@gstavi said in Search results unchanged after a change.:

You replace all xxx to yyy from the search dialog.
Now you want Notepad++ to do what?
Show all the lines with yyy?

I think (can’t check right now) that when Visual Studio’s editor does a replace-in-files, it populates its find-output window with all of the replacements made – this sounds similar to what OP here is describing?

@Coises said in A simple search and replace:

In the case of the doubled quote method, if you mean that a string can’t end on the first of two adjacent quotes when no further quote exists on the line, I think this:
“(?:”“|[^\r\n”])*+(?:"|(*SKIP)(*FAIL))
would work (but I might have missed something).

Yes, that would work. Clever use of (*SKIP)(*FAIL) and the greedy *+.

I’m missing how unterminated strings mess up the backslash escape method, but the expression given fails for strings that include any escapes other than backslashes or quotes, such as \n. I think this:
“(?:\[^\r\n]|[^\r\n”\])*"

I’m honestly surprised that I didn’t come up with this myself. That does appear to work.

Another editing technique that might help; say you have this:

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Clearly all of the data in the second column needs to be lined up.

If you create a column caret using Shift+Alt+arrows and make it look like this:

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and then press Ctrl+Delete, you’ll get something looking like this:

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It’s then a simple matter to press space-bar a few times to get all of the data aligned, and in the correct column:

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Note that in the create-column-caret step, the column caret does NOT touch any of the text to be aligned, there is one or more intervening space(s) (this is a very important point).

@pouemes-0 said in alphabetic order:

Is there a solution to get alphabetic order with letters with accent

example with these 3 words

notepad++ alphabetic order give to me

creole
croate
créole

The sort in the plugin Columns++ can do this correctly (for at least some values of “correctly”). See the help here; you would want a “Locale sort,” either directly from the menu or from the Sort… custom dialog. You can install Columns++ from Plugins | Plugins Admin… | Available tab if you think it might work for you.

@Ann-Onymous said in Is Visual Basic dependent on .NET?:

Looking to start developing software. Would users of a VB program need to have .NET installed? Being a Chromebook user, I have often been confronted with this.

This is a forum about Notepad++. We aren’t experts in all possible programming languages, and this isn’t the place for generic programming questions. (The answer to that question is the same whether you are using Notepad++, notepad.exe, VSCode, or copy con to create your source code, hence it’s off-topic for a Notepad++ forum.)

Also, does Assembly in N++ refer to x86?

It refers to essentially any assembly language. My guess is that x86 assembly would have all its common keywords included in the various keyword lists, but all assembly languages that I’ve ever heard of have essentially the same structure, so can be parsed using the same rules. If there are keywords you feel are missing for your desired Assembly, the various INSTRUCTION and DIRECTIVE styles for Assembly have User-defined keyword lists that you can add more keywords that are specific to your flavor of Assembly.

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@Artur-Harison ,

Please remember to keep replies in the various Announcement threads specific to that Release or Release Candidate. Discussion about other feature requests that weren’t included in a specific release need to go elsewhere – which is why I moved this discussion to it’s own thread. Though really, discussions about a specific feature request, like the issue #14269 you linked to, will probably get more response from a developer if the conversation is kept in that issue, rather than trying to pester him in an inappropriate location (like the release candidate announcement).

Fortunately, @Alan-Kilborn made a reply in the issue, and the original poster has chimed in again with more details, so that’s good. (I am guessing that user is you – it’s a very different username, but as one who is @PeterJones here and pryrt in GitHub, I can definitely understand having a different username in different websites)

I personally think the original request was a reasonable one, and I’m a bit confused why the developer thought he’d already addressed it, when it obviously hadn’t changed since October of last year… I think he’s been trying to close out a lot of older issues recently, and he’s not being very detail-oriented (or otherwise getting confused) when giving his comment-while-closing. Hopefully he’ll re-open the issue for you. Good luck.

@Alan-Wynne said in Local active Variables:

it does require npp to be running with admin priviladges though…

I use NppExec daily to do similar tasks (in fact, many of the posts that mention gcc and NppExec in the same post in this Forum are my equivalent of the script you just posted), but I have never had to have Admin privileges to save or run an NppExec script.

(Though, admittedly, you might need admin privileges to install the plugin – but once you’ve installed it, you can restart Notepad++ without privileges, and the plugin works.)

But under normal usage, what you described should not require admin privileges. Possible exceptions I can think of include: 1) if the file you are compiling is protected, or (2) the directory it’s in is protected; or, (3) if it was because it wouldn’t let you save the NppExec script, then your %AppData%\Notepad++\Plugins\config\npes_saved.txt might have weird permissions.

@Chad-Jb ,

As you follow @Alan-Kilborn’s advice to,

Under the Settings menu is something called Style Configurator, where all fonts are set. Play around.

I wanted to let you know: when people start playing around wanting to change the font size, they often first reach the Global Styles in the Language: column, and Global override in the Styles: column – this is not the one you want to change. You want to go to Default style in the Styles: column instead.

See the User Manual’s section on Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles for more.

@githubtools101 said:

there is a way to TURN OFF that unnecessary prompt for the future:
Under “File Status Auto-Detection” click Disable from the drop-down menu
Now, you will NEVER be given this prompt again!
I don’t understand why Notepad++ has this feature to begin with

So @githubtools101 had a problem with data loss, and your solution is to give him a method that can guarantee future data loss? Nice job…

@Lakshman-Prasath-Š said in To align single line content to multiple lines:

Try this:

From the main menu, choose Search | Replace….

In the dialog, enter:
Find what: Updated
Replace with: Updated\r\n
Wrap around checked
Search mode: Extended
then click Replace All.

@AsylumET ,

I said,

If not, then I’m out of ideas

I guess I had another idea.

If you grab a fresh Portable (Zip) copy of Notepad++ v8.6.9 (from the 8.6.9 downloads page) and unzip to a folder on your desktop (or somewhere else findable by you), then close/exit your installed Notepad++ and temporarily try running that portable copy instead (and switch to dark mode in the portable), does it have the same problem? If so, then there’s really something weird going on when running on your computer, which I cannot replicate; if not, then there’s probably some setting or something else weird going on just with your installed copy. If the portable works correctly, then we can probably run through some more experiments of trying to temporarily reset the settings on your installed copy , to see if we can get your installed copy working right.

which means it will be native Notepad++ (showing up in Style Configurator) at the next release

It can be seen in v8.7 RC Announcement item 13.

The PHP keyword list has also been split from the original single huge list into a couple of huge lists instead.

My recommendation, if you are trying out v8.7 (whether it’s the release candidate, orthe final v8.7 in a few weeks, or if you are reading this later and updating from something before v8.7 to anything at or after v8.7) and want to be able to see the new styles in Style Configurator:

If you just download the Portable version of v8.7, you can try it out without affecting your installed copy, and you will be If you install v8.7 overtop an older copy (upgrade or otherwise just run the installer), it will not update your stylers.xml, other themes, and langs.xml, so you will not see the new styles in the style configurator right away. Instead, follow one of the following sequences: If you don’t have the PythonScript plugin and don’t want to use it, then you can manually compare the new <installed directory>\stylers.model.xml to your %AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml or theme file, and bring in the new stuff from the .model. into your active file, and restart. (This is mentioned in the User Manual here.) If you have the PythonScript plugin, or are willing to install it, then I highly recommend following the instructions in “Config Files Need Updating, Too” (I suggest with PythonScript 3, but it will work with the PluginsAdmin-version of PythonScript 2 also)

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For those who are frequent users of PythonScript, I recommend the following customization after running my script on v8.7: open stylers.xml (or your active theme’s XML), go to the “Python” section, and replace the rows for “User Keywords 1-5” (styleID 128-132, substyle1-5) with something similar to what’s in this gist. (Sorry, it’s too big to fit in a post in the forum: there are a lot of keywords)

After restarting Notepad++, then the Style Configurator will call the “user keyword 1-5” styles as “PythonScript xxxx”, and the user-defined list will be pre-populated with PythonScript’s built-in objects, editor-object methods, notepad-object methods, enum classes and enum elements. You might not like my choice of colors (I am not a graphic designer, after all), but it’s split up in such a way that you could make them all the same color if you want (if you don’t want to mentally distinguish those categories), or you could make the colors wildly different, if my subtle differences in color from the standard Python KEYWORD style isn’t distinct enough for you.

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@Mark-Olson @PeterJones

thank you for your help. ChatGPT wrote me a routine that worked with a dozen files on my directory testfiles … now I copy all files to a directory to test it tonight with 25000 files

I’m really surprised how easy this can be.

And I’m reading the code to understand, what the script is doing as I apreciate any help but want to learn :-)