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    • Esmee LohgynnE
      Esmee Lohgynn
      last edited by

      Using notepad++ recently, find and replace does not replace the selected item. It will replace all others but not the one selected. I went to gethub to report a bug but that is way out of my depth, never did find where to report. Win 10, firefox.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Esmee Lohgynn
        last edited by PeterJones

        @Esmee-Lohgynn ,

        It does for me:
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        • Esmee LohgynnE
          Esmee Lohgynn @PeterJones
          last edited by

          @PeterJones Thanks, I know how to use it, I know at least that much. this just started, I can select something, in this last case it was a double left quote and tried to replace it with the html code and I said replace all. It replaced others but not the one I had selected. thanks. Please turn your annoying graphic off.

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          • PeterJonesP
            PeterJones @Esmee Lohgynn
            last edited by

            @Esmee-Lohgynn ,

            I cannot replicate your problem.

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            • Esmee LohgynnE
              Esmee Lohgynn @PeterJones
              last edited by

              @PeterJones Huh, I just tried it with a letter & no problem. It will take a few to set up original problem.

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              • Esmee LohgynnE
                Esmee Lohgynn @Esmee Lohgynn
                last edited by

                @Esmee-Lohgynn Problem still there. This time a right double quote. I tried to replace it with html and it says there are none. I have selected one, and it says there are none. Just now did it. how curious.

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                • Esmee LohgynnE
                  Esmee Lohgynn @Esmee Lohgynn
                  last edited by

                  @Esmee-Lohgynn I’m pasting text from one source to notepad and they often have quotes that need to be converted to html. I have done this a thousand times, probably one of my biggest uses of find and replace, Must be lat update. Maybe i can go back one.

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                  • PeterJonesP
                    PeterJones @Esmee Lohgynn
                    last edited by

                    @Esmee-Lohgynn ,

                    Can you share a screenshot of it saying there isn’t a match in the find window, along with the obvious selected value in the editor?

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @Esmee Lohgynn
                      last edited by

                      @Esmee-Lohgynn

                      No one can draw conclusions from your so-far light-on-detail discussion.

                      I guess you’ll have to show an example like Peter did earlier. Hopefully you can do it with a less-annoying graphic than his.

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @Esmee Lohgynn
                        last edited by PeterJones

                        @Esmee-Lohgynn

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                        • Esmee LohgynnE
                          Esmee Lohgynn @PeterJones
                          last edited by

                          @PeterJones OK, am really puzzled now. I went back to previous version and it was still not working, I rebooted and it is still not working. I don’t know what I am leaving out. I’m on windows 10, I’m now on a 64 bit version of notepad 8.4.5. The angled quotes, not the ascii ones, find suddenly won’t replace. both single and double. I have literally been doing this for years, I don’t need instructions on how to do it. Just now, on a left single quote it says “Replace: No occurrence found.” On the right it simply jumps to the next apostophy without changing the one selected. The selected one does show up in the search window/line. OK, I just did a right double quote, it shows up in the search window correctly but I get the ‘no occurence found’ answer. I’m going to try to go back to an earlier version.

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                          • Esmee LohgynnE
                            Esmee Lohgynn @Esmee Lohgynn
                            last edited by

                            @Esmee-Lohgynn Without rebooting, version 8.4.2 also is not replacing the right double quote. I’m sure it was working with this version

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                            • Esmee LohgynnE
                              Esmee Lohgynn @Esmee Lohgynn
                              last edited by

                              @Esmee-Lohgynn Oh damn… I didn’t realize I had “match case” and “match whole word” selected. Normally, I almost never use that. Seems to be working now. Thanks anyway

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn @Esmee Lohgynn
                                last edited by

                                @Esmee-Lohgynn said in Find & Replace, except the one selected:

                                I didn’t realize I had “match case” and “match whole word” selected

                                Match case wouldn’t matter here. Match whole word only would matter; from the user manual:

                                If the left and right characters of your search string are both non-word characters (so not letters, numbers, underscore, and optionally additional characters set by your preferences), then the text to the left and right of your match must be word characters, spaces, and/or beginning or ending of the line.

                                So, even though the OP was very light on detail, this behavior was what he was a victim of.

                                Note also that the OP’s problem would have been solved MUCH quicker if he had provided sufficient level of detail, not just complaining that it doesn’t work and that “I have literally been doing this for years, I don’t need instructions on how to do it.”

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