@Ivy_Pearson said in How To Read And Edit ASCII File with HEX Values Inside:

What you need is a hex editor that supports a “hex + ASCII” view, where the left side shows the ASCII text and the right side shows the hex bytes.

Oddly, that’s exactly what Notepad++ with the Hex Editor plugin does. And yet, the original poster said that wasn’t sufficient. Why do you think it is sufficient?

Tools like HxD, 010 Editor, or Bless Hex Editor let you see line breaks correctly while still letting you edit hex values directly. In 010 Editor, you can even create a template to map the structured fields for easier editing.

Some of those sound promising (like the one with the template), even though the original poster already dismissed standard hex editors as not being sufficient for their needs.

@Tnega-Terces said in How To Read And Edit ASCII File with HEX Values Inside:

It’s a normal ASCII file with lines for each individual game object and human readable variable names,

It’s not an ASCII file. As @mpheath and @Terry-R indicated, it’s a binary file that just happens to have some text encoded as ASCII. But that does not make it an ASCII file. No solution in Notepad++ is going to completely satisfy you, because Notepad++ is a text editor, not a binary editor. And most hex editors aren’t going to be what you want, because they focus on just providing you with the hex, not with a formatted text document that shows the encoded numbers that are represented by the binary bytes that Notepad++ shows you. One that allows templating data structures does sound promising for your needs, but a Notepad++ text editor forum is not the right place to dig into the intricacies of some other hex editor tool (and if that’s the path you want to take, you’ll have to go somewhere else to learn more about the tool that you do choose).

But I think your best bet is to find a converter for that file format that @mpheath suggested – if it can convert from the binary format to a textual JSON, then you can edit the text-based JSON in Notepad++; since it’s a 2-way converter, then after you edit the JSON, you should be able to go back to the binary format, so that you can use the edited results in your game. That’s really your best bet.

Assuming that it’s a command-line utility, we could even help you set up the NppExec plugin to allow you to load the binary file, have NppExec call the external converter and show the results in Notepad++, allow you to edit the JSON in Notepad++, and then when you save the file, NppExec could automatically convert it back for you. I have a similar workflow that I played with for encrypting and decrypting files using gpg, and the essential structure of that would work for your needs, just using the GVAS conversion script as the external tool, instead of the gpg executable. Ah, right, I even show one direction in this FAQ, and the same style of script could work for you – so you could use that as the starting point.

@Pieter-Hoeben

You probably have the “Search Mode” set to “Regular expression”. Change it to “Normal”.

@James-Burke-0 said in Avoiding Tabbed Spaces:

Is there a toggle for NPP to NOT insert tabbed spaces at the beginning of a line? Somewhere in Preferences, perhaps?

You probably want Settings | Preferences… | Indentation | Indent using: Space character(s).

@mpheath

I had to save the UDL with and it worked very well, thank you very much!

Just a heads up for recent N++ users, search for the text no-break space in Windows Character Map, select it at top left and copy/paste into a UTF encoded N++ window with Word wrap and View>Show Non-Printing Characters ticked, it shows up as NBSP highlighted.
Or, the character is pasted here on the next line:
 
Works at least in the unposted forum edit box - but not in the preview pane it seems.

@Juan-Delgado said in Windows ARM64 25H2 Notepad++ 8.8.7 doesn't start:

So, I uninstalled the Notepad

I think it helped due to completely deleting the N++ settings, namely the config.xml file. There is a N++ Smart Highlighting bug (already fixed for the next N++ version), more here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17126#issuecomment-3476961976

@PeterJones Thank you for the explanation and my apologies for the confusion. I meant for both sides of lines to have the same number of dashes. I guess I did not catch that.

Your regex code worked and that was what I needed. Thank you very much!

@flaviozluca said in Default LF and not CRLF:

Thanks but in short, so I cant change the default always to default LF?

In short, your statement is 100% wrong.

Notepad++ does save the default for new files, as I described above, in detail. Since you don’t seem to want to read that, I will shorten it for you: Open exactly one instance of Notepad++ (no more, no less). Set Settings > Preferences > New Document > Format (Line Ending) to Unix (LF). Exit Notepad++. Then the next time you start Notepad++, all new files you create will use that line ending.

This obviously doesn’t change the line endings on existing files – existing files are saved with the bytes for either CRLF or LF already. If you open a file that’s already saved with CRLF, you can change the line endings with the Edit > EOL Conversion … sub-menu actions, or by right-clicking on the line-ending indicator on the status bar.

@PeterJones

Changing only the ink color is much better than nothing, it works very well, thank you!

@Terry-R

Your second option \sR(\s|$) worked like a charm.

Thanks so much for the insight - huge help!

winget install Notepad++.Notepad++

I think the sandbox has winget. It has been a while since I have used it. Use -i if you want to select install options.

@Ollivier_64_fr said in Project files updated:

Hello everyone,
I have a question about project management: would it be possible to update project content without having to delete all the files and recreate the project? I searched the options without finding a solution… it might be more convenient.
I hope this question hasn’t already been asked. I searched the forum before posting here without finding anything.
Thank you for your answers.

What exactly do you mean by “update project content”? The project panels (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/session/#project-panels) aren’t “live”, in that they don’t automatically add or remove files from a folder (because “projects” are meant to be independent of the underlying folder structure). But you can manually add or remove files from a given project at any time, without deleting and recreating it.

If you are looking for something that’s directory based, rather than manually adding/removing files, then the closest feature to what you want is Folder as Workspace (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/session/#folder-as-workspace), though that shows all files in the folder hierarchy, rather than just specific filetypes.

@BUILMOND-interactive same problem on Snapdragon Windows Laptops - once changed to GDI the flickering across the screen is gone - seems the flickering has to do /w the cursor position flicker

@PeterJones ,

thank you for the description! A did it and it works like a charm! It is indeed amazing what’s possible with Notepad++! Likewise it’s also amazing what a friendly and helpful community it has!

@Michael-Fuerst

As you have probably determined already, the initial list is in terms of “time opened”. However once you use the “Sort By” option it will present the open tabs in the order you want select (using options available). That is then saved as the new order of tabs, even if Notepad++ is closed and re-opened.

This was asked for recently and the thought is that it’s unlikely to be added as an option, but if you read the FAQ posts you could present a request.

Terry

@fml2 said in Separately set the beginning and the end of selection:

Goes to study the NP++'s menues

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/editing/#edit-menu
is a good place to start. The other menus are described in appropriate places in the manual

@subodhjaiswar said in Style Configurations Reset After Update:

@PeterJones

When my IT admin gave me my laptop with my ID(Domain) configured as part of local administrator group, I just simply install NP++ by downloading from Chrome.

Being part of the administrator group does not force Notepad++ to run in Admin mode. I have always been part of the administrator group, both on my personal PCs and on my work machines. I do not run Notepad++ as administrator.

Then I launched from desktop, or Start–>N+±-> Enter

Did you look at those shortcuts, as I explained?

Then I pinned NP++ and every time my laptop restart I launch NP++ from taskbar

Did you look at that shortcut, as I explained?

Since my TP is a single user and no other user I am not sure how to run NP++ with No Admin

I gave you detailed instructions on how to look for the “Run this program as an administrator” checkbox, both for shortcuts and for the notepad++.exe executable. You have to find the ones that are checked, and uncheckmark them

Please advise on how do I retain my style settings.

The instructions already given told you the first step. If you ignore the first step, you cannot hope to fix your problem.