There was a question on the programming reddit today about finding text within comments only. There’s no way to do this from the UI in Programmer’s Notepad, but it’s easy in PyPN:
d = pn.CurrentDoc()
s = scintilla.Scintilla(d)
searchopts = pn.GetUserSearchOptions()
while not pn.CurrentDoc().FindNext(searchopts) == -1:
# s.GetStyleAt(s.TargetStart) will work in the next PyPN release
style = d.SendMessage(2010, s.TargetStart, 0)
# pn.AddOutput(str(style)) - find the current style
if d.SendMessage(2010, s.TargetStart, 0) == 2:
break
That small bit of code will find whatever is in the current user’s search options only where the style is 2 – that’s the C++ comment style number. Sadly these numbers are not uniform across schemes, so we’d need to do a bit more work to do this properly across anything. To turn that small snippet of code into a script that can be run from a keyboard shortcut is also easy:
import pn, scintilla
@script("Find In C++ Comments")
def FindInCComments():
d = pn.CurrentDoc()
s = scintilla.Scintilla(d)
searchopts = pn.GetUserSearchOptions()
while not pn.CurrentDoc().FindNext(searchopts) == -1:
style = d.SendMessage(2010, s.TargetStart, 0)
if d.SendMessage(2010, s.TargetStart, 0) == 2:
break
Just save that into your scripts directory and you’re good to go!
