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

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.

@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 and everyone else — Looks good, thanks!

Thank you both. Thanks to the above 2 syntax I can rely on it to find any email address with a domain that I need. Since I very often use it to find emails on drive D or E. Previously this work took me quite a lot of time and trouble. Once again thank you 2

Maybe, report a bug to Hex Editor also?

@guy038 1A, 1B, and 2 are not that interesting, maybe because they are not very surprising! :-) 3 however, is a bit interesting. To restate it here: when there’s a digit, after the opening brace {, and possibly, a space char, this symbol needs to be escaped. It is interesting, that you said that 1{2 is “functional”, even though it doesn’t meet the criterion. Perhaps it would need the } to make it require the escape on the { ? I suppose that it sometimes needs the escape so that it isn’t confused with a usage like: j{2} – for a match of two j characters (although that is a contrived usage since it is shorter to simply use jj). 4 is also somewhat interesting. Restating it: When a replacement zone contains space characters beginning and/or ending the field, you may surround the overall replacement with parentheses I’ve sort of always take it as a given that "if you want literal ( or ) to appear in your replacement, use \( and \). But I haven’t thought too much about using them unescaped without a real need, such as in (?1x:y) or some other known constructs. Do you think there is a good reason that ( or ) in the replace field just can’t be literalized when used without additional syntax (much like the { or } seems to be in your point 3 above? It would save a bit of time, as the usual route is to not pay extreme attention to what you’re doing when you want literals in the replacement, and you do your operation, and the unescaped ( or ) do not appear, and you think “darn it, I forgot to escape them”, and then you undo your replacement, add the \ to the replace field, and re-execute the replacement.

@John-Liudr One thing that people don’t really seem to understand is that Notepad++ existing long before Windows 10 created Dark Mode. Now, sure, programs should “keep up with the times” but Notepad++ is not a “paid for” software, so its maintainers have limited time to develop, and I for one, care not about “colors” over “text editing” features.

@darkenb It’s really just a formula substitution from the other posting with the values above. All the information needed is there. Can’t you at least try that on your own?

@FlorianSchaetz you could post it at https://pastebin.com/

Thanks once again. I really appreciate it

@PeterJones said in favorite files and recents files sub-menues: Way to make a person feel slow: you got nearly the same information portrayed, in less time, with screenshots no less! Well…(simple) screenshots take less time to make than typing some text, so it was not a great achievement on my part! I certainly wasn’t trying to beat anyone to the punch. :-) I think the “achievement” was in all of the good info we gave the OP, in a very short turnaround time. :-) I guess the one thing I added to the conversation was mentioning the NppFavorites plugin. Yes, so we also got some nice diversity in our replies. :-) I have not tried NppFavorites myself, as the Explorer plugin has always met my “favorites” need. But…looking now I see that favorites is really all I use Explorer for anyway, so maybe I should try “streamlining” functionality and dumping Explorer in favor of NppFavorites… Hmm, will that outweigh the “hates change” feeling I have? Hmmm. I always like it when I can reply with something I’ve used and had success with. I will reply and point out a plugin that I haven’t used, but only if I don’t have anything else to recommend, and I try to give a disclaimer to the “haven’t tried, but know of…” variety.

@ArkadiuszMichalski Ok, I have to see if I can find out how to do that, thanks!

@Vasile-Caraus Ensure you have enough permissions to write to the D: volume. Maybe, running installer as administrator could help. I don’t know whether it will have other consequences or not.

@Cyrille-Piatecki-0 said in Closing files before opening the new one: @PeterJones I have tried to follow your advice. But, in my last installation of notepad++, no “C:\Users\cyril\AppData\notepad++” has been created. %AppData% has a precise meaning, and the path you showed indicates that you need to read the FAQ on the subject The other possibility is that you have a portable version rather than an installed version, in which case, shortcuts.xml would go in the portable folder. I doubt that’s your setup, but if you’re unsure, post your ?-menu’sDebug Info. But I still think my original instructions apply, and that you just misinterpreted the windows variable

@PeterJones Thank you so much. You are right, I was that used to create notes with notepad++, I couldn’t realize that it has become my default note. I’m sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your reply. Everything is fine.

@Ekopalypse said in How to Find a Line Number in Notepad++ (Search and Find shortcut): Do you mean the standard goto line dialog? Search->Go to @Vasile-Caraus said: Can I use a shortcut? Additional notes: pressing Ctrl+g will invoke it (there’s your shortcut!) double-clicking this area (the part highlighted in yellow) of the status bar will invoke it:

@Marty-Kay , Do you mean you want the wide spacing caused by a tab to be collapsed to something narrower when printing? There’s no real way to do that, as far as I know. Or do you mean that you have View > Show Symbol > View White Space and TAB enabled, and when you print, you see the → placeholder To disable that, the easiest way is to turn off View White Space and TAB before printing.

@Jose-Emilio-Osorio How to insert Carriage Return “CR” before “LF” at the end of each line ? They are probably already there and you need to do exactly nothing to insert them. If you are “unconfident” that Notepad++ is doing this for you, press the “Pilcrow” toolbar button…the one with this symbol on it: In the Notepad++ toolbar, it is blue in color, not black. With that toolbar button in the depressed state, you will see the CR and LF in a Windows file, example:

@PeterJones Thank you SOOO much!