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    • mvancleave99M
      mvancleave99
      last edited by

      I have a situation where I need to mark any line that contains a particular operator (in this case “@”). The operator may not necessarily appear at the start of the line, but I want to highlight the entire line nonetheless.

      For example I would like to be able to mark the whole line below. I can get it to mark from the “@” to the end of the line, but don’t know how to pick up the words before the operator.

      in a@Lush Forest

      Thanks in advance!

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      • EkopalypseE
        Ekopalypse @mvancleave99
        last edited by Ekopalypse

        @mvancleave99

        open find dialog, goto mark tab and put the following into find what: (?-s).*@.*
        check regular expression and press mark all.

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        • mvancleave99M
          mvancleave99
          last edited by

          Thanks for the quick response!

          That works once, but won’t work for new text entries that meet the criteria. Mark was probably a bad choice. “Custom format” would be more correct.

          I have created a User Defined Language definition, which has worked well for most of my needs. This is the only one that is giving me a bit of a headache.

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse @mvancleave99
            last edited by

            @mvancleave99

            actually the title says it, my bad, sorry.
            No, I don’t think you can do this with udl.
            What you can do is using a scripting language in combination with your udl
            like described here.

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            • EkopalypseE
              Ekopalypse
              last edited by Ekopalypse

              @mvancleave99
              I have to add that this solution, using pythonscript in combination with udl, works only if
              you use a 64 bit npp version < 7.x or a 32bit version of npp.

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                last edited by

                @Ekopalypse

                Where does the trouble lie with PS and N++ >7.x and 64 bits? To make it work fully, does it require a PS code change, a N++ code change, or both? (If you know)

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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by Ekopalypse

                  @Alan-Kilborn

                  a PS code change is needed for the callbacks as scintilla >=7.x introduced a different
                  notification structure, like int fields, formely 32bit, became int_ptr now 64bit on 64bit OS
                  and 32bit on 32bit OS.

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                  • mvancleave99M
                    mvancleave99
                    last edited by

                    @Ekopalypse

                    No worries! People (especially newbies) never post their actual question. Instead they post what they think their question is, so your original answer was quite reasonable. :-)

                    Yeah. I think I’ll live with what is a minor anomaly for me. The scripting solution will be above my head … ;-)

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