@guy038 said in Columns++ version 1.3: All Unicode, all the time:

Note that the \p{Hex_Digit} regex is erroneous ! The right one is \p{xdigit}, at least, within Columns++

What’s going on there is that I followed the structure of Boost::regex character classes:

Character Classes that are Always Supported

Character classes that are supported by Unicode Regular Expressions

which are mainly the POSIX character classes plus Unicode General Categories interpreted as character classes. Also, note that in Boost::regex, character classes and character properties are the same thing. I didn’t make any attempt to change that. I believe this is different both from Unicode regular expressions and from PCRE.

(I did add a couple new character classes unique to Columns++: [:defined:] and [:invalid:], and aliases \i, \o and \y for [:invalid:], [:ASCII:] and [:defined:]. Also, Columns++ does not support [:Cs:]/[:Surrogate:] since Unicode in Scintilla can only be UTF-8, which cannot contain surrogates — though it can contain invalid byte sequences which appear to encode surrogates, as in WTF-8; Scintilla treats these as invalid UTF-8 bytes, and so does Columns++.)

Hex_Digit isn’t one of the Boost::regex character classes, and I never defined it. Defining it to be equivalent to xdigit would be trivial; re-defining xdigit to include non-ASCII characters is a bit more complicated:

I’ve found out a small anomaly concerning hexadecimal characters :

If I use the native Notepad++ search to match any hexadecimal character, with the regex [[:xdigit:]], against my Total_Chars.txt file, it returns 44 matches

If I use the Columns++ search to match any hexadecimal character, with the regex [[:xdigit:]], against my Total_Chars.txt file, it returns 22 matches

I suppose that the N++ answer is the right one. Indeed, in the https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Compatibility_Properties article , ( Annexe C about UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS ), it is said :

Hex_Digit contains 0-9 A-F fullwidth and halfwidth, upper and lowercase

Yes, it would seem the standard is to include those non-ASCII characters as hex digits. Further, the comments at your link under lower and upper are troublesome, as Columns++ treats them as aliases for Ll and Lu. Word and word boundaries are probably faulty as well.

I followed the Boost::regex principle that to extend the traditional POSIX mappings, the only Unicode property that is used to determine membership in a character class is the General Category.

I hard-coded (that is, they are written explicitly rather than being derived from Unicode tables) the POSIX mappings for ASCII characters, since that’s the only place they are really well-defined; plus there is a hard-coded exception for the non-ASCII character U+0085, the Next Line control character, because it should be part of \v, which is implemented in Boost::regex as [[:v:]]. I don’t see any reason [[:xdigit:]] can’t be extended with similar hard-coded logic; I just didn’t know until now that I should do it.

The other parts, though: whatever they are saying is supposed to be included in [:lower:] and [:upper:] besides letters, and whatever they are talking about in regard to word characters and boundaries… that might be problematic. I have a condensed set of tables built from a few Unicode files, instead of trying to import the ghastly large and complex ICU. Those tables include the General Category, but if that is not enough to determine membership in a character class… reorganizing them to include whatever additional information I need (it’s not yet clear to me what that will be) is not likely to be simple.

Thank you for your observation. Indeed, there are flaws. It is not yet clear to me if and how it will be practical to address them, though I can probably fix the [:xdigit:] behavior without much difficulty.

So with installation of a new notepad 8.9 version, these settings in shortcuts.xml should be updated (maybe automatically with installation):

from:
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to:
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I’m only a user so I don’t know the details, but maybe simply CR could be changed to 
 and CRLF to 
 (and if existent LF to 
)?

@Min-Liu I would like some time to review the php lexer code as the powershell and python lexer shows better performance with the same text pasted under similar test conditions. Perhaps there is some bad code logic preventing good progression of the styling in the php lexer. This needs some proving in some way to recognize the lexer as bugged and will test in SciTE with similar settings to reproduce the bug.

LuaScript as suggested can help you for now though if the php lexer needs a fix then it should get priority with posting an issue and where it should be posted. This may take some time as the lexer code is complex.

@PeterJones I just tested in SciTE SC1 version 5.5.8 Scintilla:5.5.8 Lexilla:5.4.6 with idle.styling=3 in SciTEGlobal.properties. It pastes the 50,000 lines without freezing into a .php file. Can you possibly confirm this test as this implies the php lexer is OK in SciTE, yet is not OK in Notepad++. If confirmed, then the lexer seems OK and goes back to being a Notepad++ issue. The idle styling was not the only setting in Notepad++ that was changed. The versions of Scintilla/Lexilla match with Notepad++ 8.9.

https://scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html#property-idle.styling

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Simple and light is often the opposite of universal.

This is often the case, but not always.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

If you solution is “universal enough” for you, fine;

Of course, when there is no ideal option, you have to choose the one that is most suitable for the situation.

@Alan-Kilborn said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Good luck achieving all of those all of the time.
Or do you have a “pick any 2” or “pick any 3” type rule? ;-)

Thanks. It happens to everyone at some point ;)
But it must be universal and fast, even if it means making the code complex.

@PeterJones I am happy :)

@shodanx2 ,

Placing the cursor anywhere on the window and middle-click-dragging left and right

Interesting. Apparently I am not creative enough to think of clicking on anything but the window/subwindow/panel frame to try to resize a window/subwindow/panel. Since there’s apparently utilities to enable that in other things, I guess you’re not the only one, but it’s just not something I’d ever thought of. (And sorry, in case it wasn’t obvious, unlike @Alan-Kilborn , I didn’t originally understand that you weren’t just trying a different button on the center bar between.)

Which allows me to middle click drag anywhere on a page and very quickly scroll it up and down.

That sounds very much like browser-style autoscroll features (though in those, they just click-and-release on the middle button, and that switches to autoscroll mode). And autoscroll as a feature has been rejected time after time after time(*) after time after time after time(*) (where the two *-d times were official word from the developer saying that autoscroll won’t be implemented). So while people obviously like it, the developer has made it clear it won’t be native to Notepad++.

So a script (as @Alan-Kilborn has given you hints on) or writing a plugin are the only options for your autoscroll-like behavior.

Regarding the script – if you search the forum for PythonScript and the mouse-based messages, I am guessing you’ll find an ancient script by one of the regulars here who gives an example of intercepting the mouse actions to add features to a script.

I’m guessing that GUP.exe and/or nppPluginList.dll somehow wasn’t updated before.

@PeterJones Ok, Thank you. I see now Microsoft Excel is the way to go!

@Laura-Harrison ,

Don’t post essentially the same thing twice. The posting form reminds you that until you have enough upvotes, you have to wait for the posting queue for the post to show up.

If all of your badly-quoted dates have the quotes in exactly the same places (3 digits, quote, digit, hyphen, quote, digit, quote, digit, hyphen, quote, two digits), then you can use a similar idea to above, but put each into capture groups using the (...) notation: FIND = (\d{3})"(\d)-"(\d)"(\d)-"(\d{2}) . Each capture group gets numbered 1-5 for each set of parens, and is $1 - $5 in the REPLACE WITH field. So REPLACE WITH = "$1$2-$3$4-$5"
This will take

199"0-"0"8-"28 199"2-"1"1-"12

and make it

"1990-08-28" "1992-11-12"

But I have a feeling you are going to tell me in the next post that what you really have is quotes in different places each time, like

1"99"0-"0"8-"28 199"2-"1"1-"12 "2"0"2"6"0"1"0"6"

In which case, I’d say, look for “possible quote, digit, possible quote, digit, possible quote, …etc”, where “possible quote” is in regex as "? (which means "0 or 1 quote mark)
FIND = "?(\d)"?(\d)"?(\d)"?(\d)"?-"?(\d)"?(\d)"?-"?(\d)"?(\d)"?
REPLACE = "$1$2$3$4-$5$6-$7$8"
REPLACE ALL
would give

"1990-08-28" "1992-11-12" "2026-01-06"

(Note that if you had more digits than that, like if you also had hh:mm:ss, so it would be up to 14, the replacements for 10-14 would be ${10} - ${14})

Chill, Peter :-) Breath in, breath out. Everything is fine. (This is meant in a very positive way. I feel that you are very busy right now.)

Of course, yes, this is definitly no big deal. But it is nothing wrong in talking about it. Or just bringing up a question about it. Or an idea.

IMO, Thomas is not wrong with his observation/question/request. The red x icon is the only colorized icon while using light mode and fluent UI. So a more consistant behaviour would be, to have the x icon appearance coupled on the icon choice rather than the light/dark mode choice. (Means red x icon coupled to standard icons, a fluent x icon to the fluent UI.)

Yes sure, this issue is nothing important compared to the more urgent topics in the issue tracker.

Hello

Thank you for the responses !

@Ekopalypse

I have tried this method

After installing PythonScript, it was unclear where I could add the script

open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py

I tried
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ (no)
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins (no)
C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts (maybe)

It still wouldn’t appear, until restart (this should, auto refresh I believe, when you open configuration at least ?)

It appeared in the menu

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But not in the configuration page

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Click on Plugins->Python Script-> Scripts -> open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py
Did open cmd.exe in the right location

Ah ok, from clicking the “new” script button

The path is
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts
The folder was not created during installation apparently !

Now it does appear !

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And yes this works !

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Thanks !

@PeterJones

Thanks for this suggestion

I gave this a try as well

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Then I edited

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\CustomizeToolbar.btn

I pasted your suggested command
changed the file to a screenshot of the cmd.exe icon I took
I also added you suggested extra space fix

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png View,Show Symbol,Show All Characters,,Icons\allChars.bmp,Icons\allChars_off.ico,Icons\allChars_off_dark.ico

This did not work yet

I used webservice
https://www.icoconverter.com/
To create a .ico file
with these settings
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and I downloaded the 3 files from the github issues

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/standard/toolbar/allChars.bmp
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/light/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/dark/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico

And I placed them in folder

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\Icons

Restarted notepad++

The icon appears and works but the icon is wrong

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I tried these settings

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Also does not work

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also no

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also no ???

Oh wait

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

should have been

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico

Icon has disappeared !

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ok, instead move the file to C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config
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change it back to

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart npp

icon is back, but still question mark

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Maybe the file is not 16x16 256 colours ?

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Looks like it is as specified

Maybe something is wrong with the file …

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I’m not good enough to mentally decode this, looks normal

Hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)

0x02 idType is 1 , which is ICO good
0x04 idCount is 1, just 1 image
0x06 ICONDIRENTRY struct

bWidth is 10 , which is width 16
bHeight is 10, which is width 16
bColorCount 0. does not use a pallette
wPlanes is 1, has color plane , whatever that is, 0 is black and white ?
wBitCount, it is 8 bit per pixel
dwBytesInRes, 1384 bytes ?? idk

…
onion.bmp,onion.ico,onion.ico

ah wait you have BMP in there ??

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File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.bmp,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart

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woohoo !

Wow, I was about ready to give up there !

Thanks both of you, I will go with the CustomizeToolbar plugin as it give me that distinctive icon !

@PeterJones said in Config Files Need Updating, Too:

But, unfortunately, there were a few growing pains in transferring from the plugin to the builtin that I was really hoping wouldn’t happen, because I had ironed out so many problems in the plugin version already.

That IS why it’s called ‘developing’. and maintainers are ‘developers’. :-)

If I ever saw a first version of anything that worked unscathed on the first try, I’d be digging through the code looking for the bomb that went undetected. :-)

@PeterJones Thanks so much for the quick reply. Installing the release candidate fixed the issue for me. Much appreciated!

@PeterJones said in HOW Do You Add Keyboard Shortcuts:

Actually, anything in the Scintilla Commands tab of the Shortcut Mapper can have 0 or more shortcuts assigned. It’s not limited to only 2. And it’s not limited to only Copy/Cut/Paste. This is described in the user manual’s Preferences > Shorcut Mapper, specifically in the paragraph that starts with “In the Scintilla commands tab, you can actually assign more than one shortcut to a given Scintilla command”

This might be confusing to @Michael-Neumann, because Cut, Copy and Paste are no longer Scintilla shortcuts; they moved to the Main menu tab, Edit category, as part of the changes that enhanced multiple selections and implemented VS Code-style line cut/copy/paste.

Since the two sets of shortcuts, with X/C/V and with Insert/Delete, are so familiar and either would have been missed, special allowance was made to let those menu items have two distinct shortcuts. No other commands work that way.

@h-jangra said in Feature Request / Question: Soft Wrap at Vertical Edge (Column 80) regardless of window size:

I have added this in NppVim plugin [. . .]I am not sure how to set text width in notepad++

That’s interesting! I’d think that a NP++ plugin can only do things that are also possible in NP++ itself since the underlying engine is the same.

@Cam-K said in How do I change font?:

Noticed on newer versions of N++ that the “Enable global font” option is gone

It’s not gone, just at the bottom of the list, because it’s not what most people should be using. See the global override dialog and the user manual for more on why you shouldn’t use it.

@guy038

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_COPY

copying data to the clipboard

Is document to the clipboard.

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_PASTE

pasting from the clipboard into the document

Is clipboard to the document.

Both functions relate to the document in the editor. The copy function will be good for the task though paste will not work with the search window.

Instead of SCI_PASTE, could use the Run command to run an executable to insert the clipboard text into the search window.

AutoIt3 script automate_columns++_search.au3 :

; Wait up to 3 seconds for the window. $hSearch = WinWait('Search in indicated region', '', 3) If $hSearch Then $sClip = ClipGet() ; get clipboard text ControlSetText($hSearch, '', 'Edit1', $sClip) ; set combo edit ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button7') ; click regex button ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button9') ; click count button $sCount = ControlGetText($hSearch, '', 'Static3') ; read label ClipPut($sCount) ; set clipboard text EndIf

Adjust the title if the window text is localized.

Compile to executable and then add to Run as a command. Get the command id with NppUISpy and insert into the shortcuts.xml file.

@PeterJones Thanx, much appreciated.

@Coises Perfect! Thank you for your assistance…