@Scott-Sumner
That’s awesome.

Thank you!

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@cipher-1024 said:

You could just hold the ALT key down…

This works great. If there was an option to simulate holding the alt key that would be nice but this method will save me so much frustration. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one it affects. My thanks to everyone that replied.

“File cannot be saved and it may be protected . Open in administrator mode”

I occasionally see this message, seems fairly random but maybe there is an underlying reason? Dismissing the popup box and attempting to save again usually proceeds with no more problem. So, I dunno…

You might report this issue here https://github.com/bruderstein/nppPluginManager/issues. Please add also the N++ debug info, see https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you

@kellyyer

So the comma character is a more-common delimiter than yours, but if you replace every comma in the following with your special delimiter, this should work or at least get you started:

Invoke Replace (press ctrl+h).
Find what zone: (?-s)^(?:.+?,){18}(.+?,.+?),.+ <–again replace every comma here!
Replace with zone: \1
Search mode: Regular expression
Action: Press the Replace All button

I encourage you to read about regular expressions, some ways to get started here. Try the above expression in some of the interactive regex sites to see how it works. Perhaps you will end up with a new technique in your data manipulation arsenal.

NPP 7.6 changed the way that plugins are handled. This post gives a quick summary, using XMLTools as the example. This one goes into more detail for helping someone through the process. This is the official post announcing the change, and here is a discussion of the changes to the plugin directory structure. There are quite a few other posts spread throughout the forum, if you spend a few minutes looking for them.

I think the first is most likely to give you the quick information you want.

Until the Plugin arrangement stabilizes, I am staying with my working 7.5.8 instead of upgrading to the 7.6 (or beyond), so I haven’t tried any of the recommendations. However, those links will give you a starting point.

@Raghad-Qu

The current pythonscript plugin has even an example which looks like is what you are looking for.

Eko

@Meta-Chuh

Well, maybe… Let’s see if at least one of the “trainees” can put forth the question in such a way as to get a satisfactory answer.

@Æþelleo-Durkin
Notepad++ v7.6 (32-bit)
Build time : Nov 12 2018 - 23:51:42
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 7 (32-bit)
Plugins : DSpellCheck.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

answer already given there:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16629/notepad-7-6-and-the-plugin-textfx/10

1- Download Plugin Manager from here

https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/242070/07235880-c507-11e8-8e61-7a2ad4247906?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20181209%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20181209T103203Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=bb1ecb86f76b355ece5b047ee35e8c2f8469d1fa25fc5a52fe5a438a8c2d20e6&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B filename%3DPluginManager_v1.4.12_x64.zip&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream

2- Extract the contents of zip file under “C:\Program Files\Notepad++”

3- Restart Notepad++