I think what you’re looking for is in Preferences->Auto-Completion in the box titled Auto-Completion. On the right side of the box there’s a line that says “From X th character. Valid value: 1-9”

The “x” is a clickable number. If you click on the number you can change it to 9, but that’s as high as it can be set. There are other options in this window that may ease some of your auto-complete pain.

Sorry, I can’t help you with the function completion or tooltip color issues.

Binary file was bad example (how file looks when bug occurs), but sometimes it happens to my txt files, even on selecting part of text with mouse. I’ll try with turned off “Enable session snapshot”, except bug is unpredictable, sometime after updates or changing settings to ANSI as default encoding I thought it fixed. And then it happens again when I made lot of changes and forgot to save before error.

@mpotra

Not a bad suggestion I suppose…you may want to follow the advice here.

You can have this functionality TODAY if you are willing to “script it”. The scripting plugins for Notepad++ are excellent. I tend to use Pythonscript; here’s some code for that which will implement a confirmation for Save All.

Here’s SaveAllWithAreYouSurePrompt.py :

def SAWAYSP__main(): if notepad.messageBox( 'Do you want to do a SAVE on all unsaved files?', # box body text 'Are you sure??', # box titlebar text MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.YESNO ) != MESSAGEBOXFLAGS.RESULTYES: return notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.FILE_SAVEALL) SAWAYSP__main()

You can remap the default Save All keyboard shortcut to run the script instead.

Hello, @ואב פתאל, @terry-r and All,

As @terry-r said, regular expressions are not the best way when calculus is involved in the process. However, if the particular case, of all decimal numbers, beginning with the $ sign and ending with the string .99, is your case, a possible regex could be :

SEARCH (\$.*?)((0)|(1)|(2)|(3)|(4)|(5)|(6)|(7)|(8))?(?=9*\.99)|(9)

REPLACE (?{12}0:\1(?2:1)(?{3}1)(?{4}2)(?{5}3)(?{6}4)(?{7}5)(?{8}6)(?{9}7)(?{10}8)(?{11}9))

Of course, the Regular expression search mode must be selected and, possibly, the Wrap around option

So, assuming the sample text, below :

Item $0.99 Item $1.99 Item $2.99 Item $3.99 Item $4.99 Item $5.99 Item $6.99 Item $7.99 Item $8.99 Item $9.99 Item $10.99 Item $11.99 Item $12.99 Item $13.99 Item $14.99 Item $15.99 Item $16.99 Item $17.99 Item $18.99 Item $19.99 Item $20.99 ... Item $39.99 ... Item $98.99 Item $99.99 ... Item $9999.99

it would give, after global replacement :

Item $1.00 Item $2.00 Item $3.00 Item $4.00 Item $5.00 Item $6.00 Item $7.00 Item $8.00 Item $9.00 Item $10.00 Item $11.00 Item $12.00 Item $13.00 Item $14.00 Item $15.00 Item $16.00 Item $17.00 Item $18.00 Item $19.00 Item $20.00 Item $21.00 ... Item $40.00 ... Item $99.00 Item $100.00 ... Item $10000.00

Voilà !

Best Regards,

guy038

@colonellocke

I assume you get a better chance having this done by following this FAQ.

Cheers
Claudia

@dail , @AZJIO-AZJIO

I’m with @dail, I can’t make much of it either…I guess the language barrier is too wide.

The reload is automatic in v7.5.6 or newer.

Hi, @klauss-lehmann and All,

Additional information to the excellent method of @meta-chuh :

Firstly, contrary to any other character, you cannot insert NUL characters, either, with any of these 3 ways :

Alt + nnn , where n are digits, pressed on the numeric keypad ( OEM encoding )

Alt + 0nnn , where 0 and n are digits, pressed on the numeric keypad ( ANSI encoding )

Alt + the + ( on Numeric keypad ) + hhhh, where h are hexadecimal chars ( UNICODE encoding ) :

The letters, from a to f, typed on the main keyboard

The digits, from 0 to 9, typed on the numeric keypad

So, the only way is to use the Character Panel ( Edit > Character Panel ) and, then, to double-click on the first line 0 00 NULL in order to insert a single NUL character, at cursor location

Secondly, the present regex engine of N++, can handle the NUL characters in search, without any trouble, using the regexes :

\0 or \x00 or \x{00} or \x{0000} or \N{NUL} or \c@ or \c

Unfortunately, in replacement, there’s, indeed, no mean to insert a NUL character :-(( A work-around is possible, using a local installation of N++ v6.9.0 and a modified version of the Scintilla library ( SciLexer.dll ). Refer to LAST part of this FAQ post :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15765/faq-desk-where-to-find-regex-documentation/1

Best Regards,

guy038

…and also:

manual

only on github?

@Safe-Tex

you can find the 64 bit installer here:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.5.7.html

direct download:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.5.7/npp.7.5.7.Installer.x64.exe

Thank you. Thank you! Yep that did the trick. It was a simple fix that I actually found 1/2 way into my research on this subject but overlooked it because I didn’t understand why the user posted that LexerType had to be duplicated. Now I know and it works. Now I need to figure why NppExec is not saving my scripts when I upgraded to 7.4.2:)