Strange behavior of the sort function, with zero-length column mode selection

[Terry R]

@guy038 said in Strange behavior of the sort function, with zero-length column mode selection:

However, I do not understand why IF I select again the Plugins > PythonScript > New Script option, this time, the Save under… windows proposes to save the future .py file in the \E folder instead of the normal location E:\846_x64_RC3\plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts ?!

After reading that I’m wondering if a variable has been set if the first use was in relation to the E:\ drive. Now any successive use of this will use the pre-set variable of E:\ as a starting point since it’s already set.

Possibly a test might be to complete a fresh start of NPP and do a new script and see what the Save Under proposes.

Terry

[Alan Kilborn]

@guy038

I also have problems with the PythonScript > New Script command suggesting a folder that isn’t the one I want. It typically suggests a folder that is the scripts folder for another version of Notepad++ that I’ve recently used. I’ve no idea why this happens; I’ve posted about this before but never came to a resolution. So…I’m just doubly careful when I save a new script, such that it is going into the correct folder!

[guy038]

Hi All,

Could it be connected with the fact of putting a local N++ install on a removable drive ?

BR

guy038

[guy038]

Hi, @terry-r, @alan-kilborn, @peterjones and All

I’m really perplexed !!??

• On my USB drive, I created a new folder E:\846_x64

• Then, I moved the npp.8.4.6.portable.x64.7z archive, that I kept, from the folder E:\846_x64_RC3 to the new folder E:\846_x64

• I opened this archive and extracted all the contents in the E:\846_x64 folder

• I defined my preferred parameters in Settings > Preferences...

• And I downloaded the PythonScript plugin via the Plugin Admin

Bingo ! I’m pleased to tell you that, whatever the current tab, as soon as I select the Plugins > PythonScript > New Script option, the Save inder window always opens in E:\846_x64\plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts ;-))

• Finally, I added the ComparePlus and BetterMultiSelection plugins and everything is still OK !

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So, I don’t see why it’s OK on a local N++ install, in folder E:\846_x64 and KO on a SAME local N++ install, in folder E:\846_x64_RC3 ???

Anyway, my problem is solved !

Best Regards,

guy038

…A quarter of an hour later, even if I use my old local N++ version, within the E:\846_x64_RC3 folder, everything seems OK, again ??? Really confusing !

[guy038]

Hi all,

As promised, I created a new issue concerning this problem :

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/12299#issue-1401062911

BR

guy038

[guy038]

Hello @alan-kilborn and All,

In the post above, of this discussion :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/80361

You said that you met the problem, sometimes in the past and that you haven’t find a solution yet to the fact that running the Plugins > PythonScript > New Script does not open the folder Local N++ install\Plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts, in the case of a local N++ install !

I’ve already found out two ways to reproduce this wrong behavior and also how to get the right folder ! Could you, Alan, @peterjones or someone else confirm my hypotheses ?

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A wrong folder destination, when using the Plugins > PythonScript > New Script option, may occur when :

• You’re trying, by mistake, to open an already opened file in your current N++ session which is not saved in the ...\Plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts folder

• You’re saving a new_x file, in a specific folder, different from the ...\Plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts folder

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So, an easy solution is to re-open a Python script of your current session ! Afterwards, any use of the Plugins > PythonScript > New Script option should open the right folder ...\Plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts ;-))

Remark : Note that holding the Ctrl key, while using the Plugins\Python Scripts\Scripts\"Script Name" option, does not help in this matter :-((

Best Regards,

guy038

[Alan Kilborn]

@guy038 said in Strange behavior of the sort function, with zero-length column mode selection:

two ways to reproduce this wrong behavior

As I never do those two actions, that isn’t a way I’m getting into the circumstance.

My problem with it mainly occurs when I am running a different instance of N++ to test a script in a “clean” setup. I tell it to create a New Script and it wants to save the file in the correct folder but in my daily use Notepad++.

I have several workarounds for this, but it is annoying behavior to say the least.

[Alan Kilborn]

The “Strange behavior of the sort function, with zero-length column mode selection” has been SOLVED by the developers and will be in the next release, presumably 8.4.8.

[Alan Kilborn]

@PeterJones :

SelectionToRectangle.py v2022.10.06

In Peter’s Oct 6, 2022 11:20am posting, the script code contained this line:

if editor.getSelectionMode()<>SELECTIONMODE.RECTANGLE:

Is Peter showing his BASIC roots here by using <>?

Proper Python would be to use != (or so one would think… keep reading…).

What caused me to notice this is that I exclusively use Python3 (and PythonScript v3.x) these days, and such a thing causes an error there, e.g.

Python 3.12.3 (tags/v3.12.3:f6650f9, Apr  9 2024, 14:05:25) [MSC v.1938 64 bit (AMD64)]
>Initialisation took 3078ms
>Ready.
>>> a = 3
>>> a <> 4
  File "<console>", line 1
    a <> 4
      ^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This made me dig up PythonScript 2 and try it there, where, indeed, it is fine:

Python 2.7.18 (v2.7.18:8d21aa21f2, Apr 20 2020, 13:25:05) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
>Initialisation took 2703ms
>Ready.
>>> a = 3
>>> a <> 4
True

Probably the moral to the story is to just not use <> with Python, whatever version. :-)

Perhaps some further interesting reading: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16749121

[PeterJones]

@Alan-Kilborn said in Strange behavior of the sort function, with zero-length column mode selection:

Is Peter showing his BASIC roots here by using <>?

100 PRINT "BASIC FOREVER"
200 GOTO 100