highlighting log files
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I (mildly) agree since npp is a marvellous tool and as you say does risk being too feature packed with things people don’t use or are of limited value and are just clutter or bloat for regular users.
Obviously someone created a sample exactly like the requirement I was after so the requirement isn’t too bespoke or unheard of, and I have been known to switch to use gVim to quickly scan through logs so see them colour coded and make issues just “jump out at me” quickly and easily.
Peter’s reply of using find and mark using regex ala “.(!!!|???).” is something I was aware of and goes some way towards a non-python solution but I’ve used that in the past and yet still asked the question as it seems too clunky and I have other strings I need to search for and mark.
I am down-level on Python - 1.0.8.0! but last time I tried upgrade npp itself to V7 the whole thing went to pot running any python script (a built-in or non-python plug-in (possibly) wouldn’t suffer). I have a few python scripts so am just concerned over upgrade paths but don’t like being down level so I may try again soon using advice on the forum as many people had issues with python and some versions of npp V7 which, hopefully, are resolved ;-(
I even had problems going back from V7 to V6, but, I can’t remember what that issue was, but, once bitten twice shy as we say.ian
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@gbilai1 said:
I am down-level on Python - 1.0.8.0! but last time I tried upgrade npp itself to V7 the whole thing went to pot running any python script (a built-in or non-python plug-in (possibly) wouldn’t suffer). I have a few python scripts so am just concerned over upgrade paths but don’t like being down level so I may try again soon using advice on the forum as many people had issues with python and some versions of npp V7 which, hopefully, are resolved ;-(
I even had problems going back from V7 to V6, but, I can’t remember what that issue was, but, once bitten twice shy as we say.-
It’s actually possible to install PythonScript 1.4 on older Notepad++ (like v7.5.9) by just downloading the most recent PythonScript zip, and unzipping the various files on top of the existing ones in your Notepad++ plugins installation.
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To run python in the newest Notepad++ (v7.7.1), follow this Guide. It works, too.
You also said:
Obviously someone created a sample exactly like the requirement I was after so the requirement isn’t too bespoke or unheard of,
But it’s not a universal or even majority feature-need. And it’s handled by a pythonscript, so the developers will likely see no reason to implement it natively.
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unfortunately, the pythonscript plugin isn’t up-to-date anymore.
As you’ve already figured out, the plugin, for x64, isn’t fully functional since npp >=7.7
The reason is that with 7.7 npp updated its scintilla control which itself introduced
a change in the notification structure and therefore broke backward compatibility. :-(
In addition, there doesn’t seem to be any progress in moving to python3.I’m currently working on a python3 plugin with a slightly different approach.
The plugin itself provides just the UI interface as well as the initial python initialization
but the wrapper code (for scintilla and notepad++) are python modules.
I hope to make the first alpha version available at github mid to end next week.
I’m trying to be backward compatible with the existing pythonscript plugin, means one should have minimum or better no work to do to make it run with my version of it.
The only headache problem I have is how to implement the boost::regex thing.
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@Ekopalypse said:
unfortunately, the pythonscript plugin isn’t up-to-date anymore.
As you’ve already figured out, the plugin, for x64, isn’t fully functional since npp >=7.7
The reason is that with 7.7 npp updated its scintilla control which itself introduced
a change in the notification structure and therefore broke backward compatibility. :-(The only thing I’ve seen not work is notifications / callbacks. Other than that, PythonScript works just fine with NPP v7.7.1, for everything I’ve tried. That said, it is likely that LogfileLexer relies on notifications/callbacks, so the example script might not work with v7.7.1.
So then my advice of how to update PythonScript in an older Notepad++ is still valid.
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yes, all the lexer stuff and automatic change things stuff depends on notifications.
But you are right, PS can still be used without those limitations and < 7.7. it should be full functioning. -
@Ekopalypse maybe should have been more specific. Pythonscript is only broken with 64-bit version of Notepad++ >= 7.7. For 32-bit it works just fine in all aspects.
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As you’ve already figured out, the plugin, for x64, isn’t fully functional since npp >=7.7
you did this on purpose so that I don’t feel dump, didn’t you? :-D
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the plugin, for x64, isn’t fully functional since npp >=7.7
OK, you did say it. Sorry; there’s a lot going on in this thread! Including your announcement! :)
The only headache problem I have is how to implement the boost::regex thing.
Is it a headache? Can you just do it how Pythonscript does it? Or is that what keeps P.S. tied to Python 2.7? I really don’t know…
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No, unfortunately not that easy.
I’m using cffi to build the plugin and I haven’t figured out how to add boost::regex to it and make it compile.
Currently I’m investigating how to make a python extension module using cython
or cppyy or maybe nuitka (I’m unsure, it seems to be an exe builder).
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