@PeterJones, Thank you for your considered (and considerate) engagement. I actually hesitated to respond with my comment about the 70s and 80s, pretty sure I would get what you gave, but I couldn’t resist—I’m old (83 next month). Anyway, thanks again for putting up with me. …lee

@Midnitecata said: @PeterJones thank you for your help, ill probably steer clear of it just out of caution, but i might look into it further should the tedious formatting inconvenience me enough to learn how to spot malicious code! thanks again!! :) Just a side note to this discussion: While you certainly can manipulate *.srt files in Notepad++ (and I do on occasion), for most purposes the free and open source program Subtitle Edit (found here on GitHub) is much easier to use. It has many functions for doing things like shifting times, identifying likely errors, and so on. Before working too hard to find a way to do something with a subtitle file in Notepad++, I recommend checking first to see if Subtitle Edit already knows how to do it.

Hello, @coises and All, As for the first bug, I humbly apologize for the inconvenience caused : it’s my own fault. There’s no bug at all ! Indeed, in all my previous manipulations, I simply move the mouse around, to a specific location and immediately right click : thus some odd results ! As you said : (since the menu is based on the caret location), I understood that if I first clicked within a line, within a green line or within a gold line and THEN right clicked on the mouse I did get the same results as yours , i.e. : search (gold) lines should show: Expand/Collapse Search Expand/Collapse Documents file (green) lines should show: Expand/Collapse Document Open Document match (numbered) lines should show: Locate in Document Move Here in Document Again, sorry for the moise ! To end, could you verify if you can reproduce the third bug or if I forgot something obvious ? Best Regards, guy038

Hello, @blake-g.-barrington, @peterjones, @coises and All, Here is my version to get duplicate lines, separated by any number of lines ( whatever they are : true empty lines, blank lines or lines with text ), even zero line : MARK (?-si)^(.+)(?=(.*\R)+\1$) As said by @Peterjones, and after some tests, this kind of regex get into trouble when the bunch of lines, between two duplicate lines, exceeds 15,000 empty lines about ! Now, Let’s suppose you create this text file : first 0002 0003 0004 0005 .... .... .... 9997 9998 9999 10000 first Then the (?-si)^(.+)(?=(.*\R)+\1$) regex returns : Correct result until the number of the in-between lines does not exceed 1,600, with the message 1 match in entire file Correct result until the number of the in-between lines does not exceed 12,000, although the error message Find Invalid Regular Expression ( So F.I.R.E. !! ) occurs ! NO result at all if the number of lines is over 12,000 lines, with, of course, the error message Find Invalid Regular Expression Best Regards, guy038 P.S. : I should add that my Windows11 laptop has 32 Gb of memory !

Hello, @francisco, @gerdb42 and All, There are plenty of solutions ! The following one will ensure that the . matches newline option will not be used even it’s checked and that the Match case option is enabled even it’s not checked ! FIND (?-si)_.+(?=\.txt) REPLACE Leave EMPTY Best Regards, guy038

The syntax file can be created by means of user-defined language. But how to apply this user-defined language automatically when Smart Math is enabled for the current file/document? OK, sorted it out: call NPPM_GETNBUSERLANG first to get the number of UDLs; then iterate through all the UDLs and call GetMenuStringW; once the menu item string matches my UDL name, I’ve identified my UDL menu id; after that, call NPPM_MENUCOMMAND with the obtained UDL menu id. Here is an example withUDL applied: [image: 1788696158249-d17e9134-3e1a-4b20-b7e9-62b16dbc4eff-image.jpeg] It’s a pity that I can’t make the keyword colors (such as function colors) to be dependent on the active color theme/style. I mean, for dark color themes these keywords in blue look too dark, so the color must be changed for dark themes.

@behrouz1 I will be assuming you have a normal installation (using AppData for configuration files). If that’s not the case, or you are having difficulty finding the files and directories mentioned, share your ?-menu’s Debug Info share a directory listing of %AppData%\Notepad++\functionList you are looking for it to contain something like udl_markdown.xml or something similarly named. And a file called overrideMap.xml open %AppData%\Notepad++\functionList\overrideMap.xml , and scroll down near the bottom; there should be a section <!-- ==================== User Defined Languages ============================ --> , and there should be some <association .../> tags there, including one like <association id="udl_markdown.xml" userDefinedLangName="Markdown (preinstalled)"/>. If it’s not there, share the entire section from the “User Defined Languages” section down to the bottom. (Use </> button then paste the XML directly into your post in the region provided by the button) Even in a normal installation, if you did things differently (maybe your AI doesn’t know N++ as well as you think), those files may have been put into the installation directory, so in c:\program files\notepad++\functionList\ or wherever relative to your installed Notepad++. Basically, what you must have is that your overrideMap.xml must have an association where the filename is in the id attribute, and the exact name of the active UDL (in my case, I am using Markdown (preinstalled)) is in the userDefinedLangName attribute. Then that file must contain the definition for the function list to show the headers (if you can’t find those files anywhere, even after we reply to your Debug Info, then you might need to download a new definition file, like from my publically-shared one, here on my GitHub)

@PeterJones I sent him an email but got no reply. Overall I’m a bit disappointed with this. I think for all his good intentions he’s allowing a strong chance of people accidentally clicking on these malware links, Got nothing more to add. Thanks.