BTW my HugeFiles plugin is more feature-rich and actively maintained than BigFiles.

@Alan-Kilborn said in [8.7.1] File doesn't open expected file in list:

In this case, even though files are being closed, they aren’t saved in the “recent files” list. There must be something in the code that prevents this from happening during closure via shutdown.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/de1a04038b45df4e25f81f8bef1008b5a978106d/PowerEditor/src/NppBigSwitch.cpp#L2694

@sir-twosheds ,

I told you the FIND and REPLACE and the MODE.

Looking at the Replace dialog (Find > Replace), we can then see where each piece of the answer goes:
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What I called FIND and @guy038 called SEARCH goes in the Find what field in the dialog. What I and @guy038 each called REPLACE goes in the Replace with field in the dialog. What I called the MODE is the Search Mode set of radio buttons, and that needs to be set to Regular expression (as shown in my screenshot). Then to do the replacement, you hit the Replace All button. This is shown below:

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Even if you choose to not try to understand the syntax (despite the fact that @guy038 and I both went to lengths to explain every part of the syntax we shared, and I provided you with links where to learn more), I gave you the exact fill-in-the-blanks to do it without any learning on your point, so you can use either of the answers we gave.

To claim that our answers are not helpful because “I am a normal computer user… so I have no idea what you are talking about” is not reasonable. Our answers provided the FIND and REPLACE fields that you needed, without requiring any understanding of the syntax we told you to use, and only requiring you to be able to figure out that FIND or SEARCH maps to Find what and REPLACE maps to Replace with which is not a difficult ask for a “normal computer user”. It is also lying to yourself about your own abilities – you can figure out how to implement the solutions that @guy038 and I described, as can anyone who can follow reasonable directions. If you choose to lie to yourself and tell yourself that you cannot learn the specifics of the syntax, that is your choice (though a bad one): if you choose to believe that lie, then you can just take the solution we gave you and use it, without learning what it means, meaning that you will not be able to replicate similar results for slight changes in your desires in the future, but it will solve your immediate problem.

@mohammad-Al-Maaitah if your first and last symbol is symbol.PNGyou can type \x16.*?\x16 in the Find field, tick the regular expression mode, leave the Replace field empty and click Replace in files (to remove it from multiple files). That will help you get rid of all of those (and anything else in between). There are no spaces anywhere in the middle, so I am explaining the same to you

@Shohreh said in [Python] Edit > Block Comment doesn't use triple double-quotes:

Too bad because I like it better to comment a block.

If you want, you can use the docstring for pseudo-comments – many python programmers do – but you just have to understand that the Python interpreter treats them differently than a # comment, so you have to maintain valid string syntax in any block of text that you put between """ markers; if you are willing to accept that limitation, then feel free to use docstrings for comments – and feel free to update the langs.xml to allow you to use the block-comment feature in Notepad++ to do that wrapping.

Hello, @brenda-gross, @dr-ramaanand, @terry-r and All,

@terry-r, your use of the search regex (?-si:"(?!\R)|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!").)*?\K(?-si:\R) is just clever, because :

Any string may occur after the first " character ( the word Select or else )

It ensure that, if the global replacement is re-run, no change will occur again, thanks to the negative look-ahead (?!\R) after the double-quote character

Now, Terry, we still can tune this search regex !

In all parts of this regex, alphabetic characters are not involved. So, we can omit the -i modifiers

In the first and last part of this regex, the regex . character is not involved, too. Thus, we can omit the -s modifiers as well !

We do not need the non-capturing group around the searched string \R, too

Thus, the shortest syntax of the generic regex S/R is simply :

FIND (?:"(?!\R)|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!").)*?\K\R

REPLACE \x20

Note that, if the OP speak of the smart quotes “ and ”, of Unicode value U+201C and U+201D, this regex S/R becomes :

FIND (?:“(?!\R)|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!”).)*?\K\R

REPLACE \x20

So, @brenda-gross, just follow this road map :

Open your file in Notepad++

Add an empty line at the very beginning of your file, for security

Hit the Ctrl + Home shortcut to move at the very beginning of your file ( IMPORTANT )

Open the Replace dialog

Uncheck all box options

According to your case, use, either :

FIND (?:"(?!\R)|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!").)*?\K\R

FIND (?:“(?!\R)|(?!\A)\G)(?s:(?!”).)*?\K\R

REPLACE \x20

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click, once only, on the Replace All button

=> All the lines between regular or smart quotes should be displayed in single lines !

Now, if you want to get rid of these quote characters, at beginning and end of some lines :

Move at the very beginning of your file ( IMPORTANT )

Find ^"|"$    or    ^“|”$

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once on the Replace All button

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn
Yes! Now its a beauty…

Moderator restored the original post.

Deleting a post after there have been replies is highly discouraged. There is nothing sensitive in the original post, so the post has been restored to maintain the history of this conversation:

Don’t be embarrassed about having figured out the real problem: in internet help forums, there’s a whole category called “rubber duck debugging”, wherein just explaining the problem to someone else (ie, making your post) is enough to nudge your mind in the right direction, even without a reply – it’s nothing to be ashamed of. And thanks for letting us know you figured out your problem (so many times, people just go away after figuring it out, and never tell us whether we helped or whether we just acted as the rubber duck).

@Sandeep-S

…and I have recommended that issue be CLOSED, mainly because this idea was not taken up:

supply some concrete ideas for change

The suggestion made in the issue was for a way to disable the feature, not “pinning in a different way”.

@PeterJones @Terry-R
i opened notepad++ to do some coding for my website and tyo get the rest of the debug info and suddenly my notepad++ decided to work properly and have all the missing things appear i haven’t done anything. so sorry for wasting everybody’s time

@Guido-Thelen

This file in JsonTools contains a lot of the helper code you would need to make your forms compatible with NPP’s more recent releases.

As you may notice from reading the file, making your forms compliant with NPP’s expectations introduces a lot of frustrating issues, but IMO this is just the cost of maintaining a C# plugin.

@PeterJones Thank you so much these all worked perfectly!!

@Alberto-Casanova said in Is there anyway to modify "Function List" font style and size?:

Maybe a mod or a plugin?

I don’t think there is a way for a plugin to influence the font in a Notepad++-built-in panel.

I’m not a plugin author, so I’m not sure; but as I’ve documented the plugin-communication messages, there isn’t a message which affects the font in that panel. However, there might be a clever programming trick that I’m not aware of to hack something like that. Someone with more plugin experience than I have would have to chime in.

The topic is on a very goood way.
With the information given above it’s sufficiently possible to debug (Lazarus internal GDB debugger).
With the help of some custom drawing i made good steps forward in gui adpations
and meanwhile rdipardo updated the demo to show treeview theme painting too.
Details within the issue thread mentioned.
The template looks very promising!

@Terry-R, @PeterJones - It was pretty strange. I ended up having to uninstall 8.7.4. Once it was uninstalled, there was a ghost from 8.6.2 listed in Add/Remove Programs. Redownloaded 8.6.2 and installed it, then uninstalled it. That seems to have wiped the residual traces of the original install away. 8.7.4 is installed again, and working as it should.

We can only guess: Someone else moaning about the Show close button on tabs not showing the button on inactive tabs? When I use a version now that DOESN’T feature that, all those red buttons make me feel overwhelmed.

moderator note: I re-created your post under a different name; something about the previous title used is triggering a weird forum bug. Sorry to all the people who see, but cannot read, multiple copies with a similar name. I will try to clean up the database.

update: I think I’ve cleaned up the database; sorry for any who were confused by the extra empty/unavailble posts

@PeterJones Thanks Peter for the information. I decided leave the global URL style as is, and defined some keywords in prefix form for my custom language for “http://…”. This way, I keep both the unhovered and hovered styles, with the minor issue that a prefix keyword eats e.g. the parenthesis at the end of “(http://…)”. I can live with that.

@Coises Oh, I see, shift+] = }
Now it works.
Much appreciated!