Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/11
I had speedtest-cli running on MacOS and various Linux machines, but not yet on Windows (see for instance my post Ubuntu: Fixing the myserious “Failed to stop apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out”).
[Wayback/Archive] Install and Test Internet Speed with Speedtest CLI Command Line – NEXTOFWINDOWS.COM reminded me there is a Speedtest CLI for Windows download at at [Wayback/Archive] Speedtest CLI: Internet speed test for the command line, but I am a an automation/scripting/devops person, so luckily there are also [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Speedtest by Ookla (don’t get [Wayback/Archive] Ookla.Speedtest download, as that is the GUI version).
Both the Chocolatey and winget packages are named the same, so that is quite confusing. This is how I have set them apart:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/03
I needed to search for IBAN numbers in documents and used this regular expression: [a-zA-Z]{2}[0-9]{2} ?[a-zA-Z0-9]{4} ?[0-9]{4} ?[0-9]{4} ?[0-9]{2} which supports the usual optional whitespace like in NL12 INGB 0345 6789 01.
It is based on a nice list with table of Notepad++ RegEx character classes supported at [Wayback] Searching | Notepad++ User Manual:
Character Classes
[set] ⇒ This indicates a set of characters, for example, [abc] means any of the literal characters a, b or c. You can also use ranges by doing a hyphen between characters, for example [a-z] for any character from a to z. You can use a collating sequence in character ranges, like in [[.ch.]-[.ll.]] (these are collating sequence in Spanish).[^set] ⇒ The complement of the characters in the set. For example, [^A-Za-z] means any character except an alphabetic character. Care should be taken with a complement list, as regular expressions are always multi-line, and hence [^ABC]* will match until the first A, B or C (or a, b or c if match case is off), including any newline characters. To confine the search to a single line, include the newline characters in the exception list, e.g. [^ABC\r\n].
Please note that the complement of a character set is often many more characters than you expect: (?-s)[^x]+ will match 1 or more instances of any non-x character, including newlines: the (?-s) search modifier turns off “dot matches newlines”, but the [^x] is not a dot ., so that class is still allowed to match newlines.
[[:name:]] or [[:☒:]] ⇒ The whole character class named name. For many, there is also a single-letter “short” class name, ☒. Please note: the [:name:] and [:☒:] must be inside a character class [...] to have their special meaning.
| short |
full name |
description |
equivalent character class |
|
alnum |
letters and digits |
|
|
alpha |
letters |
|
h |
blank |
spacing which is not a line terminator |
[\t\x20\xA0] |
|
cntrl |
control characters |
[\x00-\x1F\x7F\x81\x8D\x8F\x90\x9D] |
d |
digit |
digits |
|
|
graph |
graphical character, so essentially any character except for control chars, \0x7F, \x80 |
|
l |
lower |
lowercase letters |
|
|
print |
printable characters |
[\s[:graph:]] |
|
punct |
punctuation characters |
[!"#$%&'()*+,\-./:;<=>?@\[\\\]^_{ |
s |
space |
whitespace (word or line separator) |
[\t\n\x0B\f\r\x20\x85\xA0\x{2028}\x{2029}] |
u |
upper |
uppercase letters |
|
|
unicode |
any character with code point above 255 |
[\x{0100}-\x{FFFF}] |
w |
word |
word characters |
[_\d\l\u] |
|
xdigit |
hexadecimal digits |
[0-9A-Fa-f] |
Note that letters include any unicode letters (ASCII letters, accented letters, and letters from a variety of other writing systems); digits include ASCII numeric digits, and anything else in Unicode that’s classified as a digit (like superscript numbers ¹²³…).
Note that those character class names may be written in upper or lower case without changing the results. So [[:alnum:]] is the same as [[:ALNUM:]] or the mixed-case [[:AlNuM:]].
As stated earlier, the [:name:] and [:☒:] (note the single brackets) must be a part of a surrounding character class. However, you may combine them inside one character class, such as [_[:d:]x[:upper:]=], which is a character class that would match any digit, any uppercase, the lowercase x, and the literal _ and = characters. These named classes won’t always appear with the double brackets, but they will always be inside of a character class.
If the [:name:] or [:☒:] are accidentally not contained inside a surrounding character class, they will lose their special meaning. For example, [:upper:] is the character class matching :, u, p, e, and r; whereas [[:upper:]] is similar to [A-Z] (plus other unicode uppercase letters)
[^[:name:]] or [^[:☒:]] ⇒ The complement of character class named name or ☒ (matching anything not in that named class). This uses the same long names, short names, and rules as mentioned in the previous description.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/27
A few links for my link archive, as I often edit XML files (usually with different extensions than .xml, because historic choices that software development vendors make, which makes it way harder to tell editors “yes, this too is XML).
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio
- [WayBack] XPath Tools – Visual Studio Marketplace: Extension for Visual Studio – Run XPaths and XPath functions. Browse through results at the click of a button.Track and copy XPaths incl. XML namespaces in various formats, taking the hassle out of complex documents
- Via:
- Notepad++ (note you have to install the plugin as Administrator, and restart Notepad++ to take effect)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/27
The StackOverflow screenshot it out-dated so a new one is below.
- In the
Settings menu, choose Preferences...
- In the
Preferences dialog, choose Language
- Ensure the (default empty)
Replace by space checkbox is checked
- Optionally change the
Tab size from 4 to another suitable value
I prefer these settings: 
via: How does one configure Notepad++ to use spaces instead of tabs? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/04
Paraphrased Steps (thanks guy038); Screenshots below.
- Choose the menu option
Settings -> Style Configurator…
- In the
Style configurator dialog, choose the Global Styles under Language
- Then, under
Style, select the Default Style (this won’t work for Global Override unless you have that one override everything)
- Finally, in the
Font Style area, you can select your favourite Font name and/or its Size and apearance (Bold, Italic, Underscore)
- Confirm with
Save & Close when you like the new font settings.
The cool thing is that if you have a file open, you will immediately see the effects even before pressing Save & Close.
Source: No way to change editor’s font? | Notepad++ Community [WayBack]
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 