@Coises said:

The necessary function already exists: SCI_INSERTTEXT

Good eye.
I would have thought that function also does things to “jolt the screen”, but apparently not.

@PeterJones

Very similar, but simpler and less “raw”:

from Npp import * try: editor3h # third editor, hidden except NameError: editor3h = notepad.createScintilla() def get_stream_text_from_clipboard(): retval = '' editor3h.clearAll() editor3h.paste() if editor3h.getLength() > 0: retval = editor3h.getText() return retval editor.insertText(editor.getCurrentPos(), get_stream_text_from_clipboard())

Note that the extra effort to get the clipboard text is because PythonScript doesn’t support a way to get current clipboard contents. It can paste the contents with editor.paste(), but if you want to avoid side effects from paste (as we do here) or you want to modify the clipboard text before inserting it, there’s no super simple (i.e. function call way to do it).

Note also that my get_stream_text_from_clipboard() function only works with non-column block data (as its name implies).

BTW, there was a PythonScript request that such a function be created, see HERE, but it seems to be an issue that isn’t going anywhere.

@Alan-Kilborn

It would have been more amusing if you had included an explanation of how this was you in trying to solve a current Notepad++ coding problem. :-)

You’re not wrong.

Here’s the whole story:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/15681

Long story short: I tried to remedy the network file disconnected hanging problem. So I used thread. It leads the zombie process after closing Notepad++. Of course, the thread solution has been abandoned partially.

Hello, @DSperber1, @mark-olson, @mkupper and All,

@@DSperber1, I’m pleased that you’ve got the right program ( mrcdat2txt.exe ) to edit your .mrcdat log files :-))

Now, before your last reply, I tried to guess the similarities between some parts of your .mrcdat file and, indeed, I’ve found some !

As you can see on the picture below :

Each row of your table seems to begin with the FFFE sequence

Each row of your table seems to end with the db01 sequence

A four zero-byte sequence occurs in middle of each section

The Yellow sequence looks like a valid UTF 16 LE BOM sequence of characters. Thus, to my mind, I thought to get valid strings after suppression of all zero bytes, in these lines …

… And bingo ! You can verify that each Mauve/Pale Violet line, below, correspond to the File Name part of each line of your table !

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Best Regards,

guy038

@Harry-Brookes said in Feature Request: Parallel Processing (Multithreading):

I think it’s simpler when people don’t try to find reasons for things being harder than they actually are.

People constantly insist that the single-threaded nature of most core Notepad++ APIs must just be due to sheer laziness on the part of its core devs, and those people have apparently never actually looked at the codebase and tried to understand the issues involved. Refactoring anything in NPP to use multiple threads is (by my estimate) several times more difficult than creating a multithreaded version of the same thing from the ground up.

Notepad++ has a tremendous amount of shared global state, which could only be made compatible with multithreading through extensive use of mutexes, which would then introduce dramatic performance losses in single-threaded use cases (at best) and deadlock (at worst). By the way, have you ever tried to debug a multithreaded program without extensive use of log files? Hahahahaha, good luck.

Find-and-replace in files seems like an embarrassingly parallel operation (or at least one that can be achieved with only one or two mutexes), but the devil is in the details, and as someone who has actually read the source code for Notepad++'s implementation, there are a lot of details there.

EDIT: AFAICT, the simplest way to even begin to implement multithreaded find-in-files in NPP would be to use multiple Scratchtillas (NPP uses _pscratchTilla as a lightweight way to run Scintilla operations like find/replace on a file without doing any graphics rendering), and use some simple task-dividing/scheduling algorithm to decide which Scratchtilla works with which file. The scariest problem that I can think of comes when the the Scratchtilla has to report its progress back to the form that shows progress. From my limited experience (I am admittedly a noob to multithreading with GUIs), there seems to be a lot of risk of deadlock whenever multiple threads contend for a lock on a GUI element. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

@westyles said in 🔦 menu - how to add separators?:

it closes instantly after startup

Well, no one ever clicks on a separator.
Hmm, maybe accidentally…

name=“” is better for me

Then it doesn’t look like a separator.

@guy038 said in Find & Replace:

When the Regular expression search mode is set, running the Boost regex engine :

And
Sixthly, you may use \Q$\E which allows any characters within the \Q and \E to be accepted as literals within a regular expression. In this example the $ is the literal character.

@mkupper said in 门这个字显示有问题:

I am wondering though what the font picking logic is.

Black magic on the part of the OS. It’s influenced by the Direct Write setting, but it can still sometimes pick an alternate font for certain glyphs, even with DW off (as you showed).

Unfortunately, I don’t know the behind-the-scenes stuff.

I thought there was a discussion a few years ago, where I had some knowledge then than I do not now have [it was research done at the time, but the details are long since forgotten], but I cannot seem to find the post(s) I’m thinking about for the moment –

update 1: ah, there it is: I was thinking about the posts dealing with “CompositeFont” – so read the discussions from that search for more…

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update 2: I searched the internet for “what characters look similar to U+95E8”, and though the first SO question I found didn’t answer what looked similar, it did show a screenshot from something else that shows that the glyph that Notepad++ displays is not unheard-of for U+95E8, even outside of Notepad++.

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update 3: per this, it looks like the alternate glyph we’re seeing might be the Japanese Kanji / Ryakuji form. Ooh, and that page also looks like U+2ED4 might give the glyph you are looking for (though I cannot comment on meaning or implication of using one Unicode codepoint vs the other.)

The two compared in Notepad++:
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update 4: MS Notepad has the same issue with that character:
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And looking through my C:\Windows\Fonts\GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont (see the “CompositeFont” search link, above), which lists some alternate fonts that support CJK Unified range:
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If I change to “Microsoft YaHei” as the font for Notepad++ (or MS Notepad), I can get Notepad++ to show the glyph you expect for U+95E8:
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… but it’s not a monospaced font, and every once in a while (on Notepad++ display refresh, maybe?), it seems to have to do some complicated re-drawing.

But if you can find a monospace font with the appropriate unicode slots populated that you’re willing to have as your Notepad++ font, that might work for you.

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Caveat: I don’t deal with such characters or glyphs in my personal nor professional life; I just find myself drawn in when the unexpected happens in Notepad++, and I’m trying to be helpful, based on what I can find with some research on the internet that might shed light for me or those who bother reading my posts…

To closer-replicate what @keep2000 was asking for I took @Alan-Kilborn’s code and created a new scriptlet

editor.copyText("file://" + str(notepad.getCurrentFilename().replace('\\', '/')))

and then assigned the keyboard shortcut Alt+/ to it. Alt+/ now loads the current forward slash formatted file path into the copy/paste buffer.

In my case also I wanted the file:// prefix as part of the results.

@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

@Ian said in Scrollable page tabs:

Just reading this now, in 2024, about eight years after thread creation.
Atop, there are tabs of all Notepad++ files open. I can two-finger-scroll up or down to move the tabs to the right or left, respectively. I love this feature but on my Notepad++ the scrolling sensitivity is much too light. Even the slightest scroll moves the tabs so quickly I miss any tabs in the middle, between my most recently and least currently opened files. How can I slow the scrolling speed? I do not want to change my mouse scrolling speed altogether, as the speed at which I scroll webpages and notepad pages with the two-finger-scroll method is perfectly fine. It is only in the Notepad++ app, and then only when scrolling the open file tabs at the upper part of the screen.

From the keyboard you can use Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab which will pull up the same thing that mouse right-click + mouse wheel brings up. Keep holding the Ctrl key and release the Tab key. While holding the Ctrl key down use the up/down arrow keys to scroll through the list. Using the keyboard may gives you a more fine grained control over the scrolling through the list than the mouse wheel. The mouse wheel also works for scrolling this list while the Ctrl key is being held down.

For more about this please see https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-interface/#document-switcher

FYI - the document switcher can be disabled via Preferences / MISC. / Document Switcher / Enable. If you try either the right click plus mouse wheel thing or Ctrl+Tab and “nothing happens” then check that the document switcher is enabled in preferences.

To fix or change the specific issue @Ian brought up with mouse wheel sensitivity when in document switcher mode we would need to go through the Notepad++'s FAQ: Feature Request or Bug Report system.

@PeterJones Thank you so much !!! I found the plugin. It’s called Programmer’s Pal. I tried every setting I could think of and it wouldn’t disable. Once I uninstalled PP I’m golden. I appreciate the help !!!

@Hans-J-Albertsson said in Printing multiple pages per sheet? How???:

Even the lowly Windows Notepad can do that… so why can’t NPP do that???

On Windows 10, with a Brother HL-L2395DW printer, I’m not seeing any difference between Notepad and Notepad++. In both programs, multiple page printing is controlled in the printer driver, not the program. So, click File | Print…, then select the correct printer/driver in the Windows Print dialog, then click the Preferences… button. From there on, the details are specific to your printer driver.

@PeterJones

Is it worth some additional text in the manual, e.g. …

Normally the caret is confined to positions on its line to the left of the line-ending character(s) [side note: not sure even if line-ending stuff is defined adequately in the manual]. When virtual space is enabled, the caret is freed from its confinement and can be placed to the right of line-endings. This has no real effect unless it is followed by the typing of some character, at which point the virtual space is filled with actual space characters to the left of the caret, to fill from the existing line entry to the column of the caret. The new line-ending is then placed to the right of the character entered.

…or…some…such. :-)

I mean, well, I’m clear on the virtual space concept, but new users might not be, so maybe more treatment in the manual is justified.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Every time I start notepad++, the encoding of some files will be changed:

@Coises said in Every time I start notepad++, the encoding of some files will be changed:

Apply to opened ANSI files

My recollection of what this checkbox (when checkmarked) does is:

if a file has no content (it’s 0 bytes on disk), open it as UTF-8 if a file’s entire content is “7-bit ASCII” (no bytes with highest bit set), open it as UTF-8

This “recollection” was found in some notes I had.

After doing my best to follow the code, I believe you are correct. The relevant routines appear to be:

FileManager::setLoadedBufferEncodingAndEol
and
Utf8_16_Read::utf8_7bits_8bits

which appear to come into play when there is no byte order mark and the file is not HTML or XML with a detected character set specification. First, utf8_7bits_8bits decides that if a file contains a null, it’s 8-bit ANSI; if it contains only bytes from 1-127, it’s 7 bit ANSI; otherwise, if it contains only character sequences that are legal UTF-8, it’s UTF-8; otherwise, it’s 8-bit ANSI. Then setLoadedBufferEncodingAndEol uses the New Document | UTF-8 | Apply to opened ANSI files to determine whether existing files that are empty or contain 7-bit ANSI should be opened as UTF-8.

It looks like MISC | Autodetect character encoding tries to detect ANSI codepages that are not the default (corresponding to an Encoding | Character sets submenu selection, rather than Encoding | ANSI), but I haven’t attempted to follow that all the way through. I’m not sure where that fits into the sequence of decisions and how it interacts with the Apply to opened ANSI files setting.

@guy038 said in toolBar Switch for PythonScript plugin:

see also my post, below :

A good option.
The site does not allow me to like your post without reputation.

@xomx Thanks for the info

@bofhlusr said in Does NPP have selective line editing?:

Can npp hide all the lines in a file, and then unhide and display only the lines found in search?

Short answer: No (again).

There have been ideas proposed before about a Find All in Current Document search having a checkbox parameter to show only the lines with search hits (and thus hiding all others), but – I think I said this before – the hide/show lines feature in Notepad++ is not robust, so I’d think that anything based on the idea of hiding/showing lines conditionally is going to be flawed.

@Carlos-Zucareli-Renó said in trocar ponto por vírgula na string numérica:

change period to comma in numeric string
Is it possible to configure in notepad ++?

Not only are you wasting everyone’s time by not posting in English, your topic title (“replace semicolon with comma in numeric string”) doesn’t even match your posting content (“change period to comma in numeric string”).

I won’t even try to answer, nor think about what you’re trying to ask. I’ll just “move on” unless you put some effort behind it on your end, in the form of a reformulated posting.

@Soapboy ,

That’s because /p is not Notepad++'s command-line option for printing (or for anything else, which is why it tries to open a file called /p). The ?-menu’s Command Line Arguments… dialog will show all the command-line options, or you can look in the Online User Manual’s Command Line Arguments page. Specifically, -quickPrint is the way to be able to make Notepad++ print the document from the command-line

The silent update feature is a fantastic addition!