Claudia, thanks for this:

N++ is better than Python idle because each line of code in N++ is numbered, whereas idle in not. That makes it difficult to troubleshoot a file with 1000 lines of code.

Great, I did not know about that plug-in.

A lot of people use lmddgfy sarcastically, but that link you sent me helped me a lot because I am not familiar enough with idle to determine the keywords for a ddg search.

Thanks!

@Vasile-Caraus

Create a UTF-8 document with some “word” data in it. For example, copy-n-paste the content of this posting.

Get to the Find dialog’s Replace tab:

Find what: \w Replace with: \x20 Search mode: Regular expression Wrap around: checked Uncheck all other checkboxes on Replace tab.

Press the Replace button one or more times. Each press replaces a word character with a single space character.

@Vasile-Caraus

I can understand why \r would work in place of \R for non-Unix files in a FIND operation, but I would not use \r in place of \R in a REPLACE operation for Windows files. Truly, however, \R works fine in my extensive experience with it, and something else must be wrong in your situation.

\W and \K have no relation at all, and if indeed it works somehow in your specific application, it is sheer coincidence.

What troubles me is that you are making blanket statements such as you did, without any supporting information. So perhaps people read this thread in the future and they start mistrusting \R or \K unnecessarily.

Can you post some understandable examples of real text where \R and \K do not work right? Just saying “this doesn’t work” without more information is not helpful. I know it takes work to find specific examples and then put them together into a clear, coherent post that really seems to demonstrate a problem…but I don’t see any way around that for this case. Let’s either prove that \R and \K have issues, or let’s disprove it.

@Michel-DEVEL

I think you should report this at github.

Cheers
Claudia

@gfgtdf

I never said it was perfect ;) You are welcome to make changes and submit a pull request.

@hianghokung Okay. I was unable to save the setting in Preferences > Default Directory > “Use new style save dialog (without file extension feature)” while using 7.3.1. When closing and opening Notepad++ the checkbox would reappear. Downgrading to 7.3.0 resolved this issue.

As for being unable to open text files, this was an issue with Preferences > MISC. I had set the “session file ext.:”/“Workspace file ext.:” to “txt” while I was troubleshooting the issue.

Thanks again for your help.

Thank you for your excellent support!
Your suggestions definitely solves my problem and there is no need to have this feature implemented in N++.

@Claudia-Frank That’s right, but before digging deeper I would like to get an answer from @Dan-Soper , what exactly he needs to know.

Hello,
Just to thank you all :)

It seems @Scott-Summer was right and the issue came from the install through plugin manager. I did it again manually and now the script is working. I will use it as a base and I will probably do some adjustments.

Cheers,
Bruno

@minsikau

that is url standard encoding. Spaces needs to be percent escaped.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-12 for more information.

Cheers
Claudia

@pranjal-mathur

Same result or different result but not solved.
By any change - could you upload the xml for testing?
Or create one which shows the behavior.

Cheers
Claudia