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First Last — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:09:39 -0000

thanks for the hint Sasumner! will do ...

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Sasumner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:05:08 -0000

There will be more people to view your question and possibly help if you post it here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/

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First Last — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:14:53 -0000

Hi I'm new to PS, but find it very handy to create (and update) automations in npp :) I'm having issues creating new scripts ... which was "type of working" before. Clicking on: => Plugins => Python Script => New Script this opens the file selector in the folder .\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts after creating some random file, it does neither show up under => Plugins => Python Script => Scripts nor => Plugins => Python Script => Configuration ... ... even after restarting npp Do I miss any step...

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Dave W. — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:12:39 -0000

Dang. Cool! 👍😄

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John M — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:41:40 -0000

https://github.com/john-a-m/NPP_NER_Labeller it has at least one minor bug with where sometimes it doesn't apply a color, it works though. Let me know what you think (love or hate).

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Dave W. — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:45:41 -0000

And the GitHub page looks to be in pretty good shape as well... maybe even better. It's been updated recently. https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/tree/master/docs/source

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Dave W. — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:32:51 -0000

Wow, that's a really old link. Haven't seen that page in years. Cool. 😊 Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/npppythonscript/ , click "Files", click the "Python Script 1.0.8.0" link, then click the PythonScript_Full_1.0.8.0.zip link to download it, unzip it, and use the /plugins/doc/PythonScript/PythonScript.chm file.

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Yakov — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 08:27:38 -0000

Currently, the link https://npppythonscript.sourceforge.net/docs/latest/ (used both in the menu and on the landing page) gives me 404, am I doing something wrong, or it's broken?

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VTGroup — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:35:24 -0000

I found this discussion because I'm having the same issues. Either (1) the button looks like I want it to and has the right label but is always at the end, or (2) the button looks like I want it to and resides where I want it to but says "Python Script 1" when I hover over it. Maybe the onhover label could be the script name?

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Sasumner — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 10:06:50 -0000

"you cannot make application modal windows in Notepad++" --> This is NOT true. "please correct me and show how" --> I'm not going to show you how with Tcl/Tk, because I don't like and don't use it. The capability can be easily demonstrated with this little UI toolkit that a PythonScript user created: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24389 Suggest you check that out and if you have further questions, post to the community site and someone there will help you out.

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Karel A — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 18:57:18 -0000

The problem with Pythonscript is that you cannot make application modal windows in Notepad++ with Tcl/Tk (or any other GUI framework, as far as I know...), i.e. a window that stays on top within Notepad++, until the user closes it. You can make a system modal window, but not an application modal window. This is a rather severe limitation for Python scripts, as you mostly want the user to be able to interact with the script through a graphical user interface (a listbox or whatever). If I am wrong,...

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Jun Wang — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 09:18:03 -0000

How to loop through a list of strings strs and Find all in current document for each string and show the results in the result panel via python?

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Kadner — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:32:32 -0000

At first sight, NPP 8.4.8 with PythonScript2.0 apparently did the trick! (One only needed to install the missing unidecode module). Thanks a lot for the (prompt) response. However on closer inspection the problem lied in a patched 'sys.path' in MY now OLD custom startup.py which resulted in missing python27\DLLs folder in the path... (this was meant to circumvent the error thrown by PythonScript when it imported pygtk module)

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Kadner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:40:21 -0000

At first sight, NPP 8.4.8 with PythonScript2.0 apparently did the trick! (One only needed to install the missing unidecode module). Thanks a lot for the (prompt) response. However on closer inspection the problem lied in a patched 'sys.path' in my now OLD custom startup.py which resulted in missing python27\DLLs folder in the path... (this was meant to circumvent the error thrown by PythonScript when it imported pygtk module) (As a side comment, I note that the new PythonScript Plugin no longer list...

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Kadner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:15:53 -0000

At first sight, NPP 8.4.8 with PythonScript2.0 apparently did the trick! (One only needed to install the missing unidecode module). Thanks a lot for the (prompt) response. However on closer inspection the problem lied in a patched 'sys.path' of my now OLD custom startup.py which resulted in missing python27\DLLs folder in the path... (this was meant to circumvent the error thrown by PythonScript when it imported pygtk module)

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Kadner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:05:13 -0000

At first sight, NPP 8.4.8 with PythonScript2.0 apparently did the trick! (One only needed to install the missing unidecode module). Thanks a lot for the (prompt) response. On closer inspection the problem lied in a patched 'sys.path' of my now OLD custom startup.py which resulted in missing python27\DLLs folder in the path... (this was meant to circumvent the error thrown by PythonScript when it imported pygtk module)

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Kadner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:04:45 -0000

At first sight, NPP 8.4.8 with PythonScript2.0 apparently did the trick! (One only needed to install the missing unidecode module). Thanks a lot for the (prompt) response. On closer inspection the problem lied in a patched 'sys.path' of my now OLD custom startup.py which resulted in missing python\DLLs folder in the path... (this was meant to circumvent the error thrown by PythonScript when it imported pygtk module)

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Kadner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:03:34 -0000

At first sight, NPP 8.4.8 with PythonScript2.0 apparently did the trick! (One only needed to install the missing unidecode module). Thanks a lot for (prompt) response. On closer inspection the problem lied in a patched 'sys.path' of my now OLD custom startup.py which resulted in missing python\DLLs folder in the path... (this was meant to circumvent the error thrown by PythonScript when it imported pygtk module)

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Kadner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:22:31 -0000

NPP 8.4.8 with PythonScript2.0 did the trick! (Only needed to install unidecode module) Thanks a lot for (prompt) response.

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Sasumner — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:46:55 -0000

The first thing I would do would be to update to the latest 64-bit N++ and PythonScript 2.0.

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Kadner — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:10:40 -0000

Running Npp 8.2.1. 64b Installed Plugin PythonScript 1.5.4.0 Problems trying to run supplied " ...\Scripts\Samples\sorter.py" script Fixed "from unidecode import unidecode" module not found error by copying extracted folder from package in " ...\lib " folder Now stuck with error showing in console: File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\Sorter.py", line 8, in import Tkinter as tk File "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py",...

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Sasumner — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 11:51:21 -0000

You could use Tk that comes with a full install of PythonScript. (I never liked Tk) I suppose you could use Windows low-level API for creating/managing windows, but that sounds, well, exhausting. I make do with the "prompt" function; here's an example: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/28702

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Michael Warwick — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 03:04:02 -0000

I'm liking having Python in Npp and have a couple of working scripts that are helping with my work, one of them would be even better if I could get a few inputs, (about 5 yes/no inputs and a couple of text items) so I'd like to pop up a dialog. The message box and inputs are not quite enough, I'm looking for an example script that puts up a dialog with a few inputs and then uses those values.

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Sasumner — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:45:20 -0000

No idea. You can always open an issue about it here: https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues I use CT without problem, but I always put my script icons to the right end of the toolbar anyway (it is where I want them so I've never tried anything else).

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kiwichick — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 01:11:26 -0000

Yes I did initially use CT, but I ran into a problem. Whenever I use the CT button, the next time I start Npp, the button has moved to the end of the toolbar. I've checked on a clean install of Npp with only CT and PS installed and it still does it. So I decided to check out the PS method. However, I think I'd rather have a button I know the name of than worry about its placement on the toolbar so I'll stick with the CT one. Do you know if there's likely to be a fix for the name issue with PS bu...

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Sasumner — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:51:50 -0000

Yea, it's a known issue. You can get better results if you use the CustomizeToolbar plugin and set up the button that way.

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kiwichick — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:52:53 -0000

When adding a script to the toolbar then hovering over the toolbar button, why isn't the script name shown? Instead it just says "Python Script" followed by a number. I find this very un-user-frirendly.

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Sasumner — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:00:29 -0000

Post this question here and you'll get some good responses: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/

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John Doe — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:50:11 -0000

Hello everyone! I am working on a Script and would like to know if it is possible to add some kind of loading screen functionality. My script manipulates large files and it takes a few seconds to see the changes after running it. Is there any way I can add in a loading screen that terminates when the script has completed running? That way the user has a clearer picture of when the script actually finished executing. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks a bunch!

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Kadner — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:03:18 -0000

Updated 2022/03/31 Moved python-code in separate downloadable file. Precious code indentation and lines were missing on earlier version of post due to errors in formatting ... Updated 2015/04/21 Made code cleaner. Expanded to include all possible matching bracket pairs. Included 2-selections concept from Davey https://sourceforge.net/p/npppythonscript/discussion/1199074/thread/4691495a/#d4a9 . I thought I would share this code as a token of appreciation after having learned from reading code examples...

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Kadner — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:49:28 -0000

Updated 2022/03/31 Moved python-code in separate downloadable file as indentation is lost when copying to post Updated 2015/04/21 Made code cleaner. Expanded to include all possible matching bracket pairs. Included 2-selections concept from Davey https://sourceforge.net/p/npppythonscript/discussion/1199074/thread/4691495a/#d4a9 . I thought I would share this code as a token of appreciation after having learned from reading code examples from so many other programmers. filename : Swap_Items.py Thank...

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Kadner — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:38:11 -0000

Updated 2015/04/21 Made code cleaner. Expanded to include all possible matching bracket pairs. Included 2-selections concept from Davey https://sourceforge.net/p/npppythonscript/discussion/1199074/thread/4691495a/#d4a9 . I thought I would share this code as a token of appreciation after having learned from reading code examples from so many other programmers. I named it Swap_Items.py. Thank you all 'pythoners'. Comments are welcome! ~~~~~~ ''' PURPOSE There is often a need to switch the position...

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saih_tam — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:08:04 -0000

I’m extremely grateful to @mpheath who gave me the solution “clé en main” (ready to use). I have understood it thanks to his explanations. I have implemented both Notepad++ Python Script and Standalone recursive Python Script : both work perfectly. I might even consider changing more elements very easily (thanks to list ‘presets’), and, amazing, modify the 5000 files without open them in Notepad++ (a lot of time saving). That’s a lot more than I expected. BIG THANKS to @mpheath and other for contributions...

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saih_tam — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 20:17:23 -0000

I re-wrote my algorithm to simplify it : Open : 'song.ini' Desactivate 'back line auto' in 'display' Desactivate numeric keypad Start macro # move "name =" If (find("name =") == true) : cut ("name =" line with precedent line break) and paste it after ("[song]" line); Else : create a line after ("[song]" line) and write "name = "; # move "artist =" If (find("artist =") == true) : cut ("artist =" line with precedent line break) and paste it after ("name =" line); Else : create a line after ("name ="...

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saih_tam — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:48:16 -0000

I duplicated this post on Help rubrique. Could moderators delete this empty post ?

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I duplicated this post on Help rubrique. Could moderators delete this empty post ?

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saih_tam — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:45:56 -0000

Exemple1 before modification : [song] artist = Erasure name = 04B.103.8e Always (2009 Remix) album = Pop! Remixed delay = 3050 diff_guitar = -1 diff_bass = -1 diff_guitar_coop = -1 diff_rhythm = -1 diff_vocals = -1 diff_keys = -1 diff_bass_real = -1 diff_guitar_real = -1 diff_dance = -1 diff_bass_real_22 = -1 diff_guitar_real_22 = -1 diff_vocals_harm = -1 sysex_high_hat_ctrl = True multiplier_note = 116 pro_drums = True charter = BobSchneeder45 background = imageWS.jpg last_play = 2022-01-16-22:36:05...

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saih_tam — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:41:43 -0000

Algorithme rename : Start macro 'ctrl' + 'f'; ### open 'find window' 'n' 'a' 'm' 'e' ' ' '=' 'enter'; ### find("name =") If (find("name =") == true) : clic on 'close (cross) button'; ### close find window 'end' ### go to line's end with key '1' of numeric keypad 'shift' + 'home'; ### select all the line with key '7' of numeric keypad... 'shift' + 'left arrow'; ### ... and select the precedent line break 'ctrl' + 'x'; ### cut selection 'ctrl' + 'pg up'; ### go to precedent tab with key '9' of numeric...

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saih_tam — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:33:59 -0000

I duplicated this post on Help rubrique. Could moderators delete the wrong post ? Hello I'm sorry for my bad english. I used to use perso Notepad++ macros : I just record what I do using keyboard, keyboard shortcuts and the mouse only to clic on 'close (cross) button' of find window. It often helps me to save a lot of time in order to modify semi automatically a lot of files 'song.ini' (arround 5000). Unfortunatly, I’m stuck on the impossibility of using basing conditional tests. I understood that...

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saih_tam — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:31:30 -0000

Hello I'm sorry for my bad english. I used to use perso Notepad++ macros : I just record what I do using keyboard, keyboard shortcuts and the mouse only to clic on 'close (cross) button' of find window. It often helps me to save a lot of time in order to modify semi automatically a lot of files 'song.ini' (arround 5000). Unfortunatly, I’m stuck on the impossibility of using basing conditional tests. I understood that PythonScript plugin in Notepad++ allow this conditionnal tests (and far more). I...

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Hello I'm sorry for my bad english. I used to use perso Notepad++ macros : I just record what I do using keyboard, keyboard shortcuts and the mouse only to clic on 'close (cross) button' of find window. It often help me to save a lot of time in order to modify semi automatically a lot of files 'song.ini' (arround 5000). Unfortunatly, I’m stuck on the impossibility of using basing conditional tests. I understood that PythonScript plugin in Notepad++ allow this conditionnal tests (and far more). I...

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Sasumner — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:04:48 -0000

Try it this way: editor.replace('"duration":300', '"duration":315360000')

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Robert — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 05:44:39 -0000

Sorry about the double post

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Robert — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 05:26:33 -0000

I need to run this find / replace in a huge json file. editor.replace(""duration":300", ""duration":315360000") editor.replace(""duration":600", ""duration":315360000") editor.replace(""duration":900", ""duration":315360000") editor.replace(""duration":3600", ""duration":315360000") I get the following error im sure its the " s in the syntax SyntaxError: invalid syntax File "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts\User\Mods.py", line 7 editor.replace(""duration":300", ""duration":315360000")...

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Sasumner — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:02:10 -0000

In general there is not an absolute way to intercept command invocation via their keyboard shortcuts. However, this posting discusses ways of attempting it: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21158/way-to-disallow-copying-text/

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V@no — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:09:54 -0000

Because I want it's functionality when text is selected and don't want it, when nothing is selected. Basically I'd like to combine F3 and CTRL+F3 into one For now I'm satisfied with this method, but still would like to know if there is a way capture commands within the script.

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Sasumner — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:02:01 -0000

Why not just disable it in the Shortcut Mapper?

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V@no — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:53:13 -0000

This is a simple Python script that backup edited file before it's being overwritten on save. It recreates a directory structure of original file in the backup folder and appends modification date of the original file to the end of filename (not date of the backup, file modification date). i.e. file C:\blah\mycode.js will be backed up as D:\Backup\Notepad++\C\blah\mycode.js_20210928_221824.js Because it copies file before NPP saves new data into it, you always will have a copy of the original file....

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V@no — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:55:28 -0000

duplicate. please ignore.

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V@no — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:53:51 -0000

Is there a way intercept and cancel execution of a command when a hotkey is pressed? Specifically I'm trying to intercept when CTRL+F3 is pressed (which is select and find next command) so it would not select a word next to the cursor if no text is selected.

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Kracov B — Sun, 23 May 2021 11:07:48 -0000

https://sourceforge.net/p/npppythonscript/discussion/1188886/thread/6a6fa076/ This is what my issue is. But that seems to be only for one confirmation box, and it's really old, and I don't understand the part about sendkeys

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Sasumner — Sun, 23 May 2021 11:00:10 -0000

I don't think I even really understand the question. Maybe best to post on the Community site with more detail about what you're doing.

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Sasumner — Sun, 23 May 2021 11:00:09 -0000

I don't think I even really understand the question. Maybe best to post on the Community site with more detail about what you're doing.

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Sasumner — Sun, 23 May 2021 11:00:08 -0000

I don't think I even really understand the question. Maybe best to post on the Community site with more detail about what you're doing.

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Kracov B — Sat, 22 May 2021 22:09:37 -0000

Do you know the solution?

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Kracov B — Sat, 22 May 2021 12:44:56 -0000

I didn't know it was possible to hide the boxes. PS doesn't have a lot of settings

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Sasumner — Sat, 22 May 2021 11:08:52 -0000

There are ways, but if you are just going to "auto confirm" a bunch of boxes, why show them?

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Kracov B — Fri, 21 May 2021 16:57:22 -0000

Is there a way to automatically confirm Enter on a script that sends multiple dialog confirmation boxes? I plan to add a lot more macros for the script, so pressing Enter too many times is tedious.

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claudio C. — Fri, 21 May 2021 11:29:33 -0000

hello, yes that's my post :-)

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claudio C. — Mon, 17 May 2021 21:14:55 -0000

hello, yes that's my post :-) Il 17.05.2021 13:50 Sasumner ha scritto: It appears there may be a problem with the special casing stuff in Pythonscript...see https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/199 [1] serach reg exp [2] Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in https://sourceforge.net/p/npppythonscript/discussion/1188885/ [3] To unsubscribe from further messages, please visit https://sourceforge.net/auth/subscriptions/ [4] Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 30 4G hai minuti...

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Sasumner — Mon, 17 May 2021 11:50:03 -0000

It appears there may be a problem with the special casing stuff in Pythonscript...see https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/199

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claudio C. — Sat, 15 May 2021 19:48:32 -0000

Taking the addition of "r" for granted so that my backslashes are processed by the regex engine, the problem of uppercase to lowercase characters with "\ L" remains. I doubt the correct syntax to bring everything in lowercase associated with group # 3: (\L$3) Is this correct? Thanks

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claudio C. — Sat, 15 May 2021 11:46:27 -0000

hello, but the command editor.rereplace () unlike editor.replace () is not already addressed for the regex engine? if not what is the difference? thanks

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Sasumner — Sat, 15 May 2021 11:40:01 -0000

Probably you need to use "raw strings" so that your backslashes aren't consumed by Python's interpretation and not given to the regex engine. So, instead of: editor.rereplace("abc", "def") do: editor.rereplace(r"abc", r"def")

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claudio C. — Sat, 15 May 2021 07:11:14 -0000

hi all, I need to manipulate files looking for and modifying some tags, transforming capital letters where present into lowercase. For the search I used regular expressions. This regular expression works perfectly in the npp ++ search and replace command but does not work in a python script. The command in question is: editor.rereplace ("((\ /) *) ([a-zA-Z] +) ((\ d) +) "," $ 1 (\ L $ 3) $ 4 "). Suggestions? thanks

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Christian M — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:07:48 -0000

Well for certain languages it's really hard to guess what character coding where used to represent the string in the menu. But just for giggles I challenged myself and tried, after failing a few times to infer from the menu what it was, and when I was about to give up, I had the idea to look up the raw translation in xml: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/tree/master/PowerEditor/installer/nativeLang My language is Japanese so the corresponding entries in the xml are:

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Sasumner — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:59:12 -0000

Regarding "English"...for whatever localization you're using, can't you just replace the strings with whatever are appropriate for the language, and have it work?

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Christian M — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:27:01 -0000

That was it, to summarize: MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_AS_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 without BOM MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_AS_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 without BOM MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 with BOM Thanks! Side note: notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8") will convert to UTF8 without BOM notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8-BOM") will convert with BOM But it only works when Notepad++ language is set to English

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Christian M — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:15:34 -0000

That was almost it, after looking it up more it's actually: MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_AS_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 without BOM MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 with BOM Thanks for pointing me to the right direction. Side note: notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8") will convert to UTF8 without BOM notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8-BOM") will convert with BOM But it only works when Notepad++ language is set to English

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Christian M — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 04:32:39 -0000

I edited the post to be clearer, let me rephrase here as well: MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_AS_UTF_8 converts to UTF8 with BOM, I need the same to convert without BOM but it does not exists, this is a feature request. Side note: notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8") will convert to UTF8 without BOM notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8-BOM") will convert with BOM Unfortunately it only works when Notepad++ language is set to English (this is not my case)

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Christian M — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 04:24:13 -0000

I edited the pose to be clearer MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_AS_UTF_8 converts to UTF8 with BOM, I need the same to convert without BOM but it does not exists, this is a feature request. Side note: notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8") will convert to UTF8 without BOM notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8-BOM") will convert with BOM Unfortunately it only works when Notepad++ language is set to English (this is not my case)

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Christian M — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 04:20:45 -0000

When Notepad++ language is set to something other than English: notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8") Will not be found, well that's to be expected but it seems the enum: notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_UTF_8) Converts to UTF8 with BOM and I can't find a version without BOM. It be nice to have both enums to convert to UTF8 with and without BOM. I recently discovered this little plugin and I'm very excited to all the things I'm going to be able to automate from now on...

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Sasumner — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:48:05 -0000

Not 100% certain, but perhaps MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_AS_UTF_8

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Christian M — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:27:27 -0000

When Notepad++ language is set to something other than English: notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8-BOM") Will not be found, well that's to be expected but it seems the enum: notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_UTF_8) Converts to UTF8-BOM and I can't seem to find a version without BOM. I recently discovered this little plugin and I'm very excited to all the things I'm going to be able to automate from now on ^^ Thank you so much.

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Sasumner — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:20:47 -0000

You probably have to go to Boost::Regex documentation to find out all the details of the regex syntax used. The $ isn't used by itself here. It is part of ${ 1 } which means the first capture group contents. In my testing of exactly what I provided, [I] becomes so I can't reproduce what you're saying. You can get good N++/Pythonscript regex help by posting here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/

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607 — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:48:14 -0000
Thank you! That works, although I'm not quite sure why, because I can't find \l or this use of $ in the documentation for Python's re class. Edit: I've been doing some experimenting and was able to use the capitalisation ignore elsewhere too. However, I noticed that the suggested replacement doesn't quite work: [I] becomes . Would it not be possible to let it become automatically? I was intending to use .lower(), but couldn't access the content of the match at all.

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607 — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:47:21 -0000
Thank you! That works, although I'm not quite sure why, because I can't find \l or this use of $ in the documentation for Python's re class. Edit: I've been doing some experimenting and was able to use the capitalisation ignore elsewhere too. However, I noticed that the suggested replacement doesn't quite work: [I] becomes . Would it not be possible to let it become automatically?