@Michael-Vincent Check my reply to your post, and follow the link, @PeterJones at that links said he’ll take a look at all your xsd and dtd files this weekend if you repond and attach your files. Be aware that you may need to change the file extension to txt and state so in the post since the drag and drop doesn’t recognize some file extensions.

Impressed that “5 years later” this thread and plugin again got attention. This plugin is exactly what I needed.

The alternative plugin mentioned by @DaveyD in 2017, called “File Switcher, by Dave Brotherstone” no longer appears in my Plugin Admin (maybe I’m doing something wrong) so I’m glad I have this.

[FYI: I found this plugin mentioned at https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/14375/search-open-file-name after searching the internet for “notepad++ search open tabs” and “notepad++ search open filenames”.]

My problem is I have 31 tabs open and NavigateTo didnt see 2 of my tabs. Both are recently opened. But it does see fine another tab that was recently opened.

One of the missing files is from a flash drive, flash drive then removed, npp asks me if I want to keep it and I say yes. But the other is regular file resident on local drive. And other files from the flash drive show up. And another new file I just loaded while writing this is correctly present in the NavigateTo list.

I am using v.1.12.4.1 and my Notepad++ is at v8.3.3 which is not the latest.

Possibly this fix released in v.1.12.6 that I don’t have yet fixes it: https://github.com/young-developer/nppNavigateTo/issues/15; Or my issue could be different/similar/related.

I’ll update to the latest and try it again later when I have time.

If it helps:
Notepad++ v8.3.3 (64-bit)
Build time : Mar 13 2022 - 17:20:02
Path : C:\M***s\programs\npp.8.3.3.portable.x64\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19044.1766
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NavigateTo.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NppTextViz.dll NppXmlTreeviewPlugin.dll TakeNotes.dll XMLTools.dll

@PeterJones said in Move word with notpad++:

@faouzi-sat ,

Here’s your freebie, since this was your first post. And I appreciate that you showed before-and-after data, even if you neglected the </> button to mark your text as plaintext. But as Terry was encouraging you, you will get better help (and learn more) if you put in more effort when asking for help.

So, in Regular Expression search mode,

: matches a literal colon \d+ matches one or more digits \. matches a literal dot/period/fullstop character putting () parentheses around an expression will save it in the next capture group number

And in the replacement, $1 references the first capture group number.

Putting that all together: put a colon and one or more digits in group#1 and the sequence of digits-dot-digits-dot-digits-dot-digits in group#2, and replace with group2-then-group1

FIND = (:\d+) (\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+) REPLACE = $2$1

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

Working !

thanks

Hello, @david-cummings, @alan-kilborn and All,

Not difficult with regexes !

So, let’s start with this INPUT text :

406D69 NPT04S G-JMCH B734 West Atlantic UK -------- 25025 24450 1250 1250 30/01/2023 23:54:46 30/01/2023 23:59:31

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?x-s) ^ (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) \x20 (\S+) | \x20+ -------- .+

REPLACE (?1\1,\2,\3,\4,\5)

Untick all box options

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression serach mode

Click on the Replace All button

=> You should get your expected OUTPUT text :

406D69,NPT04S,G-JMCH,B734,West Atlantic UK

If OK, I’ll explain you how it works, next time !

Note that I use the Free Spacing mode (?x), in the search regex, in order to separate the main parts for a better comprehension

Best Regards,

guy038

@SouthPole-Cat ,

yes.

In Notepad++ natively, no. But using the plugin MarkdownViewer++, a converter-and-renderer is embedded into your Notepad++ environment for you.

Hello from the future of 2023!

Some ingenious and clever programmer created a cross platform clone of Notepad++ and is available on all major OSes including macOS.

*Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work.

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Enjoy!

@Paul-Wormer said in Is there a way to convert multiple text files to docx with notepad++ ?:

The other way is: zip xml’s.

Well, the other way might be to figure out what xmls to create, before zipping…
The presumption here is that user just has free-form .txt files, right?

@Alan-Kilborn Good one, thanks.

Hi, @peterjones, @steve-thorpe and All,

In your post to Steve, I suppose that you wanted to advice :

I suggest searching through your registry for notepad++.exe …

BR

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn
Oh i did not catch that, glad there is actually a way to do it at all, even if a bit cumbersome. And yeah, an actual proper checkbox option within preferences would have been ideal, but i’ll take what i can get.

@Paul-Beunk

At Notepad+ it doesn’t save it on exit

Of course it is saved, it is in the configured backup directory.
If you don’t like it, reconfigure your settings by unchecking "Enable session and snapshot … "

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@Robert-Rodriguez said in Why Does app take so long to start?:

it takes 5-10 seconds for Notepad++ to launch

Is it loading some files? Are some possibly large or possibly of a sort that will be colourised by lexers. Are some of the files on a network/remote drive. All these things can have a part to play in how long Notepad++ takes to prepare the window for you to interact with.

Terry

Due to the problem seen earlier, I decided to take another approach, so that Notepad++ would cooperate better with the lines I was hiding in order to achieve the goals of the script.

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered too many bugs with the hidden lines feature, that it isn’t worth continuing. I think that, at least for now, I’m giving up on this idea…

@Brian-Riback ,

Use regular expression mode. Use FIND = \s+ and REPLACE = \x20 (or a single space; both are equivalent).

(BTW: don’t expect people to actually click on a link to a random file in a google drive or other location, since there is no guarantee what’s actually at the other end of such a link.)

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

Does this file exist on your system?:

Of course

There are a number of posters here for whom this is not a foregone conclusion! :-)

@Shekhar-Singh said in limit the number of lines in a document ?:

when the note is fresh & its edited?

Don’t know what that means.

@NyTR0S96 ,

It wasn’t an installer option previously. There is a section in the online user manual about notepad replacement, which explains that Windows 11 doesn’t necessarily allow the old win10-and-earlier method. However, the next version of the manual will include this updated page, which has a workaround that has been tested by some users (and the developer) on Windows 11:

However, in Windows 11 it’s Notepad UWP version installed, you have to remove Notepad UWP to make the above instructions work.

To remove UWP version of Notepad, you have to launch powershell with admin privileges, then run the following command:

Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.WindowsNotepad* | Remove-AppxPackage

Thanks to all for good analysis and suggestions. I’ll take the route of removing the NppTextViz plugin and see how it goes. Appreciate the good support. Thanks!