@PeterJones said in To start a Note Pad:

@Almighty1 said in To start a Note Pad:

not sure if using the full path\notepad++.exe will also run it or not.

Yes, that’s the way Windows works with any command-line-launched program: it can run anything that you give it the full path to, and whatever you run will start with the current working directory as the app’s working directory.

Thanks for confirming as I didn’t have the portable version around to confirm if it works or not.

I only mentioned that as with a few tasks in Task Scheduler, it will not run until I put in a Start in matching the same folder as the full path of the executable it is running in, otherwise the task won’t successfully run. A example of this is HWInfo and System Informer (formerly Process Hacker) but ofofcourse it might be a task scheduler requirement.

@Jacob-Stephenson
You have given up too early.

I’ll give you this on a platter:

Example (taken from earlier posts with your strings embedded on some lines)

abLckEXPR_cX2 cab X2c LckEXPR_ cc z aX2 cLckEXPR_ dd ab c c abcccc

Find What:(?-s)^(?=.*LckEXPR_).*\KX2
Replace With:X3
Copy the red text above exactly and insert in the appropriate field in the “Replace” function.
search mode as “regular expression”
Cursor in first position of file, click on “Replace All”

Replace All is required due to the use of the \K command.

Resulting file will be:

abLckEXPR_cX3 cab X3c LckEXPR_ cc z aX3 cLckEXPR_ dd ab c c abcccc

Terry

PS go to regex101 website where this regex and example are shown. Description on right might help you start to understand the code.

@Alan-Kilborn ,
Thanks, I did try that already, but the result is the same. It still puts that space in at the start of the line. :-(

Edit: But thanks for the input and I did find the problem after looking at it again…It’s my fault. I added a space in the Replace line. DOH!! I also added the \n, as well so thanks.

Told you my head wasn’t working right today. :)

@mkupper I appreciate your reply. The path to the executable is correct. After conferring with a co-worker, I was able to resolve this by adding code to get the logged in user account and creating a scheduled task to run as that user to launch notepad++.

Perfect solution, thanks a lot, you’re the man.

@LhxVinCent said in Notepad++ is cleared after exiting abnormally.:

No backup files were found in the local backup directory.

Can you paste a screenshot of your Settings > Preferences > Backup page?

Because I am not sure exactly what you mean by “local backup directory”. The possibilities that I can think of:

If you mean the one in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\ , that only holds the session-snapshot-and-periodic-backup saves (which are the temporary copies that happen every 7 seconds [by default] when you are between Ctrl+S/File>Save; but as soon as you do a real save, that snapshot is deleted until you have more unsaved changes) If you have the Backup On Save preference set to Simple or Verbose: and have defined the Custom Backup Directory, then every time you use Ctrl+S/File>Save, it should save a backup to that custom directory. If that’s not happening, that’s a problem (which is why I want to see your Backup preferences screenshot) or instead have not enabled Custom Backup Directory, then the simple backup-on-save will be in the same directory as your file, or the verbose backup-on-save will be in the .\nppBackup\ subdirectory relative to your active file’s directory. And again, it should update or save a new copy every time you hit Ctrl+S or File>Save if this is your option setup.

For better understanding Notepad++'s various backup features in the future, you will want to read the User Manual section on the Backup Preferences (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#backup) as well as this Forum’s Backup FAQ

the tragedy was that the document that usually kept important records was emptied.I’ve been saving with Ctrl + S all the time during the editing process.

I was originally thinking you were just relying on “session snapshot and periodic backup”, but if you’ve been actively saving using Ctrl+S, that is reasonable behavior on your part.

As @Terry-R mentioned, v8.1.4 is pretty old at this point. Really old versions of Notepad++ used to have a bug where under certain unique Windows OS shutdown/crash conditions, a file being edited by Notepad++ would be saved as all NULL characters – you didn’t mention NULL, but maybe that’s what you are seeing. Over the last few years, Notepad++ has been drastically improved in that regard, but having a copy that’s 3.5 years old, that might be what has happened to you.

Using the techniques that @Almighty1 mentioned, or other file recovery software (the FAQ mentions a potential, though we cannot guarantee or warranty it), might help you recover your original files.

For the sake of your data going forward, I would highly recommend updating to v8.7.5 to get the last few years of bug fixes and improvements; and highly recommend reading and understanding the User Manual section and FAQ entry that I linked to earlier in this reply.

@VertyyBird It would be simpler to select the Regular expression mode, put the 2 lines you want to find in the, “Find” field and hit Replace after typing $0\r\n(new line1)\r\n(new line2)\r\n(new line3)\r\n(new line4)\r\n(new line5)\r\n(new line6)\r\n(new line7)\r\n(new lin8)\r\n(new line9)\r\n(new lline10)\r\n(new line11)\r\n(new line12)\r\n(new line13)\r\n(new line14)\r\n(new line15)\r\n(new line16)\r\n(new line17)\r\n(new lin18)\r\n(new line19)\r\n(new lline20)\r\n(new line21)\r\n(new line22)\r\n(new line23)\r\n(new line24)\r\n(new line25)\r\n(new line26)\r\n(new line27)\r\n(new lin28)\r\n(new line29)\r\n(new lline30) in the “Replace” field - the \r\n(new line) puts the new line on the next line. I am presuming that you have to add some 30 new lines

@PeterJones - Thanks for the assistance!

You are right, some of the parts are obvious but I didn’t want to mess up the template by deleting things that don’t apply in case it is needed to produce the correct output in the post itself. Same reason, I didn’t delete the “To accomplish this,” section because while I knew from searching that \r\n meant carriage return, in the before data, I wasn’t sure what to use because as you can see, I knew one had to look for "<setting " but then I looked at it and noticed that there are two versions of "<setting ", one being "<setting " with the second one being “<setting name=”, and obviously, nothing needed to be done for “<setting name=” so my thought was I thought, I needed to make it ignore the “<setting name=” lines as part of the find which was really what made it more difficult in the search part.

@Propono-Web-Hosting

At first I thought I could replicate your issue but in then when trying to carefully to repeat my steps so I could document the reproduction steps I discovered that a pinned portable worked fine…

What I would do is to first unpin Notepad++, make sure no instances of Notepad++ are running, and then start a portable copy using however you normally start portable copies.

Once the portable copy is running then save a copy of Notepad++'s debug info in Microsoft Notepad. Then right on the Notepad++ on the task bar, pin it, and close/exit Notepad++ to have just the pin showing.

Do not start Notepad++ using the pin just yet. Instead, right click on the pin for Notepad++ in the task bar and right click the “Notepad++” at the top of the menu that shows up, and then left click on Properties. It defaults to the Shortcut tab of the properties and is in the Target field. I don’t see an obvious way to add the command line and so appended the command line parameters I wanted to the end of the Target field.

Save that to the shortcut and start Notepad++ using the pin. Get the debug info again and verify that the path and command line exactly match what you saved when you had first started the portable copy.

I had two strange things happen when I was trying to replicate. One of that was when copy/pasting the command line parameters I needed that the “quotes” around became unbalanced. It caused Notepad++ to try to create a file named “-multiInst” which I declined. I don’t know if I made a mistake or Windows did did something to unbalance the quotes. The result was when started Notepad++ that I got some odd behavior that seems much like what you saw. That’s why I’m suggesting to first get the debug info, then to fix up the Target, and them to re-verify the debug info once I have started Notepad++ using the pin.

The other strange thing is that I normally use an installed copy of Notepad++. In the process of testing pins all of the session/tabs from my portable copy ended up getting appended to the tabs/files for the installed copy. My installed copy is single instance and the portable copies are normally run with -multiInst. As pinning does not transfer the command line I had first accidentally started a portable copy using my new pin without command line parameters. That started the portable copy in single instance mode and I suspect Notepad++ has some instance sharing stuff that resulted in my portable tabs/files getting appended to the tabs used by the installed copy.

@Terry-R Using {Delay 0.05}\2\1\2\3 in the Replace field will be more accurate

@Terry-R said in Find line containing word and the next line below it:

I’d go for a “Mark” with bookmark lines selected.

Use:(?-s)^(?=.*tweak:)(.+\R.+\R) and click Mark All. All the tweak lines and corresponding following lines are bookmarked. Then you’d just copy the bookmarked lines to another tab.

Thanks, Terry, perfect!!

@Wicke2d said in Is it possible to enable autoscroll? (Scrollclick):

Just because?

@xomx gave you the reason in the reply to your issue: the Scintilla library (used as the underlying editor component of Notepad++) doesn’t expose access to the middle-mouse-button click (ie, scrollwheel click on modern mouse architecture). Until they do, Notepad++ cannot know that the MMB was clicked in the text-editing components of Notepad++.

@PeterJones Thanks. Also, I forgot to turn on Regular expression. Can you believe it?! What a noob! :D

It works now! Thanks!

@guy038 Reacting late to this thread, but I think in many case when you want to normalise a unicode text, NFC isn’t enough because it doesn’t handle ligatures.
So for many people, a longer table than the one here, including all the decomposition in NFKC, will be needed.

To make this more concrete : NFC won’t normalise the ffi_ligature (U+FB03).
So “A\uFB03n” will stay “A\uFB03n” if normalized with NFC, but will change to “Affin” if normalized with NFKC which is much more useful for many people.

@Säbelzahn-Tiger said in Can't drag and drop files into existing Notepad++ window:

have done anything what I have found in the internet without any success.

We cannot know what instructions you did or did not try. If we don’t know what you’ve tried, how can we know what we should or should not suggest? If we try to suggest anything, you would likely come back and say “I already tried that”, but there was no way for us to know.

If you want help, explain the exact circumstances of what’s causing the problem, share your ?-menu’s Debug Info, and let us know what you tried. Don’t make us guess.

@Jacob-Holmes said in Capitalization challenge with srt subtitle file - ignoring strings of text possible?:

Otherwise, is there maybe a way to accomplish this with RegEx?

So given the single example it might not be a good solution, but:
Using the Replace function:
Find What:(?-is)^Speaker\s*\d*:\s*\K(.)
Replace With:\U\1

Of course the search mode is Regular Expression and you need to click on the “Replace All” button. Best if the cursor is at the start of the file.

The \K will cause issues if you want to detect and replace one line at a time, hence the need for the “Replace All”. So obviously you’d consider working on a copy of the file, just in case it caused more problems. If you did try this and it failed we’d need to know more about the issues. Then either we adjust this solution or start with a new idea.

Terry

Currently this Python module has 10,792 lines of code, and on line 4072 I saw the unexpected orange italic highlighting, which made no sense to me.

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As part of the same bug report, it was mentioned in one of the replies on the issue, that ending a Python comment with a . triggers the attribute formatting on the next line.

This is because it’s looking for . followed by 0-or-more-whitespace (which includes newline) followed by what would otherwise be an identifier, and if it finds that, then instead of identifier, it treats the word as an attribute/method instead. So, to get around that bug, either remove the ... at the end of your comment, or put some other (non-whitespace) character after the ... - maybe use : instead of ...

Do you think it would be something useful to share with the rest of the community?

There is a TODO.txt UDL in the User Defined Languages Collection already; and if you have a different angle-of-attack for lists/todo/done choices, it would be reasonable to share it as another UDL in that Collection, to give people more options.

@Ky-Waegel
I don’t use any of these functions (currently), however a quick search of the forum came up with this post by one of our more experienced users. Have a read of this post. I think it might answer some of your questions (hopefully).

Terry

@Alex-De-Lara said in Switch to previous/next document... was this previously asked ?:

@PeterJones we were talking about next document/previous document so those are the keys I referred to on my post: remapped them to use F11/F12 and whatever was there before, I simply assigned “None” because I don’t use those.

You were describing behaviors (opening of the Doc Switcher) which those menu entries cannot do, because they are not making use of the Ctrl+Tab which DocSwitcher uses; thus, because what I believed you were describing seems impossible to me, I asked for clarification. I want to confirm: is this the popup you are seeing?

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Because that’s the DocSwitcher popup. If it looks different, then you might be seeing something other than the DocSwitcher.

There are no conflicts: I took the time to look all shortcuts.

The Shortcut Mapper shows any conflicts in a reddish tone, so it would have been obvious.
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The two checkboxes in the “Document switcher” box are not selected.

Then I do not see how you could ever see the Document Switcher popup. When those are disabled, there is no way that I know of that can get the Document Switcher to appear.

I think you might have actually been seeing something else, or you have a plugin that has taken over the actions and is somehow mimicking or invoking the Document Switcher in a non-standard way.

You are right: I don’t upgrade often… like my granpa used to say, “If ain’t broke…”

There have been lots of bugs fixed in the last year and a half – so it was broke, and you were not fixing it. Including security fixes. But if you want new features or bugfixes, you’re going to have to update.

But seriously, every time I upgraded my configuration xml files got clobbered and I got tired of running after the saved copies to restore them.

Some people have come here to claim, but so far no one has ever been able to show a repeatable set of instructions which is guaranteed to overwrite the %AppData% settings when running ?-menu’s Update Notepad++ action. By default, the updater goes to great lenghts to not overwrite any of your customized settings – to the point where people complain that they don’t get updated syntax highlighting because it is correctly not overwriting their outdated-but-customized old syntax highlighting.

Since it seems to happen frequently for you, sharing the ?-menu’s Debug Info, plus sharing the permissions on your %AppData%\Notepad++ folder, and any of the XML files in that directory.

Of course, if you aren’t using the installer (as @Terry-R suggested), or if you’re not using the %AppData%\Notepad++ location for your configuration (and the ? > Debug Info that @Terry-R requested will tell us either of those), then it might be easier for it to accidentally clobber.

I’m running 8.6.7 now which is working the way I wanted

That’s still more than 6 months out of date, and again, there should be no difference between 8.6.7 and 8.7.5 in how Document Switcher responds to Ctrl+Tab based on the settings, and how Notepad++ responds to the View > Tab > Next/Previous Tab commands or their keyboard equivalents.

You never told us the results of your portable-zip experiment, but maybe if you did, we could help you figure out whether you are doing something wrong, or whether you’ve found a difficult-to-notice bug, due to your unique situation… but in order to do that, we would need an exact and explicit set of instructions to reproduce. Something like:

Download official 8.7.5 64bit zip and unzip into a unique folder (not the place where you normally have Notepad++; we want a separate, independent copy) Run notepad++ from that folder, and create a few new files so that new 1 and new 2 and new 3 are available for forward/backward tab navigation Make the following changes to Shortcut Mapper (include screenshots) Make the following changes to settings (include screenshots) Hit F11 or F12 (or whatever) to cycle, and Document Switcher comes up, even though think it shouldn’t Using View > Tab > Next/Previous tab does or does not also show this popup

These are just my guess as to the approximate situation. You need to tell us the exact steps necessary for you to replicate the problem from a fresh, unmodified copy of portable Notepad++, otherwise it’s going to be impossible to debug the problem. Explain the steps in excruciating detail, like you’re explaining it to a computer-newbie grandma or to a 5-year-old (don’t make any assumptions or leave out any steps).

but again, had to reset the colors schema the way I wanted (every one us have our preferences right ?).

In my years of using Notepad++, using the updater, I cannot remember a single time where it accidentally overwrote my stylers.xml. If you’re just unzipping a portable, then yes, you either have to not unzip the stylers.xml or whatever theme, or you have to do some extras to merge new config files into your old, so you don’t lose settings – this is made quite explicit in the Online User Manual’s “upgrading” page (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/upgrading/#upgrading-a-portable-edition)

When you are “upgrading” or “downgrading” Notepad++, what are the exact steps you are taking? (again, please include enough detail that a newbie grandma or a 5yo would be able to repeat exactly what you did)

It’s all good now.

Ignoring a problem isn’t “good”. But it’s your choice.

—
NOTE: by describing a “newbie grandma” or “5yo”, I am not trying to imply that your particular grandmother (or any 5 year old that you know) is stupid or incompetent, or any such thing. I am using “newbie” to describe such a person who has no experience with Notepad++, and might not have a lot of experience with computers in general: in other words, someone whom you would need to take through little tiny steps to do anything new on the computer. If you have a grandma or 5yo who doesn’t need handholding when using Notepad++ or computers in general, that’s great. And if your newbie grandma or 5yo does need help, that’s perfectly understandable and acceptible, and I am not disparaging them or you.