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    • Andrés ZsögönA
      Andrés Zsögön
      last edited by

      Now that we are on it, the “whole word” option is not that practical anyway, eg, it considers a whole word that which is surrounded by spaces. If another character is found next to it, such as (), [], or {}, it is not a “while word” anymore for Npp.

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      • Scott SumnerS
        Scott Sumner @Andrés Zsögön
        last edited by

        @Andrés-Zsögön

        “whole word” IS practical.

        A “whole word” is not strictly defined as “that which is surrounded by spaces”.

        If any of (, ), [, ], {, } is next to what looks like a word, it IS still found when doing a search with “whole word” option enabled, for example, all 12 of the following lines will be found when searched for “abc”:

        abc(
        abc)
        abc[
        abc]
        abc{
        abc}
        (abc
        )abc
        [abc
        ]abc
        {abc
        }abc
        

        But…perhaps I am misunderstanding what is meant by some of your statements…

        A pretty good discussion of what makes up a “word” and how the search engine deals with it was done by @guy038 here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13004/bugs-in-normal-search-for-v7-2-2-on-windows-7

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        • Andrés ZsögönA
          Andrés Zsögön
          last edited by Andrés Zsögön

          @Scott-Sumner

          I’m afraid it doesn’t. Kindly search for $abc using the Entire Word option with these:

          bla $abc(
          bla $abc)
          bla $abc[
          bla $abc{
          bla {$abc} 404_NOT_FOUND
          bla ($abc 404_NOT_FOUND
          bla )$abc 404_NOT_FOUND
          bla [$abc 404_NOT_FOUND
          bla ]$abc 404_NOT_FOUND

          As you can see, anything with a (, ), [, ], {, } before it won’t be found by Notepad++ 7.3.3 for Windows (X86).

          This makes the Entire Word option so untrustworthy that I can never use it, not with PHP at least.

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          • Scott SumnerS
            Scott Sumner @Andrés Zsögön
            last edited by Scott Sumner

            @Andrés-Zsögön

            Well, that case is discussed by @guy038 in the earlier posting I referenced; following the logic presented there indicates that your example will indeed not be matched.

            However, there is a way to get your desired behavior. In Settings (menu) -> Preferences -> Delimiter, change the “Word character list” as shown here: http://imgur.com/a/FhKc1

            Textually, change the radio button so that “Add your character…” is selected, and add the $ to the text box below it.

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            • Andrés ZsögönA
              Andrés Zsögön
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              @Scott-Sumner

              Hey that worked perfectly, thanks. The name of the options is not very serious… a gray label with a warning instead of the explanation between parentheses would be more adequate. Is there some place where I can make suggestions for the GUI, to make it more professional and less… amateur? Thanks.

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              • Scott SumnerS
                Scott Sumner @Andrés Zsögön
                last edited by

                @Andrés-Zsögön

                Report an issue or make a feature request here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/

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                • Gera OvelcoreG
                  Gera Ovelcore
                  last edited by

                  I was having this issue and it seems i checked ‘match whole word only’. un-checking option fixed it.

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                  • Charles DorsettC
                    Charles Dorsett
                    last edited by

                    Well, somehow I managed to deselect ‘Wrap around’ - this meant that I could only find instances that were below the cursor, which produced random results. Now it works fine.

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @Charles Dorsett
                      last edited by

                      @Charles-Dorsett said in Find no longer Finds anything:

                      …which produced random results

                      I could only find instances that were below the cursor,

                      It doesn’t sound like you achieved “random results”.
                      It seems like Notepad++ did what it was told to do, predictably and consistently.

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                      • Daniel Santamaria RubioD
                        Daniel Santamaria Rubio
                        last edited by

                        I had the same issue and I managed to solve it.
                        You need to have regular expression tick box selected and wrap around tickbox aswell.

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