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    • Grenville Tryon
      Grenville Tryon last edited by

      Is there any way to mark a block, and pressing a shortcut, bookmark all the coincidences in the file? I tried to make a macro for the task without success.
      (Currently I have to press control-F, select the mark tab, check the bookmark line and press “mark all”).
      Is a task I use 10 times a day, a shorcut for that task will be welcome.

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      • Claudia Frank
        Claudia Frank @Grenville Tryon last edited by

        @Grenville-Tryon

        may I ask what your final goal is. Is it just to have a visible indication about
        the same text or do you want to use bookmark function like cutting
        the bookmarked text or non-bookmarked text etc. ?

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Grenville Tryon
          Grenville Tryon last edited by

          Thanks for your time. Is a mix :
          50% times: f2 is a useful way to go to the next patch line without loose the attributes like color mark,
          20% times: replace text (with a visible mark to replace / test / undo replace only in some)
          10% times: copy all bookmarkes lines to a new file
          10% times: cut all bookmarks
          10% times: inverse selection

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          • guy038
            guy038 last edited by

            Hello, Grenville Tryon,

            I’ve been able to build a macro, which can be launched with a shortcut, to mark all occurrences of a specific text. But, unfortunately, as we cannot enter parameters, in N++'s macros, this text to search is written, namely :-((

            For instance, if you insert, in the macro section, of your active shortcuts.xml file, the text below, it would bookmark all lines, containing, at least, one occurrence, of the word Test, with that exact case, in normal search mode and downwards direction

                <Macro name="Mark Occurrences" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="77">
                    <Action type="0" message="2316" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="Test" />
                    <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="530" sParam="" />
                    <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1615" sParam="" />
                </Macro>
            

            Note that you must :

            • Close any N++ instance, first

            • Edit the Shortcuts.xml file, with an OTHER editor than Notepad++ ( Important ! )

            • Insert the block of text and save it

            • Finally, re-open N++

            Later, you should change, in Shortcuts.xml, the present word Test by the other word to search for :-(( Not acceptable, of course !

            But, certainly, your goal could be achieved with a Python or Lua script !

            Best Regards,

            guy038

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            • Grenville Tryon
              Grenville Tryon @guy038 last edited by

              @guy038 , I tried your shortcut test as indicated and works as desired (as you marked, only for the “Test” word). Still looking, but you gave a couple of clues. Thanks!

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              • Claudia Frank
                Claudia Frank @Grenville Tryon last edited by Claudia Frank

                @Grenville-Tryon

                the problem with macros and selected text is that it records the text as well,
                which, I guess, isn’t desirable in your case.

                What I could offer would be a python script, which basically emulates
                npps bookmark functionality. This has the advantage that you can use npps
                builtin functions like cut bookmarked lines, clear bookmark etc.

                If you haven’t installed python script plugin already than I would suggest
                to download the msi from here instead using plugin manager.

                Once installed, run Plugins->PythonScript->New Script, give it a meaningful name
                and put the following into it.

                SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE = 31
                MARK_BOOKMARK = 24
                
                def clear_previous_marks():
                    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE)
                    editor.indicatorClearRange(0,editor.getTextLength()) 
                    editor.markerDeleteAll(MARK_BOOKMARK)
                
                def match_found(m):
                    targetStart = m.span(0)[0]
                    foundTextLen = m.span(0)[1] - m.span(0)[0]
                    
                    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(SCE_UNIVERSAL_FOUND_STYLE)
                    editor.indicatorFillRange(targetStart, foundTextLen)
                
                    lineNumber = editor.lineFromPosition(targetStart)
                    editor.markerAdd(lineNumber, MARK_BOOKMARK)
                
                clear_previous_marks()
                pattern = editor.getSelText()
                if pattern != '':
                    editor.research(pattern, match_found) 
                

                Save it.
                Now you either can assign a shortcut or put it into the context menu (right click menu).
                If you need help solving this - let us know.

                Cheers
                Claudia

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                • Grenville Tryon
                  Grenville Tryon @Claudia Frank last edited by

                  @Claudia-Frank
                  Work exactly as needed. Thank you very much, you made my day!

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                  • Claudia Frank
                    Claudia Frank @Grenville Tryon last edited by

                    @Grenville-Tryon

                    just noticed that I was using

                    editor.research(pattern, match_found)
                    

                    but maybe you wanna use

                    editor.search(pattern, match_found)
                    

                    instead, otherwise the string is treated as a regular expression.

                    Cheers
                    Claudia

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                    • Alan Kilborn
                      Alan Kilborn last edited by

                      The marker ID used for bookmarks changed in Notepad++ 8.4.6 (and later). It is now 20, instead of 24. So, all references to 24 in this thread and/or its script(s), should be changed to 20.

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