@Scott-Sumner So you mean just change the name?

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muito, muito obrigado!
funcionou perfeitamente!

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@Alan-Kilborn said in Line wrap in the current version:

So I came up with an In Selection Replace All action that will do the joining of lines and reduce any leading indents down to one space

I didn’t explicitly say it, but hopefully it was understood that I would use that on groups of lines that start out indented at the same level, NOT on a whole big set of lines that has various sections indented to differing levels. That wouldn’t work (well, it would work but wouldn’t provide a desired outcome).

@Nick-Boescht said in The Vietnamese language doesn't show up correctly after saving:

Everything went great!

I assume this means the problem is solved for you. At least for now.

However, I am going to give future advice on this problem in case there are others with similar difficulties, or if you have more problems. As such, I will make one more comment on an earlier statement, then outline what I understand so far. If I have stuff wrong, you’ll have to correct me either now or in whenever you need our help again.

This is what I see

But it’s not all I asked for. You did not show the status bar. Which is still making us guess. Or assume that you have correctly understood what we’ve been asking

If you give a detailed, step by step explanation of exactly what you are doing, you can save a lot of the back-and-forth we’ve had to go through to get to this point.

The process I understand you are doing:

use some extractor tool to extract XML from a game’s binary db file open the xml in Notepad++ the file automatically opens in encoding _____ : I think it’s either opening as Win-1251 or some other western-european encoding instead of Win-1258… but I’m not sure, because you’ve been too vague) – but characters are not showing up right. Or maybe, if you’ve really set everything like @Ekopalypse showed, it was opening as UTF-8. You manually selected Encoding > ____ (I assume Win-1258), and it appeared correct. So you saved. When you exit and reload, it once again comes up in the same encoding as in step#3.

If this is not your process, you’ll need to correct it before we can give you more help.

Back to the problem at hand: I don’t actually do a lot of encoding-based text editing (except when I help others in this forum), as I’m in simple circumstances. But in what I’ve picked up over the years: if at all possible, it’s best to use UTF-8 or another unicode encoding – that’s been the right way of doing things since the 90s when Unicode was invented, and should have been more encouraged since the turn of the century once UTF-8 started gaining in popularity. The fact that any modern tool (game, what have you) is still using old 256-codepoint Win-#### encodings shows the complete lack of understanding on the part of those developers.

Unfortunately, without a unicode encoding, then Notepad++ is left with two options: guess the encoding based on the frequency of particular bytes with values between 128 and 255, or use a default setting. The guessing is often wrong, and using a default setting can make things even worse (especially if you’re dealing with a mix). This is because Windows (based on 1980’s pre-unicode DOS) didn’t store encoding information or other file meta-data in the directory table or any other file meta-data location, so it was up to applications to decide what to do with any particular sequence of bytes found in a disk file.

In this situation, I would err on the side of use-the-default-setting, then when it’s wrong, manually change the encoding – if you are frequently going to use Win-1258, then use Settings > Shortcut Mapper, set filter: 1258, and assign a keyboard shortcut to Win-1258, so from then on, you can just hit that keyboard shortcut to set that encoding.

But actually, I might try the experiment of changing the xml encoding line to <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">, and do an Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 on the file. That way, when Notepad++ applies the reasonable default of UTF-8 to 8bit files, it will Do What You Mean. After saving it as UTF-8, it should maintain the right encoding from then on in Notepad++… and you should try to see if the game will accept an XML config file encoded in UTF-8. If not, complain to the game company that they don’t care about non-western languages, and see if you can convince them to accept utf-8 and other unicode-based encodings.

@bas-de-reuver this is an optional suggestion for the PropertySet function. It can be made a bit more robust by processing only for the supported properties by having else if (SupportedProperties.ContainsKey(name)) instead of the last else. Like so:

if ((name == "separator") && (value.Length > 0)) { separatorChar = value[0]; } else if (name == "fixedwidths") { fixedWidths = value.Split(',').Select(int.Parse).ToList(); separatorChar = '\0'; } else if (SupportedProperties.ContainsKey(name)) { SupportedProperties[name] = value == "0" ? false : true; }

@Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

If I install the new plugin, will it remove the arrow?

No, it won’t. The ＋ ▼ ✕ are not on the toolbar, they are on the menu bar. They are two different things.

Will there be two arrows since the current one is in the right corner too? Or will the new plugin simply add the ¶ “Show All Characters” feature to the arrow pull-down?

??? I think you are confused. The CustomizeToolbar allows you to show or hide buttons on the existing toolbar, or to add new custom buttons to your toolbar.

Here’s a screenshot of what mine looks like in the righthand side when I’ve got a narrow window, with Customize Toolbar active:

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The ＋ ▼ ✕ are all still there. And on the toolbar, since there are more buttons than fit on screen, it uses a » to access any remaining ones.

But none of that has anything to do with hiding the ¶ “Show All Characters” button. If you use Customize Toolbar to hide it, it will use everything else from your toolbar, except it just won’t show that one button.

@LanceMarchetti said in Unicode 'ÿ' , problem converting to Hex 'FF':

int val = static_cast<unsigned char>(selText.getChar(i));

I’m afraid this type cast will corrupt data if any character ordinal is greater than 0xFF, e.g. ġ. See, for example:

Fix character truncation bug that lead to ‘ġ’ styled as an operator since its low 8 bits are equal to ‘!’

selText.getChar already returns an int, which is 32-bits wide, so more than enough for any ASCII or Unicode ordinal.

The real issue is the declaration of SelectedString::_str as char *, which limits every representable “byte” to a maximum ordinal value of 0x7F. It should be the generic TCHAR * type, which becomes wchar_t * when the _UNICODE compile-time definition is set (as it always has been ever since Notepad++ became a Unicode application about 17 years ago). A wchar_t is 16 bits, which would accommodate “extended” 8-bit ASCII as well as the East Asian double-byte character sets that remain popular with some users.

To All, I have updated the gist with revision 8.

Replace constant IDF_WHICH_DIRECTION with alternative IDF_FORWARD_DIRECTION to make it more meaningful with the action. Use html.unescape() on type2 values to resolve entities. Example &amp; will change to &.

@Alan-Kilborn OK, XML comments do not require escapes with entities. -- can be a problem with XML comments so will be reduced to single - if exist.

Replacing IDF_WHICH_DIRECTION is OK so as to avoid user confusion with which direction. The json will inherit the change so the file needs to be removed to get the alternative value of IDF_FORWARD_DIRECTION. Or, just edit the values in the json file to your liking.

Similar discussion relating to the original topic here is continued IN-THIS-THREAD …

@guy038 :

So these are not bad ideas. The biggest problems I see with implementation is the quantity of new proposed new buttons, because:

screen space is limited, and so many new buttons makes it hard to have enough Alt+symbol (e.g. Alt+a = Replace All button press) key combinations for all of the controls

Another problem is that currently there aren’t buttons that disappear or change form (within one tab of the Find family dialog) depending upon the state of other controls. I fear that this, and some of the other proposed changes, are just “too much” to change all at once (Notepad++ seems to evolve slowly).

An additional thing to think about more is the proposed “<<Count” and “Count>>” features. I found that with certain regular expressions you can have matches that “straddle” the caret, thus there can really be 4 different match counts:

matches that occur globally (anywhere in the file); this is existing functionality matches above the caret position matches below the caret position matches that straddle the caret position

Here’s some Pythonscript code that will demonstrate. Put the caret in the middle of a word before running this script (CountAboveAndBelowCaret.py):

import re def CABABC__main(): search_str = r'\w+' search_str = notepad.prompt('enter a find-what regex', '', search_str) if not search_str or len(search_str) == 0: return caret_pos = editor.getCurrentPos() CABABC__main.match_above_count = 0 CABABC__main.match_below_count = 0 CABABC__main.match_global_count = 0 def match_found_above(m): CABABC__main.match_above_count += 1 def match_found_below(m): CABABC__main.match_below_count += 1 def match_found_globally(m): CABABC__main.match_global_count += 1 reflags = 0 editor.research(search_str, match_found_above, reflags, 0, caret_pos) editor.research(search_str, match_found_below, reflags, caret_pos, editor.getTextLength()) editor.research(search_str, match_found_globally, reflags, 0, editor.getTextLength()) notepad.setStatusBar(STATUSBARSECTION.DOCTYPE, '{gc} total matches. {ac} matches above caret; {bc} below.{s}'.format( gc=CABABC__main.match_global_count, ac=CABABC__main.match_above_count, bc=CABABC__main.match_below_count, s='' if CABABC__main.match_global_count == CABABC__main.match_above_count + CABABC__main.match_below_count else ' 1 match straddles the caret.' )) CABABC__main()

@Cary-Korn said:

Unfortunately I have been unable to get any of the suggested solutions to work. I appreciate all the help. I didn’t think this would be so tough.

If you still want help, you are going to have to be more specific than that.

I tested my 2019-03-01T14:22:23.197Z post pretty thoroughly, and it worked exactly as I expected, passing chrome the full URL.

So, things we will need to know in order to keep helping you:

What browser do you want the URL to go to? Chrome? Firefox? Edge? IE? Something else? If it’s Chrome or Firefox or , we will need the full path to your browser: you should be able to right click on your browser shortcut (or, if it’s active on your toolbar, right click on the icon, then again on the application name) to get you to the Properties window, and copy the full path there. If it’s Edge or IE, we’ll use the Microsoft-special notation for accessing those browsers. 'coz microsoft. What is the exact version of Notepad++ you are using? Maybe your version is behaving differently than mine it would be easiest if you went to the menu ? > Debug Info > Copy debug info into clipboard, and pasted the results here. what exact sequence did you use when editing the shortcuts.xml? exactly how long is your URL? Did you try my exact circumstance from my 2019-03-01T14:22:23.197Z post, or did you make changes to the URL before saving the batch file? when I did that setup, making sure to save the setup, exit Notepad++, and then reload, it sent the really long URL to chrome properly if you did try this, with the DUMMY URL, how exactly did it fail? (saying “didn’t work” is so generic as to be useless for helping us help you) Did it not try to do anything? If so, where exactly did you save longurl.bat? Did you make the shortcuts.xml point to the real location of longurl.bat, or did you leave it pointing to my location for longurl.bat Did it not open chrome? Did it open chrome and try to go to the full dummy URL, and fail because it didn’t exist? This is what I would expect. In which case, I would say it didn’t fail, because that was the expected behavior. Or did open chrome, but truncate the URL?

Once I made the batch file, it never truncated the URL on me.

I just tried 2138 characters in the dummy URL, plus the %1 search string in my batch file, which got replaced by $(CURRENT_WORD) from Notepad++, which was the exact text longurl, and chrome tried to open that page with the full 2144 character URL; because that machine doesn’t exist, chrome told me this site can't be reached, but it actually tried to go there, and the full URL was in the browser bar. If I change my batch file to

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" "https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&sen=012&q=%1" pause so that it’s going to a valid website (google search), a total of 2106 characters plus the search string long, plus has a pause so that a cmd.exe window stays open until you hit enter or space or something, I saw the full URL in the cmd.exe window, I saw the full URL in chrome, and chrome went to the google-search for the word (longurl) that I highlighted when I launched

Do you see how detailed I was when trying to help you? If you are detailed when responding to our help, it will be easier for us to help you.

Please answer all five of those questions. Also, tell me an exact path where you are willing to save longurl.bat. With those five answers (detailed), and with an exact path, I should be able to craft something that works for you. I will start with the big long dummy google search, so that you know it’s really working… but after that, depending on how much info you give, I might be able to help you convert the URL closer toward what you want in real life.

@Alan-Kilborn said:

Maybe @Ekopalypse 's suggestion to create the .ini file will go somewhere if the OP is trying it?

Created LocationNavigate.ini in c:\notepad++\plugins\config as per Ekopalypse’s post. No luck.

@Lê-Thanh-Bảo said in remove hyperlink:

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Step 1: - Open Notepad++ and go to Settings.
Step 2: - Select Preferences.
Step 3: - After opening preferences window, Click on ‘Cloud & Link’ tab.
Step 4: - Click under the ‘Clickable Link Settings’ section in uncheck the ‘Enable’ checkbox.

This. just straight up saved so much frustration :D.
Much love sir. many thanks from random person who registered ONLY to say thanks :D

…any custom words they had before would be lost.

If the .usr file is in text format (don’t know, don’t use the spell-check plugin), perhaps the Compare plugin or a script to perform an automatic merge is called for. Just sayin.

@Alan-Kilborn

ok i see
[https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8564](link url)
‘Keep selection when right-click outside of selection’ has been added, or will be added to the next NPP version (as an option).

So I will remove this specific feature from my
NotepadPP-PythonScript-Mouse_Select_Gesture script
once I have updated my NPP and tested the native option.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Open with search:

@pdanes said in Open with search:

it changes in mid-stream. When I first call it, the dialog opens with “Find”, but after a while, it switches on its own to “Najít”. I haven’t (yet, anyway) taken the trouble to find out exactly when, or see if I can isolate the exact cause - I’ve been too busy just trying to get it working at all

Well THAT is certainly strange!

Isn’t it, though? What is happening is that only the first SendMessage call opens the dialog with “Find”. As long as the dialog stays open, and I simply put in different texts to search for and press the find button, it stays “Find”. As soon as a second SendMessage call is issued, or I manually switch to a different tab in the dialog, or I manually press ctrl/F (whether or not the search dialog is closed first), it immediately switches to “Najít” and stays that way from then on, for as long as Notepad remains open. If I completely close it, and it is opened again by the database and the search dialog is opened by the database’s SendMessage call, it is “Find” again. It seems that the very first SendMessage must bypass some initialization code. Maybe there is some other call I should issue first, some “SetInitialParameters” sort of thing, but I don’t really feel like looking for something that may not even exist. Just checking for both versions of the title works well enough. If someone who understands what’s going sees this and chimes in with some direction, I’ll fix it. If not, this works well enough.

A little odd, but I’ve seen stranger behavior from software.

Do they have a real Python interpreter built into Notepad? That’s some text editor.

It isn’t exactly “built-in”. It’s a plugin. But a rather miraculous one. :-)

So it seems. Python is probably something I should devote more time to. More and more situations are cropping up where knowing it well would be useful. At this point I can usually muddle my way to some result, but I don’t really ‘know’ the language, and I should.

@Vitaliy-Dovgan said in Suggestion: Find in Files from command line:

Notepad++ already has a very powerful Find in Files functionality (Ctrl+Shift+F).
… (snipped) …
If it looks like a good suggestion, let’s discuss the design here. E.g. what exact names to use for the command arguments, what exact behavior to expect from Notepad++, what other options we may want to set, etc.

Based on the number of people chiming in with “I use ... from the command line” it appears they don’t see the finder built into Notepad as the best available.

I myself have been using plain old findstr that is built into Windows but often use it in batch file wrappers that end up feeding the results into Notepad++ much like what the proposed -ff style command line options would do.

@lycan-thrope
To be clear, I have no idea how to use github, a pull request, etc. So I’m really novice in this area. As a note, the Autocompletion and functionList files (with the same name) seem to be the problem with just zipping up the files and since I have no way of knowing where users have their installations, my assumptions about 64 bit/32 bit/Standard install and stand alone install have all been pushed to the side as I tried to explain where to install the files, and am not sure what I would have to do to get a .zip version to do it automagically. I know, there’s a lot I don’t know…tell me something I don’t know. :-)

Lee