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@Meta-Chuh

I’m curious, does the idea of a Mac port still seem workable there?

I’m asking not in a ‘are you done yet?’ way - but more generally speaking, at the technical level, is the new code and all dependencies looking like they should compile/work at the end of the process? I’m imagining there must be quite a bit of build errors/warnings to sift through!

It certainly would be appreciated by a lot of folks I’m sure. I was just looking at using WineBottler to install on my work Macbook when I came across this post. Right now I’m using Textmate at work and Notepad++ at home, and switching between the two is causing my poor fingers some confusion.

PS - Happy New Year!

@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.

…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

@valery-bogomolov ,

This thread is becoming rather mixed-up.
Please open an issue in NppGTags repo to discuss its autocomplete problem there.

At first look it seems that the parser you are using (GTags maybe) is not recognizing some symbols in your codebase. AFAIR, the parser won’t be able to parse Unicode right if you are using it.

Due to the problem seen earlier, I decided to take another approach, so that Notepad++ would cooperate better with the lines I was hiding in order to achieve the goals of the script.

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered too many bugs with the hidden lines feature, that it isn’t worth continuing. I think that, at least for now, I’m giving up on this idea…

@rjm5959 said in Exporting pages from Hits?:

1S####-##C CENTRAL LOAN ADMINISTRATION YY/MM/DD
LETTER LOG HISTORY FILE FOR NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC1 PAGE ####

I know nothing about the context in which you’re using this data, but are you sure that you’re not leaking confidential data to the internet by posting this here? Because if you are, consider anonymizing it.

@Darius-Gricius

GitHub issue #15324.
Fix is already in progress, it should be included in the upcoming next N++ version.

@Cee-Qhawekazi-Mhlongo You must press Install before you can use that!

@Kang-Tri Firewalls rarely get in the way of plugins. Disabling them as a general practice in an attempt to solve a problem that someone can’t articulate well is bad advice.