@Alan-Kilborn said in where can i find informations about all versions of notepad++ what's new?: @PeterJones It would have more weight behind it if someone other than me were to make an official npp-usermanual request on github… especially a normal user like @zahra-ayat , rather than a frequent contributor to the forum. I think that request is this one?: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9745 yes, its correct. i asked such helpful informations on this issue. https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9745

For polish he should use ISO 8859-2 (Eastern European), but nowadays I would rather recommend UTF-8. @nightznero To twoja twórczość?

@guy038 said in sample config: After ticking this option, in the Preferences dialog and closing N++, the value of the dlgAlwaysVisible attribute is still no in the config.xml file ! Hmm. I would think that dlgAlwaysVisible would get erased from the FindHistory section at the N++ release that moves control to the Searching section of config.xml; example of that: <GUIConfig name="Searching" monospacedFontFindDlg="yes" stopFillingFindField="no" findDlgAlwaysVisible="yes" confirmReplaceInAllOpenDocs="yes" /> Notice the name is now slightly different, too: findDlgAlwaysVisible But…I really don’t know how such “obsolete” items are handled. So , no need to create any issue If obsolete settings are supposed to be removed, maybe THAT’S an issue you could open!

Hi, @n_antiyou and All, As I said in my previous post, you may mix some styles, from the 5 styles, available by default, to get other colors, in order to color all your keywords ! Refer to this post by @Claudia-Frank, who, unfortunately, is no longer active on this forum ! Her contribution was quite important and she provided quantity of excellent Python scripts, too ! Let’s wish her the best and good coding moments ;-)) https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/27621 With the help of the NppQCP plugin ( Quick Color Plugin ), I built up a Word image which recapitulates the main style combinations, with significant colors and their RGB coordinates Best Regards, guy038

Hello @alan-kilborn and All, I’ve found out a simple example of the advantage of the conditional feature ! Let’s suppose that you have a particular tag <guy> and that you want : To delete the starting tag <guy> with, both, its leading and trailing space chars To delete the ending tag </guy> with its leading space char, only The simple and obvious solution is : SEARCH \x20<guy>\x20|\x20</guy> REPLACE Leave EMPTY Now, this shorter regex S/R, with a conditional expression, related to group 1, is : SEARCH \x20<(/)?guy>(?(1)|\x20) REPLACE Leave EMPTY I verified that the suppression of 500,000 starting tags and 500,000 ending tags, in one step, take the same time, whatever the regex syntax used ! Best Regards, guy038

Hello, @Alan-kilborn and All, Thank, alan, for your feedback ! Yes, I know that the Pos number, in the status bar, refers to exact position (starting from 0), in current file, of the first byte of the sequence needed to write a character, in a specific encoding ! For instance, the UTF-8 sequence of the 🎷 character, representing a saxophone, is the four bytes sequence ( F0 9F 8E B7 ). So, if you insert in a new tab, the string A🎷Z0 you can jump, with the Search > Go to... feature, when the Offset radio button is set, to : Pos 0, right before the A letter Pos 1, right before the 🎷 letter Pos 5, right before the Z letter Pos 6, right before the 0 digit And, if you try the offset 2, 3 or 4, which are all within the UTF-8 encoding of the 🎷 character, you would just jump to the next Z char ! This behavior is now correct, because I created an issue about this problem. Refer to this issue ! Now, I think that you’re right regarding your assumption about the two bytes used by a char, over the BMP : this has really something to do with the two bytes of the surrogate mechanism ! For instance : The regex to get the 🎷 character, use its surrogate pair \x{D83C}\x{DFB7} ( as we cannot use its complete hexadecimal code \x{1F3B7} ) The general regex (?-s).[\x{D800}-\x{DFFF}] finds any character over the BMP ( Basic Multilingual Plane ), so with code-point over \x{FFFF} BR guy038

@Brian-D Do you have this Hide extensions option ON by any chance?

@PeterJones said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files: I’m glad that Notepad++ (plus plugins) is able to help you overcome this extreme deficiency in output ability of this other software Npp++ is totally my savior. And that other software is one of Autodesk. (◣_◢)

My macro: stand on beginning of Leicester start recording shift-end ctrl-c end space delete end space delete home down arrow ctrl-v end enter up arrow stop recording replay recording replay recording replay recording replay recording replay recording … end up with extra Leicester to delete. A simpler approach would be to just merge every 2 lines and then add the common prefix with column editing.

@PeterJones I see - and understand, thank you!

@Ekopalypse said in To use Firefox on the current edited html file: D:\whatever_path\firefox.exe $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) Word of warning: if either D:\whatever path\firefox.exe or the value of $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) have spaces in them, that will probably not work. As with all Windows paths that have (or might have) spaces, use quotes around them. So "D:\whatever path\firefox.exe" "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" . Any time you are referring to a path inside Notepad++ config files, Run dialog, etc, I highly recommend putting quotes around the paths.

@Alan-Kilborn said in HTML colors in proper colors: Did the earlier code run too slowly? I ask because it seemed to process only what was on-screen to a user as opposed to the whole-file. … maybe you encountered some other difficulty relating to it. With my 90-color example, where I had multiple instances of those same 90 color blocks, as I would scroll up and down the file, it would slow down my scrolling as it kept redrawing the screen for every line of movement (ie, every time the UPDATEUI notification was triggered). That was annoying to me. My whole-file-once approach took 2-5sec to do the whole file, but then I could scroll to my heart’s content; the notification-based one-screen solution took <1s per screen, but it cost that same amount of time every scroll action; scrolling more than a few lines or a few times would quickly move the higher efficiency from one-page to color-once-then-move-freely. If I were editing a large HTML file (I don’t do that – I am just doing this because it is interesting and I had an idea I wanted to try), I think I would prefer colorizing the whole thing, on demand. If I were trying to decide which color to put in the HTML/CSS, the NppQCP would be a better option, because you could start with what you have, then tweak the value in the plugin. But if I just want a quick visual reference of what color each of those are as I’m editing other things in my HTML/CSS, I wouldn’t need to refresh it often, and doing the whole document one time would mean I could scroll throughout the document without further delays. To each his own, I guess. If someone wanted an on-demand-but-just-the-visible-screen, the start_position and end_position values could go back to the visible-line-start/ends that were in my first gist. Since I was implementing this more for my own learning than to help the OP, I decided to implement it in the way that would most likely match the way I might use the feature in the future. And both gists are still there, so either are available for direct use or for taking and editing to match one’s own use-case. I said, It may already be changed in the gist by the time you get here. It’s changed now, BTW.

@PeterJones awesome thank you so much! Learning regex is a long marathon lol

All right, this worked. Now I’ve added _ underscores to texts that I don’t want translated and it worked. Now I will restore the texts that I have added _ underscores, so I have to delete the ones I added. Only […] underscores in these parentheses will be removed. Any other _ hyphens used in the document will not change.

@PeterJones and everyone else — Looks good, thanks!

Thank you @guy038 so much, I used your method and got exact result I want. Great work ! I’m still trying to understand your method to know more about NPP. Thanks again. Have a nice day !

@Alan-Kilborn said in Please help me! How do you remove a certain character that only comes at the end of a line? Please help me!: Very similar solution. The ^ character represents the start of a line. These are very basic principles in regular expressions. So Find What:^- There’s a caveat with this one. Say the line is like this: -------------I'm a line Then a regex operation using ^- would affect ALL of the -, not just the first one. HERE is another posting discussing an alternative technique to only handle the first character, when multiple of same are involved. Oh. Well, to be honest, I actually did want to remove all of them from the 1st and last line, and I think I just did ‘‘replace all’’ over and over again until they were all gone. Haha. But, yeah, that’s useful for anyone that specifically needs to remove a certain character from the beginning, but wants to keep the same character. Thank you!

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you too … now it’s clear ;-)

That is super helpful. Thanks you guys so much!!