Hide/Unhide Non-Bookmarked Lines

Mike Smith

Hello,

Is there any way to hide and unhide all non-bookmarked lines?

Thank you

Ekopalypse

afaik, not as builtin feature.
A possible solution might be to use a scripting language plugin
and some code similar to the pythonscript below.

from Npp import editor

bookmark_mask = 1<<24
line = 0
while True:
    line = editor.markerNext(line, bookmark_mask)
    if line == -1:
        break
    editor.hideLines(line,line)
    line+=1

This is just some demo code demonstrating the feature.

Alan Kilborn

@Mike-Smith

The hide lines feature in Notepad++ is “underdeveloped”; I’d stay away from it unless and until it is made better by the developers. BUT…I can see how what you want to do is valuable.

@Ekopalypse OP wanted to hide NON bookmarked lines but AFAICT at a quick look, your P.S. will hide the bookmarked lines instead?

Ekopalypse

@Alan-Kilborn
you are correct and I thought is on bookmarked lines really correct?
Well, non-bookmarked makes sense :-)
Let’s see if OP wants to go that way.

Mike Smith

@Ekopalypse, @Alan-Kilborn Thank you both for your input.

I do indeed wish to hide non-bookmarked lines. Although the code above seems to hide bookmarked lines only - and I don’t know how to unhide them either.

The reasoning is that I have a large database which contains over 24,000 download links - one per line, and I need to go through the painful task of editing each one of them. (I can’t see any other way to modify filenames on one server & modifying the respective link on another server at the same time!)

So to assist with the work, I can highlight all the download links by bookmarking them, and then hiding all other information, which would allow me to sift through the links easier.

Alan Kilborn

@Mike-Smith said in Hide/Unhide Non-Bookmarked Lines:

I need to go through the painful task of editing each one of them

24000 things to examine and edit is a huge manual task. Perhaps if you elaborate a bit more and/or show some data, someone here might have some automation hints for you? Maybe it isn’t possible…but hopefully something could be done.

and I don’t know how to unhide them either.

As far as I know, Notepad++'s menus only offers a “Hide Lines”. After you’ve done that one or more times, you’ll see some arrows in the margin, example:

So the way to “unhide” these lines is to click on one of the green arrows. If you have a script that hides a lot of lines, showing them all again when desired is problematic because you’d have to click on a lot of green arrows. At that point the better way would be to simply restart Notepad++ (which doesn’t remember the status of hidden lines when exited and re-run).

I do indeed wish to hide non-bookmarked lines

It seems like you could run your bookmarking operation, then do a “Inverse Bookmark” command, and then run the script @Ekopalypse provided…to get what you want?

Mike Smith

@Alan-Kilborn

It seems like you could run your bookmarking operation, then do a “Inverse Bookmark” command, and then run the script @Ekopalypse provided…to get what you want?

Yes, that’s a good idea! I did just that, and it hid everything I didn’t need to edit. Thank you.

24000 things to examine and edit is a huge manual task.

I don’t thing it’s something that can be automated though. The issue is that I have all the download links in one database (which I’m editing through Notepad++), and the files are stored on a seperate server. The task I am currently processing, is to randomize all filenames:

https://www.example.com/74547854787fileone.zip
https://www.example.com/56647979548filetwo.zip
https://www.example.com/01324679462filethree.zip
https://www.example.com/64647452105filefour.zip

So not only do I need to complete the task of randomizing the filenames (A task I’m achieving using Bulk Rename Utility), I have to then ensure the download links are changed to represent the relevant filename.