@uwe-keim

As I said, the behavior you seek has been “on the table” for a long time, and nothing has changed. I don’t know that Notepad++ 's limited dev team wants to get too bogged down in searching features, but I have no insight into their thinking.

You might benefit from using an external tool for searching large filesets (allowing you to start a search and then keep working in Notepad++) which can open files in Notepad++ at the match point when the search completes. I don’t know of an ideal tool for this, but GrepWin seems to be a good start…

@shwetmala-sinha

You’re really going to have to describe your problem better, but probably your best first step is to update Notepad++ to a version newer than one that is almost 5 years old now.

@kozakmak said in userDefineLangs for .txt:

BUT! features of different themes are not taken into account, for example, dark and light

Out of curiosity, do you really change themes or light/dark that often? Everyone I know just picks their favorite theme and just leaves it like that for normal usage. If you have a use case (other than the few minutes, hours, or days required to say, “no, I like theme/mode X better than theme/mode Y”) where you frequently change themes or light/dark, I’d love to hear it… because I’ve occasionally seen people complain about things not following theme/mode changes, but whenever I’ve asked for a use case where changing is necessary, I’ve never seen a reason that makes sense to me: maybe you will be the first. (And if I know of use cases where it’s important, either I can figure out workarounds in such situations, or if it makes sense, I could start lobbying the developers to expose new API that will give information about the theme – the Dark-vs-Light mode is now in the API, thankfully)

If you aren’t changing themes or light/dark modes, then just put in the colors that work well with your theme. If you are changing themes often, then as Ekopalypse says, there isn’t a way for the plugin to know what theme you are using for now, so you’ll unfortunately have to live with that mild annoyance of editing and saving the EnhanceAnyLexer config whenever you do change theme. (If you are changing themes enough that it goes beyond mild annoyance, maybe you should consider which is a higher priority to you: changing themes, or the custom “normal text” highlighting.)

@ekopalypse
its work
thx

Reopening a “just-closed” file is somewhat of an exceptional action. Thus, having to go to the File menu for it is not that big of a deal.

@ekopalypse Great. Thanks a lot.

@jim-julian

Not with the standard functions of Npp, but with a scripting plugin and the interception of the FILEOPENED event this is possible. If you want to take this step let us know.

@rene-zinsheimer
If you are doing log analyses I have a free tool that you might find very useful. It is called RCFV, the Really Cool Filter Viewer, and you can download it at www.takamomto.com. (As of 6/3 the website is a little screwy due to outside factors but you can still get the latest release of the software there.)

Since he didn’t mention the version number, I thought I’d chime in and say that the code fix that Don linked to was included in v8.4.2, so it is now readily available for download.

guy, thank you so much for your string. it work like a charm

all the best

@антон-потапов

Interesting.

…because it looks like the duplication bug is related to the “ä” combination of symbols.

For me, it appears like this, so I don’t see those “symbols”:

f376ba2a-fec2-4b85-ab2d-c1996c68acd6-image.png

…and I don’t show it, but trust me, my status bar says the encoding is UTF-8, just like yours does. If I edit and save this file, this character doesn’t “grow” like it does for you.

So I’d say it is some sort of odd encoding issue (for you), but we’ve got UTF-8 in line 1 of the file, and also in the status bar, so
I’m mystified.

I will say it made me think of some other encoding issue I read about recently HERE. But I think that is just a curiosity, not related.

@ekopalypse well thanks for taking time to anwser, and yes i wanted to make of npp a replacement for ms word, cause it is faster to exacute and its more customisable for a minimalist look.

The Community Forum’s feature request FAQ explains how to put in an official feature request that will be seen by the developers.

Speak of the devil . . . https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11741

@alan-kilborn brilliant - it works! :) thank you

@test-account ,

You are the only one who can know if any given color scheme will work for your eyes – you have chosen Dark Mode, so I can already guarantee that the preferences that work best with my middle-aged eyes would not work for you.

There are about a dozen themes that ship with Notepad++: try them from the Style Configurator to see which comes closest to working for you, then use the Python settings in the Style Configurator to further customize it to your liking.

@Greg-Vaeth ,

Compare plugin will not be supported anymore (at least by me) because I consider it obsolete and because (as Peter Jones said) I am working on another plugin - ComparePlus that is Compare plugin’s successor.

ComparePlus will have default color settings for Notepad++ DarkMode. I hope to release the first version soon.

@PeterJones ,
Peter, thanks for all the support, much appreciated!

BR

@tss-tss said in Searching all lines between tags:

I would like to copy all the lines between <a href… </a> from a old html file, is there a smarter way using the search tool?

When you say copy between I would presume the line would also contain the <a href… and </a> code as well. that is unless the lines are formatted in such a way as to have this code on lines by themselves and the lines you want are indeed ‘between’.

So using the Mark function (Search, Mark, Ctrl+M default shortcut) you would add the following to the find field:
Find What:(?s)<a href>.+?</a>
Tick the box “bookmark line”, search mode is regular expression. Click on “Mark All”. You will now see lines that you want to copy are preceded by a blue circle/sphere. These are the bookmarks. Then Right click on this area and select “Copy Bookmarked Lines”. Create a new tab and insert those lines using Ctrl-V (paste).

If you need a definition of the regular expression please just ask.

Terry

@william-pigott-0 ,

Each programming language has its own function list definition – and they are customizable. So no one here can tell you how to fix it unless you give us some information, like which language you were using, and what version of Notepad++ you used to use: with that, we could at least look through the revision history for that language’s definition. (The official default language definitions rarely change, so I am betting that you actually had a customized function list definition, maybe that you got from someone else, which you didn’t replicate when you moved to the a new machine, or that you deleted all your old customized configs when you installed v8.4.1, and thus lost the customization. Because upgrades don’t generally overwrite edited config files, so if you had done a normal upgrade, it should have kept your older functionList definitions.)

From this issue @Ekopalypse links to, it appears there will soon be a fix for this, probably in the release after 8.4.1.