



Now, let’s imagine that I create a pseudo-key, from text between column 1 and 3, that I place before any text of each line, for further sorting, based on that pseudo-key. If we create a 11 × 3 column selection, from column 1 and, then, use the option Edit > Line Operations > Sort lines Lexicographically Ascending, nothing has changed ! Logical : as the key Add is identical for all these lines, the initial order of the lines is simply kept !.However, note that, in some cases, the use of a n-chars column selection or regex solutions do not give the same sort order ! For instance, let’s consider these lines, without their leading numbers, extracted from the change.log file of the last version : Add the ability to open the target file of a Shortcut (*.lnk).Īdd an option to prevent right click from canceling selection.Īdd word wrap option to find results context menu.Īdd keyboard navigation ability to Column Editor.Īdd keyboard shortcuts for switching to panels.Īdd confirmation preference for Replace All in All Opened Documents operation.Īdd Escape keypress in functionlist searchbox to clear its text.Īdd RTL capability to localized messageboxes.Īdd search scope to Find window status bar output. My ignorance of this feature explains why I proposed, in some posts, a work-around, based on regular expressions !! Fix sorting by column key using incorrect key values. Fix column key sort with col block starting in col1 bug.Ģ4. It is these two lines, in the change.log file, of the last v7.9 version, which alerted me about a possible unknown feature ( for me ) ! 19. I really do not understand how I could miss this important feature, for years :-(( Indeed, after verifications, this nice improvement exists since N++ version v6.7.9, which came out in June 2015 ! My God ! Although I’ve practiced the Notepad++ software since many years do you know that I have not realized, yet, that we can sort text :įrom a specific column till the end of line, with a zero-char column selectionįrom a n-chars key, between two columns, with a non-zero column selection
