@Caro-Chennouf ,

I figured out why my regex wasn’t working, so was able to get it to properly match an N-line paragraph that has a repeat later.

if you’re in v8.x, go to Settings > Preferences > Highlighting Go to the Mark All section and uncheck Match whole word only
c88196e3-89b5-4a06-8971-07bdbc24e946-image.png Go to the first line (Ctrl+Home) FIND the first instance of each paragraph Search > Find FIND WHAT = (?-s)((^.+?(\R|\Z))+)(?=(?s:.*)\1) Search Mode = ☑ Regular Expression FIND NEXT
=> this highlights the first paragraph that is repeated somewhere else
f7ea6590-2d52-42d7-866c-0c8d8456b4d1-image.png Use Search > Mark All > Using #th Style (or right click context menu > Style All Occurrences of Token)
=> all of the instances of that first paragraph should be marked with that style number
04df6ffc-e045-4443-a690-d0d2b60bc17e-image.png Use Search > Next or F3 from the editor window, or the FIND NEXT button in the FIND dialog, to select the next “first instance of a paragraph”, and style using a different #th style. Repeat as necessary.
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So it’s not 100% automated, but it’s better than manually having to find each paragraph (chorus or bridge) And remember, this will not be saved in the file; the next time you open it, you’ll have to do it again.

@Mahfuj-Khan

That’s like saying my car is broken, what’s the problem?
If you REALLY need help to solve the problem,
you need to give more information about what you have done,
with which version, if errors occurred and so on …
In short, useful information that one can take to try to replicate your problem.

@Alan-Kilborn
You are an absolute genius! That worked a treat!
Thank you very much!

It works well, I thank you very much dear Alan for your support.

I had to change the registry per your suggestion. Thank you.

@William-Martin said in Messagebox showing how many replacements were made.:

does not generate a MessageBox showing how many replacements were made.

Is the status in the Find/Replace window not good enough? I prefer that rather than a pop-up window I need to dismiss:

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Cheers.

@Ian-Whyte said in Single quote character:

How do I change the font in Notepad++?

Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Default Style > Font
(see style configurator documentation)

And as you discovered, it’s not likely a font issue: I have never seen a font where ASCII 39 single-quote ' is rendered the same as ASCII 96 back-tick/grave-accent ` and as Stefan said is also different from the Unicode U+00B4 acute accent ´. (And none of these should not be confused with the ‘smart single-quote’ characters ‘ and ’ which this forum will convert unprotected single-quotes into if you’re not careful). But in Notepad++, if you keyboard is set up as normal, and you don’t have Windows configured to map that key to a different character, then typing a single-quote-key on your keyboard should give you ' in Notepad++.

@PeterJones said in Record a macro that's just the pasted text?:

Anything you can do in a macro, you can do in PythonScript

Definitely note that the converse is not true…macros are very limiting.

@shashi-bhosale said in Find a text in multiline and replace text:

Thanks a lot for help. What website you use to get explanation of the command ?

You could look in this forum’s FAQ section and find the FAQ entry about Where to find regular expression documentation. It links to the official Notepad++ regular expression documentation, as well as several external sites which are useful for learning about or experimenting with or describing the specifics of regular expressions.

@Peter-Johnson

I thought it may have something to do with SCI_SETINDENTATIONGUIDES but using NppExec to examine my current with Language C (SC_IV_LOOKFORWARD) and then setting to SC_IV_LOOKBOTH, I get the same results as you in both modes.

Cheers.

[SOLVED] I have the same issue as @Felineuk, (while editing .cpp extension files.) The red line is still there, except it is BLACK, not RED anymore. The background in that area is dark-grey so “black on dark-grey”. Not easy to see.
Solution:
Settings > Style Configurator > Fold > Colour Style > Foreground > LIME GREEN
Settings > Style Configurator > Fold Active> Colour Style > Foreground > FIRE ENGINE RED
So better than original (IMHO)
If you need to change the background from dark grey:
Settings > Style Configurator > Fold Margin> etc.

@Jacques-Bourgain ,

Please see the previous discussion “I would like to have a “Notepad++ shortcut” that will jump to a line in a file”

@Varun-Teja ,

If it doesn’t matter which one you keep (that is, if it’s okay to keep only the last instance of a specific domain), then I would suggest doing it this way:

FIND = ((?-s)^.*?(https?://[^/]*/).*?$(\R|\Z))(?=(?s).*\2) REPLACE = leave empty SEARCH MODE = regular expression
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If it doesn’t matter what order they are in, then you could sort first (Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lexiocographically Ascending) and then use that replacement. (edit: Though that’s pointless, because just doing the first also is thus “doesn’t matter what order it’s in”)

If it does matter what order they are in, then you could use column-select (alt+click+drag) to select the zeroth column in the file, then use Edit > Column Editor > Number to Insert to insert numbers:
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(You might want to do a second column select and then also insert a space between the numbers and the lines by selecting the zero-width column after the numbers and then typing a space)

1 https://www.fourthdomain.example/misc 2 https://www.fifthdomain.example/elsewhat 3 https://www.seconddomain.example/elsewhat 4 https://www.firstdomain.example/blah 5 https://www.seconddomain.example/blah 6 https://www.fourthdomain.example/blah 7 https://www.thirddomain.example/blah 8 https://www.firstdomain.example/elsewhat

Then, after that, sort descending (so in my example, it would be 8 down to 1). Then do the replacement I showed above. Then sort ascending again. Then remove the leading numbers (another column select followed by cut or backspace, or do a search-and-replace regular expression of FIND=^\d+\x20* and replace with nothing)

@Stephen-Rieger said in My macro is not recording the selection of text.:

changed the ‘Command ID’ for this Plugins > MIME Tools > URL Decode for me from 22011 to 22027.

Plugins have always been dynamically assigned their command ID numbers – it goes sequentially starting at 22000 and assigning them based on the order of the menu entries for each plugin, where each plugin is processed alphabetically (by DLL name, IIRC).

Any time you change your plugin list – whether it’s because you add or remove a plugin, or if you upgrade to a new Notepad++ version and that changes the number of entries in one of the default plugins or you accidentally forget to install a plugin or you decide you want an extra plugin or if the new version of Notepad++ tells you about an update on one of your plugins so you update that plugin and it has more menu entries – any time any of those changes occur, the command ID for that plugin menu entry will change. This has been true for the entire time I have used Notepad++ over the last decade or more.

@unDrac86 said in Adding Additional Functions to PowerShell Language:

editing the command sources.

Settings > Style Configurator > PowerShell > CMDLET and add text to the user-defined keywords box

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Though I was surprised to learn that at least for PowerShell, the user-defined-keywords box is weirdly case-sensitive: if I typed Get-VM in the box, it didn’t highlight, even though that’s the case that’s used in the file; but if I typed get-vm in the box, it will highlight in the editor, whether it’s Get-VM or get-vm or gET-vM

@Scrubbb ,

not understand, I want to process the DLL, but it opens in this form

Yes, a DLL is a binary file. Looking at it in a text editor isn’t very insightful.

Notepad++ isn’t a decompiler – it will not take a compiled exe or DLL and give you the source code.

OK, copying text to clipboard works but it is not drag and drop.
Anyway, I have to read carefully the @artie-finkelstein part on dropping files. Also I will add a separate “copy to clipboard” functionality that till now is missing (hoping drag&drop suffices).
See you soon!

@PeterJones said in Fix timing format:

$1,$2
thanks so much you save my day
its working with me good

@SENPAY98K

Not natively. You can do it with a scripting plugin. You have to write some code to do it.

@PeterJones Thank you very much. Works well. Wow there is a lot to learn about what notepad++ can do.