QuickText - Quick editing tags for Notepad++ Copyright (C) 2006 João Moreno (alph.pt@gmail.com) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Original Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/quicktext/ Original Author: Joao Moreno <alph.pt@gmail.com>, Jing Teng <jingbeta@gmail.com> Original Version: 0.0.2.1 

Based on Version: 0.0.2.2

Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/quicktext/patches/4/ Author: TonyM 

QuickText is a Notepad++ plugin for quick text substitution, including multi field inputs. It's similar to Tab Triggers in TextMate.

I compiled with MS Visual Studio Community 2017 and this seems to work OK.

For 32-bit:

[x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017] 

 C:\> set Configuration=Release C:\> set Platform=x86 C:\> msbuild 

For 64-bit:

[x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017] 

 C:\> set Configuration=Release C:\> set Platform=x64 C:\> msbuild 

Copy the:

• 32-bit: ./bin/QuickText.dll
• 64-bit: ./bin64/QuickText.dll

to the Notepad++ plugins folder:

• In N++ <7.6, directly in the plugins/ folder
• In N++ >=7.6, in a directory called QuickText in the plugins/ folder (plugins/QuickText/)

NOTE: The original version put config files in weird places and with no updates since the Notepad++ 7.6 new plugins architecture, it's gotten worse. This version corrects this. You'll need to put the following files (or your existing versions) in their respective directory locations:

Config/QuickText.conf.default.ini = NPP_INSTALL_DIR/plugins/Config/QuickText.conf.ini Config/QuickText.default.ini = NPP_INSTALL_DIR/plugins/Config/QuickText.ini 

Assign a shortcut key to the Plugins => QuickText => Replace Snip menu to use QuickText snips from within the current Notepad++ document.

If the "Replace Snip" hotkey is used and there is no text before it or no valid expansion for the text before it, the "Replace Snip" hotkey character is inserted. For example, using Tab as the key with no valid expansion just inserts a tab (as if Tab key press).

Once a snip is inserted, you can use the "Replace Snip" hotkey again and again to navigate through the hotspots in the inserted snippet.

NOTE: Tab can now be used again as the "Replace Snip" hotkey. There is no default.

Settings:

Use to configure Snips for languages.

• Use Scintilla Autocomplete: uses Scintilla autocomplete while typing to suggest snips for the current language. Without this enabled, you need to trigger the "Replace Snip" hotkey to get the autocomplete list or just type a snip from memory.
• Auto Insert Autocomplete: when a snip is completed from a Scintilla autocompletion, expand the snip. Without this enabled, you need to trigger the "Replace Snip" hotkey again to expand the snip.
• Convert Tabs (N++ setting): convert any Tab characters in the "Substitution Text" to spaces based on Notepad++ settings for the current language. If Notepad++ does not replace tabs for the current language, this setting respects that. If Notepad++ does replace tabs with a given number of spaces, that number of spaces is used in the replacement.
• Use Fixed Font: use a fixed-width font (Courier New) in the "Substitution Text" text box.
• Use N++ Colors: use Notepad++ background and "Default Style" text colors in the "Snips" and "Substitution Text" list and edit boxes.
• Confirm before close: use message box prompts to confirm actions before closing the Settings dialog with the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons if potential changes.

To make you're own snips:

• Snips file (QuickText.ini) MUST use "Windows (CR LF)" line endings.
• First make sure the snip's Language Section already exists. This is done by creating a new section with the code corresponding to the Language. See LANGUAGE CODES.
• Then, for the key of the snip, use only lower/upper case and numbers.
• Special chars:
  • $ hotspots
  • \$ for literal '$'
  • \n for line break
  • \\n for literal '\n'

When using the Settings "Substitution Text" GUI:

• Ctrl+Tab for literal tab
• $ hotspots
• \$ for literal '$'
• Enter for line break
• \n for literal '\n'

8 is the Language Code for HTML

[8] link=<a href="$">$</a> 

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