@mere-human From my recent discussion with Don and as Alan mentioned, Don prefers the opinions of “normal” users and to get his attention, those users need to open issues on github. Linking to previous discussions here in the community could be counter productive.

Could someone create a corresponding issue with the suggested options, please? https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

how many useless controversies, as usual. I don’t really understand what’s suspicious about my request… I repeat it is a personal file of mine, and it is nothing so evil as it has been painted by those who have started this whole discussion. I really do not understand this totally inappropriate reaction. and perhaps only thing, you are right to say that here many ask for help while perhaps the real intent of this forum is to talk about the notepa++ program, but it is also true that many other users here ask how to solve their problems with reg-ex and other solutions, I am not the only one asking for help on this. Having said that then it is up to you to help or not, responding or not to the various posts. but having said this all the other controversies about a potentially legal file or not i find them really superfluous and useless, as already said a time ago …

Layout a website in pure html with over 3000 pages is complete nonsense! Сms for the site)))

@PeterJones said in Find in all files: You should not be using Notepad++ to try to search proprietary binary data formats @Mrr-Jack said: I didnt apply any filters. I would guess a LOT of Notepad++ users do this (perhaps unintentionally), because they want to search a directory full of files, but only care about hits in certain ones. They ignore what they don’t want in the visual results. They do this because it is too much trouble to specify an include/exclude filter. Or, they simply don’t know about the exclude feature, or possibly there are directories in the tree that are not reasonably possible to exclude. All of these situations could lead to searching a large stray binary file that might cause a crash as being discussed in this thread. :-(

Hey guys! It was all good with the first script. I made a mistake by myself. You didn’t misunderstand what I was looking for. English is anyway not my native language so its more likely that I couldn’t explain it correctly. :) You really helped me and I can proceed with my orchestral template script! Thanks again.

Hello @texaskcfan, @Peterjones, @terry-r and All, @texaskcfan, if I assume that : Your list contains one record per line The field separator is the comma, located right after the previous field and right before the next field Any field is, either : Any text, between two double quotes, beginning a line, possibly preceded with blanks characters and followed with a comma, as "xxxxxx", Any text, between two double quotes, itself surrounded by two commas, as ,"xxxxxx", Any text, between two double quotes, preceded by a comma and ending a line or the very end of current file, as ,"xxxxx"CRLF The following regex, containing a recursive pattern, will find all the zones between two commas, which contains an even number of " ( double-quote characters ) : (?x) (?:^\h*|,) (?: ( " (?: [^"\r\n,]++ | (?1) )* " ) )+? (?=,|\R|\z) For instance, given this sample, that you’ll copy in a new tab : "0","0","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "Field1","Field2","Field3","Field4","Field5","Field6","Field7","Field8","123 Main "St AptD"","","Dallas","TX","12345","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "Field1","Field2","Field3","Field4","Field5","Field6","Field7","Field8","This fie"ld is NOT correct","","Dallas","TX","12345","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" ," abcde","","ijk "123"," 987 "This is"a small""pie"""ce of"text for" tests" !!","","abc"de"fgh"ij","12345" " abcde","","ijk "123"," 987 "This is"a small""pie"""ce of"text for" tests" !!","","abc"de"fgh"ij","12345" "","","",","","","","" ","","","","","" " """ """ """ " " " " """ """ " 1234567890","","","","","" " abcde","","ijk "123"," 987 "This is"a small""pie"""ce of"text for" tests" !!","","abc"de"fgh"ij","12345" Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M ) Paste the above regex in the Find what: zone Preferably, tick the Purge for each search option Possibly, tick the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Mark All button => All the fields ,........, containing an even number of " ( thus any correct field ), are marked in red style. This means that any zone, still unmarked, contains an odd number of double quotes, probably indicating one " character, too many or too few ;-)) Note that, for a correct scanning process of the text, the regex marks from the comma, before each zone "....." till the ", right before the next comma ! You may, as well, use the Find dialog to visualize each correct field, one a a time ! Here is a snapshot of the sample, after the mark operation : As you can see, all the fields non marked are incorrect in some ways and need examination. Note, also, that it’s impossible build up a regex in order to get the opposite logic, i.e. which would match the general case of any zone, between two commas, containing an odd number of double quotes inside ! Best Regards guy038

@Gergely-Apró , The answers you have received are good. If you would like more documentation on this, the official Notepad++ docs talk about the substitution expressions here. Notepad++ uses what’s known as the “Boost engine” (currently v1.70) for handling the regular expressions, and that has its substitution documentation here

Hello,@Mazilla-Zim Please try these information, To How to change character spacing? To change the line spacing go to Settings → Style Configurator. On the left select Global Styles under Language then Brace Highlight Style under Style and then change the font size. I hope this information will be useful to you. Thank you.

Note that the message refers to Folder and not File. I tried to lookup it up in the code. Didn’t reverse engineer the entire mess but it seems to be related to snapshot and/or backups. Try disable them both and see if the file opens. If so try to find the which setting exactly cause the failure.

@gstavi said in Windows XP support being dropped...how do people feel?: With all due respect to the hard work being poured into Notepad++, older versions can edit text (or view logs) just fine. There’s some wisdom here. Yea, if you’re going to use an ancient OS that is no longer updated, why get all frazzled about not being able to have its latest version not run? Thus: Run an old OS…run an old N++. Maybe I am overestimating the user community reaction to the devs decision.

@PeterJones said in can I have drag n drop text disabled?: I wouldn’t be surprised if the drag-and-drop of text is defined in the Scintilla component, It most certainly is. One can have a look at Scintilla’s Editor.cxx and search for inDragDrop to see some of the code. I cannot (say) that I’ve accidentally done a drag-and-drop on selected text… Never happened to me. Best advice to @Kara-Kitai : Just live with it the way it is.

Thank you! Resolved!

Should probably note here that what is displayed may also be affected by this setting in the Preferences :

Thank you for reply.

@Justin-Gaughan said in Auto indent: and it’s not auto indenting It would maybe help if you said something about your expectation for auto-indenting, if @PeterJones 's explanation does not satisfy.

@Luiza-Henriques Perhaps it would help if you would fully show the text behind your Preferences window? As from what I can see of it, EVERYTHING is underlined and that is not right. Links should be enabled by default, without you having to change any settings.

@storm-Perfect Since no one has replied yet, I assume that the term “power mode” is not clear to everyone, at least it isn’t to me and I don’t want to reinstall VS just to find out what it means. So maybe you can give a brief description of what power mode means?

@Mitchell-Ha , Sorry. I could not reproduce it. It works for me. ---- Why such a short reply? Because you didn’t tell us enough to be able to reproduce your problem, or because I tried what you described and got the results I expected. If you give us more information, we might be able to help more. Especially important are the ? menu’s Debug Info contents, a thorough description of the steps necessary to reproduce your problem, example text highlighted using the </> button or Markdown syntax, and possibly a screenshot of the problem (if you think it will help clarify the problem; use Windows’ Snip & Sketch or Alt+PrtScrn to capture the image, and Ctrl+V to paste it in your post).

nm, figured it out I think. I was using a new txt doc to copy the content to be searched for, but the content is in yml files, and seems to be formatted differently…or something. After searching for content copied from yml file, it was able to find it…