@Ekopalypse , Even when I set my config up like @Michael-Vincent’s for perl, I don’t see messages in the LSP output console. It may be that my IT department is blocking some aspects (I just got a notification that Notepad++ was being virus scanned when reloading it, which I normally never see). I think at this point, I will have to give up on LSP at work (which is unfortunate, because I do a lot more coding at work than at home); maybe I’ll run some experiments at home, where I know IT cannot be getting in my way. ;-)

the post was deleted because I thought you were both the same person and was going to edit in a reply to both of you, but then the forums time-limiter blocked me. Here’s the post. @Alan-Kilborn said in [Useless Backup System](/post/70931): > Hmmmmm, my company offers Notepad++ in its company “I.T. store” for its employees to use. TBH I don’t know the vetting procedure, but I’d think that by offering it, they are comfortable with any security implications. > BTW, I just mentioned the “security thing” as a “could be a…”, not that it affects me directly. @Alan-Kilborn said in Useless Backup System: Hmmmmm, my company offers Notepad++ in its company “I.T. store” for its employees to use. TBH I don’t know the vetting procedure, but I’d think that by offering it, they are comfortable with any security implications. BTW, I just mentioned the “security thing” as a “could be a…”, not that it affects me directly. Well I prefer to stick to what I know instead of coming up with random hypotheticals I know nothing about, but what do I know, you’re the smart one and I’m sure a random open source tech program doing intermittent document backups is a security priority and not the entire infrastructure being mirrored to backups on a server hosting 1000 employees and their emails and login credentials that could be breached. the only smart, sensible and tolerably annoying part of your post here was *@Alan-Kilborn said in Useless Backup System: Notepad++ could change its default “Backup on save” option to be the “Simple backup” choice. Users would surely notice .bak files being created in the same folder as their real file, and many would balk at that and say to themselves “I’ve got to figure out how to turn this off, or adjust it in some way!”.* Nothing else was needed to be said, but you can’t just help masturbating yourself. You’re very smart, so much so you weren’t even able comprehend that I literally called myself a fool in the second sentence of this thread clearly implying that the purpose of such systems is to be fool proof. It shouldn’t require a manual. I run Acronis True Image, Macrium Reflect and BackupChain… All significantly more complicated backup programs and protocols… Which I’ve never read the manual and have used for a decade without problem. Do you get my point, smart guy? It’s - actually - not - about - what - I - did - or - didn’t - do. It’s about what the software didn’t do and could have or should have done… This isn’t exactly a new software development philosophy I’m giving you here… please find a way to not be a twat any time you get a chance. @PeterJones said in Useless Backup System: The Notepad++ developer seems to think his users aren’t fools. That’s a refreshing change of pace for a developer, but given real world experience, maybe it’s overly optimistic. ;-) Definitely overly optimistic. typically, the work people do in Excel and Word, aren’t hundreds of pages of cluttered code being run by other programs, in which the programs running them can themselves alter the code outside of the users hands, cause system/software crashes, etc. I have limited reading time, and software should be designed to account for that. Not every user is in the same situation with the same life, with the same agenda, experience, time, profession, need of use, etc. Hence me coming to take the time to share my personal user experience. Most the software I use has time interval backups turned on by default, and it’s not something to depend on, but it certainly doesnt hurt to have between the users manual saves and backups when sometimes the user is doing a series of quick but important changes and a fluke happens. As I took the time to contribute my experience, thank you for taking the time to contribute yours by registering a formal request… you’re definitely less of a twat than the other two :)

@Robin-Cruise said in Regex: How to turn more words in the line as if they were seen in the mirror?: But if a solution cannot be find in notepad++, I am sure that another solution in other programs will be welcome. Sure it can be mentioned, but as it is “off-topic” for this forum, it should be just a mention and not an exposition into other tools. I don’t know how can I use your regex, just copy-paste and Replace doesn’t work. So one of the things people do when they get answers on this (or any) forum, is that they immediately go off and do their own thinking, without trying exactly what is suggested first. Suggest you try following the instructions in this section of @guy038 's posting, as exactly written, and I think you’ll find it works just fine: Now, follow carefully each step, below

@Dave-Binbin , Is there a way that the NppExec script would work from any file of my project ? that it could know the mainfile of my project ? Maybe with some kind of NPP environnement variable that I could set at the beginning of each file of my project ? I am not sure how you expect NppExec would parse your active file – unlike some of the other scripting language plugins, NppExec doesn’t really have easy access to whatever portion of the current file you want. So I don’t think it would be easy to implement something like that. In the end, you would have to have some way of telling NppExec what the “main” file is for each project. And since NppExec is more filesystem-focused than file-content-focused, I would suggest a specialized file for the purpose. In many software development environments, there is something called a “makefile”, where you define how to compile and/or test and/or otherwise “make” a project – and each project has its own makefile. It could be a literal makefile, which works with the make/gmake/nmake utility on your computer; or it could be a batchfile; or it could be some custom solution. So for your case, I might suggest creating a file called makefile.nppexec, which goes in the same folder as your .au3 files for a given project. The makefile.nppexec would look something like set PROJECTMAINFILE = PutMainFileNameHere.au3 echo Running main program $PROJECTMAINFILE from directory $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY) "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Au3check.exe" "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\$(PROJECTMAINFILE)" if $(EXITCODE) >= 2 goto EXITSCRIPT "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)\$(PROJECTMAINFILE)" :EXITSCRIPT … and you would customize the makefile.nppexec in each project to call that project’s main file (using the variable at the top) Then you would change your main NppExec script to: npp_saveall echo Starting from : $(FILE_NAME) cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)" if $(EXT_PART) != .au3 goto BADFILE npp_exec makefile.nppexec // this runs the "makefile" for the current project goto EXITSCRIPT :BADFILE echo "Not an autoit file !!!" :EXITSCRIPT … so you would have one makefile.nppexec per project folder, and you would then run the central NppExec script, and based on the current directory of the active .au3 file, it would run the appropriate makefile.nppexec from that folder.

I must use the Installed Version of Notepad++, not the Portable Version as to work. Lest other readers of this thread believe it, it is not true. I made a Python script Well, how exactly did you do this? If you did Plugins > Python Script > New Script, and give your script a name and some lines of code, after you Save it for the first time you can go to Plugins > Python Script > Scripts and it will be shown there. However, if you create a new .py file in the ...\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\ folder in some other way, it will not show up in the menus until after you restart Notepad++. Using the New Script method, there’s an automatic way for the plugin to know to modify the menus right away. Using any other method – how could it know? At startup of N++ (and thus the plugin), it scans the scripts folder to build the menus the initial time, so it finds all existing scripts at that time.

Looks to be in last place to me.

@Tom-Grisafe said in Search Multiple Columns: Any good site that completely explains Reg Expressions with Examples. Yes. The FAQ for regular expressions has plenty. I linked this to you already, in my first reply to you.

Hi, @stephan-romhart, @terry-r and All, Oooooh, Stephan, I see ! Actually, it’s the comments, themselves, that are the objects to look for ;-)) Then, just for your information, here is a shorter version of the two regexes, within the css_comment.xml file contents : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ================================================ [ CSS comments ] --> <parser id="css_comment" displayName="CSS" commentExpr=""> <function mainExpr="/\*{2,3}(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+\*/" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i)[A-Z0-9\xc4\xd6\xdc\xdf -]+" /> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus> With the added line, in the configuration file overrideMap.xml : <association id= "css_comment.xml" langID= "20"/> As the default CSS association is : <!-- <association id= "css.xml" langID= "20"/> --> Note that the added line, in the overrideMap.xml file, is not mandatory. But, in that case, you must rename the css_comment.xml file as css.xml ! BR guy038

@Chris-Chris Yea, for sure read and follow the template for posting such questions!

@Ekopalypse said in lexing/styling with PythonScript: as provided in the examples with PS Ah. I didn’t even think to look there, but yes I see some, e.g. ColumnLexer, LogFileLexer. These should get me where I need to go! Thanks, all.

@PeterJones said in 2 txt files are different in notepad , but similar in notepad++: (s) that aren’t recognized are in the thanks a lot, dude. this really was helpful and insightful !

@Ronald-Koons , Sorry, I don’t believe it does. However, if another Compare Plugin user knows differently and can show us how, great!

@Ronald-Koons , I never have found the need for using “First to Compare” button. When I start my comparison, I just put my “old” file on the left and “new” file on the right, and click the “compare” button, and it works exactly as I expect it to. Okay, with a little experimenting: if I have all my files in the same view (so multiple tabs, none on the right), then if I click “First to Compare” in the “old” file, then “Compare” in the “new” file, it puts the one marked “first” on the left and the one where you clicked “Compare” on the right. And when i ended that compare, the “new” file moved back to the only active view with all the others. So the “First To Compare” button appears to be used only for marking the order of comparison when both files are starting from the same view. FYI: If you still want a change in behavior (I don’t think you need one), the author of the Compare Plugin has an issues page where such requests should be made. However, the author of the Compare plugin is no longer working on that incarnation of the plugin, and is instead working on a “ComparePlus” plugin to replace it. There has been no timeframe given for the newly-named plugin. However, the author does have issues for the Compare Plugin that are marked for ComparePlus v1, so if you put in your request through the compare plugin issues page, they might be included in the replacement plugin.

@guy038 , Ah, yeah: I had avoided the S/R in the macro because I didn’t think of ticking the “in selection”. Good idea. @fly-wire , My solution is okay; but if you want to preserve your clipboard you should use @guy038’s solution, because mine will replace the contents of the clipboard with your selected text, whereas the search-and-replace macro does not use the clipboard, so your old clipboard contents will still be available for pasting later.

Hi, I encounter this problem on every notepad++ opening. The main menu refreshes 3 times, and each refresh takes around a second. Removing “Explorer” plugin fixed it for me.

@Ahu-Lee , “double Ctrl+F” carried no special meaning under the older revisions of Notepad++. It was two distinct Ctrl+F sequences that carried two different meanings, depending on context: the first Ctrl+F brought the Find dialog to the front, and once the dialog was in from, the next Ctrl+F it heard told it to re-center. It just didn’t require any extra delay between the two Ctrl+F’s, so in your mind, you stored it as double-Ctrl+F … but it was two distinct keystrokes in the logic of Notepad++. The current v8.1.3-and-later behavior is that the first Ctrl+F brings the Find dialog to the forefront, and any subsequent Ctrl+F in that dialog activate the Find tab in that dialog. Alan’s suggestion is that the first Ctrl+F should bring the Find dialog to the forefront, and any subsequent Ctrl+F in that dialog should “check if the Find tab is active; if not active, then activate the Find tab in the Find dialog; if it is already active, then re-center the dialog”.

I’ve been able to get the job done, using the suggestions by guy038, which seems the simplest for me. ( SEARCH (?-si)^(.+#0A5D00.+)[/b] REPLACE $1 … ) Anyhow, thank you both for taking the trouble to help. With best wishes

@Polar-Bear The cake is fully baked, wonderful scents are coming out of the kitchen, go to other thread here as mentioned by @PeterJones in his post above: This conversation was continued in “Deleting a group of characters in lines with same beginning and ending, but different in between (re-post)”.

@RC-Ayers , You’ll get more help if you try to describe your problem with a bit more detail.

Great!! Thanks! I tried searching in the forum beforehand but I had found nothing. Works fine!