@HienTwi Good to know. Thank you for getting back to me. Best Regards.

@guy038 in case of overlapping matches Well, I meant non-overlapping matches of course. Often while marking data it is simpler to come up with 3 or 4 successive marking operations on different data in order to capture everything you want; coming up with one regex, while perhaps an interesting exercise, would likely be distracting from your at-hand task.

@Dennis-Paroutsas It does work, but it isn’t (and can’t be) language aware. Thus if you always program in C-style languages you are all set. But if you code in several different languages you’d have to have different macros and different keycombos that invoke them. And, you have to highlight a line (or a block) before running the macro. It’s arguably easier to just press / and / and achieve the same thing, with no follow-on caret positioning needed.

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

Suddenly the light bulb went off… Click Plugins > Compare > Settings and then experiment with the colors to find a background color you like for mismatched lines.

v0.003 released to CPAN The user-centric changes that were made: some of the Scintilla v4.2.0 messages that were implemented in Notepad++ v7.8 were missing, so add them (#29: thanks @Michael-Vincent for pointing this out!) runPluginsCommand() = fixed command cache feature and improved test (#30) added version notes, to say which messages and “enums” (hashes/keys) require NPP v7.8 (because these are the Scintilla v4.2.0 updates) I keep trying to improve this, and make it more usable. Suggestions and bug reports welcome.

@Nelson-Chan, @Alan-Kilborn even if I close it myself on start up it still picks up a different set of files? Make sure you only have one Notepad++ instance open. Make sure Settings > Preferences > Backup enables “Remember current session for next launch”. Load the right set of files; open a Windows file explorer to %AppData%\Notepad++ (you can paste that into the Explorer location bar); look at the last-modified date of session.xml. Close Notepad++. Look at the last-modified date of session.xml again – it should be brand new. If you look at the contents of session.xml in windows notepad.exe, it should show the right set of files. When you open Notepad++ again (with no special command line arguments), it should open with the previous session. If that’s not what happened, then redo the sequence, taking screenshots along the way, and paste those screenshots in your reply (make sure there is no private/sensitive data in the screenshots) – if the image is in your clipboard, a standard paste will embed the image, or you can click the upload image button in the post edit toolbar to upload an image file from your computer: from

@Дмитрий-Ясинский Please see here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place

@Alan-Kilborn said in Need the ability to have fixed-width line number column: Well, apparently I run with line numbers disabled in the Preferences, and then I do this in my Pythonscript startup: THAT’S AWESOME! And for us Python impared: “PerlScript”: for $e (editor1, editor2) { $e->setMarginWidthN(0, editor->textWidth($SC_STYLE{STYLE_LINENUMBER}, "_999999")); } Cheers.

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@PeterJones thanks, this sounded so promising, but alas, doesn’t seem to be the problem. I even uninstalled (revounistaller) and reinstalled, no change. Also tried the 32 bit version, same problem. Now I’m really scratching my head because it sounds like it’s just my system, not some crummy Windows change :-(

Testing right now. Just sent emails containing links. I’ll let you know when I get a reply back. The IA is under maintenance, so delays may affect when I get the message back (normally 5-15 minutes after sending the email I get a reply)

Hello, @robert-baker, @alan-kilborn, and All, An other solution could be : SEARCH (?-i)\R+(?!EMAIL|\z) REPLACE \x20 This alternate solution does not mind if additional line-break separates each section ;-)) For instance, the input text : EMAIL: swmorton50@gmail.com CALLSIGN: AA4TI NAME: STEPHEN MORTON ADDRESS: 5644 CANTUCCI STREET ADDRESS-CITY: NOKOMIS ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: FL ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 34275 EMAIL: robertumpleby@tx.rr.com CALLSIGN: AA5AH NAME: ROBERT UMPLEBY ADDRESS: 1209 N WATERVIEW DR ADDRESS-CITY: RICHARDSON ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: TX/DALLAS ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 75080 EMAIL: aa5au@bellsouth.net CALLSIGN: AA5AU NAME: DON HILL ADDRESS: 2121 SUTHERLAND PLACE ADDRESS-CITY: HARVEY ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: LA ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 70058 EMAIL: rickmaxey51@yahoo.com CALLSIGN: AA5TL NAME: RICHARD MAXEY, JR. ADDRESS: 19708 MAHOGANY ST ADDRESS-CITY: BEND ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: OR ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 97702 EMAIL: AA1SU@arrl.net CALLSIGN: AA1SU NAME: PAUL N. GAYET ADDRESS: 11 CHERRY STREET ADDRESS-CITY: ESSEX JUNCTION ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: VT ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 05452 EMAIL: skeeter_1@yahoo.com CALLSIGN: AA3C NAME: RICHARD PETERS ADDRESS: 945 BEECHWOOD DR. ADDRESS-CITY: MURPHY ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: TX ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 75094 would output : EMAIL: swmorton50@gmail.com CALLSIGN: AA4TI NAME: STEPHEN MORTON ADDRESS: 5644 CANTUCCI STREET ADDRESS-CITY: NOKOMIS ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: FL ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 34275 EMAIL: robertumpleby@tx.rr.com CALLSIGN: AA5AH NAME: ROBERT UMPLEBY ADDRESS: 1209 N WATERVIEW DR ADDRESS-CITY: RICHARDSON ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: TX/DALLAS ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 75080 EMAIL: aa5au@bellsouth.net CALLSIGN: AA5AU NAME: DON HILL ADDRESS: 2121 SUTHERLAND PLACE ADDRESS-CITY: HARVEY ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: LA ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 70058 EMAIL: rickmaxey51@yahoo.com CALLSIGN: AA5TL NAME: RICHARD MAXEY, JR. ADDRESS: 19708 MAHOGANY ST ADDRESS-CITY: BEND ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: OR ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 97702 EMAIL: AA1SU@arrl.net CALLSIGN: AA1SU NAME: PAUL N. GAYET ADDRESS: 11 CHERRY STREET ADDRESS-CITY: ESSEX JUNCTION ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: VT ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 05452 EMAIL: skeeter_1@yahoo.com CALLSIGN: AA3C NAME: RICHARD PETERS ADDRESS: 945 BEECHWOOD DR. ADDRESS-CITY: MURPHY ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: TX ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 75094 Best Regards, guy038

Fixed in the following commit: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/a09c0a17dbdb4bb9a414a4a6fedf761987a80032 Thank you for your help!

@guy038 Hi, the latest compareplus version is 507 and I have notepad++ v7.8.5. When I try to import compareplus.dll, the application has no response and closing and reopening it shows no difference. I removed the old compare plugin and tried again and it still has no effect. Edit: I had to start notepad++ with administrator mode. It is all good now! Thanks for your help! And @pnedev thanks for the great plugin!

Found this that explains it: http://www.thealarmtech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=107 Really helps for visualization.

@micmou Maybe for him too late you helped me very much thanks bro