Remove duplicate numerical lines

[PeterJones]

I’m super unpopular

… says the one who has 70% higher reputation than anyone else in these forums. :-) Fortunately, downvotes can be transitory: 'Twas done as a joke, referring back to the time that the interface made it look like I had downvoted Scott. But my real downvotes are reserved for egregious behavior – posting spam in the forums, primarily – so I removed this one.

And yes, it does seem to have been rather rough in the forums recently: gang up on Scott this week; last week, I got so frustrated due to a certain conversation that I was within moments of deciding to not bother reading/posting here; and, I’m sure Don hasn’t had the best time, with all the problems that showed up in the transition to 7.6. Hopefully, it will mellow out again soon.

Anyway, I learned a lot through all the code examples and the experiments they prompted. Thanks all.

[Meta Chuh]

@PeterJones

transition to 7.6. Hopefully, it will mellow out again soon.

i think i’m afraid not.
there have been new complaints that, now that all plugins reside at a single, all users accessible location inside %programdata% as the active posters wished, others that were silent before want it either in a different location or the way it was in 7.6 … or the way it was in 7.5.9 … or inside of %programfiles%

[Eko palypse]

This is where real life and software development goes hand in hand - you can’t make everyone happy.

Eko

[rinku singh]

@Eko-palypse
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i3xhDiybd6FWb0hC2Pu72oeCQEhTYF4W/view?usp=sharing

[Eko palypse]

@gurikbal-singh

not sure what to do!?? What about the uploaded zip?

Eko

[rinku singh]

@Eko-palypse
zip file has contain a plugin for you
this plugin can remove duplicate lines

[Eko palypse]

@gurikbal-singh

Thank you very much for your effort but I wasn’t asking for one,
I offered a possible solution by using the pythonscript plugin
but maybe @rizla-kostas, the original poster, finds this useful.

Eko

[Alan Kilborn]

I was looking at the EOL at EOF thing and I liked the scripts presented in regards to same. However, after the script is in place…what if I WANT to create a file without the final EOL, a very occasional need maybe?

So I came up with this few lines of code that can be inserted into the scripts, which will prevent the script from doing anything if the Alt key is held while a save is being done.

import ctypes
VK_MENU = VK_ALT = 0x12
if ctypes.windll.user32.GetKeyState(VK_ALT) & 0x8000: return

In practice this only works when Save or SaveAll is done via toolbar button. :)

[Eko palypse]

@Scott-Sumner

I did some tests concerning the performance and memory usage about calculating whether the last line contains an eol or not.
I opened a ~600MB file and run the following script

from Npp import editor
import time

start = time.time()
lastLineContainsEOL = True if len(editor.getLine(editor.getLineCount()-1)) == 0 else False
end = time.time() - start
print 'getLine:', end

start = time.time()
lastLineContainsEOL = True if editor.getText()[-1] in '\n\r' else False
end = time.time() - start
print 'getText:', end

start = time.time()
lastLineContainsEOL = True if editor.getCharacterPointer()[-1] in '\n\r' else False
end = time.time() - start
print 'getCharacterPointer:', end

which resulted in

getLine: 0.000999927520752
getText: 2.94100022316
getCharacterPointer: 0.641000032425

then I did the same test while watching the performance monitor and saw that
editor.getText()[-1] allocated an additional 600 MB whereas editor.getCharacterPointer()[-1] didn’t.

So, currently it seems that len(editor.getLine(editor.getLineCount()-1)) == 0 is the fastest and best on resources
whereas getCharacterPointer might be a fast way to access the buffer as long as you know what you are looking for.

Eko

[PeterJones]

I have sent a private apology to @Scott-Sumner, but I thought I should also make a public apology: downvotes aren’t something to joke with (or about), and my initial response (after I had seen it bothered him) was still couched in humor (and probably not very funny, at that), when it should not have had any attempts at justification or humor. I have been sorry for my poor choices on that day since I saw his response, and I have been saddened as he has stayed away for the last two weeks. I wish I knew how to make it up to him, but saying that I’m sorry is all that I know to do.

I highly respect Scott, and value his contributions to this forum. I hope he will come back and participate again.

[Meta Chuh]

i miss you too @Scott-Sumner and i hope you read this some day.

i’m sorry too for everything that happened and my failed humorous attempts to brighten up the situation.

i think that don didn’t even look to whom he gave this reply at that certain moment, and i know how this must feel … like a job where a 3 year “underpaid” employee, who is also probably the biggest defender and supporter of this hypothetical company, suddenly gets a “who the hell are you” from the boss.

please come back, or more important: we, specifically i as an individual would like to keep in contact, regardless of how, when or where.

thanks @PeterJones for standing up.
(i currently have a certain movie scene in my mind … “o captain my captain” from the movie dead poets society)