@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.

@moyprofile said in I want ctrl-shift-tab and ctrl-tab activate tabs like browser:

I want ctrl-shift-tab and ctrl-tab activate tabs like browser: ctrl-shift-tab should activate the tab left to the active, ctrl-tab should activate the tab right to the active.

They do, plus by default it gives you two pieces of extra functionality as well:

it also pops up a “Document Switcher”, so that you’ve got more feedback on where it’s going and what it’s doing, and it also gives “MRU” (most recently used) behavior, so that Ctrl+Tab, do something, then Ctrl+Tab again will take you back to the first tab, rather than blindly switching to some “next” tab

Both of those extras are user-configurable in the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Document Switcher (Ctrl+TAB) section of the settings.

the ☑ Enable checkbox will turn on and off the switcher; with the checkbox unchecked, it will go to the simple behavior you described; if checkmarked, it will allow the Doc Switcher to make your life easier. the ☑ Enable MRU behavior will make the Document Switcher cycle through in order of most-recent to least-recent, instead of going purely left-to-right. So if you want the Document Switcher, but want it to only allow left/right rather than remembering last-accessed-order, turn off this checkmark.

This is all in the Online User Manual, as you can see from the links I provided.

@martin-honnen said in Any idea why self compiled plugin works on "normal" Windows 11 but doesn't in Windows Sandbox?:

The referenced module was not found.

The sandboxed version of Windows seems to have fewer core libraries than the “full” version, The operating system is saying that your plugin wants to call a function in a core library which is not installed.

Try setting the Windows API level in the Visual C++ project file by defining the _WIN32_WINNT and the NTDDI_VERSION macros to a Windows release that predates Win10: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/winprog/using-the-windows-headers

See, for example, how Notepad++ defines both to target Windows 7 (the oldest version it supports).

Worst case, you may have to to seek out the exact version of Visual Studio the XMLTool author was using.

I agree. He is either a hypocrite or full of propaganda.

I’ve just commited the unreleased JsonTools v8.2.0.3 that hopefully fixes the issue described in my previous comment. Did my commit fix it? I have no idea, 🤷!

Same deal as in my previous comment: please upvote this comment if and only if you notice that JsonTools v8.2.0.3 reformats 11.11 as 11.109999999999999. Don’t upvote this comment for any other reason; that way, I’ll know that this is still an issue if I get upvotes.

@havkicker

Are you trying to say that the Search results panel doesn’t display for you?
If so, you probably want to check the FAQ.

this is driving me to distraction

I guess this has been a distracting problem for you since Aug 2023 at least?

@Arthur-Gordon-Pym said in "Word wrap" option is reset from time to time:

I also have this strange bug

As I think you will be aware, that information isn’t much to go on. You speak of “with latest versions” but don’t specify if it is “the” latest version. Additionally there might well be other factors such as whether you run Notepad++ in single instance mode or “multiple instance”. This is a setting under Settings, preferences, Multi-instance & date (ver 8.7.4). This setting can create the anomaly you see. If you run multi-instance and turn off the word wrap in one instance, and then when closing, make that instance the last to close the setting will change as it writes the change to the config files. Next time you start you will see it turned off.

So far very few have stated they have this problem. We had a previous case where only a few had a particular problem and because of that it took a very long time to establish there was in fact a situation where the issue arose. Yours might be such a situation, or indeed just something you haven’t identified yet which is causing the problem to occur sporadically and not specifically a Notepad++ issue.

Terry

@Bob-Smith ,

The way you avoid that 1200 second time limit is to get enough upvotes that the system doesn’t consider you a threat.

That rule assumes that anyone who has been here long has posted enough good quality posts to have earned a few upvotes.

Given our additional anti-spam that’s been implemented since that limit was originally enacted, I think I’m willing to shrink the delay. But there will still be limitations on you until people have upvoted you enough.

I’m not 100% sure whether I’ve understood your problem.

I was going to ask for a screenshot of your Preferences > Delimiter page, wondering if maybe you had something added to your list of characters… but then I was reminded of the Delimiter selection settings (Ctrl + Mouse double click), which I forget about under most circumstances.

So with the example text

one two three four five six blah(seven eight nine)

if I Ctrl+DoubleClick on one then five then eight, I get one and five and seven eight nine selected. Based on being reminded of the existing of the special meaning for inside-delimiter Ctrl+DoubleClick, that is now my expectation. But I’m wondering if you were hoping for just one and five and eight in that situation. If so, you would have to “defeat” the Delimiter selection settings, by changing the open and close delimiters to something else (or to nothing).

Examples:

Default:
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With no selection-delimiters:
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@Bob-Smith ,

A few years ago, it was requested in the NppFTP repository’s issue tracker, but the maintainer didn’t have time (at least then) to take on the effort of adding all the DarkMode hooks.

I’ve pinged the issue, and updated with the current state (because in the original issue, even the Profiles and Progress panel was still white, not just the Output and dialog boxes) – but the maintainer asked for help 3 years ago, and no one volunteered, so it’s not likely to happen any time soon, unless someone new volunteers. (@chcg is highly involved in a variety of plugins, plus contributes to the main app, so doesn’t often find time for requests like this; hence the 2021 request for help, which was unfortunately ignored.)

@Freya-Smith
Probably not. There is at least one plugin (XMLTools) that can format XML (and thus HTML), but that plugin does not understand CSS or JavaScript. There is also JSTool, a plugin that can format JavaScript, but it doesn’t understand HTML or CSS.

So the best workflow I can think of to reformat HTML and JavaScript would be something like:

Use XMLTools to reformat the HTML Use the regular expression (?s-i)<script[^<>]*>\K(?:(?!(?:<\w+|</script>)).)* to find script tag, and for each script tag: Copy the selected text into a new tab Use JSTool to reformat the text in that tab (this will make the JavaScript pretty Select the reformatted JavaScript Paste it back over the selected script tag

Sadly JSTool is not smart enough to reformat selected text while ignoring text that isn’t selected, and given that the maintainer seems relatively uninterested in the plugin nowadays, I doubt that feature will ever be implemented. Thus, it doesn’t seem like there’s any way to efficiently reformat JavaScript+HTML in Notepad++, and that’s before even considering the CSS.

To be honest, I don’t think Notepad++ is the best text editor for working with JavaScript/HTML/CSS in 2024 on Windows; I would probably use VSCode for a project in those languages, and save Notepad++ for working with things like CSV’s, log files, or JSON.

@Freya-Smith said in Why doesn’t the notepad++ I use have the following menus?:

Why doesn’t the notepad++ I use have the following menus?

That exact version has that option available for me:

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(This was a fresh portable unzip, with no changes, showing the default is unchecked, but if you want the option on, checkmark it)

@Timothy-Hoogland ,
Although I may disagree with the developer’s POV, you and I have a choice of what we may want to do. If it offends you that much, stop using the free product.

I disagree with the developer, as someone who was being banned, long before by the cancel culture running rampant on, then Twitter, that I chose not to ‘apologize’ and let them pound sand. Simply for tellling Fake News reporters losing their jobs to “Learn to Code”, which at that time was considered a slam. No loss.

When Musk bought Twitter and changed it to X, I was able again to log on without the ‘Apology Butt Kiss’ document that you had to agree to. Although I disagree with some people’s opinion on X, I would defend their right to say it, something that I was not afforded when it was Twitter.

On the other hand, I enjoy using the software and if not for these “Boycott Notepad++” complaints, I’d most likely never see the download messages that the developer chooses to put his opinions on. I may disagree with him, but it’s his right to say and do what he wishes with his site, software, etc in his control. It’s also my option, if I chose, to let him pound sand and not use this useful piece of software by emulating the cancel culture idiots that I detest.

I believe in speaking with my eyeballs and wallet, something most people don’t seem to grasp or are unwilling to choose to do. So even if you’re willing to back-up your complaint by not using the software, you probably won’t affect the developers opinion and are considered simply to be, yelling into the wind. Either way, you’ve just lost the ability to use a very useful piece of software, which would be your loss.

@Bert-Nieuwenampsen said in "} else {" as a new section:

Can I adjust this somewhere in Notepad++?

Notepad++ uses the Lexilla IP by Scintilla for syntax highlighting and folding. Apparently, the PowerShell lexer has a property called fold.at.else, but Notepad++ doesn’t currently set that option. If Notepad++ were to set that true on PowerShell documents (by setting that property in setPowerShellLexer()), then it would allow folding at } else { for PowerShell.

So if someone (you) were to follow the instructions in our Feature Request FAQ, and make an official request, it could be turned on, or a preference could be added to allow the user to toggle it. Then, if the developer thought it was a good idea, it might eventually be added to Notepad++.

Until that happens, you could use the PythonScript plugin to toggle that setting:

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vs
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To be able to automatically do that, you could edit (or create) your user startup.py to include

from Npp import editor, notepad, LANGTYPE, NOTIFICATION def cb_pwshFoldAtElse(args): if notepad.getCurrentLang() == LANGTYPE.POWERSHELL: editor.setProperty("fold.at.else", 1) notepad.callback(cb_pwshFoldAtElse, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])

(For more on PythonScript and the user startup.py, and the need to set ATSTARTUP instead of LAZY for my instructions to work, see our FAQ: How to install and run a script in PythonScript)

@ray-Landolfi said in Help Needed with COMPARE plugin..thanks in advance:

I tried to select all and copy the lines but it copies every line not just the compared lines so its back to individually marking them…

Check this description (I quote myself from the corresponding issue in ComparePlus repository):

After a compare you switch to the file which differences you want to copy, open the ComparePlus menu and use one of the new Bookmark… commands depending on what type of diffs you want to copy (for example Bookmark All Diffs in Current View). This will add a Notepad++ bookmark on every diff line matching that criteria. Next you can use the Notepad++ functionality to copy all bookmarked lines (you will find it under Search -> Bookmark sub-menu).

BR

@notdodgeball ,

Apparently the xml.etree library behaves differently between Python 2.7 and 3.12 (used by PS2 and PS3 respectively).

I really wish PS3 would move out of alpha and release into Plugins Admin, so that we could just stick with PythonScript 3 for sharing scripts in the forum, and not have to contend with all the headaches of keeping scripts compatible with two major versions of Python, and all the library differences that come with that.

(it also would’ve been nice if Don hadn’t allowed theme authors to submit themes with XML that have invalid top-level comments, which the XML parsing engines don’t like because it’s not valid XML)

v1.08 is available from the permalink, fixing the handling of the invalid XML in PythonScript 2.

However, I highly recommend making the switch to PythonScript 3, despite it claiming to be alpha, unless you are using a lot of ANSI characterset files rather than real unicode-based encodings. I don’t know how much longer I’ll support PythonScript 2 for this script.

Hello, @fajar-zulianto and All,

Very easy with regexes !

So, starting with your INPUT text, below, that I slightly changed in order to introduce possible leading indentation, on any line :

<audGrainData> <startSample>253</startSample> <pitch>14.1668348</pitch> </audGrainData> <audGrainData> <startSample>2390</startSample> <pitch>14.1668348</pitch> </audGrainData> <audGrainData> <startSample>4521</startSample> <pitch>14.1668348</pitch> </audGrainData> <audGrainData> <startSample>6475</startSample> <pitch>14.1668348</pitch> </audGrainData> <audGrainData> <startSample>8547</startSample> <pitch>14.2084284</pitch> </audGrainData>

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Uncheck all box options

SEARCH (?-is)^\h*<(audGrainData)>\R\h*<(startSample)>(.+)</\2>\R\h*<(pitch)>(.+)</\4>\R\h*</\1>

REPLACE \3 \5 10000 10200

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click once on the Repalce All button

=> You should get the expected OUTPUT text :

253 14.1668348 10000 10200 2390 14.1668348 10000 10200 4521 14.1668348 10000 10200 6475 14.1668348 10000 10200 8547 14.2084284 10000 10200

Voila !

NOTES :

The (?-is) syntax are in-line modifiers which ensure that the search is sensible to case and that the . represents one standard character only

There are five groups, located between parentheses, whose three of them store the name of the tags ( audGrainData, startSample and pitch ) and two of them store the numbers (.+) to re-use them in the replacement, with the \3 and \5 syntax

The \h* syntax represents possible leading space or tabulation characters, on any line

The \R syntax stands for any kind of line-break ( \r\n, \n or \r )

Best Regards,

guy038

@Sean-Harding

UDL styles are defunct

I have never found that to be true.

However, Notepad++ has decided that this (left) was what I wanted. Spoiler alert: it is not.

Then tell it what colors you actually want for they various keywords, rather than telling it the wrong color.

You need to change the individual style colors for each keyword group. So whatever keyword# the LD and PUSH keywords are in, you need to choose it’s Styler button, then set the foreground color to green, probably with bold enabled. And whichever keyword# A and AF and C are defined in, you need to set to your aqua/cyan color with the right background (instead of white background). And your number style definition need to be set to magenta rather than white+italic+underline

I will admit, UDL does have limitations, and there are some things you won’t be able to do. But I believe that the symptoms you showed are easily correctable by you hitting the Styler button and selecting appropriate colors.

@lkbuaa said in Notepad++ doesn't display some characaters well like ㊤ ㊦:

I am not sure what the root cause is

Notepad++ itself is not restricted from showing glyphs for those characters:

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Either your font doesn’t support it, or you need to try to toggle your setting for the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Use DirectWrite and restart Notepad++

@Demetrio-Foti said in Comments in function list:

I’d like just to know if the fix is planned in the very next releases or not

It is not planned, no. The bug has been known about for at least 7 years, so if it’s been around that long, it’s not likely to get fixed in the near future.