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    • someOtherKunS
      someOtherKun
      last edited by

      Hi, im new here

      I’ve started working in this todo setup for the past couple of days which is just a bat file(for now) that sorts the tasks based on priority, due-date and task type (the performance was poor. now its handling 10k+ lines in ~2 secs).

      asdf.png

      I ran into some issues while working on this

      • delimiter breaking the code folding. i did find a issue for this. so its is fine. i’ll just start folding at the beginning of the line

      • delimiter with a single line comment at the of the same line makes the delimiter highlighting go to the next line in search of ((EOL)). i couldn’t find any for this. am i missing something here?

      the last thing I want to display the tasks in the right-side panel as npp-task-list does but im afraid that i dont own a good setup to run something like MS Visual Studio. making a plugin is not on the table for me since i lack both the expertise and the fact that im hanging on a toaster doesn’t help
      so i looked into some other options like python scripter and lua script. i dont know how to code in these.

      I copied a line from here to make a clickable link but it shows something that looks as if im reading hexadecimal code

      I just want to make use of that text file and goto the lines in that order without having to switch between cmd and np++

      appreciate any help

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      • someOtherKunS
        someOtherKun @someOtherKun
        last edited by someOtherKun

        ah, i edited the time.py file in python scripter to print todays date. i think, i can now use regex to replace a “<[0-9]+>” into due date for convenience. but still cant figure out the clickable link part though

        I forgot to mention this before, does manually editing the udl.xml file to increase delimiters work?

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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse @someOtherKun
          last edited by

          @someOtherKun

          I’m not really sure what you try to achieve.
          Do you want to build the dialog on the right side, the one with 00003 … with clickable links?

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          • jakimaJ
            jakima
            last edited by jakima

            yes i want to create clickable links that take me to a line with the same number using that text file

            btw this is my new one. for some reason that acc got flagged

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            • jakimaJ
              jakima @Ekopalypse
              last edited by

              @Ekopalypse
              this is the only proof i have regarding the fact that im the one who posted this
              tinyurl com/npptodopost

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              • EkopalypseE
                Ekopalypse @jakima
                last edited by

                @jakima

                wait, let me try to get this right.
                Your goal is to run a cmd/batch file and the result of that batch file
                contains links which you want to click and those will bring you to the location in that file, correct?

                Like in this example
                4678731f-6f3a-462b-ba3b-c359c913b6d7-image.png

                If I would click on the link in the Python console it would
                a) open the file test.py and
                b) set the caret to line 2

                Is it that what you try to achieve?

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                • jakimaJ
                  jakima @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse
                  exactly

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                  • jakimaJ
                    jakima @Ekopalypse
                    last edited by jakima

                    @Ekopalypse
                    can i manually generate such links in console? using python scripter of course

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                    • EkopalypseE
                      Ekopalypse @jakima
                      last edited by

                      @jakima

                      yes you can, assuming the following batch file

                      @echo off
                      SET a=  File
                      SET b=, line 3, in
                      SET c=%a% "%0"%b%
                      echo %c%
                      

                      and calling the batch from either the console or via script with

                      console.run(r"cmd.exe /c d:\mybatch.bat")

                      would result in something like

                      db601700-b891-4fbd-9ab8-ce9e519db85a-image.png

                      and clicking on the link will do what I assume you want to do.

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                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn
                        last edited by

                        @Ekopalypse

                        Just how does the Pythonscript console do those underlined links?
                        One presumes the console window is just another Scintilla window…

                        It might be nice if in Notepad++ tab windows filenames would appear that way, and provide an easier way for opening files into N++ than the built in open-file-under-caret mechanisms (which aren’t too good).

                        The P.S. console window even nicely handles filepaths with spaces in them; but this is a more “controlled” environment where a tool is handling the path/filename creation, so it may be easier to handle than free-form user text in a N++ tab.

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                        • EkopalypseE
                          Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                          last edited by

                          @Alan-Kilborn

                          Just how does the Pythonscript console do those underlined links?

                          it does act like a lexer.
                          It waits for the SCN_STYLENEEDED notification and styles the output text accordingly.

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                          • jakimaJ
                            jakima @Ekopalypse
                            last edited by

                            @Ekopalypse
                            ok i’ll try this. thank you.
                            but… can python script directly interact with the text file to print to console?

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                            • EkopalypseE
                              Ekopalypse @jakima
                              last edited by

                              @jakima said in Help with generating clickable links or something of that sort:

                              but… can python script directly interact with the text file to print to console?

                              yes, run it through this console.run(r"cmd.exe /c d:\mybatch.bat")
                              it will redirect the output of the cmd window to the console window.

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                              • jakimaJ
                                jakima @Ekopalypse
                                last edited by

                                @Ekopalypse
                                ah, ok. again thanks a lot.

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                                • jakimaJ
                                  jakima @Ekopalypse
                                  last edited by

                                  @Ekopalypse
                                  you’re awesome!!!
                                  it works as expected.
                                  sure, i have to figure out the iterating over notepad part. but yeah, it works!!!
                                  i cant thank you enough

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                                  • jakimaJ
                                    jakima @Ekopalypse
                                    last edited by

                                    I figured out the iterating part and found some other things while at it

                                    • the output from the bat has to be on a new line or it wont work

                                    • you dont necessarily need the “, in” part in the second variable ‘b’

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                                    • EkopalypseE
                                      Ekopalypse @jakima
                                      last edited by

                                      @jakima

                                      Yes, it must start with <space><space>File<space>" to be identified as an “linkeable” string
                                      and then it reads the rest of that line to see what kind of informations are available.

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