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  • Announcements regarding our community

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    PeterJonesP
    @Ian-Eales , That sounds more like a feature request than something that used to work but broke during 8.9.7 – so it’s not a regression. The FAQ here explains where requests for new features need to go …

  • Frequently Asked Questions and Guides (about Notepad++ and this Forum)

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    PeterJonesP
    Corrupted Session Starting in Notepad++ v8.6.5, it will store session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak next to session.xml, and will automatically use that if session.xml is corrupted. However, if you ever find that you open Notepad++ (especially after an update or a system crash) and find that the files opened weren’t in the same state as when you let them, you can try this procedure: Exit Notepad++ Windows Explorer, go to %AppData%\Notepad++ (or in your appropriate config-file location if you aren’t using AppData for config) Rename session.xml to session.xml--keep Copy session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to session.xml Run Notepad++ → If it’s now showing the right copy of your files, great! If not, exit Notepad++, delete session.xml, and rename session.xml--keep back to session.xml .

  • Notepad++ discussions that don’t fit in other Categories

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    P
    Hi @franz-joli , I haven’t come across such behavior myself and cancelling compare on my side has always been working flawlessly. As @peterjones had already kindly suggested, If you continue to experience such problem you could open an issue here and describe it step-by-step starting with your Notepad++ setup and plugin version (by providing the Notepad++ Debug Info... from its ? menu) and it would be great also if you could provide example files to try on my side. We can discuss the problem further there. Thank you Peter, precise and helpful as always! :)

  • Got a question? Ask away!

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    CoisesC
    @MayTheCatgirl said: I tried using the following expression with “. matches newline” enabled and it finds the code block: [beginning of code].+?[end of code] However Notepad++'s find and replace does not support multiline find and replace I’m wondering what you mean by “does not support multiline find and replace.” I think you must mean that you can’t easily enter a replace expression that contains multiple lines. and when I use it this way to paste the 100-line block of code where I want it, it messes up the formatting and cuts off the last few lines. There are a couple possible problems. I believe there is a character limit (I don’t recall what it is) to how much you can put in the Replace box. But also… are you considering that you can’t just blindly copy a block of code into that box, because some characters have special meanings? In particular, backslashes, parentheses, and depending on the context, dollar signs, question marks and colons, have special meanings and must be escaped. I assume you are substituting the original content, so you’re using something like: Find: OLDPREFIX(.*?)OLDSUFFIX Replace: NEWPREFIX$1NEWSUFFIX to do it? Or is the replacement content exactly the same every time, using no part of the original content? I’d love to just use the default Notepad++ one for this as its “find in files” feature is a lot more helpful than requiring me to open all 300 files I want to search through but it seems that is not an option. It can probably be done. It might have to be done in a couple steps instead of just one, if the replacement expression has too many characters to put in the box all at once.

  • Technical discussion of building or contributing to Notepad++ or Plugin codebases

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    Hi everyone, I built a small plugin called EncTags. It lets you encrypt a fragment of text right inside any file, using a simple ^^…^^ tag format, without touching the rest of the file. Repo: https://github.com/saintleningrad-prog/enctags-npp How it works: Select text, or place the cursor inside a ^^…^^ tag, press Ctrl+Shift+E Raw ^^some text^^ gets encrypted into ^^L1:base64…^^ Cursor on an encrypted tag decrypts it back, with a password prompt Nothing happens automatically on open, save, or close, every action is explicit Crypto: AES-256-GCM + PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (100k iterations), via Windows CNG (bcrypt.dll), no third-party crypto library. The tag format is intentionally simple and documented in the README, so a tag can be decrypted outside the plugin too (Python, a browser script, anything that implements the same AES-GCM parameters). This is an early release (v0.2.0), built with help from an AI assistant for both the design and the C++ implementation. I would appreciate any feedback, especially on the Notepad++/Scintilla integration, whether the notification handling and buffer position tracking is done correctly, and whether the approach makes sense from a plugin-architecture standpoint. Thanks for reading.

  • Security shouldn’t be the privilege of rich people

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    PeterJonesP
    @J-Mark-Barfield , that was not a “regedit”, that was a normal command-line command all those two commands did was run an instance of notepad++.exe without RunAsAdmin privileges, even before you made the change to the executable compatibility settings it was completely unnecessary all you had to do was exit Notepad++ application completely (so it wasn’t running), then do the steps I explained to get notepad++.exe to not run as admin, and then the next time you ran Notepad++ (either using your shortcut or double clicking on the exe or running the exe from the command line normally or double clicking on a text file or right clicking and choosing Edit with Notepad++) would have run Notepad++ not as admin if you didn’t exit Notepad++ first, then the still running Notepad++ instance would still be running as Admin. Changing the exe properties while the exe is running doesn’t magically drop the running Notepad++ out of Admin mode. And thus your right click would not have worked, because the running Notepad++ was still in Admin mode. all you did by doing those extra commands was close the Notepad++ that was running as admin open a new instance that wasn’t running as admin change the exe properties so that it wouldn’t run as admin next time (I understand that you got it working, so you don’t really care at this point. But I don’t want future people to read this discussion, and come to the wrong conclusion that they need to do your extra steps. Those steps were completely unnecessary.)

  • All the issues (publications/questions) about binary translation

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    @xomx Thank you very much for the work you have done, which will lead to improvements in Notepad++ in the future. I am very grateful to you.

  • Say fuck to Notepad++ here, and only here

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    PeterJonesP
    @makeymalik , Longstanding known issue: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8660 From what I understand from that Issue, it’s usually related to the OS display-scaling setting in High-DPI modes. There’s a volunteer who has been slowly working through the known DPI issues, but hasn’t gotten to this one

  • No support request and bug report here, only unconditional praise and worship

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    K
    I’m used to ISPF editing, using column based information. (SPFLite is a dumbed down version) I can do most of what I need in there, but N++ fills in holes in ISPF edit. For example, N++ can add, change or delete information across several lines. RegEx is available on ISPF edit, but I’m too busy to learn it. N++ does this much easier.

  • Share personal tips and cool uses for Notepad++, and similar

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    David Brigden52D
    Seems they decided that it they couldn’t be the heroes, rhat they would be the villains.

  • Computer/Programming Jokes are welcome here

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    Lycan ThropeL
    @xomx , Dave Bowman: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL. " HAL: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” [image: 488a3017b34fe587.png]