@George-Brooks

when i made my old, portable tools cd’s (before switching to usb sticks)
i simply created an sfx self extracting archive of the portable version of notepad++
(you can use winrar or 7zip to create one)

this sfx was automatically extracted and run from %temp% as suggested by @Scott-Sumner, which sufficed my needs at that time, as i couldn’t write back any data to the cd anyways.

@Emistry-Haoyan

A Markdown syntax highlighter is available here.

That did the trick! I had inserted some blank lines to increase readability in the HTML document, but I just eliminated them, and everything went along well. I have about 10,000 lines of poetry to format, and I’m only up to 2,400 at the moment. This will make the rest of this task go much faster!

@Scott-Sumner

It seemed like Don was interested when somebody told him that Microsoft bought GitHub (though I remember that most of the other commenters in that thread reacted like you now). The approvement of the European Comission was an important step to complete that and I thought he might be interested in this as well.

Thank you very much. I checked in the order as you put it and the file explorer hide extensions for know file types is NOT checked.
When I go to the settings preferences default directory the Use new style dialog is not checked or the open all files below it either.

Now I did a test of a pdf file and it was a pdf file and changed the name to test.pdf. I then went to save the file with the same name at the beginning and hope the txt which I can see below in the save as bar would take out the .pdf and insert the .txt like it had done for many years but it said do you want to replace it and I said yes at least once and the file was an adobe extension in the file explorer directory and when I went to the file to open it, the adobe said it could not open the file. The file became a 1kb file in size and was still saved as test.pdf and I did not see it as a text file like I have to create for my work. I at least wanted to test with a file to see what would happen but I still have to take the file name and at least reduce it to test and note pad ++ does make the file .txt if there is not a period and some three letters that are there at all. Thank you for helping to have me investigate a few things today. Take care.

You could do that by

using the block editor to insert line numbers at the beginning of all lines. using a regular expression to do your replacements. removing the line numbers added in step 1.

At first place the cursor to the beginning of the document (line 1, column 1) then open the Column Editor. You can find it under Edit (menu) -> Column Editor... (default shortcut ALT+C).

Choose Text to Insert, enter a SPACE character in the input field and click OK. Open the Column Editor again. Choose Number to Insert, set Initial Number to 1, set Increase by to 1, leave the Repeat field blank , choose under Format the item Dec and click OK.

Now every line of your document should be preceded by its line number, separated by a SPACE character.

Now open the Find & Replace dialog. Tick the Wrap around checkbox and under Search mode choose Regular expression. In the Find what field type ^([0-9]+) (.*?x)(.*) (Note: x is your search term ) and in the Replace with field type \1 \2\1\3. Then click Replace All.

As the last step remove the line numbers by using the column editing mode. Set the cursor to the beginning of the document and press ALT+SHIFT+Down until you’ve reached the end of the document. Now you can delete the line numbers and the trailing SPACE characters by pressing the DELETE key.

The regular expression I provided above may or may not fit your needs, you have to try. If it doesn’t work come back and provide specific informations about the problem.

Thanks to one and all. The View->Zoom->Restore Default Zoom worked. Whew.

And to that noble soul who told me what (on earth) I did, thanks to you.

art

Hi Terry,
Thanks for taking time to reply and give the suggestions.
The documentation was very useful. I got pretty good results.
https://ibb.co/ecjwFf
I’m still playing around the configuration. Perhaps, I will change the log format to be notepad friendly.
Lao Hu

Hello, @rowan-sylvester-bradley, and All,

Presently, this feature is not implemented in current N++ versions. But, as a work-around, you may, simply, use the “two views” functionality of N++ !

So :

Open, normally, your two source and log files, in Notepad++

Then, right-click on the tab of your log file, and choose, in the contextual menu, the option Move to other view

May be, the separation line will be a vertical boundary. As I presume that an horizontal separation should produce better displaying, just right-click on that boundary and choose the option Rotate to right or Rotate to left

Finally, choose a different zoom value for the main view and the secondary view ;-))

Remarks :

Of course, you can modify the hight ( width) of each view, by mouse-dragging the boundary line, up or down ( left or right )

You may, temporarily, hide a view, with a left click on one of the two “chevrons”, located at the beginning and at the end of this boundary line

Use the default F8 shortcut, to switch between each views

When you want to move a file from one view to another, just click on its tab and move it to the other view zone

Best regards,

guy038

P.S. :

A second method to place a first file in the secondary view panel, ( even easier ! ) :

Left-click on the tab file and drag it down in the windows text area

Release the left mouse button

Finally, choose the option Move to other view

Or directly at https://github.com/pnedev/compare-plugin/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Hey Peter,
Yes that worked. Thanks!
Yah realize I’m asking for trouble (occasionally/rarely I’ve had that backup functionality not work)… Its just ‘quick notes’ that aren’t that important so I don’t mind losing them.
-Arian

Per this other thread, you may need to create the %APPDATA%/notepad++/plugins/ directory and/or %APPDATA%/notepad++/plugins/config/ directory