@Doctor-Rashir said in How to Print Pretty with missing close tags.:

I am looking at a Quicken QFX log file that is in a sort of XML type format. The format has many missing End tags so this causes the XML Tools - Pretty Print to indent nearly forever.

Is there a way to align the Start and End tags that are present?

XML Tools is designed to work with well-formed XML. If it’s not well-formed (ie, unclosed tags), it’s just too much of an edge case. It’s doubtful there’s any toolmaker out there who could figure out a way to “pretty print” a seemingly-random mixture of closed and unclosed tags in any meaningful way.

If you were to unindent everything (Ctrl+A, then Shift+TAB until it’s gone, or search for ^\h+ and replace with nothing), then if you knew in advance which tags (like <SONRQ>) had closing pairs, you could use the zone-of-text regex forumula from our FAQ, as:

FIND = (?-si:<SONRQ\b|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!</SONRQ\b).)*?\K(?-si:^(?!\h*</SONRQ))
REPLACE = \t
REPLACE ALL

If I do three steps: unindent, formula(SONRQ) and formula(SIGNONMSGSRQV1), then with your example data, I get

<OFX> <SIGNONMSGSRQV1> <SONRQ> <DTCLIENT>20250520104016.123[-7:MST] <USERID>anonymous00000000000000000000000 <USERPASS>X <GENUSERKEY>N <LANGUAGE>ENG <APPID>QWIN <APPVER>2700 </SONRQ> </SIGNONMSGSRQV1> <INTU.BRANDMSGSRQV1> <INTU.BRANDTRNRQ> <TRNUID>19FFC8F0-7EF9-1000-BC8D-909811990026 <INTU.BRANDRQ>

I don’t know how many other closed tags there are in your file, so I don’t know whether that’s practical for you or not. But it’s the best I can come up with for now, without invoking a full-on programming language (at which point, it could be done in the contents of the Notepad++ window using a plugin like PythonScript, or it could just be done at the command-line with whatever programming language you wanted to use, without needing the file to be open in Notepad++, and thus make it off-topic here)

I did try to make use of a numbered or named capture group in the BSR section and use a backreference to make the BSR and FR invoke those (see the FAQ for the meaning of BSR / ESR / FR), rather than having to know in advance the names of all the tags… but I couldn’t get those backreference versions to work.

@Doctor-Rashir said in Edited Post content was flagged as spam:

@Terry-R
PeterJones
Aug 13, 2020, 6:55 AM

@Myvh ,

The Akismet filter is sometimes overly aggressive. What I do when I see that warning is I cut out a portion of my post, submit the post, then edit and paste back in and re-submit, and it generally works.

specifically, you were referencing this post, where I suggested that.

But, as I tried to indicate with “generally”, that doesn’t always work.

But usually, Akismet only triggers if you’re super-long, or have URLs, and I haven’t seen it trigger much in the last few years, especially now that we have the post-queue.

If you have additional information you want to add, can you just include it in a reply, without trying to edit the original?

@PeterJones

i have to hand it to you this worked, thank you :-)

I couldnt find this description elsewhere, i tested all the 3 thirdparty apps, wthy didnt work though

I seems to have missed the reg addition of defaulticon should be in the string sith notepad++

best Nolan

When the Fill Find Field with Selected Text option, in settings, is unchecked, and the user invokes Select And Find …, perhaps the program should (simply) run the code for the “volatile” version of the command.

(I should have said this in my previous post.)

@Rick-Kosters

You can try the free Agent Ransack utility from https://www.mythicsoft.com
It works with .doc, .docx and .pdf files too.

@me

I printed out a cookie recipe in NP++ and LO Writer

Try to be more explicit. I actually use LibreOffice and, until @PeterJones explicitly stated it in his response, I had no idea what you were talking about when you said “LO”.

@JuergenBelle ,

Further to what @h-jangra said, since N++ v8.8.6, you can just paste your multi-line text into the Replace, and use the Search @h-jangra suggested, and you don’t need the plugin at all…

If your replacement has parentheses () or dollar signs $, it might not work as you expect, so you might have to escape them, as described in the user manual (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#substitutions)

@guy038

More good information. Thank you!

Barry

Hello!

I’m having a similar problem with NPP being slow to open, and I believe it’s related to the fact that I have several “draft” (unsaved) files saved, since I have the options enabled: backup and remember last session.
This has already been reported in another post:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/14000

In my case, I have an SSD and it takes about 20 seconds to load about 200 files. So it spends about 0.1 seconds per file.

I did some tests using Process Monitor, as shown in the image below.

notepad.png

In this case, it seems that NPP keeps trying to create files in the “Program Files” folder, but it gives a “NAME NOT FOUND” error.
After that, it goes to the “AppData/Roaming…” folder where the backup files are located.

In short, based on this result, does anyone have any idea how to try to solve this delay, perhaps caused by failures or repeated attempts to read/write the backup files?

@Alan, listen to @PeterJones when he says to scan your computer for viruses. TextShaping.dll is commonly used in DLL sideloading exploits, and if your executables are trying to call it when it resides in a place it doesn’t belong (your Notepad++ directory), then there’s a good chance your computer has been hacked.

That doesn’t mean you should freak out just yet, just take some steps to ensure that you’re not hacked.

All the gup.exe does is to check if there is a newer version than specified by the string input parameter is available. It does not handle the update itself. You would have to code it for yourself.

For example like this in Powershell 5.1 for the 64bit version of Notepad++.

[string]$ScriptFolder = $PSCommandPath | Split-Path -Parent $Notepad = Get-ItemProperty -LiteralPath 'HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Notepad++' $InstalledVersion = $Notepad.DisplayVersion $UpdateCheck = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://notepad-plus-plus.org/update/getDownloadUrl.php?version=$InstalledVersion" $UpdateCheckAnswer = ([xml]$UpdateCheck.Content).GUP if ($UpdateCheckAnswer.NeedToBeUpdated -eq 'yes') { $Filename = $UpdateCheckAnswer.Location.Split('/')[-1] Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $UpdateCheckAnswer.Location -OutFile "$ScriptFolder\$Filename" & "$ScriptFolder\$Filename" '/S /closeRunningNpp' }

Hi everyone!

I have some good news and bad news.

The good news is that I’ve finished WebEdit 2.9, which includes several new features: multi-select support, tag recommendations, quick tag addition/editing, and a few other minor upgrades.

The bad news is that I’ve actually finished all the essential features I wanted to implement, so I’m not planning any further developments for the time being. Of course, you can still report bugs/issues and even make minor development suggestions, but the goal remains to keep the plugin fast, lightweight and easy to use.

The overview of the (new) features is also available on the module’s main page: https://github.com/Krazal/WebEdit

What’s next: when I have time, I’d like to return to my own plugin, because it has been full of bugs for months (not my fault!). ^^’

Thank you for letting me contribute to this plugin, which I hope others will find just as great and useful as me!

@James-Burke-0 ,
In addition to what @PeterJones has explained, the only other thing you could do, is bring up dBASEPlus in the Language->User Defined Language->Define your language...User language drop down box, and then `Save As’ and give it a new name.

At that point, you can play with the settings, keywords, etc… all you want in your own named UDL. Because of the way the entire UDL ecosystem works, however, you’ll lose the ability to use the autoComplete file and the functionList file as well, because of their links to the UDL’s file names that those work with, as well as the overrideMap.xml linkage file, but you’d have JUST the UDL to adjust to your likings and then when you’re satisfied, you could go back to the original dBASEPlus UDL and put the changes that you want into the Dialog boxes for the language and then do as @PeterJones says, and just close and reopen the editor and your changes will be applied to the intalled dBASEPlus UDL definition.

If you don’t need the Function List or Auto Complete capability, you can just use your newly named version of the dBASEPlus UDL to view and edit dBASE specific files.

Just in case this is what you meant you wanted to do, to customize the dBASEPlus UDL without losing the original functionality of the original package. I hope this helps.

@Jerry-Scannell said in backward search doesn't work any longer:

All of a sudden searching backwards through a file doesn’t work and I have to have proper case for strings I am searching. Does anyone know about this? Is it a setting that has changed for some reason? I am using version 8.7.5 if that helps.
Thanks in advance,
Paul

That setting hasn’t changed since 2020 (v7.8.7).

If you are in Regular Expression search mode, you cannot do backward search, unless you have followed the User Manual instructions (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#preferences-for-advanced-users) to set the regexBackward4PowerUser attribute in the xml config file, and restarted N++.

But, as I said, this is nothing new. So a “sudden change” presumably was you choosing Regular Expression mode.

Thank you guys all so very much, now that I know that it’s a GVAS file, I’ll chase down that lead and try to get somewhere!!!

@Pieter-Hoeben

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