@Coises said in Find line above given text in document:

A truly strange result happened when I tried removing the lookahead and using plain old Count in the Find dialog. With my 19,473 line, 119,172,867 byte file, entering either of these expressions:
(?-s)^.*$
(?-s)^.*+
into the Find window and pressing Count causes Notepad++ to hang (“Not Responding”). I’ve waited over six minutes before force closing.

Now given that both use Boost::regex, I have no idea why Notepad++ hangs.

Ugh. Doesn’t hang in 8.6.6 portable. Which gives me a bad feeling it could be related to PR #16208.

Edit to add: Reported in 8.7.9 announcement as a regression. Still studying the cause.

@PeterJones said in "Word wrap" option is reset from time to time:

Thanks for that brutally harsh assessment of my writing

I can see why you interpreted my general statement this way, and I apologize for any disrespect you felt as a result of that misunderstanding. However, I was not trying to imply anything negative about your general capabilities as a writer, or suggest that this particular piece of writing was unacceptable; I was just trying to make a point about the flaws/limitations of AK’s preceding comment.

FWIW, AK’s argument actually made me think of the various instructors I had in undergrad: despite their in-depth knowledge of the course material, many of them lacked the technical communication skills to provide effective lessons.

FWIW, I generally find your explanations on this forum exceptionally clear and easy to read, so I was surprised that this particular excerpt was a bit hard to follow on the first couple of run-throughs.

@PeterJones said in "Word wrap" option is reset from time to time:

you need to understand that (…) you do not get the final say into what’s accepted into the User Manual

Of course - that’s why I literally offered the adjustments as suggestions. However, I think it’s worth pointing out that someone else independently offered very similar suggestions (albeit for a potentially different piece of writing). The fact that two independent sources are suggesting the use of the same argument structure is a strong indication that the structure is worth following.

BTW, based on your multiple references to professional editors, you seem to be under the impression that I lack the experience required to give advice on writing structure. Given that you don’t know me personally, I’m not sure why you would make such an assumption; based on your other interactions on this forum, this seems out of character for you.

Either way, it’s worth pointing out that part of my current job is reviewing the content of user manuals, and I’ve had plenty of similar experience long before I took on this job. So, I’m much more qualified to offer advice on matters like this than you seem to think.

@guy038 said:

did you forgot of your excellent Python script

I didn’t exactly forget… :-)

But some of the earlier comments in this topic have made me decide that it might be best to just not try to remember any previous styling. I’m even doubting remembering bookmarks now too. :-)

@madmrmax said :

I noticed that N++ has its own editor command for move lines up or down

This seems irrelevant to the original problem description. Moving lines up or down isn’t related to extending a selection.

…try to use it rectangle extend, it only works the first time – you can’t extend more than two lines using the keyboard.

This actually sounds familiar, like it has been discussed before…

Ok, so there’s the Shortcut Mapper…

Then there’s also the concept that a user would never (!) change a common keycombo to be something else (gasp!). For a wild example, consider a user wanting to change Ctrl+c to not be “copy” (heresy!).

Most often, Notepad++ developers respect what is set by the Shortcut Mapper … but sometimes they disregard it and process hard-coded keycombos. I know, it sounds like a bad thing to do (and it is), but…the devs did it.

So for some “bad” stuff, have a look at the ScintillaEditView.cpp file in the Notepad++ source code repo. Search it for VK_ and you’ll see that it hard-processes some keys. Ideally, it would first use indirection to see what the user really has mapped, before doing what it’s going to.

It appears the offending code in this case has to do with column2MultSelect. If the code that processes this variable is removed (i.e., commented out), and Notepad++ is rebuilt and run, all seems to work fine with Ctrl+Shift+Alt+arrows used rather than Shift+Alt+arrows.

Given that we now know what to look for (we have insight!), we can see that uncheckmarking this setting will allow Ctrl+Shift+Alt+arrows to work:

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Hi, @dev-petty, @peterjones, @terry-r and All,

Yes I was too rapid, directly answering, without testing in N++. My bad !

So one correct syntax could be :

SEARCH (?s-i)(?-s:^Born:.+).+?California\R

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Check the Regular expression search mode

What means this regex, except for the literal strings Born: and California ?

The first part (?s-i) are initial modifiers which apply to the whole regex :

The (?s) syntax means that any . regex char, found in the regex, may represent any single character, including the line-break \r and/or \n.

The (?-i) syntax means that the search is done in an sensitive way ( so not insensitive ! ). Thus it will find the words Born and California but not the words born and california or BORN and CALIFORNIA. If an insensitive search is needed just use the (?si) syntax.

The second part is (?-s:^Born:.+) which is a non-capturing group ( a group whose we do not need the contents, further on, in search and/or replacement !) (?:.........) with the -s modifier which applies to this group only. Thus, this part looks for the word Born, with that exact case, at the beginning of line ^, followed with a colon, itself followed with any standard character ., repeated +, till the very end of current line as it stops at the line-breaks.

The third part is .+? which represents the smallest ? range of any character ., including \r and \r, repeated +, until …

The fourth part California\R which represents the word California, with this exact case, followed by \R which stands for any kind of line-break ( \r\n for Windows files, \n for Unix files or \r for Mac files ).

In replacement, as its zone is empty, the entire 4 lines matched are simply deleted !

BR

BR

guy038

@mkupper said:

…so pours a glass of wine while chatting about IPA…

@guy038 has always been really good at answering the question that wasn’t asked. It’s not a bad thing, as usually an increase in general knowledge results. :-)

The behaviour of the Alt key is weird and varies in different applications. I did the following experiments.

Basic setup: Have some programs open so that they are displayed in the task bar

Go to an application, i.e. have it as the “active” one Press the Alt key Point with the mouse to another application in the task bar and click. The application becomes the active one. Release the Alt key

What I see is:

If the target app is Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird or VLC, the menu is reliably activated upon releasing Alt. If the target app is MS Excel, menu is never activated. Excel activates the menu (displays shortcuts) a second after pressing Alt, i.e. not upon releasing it. If the target app is NP++ or LibreOffice the behaviour after releasing Alt is unpredictable. Sometimes the menu is activated, sometimes it’s not.

As I wrote, I remedy the situation by changing the key to one without Alt.

@Graz-Font I solved it. I edited the Windows registry to add a “MultipleInvokePromptMinimum” entry. Thanks to all for the suggestions, but it wasn’t a character length issue.

@Dan-A

I would just start by saying the program talked about here is Notepad++ or also NPP. NOTEPAD is a Windows application, so not to be confused with NPP. It is always nice to be respectful of someone accomplishments, even if you don’t necessarily agree with the “other” stuff that comes with it, so calling it by the correct name is respectful.

So, you ask what else can do the job that NPP can. Quite possibly lots, some free some you pay for. As for actual names it’s unlikely you will get answers to that since this is a NPP forum, not a forum for “Anything other than NPP”.

But we wish you well in your search.

Terry

Hello, @sabry-farg, @thomas-knoefel, @terry-r, @lycan-thrope and All,

Oh…, @lycan-thrope, you’re perfectly right about it ! It’s a typo !

So, @sabry-farg, I apologize for my mistabke !

The correct regex is, indeed :

FIND \|

REPLACE \r\n

BR

guy038

@Terry-R said in Replace many letters at same time.:

\U\1.

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Its perfect!!

Thank u very much Sir!!!

Claudio Raphael

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences? I pasted from the internet, and forget it’s a different font, just that line. So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

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Looking at your image, I would say almost certainly the person who created the text you copied used something like this:

https://www.namecheap.com/visual/font-generator/serif/

to make it. The characters that look that way are not ordinary letters. If you search for carte you won’t find it — because it’s actually 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞, which are completely different Unicode symbols from this block.

It’s a “trick” — and one of the reasons it usually a bad idea is that you’ll find there’s no easy way to replace the characters you copied with “normal” text.

@PeterJones Thanx very much for your help

@Maxim-Fox ,

config.xml for the settings, and stylers.xml for the default theme (other themes are in the themes subdirectory, and should be obvious based on which theme you use)

see User Manual > Config Files
https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/

This appears to be a JSON5 file. Probably it has the .json file extension, so it is highlighted with the JSON syntax highlighter, which treats unquoted keys as a syntax error. More recent versions of Notepad++ have a JSON5 syntax highlighter, available under Language->J->JSON5 from the Notepad++ main menu. If the JSON5 syntax highlighter isn’t available, you can just change the language preference to None (Normal Text).

EDIT: even in the most recent version of Notepad++, the JSON5 syntax highlighter still doesn’t properly parse unquoted keys in objects, so you should just change your Language to None (Normal Text).

You may also find the JsonTools plugin useful for working with JSON or JSON5. If you pretty-print a JSON5 file with JsonTools, it will convert it to JSON, and then the syntax highlighting will work correctly (but you won’t have unquoted keys anymore).

@PeterJones Thanks much for the infos.

@Robert-Or-Janet-Diebel ,

The following script for the PythonScript plugin runs the same macro (called DoNothing) on all files open in either view of Notepad++.

You would have to edit the script to call the name of your Macro, as listed in your Macro menu.

# encoding=utf-8 """in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21663/ Run a macro on each open file """ from Npp import notepad # store active tab in each View keepBufferID = notepad.getCurrentBufferID() docIndexes = [notepad.getCurrentDocIndex(v) for v in range(2)] for filename, bufferID, index, view in notepad.getFiles(): notepad.activateBufferID(bufferID) notepad.runMenuCommand("Macro", "DoNothing") # restore active tab in each View for v in range(2): notepad.activateIndex(v, docIndexes[v]) notepad.activateBufferID(keepBufferID)

@Real-Cat

There is another post similar in request to yours which might help.

See this post.

Terry

@Juan-Fco-Rubio-Diaz

No solution.
Notepad++ 's limited development team hasn’t tackled this particular problem yet.
There are already official “issues” open for it.