Replace "intro" for "space" in a selected text
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Hello!
I’m copying some text from a PDF and when you do that you get the text something like this:
“Notepad++ was developed by Don Ho in September 2003.[7] The
developer used JEXT (a Java-based text editor) at his company but,
dissatisfied with its poor performance, he began to develop a text editor written in C++ with
Scintilla.[7] He developed it in his spare time since the idea was rejected by his
company”
And I’d like it to look like this:
“Notepad++ was developed by Don Ho in September 2003.[7] The developer used JEXT (a Java-based text editor) at his company but, dissatisfied with its poor performance, he began to develop a text editor written in C++ with Scintilla.[7] He developed it in his spare time since the idea was rejected by his company”So, I’d like to replace that change of line for a space. I was using the tool called “Remove unnecesary Balnk and EOL”. It does what I need but to the whole text in the file. I’d like to do it just to a selection (to keep the paragraphs the way they are in the PDF".
So, today I found out I can search for “intros” as “\r\n” and I could deleted that “intro” and replace it for a “space”.
I would like to do this with a shortcut. The only way I know I can do this is by recording a Macro. The problem is that I don’t know how to tell that macro to recognize a text selection.
I recorded the Macro selecting a text and doing the replace operation, but then I tried the Macro and nothing happened :(What can I do to make it work?
Thank you! -
It is hard from your description to tell where things go wrong. Find/Replace is a bit tricky to do in a macro; have you followed the methodology outlined here?: http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Editing_Configuration_Files#Search_.2F_Replace_encoding
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Thanks! but I really don’t know what to do with that info :(
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Rereading your posting and my answer I realized that you shouldn’t need the information I provided via that link–your situation is simpler.
I tried what I think is your situation and recording it as a macro worked for me. The key part of what I did that you may be missing is ticking the checkbox for “In selection” in the Replace tab of the Find/Replace dialog (and then pressing the “Replace All” button).
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You are right!
I forgot something like that. I did itagain paying attention to those details and the Macro works!
Thank you very much! :D
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