@gstavi

OP said:

I have a few hundred text files I open in notepad…

We hear this A LOT!
We always ask how practical it is, and no one ever explains it.

Wouldn’t it be simpler for you to manage the opened files with:

Window -> Windows …

In my answer I inferred that OP was already using Window > Window… menu in order to sort tabs, because how else could you do it?

Activate the tab you want with double click or Enter.

OP is wanting auto-selection of a “reasonable” tab after closing one – clearly if OP wanted to click on a tab they would just do it (and wouldn’t have posted a question).

BUT… your information is good for other readers that may come here in the future looking for answers (and don’t know about Window > Window… menu).

Download and install this plugin JSToolNpp ，Then perform operations like this Plugins | JSTool | JSFormat.
If you don’t want to install plugins, you can perform JSON beautification operations on JSON Formatter

Hello,@DVP-Rao
please follow these steps, On how to enable dark mode in Notepad++.

Step 1: Open your Notepad++, and select “Settings” on the menu bar, and choose “Style configurator”.
Step 2: Select theme “Obsidian” (you can choose other dark themes)
Step 3: Go to “Global Styles” -> “Global override”, click the “background-color”
Step 4: Click “more colors”, and use: “red: 43, blue: 43, green: 43”.
Step 5: Check the “Enable global background-color” option.

I hope this information will be useful to you.
Thank you.

<Holy Hand Grenade> All users should immediately disable Microsoft’s foolish “Extensions shouldn’t mean anything but still do so let’s just hide them” feature! </Holy Hand Grenade> ;-)

Thanks Peter ,
I am sorry to report that today I am that guy
“abuse this forum as your personal regex writing service like some users try” .
I am working on a “KidSafeBrowser” in ‘Electron js’ and another one as a chrome extension for my grandkids .
link text
A friend asked me to do this Regex stuff .
As usual , Thank You for all your work on this .
I created a desktop Folder , and named it ‘Regex Peter Jones’ and
put you work in there . I do plan to learn Regex , just can’t now .
Thanks , Vern

@gstavi

Nothing from Npp, probably as I’m using portable version always.

Program Files: Oracle (virutalbox) and ImageMagick
Program Files (x86): THQ, Steinberg, Power Tab, PDFCreator, Motorola, MetzUpdater, Cypheros, avicohh

@Ekopalypse said in Writing from right to left:

from Npp import editor, SCINTILLANOTIFICATION

def on_char_added(args):
if DO_REVERSE_TYPING:
editor.gotoPos(editor.getCurrentPos()-1)

try:
DO_REVERSE_TYPING = not DO_REVERSE_TYPING
except NameError:
editor.callbackSync(on_char_added, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.CHARADDED])
DO_REVERSE_TYPING = True

Thank you SO much Ekopalypse, this is perfect for my needs at the moment! Does exactly what I was looking for.

Also, thank you all for the very kind and warm replies. This was my first post here and this experience gave a very welcoming feel of the NotePad++ - community.

Hello,@dkseby7x
Please try this code, To How to remove text except URLs maintaining the original line of the remove?

search for:

\h*<url\b.*?(http[^<]+).*?</url>|<.*?>\s*

and replace with captured URL (captured in the first parenthesized group)

\1

\h matches any horizontal space, [^<]+ matches one or more characters, that are not <

I hope this code will be useful to you.
Thank you.

When reading a book, you have lelf and right page open thus I was thinking in np++ this book view side by side would be a natural option to have.

@Ekopalypse

Thank you for the link, that explains things.

I can see I’ve worded my question in a way that’s not too clear.

Essentailly I found a nice dark theme which looks good with most of the built in languages. When I downloaded a new UDL for Oracle PLSQL, it’s overriding the font background and foreground colours in the theme so it ends up looking awful.

Your suggestion of the colour style attribute makes a lot of sense so I’ll have a play with that and see if I can get what I need.

Much appreciated

David

@Alan-Kilborn

I barely know what I ate yesterday, how am I supposed to know what I thought about something a year ago? :-D

Links can be created as we see with url - based on that, I suppose I came up with this idea, but it looks like I never dug deeper since it wasn’t requested.

@PeterJones

TL;DR :-)

Great! Thanks so much!

@guy038 OP here! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank You.

@Alan-Kilborn ,

<tongue style=“cheek: in; firmly: 1”>But why would anyone search for things that aren’t there? And why would you start searching from the middle instead of the beginning? </tongue>

@snmnarum said in Tab vs Space for .rs (Rust):

Perhaps the installer could detect a modified config and give us the option of A) use new, B) preserve user, or C) attempt a merge.

You can create a feature request for this. Having at least A) and B) would be nice. However, C) will not be easy to implement.

@Andrey ,

What language lexer has block comments like that? Or are you using a UDL?

And does that language actually allow nested comments? Some languages do, some don’t, and some leave it up to a compiler implementation decision.

If the language really allows it, but the built-in lexer allows it, then technically, that’s a bug in the lexer. However, the lexers that ship with Notepad++ are part of the Scintilla code library that Notepad++ uses, so it would be a long, unlikely process to get it fixed (report the bug to Scintilla; wait for it to maybe get fixed; request Notepad++ update its Scintilla; wait for likely many years before Notepad++ does update its Scintilla, if ever)

If you are using a UDL, that lexer uses a very simple algorithm, which was not built to handle nested comments (and even if you submitted an issue on it, the UDL lexer, even though technically controlled by Notepad++ unlike the other lexers, hasn’t had any significant improvements in years)

You can add extra highlighting to a builtin lexer or to a User Defined Language (UDL) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in his github repo, but you might have to tweak his code to be able to handle nested comments.

My general coding practice on nested comments: don’t.

Hello Alan yes of course
but when i must search and replace multi lines, its not very easy with a sow little windows and must always use regular expresions for lines break, so with and extension it will be super

@Gen-Utility said in How-To Backup to custom Sub-Directory?:

Is there a clever alternative to get what i want?

I don’t believe so.
Developers designed the feature how they believed it would be most useful to users.
In 5+ years of “watching” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a similar complaint/desire.
But surely you can ask that your desired functionality be implemented.
See the FAQ entry on making a feature request.

I searched keyboard shortcuts… preferences

I’m all about listening to complaints about a bad user interface, but not this time. This one is 100% PEBKAC.