I (actually it was chatgpt) made a PythonScript plugin for Named Entity Recognition Labelling.

Dave W. — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:12:38 -0000

Dang. Cool! 👍😄

I (actually it was chatgpt) made a PythonScript plugin for Named Entity Recognition Labelling.

John M — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:41:39 -0000

https://github.com/john-a-m/NPP_NER_Labeller it has at least one minor bug with where sometimes it doesn't apply a color, it works though. Let me know what you think (love or hate).

Toolbar button name

VTGroup — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:35:24 -0000

I found this discussion because I'm having the same issues. Either (1) the button looks like I want it to and has the right label but is always at the end, or (2) the button looks like I want it to and resides where I want it to but says "Python Script 1" when I hover over it. Maybe the onhover label could be the script name?

Toolbar button name

Sasumner — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:45:19 -0000

No idea. You can always open an issue about it here: https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues
I use CT without problem, but I always put my script icons to the right end of the toolbar anyway (it is where I want them so I've never tried anything else).

Toolbar button name

kiwichick — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 01:11:24 -0000

Yes I did initially use CT, but I ran into a problem. Whenever I use the CT button, the next time I start Npp, the button has moved to the end of the toolbar. I've checked on a clean install of Npp with only CT and PS installed and it still does it. So I decided to check out the PS method. However, I think I'd rather have a button I know the name of than worry about its placement on the toolbar so I'll stick with the CT one. Do you know if there's likely to be a fix for the name issue with PS buttons?

Toolbar button name

Sasumner — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:51:48 -0000

Yea, it's a known issue. You can get better results if you use the CustomizeToolbar plugin and set up the button that way.

Toolbar button name

kiwichick — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:52:52 -0000

When adding a script to the toolbar then hovering over the toolbar button, why isn't the script name shown? Instead it just says "Python Script" followed by a number. I find this very un-user-frirendly.

newbee and basic algorithm

saih_tam — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:39:29 -0000

Hello

I'm sorry for my bad english.

I used to use perso Notepad++ macros : I just record what I do using keyboard, keyboard shortcuts and the mouse only to clic on 'close (cross) button' of find window. It often help me to save a lot of time in order to modify semi automatically a lot of files 'song.ini' (arround 5000).

Unfortunatly, I’m stuck on the impossibility of using basing conditional tests. I understood that PythonScript plugin in Notepad++ allow this conditionnal tests (and far more).
I never used Python and it would take me a lot of time to code my basic algorithm. For a regular, this will probably only take an hour or less.

I wrote my basic algorithm (Algorithme rename.txt) and I hope somebody could code it entirely or help me for the Python part. I have already record a macro (Algorithme rename shortcuts.xml) which is likely what I want without conditionnal tests.

Regards

I attach 1 zip file contains :
- exemple1 song.ini
- exemple2 song.ini
- Algorithme rename.txt
- Algorithme rename shortcuts.xml

Auto backup with full path and timestamp

V@no — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:42:32 -0000

This is a simple Python script that backup edited file before it's being overwritten on save.
It recreates a directory structure of original file in the backup folder and appends modification date of the original file to the end of filename (not date of the backup, file modification date).
i.e. file C:\blah\mycode.js will be backed up as D:\Backup\Notepad++\C\blah\mycode.js_20210928_221824.js
Because it copies file before NPP saves new data into it, you always will have a copy of the original file.

Required PythonScript

Save this script as autobackup.py into the same directory where startup.py is (in portable NPP it's in Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts) and in Python Script configuration window set "Initialization" dropdown to "ATSTARTUP"

Change to your desired backup directory

backup_dir = 'D:\\Backup\\Notepad++\\';

Than in startup.py at the bottom add this line:

import autobackup

replacing text with regular expressions by invoking a python function.

notepad++ windows 7 — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 03:18:56 -0000

Very nice blog, its informative and helped allot . thanks for sharing this information with us
notepad++ windows 7

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