Option to hide nuls and other non-text

VictorOnrust

Would be nice if there is an option to view (read only?) a file with nuls and other non-text hidden.

Alan Kilborn

Notepad++ is a text editor, and, as such, doesn’t deal with non-text files all that well. And that’s what you’re really talking about: non-text files. So while I somewhat understand what you are asking for, my response is to say “don’t do it”. Perhaps others have different viewpoints.

guy038

Helo, @victoronrust and all,

A possible work-around would be to delete, TEMPORALLY, any character, displayed in inverse video, but the normal line endings :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
- SEARCH (?!\r|\n)[\x00-\x1F\x80-\x9F\x{2028}\x{2029}]
- REPLACE Leave EMPTY
- Tick the Wrap around option
- Select the Regular expression search mode
- Click on the Replace All button
Press the Esc key to close the Replace dialog

Once, you thoroughly studied your file contents, just do a Ctrl + Z action to get the initial text ;-))

Best Regards,

guy038