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    • Marco ManzatoM
      Marco Manzato
      last edited by

      Hi,
      I’ve found in the Notepad++ manual that when doing a search, the amount of characters that will be displayed is 1024:
      “The length limit is 1024 characters; this includes the match line number information and other formatting.”

      I’m doing searches in files where lines sometimes have a lot more than 1024 characters.

      If I click on that line, it takes me to the file and I can copy the full line.
      But from the search results screen I can’t see the full line in any way.
      If I copy with RichtClick -> Copy or with Ctrl+C, it only copies those 1024 characters.

      Questions:
      1-) Is there a way to increase or remove this line length restriction?
      2-) Is there a way to do a copy of the full line from the search results screen?

      Thank you so much for the help.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones
        last edited by

        @Marco-Manzato said in Increase Search Results line length:

        1-) Is there a way to increase or remove this line length restriction?

        That’s a limit programmed into the code. Follow this FAQ to make a feature request

        2-) Is there a way to do a copy of the full line from the search results screen?

        I don’t think so. I believe all that exists in the mind of the search-results screen are those 1024 characters. Sorry.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn
          last edited by

          Please don’t create a new issue for this; it already exists: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7723

          If you want it to gain traction, maybe put some comments in that issue?

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          • Marco ManzatoM
            Marco Manzato @PeterJones
            last edited by

            @PeterJones Thanks!

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            • Marco ManzatoM
              Marco Manzato @Alan Kilborn
              last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn Thanks for identifying the issue on GitHub. I’ve posted a comment on the thread (would love to be more technical on that comment… but had to be just a regular complaint…)

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