Hello, @kracovwolf, @alan-kilborn and All,

The solution, provided by @alan-kilborn which uses the Extended search mode is really valuable !

In fact, except in very rare cases, the syntaxes of the replacement part : Line1\r\nLine 2\r\nLine3\r\nLine4\r\n... will preserved the syntax of each line !

BTW, if you’re usually deal with UNIX files ( see on the right part of the status bar ), you’ll have to change the REPLACE part as below :

Line1\nLine 2\nLine3\nLine4\n...

For example, from this INPUT text :

ab$cD^E\Fg-h()iIJ[]K:L

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Unckeck all box options

SEARCH ab$cD^E\Fg-h()iIJ[]K:L

REPLACE ab$c\r\nD^E\F\r\ng-h()i\r\nJ[]K:L

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Extended ( \n, \r, \t, \0, \x... search mode

Click on the Replace All button

=> You get the expected OUTPUT text :

ab$c D^E\F g-h()i J[]K:L

In these others posts, below, I imagined a way to insert a multi-lines text, using the Regular expression search mode :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97866

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97904

However, now I see that the Extended search mode or, even better, the Normal mode could drastically simplify the method when applied to a single file !

So, when you want to insert a multi-lines text, even in several locations, of the current file, just follow this method :

Let’s suppose that this INPUT text, below, is the text to be inserted : ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text -------------

First, paste the text to be inserted in a new tab

Select this multi-lines text without its last line-break ( so the line-break after the series of dashes )

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

=> The multi-lines text should be copied in the Find what: zone

Now, let’s switch to this text, in an other tab, which is the main text : bla blah ¤ bla blah <test>¤</test> blah bla Begin ¤ blah bla blah ¤ end

Note that I use the ¤ symbol as an insertion symbol !

Click on the ⮁ symbol, of the replace dialog, in order to swap the Find what and Replace with zones

=> The multi-lines text has moved into the Replace with : zone

Insert a single ¤ symbol in the Find what : zone

Unchek all the box options

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Normal search mode ( No need to choose the Extended mode )

Click on the Replace All button

=> The ¤ should have been replaced by the multi-lines text in four locations and you get the following OUTPUT text :

bla blah ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text ------------- bla blah <test>------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text -------------</test> blah bla Begin ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text ------------- blah bla blah ------------- Inserted Multi-lines Text ------------- end

Best Regards,

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn said in Auto Update Notification upon closing NPP:

But don’t bother making such a request; it’s been requested before, and is still an open item.

Even worse, it’s been requested multiple times – recently in #15369, and earlier in #8457, and earlier in #3755.

And in the two earlier issues, the statement from the developer when they were closed was that “the silent installation” option that now exists is the only way he’s willing to address the issue…

But I don’t think those issues ever pointed out the specific issue that @morgantic pointed out: that if you are accustomed to opening the app and immediately typing, it will just absorb all that typing without doing anything useful (and hitting ENTER might even accidentally start the update process, when you really thought you were just typing a newline in text). However, the developer didn’t close the most-recent #15369 (yet), so maybe @morgantic could supply the additional information there, trying to lend credence to the argument that the “silent installation” mentioned in the closed issues is not a sufficient fix for all the problems that update-at-launch causes.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Insert sequential numbers at start of lines:

This version handles all types of selections.

Perfect!!! Thank you so much 😁👍

@Eric-Schetselaar ,
Like @Mark-Olson says, at least for Syntax Highlighting, the UDL is about your best bet if any, and that probably means you’d have to create your own. (fun!!) Not sure what prompting means in this usage.

Unlike @Mark-Olson , I hadn’t heard about this language, but the quick view I had, looks like the UDL could handle it. It’s got essentially a Class/Function style that is similar to most OOP language implementations.

If by prompting, you mean Autocompletion or FunctionList capability, that’s even more work, but doable, since the language looks like most others, it just needs to be structured into a Notepad++ UDL structure system…but as @Mark-Olson suggests, there might already be capable editors for that specialization already, since it’s under the Meta banner, they could provide it. If you’re simply looking for an alternative, then roll up your sleeves and get to work. :-)

@PeterJones

option 1 is most likely, but one time it happened when i restarted notepad++ himself
i will backup the file you told me

@Alan-Kilborn
I’m running 8.7 (32 bit), and what I see is that all tabs have an always-visible close button that becomes active on hover (changing color) and that can be clicked to close the tab. That’s something I want to keep in future versions.

I don’t recall this being different in 7.8.2, but I could be misremembering.

Edit: I do have “show close button on each tab” checked.

@PeterJones Thank you very much, all works fine;=)

Thomas

@pbarney said in How to combine a multi-line html element into one line?:

What’s the best way to construct this search and replace?

A similar question was posted some time ago here. I suggest reading that. As you seem to be proficient at regex hopefully you can adjust to suit your need.

Terry

@MURIM-BAUDIN said in User define Language question:

I am assuming is possible as pre-user SHELL language manage to do it.

To clarify, the pre-defined languages are all made with custom code compiled into the Notepad++ source; the UDL are all based on simple text-matching without any wildcard ability or any such “fancy” features. Just because something can be done in a built-in lexer doesn’t mean it can be replicated in UDL.

For anything more complicated than simple text-matching, UDL is not sufficient. You would either need something like a lexer plugin, or have another plugin (like @Ekopalypse’s EnhanceAnyLexer, already mentioned) that could provide an alternative method of doing the highlighting.

@Jim-Harris ,

See, for example, this official request and accompanying discussion

@Maria-Benich Thank you! It worked perfect!

@guy038 said:

I suppose you were a bit upset to not be able to add a comment for the 1602 message, relative to the replacement.

<Action type=“3” message=“1602” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“(?1+:=)(?2 ‘Replace with’ regex)” />

Nice one!
For readers that don’t see it, I’m talking about the addition of (?2 'Replace with' regex) as the “comment” for this action line.
And note also, with that addition, it is needed to wrap the original ?1+:= with parentheses.

When considering “commenting” a macro by using unused sParam values, how is one to know if sParam is needed by the macro, or you can safely stick a comment in there?

Well, it isn’t always obvious, so, in that case it might be best to use a “null” command, which for sure doesn’t use sParam, like I did in the first line of the revised macro:

<Action type="0" message="2172" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26363" />

Message 2172 is SCI_NULL.

@Coises I found the solution before my post was even allowed by the moderation team , I make websites my client is an official partner of x website and is allowed to sell their products , and is way faster to scrape them and import them than ask them for the exported products since the sites are made in different platforms

Based only on the information you provided in your initial post, if you wanted to extract

Pratik Mandiri dr. | 6208129311111 Praktek Umum | 6208154077777

you would go to the Find/Replace form (Ctrl+H with normal keybindings), check Wrap Around, set Search Mode to Regular expression, and:
Find what: (?-si)healthcare\R(.*)\Rsocmed\R.*\Rsocmed\R\+(\d+)
Replace with: ${1} | ${2}

To understand the regular expression I wrote here, you can read the Notepad++ documentation on regular expressions.

In brief (italicized words or phrases are important concepts from regular expressions):

(?-si) is a flag that makes it so that all ASCII letters are matched case-sensitively (the default is to ignore case) and the . metacharacter matches non-newline characters The \R escape sequence matches any newline (this could be \r\n for Windows, \r for Mac, or \n for Linux) .* matches an entire line (including an empty line) The \d escape sequence matches any one of the characters 0123456789 The * metacharacter indicates that the preceding pattern should be matched 0 or more times The + metacharacter indicates that the preceding pattern should be matched 1 or more times the () wrapping (.*) and (\d+) create two capture groups that are referenced in the Replace With as ${1} and ${2} respectively The Replace With has its own special syntax and set of special sequences that is different from the syntax for the Find what. For instance, in the Replace With syntax, * and + and . have no special meaning; they’re just treated as normal characters.

Hopefully that’s enough information for you to tweak this regular expression as needed, in case what I gave you is not general enough to meet your needs.

@Stanseas ,

You didn’t say which OS, or which precise version of Notepad++ you are using, both of which may be relevant; based on your screenshot, I’m guessing Win11. If it’s an older Notepad++ and Win11, then some older versions had some difficulties with the context menu for a while. (?-menu’s Debug Info would answer both.)

I am also wondering whether it’s the Edit with Notepad++ entry from the Shell Extension, as described in the User Manual, or whether it’s added as a registry entry.

If it’s the Shell Extension, maybe you could try to un-register then re-register the extension, as described further down in the User Manual link above. Or maybe un-register, then re-install Notepad++ (making sure to [install v8.7.1], which is the last confirmed-stable version). You can also reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes /s /f NppShell.dll: mine shows the following results:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B298D29A-A6ED-11DE-BA8C-A68E55D89593}\InProcServer32 (Default) REG_SZ C:\Program Files\Notepad++\contextMenu\NppShell.dll HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PackagedCom\Package\NotepadPlusPlus_1.0.0.0_neutral__7njy0v32s6xk6\Class\{E6950302-61F0-4FEB-97DB-855E30D4A991} DllPath REG_SZ NppShell.dll End of search: 2 match(es) found.

If it’s an old-fashioned registry entry (less likely if you’re in Win11), you can run regedit.exe and search for notepad++.exe, looking for an entry named Edit with Notepad++ (it may be &Edit with Notepad++ or Edit with &Notepad++, which is why I suggested searching for the executable name, which won’t change) – there might be an entry pointing to an old location (maybe the Program Files (x86)\ when your active one is really in Program Files\)

@afk-afk ,

The closest command line option is -n# to take you to a specific line. If you pick a number that’s more than the number of lines (like -n999999), then it will scroll to the end.

@Liming-Tieu said in Notepad++ resets file permission bits for WSL files on save:

I’m getting the same problem with the 64bit version of NPP version 8.5.7

If you can, please 1st upgrade to the latest upcoming v8.7.5 (in the current v8.7.4 is a critical regression, it will be replaced by v8.7.5 soon). Why - there are many fixes which are related to this area, specifically - the next version from the yours (v8.5.8) fixed the overwriting of some NTFS metadata (“Fix saving files losing Alternate Data Stream issue. (Fix #1498, #8451, #8013)”).

(here you will find a convenient overview of all the changes in N++ versions: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/wiki/Changes )

Then please report back here, if your problem persists.

Should be fixed now, thanks for reporting!

@Pj-Doyle
Your question seems to be related to html code and websites. Possibly you are using Notepad++ to generate this code, but as the issue isn’t really a Notepad++ issue you need to go to a HTML forum to get the answer.

Can I refer you to this FAQ post here.

Terry

@dr-ramaanand said in Add number in each line:

please explain how to use the above RegEx

I think the “explain” part was already done.
But it isn’t a “RegEx”; it’s a syntax peculiar to the MutliReplace plugin.