Re: Tutorial: Notepad++ shortcuts.xml macro converts unicode to the 95-keyboard ASCII characters

Arlen,

>> Why is it always /us/ who have to provide you with the information /you/
>> want/need - nonwithstanding how easily its to google ?
>
> The whole point of providing open source code is so everyone improves it.

No.  So that anyone *can* improve on it.

Its just you who thinks that and as such demands from us to do all the hard 
work and fix your steaming shitpiles up into something that can be called 
usefull, and than take all the credit for it.

Proof of that ?   When was the last time you attributed a 
change/fix/addition to someone ?

More proof ?  You have yet to tell me hoe my suggested re-ordering of those 
"the essential trio" macro-command works.   It would have taken you what ? 
All of 10 minutes ?

Heck, you even *complained* that I did not thank you for having having fixed 
all the things I found.

The thing is, kid, *I should not have had to provide you with /any/ of it*. 
As I said, I found that with a cursory inspection.   You ?  *You* should 
have done a thorough inspection and found all of that (and likely more) 
yourself.

Also, someone creating something open source normally takes much pride in 
offering SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY WORKS AND IS DESCRIBED CORRECTLY.   You 
definitily don't. :-(((

To be honest, I do not even know which part of that macro is npp's and which 
part is yours - if any part of it (besides the things to replace and what to 
replace it with) is actually yours.

> It's fast. Effective. Simple. If anyone has a *better* solution, please 
> let all of us know what that is.

You already have it.  You just, as so often, refuse to (test and) 
acknowledge it.

> Otherwise, this is the best (so far) that I can offer the team to use.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <!-- C:\app\editor\txt\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml -->
> <!-- Notepad++ shortcuts.xml version 1p3 20251214 -->
> <!-- Use model: ctrl+a (select all), ctrl+b (convert selected set) -->
> <!-- Macro engine command meanings:
>      1700 = begin a new search/replace operation
>      1601 = set the search string (the Unicode character to find)
>      1625 = clear the replacement buffer
>      1602 = set the replacement string (ASCII equivalent)
>      1702 = execute Replace All
>      1701 = end this search/replace block
> -->

Thats funny, as I already gave you better - and you didn't even have to do 
/anything/ for it.

But thats you to the dot. : You get information that your above guesses to 
what those commands mean are incorrect, but you cannot get yourself to 
accept it.  Not when you publicly have to acknowledge that there are people 
in this newsgroup who know more (even just about this) than you.

Tell me : why should an "1701 = end this search/replace block" need to have 
an "lParam=1609" argument ?   Why isn't "lparam" just Zero ? How many kinds 
of "end this search/replace block" would npp need/have ?   What *else* would 
that 1701 command be doing when that "lparam" argument is given another 
value ?    And if it does something different, why did you give the 1701 
command a single "this is what it does" explanation/description ?

You pride yourself on being logical.   If you can't answer the above than 
you should tone-down that pride.  Not that you ever will ofcourse. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

P.s.
Its always remarkable how you, when you don't get your way, start to throw 
accusations of wrongdoing around, but when asked to quote how/where that 
that happened you always drop the matter like hot potato.

p.p.s.
You don't have to take my words as the truth.  In fact, I always told my 
pupils that they shouldn't.  But I /did/ expect them to use the tools at 
hand - first books, later the internet - to look stuff up and come to their 
own conclusions    Which, surprise, surprise, most always matched what I 
told them (and when not we /both/ had a "learning moment").

As long as you can't even get yourself to do a bit of googeling to 
verify/prove that your own claims are correct / the others (my) claims are 
not you will forever stay willfully ignorant.  That is what your ego is 
doing to you. -|