Dear Friends,
with the specified search criteria, userid=“(NewPC\User\Maya|Computer\Home|XP\Admin)”
I could replace all users. There were only 21 variations and I could find it and type it.

Thanks again for everyone!

That works, thank you so much Scott :-)

CORRECTION – The problem discussed above occurs in BOTH the Administrator and Standard User accounts.

How to fix???

Thank you. I didn’t realized I ever hit the insert key at all. I have never actually used it ever before.

Thanks to all; backleveling to TortoiseSVN 1.10.2 solved the problem.

It’s perfectly supported, no need to bother with definition.

@adelinefiu
You were very close. Just change the * for a +. The + is greedy and it will try to grab as many characters as possible up to the end of the line.

Suggest read the FAQ, it has some good links. Also rexegg.com has a table outlining the meaning on the * and +.

Terry

Thank you for the pormpt reply. Sure enough the /S being capital made the difference.

I found it, it was here:

C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\functionList.xml

Thank you!

Hi, @neagal, @Terry-R, @scott-sumner and All,

About a possible space char, before the ms string, you can delete it, to get a coherent field, with the regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-i)(?<=\d)\x20(?=ms)

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Now, if we use lazy quantifiers, the Terry’s regex S/R, with a line-break between each block, turns to :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+?\x20)(.+?)\x20(.+?)\x20(.+?)\x20(.+?)\x20(.+?)\x20(.+)(\R)

REPLACE \1\2\8\1\3\8\1\4\8\1\5\8\1\6\8\1\7\8\8

Eventually, if necessary, you can move back to the #### ms syntax, with a space between, with the regex S/R :

SEARCH ms$

REPLACE \x20$0

Best Regards,

guy038

This seems to have been made an issue here .

thanks scott

@PeterJones

I’m guessing that when those docs were originally created, Notepad++ and NppExec were more “tightly coupled” so that some documentation was written with “blurry lines” between the two.

Hello, @ALISSAbry, @gurikbal-singh, @cipher-1024 and All,

Ahrrrrrhh ! You’re perfectly right, @cipher-1024 : my regex does not work, if no extra blank lines exist :-((

I first had found a correct regex. However, as I also wanted to delete possible pure blank lines, I tried to improve my regex against a text containing some blank lines

But I had not tested it again, with a simple text, without extra blank lines. My bad !

So a correct regex could be :

SEARCH (\R){2,}|(?<!=)\r\n(?!=)

REPLACE ?1\1:\x20

Notes :

Only, the second alternative have changed (?<!=)\r\n(?!=). It will replace any line-break, not preceded and not followed with an equal sign =. In other words, only the line breaks located between two data lines

Note that we must replace the \R syntax with the \r\n ( or with \n if you’re working with Unix files ! ) Why ? Just because \R represents \r\n, but in order to match an overall regex, \R may match only \r or \n

For instance, if you try to match the regex (?<!=)\R(?!=) at the end of the sentence …YEScrlf, it would grab only the \r part of the line break, before \n. Indeed, in that case, the \r character is, both, not preceded with an = sign ( as it is the letter S) and not followed with an = sign ( as it is the \n symbol )

Cheers,

guy038

@Gustavo-Garcia
The regex (regular expression) for finding and marking those lines would be, using the Find function (with bookmark line also ticked)
Find What:^\$
Use Search mode as ‘regular expression’ and tick ‘wrap around’.

If you did that then you can then use the Search, bookmark submenu to cut or copy these lines to another tab.

Now a macro is in essence just the steps you take (above) but with first selecting Macro, Start recording. Then you’d type in the regex (as shown above), by first selecting the Mark function, just as you would if using Mark normally. You need to complete by pressing ‘Mark All’, then Close. Remember that once you have completed these steps you would then select Macro, Stop recording. At this point the steps have been recorded, but not yet saved. You then need to select Macro and Save Recorded Macro, give it a name. I would then exit Notepad and re-enter to have it written to an XML file in the Notepad++ environment.

You will be able to run it again and again by selecting it from the Macro menu.

Terry

In my test the macro I created in shortcuts.xml file was:
<Macro name=“$@start” Ctrl=“no” Alt=“no” Shift=“no” Key=“0”>
<Action type=“3” message=“1700” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1601” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“^$” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1625” wParam=“0” lParam=“2” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1702” wParam=“0” lParam=“786” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1701” wParam=“0” lParam=“1615” sParam=“” />
</Macro>

Some of the information can be rather hard to understand, and it’s even harder to edit once created, so if you don’t get it right first time, you will likely need to delete that macro and start again.

This file can be in several places, for me on Windows 7 it is %appdata%\notepad++. Be careful with opening this file using Notepad++ as it gets written to if required upon exiting Notepad++.

There is a known performance issue with 7.5.9, see https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16468/notepad-7-5-9-release/21
Is this the behaviour you observe?