Search/replace macro options change, easier way?

Alan Kilborn

Sometimes I create search or replace macros by recording them. After that I sometimes need to tweak the options (match case, in-selection, and so on…). It is hard to do this without rerecording the entire macro…by this I mean editing the macro in shortcuts.xml. Well, editing the xml is easy, but what is hard is deciding how to change the decimal number that all the search options are encoded into. Is there an easier way to do this and have some feeling of confidence that it has been done correctly?

Claudia Frank

@Alan-Kilborn

other then hoping for completeness and relying on the list here - I don’t know.

Cheers
Claudia

Alan Kilborn

@Claudia-Frank

Hi Claudia, yes I knew about that list

Scott Sumner

@Alan-Kilborn

This Pythonscript may help; I call it 1702decoder.py:

import re

def decode1702__main():
    options_list = [
        'whole-word',
        'case-match',
        'clear-red-presearch',
        'UNUSED',
        'bookmark-line',
        'subfolders',
        'hidden',
        'in-sel',
        'wrap',
        'downward'
        ]
    input = '0'
    while True:
        input = notepad.prompt('Enter your 1702 decimal #:', '', input)
        if not input: return
        input = int(input)
        prompt_text = ''
        for (j, v) in enumerate(options_list):
            prompt_text += '[ {} ]{}      '.format('x' if input & (1 << j) else ' ', options_list[j])
            if (j + 1) % 3 == 0: prompt_text = prompt_text.rstrip() + '\r\n'
        prompt_text = prompt_text.rstrip()
        input = notepad.prompt('Set your desired options by putting an x inside the [   ], e.g. [ x ]:', '', prompt_text)
        if not input: return
        new_input = 0
        for (j, v) in enumerate(options_list):
            m = re.search(r'\[([^]]+)\]' + options_list[j], input)
            if m and m.group(1) != ' ' * len(m.group(1)): new_input |= 1 << j
        input = str(new_input)

decode1702__main()

When run, it produces a prompt screen where you can put a 1702 parameter value that one of your macros uses, or you can just leave it set at 0. Pressing OK to that prompt will decode the entered values into the corresponding option values in a second prompt screen; example for an input of 3:

From this point, changing the options and pressing OK will show you the decimal number associated with those options and you can keep going, changing the value or the options and seeing the effects until you answer Cancel to a prompt.

Hope this helps you.

Alan Kilborn

Nice. I like it. Regarding “downward”, the docs say “upward” but I think I remember reading here (maybe) that this is a bug in the docs…

Scott Sumner

It was discovered due to info in this thread that the . matches newline checkbox was missing from the above script. Simply inserting 'dot-matches-newline', after the line containing 'downward', will fix it, so it looks like this in the script:

'downward',
'dot-matches-newline',      # <---- add me!
]

hoytpr

Sorry, noob here.
Why am I getting:

C:\Program Files\Notepad++>1702decoder.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\Notepad++\1702decoder.py”, line 35, in <module>
decode1702__main()
File “C:\Program Files\Notepad++\1702decoder.py”, line 19, in decode1702__main
input = notepad.prompt(‘Enter your 1702 decimal #:’, ‘’, input)
NameError: name ‘notepad’ is not defined

When I run this script?

Scott Sumner

@hoytpr

Why am I getting…NameError: name ‘notepad’ is not defined…When I run this script?

Because I am lazy when testing something I post. :-)

Add this at the top of the script and I think it will fix it:

from Npp import notepad

What I do is have that line (or something similar) in my startup.py file–that file runs when Pythonscript starts up, obviously. This keeps me from having to put that line (and others that are similar, e.g., one for the editor object…) in every single Pythonscript file I have–the imports happen at startup and are available for the remainder of the Notepad++ session.

hoytpr

Awesome. Thanks. Are you as lazy as the noob who just says “help”? Probably not.
Good idea to put it in the startup.py.