FYI: This feature is implemented in Notepad++ core and it’ll be available in the next release.
You may want to check the PR to see if it meets your need:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/14313

@guy038

This is how it looks on your system, but I assume it might look different on a system where OSMANYA is more common.
That is, of course, if there is a localized version of Windows that OSMANYA takes into account.

@Cooeeeee said in Sort Lines Lexicographically did not work:

I’ve been using Notepad++ for years. My most used feature is Sort Lexicographically to sort a column mode selection (i.e. I essentially have a table of data). For example, I’ll use Alt+Shift and maybe select columns 27-30 across all lines, then do a lexicographical sort on that.

Today I encountered a list that wasn’t sorting correctly. I’ve not had this problem before. My lines had some tabs prior to the columns I was trying to sort. Reading through this thread gave me the idea to try the “TAB to space” conversion. My listed would sort correctly after making that adjustment. Somehow the tabs were breaking it. I figured I’ll leave this tip here in case it can help anyone else.

Indeed, sorting by column does not work if there are tabs before the columns. No doubt for efficiency, the column sort in Notepad++ determines a single pair of starting and ending character positions to apply to all lines, rather than independently extracting the selected text on every line; tabs are treated as single characters, no matter how wide they are on the display.

If you’re interested in a pre-release version of a plugin, Columns++ includes a sort function which works as expected when there are tabs in the document.

I like the title of this related Notepad++ issue…a lot !

Hello Claudia,

did try to understand what the difference could be but …
…
I would love to see why our machines behave differently but without a debugging environment it’s hard to track down the issue…

I apologize for not being clear enough in my last post.
In “Very nice” I meant to confirm the issue was solved by adding console.show(). :)

The file StaticDialog.cpp has a function makeRTLResource.
Within the function there is this if condition

Thank you very much for that too.
A couple of years ago Dave uploaded a PythonScript v1.1.1 without committing the changes.
As your script works perfectly, I’d rather keep using v1.1.1.

Many thanks again for your kind help. I do appreciate it.

Best regards.

@mpheath

Thank you very much - and disabling it again in my init routine seems to solve the current problem, but I’m not sure if there isn’t an underlying issue here. I mean, why does this only happen when multiple documents are used in a single window? I will do some tests in the next few days.

@Ekopalypse
I see… 😅

@guy038 Sorry, that does work. I somehow slipped in a space before the RegEx in the MACRO

@David-Brigden52 said in Notepad++ File Status Auto-Detection not working:

I use a dark theme rather than the default Would that make a difference?

I could be wrong, but I cannot see how.

not seeing this behavior. It irritates me.

I can understand that.

In full disclosure, I do sometimes see Notepad++ not update as quickly as I’d like – this screen capture was quite cooperative.

Sometimes, I think it doesn’t notice until the system clock is about 1min beyond the timestamp of the file. (And I think I’ve even seen longer delays when the file was created on a machine whose time was off from my local machine.)

I don’t know the full algorithm that Notepad++ uses, but my guess is that in the real-life circumstances, it’s a combination of Windows not having yet flushed the file to disk from the other process and Notepad++ not polling constantly (it wouldn’t want to spend all its cpu cycles on checking for changed files).

In the contrived circumstances like my example derived from your instructions, I would expect pretty consistent behavior (since the individual processes of the time/copy-con commands will flush to disk when they close).

If I’m ever getting impatient, I just use the File > Reload from Disk to make sure it’s up-to-date. (The funny thing is, that’s sometimes accompanied a few seconds later by “this file has been updated”, when it then updates to the state of the file that I just manually updated to).

You might try experimenting with the MISC > File Status Auto-Detection settings… maybe having recently changed from one to the other enabled the algorithm to work more consistently for me, or something…

Unfortunately, I am out of solid ideas, and since such problems are often the combination of many factors, it may be difficult to come up with a complete solution. But hopefully someone else has ideas for you to test.

@pnedev Sorry for necroposting, but why no one said magic words “Group policies”? Chromium (and Chrome ofc) extensively uses this feature. Yes, in order to use this feature Notepad++ should provide administrative templates, but it is not that hard.

@Alan-Kilborn

Thank you for providing the download link more close to my announcement. I will keep that in mind for the next time. To provide more info I added the change log to my comment above.

@Alan-Kilborn said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

Assumes dinkumoil does what’s necessary to make it appear there, post 8.4.8

Done, the new release is already part of Npp’s upcoming plugin list.

the chief documentation maintainer moved forward with using “caret” in the software UI and the user manual. Perhaps you’d want to do this as well for your “Cursor” section in an upcoming release.

Yes, why not. It’s always good to use an equal naming.

i was just adding my findings, in case anyone was still looking at this issue

my knowledge is fairy limited, so i have not arrived to any real conclusion about the reason for the result

On testing the above, I observed that both the above regular expressions work only for tags or strings that begin with a < and end with a > - so if you are searching for a string between inverted commas, to find the first string, you should use the regular expression (?s)\A.*?\K"string(?:.*?)?"