@Blind-SQuirreL ,

Yep, my experiments show the behavior. You have found yet another bug in UDL. Too bad there have been no bug fixes or feature improvements in UDL in years, so even if you made an official bug report, I doubt anything would ever happen with it. (There are other longstanding UDL bugs dealing with comments and folds. FOr example, if you have one or more single-line comments at the beginning of the file, any folding that happens afterward might be off-by-one-or-more-lines from where it should be.)

As a workaround, I suggest not using the multi-line comment definition if you want to fold that section of text; instead, use Folding in Code Style 1 if you can – or Style 2 if you’ve already used Style 1 (and are able to have newlines or spaces before and after your { and } indicators ).

@Alan-Kilborn said in Scroll and search through keyword lines by alphabetical order?:

^\w-$

I intended it to be ^\w+-$ but the + got lost somehow. :-(

This regex will capture all scientific notation numbers, and can also handle leading + signs and number with leading decimal points:
([+-]?(?:\d+(?:\.\d*)?|\.\d+)(?:[eE][+-]?\d+)?)

Seriously, everyone should just write that down somewhere so they can look it up in times of need.

@LanceMarchetti said in Unicode 'ÿ' , problem converting to Hex 'FF':

int val = static_cast<unsigned char>(selText.getChar(i));

I’m afraid this type cast will corrupt data if any character ordinal is greater than 0xFF, e.g. ġ. See, for example:

Fix character truncation bug that lead to ‘ġ’ styled as an operator since its low 8 bits are equal to ‘!’

selText.getChar already returns an int, which is 32-bits wide, so more than enough for any ASCII or Unicode ordinal.

The real issue is the declaration of SelectedString::_str as char *, which limits every representable “byte” to a maximum ordinal value of 0x7F. It should be the generic TCHAR * type, which becomes wchar_t * when the _UNICODE compile-time definition is set (as it always has been ever since Notepad++ became a Unicode application about 17 years ago). A wchar_t is 16 bits, which would accommodate “extended” 8-bit ASCII as well as the East Asian double-byte character sets that remain popular with some users.

@No-Nope said in Replacing many occurences of different text blocks:

npp-user-manual page on regular-expressions, but I only found references to the tabs in the seearch/replace dialogue.

Interesting. Yes, there are 68 matches, and the ones near the top of the Searching page are all about which tab of the Find/Replace/Mark dialog you are on – but that’s because the user interface for searching is what’s described first in the Searching page.

But as soon as you go into the actual Regular Expression section of that page, it’s the third match (the other two being “table” and “comfortable”), and it’s a line that literally uses the word “tab” four times.

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I’d make it easier to find if I could, but I don’t see any way to better help people find the regular expression syntax for the tab character than to put it in the section on regular expressions and use both “tab” and “character” in the description. I’m sorry that wasn’t enough for you to find it.

@PeterJones OK, thanks, I could manage the rest.

@Mark-Olson thank you, sir for explaining. I would be lying if I say I understand. But I promise to go through it carefully and try to learn. Thank you for your time and detailed description.

@Ismael-Santana said in import libreries notepad++ in a python script:

I installed NppExc to run python

My guess without seeing any of your installation or how you did the things you say you did is that you need to updated your NppExec script to use the python.exe that is in the virtual environment; otherwise, you are just running the system Python, where presumably, you do not have pandas installed.

Cheers.

@Helmut-Mueller

From what Notepad++ version you have upgraded to the v8.6.2?

Can you go few versions back to where the error does not show up like that? This could help us to determine a specific change in the N++ code causing this problem. Try with portable versions from the N++ repository.

Close heidiSQL, Open File: ok
Start heidiSQL: Open File: 3 sec

Maybe you could also ask here if there is not a possible file IO conflict in between the N++ and heidiSQL.

@OpossumPetya said in Finding out install location - could you try on cmd?:

C:\>for /f "tokens=2 delims=REG_SZ" %i in ('reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Notepad++ ^| findstr /i /l /c:"Default"') do @echo %i 2> NUL C:\Program Files\Notepad++ C:\>

delims operates on characters, not words so a path that contains any character of R, E, G, _, S, Z will echo a incomplete path. For example in a batch file:

for /f "tokens=2 delims=REG_SZ" %%A in ( 'echo (Default^) REG_SZ C:\Program Files\rReEgG__sSzZ' ) do ( echo %%A )

echoes C:\Program Files\r as R is a delimiter and e is the next token.

This is what I have tried so far to echo both x86 and x64 install paths of Notepad++

setlocal if defined ProgramW6432 ( set "bit=/reg:32 /reg:64" ) else ( set bit="" ) for %%Z in (%bit%) do ( for /f "tokens=1,2,*" %%A in ( '2^>nul reg query HKLM\Software\Notepad++ /ve %%~Z' ) do if "%%~A" == "(Default)" if "%%~B" == "REG_SZ" ( if not "%%~C" == "(value not set)" ( echo "%%~Z" "%%~C" ) ) )

It also echoes the bit arg to let you know where the data came from. The bit arg will be empty if ProgramW6432 is not defined. I cannot specify if the bit arg is valid on Windows Vista or XP as no records available and do not have a VM for those OSes setup currently to test.

@Zephaniah-Waks-0 said in reset search results window to what it was originally:

how can i mark this as solved

This forum doesn’t have a mechanism for marking something as “solved”.

Para el Modo Oscuro: Settings>Dark Mode

@Andria-Baunee
Nobody can help you unless you provide more specific information, like some example data and a detailed explanation of what you want.

@TechnicalSup said in Find > Selection Mode Extended; Help About:

I don’t understand how to use it.

Sorry, I really can’t spend my time trying to help people that can’t follow instructions I’ve already provided. Good luck to you.

This should be split out into a new thread as it’s not a v8.6.4 regression.

@Gianluca-De-Gluck - At “2 - some files are automatically opened at app startup” isn’t Notepad++ started? If so, what is the tab order?

Regarding "3 - two or more files are selected in the desktop (anywhere by Windows file manager) and then opened by right click menu’ “edit with notepad++”

If from Windows File manager you right click and select “edit with notepad++” then Notepad++ will select the file/tab if it is already opened within Notepad++. If the file is not yet open then a new tab is added to the right for this file.

If from File Manager you select two or more files and then do “edit with notepad++” then the results are less predictable. One of the files selected in File Manager will become the active tab in Notepad++. All of the files will be tabs in Notepad++. The ones already opened in Notepad++ will be somewhere in the list of tabs and the newly opened ones will e on the right.

I suspect you were hoping or expecting that Notepad++ would shift newly opened files to be the rightmost tabs. That is not the case. This behavior has not changed and I don’t think it has ever changed.

@PeterJones ,
Thanks, @PeterJones , I didn’t know that either. Although it never really bothered me much doing the Save As and putting the extension on, I usually create my files in the dBASE IDE to create the forms and method stubs, and then edit the methods with Notepad++ when I’m working on making a program work in the IDE at the same time, because I don’t have to close NPP like I do the IDE editor to run the program. It makes compile,run,edit much quicker to work on the code of the program, that way. I just tried the language switch, and it did start using my UDL without even having to name the file first, so…kudos for the tip. :-)

I started to answer @Fred, but realized the File Associations might not have been what he was looking for, so I deleted it.

@Ooker ,

You would have to figure out the mapping between every VSCode command, and its Notepad++ equivalent, and then figure out how to translate the VSCode keymap syntax into Notepad++ shortcuts.xml syntax, using that mapping table. It would be a huge effort.

As far as I know, no one has ever posted in this Community forum that they have such a mapping already, so you’d likely have to do this yourself.

(For some reason, I doubt that you’ll be willing to…)

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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The article FAQ: List of Notepad++ key combinations, available for shortcuts doesn’t seem to provide anything.

If you had said “it doesn’t answer my question”, that would have been at least accurate. As it stands, that phrasing claims that there is no information in that FAQ, when in reality, there is lots of information in that FAQ, which has proven useful to many people – it’s just not the information you were looking for. But since the FAQ specifically says it’s about the key combinations available to shortcuts, I think it accomplishes exactly what it claims.

That FAQ doesn’t have anything specific on the shortcuts.xml file format, because that format is already documented in the User Manual’s Config File Details, and our FAQs aren’t going to replicate the entire User Manual, as they serve two different purposes.

@Srinivasan-k-d Simple, type Srini\RVasan in the Find what field and Srini Vasan in the Replace with field, tick the Regular expression mode and hit Replace, you will get Srini Vasan. Then, type Sachin\RTendulkar in the Find what field and Sachin Tendulkar in the Replace with field, tick the Regular expression mode and hit Replace, you will get Sachin Tendulkar. If there are some white spaces in between Srini and Vasan and Sachin and Tendulkar, use \s* instead of \R. Then, press ctrl + h (Shortcut for replace). Then, in the Find what zone, type ^\R ( for empty lines only) or ^\h*\R ( for empty lines with blank spaces only) and leave the Replace with zone empty. Then, tick the Wrap around option. Then, select the Regular expression search mode. Then, click on the Replace All button and all the blank lines will be removed.

@pnedev Thank you for the info.

@A-Former-User said in Edit 1 line and another line gets edited as well (copy - pasted text):

I’m gonna revert to 8.5.8 until they provide a option to deactivate it.

Already exists. Notepad++ v8.6.3 and v8.6.4 have Settings > Preferences > Editing 2 > ☑ Enable Multi-Editing, as mentioned in the v8.6.3 and v8.6.4 announcements and already updated in the User Manual.