How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?
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I have a problem. I have no idea how or when it happened. At the end of each line of text, CTRL F appears and is highlighted.
I have many tabs, and it’s under all of them except one of the tabs. Instead, LF appears under that one tab and is highlighted at the end of each line of text.
How do I remove it, and what did I do to enable that?
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It’s not entirely clear what you want.
If you want to make the
CRandLFcharacters invisible, you need to hit the button shown below:
If you want to change
LFtoCRLF, you just need to hit this button at the bottom of the screen:
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@Mark-Olson said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
If you want to make the CR and LF characters invisible
AAHHH!
I was racking my brain for what CTRL and F was. So it was likely a situation of the OP seeing something and the brain filling in the blank by adding a T!Terry
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@Mark-Olson Thanks a lot! I would have never thought that was the cause of it.
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@Terry-R Sorry about that. The highlight obscures the letters, and because I’m not familiar with that feature and didn’t carefully look at it, I thought it said CTRL F.
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It might also help you to familiarize yourself with text file line-endings…what they mean and what the differences between the various types are…
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@Alan-Kilborn said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
what the differences between the various types are…
Some historic difference in how OS-s mark line endings, and that a user better stick to the one for their OS.
What else a normal user needs to know about them? -
I had no idea that Maxwell Smart was lurking on the forums. Only he would know the old Ctrl-F at end of line trick.
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@Victorel-Petrovich said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
Some historic difference in how OS-s mark line endings, and that a user better stick to the one for their OS.
What else a normal user needs to know about them?My point was that OP seemed to have no clue about line-endings at all, and that anyone using a text editor should have some idea about them (and probably also the differences between hard line endings and “wrapped text”).
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@Alan-Kilborn OK, I thought you had in mind WAY more differences for him.
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@Alan-Kilborn and everyone else, I do not use Notepad++ as a text editor. As I’ve stated before in another thread, I use it as a repository for thousands of videos I’ve DL complete with the name of the video, and the link.
I use it because of the aesthetics of it, and other features that have nothing to do with text editing per se.
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@Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
I do not use Notepad++ as a text editor.
LOL, you are sooo confused. :-)
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@Alan-Kilborn I thought it was obvious what I mean. I am not a power user of Notepad++. I know nothing about programming or codes used for Notepad++, etc.
I simply have many tabs. Some for movies, some for clips, and others for several other things not video related.
I use it because I have a colored background, tab fonts, and tabs. I also like the ability to customize the toolbar.
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@Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
I thought it was obvious what I mean
To be fair, the way you worded it the first time made it sound like you were opening the video files in Notepad++, which would be quite strange, since there is no text in binary video files (but it wouldn’t be the first time someone has tried something like that, otherwise we wouldn’t have needed this FAQ).
Your updated description makes it sound much more like you’re storing text-based lists of movies and links, which is “using Notepad++ as a text editor”, despite your claim to the contrary. (I just searched through and found the discussion from two years ago where we worked very hard to clear up your misunderstandings about what tabs were for in Notepad++ and you briefly mentioned that you were using it for lists of videos there, too… But, to be fair, that was two years ago, and remembering such an arcane tidbit about one specific user out of thousands of users, two years after the last mention, would be quite the feat of memory on our part.)
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@PeterJones I thought after several of my posts that my former issues would be hard to forget!
BTW, can the CRLF & LF be activated by keys? I thought that I accidentally hit something on the keyboard while sleeping. I definitely didn’t click the toolbar deliberately and figured it was more likely it was enabled by keys since nothing I saw on the toolbar looked like it was the cause of it.
I’m still shocked that what looks like a paragraph button was the solution. Before starting this thread, I thought it read CTRL F and I was using CRTL+F in an attempt to get rid of CRLF & LF. DON’T LAUGH LOL!
And what do the acronyms CRLF & LF mean?
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BTW, can the CRLF & LF be activated by keys?
Not by default. You could use Shortcut Mapper to apply a shortcut (because they are entries in the View > Show Symbol > sub-menu), but I doubt you’ve added that. So I have to assume you were accidentally trying to click something else (maybe the word-wrap toggle button to its left, or maybe the Plugins menu directly above it)
since nothing I saw on the toolbar looked like it was the cause of it.
I’m still shocked that what looks like a paragraph button was the solution.The pilcrow
¶symbol has been used to represent “paragraph” for decades. It’s the same symbol that MS Word uses for toggling between showing hidden characters/codes and not. It’s quite a common aspect of such user interfaces.And what do the acronyms CRLF & LF mean?
CR= carriage return
LF= line feed
CRLF= carriage return then line feedThey have been part of ASCII nomenclature since ASCII was introduced in the 1960s. They harken back to the typewriter, when you push the big bar on the right to go to the next line (or paragraph), where it executes two things: 1) it returns the carriage (the cylinder that’s shifting the paper to keep it in line with the typewriter keys) to the left (hence Carriage Return), and 2) it advances to the next line (by rotating, to feed another line’s worth of paper – hence Line Feed).
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@PeterJones said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
They have been part of ASCII nomenclature since ASCII was introduced in the 1960s. They harken back to the typewriter
And especially the teletype. You would type a password, and the computer would immediately send a carriage return, without a line feed, and type over what you just typed with Xs, do it again with Ns, and again with another letter or two that I don’t remember, so it would be obscured if anyone looked at the roll. Carriage returns without line feed were also used to underline.
Yep, I’m that old.
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@Coises said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
and again with another letter or two
Probably
@s.Yep, I’m that old.
Oh dear - that must mean that I’m old too! 🥵😉
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@PeterJones said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
“Not by default. You could use Shortcut Mapper to apply a shortcut (because they are entries in the View > Show Symbol > sub-menu), but I doubt you’ve added that. So I have to assume you were accidentally trying to click something else (maybe the word-wrap toggle button to its left, or maybe the Plugins menu directly above it)”I wasn’t trying to click on either of those. The only things I use on the toolbar are Save, Undo, Redo, Previous Bookmark, and Next Bookmark. None of them are anywhere near the Pilcrow button.
It happened while I was not using the PC. That’s why I had no clue as to how it happened. So since I was told here that it cannot be activated by keys (because I didn’t enable that feature) that means it was done by accidental pressure on my wireless trackball mouse.
The cursor was accidentally moved to the toolbar because I always leave the cursor on the main body, not the toolbar. That’s the reason why I figured it was likely done by accidentally hitting some keys.
P.S. Why is undefined displayed?
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Despite your protestations of “mouse” innocence, it is way too easy to have an errant mouse click do what happened.
