@Harlan-Nguyen ,

@Eko-palypse answered your initial question, which is probably a reasonable answer.

But really, this forum is focused on the Notepad++ editor-specific aspects of using Notepad++. It’s not a general “help me debug whatever it is I am using Notepad++ to edit” forum. This is explained with the humorous example of baking cookies in this FAQ.

@Mathieu-Chapoton / @Alan-Kilborn,

Yes, Npp Compare Plugin does display blank lines for lines that don’t exist; for example:

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Those lines aren’t really there in the file; the plugin just shows the blank lines to line things up visually.

@Anthony-Doshi ,

@Terry-R answered your immediate question, but if you have further search-and-replace (regex) needs, you can study this FAQ and the documentation it points to. Before asking a new regex question, understand that for future requests, many of us will expect you to show what data you have (exactly), what data you want (exactly), what regex you already tried (to show that you’re showing effort), why you thought that regex would work (to prove it wasn’t just something randomly typed), and what data you’re getting with an explanation of why that result is wrong. When you show that effort, you’ll see us bend over backward to get things working for you. If you need help formatting the data so that the forum doesn’t mangle it (so that it shows “exactly”, as I said earlier), see this help-with-markdown post, where @Scott-Sumner gives a great summary of how to use Markdown for this forum’s needs.
Please note that for all “regex” queries – or queries where you want help “matching” or “marking” or “bookmarking” a certain pattern, which amounts to the same thing – it is best if you are explicit about what needs to match, and what shouldn’t match, and have multiple examples of both in your example dataset. Often, what shouldn’t match helps define the regular expression as much or more than what should match.

@Stanislav-Elvenisko-Hoferek
I’m not sure what your second post was meant to say. Did you even try that?

My suggestion is start with 1 file opened in NPP and test what I provide. If it works the same method can also work on a bunch of files using the other tab of the Replace function called “Find in Files”.
So
Find What:(SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:)(.+?)(:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end)
Replace With:\1anything\3
This is using your terminology. Up to you to replace the strings SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_BEGINNING:
anything and
:SOME_COMMON_CONTENT_end
with what your actual data is. Note I did bracket the text we will replace (.+?), this is not necessary, but it won’t change the result.

Terry

@jano-semo said:

looks like this

SourceCookifier

plugin is making the trouble.

@Richard-Cranium

not 100% sure but are you looking for a regular expression like this ?
(?s)class="Action1".*?(?=</property)

ok thx for the info, i appreciate it

@Ronald-Fischer

you can set the smart highlighting colours, which are used if you double click on a word, here:

settings > style configurator > global styles > smart highlighting and set the background colour from green to your prefered highlighting colour.

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@MonarchX
Notepad++ x64 portable
use setup.exe for plugins

@Comawhite54 said:

Hello All,

I am looking for a solution to be able to call a plugin (ie: python debug script) just by clicking a shortcut in the toolbar.
I do not find any solution to do this?
The plugin “customise toolbar” does not seems to permit it neither.

So you know a solution?

with nppexec plugin
npp_menucommand <menu\item\name> - executes (invokes) a menu item

TextFX probably isn’t the best recommendation, given that it is 32-bit only and not maintained. Although it requires the use of another plugin, this thread gives another way of achieving the goal: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13792/date-time-again

yes, ok, but if I have an .html file, I will never finnish with this line. :) So, for sure I have a lot of lines and other tags after line six :)

anyway, I get it. I remove the last part (?=\R) and works.

(?-i)<p class="TEXTA">(?:([^<>]+<(\w{1,10})>([^<>]+|(?1))</\2>[^<>]+)+|[^<>]*)<(?!/p)[^<>]+?>

thank you @guy038

And Happy New Year everyone !!

@Geoffrey-Odhner

welcome to the notepad++ community

the line comment option “force at beginning of line” refers to the comment marker (delimiter), not to the comment itself.

here’s a screenshot with a little example of what will and what won’t be interpreted as a comment if you use it. (comments are highlighted in green)

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you are correct about the global meaning of this setting, it is not possible to set one line comment delimiter string that will work everywhere and another one that’s only valid at the beginning of a line.
the only workaround i know of is to use a comment line setting restricted to the beginning of the line and a block comment, which you could use everywhere, but which has to have separate open and close delimiters like /* and */ as they don’t end automatically at the break of a line

Thank you, sir, that’s exactly what I was looking for!

Also, I appreciate the detailed explanation, it was very helpful.

Further, I was able to use your link to determine that I needed to add "(\t\t\t) to my replace expression to align the ‘new’ line with the old code line.