Same action on the (same) highlighted sections

Gian Matteo

Hi fellows,

I use the Highlighting feature without the “Match whole word” option.

Iwould like to perform the same action on all the highlighted strings, let’s say click Del, or pressing a char to replace not only the original highlight but also all the remaing ones.

I do remember having done this in the past, but maybe I’m wrong…

P.S.: I posted the question because no help by googling, it is difficult to find the right keywords imo

Thank you

Alan Kilborn

@Gian-Matteo said in Same action on the (same) highlighted sections:

same action on all the highlighted strings

Sorry, no actions are currently possible on these strings of text, as the “Smart Highlighting” effect is only a visual one.

Notepad++ has scripting plugins, which could make such a thing possible, but it can’t do it on its own.

Gian Matteo

@Alan-Kilborn thanks a lot friend, that’s so useful advice, at least I will stop loosing my time trying to remember how I… did(n’t) do it

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn said in Same action on the (same) highlighted sections:

no actions are currently possible on these strings of text, as the “Smart Highlighting” effect is only a visual one.

Maybe I’ve misunderstood the original requirements. But if I’m right, after selecting one, which activates Smart Highlighting on the others, @Gian-Matteo should be able to use the new Edit > Multi-Select All > … family of actions to then multi-select all the words that were Smart Highlighted. Once they are multi-selected, then “click Del, or pressing a char to replace” will act on all of them, not just the first.

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Same action on the (same) highlighted sections:

Multi-Select All

Good call. I haven’t delved into the relatively new multi-editing capabilities, probably because of the potential conflicts with the age-old column block selection behavior.

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn said in Same action on the (same) highlighted sections:

I haven’t delved into the relatively new multi-editing capabilities, probably because of the potential conflicts with the age-old column block selection behavior.

v8.6.4 with Multi-Select enabled and Column-to-Multi disabled behaves just like pre-8.6 with multi-select enabled, except it also has the new menu entries which allow extending the multi-selection easily; so it allows for reasonable column-select behavior while still allowing the new menu for multi-select: I’m quite happy with the current state. (The interim versions, on the other hand, where column-selects magically and unexpectedly became multi-selects were completely unusable for me.)