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    • Сергей ДрузьС
      Сергей Друзь
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      @PeterJones said in TextFX plugin.:

      you could describe what features of TextFX you were wanting to use, and we might be able to point you in the right direction.

      I’ll start by learning how to write code in «AutoHotkey». On the official forum, I found a branch where there was a discussion concerning the TextFX plugin and others for «NotePad++».
      I wanted to try… but there’s been a misunderstanding…

      here’s post – 01 Aug 2018, 08:26

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      • Сергей ДрузьС
        Сергей Друзь @Сергей Друзь
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        @Сергей-Друзь

        So I’m wondering what killer features TextFX provides for people…

        I’d like to watch the screencast/video.

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones @Сергей Друзь
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          @Сергей-Друзь said in TextFX plugin.:

          @PeterJones said in TextFX plugin.:

          you could describe what features of TextFX you were wanting to use, and we might be able to point you in the right direction.

          I’ll start by learning how to write code in «AutoHotkey». On the official forum, I found a branch where there was a discussion concerning the TextFX plugin and others for «NotePad++».
          I wanted to try… but there’s been a misunderstanding…

          here’s post – 01 Aug 2018, 08:26

          You still haven’t said what you want to do with the TextFX. That post you linked was from 5 years ago. Notepad++ has changed a lot since then, and even more since some of the plugins they mentioned were last modified. I don’t know what they were trying to do in that post (except maybe make things look more like PSPad; since I’ve never used PSPad, I don’t know what features they were trying to replicate). They didn’t do a good job in that post of immediately explaining why they had each of the plugins they mentioned (at least, it wasn’t in the first couple posts, which is all I took the time to skim), and I don’t know what you would find necessary vs. extraneous, and I don’t know what your goals are.

          Until you tell us what your goal is, it’s really hard to help you. Are you trying to automate Notepad++? Or are you trying to learn AHK, and want to use Notepad++ to write your scripts? Or something else that I haven’t been able to deduce? (I couldn’t tell whether you were trying to learn AHK to be able to do something in Notepad++, or if you were trying to configure Notepad++ so that you could easily learn AHK.)

          For writing AutoHotKey scripts in Notepad++, I would think what you mostly would want would be an AutoHotKey lexer or UDL (I don’t see a builtin lexer; there might be someone on the forum who can share a UDL, or searching the forum might turn one up), and maybe a functionList definition (again, there may be someone here who can share). Maybe some of those other plugins had a specific purpose which would make AHK authoring easier; I don’t know.

          There are plenty of people who use AutoHotKey to manipulate Notepad++. There are also many other ways (macros, and scripting plugins like NppExec, PythonScript, or LuaScript) which allow you to set up command sequences in Notepad++ that can be bound to particular keyboard shortcuts.

          So, what are you really asking, and what do you really want to do?

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          • Сергей ДрузьС
            Сергей Друзь
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            @PeterJones said in TextFX plugin.:

            trying to configure Notepad++ so that you could easily learn AHK.

            ✌️😊

            NppExec, PythonScript, or LuaScript

            I’ll look 👁️ this way.

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            • Michael BondarM
              Michael Bondar
              last edited by Michael Bondar

              Hello,
              I know this discussion is fairly old, but I hope you will have an answer.

              1. The TextFx feature I use the most is line rewrapping by N-th character. So far I was unable to locate an alternative solution.
              2. I downloaded a 64-bit NppTextFX.dll library, but, somehow, no matter where I place it menu doesn’t appear in NPP.

              Any suggestions are appreciated.
              Thanks,
              Michael

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Michael Bondar
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                @Michael-Bondar

                I would tend to just “forget” that TextFX ever existed.

                @guy038 has an excellent suggestion for “line rewrapping” HERE if you aren’t afraid of regular expressions.

                If you have a single column that you always wrap on, I suggest recording a macro for it out of @guy038’s solution.

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                • drivetheoryD
                  drivetheory
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                  A feature that i have not been able to find in other plugins that TextFX provides is:

                  “Sort lines case insensitive (at column)”

                  I’ve used this feature extensively through out the years and I continue to need it to this day on occasion.

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                  • astrosofistaA
                    astrosofista @drivetheory
                    last edited by

                    @drivetheory

                    Take a look at this post, as a Python script seems to deliver what you want.

                    Have fun!

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @drivetheory
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                      @drivetheory said in TextFX plugin.:

                      “Sort lines case insensitive (at column)”

                      It appears this feature will be coming soon directly in Notepad++.
                      I saw it somewhere in the code checkins on github.
                      That of course I can’t find exactly where just now.

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @Alan Kilborn
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                        @Alan-Kilborn said in TextFX plugin.:

                        I can’t find exactly where just now.

                        https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4424
                        https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8869
                        https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/61bf9bd3c496c8b891597ccaaf9ef9d73b3e3d3c

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                        • REG OPD IPDR
                          REG OPD IPD
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                          Notepad++ v8.5.7 (64-bit)
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                          Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
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