Thank you for renaming the title.

@HalfOffHell said in UDL token cannot be both folding indicator and operator/delimiter.:

If you don’t know any workarounds, can you point me to where in the source code the coloring/folding/UDL happens? You seem like a well-informed person.

Thanks, but I’m not that guy…I just spent a year and half wrestling with the different parts to come up with my own UDL package leaning heavily on the more expert users here.

I’m not sure if you’re working backwards from the normal process, as most people create the color highlighting UDL, first, using the rules of the UDL 2.1 language to implement their chosen language, and then enhance color processing with the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin that the UDL didn’t. Then they implement the FunctionList functionality or the Autocomplete functionality to get a somewhat more complete IDE type environment.

You sound like you started with EnhanceAnyLexer and are now trying to force the UDL to work with those things. Like I always say, more complexity leads to more problems. I still don’t understand why you need that multi-faceted use out of a single keyword or keyword/pair. Are you actually doing a language or just experimenting with the capabilities of doing something short of writing a plugin or submitting changes to the Notepad++ base code?

The UDL is a part of the source code of Notepad++, and is located on NPP’s GitHub Repository. Any changes except for your own use, would have to be submitted to the developer for approval of inclusion to the base code.

In addition, Notepad++ uses the Scintilla/Lexilla libraries for the editor’s capabilities.

@HalfOffHell said in UDL token cannot be both folding indicator and operator/delimiter.:

I don’t see why or how operators and delimiters would interfere with folding, they are just for color I think?

They do because they are being searched differently. To use the open keyword as an Operator, it has to go into Operator 2, which uses a backward searching capability, and the Delimiters and Code Folding uses the Forward search.

You should read more of the manual, and the UDL 2.1 spec layed out in both the Online User Manual and the Ivan Radic documentation, and try to see how everything works together as is.

I don’t think the system as is, is going to work the way you want. You might need to employ using the PythonScript capabilty, or writing your own parser as a plugin. All of these are going to involve becoming familiar with the capabilities and functions of the Scintilla libraries and there are much more knowledgeable individuals here that can help you further, if you start posting actual information rather than just screenshots and vague statements about what you’re doing.

Edit: I just noted that your screenshot states it’s a C++ UDL, so my guess is, that you’re trying to further expand C++, which is beyond my ability to help, as originally I tried using the C++ FunctionList as an example for mine and went quickly down a rabbit hole, just barely able to get out before I lost my mind. :-)

@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…

@Bob-Smith said in notepad ++ adjust indentation:

Where is this hiding? Not seeing it. Have the settings been moved around?

Which version of Notepad++ are you running. The preference option is certainly there in the recent versions. You might need to show us your debug info. From the ? menu, select debug info, copy and paste that info here.

As well as the previous post another idea is I think the “Column Editor”. If you want all the lines in your file to have the same prefix, position the cursor at the very start, use column editor and enter the text to be the prefix on EVERY line.

If you just want a group of lines to have a prefix, position the cursor on the first line of the group, use Ctrl + Alt + mouse control to move down the left margin for the group of lines. Then use the column editor to insert a prefix for that group. You could also just type the character(s).

Terry

Hello, @dr-ramaanand, @coises and All,

I tried to simplify the @coises search regex and I ended up with this search regex :

(?s-i)(<(.+?)[> ].*?(?:/>|</\2>))(*SKIP)(*F)|(?-s).+\R

So, given your INPUT text :

<html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content- Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <META name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <h1>BOTHROPS</h1> <p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS uses [Both-l uses]</p> Haemor- rhages- dark Fear- of death E-mail us <h6>Remedies A- Z</h6> <ul> Some- list- here Dunking- donuts Seventytwo- houris </ul> <style type="text/css"> @media (min- width: 1281px) { .left { width: 180px; border-width:1px; border-style:solid; border-color:lightblue; padding-top:10px; } .right { width: 560px; border- width:1px; border- style:solid; border- color:lightblue; margin- top:0px; } } </style> <script type="text/javascript"> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google- translate- element'); } </script>

This regex just matches the three consecutive lines, below :

Haemor- rhages- dark Fear- of death E-mail us

Note that I deliberately added an other string r-, followed with a space character, for tests !

Thus, the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s-i)(<(.+?)[> ].*?(?:/>|</\2>))(*SKIP)(*F)|(?<=\w)-(?=\x20)

REPLACE \x20-

Will replace, in these three lines ONLY, any string letter-, followed with a space char, with the string letter - and a space char

Best Regards,

guy038

@guy038

Peter should document all of this in the user manual.
(Just kidding, Peter!)

@David-A-Stewart You could use #region and #endregion to do explicit folding in Powershell. These are case-sensitive so must be lowercase to be recognized by the Powershell lexer.

example1 :

function Test-Remainder { param( [Parameter(Mandatory, Position=0)] [string]$Value, [Parameter(Position=1, ValueFromRemainingArguments)] [string[]]$Remaining ) "Found $($Remaining.Count) elements" for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Remaining.Count; $i++) { "${i}: $($Remaining[$i])" } } Test-Remainder first one,two

can be edited to :

function Test-Remainder { #region param( [Parameter(Mandatory, Position=0)] [string]$Value, [Parameter(Position=1, ValueFromRemainingArguments)] [string[]]$Remaining ) #endregion "Found $($Remaining.Count) elements" for ($i = 0; $i -lt $Remaining.Count; $i++) { "${i}: $($Remaining[$i])" } } Test-Remainder first one,two

There are no other explicit comments in the Powershell lexer like some lexers have, like #{ and #} to cause extra folding.

The folding options of the Powershell lexer are fold.comment, fold.compact and fold.at.else which can be changed by a scripting plugin. The fold.comment option does affect the region comment folding and the value set is 1 to allow comment folding.

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”.

@mkupper ,

the OP’s question seemed clear enough to me. While they did not show their debug info …

Maybe you didn’t notice which FAQ @Alan-Kilborn directed the OP to, because “it’s ambiguous” wasn’t meant to say that “the OP question was ambiguous” – “It’s Ambiguous” is one of the headers in the FAQ that was linked to.

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I am thinking that when Alan said, “It’s Ambiguous” and directed the OP to a FAQ that you thought he was linking to the “request for more information, especially debug info” FAQ. But he actually linked to the FAQ: Why Can’t I Just Say “Most Recent Version”, which explains in detail about why the Update Notepad++ doesn’t find v8.7.4 right now, using much the same language that you used in your reply.

update 1: Yes, I admit that “Most Recent Version” FAQ also asks for Debug Info, but the “It’s Ambiguous” section can double as the answer to the FAQ “why does Notepad++ say there’s no newer version, when the downloads page clearly shows a newer version”.
I guess I could make the FAQ more explicit in that regard.

update 2: I have now tried to make the FAQ more clear that it’s answering two questions that both have the same root description, even though they seem, on the surface, unrelated.

@Matthew-Owen @PeterJones
It’s actually perfectly feasible to remove all non-empty lines that are duplicated anywhere in the file, regardless of order, without using plugins, although this unfortunately can’t be saved in a macro. This is an extension of the “group lines by content and then put them back in order” procedure that I’ve also used to empty all duplicate lines (leaving them empty) efficiently. The general “group lines by content and then put them back in order” procedure is just steps 1-5 and 7-10 below, where step 6 is the part where you do whatever you want with the lines while they’re grouped by content.

For all of the below find/replace operations, Wrap around must be checked, and Search Mode must be set to Regular expression.

The steps are as follows:

Replace ^ with \x20 (add a space at the beginning of each line) Move the caret to the start of the file Use the column editor to add line numbers at the start of each line: Number to Insert checked Initial number, Increase by, Repeat all set to 1 Leading = Zeros Format: Dec Replace (?-s)^(\d+)\x20(.*) with ${2}\x20${1} (swap the line numbers with the rest of the line, so that unique lines are annotated with their location) Run the command Edit->Line Operations->Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending Replace ^(.+?)\x20\d+(\R)(?:\1\x20\d+\R?)+ with nothing (remove all non-empty lines that aren’t unique, replace the .+? with .*? if you also want to remove empty lines) Replace ^(.*?)\x20(\d+)$ with ${2}\x20${1} (move the line numbers back to the start of the line) Remove the empty line from the end of the file, if there is one Run the command Edit->Line Operations->Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending again (put lines back in the original order) Replace ^\d+\x20 with nothing (remove the starting line numbers and space)

As a demonstration, this procedure can take the file

1337 1 bar 1337 1 baz jke quz 1337 1 quz nhj blah baz jke 103

and convert it into

bar nhj blah 103

Hi, @david-l, @mark-olson and All,

@david-l, I do not understand !

The second part of my regex, AFTER the alternation symbol ( | ) was :

SEARCH (?<=<text>).+(?=</text>\R(?:.+\R){3}\h*<color)

That I, now, improved as :

SEARCH (?-is)(?<=<text>).+(?=</text>\R(?:.+\R){3}\h*<color value="255,255,255"/>)

and these both regexes just match the string 400, against the INPUT text below, not more :

<value> <text>400</text> </value> <font size="8pt" typeface="Helvetica" baselineShift="0pt" weight="bold"> <fill> <color value="255,255,255"/> </fill>

So what ?

Now, @david-l, in your first post, you said :

Also, I’d like the expression copy what is inside

<text name=“title”>Find and copy me</text>

This was considered in the first part of my regex :

SEARCH / MARK <text name=.+>\K.+(?=</text>) which does find the string Find and copy me only, against the INPUT text, below :

<text name="title">Find and copy me</text>

Now, may be it’s because i’m not fluent with the HYML language but, in your second post, you said :

So, my idea was to search for all code that make a box black

<fill> <color value="255,255,255"/> </fill>

And, obviously, the color referenced is the white color ! So what ?

Sorry, I’m a bit lost !!

BR

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn said in Prevent file loading:

I don’t believe NPPM_DOOPEN or WM_OPEN do the job, though.

I doubt that too

@clach04
To “really” not open a file before it is read, Npp must support this internally, which is not yet the case.

As @mkupper said, anchors and regular expressions are the magic spells that I use to untangle lines - or even files, (like blobs of downloaded bank data) - that are hopelessly mangled together.

Depending on how mangled the data is, it may take several tries - with a number of mistakes - before you get things the way you want them.

It can be a process and don’t forget to make periodic backup saves in case you have to “undo” a search-and-replace.

In my case I use Notepad++ to untangle downloaded bank data for tax purposes and, (depending on the size of the file and how mangled it is), it can take days to complete.

Be patient. Print out a regular expression cheat-sheet if you need one. (I did) And don’t give up even if it seems like you’re going backwards.

@dr-ramaanand said in NON utf-8:

I have the same problem. How to make those Chinese and other characters readable again like before?

Based on the original poster’s comment, I don’t think it is the same problem. The original poster apparently wanted to identify characters that wouldn’t save properly in non-Unicode files so he could remove or replace them. My solution is only partial (it doesn’t take into account what non-ASCII characters are available in his default code page, and therefore perhaps would not need to be removed), but we’ll have to wait to see if he responds to know if he needs more ideas.

I recommend you post this as a new question, as it appears to be different from the problem under discussion here. In any case, we will need more information. Since you write “like before,” part of that information should be what changed between “before” and “now.” Please be sure to include the information from ? | Debug Info… | Copy debug info to clipboard when you post.

@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!!