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    PeterJones
    last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 2:37 PM

    @guy038 said in How to highlight the underlined squiggle words:

    If you prefer, I may change my previous post,

    No need. It just struck me as something that needed to be humorously commented on.

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      Ekopalypse @guy038
      last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 2:42 PM

      @guy038

      Since you are French, you must comply with the GDPR , right?

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        guy038
        last edited by guy038 Mar 31, 2020, 2:52 PM Mar 31, 2020, 2:51 PM

        @peterjones,

        You could have also mentioned the Don_Ho.txt and Terry.txt tabs ;-))

        @ekopalypse,

        From your Wikipedia link, I note that the “GDPR” regulation has become a model for many national laws outside EU !

        BR

        guy038

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          PeterJones
          last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 2:54 PM

          If anyone violated privacy, it was I: I am the one who made the connection between random names from his screenshot to individual accounts on the forum – especially since technically, none of them used our screen names from this forum.

          Now I have to hope that none of the ones whose privacy I violated will issue a takedown request :-)

          /me contemplates what it would mean for me to issue a takedown request to myself; can I violate my own privacy?

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            PeterJones
            last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 2:55 PM

            And again, sorry @Mia-Nguyen for hijacking your topic.

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              Alan Kilborn
              last edited by Alan Kilborn Mar 31, 2020, 5:28 PM Mar 31, 2020, 5:26 PM

              More hijacking:

              At least we didn’t see these tabs:

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                Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 5:56 PM

                @Alan-Kilborn

                ok, I know who D_Trump is but who is E_Philippe??

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                  Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:06 PM

                  @Ekopalypse

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_France

                  but…I could be showing my ignorance of French governmental situations as I had to look that up to make my joke image. :-)

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                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by Mar 31, 2020, 7:13 PM

                    @Alan-Kilborn

                    ahh - ok - maybe you should have added E_Macron.txt :-)
                    I guess you know Angela Merkel but who knows Frank-Walter Steinmeier :-D

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                      Mia Nguyen
                      last edited by Apr 1, 2020, 1:12 AM

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                        Mia Nguyen
                        last edited by Apr 1, 2020, 1:56 AM

                        Thanks a lot @PeterJones @guy038
                        That really highlighted the words. But I can not copy to excel keeping that highlight. It will be normal when i paste to Excel
                        Do you know any way i can copy that ?
                        Or another question, is there any way i can filter the rows with that highlighted word in NPP?
                        Btw, my final purpose here is that i have an excel with some misspelling words inside that can not figure it out, so i copy it into NPP to highlight it out. And then i need to fix in excel finally.

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                          PeterJones @Mia Nguyen
                          last edited by Apr 1, 2020, 1:35 PM

                          @Mia-Nguyen said in How to highlight the underlined squiggle words:

                          Thanks a lot @PeterJones @guy038
                          That really highlighted the words. But I can not copy to excel keeping that highlight. It will be normal when i paste to Excel
                          Do you know any way i can copy that ?

                          It depends on which highlighting you mean. If you mean the normal syntax highlighting, you can use the NppExport plugin to Copy HTML to Clipboard or Copy All Formats to Clipboard; if you paste that into excel, you get the syntax highlighting. However, if you have a plugin like DSpellCheck, which puts squiggles under the misspelled words, you do not get that copied, even with Copy all formats…

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                          Or another question, is there any way i can filter the rows with that highlighted word in NPP?

                          It depends on which highlighting you mean. If you mean the DSpellCheck squiggle highlighting, I don’t know of a way to filter on that. But Plugins > DSpellCheck > Find next misspelling will allow you to navigate between each misspelled word inside Notepad++

                          Btw, my final purpose here is that i have an excel with some misspelling words inside that can not figure it out, so i copy it into NPP to highlight it out. And then i need to fix in excel finally.

                          I think maybe “copy from Excel to Notepad++; use DSpellCheck to highlight and navigate the misspelled words and then fix them in Notepad++; then copy normally (not using NppExport plugin) and paste back into Excel” would be a possible sequence for you to try.

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                            Michael Vincent @PeterJones
                            last edited by Apr 1, 2020, 8:23 PM

                            @PeterJones said in How to highlight the underlined squiggle words:

                            DSpellCheck squiggle highlighting, I don’t know of a way to filter on that

                            I did some playing with “PerlScript” but got a little farther with NppExec. It “seems” DSpellCheck uses indicator 19 for its squiggly lines (this is process of elimination, I looked at the DSpellCheck code and couldn’t find any of the Scintilla commands I’d expect would implement this).

                            The following “works”:

                            NPP_CONSOLE keep
                            
                            SET LOCAL INDICATOR = 19
                            
                            SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GETLENGTH
                            SET LOCAL END = $(MSG_RESULT)
                            
                            SET LOCAL I = 0
                            SET LOCAL INDICEND = 0
                            // FOR
                            :LOOP
                            
                                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_GOTOPOS $(I)
                                
                                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_INDICATOREND $(INDICATOR) $(I)
                                IF "$(MSG_RESULT)"=="0" GOTO END
                                
                                SET LOCAL INDICSTART = $(MSG_RESULT)
                                SCI_SENDMSG SCI_INDICATOREND $(INDICATOR) $(INDICSTART)
                                SET LOCAL INDICEND = $(MSG_RESULT)
                                
                                SET LOCAL I = $(INDICEND)
                                IF "$(I)"=="$(END)" GOTO END
                            
                                ECHO $(INDICSTART) - $(INDICEND)
                            
                                GOTO LOOP
                            
                            :END
                            

                            However, it only seems to get the next squiggly indicator if it’s visible on screen. So in a long document where you’d find a squiggly and then have to page down to find the next one, this script only finds the first. The Scintilla docs don’t describe this limitation so not sure why it’s working that way. Also, using the SCI_GETINDICATORVALUE and SCI_GETINDICATORCURRENT don’t return the value I’d expect for DSpellCheck indicators (which I discovered was 19).

                            Obviously if this actually worked, you could use a the Scintilla multiple selection API to highlight the squigglies found as you iterate through the doc.

                            Cheers.

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                              Michael Vincent
                              last edited by Apr 1, 2020, 8:29 PM

                              Also, DSpellCheck has:

                              Plugins => DSpellCheck => Additional Actions => Copy All Misspelled Words to Clipboard

                              Does that help?

                              Cheers.

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                                Mia Nguyen
                                last edited by Apr 2, 2020, 1:34 AM

                                It seems i can not filter the rows as function is excel. Sad though…lol
                                Thanks guys anyway…

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                                  Michael Vincent @Michael Vincent
                                  last edited by Apr 2, 2020, 1:36 AM

                                  @Michael-Vincent said in How to highlight the underlined squiggle words:

                                  However, it only seems to get the next squiggly indicator if it’s visible on screen

                                  Now thinking this is an optimization in DSpellCheck for larger documents - only spell check the visible portions of a large document so the squigglys aren’t added to misspelled words off screen until those words are scrolled on screen which is why a top to bottom document search doesn’t turn up squigglies off screen.

                                  Investigating more with “PerlScript”.

                                  Cheers.

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                                    Michael Vincent @Michael Vincent
                                    last edited by Apr 2, 2020, 2:37 AM

                                    @Michael-Vincent said in How to highlight the underlined squiggle words:

                                    Investigating more with “PerlScript”.

                                    I give up. Using the script to “scroll” through the doc does find more squigglies, but not all of them. I’m pretty sure this is due to a DSpellCheck optimization as I alluded to in previous post. Need to put my own indicators on a large document and see if the SCI_INDICATORSTART/END API finds them all.

                                    I tried 2 ways, with SCI_INDICATORSTART/END:

                                    #!perl
                                    
                                    use strict;
                                    use warnings;
                                    
                                    use Time::HiRes qw/sleep/;
                                    use Win32::Mechanize::NotepadPlusPlus ':main';
                                    
                                    my $indicator = 19;
                                    my $increment = 750;
                                    my ( $indicStart, $indicEnd ) = ( 0, 0 );
                                    my $loc = 0;
                                    my $end = editor->getLength();
                                    my $HELP = 0;
                                    while ( $loc < $end ) {
                                    
                                        if ( not $loc % $increment ) {
                                            editor->gotoPos( $loc );
                                            sleep 0.5;
                                        }
                                    
                                        $indicStart = editor->indicatorEnd( 19, $loc );
                                        if ( $indicStart == 0 ) {
                                            $HELP = 1;
                                            next;
                                        }
                                        $indicEnd = editor->indicatorEnd( 19, $indicStart );
                                    
                                        if ( $indicEnd == $end ) {
                                            $HELP = 1;
                                            next;
                                        }
                                        $loc = $indicEnd;
                                        print "$indicStart - $indicEnd\n";
                                    } continue {
                                        if ( $HELP ) {
                                            $HELP = 0;
                                            $loc = int( $loc / $increment +1 ) * $increment;
                                            if ( $loc >= $end ) {
                                                last;
                                            }
                                        }
                                    }
                                    

                                    and with SCI_INDICATORVALUEAT:

                                    #!perl
                                    
                                    use strict;
                                    use warnings;
                                    
                                    use Time::HiRes qw/sleep/;
                                    use Win32::Mechanize::NotepadPlusPlus ':main';
                                    
                                    my $indicator = 19;
                                    
                                    my $FOUND = 0;
                                    for my $loc ( 0 .. editor->getLength() ) {
                                    
                                        if ( not $loc % 500 ) {
                                            editor->gotoPos( $loc );
                                            sleep 0.50;
                                        }
                                        my $iva = editor->indicatorValueAt( $indicator, $loc );
                                        if ( $iva and not $FOUND ) {
                                            print "$loc";
                                            $FOUND = 1;
                                        } elsif ( not $iva and $FOUND ) {
                                            printf " - %i\n", $loc - 1;
                                            $FOUND = 0;
                                        }
                                    }
                                    

                                    Cheers.

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                                      guy038
                                      last edited by guy038 Apr 2, 2020, 9:44 AM Apr 2, 2020, 9:43 AM

                                      Hello, @mia-nguyen, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse, @michael-vincent and All,

                                      Two months ago, I asked Sergey Smushin ( aka @Predelnik ), the DSpellCheck’s author, for the following request :

                                      https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/issues/201

                                      I saw that a commit, referencing that issue, has been added :

                                      https://github.com/Predelnik/DSpellCheck/commit/9b5e740ce4440669d6daf29ca98d77edd99d466c

                                      From the moment that any line containing a misspelled word can be bookmarked, it would be easy to gather all these lines for subsequent processes !


                                      @michael-vincent said :

                                      Now thinking this is an optimization in DSpellCheck for larger documents - only spell check the visible portions of a large document so the squigglys aren’t added to misspelled words off screen until those words are scrolled on screen which is why a top to bottom document search doesn’t turn up squigglies off screen.

                                      If so, may be, studying the commit, above, would give some hues about the way, used by @predelnik, to bookmark, in one go, all lines with misspelled words ?

                                      Just a non-coder thought ;-))

                                      BR

                                      guy038

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                                        Ekopalypse @Michael Vincent
                                        last edited by Apr 2, 2020, 11:15 AM

                                        @Michael-Vincent

                                        I did a quick test and it seems that logic below works

                                        INDICATOR_TO_SEARCH = 31
                                        length = editor.getLength()
                                        start = editor.indicatorStart(INDICATOR_TO_SEARCH, -1)
                                        end = editor.indicatorEnd(INDICATOR_TO_SEARCH, -1)
                                        
                                        real_start = start if editor.indicatorValueAt(INDICATOR_TO_SEARCH, start) else end
                                        print(start, end, length, real_start)
                                        
                                        i = 100
                                        while real_start != length:
                                            i -= 1
                                            if i == 0:
                                                print('ahhh endless loop - breaking')
                                                break
                                            end = editor.indicatorEnd(INDICATOR_TO_SEARCH, real_start)
                                            print(editor.getTextRange(real_start, end))
                                            print()
                                            real_start = editor.indicatorEnd(INDICATOR_TO_SEARCH, end)
                                        
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                                          Ekopalypse
                                          last edited by Apr 2, 2020, 11:31 AM

                                          Maybe it is a good idea to check if start != end before executing
                                          the while loop to see if there has been an indicator found at all
                                          and to prevent endless loops. :)

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