@Alan-Kilborn The script is NOT intended to be run multiple times, say, in order to toggle the feature on/off. If this is desired, we can tweak the script I wouldn’t mind seeing such a feature, but it’s fine without it. I’d sooner have it also reveal the following code points when the encoding is ANSI/cp1252, which I actually use more often than Unicode: 129, 141, 143, 144, 157 = All undefined in NPP’s character panel, and everywhere else I’ve consulted. 160 = Non-breaking space Perhaps it was a coincidence; you just thought that was what you saw happen? Maybe, but I’m not worried about it enough to investigate. I think Show All Characters is bad UI text, because of what it implies I agree, and have thought the same thing. One email correspondent of mine often sends messages that have ASCII non-breaking spaces in them, which he claims to have no idea why they’re in there, but it trips me up when editing quoted text in my replies, as I often use Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow to navigate horizontally, and it ends up skipping over multiple words that are only separated by NBS. @PeterJones It might help to add something like, Or maybe use I’ll keep them in mind, thanks. It’s actually not that big of a deal.

@PeterJones said in Old Pythonscript stopped working: Think about what you just said! Clearly, and sadly, there isn’t much thinking going on. The same dumb thing was said HERE, turning the dumbness into an official complaint against a great piece of software. :-(

@Terry-R said in Find/remove duplicate multiple lines and keep the first occasions: I might also be able to create a macro which then all you have to do is insert that into one of NPP’s configuration files. More on that later. I’ve been doing a lot of testing and still can’t guarantee it will work correctly every time within the 1 file due to the fault previously mentioned. I’ve had success on a 50K line file, then on another occasion failure on a 10K line file. However there is a bright side, most of the steps can be automated into a macro, even when using the 2 file system (cut selected lines and insert into a temporary file). However all is not perfect. The initial steps of numbering the lines does NOT convert to a macro. Thus the steps to include the line number and #@ (my idea) must be completed manually. I do feel though that this a minor irritation. Macro’s are saved within the shortcuts.xml file. Depending on how your installation was completed it may be in one of several locations. I’m going to use the way mine is setup, it will be up to you to find the correct file (same name) if it’s not the one I’m using. Open Notepad++ (I’m going to call it NPP from here on) without ANY files being open (like a saved session). We need to operate this NPP session purely to edit the shortcuts.xml file ONLY! Select “Open…” and type %appdata% and press enter. This will open a folder listing (amongst other things) the Notepad++ folder. Double click to open this folder. Within it is the file we seek; shortcuts.xml; double click to open that file. Look within the file for a start tag of <Macros>. There will also be a ending tag </Macros>. Within this there may already be a macro recorded, if so it will be surrounded by the tags <Macro> and </Macro>. What you will do is copy the contents of the box below and insert into this area so it becomes a new Macro. So insert immediately before the </Macros> tag, but NOT in between the <Macro> and </Macro> tags as that will affect another macro, should it exist. <Macro name="20027" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='(?-s)(^.+\R){6}(?=.+&lt;div class=&quot;s)' /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="784" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1615" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="43018" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2422" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2325" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41001" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='(?-s)(^.+\R){3}.+title--h2&quot;&gt;(.+)&lt;/div&gt;\R.+?\R(?s)(?=.+?\2)' /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2326" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2013" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2422" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2325" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="44096" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2316" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="&#x000D;" /> <Action type="1" message="2170" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="&#x000A;" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42061" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="^\d+#@" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> </Macro> Note I called this Macro 20027 (first line within box) in recognition of your post/topic number. Feel free to change this to a more suitable name upon inserting. 4. Save the shortcuts.xml file and exit NPP, very important no other work is carried out in the current session! 5. Re-open NPP and now under the Macro menu option there should be an item called in my case 20027, your’s whatever you named it to. 6. That completes a one off process to get the macro “recorded”. Now comes the best bit, actually processing one of your files. So start NPP, again NO other files loaded, very important! Open the file you need to edit. Place cursor in the very first position of the file and open the “Column Editor”. First place the characters #@ as has previously been explained. Then repeat for the line number. Make sure cursor is again in the first position. Click on the Macro you created (20027). Hopefully the process is fairly fast, for me on an almost 10K line file it took about 5 seconds. The file you opened should now be without the duplicated titles, be aware that at the point the macro ceases the file is “edited” but NOT saved!. You will also have a second tab which is the title sequences which were edited. This is only a temporary file and does not need saving, close it. Obviously you will need to proof the changes made, I strongly suggest to do so. One way of determining the number of changes is to use a copy of the file (this is a destructive test), remove ALL but the h2 tag lines. Then sort and run your eye over the list to see what duplicates exist (if lots then a regex could identify them more accurately, you do seem to be somewhat regex aware so I leave that to you to do). For any duplicate use the tag data string (with the h2 tag string so it does not check “plain text”) to “Count” (within the Find function) on the original processed file, count should always be 1 ONLY! So it is very hard to decipher a macro once created, although there are amongst us some “experts” in that field (NOT ME!), there is also some documentation should you feel the need to do so which will help. What this macro does is: Bookmarks the 6 line sequences throughout the file, then cuts the bookmarked lines and inserts into a “new tab”, that’s the temporary file I referred to above. I should mention here that I’m using version 7.8.9 64bit as I believe the bookmarking function originally only marked the first line of a sequence of lines, it now bookmarks all the lines a regex selects in this version. Sorts in Integer descending order. Removes the duplicates using ONLY the h2 tag data as the identifier. The blank line is removed as part of the sequence of 6 lines. Copies the remaining lines back into the original file and re-sorts integer ascending. Removes the line number and following 2 character delimiter. Just check as there may be a straggler blank line either at start or end of the file. I came across that in testing and was never sure from where it came from. From a html coded file a blank line is inconsequential so I’ve haven’t been too bothered about it. I’ve quite enjoyed getting my teeth into a major bit of work so I thank you for supplying it. I will say though that my “dummy” data can never replace “real” data so you may well find issue with it. I’d be only too happy to take another look should that arise. Regexes such as this can be a bit fragile (although we do try to build in some flexibility) so any change in the input could well stop the process, or at least cause a malformed file, so continue to do spot checks. Terry

Ok, many thanks for all the information. once I start learning the expression, I will do it step by step… .

@Alan-Kilborn said in No suggestions - spellchecker: But good for you if you are now happy. :-) well, certainly not my job to figure what’s wrong with this software but who is perfect anyway?

@Alan-Kilborn maybe just a copy/paste before the sorting took place.

@guy038 said in .ics file selection problem: We may solve the problem in a more simple way I like it very much. Your were probably seeing the issue I had trying to LOOK for the bla bla bla, rather than your idea is we should look for any that DON’T have the bla bla bla in them, hence the negative lookahead. Might I just add 2 sentences for the benefit of @Marcin-Jewiarz, just in case he didn’t notice. When you say to use the “Mark” regex (First solution) you forgot to mention the requirement to tick the “bookmark lines”. Obviously without it there are no lines bookmarked and the next step will therefore remove ALL lines. Use of the (?xs-i), the x option denotes the following as being of a “free form nature”. The spaces shown are NOT used, but exist ONLY to make it easier to read. This along with the \Q and \E regex functions aren’t used much, but perhaps should be, especially when OP’s come to us with words like “bla bla bla” and we have to say insert your text in this position, however without knowing what the actual text is, it can sometimes cause issues when one or more is actually a metacharacter. Cheers Terry

@VTGroupGitHub said in Sort as "aaAAbbBBccCC" or "AAaaBBbbCCcc" but not "AABBCCaabbcc", "aabbccAABBCC", or "aAAaBbbBCcCc": as I almost made … my post body “See title.” Thank you for not. That might’ve earned you a downvote on your OP from some users here, rather than getting you an answer. :-)

Wow. More to it than I’d have thought. Thanks for the insight.

@PeterJones said in Tabs always open on the right?: it does not automatically Run As Administrator , so I’m not sure what’s different. This is starting to get complicated. And by now I’ve/we’ve managed to hijack this thread from “open to right”, to how does the admin mode function “automatically”, as opposed to via the “run as…” command (right click). As I do seem to have a system which operates most like the OP’s one, I will do some more testing on whether admin mode has a bearing on the “open to right” tab issue that started here. Don’t wait up, this might be a day or so answer. Terry

@guy038 said in FunctionList help: I realized that my nice theory is, most of the time, rather useless So I guess I am confused by this. Just select all this text… (and further instructions) Yes, but isn’t it often the case that you don’t have handy such an exact text you need to search for? Maybe you need to search for a certain character, and all you have is its code. Example, the cheese wedge from before. You may immediately know that it is \x{1F9C0} but that’s all you know and you want to search for it.

@PeterJones Thank you for the kind help. I am completely new to Notepad++ and Regex. As you have mentioned in the previous about the ease of having description column at end, I tried moving the column to end in Notepad++. However I was not able to figure out the Regex code. I would be patient enough and try the syntax before posting.

@Shesh-Nioice said in Merge 2 Files - Lines Containing Same: I should be start learning regular expressions very interesting and helpful. To learn about regexes (regular expressions) start with our FAQ section. There are a number of helpful links to sites (I see you already found one, regex101.com). There is the manual for NPP which is on the NPP homepage. Other references are also linked within the FAQ posts. I was where you are now not too long ago, but I too found the regulars here were very helpful to me and now I pass that forward. As always we strive not only to help users, but to guide them so they can gain more knowledge. Regexes are brilliant but don’t forget to start small at first as it can be quite daunting to attempt to read some of the more complex regexes that are provided on this forum. The beauty of regex101.com is that it does explain what the regex is doing so that will give you some insight. Cheers Terry

Replace With = >${=java.util.UID.randomUID\(\)}< @Alan-Kilborn It’s tough to make that assumption, when so little data is provided. You’re right. What is an example, such an answer

@vijay-S said in Alt+l+x tag is not adding in macro: I have a single line big xml. … without downloading TExtFX or XMl tools plugin. is there any way Notepad++ does not have any native XML formatting tools built in. I understand that having XML (or HTML, or any other code) all on a single line with no line breaks can be annoying. There are two good ways and a bad way to format XML (or any other code), and a fourth way that is really just a lame workaround: Download a plugin that already handles it, like XML Tools. You have rejected this without giving a reason, even though this is the best answer to give you Note: TextFX hasn’t been maintained in years, and thus hasn’t kept up-to-date with modern Notepad++. I wouldn’t recommend that route. Download a tool unrelated to Notepad++ which will give you an external .exe file which will format your XML for you. This is better than nothing, but not as convenient as having it in a Notepad++ plugin @Michael-Vincent has posted that he uses tidy5 for XML, and runs that (and other code tidy apps) using an NppExec script shared in another post. Of course, that also involves a plugin, so even though it’s another good suggestion, you are likely to reject it. Do a poor-man’s “xml tidy”, which just involves splitting at the end > of every XML tag. FIND = >, REPLACE = >\r\n will put a newline after ever > This will not do any fancy indenting If you want fancy indenting, use a tool developed for the job, like the XML Tools plugin or tidy5 or whatever other external tool you want Workaround: Turn on word-wrap, and Notepad++ will at least visually wrap, so you can change the width of your editor window to decide how many characters will be shown per “line”. Please note that this doesn’t change the underlying XML, so that will still all be one big long line. Rejecting pre-made and already-debugged solutions will only hurt you and the quality of your work. Thinking that we will re-invent the wheel for you, just because you don’t happen to like a particular brand of tire, could be considered rather selfish. I recommend using suggestion #1 or #2. Good luck.

Thanks Peter that’s just what I was looking for, it works perfectly. thanks a lot

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@Sebastian said in Possible way for User Installation?: tried to update the portable version Once you invoke the updater, it is trying to do things the installed way, not the portable way. If you don’t want the installer running, don’t use the “update” command. When I want a new version of the portable, it’s easiest to unzip it to a new folder, then do folder renames so that the newer portable ends up in the same directory where my association points. Alternately, you can copy files from one portable folder to another – I know there are other discussions on this forum that talk about what files you need to copy directly, and what files are best to compare an manually merge: search for “portable update” or similar phrasing.