@lycan-thrope
Forgot to mention, I may be the younger member, too. :-)

We actually have a developer that’s in his 90’s…and another in his 80’s, so since I’m the young one that isn’t actively working, I figured it would make a nice side hobby to setup the NPP package since many have been asking if one exists, and many said if there was, they’d like to know where it is. :-)

Of course, the main reason everyone says they haven’t gotten doing it is time…and that’s about all I have to offer since retiring. :-)

Lee

@slusher59 said in Looking for tips/directions on how to best approach creating a custom plugin for Notepad++:

is it possible in NPP to display only the search results that have > 0 hits, and hide all searches that returned 0 results?

As I said before:

@alan-kilborn said in Looking for tips/directions on how to best approach creating a custom plugin for Notepad++:

So Search results window and PythonScript don’t typically play well together.

If you script searches, you have to find your own way of presenting the output to the user.

One way of doing this is having your script write output to a new (file) tab that it creates. That way you have total control of what goes into the output. You can even make it appear a lot like the usual Search results. If you want to get really fancy, you could even set it up so that double-clicking in this output would open the file where the hit was found.

It just depends if the time you want to spend on this is better spent scripting or developing a true plugin. But even a true plugin isn’t going to have an easy time of doing custom things with Notepad++'s Search results area.

@guy038
Congratulations with your ingenious solution. Although it seems to me that an editor - any editor - is not quite the right tool for this job. It is as if you are explaining how to build a wooden chicken coop with as only tool the heel of a shoe.

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Hi, @ganesan-govindarajan,

Actually, if a <revst> tag is found outside a <task.....>........</task> section OR if <task ........>........</task> sections do not contain, at least, one <revst> tag, like below :

... <task .......> .... .... .... </task> ... ... ...<revst>... ... ... <task .......> .... .... .... </task> ...

The regex will not match anything ! I suppose that this behavior is the one which is expected !?

Now, I need additional text to get a general idea of what you need. Could you provide a real complete example, as a text, in reverse video ?

Could you indicate the zones to mark and the different mandatory conditions to respect ?

Thanks,

BR

guy038

@alan-kilborn said in PythonScript ops on selection if any, all text otherwise:

.append((‘0x0x0’, u’•×•×•'))

Note that append is a function call to add something to a list. In this case we are adding a tuple to the list, so that’s why the opening and closing parentheses are doubled – the outer pair is for the function call, the inner pair is the tuple notation.

@paul-wormer said in PythonScript early return:

I see “os.sep”, shouldn’t one “import os”?

I requested a forum moderator to add the missing import os to the script listing above, and that was done…thanks Mr. Moderator!

@alan-kilborn ,

Thanks. I appeciated, and actually understood the information you were linking me to. I guess my humorous response wasn’t taken the way it was intended, so… sorry . :-)

But I definitely agree with your observation, that indeed, it is not at all obvious, which is kind of why my answer was a “flippant” so I apologize if you didn’t understand that I was agreeing with you. :-)

Lee

Hello, @handa-flocka, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All,

Just tried your script, Peter and it wokrs like a charm ! Of course, the list of strings can be displayed in any order !

Now, regarding your attempt to find a previous script, on this topic, maybe it could be related to this @ekopalypse’s script :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57173

and the @alan-kilborn’s subsequent modification :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/57229

Changes are, of course, needed to fit this present topic !

BR

guy038

@alan-kilborn
I thank you and the others in this thread for their patient advice. To show what I did with it, I copy my script and sample input.

""" Hide entries in a diary. - Daily entries are preceded by an empty line followed by the date on a single line. - Dates can be either in American or in European format. - Days occur with irregular intervals. """ from __future__ import print_function # Python 2.7 from Npp import * def getStartPositionNextLine(pos): """ Get start position of line below line of `pos`. Note that positions in scripts start at 0 whereas the statusline gives a position starting at 1. """ rpos = editor.getLineEndPosition(editor.lineFromPosition(pos)) + 2 #skip \r\n return rpos def getEndPositionPreviousLine(pos): rpos = editor.getLineEndPosition(editor.lineFromPosition(pos)-1) return rpos regex = r'^\d{1,2}(-|/)\d{1,2}(-|/)\d{4}?' # European or American date lenFile = editor.getLength() # Find start and end position of first date string: startDate, endDate = editor.findText(FINDOPTION.REGEXP, 0, lenFile, regex) startSel = getStartPositionNextLine(endDate) editor.setSelectionStart(startSel) while endDate < lenFile: startDate0, endDate0 = startDate, endDate try: startDate, endDate = editor.findText(FINDOPTION.REGEXP, endDate0, lenFile, regex) except: break else: # Go back 2 lines skipping empty line: endSel = getEndPositionPreviousLine(getEndPositionPreviousLine(endDate)) editor.setSelectionEnd(endSel) notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_HIDELINES) # New selection starts at line below date line: startSel = getStartPositionNextLine(endDate) editor.setSelectionStart(startSel) editor.setSelectionEnd(lenFile) notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_HIDELINES)

A sample diary:

DE BELLO GALLICO 3-1-2019 Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit. Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter ellum gerunt. 7/6/2019 Qua de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, quod fere cotidianis proeliis cum Germanis contendunt, cum aut suis finibus eos prohibent aut ipsi in eorum finibus bellum gerunt. Eorum una pars, quam Gallos obtinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano, continetur Garumna flumine, Oceano, finibus Belgarum, attingit etiam ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, vergit ad septentriones. Belgae ab extremis Galliae finibus oriuntur, pertinent ad inferiorem partem fluminis Rheni, spectant in septentrionem et orientem solem. Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani quae est ad ispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones. 10/9/2019 (ibidem) Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix. Is M. Messala, M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent: perfacile esse, cum virtute omnibus praestarent, totius Galliae imperio potiri. Id hoc facilius iis persuasit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii continentur : una ex parte flumine Rheno latissimo atque altissimo, qui agrum elvetium a Germanis dividit; altera ex parte monte Iura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine odano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit. 22-12-2019 His rebus fiebat ut et minus late vagarentur et minus facile finitimis bellum inferre possent; qua ex parte homines bellandi cupidi agno dolore adficiebantur. Pro multitudine autem hominum et progloria belli atque fortitudinis angustos se fines habere arbitrabantur, qui in longitudinem milia passuum CCXL, in latitudinem CLXXX patebant.

@michael-vincent said in Preview value color RGB, HEX, HSL.:

It does now …

I did confirm:
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So it’s working better than my script again, since it works even with a lexer active, and accepts other endings. :-)

@neil-schipper said in Regex: Show the string result from searching ALL FILES, between 2 parts:

copy text from Search Results (pane or window) into this new file.

There are 2 ways to do this, depending on whether or not you need information about the files to carry over in the copy.

This method will get you the search/file/line info along with the lines-of-match:

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will get:

Search "t" (2 hits in 1 file of 1 searched) new 1 (2 hits) Line 1: (?s)(?!.*this_is_not_included).* Line 1: (?s)(?!.*this_is_not_included).*

This method will get you only the line data of the match:

bbd8a609-ea09-4faf-b9d4-ce4d9a871158-image.png

will get:

(?s)(?!.*this_is_not_included).*

Note that in the second example, since there are 2 results but the matched lines are the same line, only ONE copy of the line data is put into the clipboard.

@amy-nugent
Amy, how about sharing that information? We might get another question like this, and it would help to have that information to provide to someone else. :)

Lee

@wintersilence
thank’s

@alan-kilborn thank you very much

For future readers: the solution proposed by @robin-cruise does not do the same thing as my solution. So depending on your definition of “delete the line number 15”, that “alternate” solution will fail.

Given the data

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen

the “alternate” solution \A(?:^.*$\R){14}\K.*$ will do one of two things: if you have . matches newline enabled, it will match the zero-width match at the very end of the file, deleting nothing, which is obviously not what is desired, by any interpretation of “delete line number 15”. If you have . matches newline unchecked, it will delete the contents of line 15, but still leave the newline:

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen sixteen

… with a gap (blank line) between fourteen and sixteen. This may not be what is desired.

On the other hand, my expression (?-s)\A(^.*$\R?){14}\K(^.*$\R?) will delete the whole line, including the newline sequence, regardless of the , matches newline setting.

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen sixteen

This leaves no blank line between fourteen and sixteen.

Since the OP has already said that my solution did exactly what was desired for this question, having someone else providing an answer which results in anything different from the desired results is not presenting an alternative solution, it is presenting an incorrect “solution”, at least for this question. It may be useful to someone who does want to leave the blank line in line 15. but it’s not what the OP wanted.

They mean the same thing in this context and they are both grammatically correct. “Opened files” uses the verb form of “open” in the past participle, “open files” uses the adjective form of “open”.

@ekopalypse
Thank you guys! Keyboard shortcuts seemed to work better for some reason. Finally got this to work :)

@alan-kilborn
just to chime in (Note: I’m still on Npp v8.1.9)-
Ctrl+0 works for forward move to next mark
Ctrl+Shift+0 doesn’t work for anything

I also used Nir Sofer’s HotKeysList to verify there is no system level hot key assigned to Ctrl+Shift+0.

User manual PR#306 should clarify this in the user manual.

Assuming it is accepted and merged, the new verbiage will be in the next release of the npp-user-manual.org website, which will likely happen soon after the next version of Notepad++ is released.

Until it is merged, there is still time for further clarification if people wanted to comment on the chosen wording/explanation.