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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @guy038
      last edited by

      @guy038

      Thank you for the further analysis.

      I’m really sorry, because it’s just my fault and you wouldn’t have had to look for an alternative solution

      No worries at all! :-)

      I don’t understand, Alan why you got a match (of only) “Alice”. I personally only get the forename “Bob”

      Indeed! I guess “something happened” because if I re-run it now the same way I for sure get “Bob” as well! Sorry for that confusion.

      Other comments:

      I did not realize (obviously) that it was merely a case of a problem with the ^ in the original expression. :-(
      I totally jumped in to an almost wholly different solution, based upon something related I was working on.

      The lesson of that story is…

      Nice to know!

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      • guy038G
        guy038
        last edited by guy038

        Hello, @alan-kilborn and All,

        So, as the result of our discussion :

        This old post    https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12710/marked-text-manipulation/8

        have been updated    https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19189/need-a-copy-marked-lines-feature/7

        Cheers,

        guy038

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn
          last edited by

          Semi-related info:

          Part of this current thread is about how to copy text that one has marked via Marking that requires use of a PythonScript.

          In a POST in another thread, I provide a script that will select text given conditions specified by user input. That selected text can then be copied.

          Similar results thru some different methods; enough to warrant a cross-link, I guess.

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          • Laura Lucas AldayL
            Laura Lucas Alday
            last edited by

            Can anyone explain quickly how to use the python script? As in which steps I need to do in Notepad++ to run the script.

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            • PeterJonesP
              PeterJones @Laura Lucas Alday
              last edited by PeterJones

              @Laura-Lucas-Alday

              1. Install PythonScript using Plugins > Plugins Admin
              2. Plugins > Python Script > New Script
              3. Paste the contents and save under someName (whatever name you want)
              4. Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > someName
              5. To add a keyboard shortcut for the script:
              6. Plugins > Python Script > Configuration,
              7. select the someName script and Add to the menu
              8. Restart Notepad++
              9. someName will now be in the main Plugins > Python Script menu, not just in the Scripts submenu
              10. Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Plugin Commands will see the script, and you can assign a keyboard shortcut
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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Laura Lucas Alday
                last edited by

                @Laura-Lucas-Alday

                Peter maybe only made it 99.9999% clear. Perhaps the newbie 0.0001% might still be left wondering…

                Peter’s step 4 would be how you actually run the script.

                Be advised that in this particular case, you need to have some red-marked text for the script to operate on (hopefully this part is clear).

                I think there is an open issue that would make this script’s functionality a native part of Notepad++. I will try to find it…

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by

                  This may be the issue to which I was referring: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/6095

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by Alan Kilborn

                    At the time of the earlier discussions, there was no way to copy marked text natively in Notepad++, meaning without resorting to scripting. Now (7.9.1-ish) there is:

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                    Just press the indicated button after you already have marked some text.

                    Note: I have added similar information in this somewhat-related other THREAD.

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                    • dinkumoilD
                      dinkumoil @Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by

                      @Alan-Kilborn

                      My preferred solution would have been to select all marked text because this provides more flexibility. This way the user could

                      • copy
                      • cut
                      • delete
                      • change

                      the marked search results.

                      To achieve that I wrote the following Lua script (intended to be used with, well, the LuaScript plugin).

                      -- =============================================================================
                      -- Add menu entry to select all items marked by find marks
                      -- =============================================================================
                      
                      npp.AddShortcut("Select Marked", "", function()
                        local indicatorIdx
                        local pos, markStart, markEnd
                        local hasMarkedItems
                      
                        -- Search find marks have indicator number 31
                        SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE = 31
                      
                        -- Remove selection but do not change cursor position
                        editor.Anchor  = editor.CurrentPos
                        hasMarkedItems = false
                      
                        -- Search find mark indicators and select marked text
                        pos = 0
                        
                        while pos < editor.TextLength do
                          if editor:IndicatorValueAt(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE, pos) == 1 then
                            markStart = editor:IndicatorStart(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE, pos)
                            markEnd   = editor:IndicatorEnd(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE, pos)
                      
                            if editor.SelectionEmpty or not editor.MultipleSelection then
                              editor:SetSelection(markEnd, markStart)
                            else
                              editor:AddSelection(markEnd, markStart)
                            end
                      
                            pos            = markEnd
                            hasMarkedItems = true
                          end
                          
                          pos = pos + 1
                        end
                      
                        -- Scroll last selected element into view. This is only because
                        -- Npp/Scintilla will do that anyway when moving the cursor next time
                        if hasMarkedItems then
                          editor:ScrollCaret()
                        end
                      end)
                      

                      After adding this code to the startup.lua file and restarting Notepad++, the plugin’s submenu provides a new entry Select Marked which can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut.

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                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @dinkumoil
                        last edited by

                        @dinkumoil said in Marked text manipulation:

                        select all marked text because this provides more flexibility. This way the user could

                        copy
                        cut
                        delete
                        change

                        That’s a good idea as well, especially for delete and change (although those can be achieved, on a one-off basis, by replace-with-nothing and replace-with something ops).

                        Copy and cut of selected text would jam all of the text together if it were on a selection basis (probably not really useful that way).

                        I noticed this new Copy Marked Text command inserts a line-ending between the individual globs of marked text, which seems to make it useful, although to tell the truth I haven’t had a real application for it myself, yet.

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                        • dinkumoilD
                          dinkumoil @Alan Kilborn
                          last edited by dinkumoil

                          @Alan-Kilborn said in Marked text manipulation:

                          Copy and cut of selected text would jam all of the text together if it were on a selection basis (probably not really useful that way).

                          Yes, you are right. Up to now, I’ve used my script only for deleting and editing the selections. But especially being able to multi-edit all occurences of a search term or overwrite them by multi-paste vastly increases productivity.

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                            chk1 @dinkumoil
                            last edited by chk1

                            @dinkumoil said in Marked text manipulation:

                            @Alan-Kilborn

                            My preferred solution would have been to select all marked text because this provides more flexibility. This way the user could

                            • copy
                            • cut
                            • delete
                            • change

                            the marked search results.

                            To achieve that I wrote the following Lua script (intended to be used with, well, the LuaScript plugin).

                            // snip
                            

                            After adding this code to the startup.lua file and restarting Notepad++, the plugin’s submenu provides a new entry Select Marked which can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut.

                            Thank you so much for that code, I converted it to Python for fans of the PythonScript plugin:

                            # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
                            from Npp import editor
                            
                            # https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12710/marked-text-manipulation/48?_=1756239096378
                            SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE = 31
                            
                            def mark_to_multi():
                                has_marked_items = False
                                pos = 0
                                while pos < editor.getTextLength():
                                    if editor.indicatorValueAt(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE, pos) == 1:
                                        mark_start = editor.indicatorStart(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE, pos)
                                        mark_end   = editor.indicatorEnd(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE, pos)
                                        
                                        if editor.getSelectionEmpty() or not editor.getMultipleSelection():
                                            editor.setSelection(mark_end, mark_start)
                                        else:
                                            editor.addSelection(mark_end, mark_start)
                            
                                        pos = mark_end
                                        has_marked_items = True
                                        editor.setIndicatorCurrent(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE)
                                        editor.indicatorClearRange(mark_start, mark_end-mark_start)
                            
                                    pos += 1
                                if has_marked_items:
                                    editor.scrollCaret()
                            
                            mark_to_multi()
                            

                            The editor I used previously had a handy shortcut for this, I could just hit Alt+Enter in the search bar and it would immediately make all search results into cursors. Is there a reasonably easy way to replicate this in Notepad++? I use this function a lot.

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                            • Terry RT
                              Terry R @chk1
                              last edited by

                              @chk1 said in Marked text manipulation:

                              I could just hit Alt+Enter in the search bar and it would immediately make all search results into cursors.

                              Do you mean make the search results into “links” to the actual text in the file? Because if so, then you should understand that already happens.

                              The mouse cursor doesn’t indicate that they are links, but in the “Search results” window that appears, double clicking on any search result line will make the main window move lines until that search result shows.

                              Terry

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                                chk1 @Terry R
                                last edited by

                                @Terry-R Thanks for the quick response, but the Search results window is not what I mean. When I press Alt+Enter (or an alternative key combo) I want every search result to be selected via multi-editing in the editor window, and not in a separate window or sidebar.

                                Right now, with help of the script, I open the Marks search (Ctrl+M), enter my search term and press “Mark all”. Then I run the script to convert all marks to multi-edit selections. I want to reduce these extra steps if possible, i.e. in the best case: Ctrl+F, enter search word, hit Alt+Enter.

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                                • CoisesC
                                  Coises @chk1
                                  last edited by

                                  @chk1 said in Marked text manipulation:

                                  Right now, with help of the script, I open the Marks search (Ctrl+M), enter my search term and press “Mark all”. Then I run the script to convert all marks to multi-edit selections. I want to reduce these extra steps if possible, i.e. in the best case: Ctrl+F, enter search word, hit Alt+Enter.

                                  It might not be worth it for your case, but the Search dialog in the Columns++ plugin has Select All as an option on the dropdown menu on the Count button.

                                  You can assign a shortcut to Columns++ | Search in Notepad++ shortcut mapper; but at present, there is no straightforward way to open the Count button menu using only the keyboard.

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