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    • Patricia Mayer
      Patricia Mayer last edited by

      Hi all,

      I haven’t found a thread about this, so here is my question:

      Is there any possibility to save all files found in a find-in-files-search without having to open each one?

      Thanks & Regards
      Patricia

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      • Ekopalypse
        Ekopalypse @Patricia Mayer last edited by

        @Patricia-Mayer

        Not quite sure I understand what you try to achieve.
        Are you interested in the filenames containing the searched text?
        Are those files already open and, possibly, in a modified state and you want to save all of them?
        Something else?

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        • Patricia Mayer
          Patricia Mayer last edited by dinkumoil

          I uploaded a screenshot for a better understanding:

          Search results

          The search term was found in 228 files that are stored in several different subfolders. I would like to save all 228 files in a different location/folder.

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          • Ekopalypse
            Ekopalypse @Patricia Mayer last edited by

            @Patricia-Mayer

            No, there is no such feature builtin in but if this is something you need more often you could create a batch file and follow a procedure.
            Something like:

            • do your search
            • drag and drop the result in a file which a fixed name (it needs to be drag and drop)
            • replace the unneeded content by using a regex like
              find what: (?-is)(?:(?:^Search "|\tLine).*\R| \(\d+ hits?\))
              replace with is empty
              press replace all (or record once a macro and run macro after drag and drop
            • run via Run menu something like:
              cmd /k FOR /F %i IN (D:\FIXED_NAME_FILE) DO copy %i D:\temp\put_it_in_here\

            If you replace cmd /k by cmd /c shell window gets closed automatically.

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            • Alan Kilborn
              Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

              @Ekopalypse said in Save found files?:

              drag and drop the result in a file with a fixed name

              Meaning select the desired result data in the Find result window, and then drag-n-drop that.

              it needs to be drag and drop

              Why does it need to be drag-n-drop? Wouldn’t ctrl+c be the same?

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              • Ekopalypse
                Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                @Alan-Kilborn

                Meaning select the desired result data in the Find result window, and then drag-n-drop that.

                Yes, ctrl+c does not copy the filenames, only the content found, at least for me, do you see different behavior on your side?

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                • Alan Kilborn
                  Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse said in Save found files?:

                  ctrl+c does not copy the filenames, only the content found, at least for me, do you see different behavior on your side?

                  I do see different behavior; to me your result seems like a right-click copy operation in the Find-result window.

                  Here’s some results for me (I did a ctrl+a in the Find-result window, then 3 different copy/paste ops into a new editor tab):

                  c82ef8ee-8629-476a-b42d-41c214503ace-image.png

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                  • Ekopalypse
                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn

                    that is strange, I only see the searched content, regardless if I select all
                    or only partial results. The first line and every “filename line” gets stripped off.
                    I’m testing this on 7.8.1

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                    • Alan Kilborn
                      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

                      @Ekopalypse said in Save found files?:

                      I’m testing this on 7.8.1

                      I still use 7.8 day-to-day so my previous results were with that. But…switching to 7.8.1 (64 bits) temporarily I do not see any change; meaning that I don’t see it working the way you do!

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                      • Alan Kilborn
                        Alan Kilborn last edited by Alan Kilborn

                        So before this thread was started earlier today, I had some Pythonscript code for manipulating text in the Find-result window (that I never really finished or did anything with):

                        import ctypes
                        from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                        import re
                        
                        class FindResultPanel(object):
                        
                            def __init__(self):
                        
                                WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND,LPARAM)
                                FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                                GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
                                GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
                                SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                                EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                                GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                                curr_class = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(256)
                        
                                tag1 = 0
                        
                                find_result_panel_scintilla_handle_list = []
                        
                                def foreach_window(hwnd, lParam):
                                    tag2 = 1
                                    if lParam == tag1:
                                        cc = curr_class[:GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)]
                                        if cc == u'#32770':
                                            length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                                            if length > 0:
                                                buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                                                GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                                                if buff.value == u'Find result':
                                                    EnumChildWindows(hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(foreach_window), tag2)
                                    elif lParam == tag2:
                                        cc = curr_class[:GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)]
                                        length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                                        if length > 0:
                                            buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                                            GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                                            if cc == u'Scintilla':
                                                find_result_panel_scintilla_handle_list.append(hwnd)
                                                return False  # stop enumeration
                                    return True  # continue enumeration
                        
                                EnumChildWindows(FindWindow(u'Notepad++', None), WNDENUMPROC(foreach_window), tag1)
                        
                                try:
                                    hwnd = find_result_panel_scintilla_handle_list[-1]
                                except IndexError:
                                    raise RuntimeError('No Find result window found')
                        
                                self.hwnd = hwnd
                        
                                # from Scintilla.iface ( https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/scintilla/include/Scintilla.iface )
                                # Retrieve a pointer value to use as the first argument when calling the function returned by GetDirectFunction.
                                #get int GetDirectPointer=2185(,)
                                self.direct_pointer = SendMessage(self.hwnd, 2185, 0, 0)
                        
                            def GetText(self):
                        
                                # https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_GETTEXT
                                # Retrieve all the text in the document.
                                # Returns number of characters retrieved.
                                # Result is NUL-terminated.
                                #fun position GetText=2182(position length, stringresult text)
                                # position -> intptr_t position in a document
                                # stringresult -> pointer to character, NULL-> return size of result
                                length_of_text = ctypes.WinDLL('SciLexer.dll', use_last_error=True).Scintilla_DirectFunction(self.direct_pointer, 2182, 0, 0)
                                text_of_document = ctypes.c_char_p('\0' * (length_of_text + 1))  # allocate buffer to hold text
                                ctypes.WinDLL('SciLexer.dll', use_last_error=True).Scintilla_DirectFunction(self.direct_pointer, 2182, length_of_text, text_of_document)
                                return text_of_document.value
                        
                            def GetFoldLevel(self, line_number):
                        
                                # https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_GETFOLDLEVEL
                                # Retrieve the fold level of a line.
                                #get FoldLevel GetFoldLevel=2223(line line,)
                                SC_FOLDLEVELNUMBERMASK = 0x0FFF
                                return ctypes.WinDLL('SciLexer.dll', use_last_error=True).Scintilla_DirectFunction(self.direct_pointer, 2223, line_number, 0) & SC_FOLDLEVELNUMBERMASK
                        
                            def GetFoldExpanded(self, line_number):
                        
                                # https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_GETFOLDEXPANDED
                                # Is a header line expanded?
                                #get bool GetFoldExpanded=2230(line line,)
                                return ctypes.WinDLL('SciLexer.dll', use_last_error=True).Scintilla_DirectFunction(self.direct_pointer, 2230, line_number, 0)
                        
                        try:
                        
                            find_result_panel = FindResultPanel()
                        
                        except RuntimeError:
                        
                            notepad.messageBox('Could not find Find-result window;\r\nMaybe you have not yet run a search that would create it?', '')
                        
                        else:
                        
                            find_result_text = find_result_panel.GetText()
                        
                            print_all = True if 0 else False
                            copy_line_info_that_user_can_see = True if 0 else False
                            copy_filepaths_that_user_can_see = True if 1 else False
                            unique_filepaths_list = []
                        
                            recent_start_expanded = True
                            recent_filepath_expanded = True
                            for (line_number, line_contents) in enumerate(find_result_text.splitlines()):
                                if print_all:
                                    print(line_number, find_result_panel.GetFoldLevel(line_number), find_result_panel.GetFoldExpanded(line_number), line_contents)
                                else:
                                    if line_contents.startswith('Search'):
                                        recent_start_expanded = True if find_result_panel.GetFoldExpanded(line_number) else False
                                    elif line_contents.startswith(' '):
                                        recent_filepath_expanded = True if find_result_panel.GetFoldExpanded(line_number) else False
                                    if copy_line_info_that_user_can_see:
                                        if line_contents.startswith('Search'):
                                            if waiting_for_start:
                                                pass
                                    elif copy_filepaths_that_user_can_see:
                                        if line_contents.startswith(' '):
                                            if recent_start_expanded:
                                                _ = re.sub(r'^\s+(.+?) \(\d+\shits?\)$', r'\1', line_contents)
                                                if _ not in unique_filepaths_list: unique_filepaths_list.append(_)
                        
                            if copy_filepaths_that_user_can_see:
                                for _ in unique_filepaths_list: print(_)
                        

                        In this script, we see in the last line that there is something called unique_filepaths_list.

                        We can put this to use for the OP’s task by adding a bit more code at the bottom:

                            keep_going = True
                            while keep_going:
                                destination_dir = notepad.prompt('Enter destination directory:', 'Copy files with hits', '')
                                if destination_dir == None:
                                    keep_going = False  # cancel was pressed
                                elif os.path.isdir(destination_dir): break
                        
                            if keep_going:
                                from shutil import copy
                                for source_file in unique_filepaths_list:
                                    try:
                                        copy(source_file, destination_dir)
                                    except:
                                        notepad.messageBox('Problem copying the file:\r\n"{}"\r\nto the folder:\r\n"{}"'.format(source_file, destination_dir), '')
                        

                        Running the code now (after doing a search that populates the Find-result window with the desired results) will result in the following popup prompt:

                        902c3a28-8c7e-490c-9b8a-c09c9bd58b53-image.png

                        Putting a valid folder name in the box and pressing OK will complete the desired copy operation.

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                        • Alan Kilborn
                          Alan Kilborn last edited by Alan Kilborn

                          I probably also should add that the files copied by the script are going to be the disk copies of the files. Notepad++ does an in-memory search rather than a disk search when it produces its hit list. So if any of the hit files are dirty/modified/red-iconned when the search is conducted, the file contents that actually get copied are going to be different than the modified contents.

                          TL;DR: Save all Notepad++ files (so that none have red icons) before running the script – or when doing Eko’s originally suggested solution!

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                          • guy038
                            guy038 last edited by guy038

                            Hi, @ekopalypse, @alan-kilborn and All,

                            I did a quick test and I confirm that the Alan’s behavior seems to be the default one !

                            My configuration :

                            Notepad++ v7.8.1   (32-bit)
                            Build time : Oct 27 2019 - 22:46:07
                            Path : D:\@@\781\notepad++.exe
                            Admin mode : OFF
                            Local Conf mode : ON
                            OS Name : Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit) 
                            OS Build : 2600.0
                            Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll ExtSettings.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll 
                            

                            • A Ctrl + A action ( or right-click on the Select All option ), followed with an Ctrl + C action and, finally, a Ctrl + V action, in a new tab, do copy all Find result contents. So your regex works fine, extracting the absolute pathnames of all the files involved in the search !

                            • A Ctrl + A action ( or right-click on the Select All option ), followed with a right-click on the Copy option and, finally, a Ctrl + V action, in a new tab, only copy the lines, containing the matched string, from all the files scanned, in the Find result window

                            May be a plugin issue ?

                            Best Regards

                            guy038

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                            • Alan Kilborn
                              Alan Kilborn @guy038 last edited by

                              @guy038 said :

                              May be a plugin issue ?

                              This is a good point. @Ekopalypse can you try testing this copy/paste behavior again with a very-clean 7.8.1?

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                              • PeterJones
                                PeterJones @guy038 last edited by

                                @guy038 said in Save found files?:

                                • A Ctrl + A action ( or right-click on the Select All option ), followed with an Ctrl + C action and, finally, a Ctrl + V action, in a new tab, do copy all Find result contents. So your regex works fine, extracting the absolute pathnames of all the files involved in the search !

                                • A Ctrl + A action ( or right-click on the Select All option ), followed with a right-click on the Copy option and, finally, a Ctrl + V action, in a new tab, only copy the lines, containing the matched string, from all the files scanned, in the Find result window

                                I thought I would emphasize this to @Ekopalypse : the behavior is different depending on whether you use keystrokes or menu selection for the copy. I just replicated this on portable 7.8.1-64bit. If you use the Ctrl+C keystroke, it copies the filename; if you use RClick > Copy, it only copies the lines, not the filenames. (I also confirmed that you cannot use File > Copy, because that’s using the active editor window, even when Find result is the foreground pane.) I pasted not only into Notepad++, but into other apps as well, confirming that it’s actually the copy-operation that’s different depending on Ctrl+C vs RClick > Copy.

                                I went back to my 7.7.1-64bit, and it behaves the same way, with Ctrl+C vs RClick > Copy having separate behavior.

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                                • Alan Kilborn
                                  Alan Kilborn @PeterJones last edited by

                                  @PeterJones said:

                                  (I also confirmed that you cannot use File > Copy, because that’s using the active editor window, even when Find result is the foreground pane.)

                                  Presume you meant:

                                  (I also confirmed that you cannot use Edit > Copy, because that’s using the active editor window, even when Find result is the foreground pane.)

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                                  • Ekopalypse
                                    Ekopalypse last edited by

                                    I’m still a little bit confused as it seems to work most of the time like Peter described
                                    but sometimes it doesn’t, means I don’t get the filename lines copied into clipboard.
                                    Using a fresh portable 7.8.1 x64 version. Need to do further tests to see if I can find
                                    a reproducible way.

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                                    • Patricia Mayer
                                      Patricia Mayer last edited by Patricia Mayer

                                      @Alan-Kilborn FANTASTIC! Thank you so much, it works perfectly. My colleague and I are delighted. :))

                                      Thank you other guys as well.

                                      Awesome forum.

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                                      • Alan Kilborn
                                        Alan Kilborn last edited by

                                        My script code has a .getText function on the FindResultPanel object.
                                        With it I can, obviously, get the text of the Find-result window.
                                        However, I’d like to be able to get the matching text, but I don’t know how to accomplish this.
                                        Visually, I can see the hit results in the window as red text on a yellow background.
                                        Anyone know how I can pull this information?

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                                        • Ekopalypse
                                          Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                                          @Alan-Kilborn

                                          Why not using the styling information to identify the matched text?

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                                          • Alan Kilborn
                                            Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse last edited by

                                            @Ekopalypse said in Save found files?:

                                            Why not using the styling information to identify the matched text?

                                            Well, TBH when I earlier went searching in the N++ source code for SCE_SEARCHRESULT_*, I saw no occurrences of SCE_SEARCHRESULT_WORD2SEARCH occurring at all, so I was confused as to how it worked and was thinking it might not be possible at all to get this info via PS, even with ctypes usage.

                                            But with some experimentation with SCI_GETSTYLEAT it seems that I can recall the info; for example, in my “hit” text I get a style result of 4, which is indeed SCE_SEARCHRESULT_WORD2SEARCH.

                                            Is N++ source using hardcoded magic numbers for this instead of the “tags”, or some other mechanism that is strange or at least isn’t clear to me?

                                            Hmm, had a thought to search the Scintilla part of N++, where I do see SCE_SEARCHRESULT_WORD2SEARCH used. That must be how it is done.

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