Filter the data !!!

Alan Kilborn

a summary of the different styles, with their RGB values and their Alpha transparency as well as an example of the color alpha blending process,

You are the ColorMaster in addition to being the RegexMaster.

cannot use the Smart Highlighting style, either, natively and with your script.

True. If you run the script and it uses that color, the next time you use Smart Highlighting it will erase any of that color the script placed in favor of its own results. And the other way around.

if we use the Context menu Remove style > Clear all Styles option

What that command actually does in relation to the script is to remove the coloring that the script does with indicators 21 through 25.

For maximum flexibility, we could make the Notepad++ coloring features and this script’s coloring features totally independent. This would eat up unallocated indicators, but that’s ok, isn’t it? :-)

Really, all of the tools for you to go ahead and do this yourself @guy038 are already in the script. Just don’t use indicators 21 through 25, and 28 through 31. IIRC, 26 and 27 are also used by Notepad++ for something, so stay away from those. If you started, say at 20 and worked your way downward… Based upon Scintilla docs, I think they may be all unused until you get down to number 8.

What do you think? Is it worth me modifying the script? Or can you do it, if it is valuable?

Alan Kilborn

@guy038

How about supplying your screenshoted text as ACTUAL text here so that I can attempt to duplicate your coloring results without a lot of retyping? :-)

guy038

Hello, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse, @peterjones and All,

Alan, when I said :

When less than 6 groups are involved in the overall regex, …

I do not see this behaviour as an issue. On the contrary, I think that it’s quite useful ;-)) I mean, as most of regex S/R don’t need more than 5 groups, we can :

Easily identify these groups, from 1 to 5, with your Python script
Then, easily identify successive $0 matches, thanks to the 2 colors of styles 17 and 18, after running the context command Remove style > Clear all Styles

Ah, OK ! Here is my text, being in N++ Post-it screen mode, in my previous post :


Mark Style 1                   25      Color = [  0,255,255] , Alpha = 100
Mark Style 2                   24      Color = [255,128,  0] , Alpha = 100
Mark Style 3                   23      Color = [255,255,  0] , Alpha = 100
Mark Style 4                   22      Color = [128,  0,255] , Alpha = 100
Mark Style 5                   21      Color = [  0,128,  0] , Alpha = 100
Find Mark Style                31      Color = [255,  0,  0] , Alpha = 100
Incremental highlight all      28      Color = [  0,128,255] , Alpha = 100
Smart Highlighting             29      Color = [  0,255,  0] , Alpha = 100

StraightBox Style 1            17      Color = [240,128,160] , Alpha =  40
StraightBox Style 2            18      Color = [128,200,240] , Alpha =  40

(?-i)(\l+)11111|22222(\l+)|(\l+)33333|44444(\l+)|(\l+)55555|66666(\l+)|(\l+)77777|88888(\l+)

abcde1111122222abcde12345abcde3333344444abcde12345abcde5555566666abcde12345abcde7777788888abcde
ABCDE          FGHIJ     KLMNO          PQRST     UVWXY          ZABCD


- UPPERCASE strings are hightligted with "Mark" style, from 1 to 5, and the "Find Mark" style ( "Match case" option ON )
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- StraightBox Style 1 ( id = 17, [240,128,160] ), of Group 0 color, highlights the string "abcde" + five ODD digits

- StraightBox Style 2 ( id = 18, [128,200,240] ), of Group 0 color, highlights five EVEN digits + the string "abcde"


For instance, the process for coloring the FIRST string "abcde", with "Mark Style 1" [0,255,255], is : 

- First, "StraightBox Style 1", with Alpha =  40/255, is blended with "White" backgroud         => Color [252,235,240]

- Secondly, "Mark Style 1", with Alpha = 100/255, is blended with color [252,235,240]           => Color [153 243 246]

- When "Mark Style 1", with Alpha = 100/255, is blended with "White" background ( 1st "ABCDE" ) => Color [155,255,255]


The GENERAL formula, for Red, Green and Blue, is :   FINAL Color = CURRENT color + Alpha x ( NEW color - CURRENT Color )
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- If Foreground Alpha opacity =  1  =>  FINAL color = NEW colour            =>  The NEW color is totally OPAQUE
- If Foreground Alpha opacity = .5  =>  FINAL color = ( NEW + CURRENT) / 2  =>  PERFECT mixing of the TWO colours
- If Foreground Alpha opacity =  0  =>  FINAL color = CURRENT colour        =>  The NEW color is totally TRANSPARENT

Best Regards,

guy038

guy038

Hi, @alan-kilborn and All

At the end of my description of the blending process, I made a little mistake. I should have written :

The GENERAL formula, for Red, Green and Blue, is :   FINAL Color = CURRENT color + Alpha x ( NEW color - CURRENT Color )
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- If NEW color Alpha opacity =  1  =>  FINAL color = NEW colour            =>  The NEW color is totally OPAQUE
- If NEW color Alpha opacity = .5  =>  FINAL color = ( NEW + CURRENT) / 2  =>  PERFECT mixing of the TWO colours
- If NEW color Alpha opacity =  0  =>  FINAL color = CURRENT colour        =>  The NEW color is totally TRANSPARENT

This is more rigorous !

Cheers,

guy038

astrosofista

@guy038 said in Filter the data !!!:

Personally, after dragging on the right, with the mouse, the Find dialog to its maximum, I’m able to type in up to 100 characters, with the monospaced search font ;-))

That solves quite well one of the problems I pointed out above, but creates another one, as it covers too much space on the only screen of my laptop. It might help in some cases, or if I had another monitor, but I don’t think it’s a long-term solution.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

astrosofista

@Alan-Kilborn said in Filter the data !!!:

@astrosofista The Toolbucket plugin provides multiline Find and Replace boxes, maybe that is to your liking. It’s probably been debated before many times that Notepad++ itself should have bigger boxes for these things, but I can’t cite any references.

Will take a look at that plugin and check what it delivers. Thank you.

astrosofista

@Ekopalypse said in Filter the data !!!:

If it were multiline search/replace textboxes, then inserting EOLs is possible.
How does Npp know that the inserted EOL should not be part of the search expression or replacement pattern?

No, I wasn’t thinking in that feature, but in a kind of word wrapping.

If it is a kind of word wrapping, how can we make sure that it is wrapped at a reasonable position to avoid confusion?

No worries on my part, I could live with that, as long as I could see the big picture, that is, the whole expression.

Personally, I’d prefer that the incremental search

would be upgraded by regular expressions

To be honest, I have little experience with regex and incremental searching. However, if it were implemented -something under discussion- it would be beneficial, at least from an educational perspective, since the visualization of results and the interaction it provides is very helpful.

automatically adjusts to the window width

Yes.

provides a shortcut to easily switch to the editor and back again

Again, yes.

and, pure optional but really nice to have, a regex-lexer which colors and check my regexes.

Also a larger font size - my aged eyes scream for it - and the ability to apply the usual editing commands, such as delimiters - to deal better with groups an classes - and duplication.

In other words, to feel totally comfortable I would like to have all the facilities of the editor in the search window. Maybe that’s why I compose my regex in the editor and it will probably stay that way for a long time. And I say this because the implementation of @cmeriaux repeats the limitations of the current find dialog. It is a forward step, of course, but it doesn’t resolve the issues that bothers me.

Anyway, I would be happy if only half of all these suggestions were implemented. Thank you.

astrosofista

@Alan-Kilborn said in Filter the data !!!:

I’m sure not quite what is being asked for, but here’s a curious little Pythonscript.

That’s right, I wasn’t asking for it, however I am always open to new ideas. Veré si puedo integrarla - me refiero a la versión final - en mi forma de trabajar. Y por lo que veo en las imágenes de los post posteriores, los colores se ajustan a un fondo blanco, no creo que se vean bien en el fondo oscuro. Va a haber que trabajarlo un poco.

Alan Kilborn

@astrosofista said :

I would like to have all the facilities of the editor in the search window.

I have some serious doubts that you’ll ever see this in Notepad++:

But it raises a question I’ve always had:

With copy and paste from editor window to Find what box, for other than “simple” encodings, how is the proper encoding maintained so that a search can be done for what the user intends? Is the Find what box as “encoding aware” as a Scintilla editing buffer?

Note: this question goes outside just copying “textually simple” regexes as @astrosofista mentioned.

Font has to play into it as well, right? Maybe not for actual content, but for what you’re visually looking at? The Find what box isn’t very “font flexible”. So do people that use non-basic encodings get stuck looking at odd sequences in the Find what box as they are composing a search term?

I only have occasional use for “non-simple” text in my searches, but I’m just wondering how this all works for those that do the “other kind” of searching on an everyday basis.

Alan Kilborn

@astrosofista said in Filter the data !!!:

the colors match a white background, I don’t think they look good on the dark background.

The colors used are mostly those defined already for other uses in Notepad++, as I believe @guy038 mentioned. Thus, I’d think they’d already be set to render fairly well for whatever theme you’re using, dark or light. The two that aren’t predefined…it should be easy to change the RGB tuples for them as they are right in the code itself?:

Here’s a nice color picker for you:
https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
I’m sure there are many others, maybe better.

Ekopalypse

@Alan-Kilborn said in Filter the data !!!:

So do people that use non-basic encodings get stuck looking at odd sequences in the Find what box as they are composing a search term?

I don’t use non-basic encodings but I don’t think that this is an issue
because the system font used, which as far as I know is used by the dialog, handles this, normally.

guy038

Hi, @alan-kilborn and All,

Seemingly, in the config.xml file, all characters above \x{007F} ( so non pure ASCII ) are encoded with the usual XML syntax &#x....;, where a dot stands for an hexadecimal digit

For characters, over \x{FFFF} ( so outside the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane - BMP ), they are represented with two 16-bit code units called a surrogate pair. Refer to :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set_characters#Surrogates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Code_points_from_U+010000_to_U+10FFFF

An example :

In this example, the last character, displayed by the Courier New font as a small white square box, is the OSMANYA letter BA ( Unicode code-point 10481 ) which can be described with the surrogate pair \x{D801}\x{DC81}, correctly handled and decoded by your OS !

Refer http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10480.pdf

Best Regards,

guy038

Ekopalypse

@guy038

This is how it looks on your system, but I assume it might look different on a system where OSMANYA is more common.
That is, of course, if there is a localized version of Windows that OSMANYA takes into account.