Find and Replace bug: first instance replaced with font name?

Tom Hall

I’m having a lot of trouble using the find and replace function at the moment. When doing either replace all, or clicking through replace multiple times, the first instance of a string being replaced is always filled in with the same number of characters as a font name

Using a working example, for starting text:

"%chk=Geom1_ome_SK.chk
%mem=76MW
%nproc=2
#P mpwb95/cc-pvtz extrabasis IOp(3/76=0690003100)
geom=check SCF=tight int=ultra

SP calc SK on MPW1B95 6-31G* GEOM1. MPW1B95/maug-cc-pvtz

0 1

@C_O_ccpvtz_diffusebasis.gbs/N"

Using find a replace to try and swap the string pvtz for abcd would instead give me:

"%chk=Geom1_ome_SK.chk
%mem=76MW
%nproc=2
#P mpwb95/cc-Cour extrabasis IOp(3/76=0690003100)
geom=check SCF=tight int=ultra

SP calc SK on MPW1B95 6-31G* GEOM1. MPW1B95/maug-cc-abcd

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@C_O_ccabcd_diffusebasis.gbs/N"

Replaced strings highlighted in bold. If replacing with a string longer than the one in this example i get “Courier NewNUL” followed by the remainder of the correct string. Again this only occurs in the first string replaced.

I have no idea what is causing this but its causing me real problems! I can’t find any similar examples of the problem. Unfortunately its a controlled installation on a university computer so I may not be able to access to parts of it or update the version (I’m using V6.0)

Any help much appreciated!

Claudia Frank

@Tom-Hall

have npp6.0 available and tried to replicate this issue, wasn’t successful.
What I’ve did is

copied your sample text
double click on one instance of pvtz
pressed ctrl+h
put in abcd in “replace with” field (“find what” was already filled)
used replace or replace all and all instances of pvtz got replaced by abcd - as expected.

Can you confirm this behavior by using same steps?
Btw. do you have any plugins installed?

Cheers
Claudia