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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @Claudia Frank
      last edited by

      @Claudia-Frank

      Once again you are amazing! I haven’t tried what you propose yet but I have no doubt it will be awesome.

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @Claudia Frank
        last edited by

        @Claudia-Frank

        I started working with and extending your script to do some other things on the Find dialog. I can get and set the state of radio buttons and checkboxes–yay! Some final things that I need to do are to get and/or set the text of the Find-what and Replace-with edit boxes (or comboboxes?). Is there a best way to do this? It isn’t as easy as with the other controls because these don’t have a caption. Can you post a short example of how to get text and set text to these edit controls on the Find dialog?

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        • Claudia FrankC
          Claudia Frank @Alan Kilborn
          last edited by

          @Alan-Kilborn

          Hi Alan,

          you right, edit box aren’t easy to identify but, as far as I remember, you can rely on the order (z-order) how the controls get identified/returned.

          So in this case you could check when the static box (aka label) returns with &Find what and set a
          flag and when the edit control appears, check if flag is set and treat it. To retrieve or set the text
          you can use the api functions GetWindowText and SetWindowText.

          A simple example like this (only the callback part and the definitions of the code)

          GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
          GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
          SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
          
          STATUSBAR_HANDLE = None
          FIND_WHAT = None
          REPLACE_WITH = None
          
          
          def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
              global STATUSBAR_HANDLE
              global FIND_WHAT
              global REPLACE_WITH
              
              curr_class = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(256)
              GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
              
              length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
              buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
              GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
              
              if curr_class.value.lower() == 'msctls_statusbar32':
                  STATUSBAR_HANDLE = hwnd
                  # return False
              elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                  if buff.value == '&Find what :':
                      FIND_WHAT = True
                  elif buff.value == 'Rep&lace with :':
                      REPLACE_WITH = True
              elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                  if FIND_WHAT:
                      SetWindowText(hwnd, u'xyz789')
                      FIND_WHAT = False
                  elif REPLACE_WITH:
                      REPLACE_WITH = False
                      SetWindowText(hwnd, u'123abc')
              else:
                  console.write('{}({:^7}) : {}'.format(curr_class.value,hwnd, buff.value) + '\n' )
              return True
          

          Cheers
          Claudia

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          • Scott SumnerS
            Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
            last edited by

            So the ideas presented here by @Claudia-Frank I think will allow me to stop using AutoIt in favor of Pythonscript for controlling the Find dialog functions. It seems very nice. To bring this thread back to where it began, here’s a P.S. based upon Claudia’s work that puts the current selection (which can include multiple lines) into the Find dialog’s Replace-with box. The part of it I question for general usage is the .decode('utf-8') – it seems to work for me, but I’m not an encoding expert by any means.

            Here’s ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py :

            import ctypes
            from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
            
            WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
            
            FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
            FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
            SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
            EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
            GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
            GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
            GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
            SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
            create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
            
            replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
            replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
            replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
            replacewith_handle = None
            
            def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
                global replacewith_handle
                curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                    if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                        replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
                elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                    if replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                        replacewith_handle = hwnd
                        return False  # stop enumeration
                return True  # let enumeration continue
            
            def main():
                msg = ''
                if editor.getSelections() == 1 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                    sel = editor.getSelText()
                    if len(sel) > 2046:
                        sel = sel[:2046]
                        msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                    notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                    find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
                    if find_dialog_hwnd:
                        EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                        if replacewith_handle:
                            if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, sel.decode('utf-8')) == 0:
                                msg += 'Error:  Problem setting window text'
                        else:
                            msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
                    else:
                        msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
                else:
                    msg += 'Warning:  Nothing to copy into replace-with field'
                if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
            
            main()
            
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            • Claudia FrankC
              Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
              last edited by

              @Scott-Sumner

              The part of it I question for general usage is the .decode(‘utf-8’)

              I assume your way should work, regardless of the encoding used by the user,
              if I understand scintilla and pythonscript plugin correctly.
              editor.getSelText() always returns a byte string (python str) but, because we defined
              unicode version of SetWindowText, this string needs to be converted as you did.
              Maybe I’m wrong.

              Cheers
              Claudia

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              • Scott SumnerS
                Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
                last edited by Scott Sumner

                @Claudia-Frank

                I did notice something else that was a bit odd (and drove me a little nuts until I figured out what was going on) when I was working on that script. Let’s see if I can describe it. Usually I work with English_customizable.xml loaded, and everything is consistent and as-expected. When working on that script, I switched back to English.xml, thinking that if I share the script here, it should not use my specific and custom Find dialog captions, but rather the generic English ones.

                With English configured, I noticed that when Notepad++ starts up, it doesn’t exactly have English.xml set up, it has something close to it, but not exactly! I found that if I go back into the Preferences, and again select English from the dropdown (even though it is already selected), and have the Find dialog up at the same time, I can watch subtle changes occur in the Find dialog’s label/caption fields. For example, and I can watch a space be inserted (or removed) between “Find what” and the colon that follows (same for “Replace with”. I really have no idea why this is happening. Again, this only happens with English.xml, not English_customizable.xml.

                The reason it was making me crazy was that I’d work on the script, have it working fine, then later I would notice it was breaking because it couldn’t find the controls. I kept changing the text strings to make it work and then later it would break again.

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                • guy038G
                  guy038
                  last edited by

                  Hello, @scott-sumner and @claudia-frank,

                  Claudia, your automatic counting of any normal selection, multi-lines or not, works fine !

                  Scott, your ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py script is working nice, too !. I’ve just noticed that your script, automatically, copies the current normal and unique selection, BOTH, in the Find what : and in the Replace with: boxes. Is it the normal behaviour or am I wrong about it ?


                  This topic makes me think about an other possibility ! Let’s suppose that the option Settings > Preferences…> Editing > Multi-Editing Settings is enabled

                  Now, the goal would be :

                  • To define TWO selected blocks of text, which could, independently, include multiple lines

                  • To Write a Python script which :

                    • Opens the Find/Replace dialog

                    • Writes the first user selection, in the Find what: box

                    • Writes the second user selection, in the Replace with: box

                  Scott and Claudia, what is your feeling about it ?

                  Best Regards,

                  guy038

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                  • Claudia FrankC
                    Claudia Frank @guy038
                    last edited by Claudia Frank

                    @Scott-Sumner and @guy038

                    Scott, I discovered something similar but thought it was related to using npp with wine.
                    If I open the find dialog and then switch from english to english_customizable and back
                    to english I loose the >> from “find next” button and the underscores (ampersands in text)
                    for the “count” and “find all in all opened documents” buttons.
                    I don’t see it as an issue as you normally set this once and done, but I see why it bothered you. ;-)
                    I have a shortcut to “Run Previous Script” which I use quite often.
                    What happens from time to time is that I execute another script while editing
                    the “current” script and then when I use the shortcut I assume that the current script
                    should be executed, which isn’t the case as another script was executed in between.
                    First thought I have in such a case is always, damn - what did I miss why isn’t it working anymore? What did I broke?
                    Checking the source again and again just to find out that haven’t executed the script. :-)
                    You see - seems to be “normal” programmer behavior ;-)

                    Guy, haven’t check it yet but I guess it should be easy to implement, yes.
                    If Scott, or anyone else hasn’t proposed a solution, I will give it a try in 10-12 hours.
                    Need to leave now.

                    Cheers
                    Claudia

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                    • Scott SumnerS
                      Scott Sumner @guy038
                      last edited by

                      @guy038 said:

                      copies the current normal and unique selection, BOTH, in the Find what : and in the Replace with: boxes

                      Hmmm. Yes, that is what it does but that was actually UNINTENTIONAL! I guess I didn’t notice because for years I have had an AutoIt script which does just that behavior. A lot of the time when doing replacements, I’m just doing a minor adjustment to the text I am finding, so it saves time to have both the Find-what and Replace-with fields initally set to the same data. I just make my minor tweak to the replace-with part and I am off to the races.

                      In this thread’s script (ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py), however, I believe this happens due to the normal invocation of the Replace command (with notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE))–when a selection is active, Notepad++ on its own puts the selected text in the Find-what box. Perhaps that is less than desirable here in this script. :(

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                      • Scott SumnerS
                        Scott Sumner @guy038
                        last edited by

                        @guy038 said:

                        This topic makes me think about an other possibility

                        I like your idea and it should be easy, but I will defer to Claudia as I am extremely busy at the moment. :-D

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                        • guy038G
                          guy038
                          last edited by

                          Hi, @scott-sumner and @claudia-frank

                          Many thanks, in advance, for this future script ! This short post give me the opportunity to express, once again, all my gratitude towards you, Claudia and Scott, for your numerous scripts, on various topics, which helped us, significantly, so many times :-D

                          Cheers,

                          guy038

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                          • Claudia FrankC
                            Claudia Frank @guy038
                            last edited by

                            @guy038, @scott-sumner

                            Hi Guy,

                            sorry, family celebration was a bit longer than expected.
                            Just did the script and some basic tests and discovered that encoding
                            is an issue like Scott already mentioned.
                            Will try to find a way to make it work regardless which encoding is used.

                            Cheers
                            Claudia

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                            • guy038G
                              guy038
                              last edited by

                              Hi, @claudia-frank,

                              Don’t worry, Claudia and just enjoy these family’s moments ! Luckily, we, all, own more valuable things than Notepad++ and some Python scripts :-D

                              …I’m just thinking about actualities and the death’s celebration of Helmut Kohl. Thanks to him and some important European women and men, we all enjoy, in Europe, a peace period, of near 75 years ! and THIS, it’s a basic point !!

                              Best Regards,

                              guy038

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                              • Claudia FrankC
                                Claudia Frank
                                last edited by Claudia Frank

                                From my basic tests it looks like it should do the trick.
                                Tested utf-8, ansi, winows-1250, winows-1251 and winows-1252.
                                It works only with normal selection - not with column mode selection.

                                import ctypes
                                from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                                
                                WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
                                
                                FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                                FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
                                SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                                EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                                GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                                GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
                                GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
                                SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
                                GetACP = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetACP
                                create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
                                
                                replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
                                replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
                                replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                replacewith_handle = None
                                replacewith_text = None
                                findwhat_caption = u'&Find what :'
                                findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                                findwhat_handle = None
                                findwhat_text = None
                                
                                
                                def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                                    global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
                                    global findwhat_is_next_ctrl
                                    global replacewith_handle
                                    global findwhat_handle
                                    curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                                    GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                                    length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                                    buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                                    GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                                    if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                                        if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                                            replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
                                        elif buff.value == findwhat_caption:
                                            findwhat_is_next_ctrl = True
                                    elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                                        if findwhat_is_next_ctrl:
                                            findwhat_handle = hwnd
                                            findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                                        elif replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                                            replacewith_handle = hwnd
                                            replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                            return False  # stop enumeration
                                    return True  # let enumeration continue
                                
                                def return_proper_string(selected_text):
                                    if notepad.getEncoding() == BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT:
                                        _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, '{}'.format(GetACP()))
                                    else:
                                        _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, 'utf-8')
                                    return _selected_text
                                
                                def main():
                                    msg = ''
                                    if editor.getSelections() == 2:
                                        if editor.getSelectionMode() == 0 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                                            _find_what = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(0), editor.getSelectionNEnd(0))
                                            _replace_with = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(1), editor.getSelectionNEnd(1))
                                
                                            if len(_find_what) > 2046:
                                                _find_what = _find_what[:2046]
                                                msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for find-what box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                    
                                            if len(_replace_with) > 2046:
                                                _replace_with = _replace_with[:2046]
                                                msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                                        
                                            notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                            find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
                                            
                                            if find_dialog_hwnd:
                                                EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                                                if findwhat_handle and replacewith_handle:
                                                    if SetWindowText(findwhat_handle, return_proper_string(_find_what)) == 0:
                                                        msg += 'Error:  Problem setting find-what text'
                                                    if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, return_proper_string(_replace_with)) == 0:
                                                        msg += 'Error:  Problem setting replace-with text'
                                                else:
                                                    msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
                                            else:
                                                msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
                                        else:
                                            msg += 'Error:  Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected'
                                    else:
                                        msg += 'Warning:  Only two selections are possible. Received:{}'.format(editor.getSelections())
                                    if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
                                
                                main()
                                

                                Cheers
                                Claudia

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                                • guy038G
                                  guy038
                                  last edited by guy038

                                  Hello, @claudia-frank,

                                  What to say else ? Just wonderful and awesome, indeed !!!

                                  I already tested the case of rectangular selection(s) and the upper limit of 2046 characters => No problem, it acts as expected :-)


                                  Now, as always, when building a program, there’s a small bug with the lower limit of 0 character !

                                  I, successively, tried to make an empty search selection, then an empty replace selection and, finally, both search and replace selections empty.

                                  Note : To obtain, physically, a zero-length selection, I just select one character with the mouse, then move back the mouse, with a possible hit on the CTRL key, to only get the caret

                                  Results :

                                  • If both selections are empty, the message Error: Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected occurs, as expected. Nice !

                                  • If, ONLY, the search selection is empty, the Find/Replace opens normally. May be, in that case, Claudia, a message would be better !

                                  • If, ONLY, the replace selection is empty, the Find/Replace opens normally, with the Find what: box filled and the Replace with: empty. That the expected behaviour, in order to delete all the search blocks of text found

                                  I also noticed that if I Ctrl + click and select some text, ONLY, it is, logically, inserted in the Replace with box, leaving the Find what: box empty :-D

                                  But, if I, simply, click, without the Ctrl key, and select some text, the message Warning: Only two selections are possible. Received:1 occurs. However, Claudia, I think it’s a valid case.

                                  So, in the case of a normal selection 0, only, the Find/Replace dialog should pop up and contain :

                                  • A Find what: box, filled with the selection contents

                                  • A Replace with: box, wiped out of any [previous] character

                                  Best Regards,

                                  guy038

                                  P.S. :

                                  I found out something weird, but logic : If I build a one-line rectangular selection, this selection is correctly written in the Find what: box !!

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                                  • Claudia FrankC
                                    Claudia Frank @guy038
                                    last edited by Claudia Frank

                                    @guy038

                                    Guy, here the updated one.
                                    A “one-selection” action results in opening the standard replace dialog behavior.
                                    A “two-selections” action, even with an empty one, results in modifying the fields.
                                    I see it as a benefit that you are able to decide that only one of the fields should be filled
                                    and the other should be empty in any case.

                                    import ctypes
                                    from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                                    
                                    WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
                                    
                                    FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                                    FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
                                    SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                                    EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                                    GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                                    GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
                                    GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
                                    SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
                                    GetACP = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetACP
                                    create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
                                    
                                    replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
                                    replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
                                    replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                    replacewith_handle = None
                                    replacewith_text = None
                                    findwhat_caption = u'&Find what :'
                                    findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                                    findwhat_handle = None
                                    findwhat_text = None
                                    
                                    
                                    def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                                        global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
                                        global findwhat_is_next_ctrl
                                        global replacewith_handle
                                        global findwhat_handle
                                        curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                                        GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                                        length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                                        buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                                        GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                                        if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                                            if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                                                replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
                                            elif buff.value == findwhat_caption:
                                                findwhat_is_next_ctrl = True
                                        elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                                            if findwhat_is_next_ctrl:
                                                findwhat_handle = hwnd
                                                findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                                            elif replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                                                replacewith_handle = hwnd
                                                replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                                return False  # stop enumeration
                                        return True  # let enumeration continue
                                    
                                    def return_proper_string(selected_text):
                                        if notepad.getEncoding() == BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT:
                                            _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, '{}'.format(GetACP()))
                                        else:
                                            _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, 'utf-8')
                                        return _selected_text
                                    
                                    def main():
                                        msg = ''
                                        if editor.getSelections() == 1:
                                            notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                        elif editor.getSelections() == 2:
                                            if editor.getSelectionMode() == 0 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                                                _find_what = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(0), editor.getSelectionNEnd(0))
                                                _replace_with = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(1), editor.getSelectionNEnd(1))
                                    
                                                if len(_find_what) > 2046:
                                                    _find_what = _find_what[:2046]
                                                    msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for find-what box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                        
                                                if len(_replace_with) > 2046:
                                                    _replace_with = _replace_with[:2046]
                                                    msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                                            
                                                notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                                find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
                                                
                                                if find_dialog_hwnd:
                                                    EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                                                    if findwhat_handle and replacewith_handle:
                                                        if SetWindowText(findwhat_handle, return_proper_string(_find_what)) == 0:
                                                            msg += 'Error:  Problem setting find-what text'
                                                        if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, return_proper_string(_replace_with)) == 0:
                                                            msg += 'Error:  Problem setting replace-with text'
                                                    else:
                                                        msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
                                                else:
                                                    msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
                                            else:
                                                msg += 'Error:  Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected'
                                        else:
                                            msg += 'Warning:  Only one or two selections are possible. Received:{}'.format(editor.getSelections())
                                        if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
                                    
                                    main()
                                    

                                    Cheers
                                    Claudia

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                                    • guy038G
                                      guy038
                                      last edited by guy038

                                      Hello, @claudia-frank, @Scott-sumner, @pouemes44, @go2to, @jorge-campos, @herofiles, @azjio-azjio, @alan-kilborn and All

                                      Thanks to @claudia-frank, this present topic and the discussions, below, about multi-lines search AND multi-lines Replacement :

                                      https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13823/replace-function/1

                                      https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13684/feature-request-textarea-search-replace/1

                                      have, now, an ELEGANT solution, with her Python’s script, just above !

                                      You just need to be able to do multiple selections ( Option Settings > Preferences… > Editing > Multi-Editing Settings > Enable CHECKED )


                                      BTW, the upper limit of 2046 characters, in the Find what: box of the Find/Replace dialog, only, could be by-passed, easily :-). Indeed, just use the Regular expression search mode and use the generic regex (?s)Left-boundary.+?Right-boundary !

                                      For instance, you can choose a particular character, which does not exist,yet, in your file(s) to be modified, and build the regex :

                                      (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                                      This regex contains any non-null amount of characters between TWO same complete lines #####, with their line-breaks

                                      So :

                                      • Do a normal selection of this regex (?s)(#####\R).+?\1, using the mouse

                                      • Then, with a Ctrl + Left Click action, simply, select your Replace block, multi-lines or not

                                      • Run the Claudia’s script above

                                      => Immediately, the Find/Replace dialog pops-up and :

                                      • The Find what: box is filled with the regex (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                                      • The Replace with: box is filled with the block of text, which must replace the searched text

                                      Best Regards,

                                      guy038

                                      P.S. :

                                      @claudia-frank, I understand your point of view. Your script is quite flexible :-D. For instance, I was able to :

                                      • First, do a Ctrl + Clic selection of a multi-lines block of text

                                      • Run your script => Find what: box empty and Replace with: box filled with that multi-lines block

                                      • Select an second file, containing the text (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                                      • Do a normal selection of that regex

                                      • Run again, your script => The find.Replace dialog, presently in the background, is, then, updated with this regex, filled in the Find what: box

                                      • Select a third file, containing the ##### boundaries lines

                                      • Perform the S/R on the contents of this third file

                                      Et voilà !!

                                      Many thanks, again, for this very, very, valuable script, indeed !!!

                                      Hum… Already 3 h 25 !! I’d better go to bed : working tomorrow !

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                                      • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                        AZJIO AZJIO
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                                        It would be nice if the author would make an additional window when the button is clicked
                                        [http://radikal.ru/big/m0wcdchejv3ve](link url)

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                                        • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                          AZJIO AZJIO
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                                          The external program is working. I make a plugin and no longer works (EnumChildWindows).

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                                          • Eko palypseE
                                            Eko palypse
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                                            Sorry, but what are you try to tell us?
                                            Which external program and which meaning has EnumChildWindows API in this context?

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