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    • Patrick O'Beirne
      Patrick O'Beirne last edited by

      I would like to copy some existing text to the clipboard in extended notation, so that I can paste it into the Find or Replace textbox ready for a search-and-replace in Extended mode.

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Patrick O'Beirne last edited by

        @patrick-o-beirne

        You don’t need to do this.
        If you select some text containing line-endings and press Ctrl+f, when the Find what box is autopopulated, it will contain the line-ending – you won’t see it, but the characters will be there.

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        • Patrick O'Beirne
          Patrick O'Beirne @Alan Kilborn last edited by

          @alan-kilborn Thank you yes, that’s fine for finding the text. I should have expanded further on my question by adding “ready for editing to remove or enter other extended characters such as line endings and other text, and then replace.” I want text with the extended notation which I can edit.
          Alternatively, I’d be happy with the newlines changed to regular expressions like ^ or $.

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          • Alan Kilborn
            Alan Kilborn @Patrick O'Beirne last edited by

            @patrick-o-beirne said in How to copy as extended, eg CRLF to \r\n:

            I want text with the extended notation which I can edit.

            You’d need to use an external method for that, i.e., a script.

            @patrick-o-beirne said in How to copy as extended, eg CRLF to \r\n:

            I’d be happy with the newlines changed to regular expressions like ^ or $

            That isn’t the same as having line-ending characters in the Find data.

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            • Alan Kilborn
              Alan Kilborn last edited by Alan Kilborn

              @patrick-o-beirne said in How to copy as extended, eg CRLF to \r\n:

              I want text with the extended notation which I can edit.

              I’ve found a method for this, with 8.4.2 software, but it is definitely not specific to this version (just documenting which version I used):

              • select some multi-line data
              • press Ctrl+f to bring up the Find window
              • select a Search mode of Normal
              • run a Find All in Current Document search

              Note that the Find what field now (post-search) contains text in “extended notation”, which may be copied elsewhere and edited. Note also that the Search mode has been changed to Extended.

              Example:

              Start with this text:

              456
              abc
              123
              def
              

              Select text as follows:

              1fc0c11f-dffc-4944-845f-85af99617ead-image.png

              Press Ctrl+f. Set up this search (important – don’t change what was auto-populated into Find what):

              2fc7996e-d8a4-4428-aaec-8ce73b77c587-image.png

              Press the Find All in Current Document button and see how the Find what box content has changed:

              74f0195b-417c-4126-8de6-f72340aa9e89-image.png

              The Find what box data can now be copied elsewhere and edited, as it is now abc\r\n123\r\n.

              Note also that the Search mode has been changed to Extended.


              BUG:

              Repeat the experiment, but this time change the Search mode to Regular expression and change one character in the Find what data to a . before running the Find All in Current Document search:

              8f8d7cfe-846b-4e4a-9de1-b6e27199cfb8-image.png

              The result of the search: no matches.

              45a83617-4866-408a-a792-b86a8a5db8d6-image.png

              There should be 1 match. :-(

              This happens because Notepad++ changes my search from a Regular expression search to an Extended search, before the search happens. :-(


              For more info, see https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11847.

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