@Coises said in Find line above given text in document:

A truly strange result happened when I tried removing the lookahead and using plain old Count in the Find dialog. With my 19,473 line, 119,172,867 byte file, entering either of these expressions:
(?-s)^.*$
(?-s)^.*+
into the Find window and pressing Count causes Notepad++ to hang (“Not Responding”). I’ve waited over six minutes before force closing.

Now given that both use Boost::regex, I have no idea why Notepad++ hangs.

Ugh. Doesn’t hang in 8.6.6 portable. Which gives me a bad feeling it could be related to PR #16208.

Edit to add: Reported in 8.7.9 announcement as a regression. Still studying the cause.

@Terry-R said in Replace many letters at same time.:

\U\1.

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Its perfect!!

Thank u very much Sir!!!

Claudio Raphael

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences? I pasted from the internet, and forget it’s a different font, just that line. So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

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Looking at your image, I would say almost certainly the person who created the text you copied used something like this:

https://www.namecheap.com/visual/font-generator/serif/

to make it. The characters that look that way are not ordinary letters. If you search for carte you won’t find it — because it’s actually 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞, which are completely different Unicode symbols from this block.

It’s a “trick” — and one of the reasons it usually a bad idea is that you’ll find there’s no easy way to replace the characters you copied with “normal” text.

@Robert-Or-Janet-Diebel ,

The following script for the PythonScript plugin runs the same macro (called DoNothing) on all files open in either view of Notepad++.

You would have to edit the script to call the name of your Macro, as listed in your Macro menu.

# encoding=utf-8 """in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21663/ Run a macro on each open file """ from Npp import notepad # store active tab in each View keepBufferID = notepad.getCurrentBufferID() docIndexes = [notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(v) for v in range(2)] for filename, bufferID, index, view in notepad.getFiles(): notepad.activateBufferID(bufferID) notepad.runMenuCommand("Macro", "DoNothing") # restore active tab in each View for v in range(2): notepad.activateIndex(v, docIndexes[v]) notepad.activateBufferID(keepBufferID)

@Dan-A

I would just start by saying the program talked about here is Notepad++ or also NPP. NOTEPAD is a Windows application, so not to be confused with NPP. It is always nice to be respectful of someone accomplishments, even if you don’t necessarily agree with the “other” stuff that comes with it, so calling it by the correct name is respectful.

So, you ask what else can do the job that NPP can. Quite possibly lots, some free some you pay for. As for actual names it’s unlikely you will get answers to that since this is a NPP forum, not a forum for “Anything other than NPP”.

But we wish you well in your search.

Terry

@madmrmax said :

I noticed that N++ has its own editor command for move lines up or down

This seems irrelevant to the original problem description. Moving lines up or down isn’t related to extending a selection.

…try to use it rectangle extend, it only works the first time – you can’t extend more than two lines using the keyboard.

This actually sounds familiar, like it has been discussed before…

Ok, so there’s the Shortcut Mapper…

Then there’s also the concept that a user would never (!) change a common keycombo to be something else (gasp!). For a wild example, consider a user wanting to change Ctrl+c to not be “copy” (heresy!).

Most often, Notepad++ developers respect what is set by the Shortcut Mapper … but sometimes they disregard it and process hard-coded keycombos. I know, it sounds like a bad thing to do (and it is), but…the devs did it.

So for some “bad” stuff, have a look at the ScintillaEditView.cpp file in the Notepad++ source code repo. Search it for VK_ and you’ll see that it hard-processes some keys. Ideally, it would first use indirection to see what the user really has mapped, before doing what it’s going to.

It appears the offending code in this case has to do with column2MultSelect. If the code that processes this variable is removed (i.e., commented out), and Notepad++ is rebuilt and run, all seems to work fine with Ctrl+Shift+Alt+arrows used rather than Shift+Alt+arrows.

Given that we now know what to look for (we have insight!), we can see that uncheckmarking this setting will allow Ctrl+Shift+Alt+arrows to work:

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