon or left brace, excluded " /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m-i) # 'Mutli-lines' mode (^ and $ match at line-breaks) / 'Sensitive case' mode ^ \h* # Optional leading spaces or tabulations (?: sub | method ) \b # Word 'sub' or 'method', in LOWER case \s+ # White-space character(s) (?: \w+ :: )* # Optional list of words EACH followed with :: \w+ # Word character(s) \s* # Optional white-space character(s) (?: \( [\x20-\x7E\w]* \) \s* )? # Optional Prototype or Signature section (?: : [\x20-\x7A\x7C-\x7E\w]+ \s* )? # Optional Attributes section \{ # Start of function body " > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?: sub | method ) # Word 'sub' or 'method', in LOWER case \s+ # White-space character(s) \K # Discard text matched, so far (move this line right before \w+ if 'prefix::' part NOT desired) (?: \w+ :: )* # Optional prefix:: part ( package:: / names:: ) \w+ # Word character(s) " /> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?m-i) # 'Mutli-lines' mode (^ and $ match at line-breaks) / 'Sensitive case' mode ^ \h* # Optional leading spaces or tabulations (?: sub | method ) # Word 'sub' or 'method', in LOWER case \s+ # White-space character(s) (?: \w+ :: )* # Optional list of words, EACH followed with :: \w+ # Word character(s) \s* # Optional white-space character(s) (?: \( [\x20-\x7E\w]* \) \s* )? # Optional Prototype or Signature section (?: : [\x20-\x7A\x7C-\x7E\w]+ \s* )? # Optional Attributes section \{ # Start of function body " > <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?: sub | method ) # Word 'sub' or 'method', in LOWER case \s+ # White-space character(s) \K # Discard text matched, so far ( move this line right before \w+ if part 'prefix::' NOT desired (?: \w+ :: )* # Optional prefix:: part ( package:: / names:: ) \w+ # Word character(s) " /> </functionName> <className> <nameExpr expr="(?x) # 'Free-spacing' mode (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`) (?: sub | method ) # Word 'sub' or 'method', in LOWER case \s+ # White-space character(s) \K # Discard text matched, so far \w+ # Word character(s) ( :: \w+ )* # Optional list of words, EACH preceded with :: (?= :: \w ) # Till a last string ':: + word char' excluded " /> </className> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

In the https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/a91b22bd8337465e04c1afa30cb71f7909340293/PowerEditor/Test/FunctionList/perl/unitTest file, I added text at various locations :

Before the line ############### Start ############### ################ Added by guy038 to test Notepad++'s FunctionList sub animals ( $cat, $autoid = get_id() ) { say "$auto_id: the cat is $cat"; } sub _function_été { return 1 } Before the line package NameSpace::Block { ################ Added by guy038 to test Notepad++'s FunctionList sub grâce::Hôte { return 'running' } sub grâce::Son_ø { return 'stopped' } ################################################################# At the very end of file : ################ Added by guy038 to test Notepad++'s FunctionList class NewClassSyntax { method inBlock { return 1 } method inBlockProto($) { return $_[0] } method inBlockAttrib :prototype($) { return $_[0] } } class Chaîne{ method inBlock { return 1 } method Dûment($) { return $_[0] } method ƒ_Hameçon :prototype($) { return $_[0] } } #################################################################

In terms of speed, the Function List panel seems quickly displayed. I also did a test copying UniTest.txt twice, and then adding, by regex, _1, _2 and _3 at end of the different names, the Function List panel still appeared without delay !

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, @coises, @thomas-knoefel, @peterjones and All,

@coises, many thanks for your additional info. But, please, don’t be too upset by these regex oddities ! Of course, some class definitions seems different but, in all cases, Columns++ gives more accurate results than native N++ search, anyway !

In fact, I did all these researches on the Unicode world as I wanted to clarify the status about identifiers, particularly with Perl, in order to find out a simplified formulation for the Function List Perl parser created by @peterjones and improved with your help, by using atomic structures !

My first attempt was clearly insufficient because I only took ASCII characters into account. Peter adviced me to refer to the article, below :

https://perldoc.perl.org/perldata#Identifier-parsing

which explains that, when using UTF-8, the Perl identifier syntax should be :

/ (?[ ( \p{Word} & \p{XID_Start} ) + [_] ]) (?[ ( \p{Word} & \p{XID_Continue} ) ]) * /x or in a SINGLE line (?[ ( \p{Word} & \p{XID_Start} ) + [_] ])(?[ ( \p{Word} & \p{XID_Continue} ) ]) *

Although the properties \p{XID_Start} and \p{XID_Continue} are NOT part of the General Category list and are not functional with the Boost regex engine, this Perl syntax could be expressed, in theory, with our Boost regex engine as :

(?:(?=\p{XID_Start})\w|_)(?=\p{XID_Continue})\w*

Now, with the v17.0 release of BabelMap software, I was able to get the complete and exact list of these properties : \p{WORD}, \p{ID_Start}, \p{ID_Continue}, \p{XID_Start}, \p{XID_Continue},

Then, from these lists, I could deduce the Unicode characters count of the regexes (?:(?=\p{XID_Start})\w|_) and (?=\p{XID_Continue})\w. Refer below :

# ================================================================================================== # # Unicode 17.0.0 # # From article https://unicode.org/reports/tr18/tr18-23.html#word # # # Derived Property WORD : # # # Lu + Ll + Lt + Lm + Lo = # L* 145,672 = \p{lettter} or [[:alpha:]] # # + Decimal_Number # Nd 770 = \p{Decimal Digit Number} # ----------- # Total : 146,442 = Columns++ WORD chars - \x{005F} # # + Mc + Me + Mn # M* 2,543 = \p{Mark} # # + Connector_Punctuation # Pc 10 ( including the LOW LINE character \x{005F} ) # # + 200C ; Other_ID_Continue # Cf 1 ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER ( JOIN-CONTROL character ) # # + 200D ; Other_ID_Continue # Cf 1 ZERO WIDTH JOINER ( JOIN-CONTROL character ) # # => Total = 148,997 characters # # ================================================================================================== # # From file 'DerivedCoreProperties.txt' : # # https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/DerivedCoreProperties.txt # # # Derived Property ID_Start : # # # Lu + Ll + Lt + Lm + Lo = # L* 145,672 ( = [[:alpha:]] ) # # + Letter_Number # Nl 239 # # + 1885 ; Other_ID_Start # Mn 1 MONGOLIAN LETTER ALI GALI BALUDA # # + 1886 ; Other_ID_Start # Mn 1 MONGOLIAN LETTER ALI GALI THREE BALUDA # # + 2118 ; Other_ID_Start # Sm 1 SCRIPT CAPITAL P # # + 212E ; Other_ID_Start # So 1 ESTIMATED SYMBOL # # + 309B ; Other_ID_Start # Sk 1 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK # # + 309C ; Other_ID_Start # Sk 1 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK # # - 2E2F ; # Lm 1 VERTICAL TILDE ( as INCLUDED in L* ) # # => Total = 145,916 characters # # ================================================================================================== # # Derived Property XID_Start ( ID_Start MODIFIED for closure under NFKx ) : # # # ID_Start 145,916 # # - 037A ; ID_Start # Lm 1 GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI # # - 0E33 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 THAI CHARACTER SARA AM # # - 0EB3 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 LAO VOWEL SIGN AM # # - 309B ; Other_ID_Start # Sk 1 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK # # - 309C ; Other_ID_Start # Sk 1 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK # # - FC5E ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC5F ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC60 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FC61 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FC62 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FC63 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH SUPERSCRIPT ALEF ISOLATED FORM # # # - FDFA ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM # - FDFB ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU # # - FE70 ; ID_Start # Lm 1 ARABIC FATHATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE72 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE74 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE76 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FE78 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7A ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7C ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC SHADDA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7E ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC SUKUN ISOLATED FORM # # - FF9E ; ID_Start # Lm 1 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK # - FF9F ; ID_Start # Lm 1 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK # # => Total = 145,893 characters # # ================================================================================================== # # Derived Property ID_Continue : # # # ID_Start = 145,916 # # - 1885 ; Other_ID_Start # Mn 1 MONGOLIAN LETTER ALI GALI BALUDA # # - 1886 ; Other_ID_Start # Mn 1 MONGOLIAN LETTER ALI GALI THREE BALUDA # # The TWO characters above must be SUBTRACTED because they are, both, INCLUDED in 'Other_ID_Start' and in 'Nonspacing Mark' # # + Nonspacing_Mark # Mn 2,059 # # + Spacing_Mark # Mc 471 # # + Decimal_Number # Nd 770 # # + Connector_Punctuation # Pc 10 ( including the LOW LINE char : 005F _ ) # # + 00B7 ; Other_ID_Continue # Po 1 MIDDLE DOT # + 0387 ; Other_ID_Continue # Po 1 GREEK ANO TELEIA # + 1369 ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT ONE # + 136A ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT TWO # + 136B ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT THREE # + 136C ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT FOUR # + 136D ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT FIVE # + 136E ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT SIX # + 136F ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT SEVEN # + 1370 ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT EIGHT # + 1371 ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 ETHIOPIC DIGIT NINE # + 19DA ; Other_ID_Continue # No 1 NEW TAI LUE THAM DIGIT ONE # + 200C ; Other_ID_Continue # Cf 1 ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER # + 200D ; Other_ID_Continue # Cf 1 ZERO WIDTH JOINER # + 30FB ; Other_ID_Continue # Po 1 KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT # + FF65 ; Other_ID_Continue # Po 1 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT # # => Total = 149,240 characters # # ================================================================================================== # # Derived Property XID_Continue ( ID_Continue MODIFIED for closure under NFKx ) : # # # ID_Continue 149,240 # # - 037A ; ID_Continue # Lm 1 GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI # # - 309B ; ID_Continue # Sk 1 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK # # - 309C ; ID_Continue # Sk 1 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK # # - FC5E ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC5F ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC60 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FC61 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FC62 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FC63 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH SUPERSCRIPT ALEF ISOLATED FORM # # - FDFA ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM # - FDFB ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU # # - FE70 ; ID_Continue # Lm 1 ARABIC FATHATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE72 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE74 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE76 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FE78 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7A ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7C ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC SHADDA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7E ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC SUKUN ISOLATED FORM # # => Total = 149,221 characters # # ================================================================================================== # # From https://perldoc.perl.org/perldate/#identifier-parsing # # # Intersection of WORD and XID_Start properties + LOW LINE char : # # # Lu + Ll + Lt + Lm + Lo = # L* 145,672 ( = \p{lettter} or [[:alpha:]] ) # # # + 005F ; Connector_Punctuation # Pc 1 LOW LINE # # + 1885 ; Other_ID_Start # Mn 1 MONGOLIAN LETTER ALI GALI BALUDA ( NON-SPACING mark, common in WORD and XID_Start ) # # + 1886 ; Other_ID_Start # Mn 1 MONGOLIAN LETTER ALI GALI THREE BALUDA ( NON-SPACING mark, common in WORD and XID_Start ) # # # - 037A ; ID_Start # Lm 1 GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI # # - 0E33 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 THAI CHARACTER SARA AM # # - 0EB3 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 LAO VOWEL SIGN AM # # - 2E2F ; # Lm 1 VERTICAL TILDE ( as ALREADY included in L* ) # # - FC5E ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC5F ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC60 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FC61 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FC62 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FC63 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH SUPERSCRIPT ALEF ISOLATED FORM # # # - FDFA ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM # - FDFB ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU # # - FE70 ; ID_Start # Lm 1 ARABIC FATHATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE72 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE74 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE76 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FE78 ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7A ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7C ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC SHADDA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7E ; ID_Start # Lo 1 ARABIC SUKUN ISOLATED FORM # # - FF9E ; ID_Start # Lm 1 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK # - FF9F ; ID_Start # Lm 1 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK # # => Total = 145,653 characters, which can START an IDENTIFIER # # ================================================================================================== # # From https://perldoc.perl.org/perldate/#identifier-parsing # # # Intersection of WORD and XID_Continue properties : # # # Lu + Ll + Lt + Lm + Lo = # L* 145,672 ( = \p{lettter} or [[:alpha:]] ) # # + Nonspacing_Mark # Mn 2,059 # # + Spacing_Mark # Mc 471 # # + Decimal_Number # Nd 770 # # + Connector_Punctuation # Pc 10 ( including the LOW LINE char : 005F _ ) # # + 200C ; Other_ID_Continue # Cf 1 ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER ( FORMAT character, common in WORD and XID_Continue ) # # + 200D ; Other_ID_Continue # Cf 1 ZERO WIDTH JOINER ( FORMAT character, common in WORD and XID_Continue ) # # # - 037A ; ID_Continue # Lm 1 GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI # # - 2E2F ; # Lm 1 VERTICAL TILDE ( as ALREADY included in L* ) # # - FC5E ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC5F ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FC60 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FC61 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FC62 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FC63 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SHADDA WITH SUPERSCRIPT ALEF ISOLATED FORM # # - FDFA ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM # - FDFB ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU # # - FE70 ; ID_Continue # Lm 1 ARABIC FATHATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE72 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE74 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM # - FE76 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC FATHA ISOLATED FORM # - FE78 ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC DAMMA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7A ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC KASRA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7C ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC SHADDA ISOLATED FORM # - FE7E ; ID_Continue # Lo 1 ARABIC SUKUN ISOLATED FORM # # => Total = 148,966 characters, which can CONTINUE an IDENTIFIER #

However, the last two results (?:(?=\p{XID_Start})\w|_) and (?=\p{XID_Continue})\w, above, are true ONLY IF the regex engine would respect all Unicode properties. Unfortunately, from a Boost point of view, which :

Only considers that word characters are all in the BMP

Generally considers that word characters are those defined prior to the Unicode 5.3 release !

I verified that, presently, only 47,681 characters can begin an PERL identifier and only 48,011 characters can continue a PERL identifier !

So, @Peterjones, in all cases, the regex rules, used in Function List for Perl, are a rough approximation of what they should be !

Now, Peter, the goal is to get a Perl parser using the approximative BOOST \w definition, without the help of atomic structures.

Refer to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/104861

Best Regards,

guy038

@MHindujaDheerajSudan said in Meenu Hinduja Dheeraj Sudan - Best Plugins for Improving Productivity in Notepad++:

code formatting,

Depends on what language your code is in. For example, for formatting XML, I recommend XMLTools; for formatting JSON, I recomment JsonTools.

For most programming languges, there are standard executable-based formatters that are considered “best practice” for that language. Instead of having a dedicated plugin for each language you write in, my recommendation is to use a plugin to route the files through that external formatter.

The “Pork to Sausage” (P2S) plugin is actually good for that: you can define “transformations”, where it passes the content of the file thru an executable, and replaces the contents with the output of that executable (unfortunately, you have to do a Ctrl+A to select the whole text first, before running hte P2S. this post my @Michael-Vincent, and the follow-on a couple posts down, give an example script for the NppExec plugin that routes various filetypes to their appropriate formatter/pretty-printer executables.

Also, our compile/convert FAQ shows examples of how to do that sort of thing with both P2S or using NppExec to drive it – both are common solutions among the power-users here.

comparison tools

ComparePlus plugin. Hands down. No reason to consider anything else. It’s awesome.

session management.

The only session management plugin I can think of is Session Manager. I don’t use it, but I seem to remember people like it.

Which plugins do you personally rely on, and are there any compatibility concerns with recent versions?

Rely On: NppExec and ComparePlus are in my standard workflow for code development. And I use PythonScript for scripting tasks inside Notepad++ (like macros, but on steroids, because it has the full power of Python behind it), but that doesn’t fall within the types of tasks you were look for plugins for.

Compatibility: Pork2Sausage, NppExec, and ComparePlus are all actively maintained, and definitely don’t have any compatibility issues. I don’t know how Session Manager is doing for maintenance.