<![CDATA[Double Click in find results does not open and highlight]]>In the past either running Macros or cntrl+shit+f for find in files, then double clicking on find result would open the file in a tab and highlight the exact find result. The was in consistent in the past working and not working, but not cannot get it to work.
This very help when reviewing multiple log files.

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19323/double-click-in-find-results-does-not-open-and-highlightRSS for NodeWed, 10 Jun 2026 20:57:00 GMTWed, 29 Apr 2020 20:55:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Fri, 22 May 2020 21:03:06 GMT]]>I copied your macro, restarted Npp and did some tests and
those worked for me. Sorry, not sure what breaks it on your side.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54222https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54222Fri, 22 May 2020 21:03:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Thu, 21 May 2020 13:49:28 GMT]]>@Ekopalypse
When creating the Macros I used the steps above only and no editing by hand.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54175https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54175Thu, 21 May 2020 13:49:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 20 May 2020 22:55:57 GMT]]>@joemir3

I see, but your posting contains those “html” double quotes and your shortcuts.xml should contain only real
double quotes. Is this the case?
Or asked the other way around, did you ever edited shortcuts.xml by hand?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54158https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54158Wed, 20 May 2020 22:55:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 20 May 2020 22:49:13 GMT]]>@Ekopalypse
When creating the macro, I do not use any quote or other characters.
Just using this \d+[^0]\scollisions,.
Steps I used to create the macro is the following.
Macro - start recording
cntrl-shift-f
\d+[^0]\scollisions,
then hit find all
stop recording macro
save current recorded macro.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54156https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54156Wed, 20 May 2020 22:49:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 20 May 2020 22:38:53 GMT]]>@joemir3

From xml point of view I don’t see an issue.
Your data do have “ and ” instead of "
but I assume those have been changed while posting.
Can you double check?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54154https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54154Wed, 20 May 2020 22:38:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 20 May 2020 22:15:33 GMT]]>@Ekopalypse
It is something to do with the macros. If I remove all I created it works as expected by doing a find in files search with regex.
The macro is using regex to find specific patterns in a pre-determined directory.
The example below I created is “collisions”. The macro is cntl-shift-f for find in files with the regex and all works as expect, finds the pattern and display in a pop-up “find in files” results- BUT a double click on a result does not open the file.

<NotepadPlus>
<InternalCommands />
<Macros>
<Macro name=“Trim Trailing Space and Save” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“yes” Key=“83”>
<Action type=“2” message=“0” wParam=“42024” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“2” message=“0” wParam=“41006” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
</Macro>
<Macro name=“Collisions” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“no” Shift=“no” Key=“0”>
<Action type=“3” message=“1700” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1601” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“\d+[^0]\scollisions,” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1625” wParam=“0” lParam=“2” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1653” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“C:\NW-Review" />
<Action type=“3” message=“1652” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=”." />
<Action type=“3” message=“1702” wParam=“0” lParam=“32” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1701” wParam=“0” lParam=“1656” sParam=“” />
</Macro>
</Macros>
<UserDefinedCommands>
<Command name=“Get PHP help” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“112”>http://www.php.net/$(CURRENT_WORD)</Command>
<Command name=“Wikipedia Search” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“114”>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=$(CURRENT_WORD)</Command>
<Command name=“Open file in another instance” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“yes” Shift=“no” Key=“117”>$(NPP_FULL_FILE_PATH) $(CURRENT_WORD) -nosession -multiInst</Command>
</UserDefinedCommands>
<PluginCommands />
<ScintillaKeys />
</NotepadPlus>

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54151https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54151Wed, 20 May 2020 22:15:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 20 May 2020 21:17:46 GMT]]>@joemir3

Could it be that the shortcuts file has been corrupted?
If you open it within npp do see it gets colored correctly?
If you can, install XML Tools plugin then you can check
if this is still a valid xml or not.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54146https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54146Wed, 20 May 2020 21:17:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 20 May 2020 20:55:48 GMT]]>@joemir3 said in Double Click in find results does not open and highlight:

Interesting observations it does work as expected if I do not use macros. If I remove the “shortcuts” file with self made macros it DOES work.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54145https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54145Wed, 20 May 2020 20:55:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 20 May 2020 20:50:49 GMT]]>@Ekopalypse
Thank you for the reply -
I did what you suggested with no success.
I did just upgrade to 7.8.6.
Interesting observations it does work as expected if I do not use macros. If I remove the “shortcuts” file with self made macros it does not work.
Once I add the macros, the find results from these macros do not open the file.
If I remove the file with the self made macros restart npp… all work as expected.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54144https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/54144Wed, 20 May 2020 20:50:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Double Click in find results does not open and highlight on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:04:13 GMT]]>@joemir3

So if I understand you correctly your problem is that
a double click in the “find result” window does not open the file
and highlight the searched word anymore, correct?
If so, this is still working for me.

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What you can give it a try is to
stop all npp instances
rename the config.xml from C:\Users\310237620\Desktop\notepaddplus
and start npp.
A new fresh default config.xml will be created on startup,
means also previous changes are lost.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/53264https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/53264Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:04:13 GMT