New displaying of the "Search Results" panel

[guy038]

Hello, All,

One minor drawback, when you display the Search results panel, is that the name of each file does not appear before the line number and the line itself !

See, for example, this post : https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21722/format-of-search-results

Here is the way to realize this goal !

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Once any Search Results panel is displayed :

• Hit the Ctrl + A shortcut

• Hit the Ctrl + C shortcut

• Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )

• Paste the Search Results contents in this new tab ( Ctrl + V )

• Run the option Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order ( IMPORTANT )

• Now, open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

• Uncheck all box options

• FIND (?-si)^\tLine\x20+(\d+)(?=(?s:.+?)^\x20\x20\u:.*\\(.+)(?= \())|^\x20\x20\u.+\R

• REPLACE ?2\2\t\1\t

• Check the ‘Wrap around’ option

• Select the Regular expression search mode

• Click on the Replace All button

• Now, re-run the Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order option ( IMPORTANT )

• Finally, save this new tab for future study within N++ or Excel !

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For a more appealing presentation within N++, if you have the Columns++ plugin, do the following actions :

• Check the Elastic tabstops option

• Run the Convert tabs to spaces option

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For example, I did a search of the word the, whatever its case, in Normal mode, on any .txt file af an USB key

Search "the" (76665 hits in 498 files of 578 searched) [Normal]

I got an INPUT file of 51,224 lines for about 10,2 Mb

And, after the above process :

• Reverse line order

• Regex Replacement

• Reverse line order

Which took 66s, I got an OUTPUT file of 50,713 lines, for about 12 Mb, with filename, number and text aligned

And in order to right-aligned the line numbers, do the following regex replacement :

FIND (\d+)(\x20*)(?=\x20:\x20)

REPLACE \2\1

Voila !

Best Regards,

guy038