This is working! Thanks a lot for this solution!

Still not the “perfect” solution, but I’ll remember that.

I would really love to hear an original developer comment on why they decided to add a second CTRL-A function exactly at the place where it should “naturally” be a multiple line select function!

Afaik no

@Meta-Chuh

Now I have comments and the section headers, operator “=”, numbers and a few keywords.
Only the comments are foldable, still missing is that the header and the contents of a section is foldable together. They are not connected yet as they are in the original lexer.

oh, thank you, bạn thật sự tuyệt vời, tôi đã có thể làm nhanh hơn công việc của mình, mãi yêu notepa++

@bege10

If that procedure leaves an unchanged old contextMenu.xml the installation is not correct at this point.

yes, you are correct.
the reason is, that the notepad++ installer/updater will not replace your existing contextMenu.xml.

this is by design and works correctly, as it would otherwise remove any customised context menu settings, every time a user makes an update.

note: you will always find two different copies of contextMenu.xml on an installed version of notepad++.
one at %AppData%\Notepad++\contextMenu.xml which contains user customisations, and one template at %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\contextMenu.xml which contains all new changes of the latest update/install, allowing you to compare it to your personal contextMenu.xml.

@triplel55569

if @Alan-Kilborn is correct, then you will have to edit your shortcuts.xml file:

on installed versions of notepad++ (not portable versions) the correct location of your shortcuts.xml is: %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml
(this alias will lead you to C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml)

choose file > open at the notepad++ menu.

paste %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml into the file name input field and hit open to open your shortcuts xml.

paste/insert one or more of the following lines in the black area, anywhere into your <UserDefinedCommands> area:

<Command name="Launch in Firefox" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="88">firefox "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command> <Command name="Launch in IE" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="73">iexplore "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command> <Command name="Launch in Chrome" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="82">chrome "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command> save shortcuts.xml and restart notepad++

now your run menu and your shortcuts.xml should look similar or equal to this screenshot:

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please report back if it works for you.

But it would be nice, IMO, to have a couple of choices:

“Quick refresh” - run the exact search again only on files that were originally hit “Full refresh” - run the exact search again on all files currently meeting the filter criteria

@Pardeep-Malik

the style you see at https://notepad-plus-plus.org (see picture below) is the default style of notepad++.
the green border is a windows setting and has to be set at your windows preferences.

Well - whil having only one panel displayed I choose View -> Zoom - > Restore default zoom. Text is displayed at the same scale factor, but after cloning to second panel it finally isn’t zoomed up. :D

Thank you guys once again. :D

But this is normal and expected behavior.
If you open a file, which gets still written by other applications and
YOU change something in the internal npp buffer, how should
npp know which part is the correct one?? Your changes?
The changes from the other application?
Did I miss something?

@PeterJones said:

With data like

Thanks Peter, I was trying to cover as many variations as possible, forgot the ‘very first’ character one. It got me to thinking if perhaps I might have over complicated it a bit.

A couple of minutes work with your ‘data like’ example I got all the required numbers using:
Find What:(\d{3})(\d+)*
Replace With:\(\1\)\2

(432)1 trevor(345)6 never website (345)678 (123)4 trevor(345)6 never always (782)6242 (123)

It seems I don’t need to force the regex to check for a ‘word boundary’ (change between digit and ‘other character’) as it does it itself with the remainder of the regex. So just discarding the first option does not appear to change the outcome.

Cheers
Terry