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  • Announcements regarding our community
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    donhoD

    Notepad++ release 8.8.5 is available:
    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v885-released/

    Notepad++ release 8.8.5 virus scanner issue? Please check the following link:
    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v883-self-signed-certificate/

    Notepad++ v8.8.5 regression-fix:

    Fix “Edit with Notepad++” context menu not being installed correctly regression. (Fix #16913)

    Notepad++ v8.8.4 regression-fixes, bug-fixes & new features:

    Fix -notabbar & asNotepad.xml stop hiding tabbar regression (from v8.7.9). (Fix #16794) Fix “Edit with Notepad++” not removed by uninstaller regression (from v8.8.3). (Fix #16896) Fix possible heap memory leak. (implement #16883) Increase search input length from 2046 to 16383. (Fix #1088, #16749) Add warning tip for the max length on search input (Find/Replace). (Fix #16749) Fix JavaScript listed twice in Language & Indent settings of Preferences issue. (Fix #4521, #16861, #16884) Fix external lexers showing several time in Indent settings issue. (Fix #16462) Add button to insert variables in the run dialog. (implement #16820) Enhance “Go to settings”: guide users to the related setting explicitly. (Fix #16846) Add a clear button for filter field in Shortcut Mapper. (Fix #15742) Make NFO font overridable by adding font name in Lexer “nfo” of stylers.xml. (Fix #16839)

    As usual, auto-updater will be triggered in one week, if no critical issue found.

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

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    PeterJonesP

    You have likely found this page, or been directed to this page, because you were wondering about how to

    The list of Operating Systems (OS) that Notepad++ supports is published at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/SUPPORTED_SYSTEM.md

    There is a footnote regarding Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, both of which are officially unsupported: The last release of Notepad++ that worked on those ancient OS versions was Notepad++ v8.4.6. However, the footnote indicates, “The current version of Notepad++ built by GCC can be run under Vista & Server 2008”. Some users, who are interested in preserving historic computing, or have working hardware that is old enough to only be able to run such old OS, are confused by that statement, or wonder how they can get “the current version of Notepad++ built by GCC”. (Two examples of such posts are here and here.)

    When updates are pushed to the Notepad++ repository, a slew of versions are built, including some built by the GCC compiler instead of Microsoft’s compiler used by Visual Studio. Those versions are not used in the published releases of Notpead++, however, they are built from the same source code, so have all the same functionality.

    Main Steps

    The steps for installing the newest Notepad++ onto Vista or Server 2008 are as follows:

    Install the newest Notpead++ normally, or unzip the newest portable edition of Notepad++, noting whether you are using the 32-bit or 64-bit Notepad++. Verify that notepad++.exe doesn’t run on your computer. (If it does, you don’t need to follow the remaining steps.) Obtain the notepad++.exe built by GCC using one of the two sections below: Recent Release or Older Release Replace your installed or portable notepad++.exe with the executable downloaded in step 3. Run the replaced notepad++.exe, and verify it does run on your computer. Artifacts

    When the GCC builds are automatically run on the GitHub servers, the executables are kept for up to 90 days from the time of the build; however, that retention period is also influenced by how many artifacts a project generates: Notepad++ generates a lot of artifacts, so sometimes the artifacts for a release are not available for the full 90-day period.

    If the artifacts are still retained for the most recent release, then you can follow the procedure in Recent Release (below) to obtain the GCC-built executable. If those artifacts are gone, you will have to use the similar procedure in Older Release, though make sure you read that section thoroughly for unique .

    Recent Release Go to https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/latest where it has the little -o- icon and 7-9 hex digits, click on that hex number
    2c11d2fe-18e2-4f48-b7d2-50e3ff54dc41-image.png It should have a green checkmark (or less likely, a red X): click it
    82185f3a-d05b-47c9-893c-1d2cfbac6305-image.png In the popup, click any of the Details links (it doesn’t matter which one)
    b116fae8-972b-4796-a0db-c3f4c3d97b88-image.png Click on the Summary button
    c5d81331-849f-4c5e-82aa-e57d54f088ce-image.png Scroll down to the Artifacts at the bottom of that Summary page, and pick the …GCC.i686.Release if you want 32-bit Notepad++, or …GCC.x86_64.Release if you want the 64-bit Notepad++
    0d0757f8-b8a1-4709-8c8b-05e5a237afe8-image.png That downloaded artifact will be a zipfile containing a single (unsigned) notepad++.exe

    Once you have unzipped the artifact, you can continue with step 4 in the Main Steps

    Older Release

    If the artifact from the most recent release is no longer stored in GitHub, you can instead grab the most-recent build. However, you need to understand that builds made since the most recent release have code in them that has never gone through the Release Candidate verification: it passes all the automated testing, but there may be edge cases that have not yet been found or fixed. One should only use the most-recent build instead of a release build when those risks are understood.

    Go to https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/actions and find the most-recent commit to the master, and click on that row. Look for the Artifacts at the bottom. Find the link with “GCC” in the name with the right version (64-bit is x86_64, 32-bit is i686, or ARM64) – assuming you have 64-bit Vista, then it would be Notepad++.GCC.x86_64.Release. Click the appropriate artifact, which will download a zipfile. Open the zipfile and extract the executable from it

    Once you have unzipped the artifact, you can continue with step 4 in the Main Steps

    Build Your Own

    The Notepad++ repository includes BUILD instructions for GCC, so if you follow those instructions, you can build your own GCC-based Notepad++ from the source code. You will obviously need the GCC compiler (you will have to find and install that on your own, as such a procedure is beyond the scope of this FAQ or this Forum).

    Once you have the GCC compiler ready, you can download the source code for Notepad++: it is up to you whether you want to download the source code from the latest release, which will give you a snapshot of the code at the time it was released; or whether you want to grab the most recent commit from the main development branch of the repo which can have code/features that have been added since the last release.

    Building your own copy of Notepad++ using GCC is intended for people with coding experience, and experience with GCC in particular, and who know how to use GitHub and git – if this doesn’t describe you, you may wish to gain experience before trying to build your own using GCC.

    Caveat: This is Unsupported

    Rememeber: using Notepad++ on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 is not officially supported for new Notepad++ versions. If you can happen to get newer Notepad++ to work on those OS versions by following these instructions, that’s great for you.

    Otherwise, the best recommendation is to use an older version of Notepad++ that was officially tested on those operating systems – with v8.4.6 being the newest Notepad++ to be verified with those OS. Having been verified, it should work for you; however, there will never be any updates to the v8.4.6 code, so any bugs or security issues present in v8.4.6 will remain unfixed for you. (The same is true for most applications that stop supporting older OS, so this is not unique to Notepad++.)

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

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    Alan KilbornA

    @guy038 said in Wrong insertion of text, in the new FIND and REPLACE dialogs:

    No need to change anything regarding the pasting behavior in the Find/Replace dialogues, presently

    I disagree, so I created issue 16952 and will submit a PR for it soon.

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    Victorel PetrovichV

    @PeterJones Since there is no official list of what is supposed to work/ be recordable with macros and what not, I don’t think there is any “contract” here.
    My impression is that, at least with regards to these dynamic-ID menu commands, the current situation is simply a result of the coding solutions that were deemed good-enough long time ago and then the developers never had enough time/incentive to change it.

    But if enough people will agree that macros become much more powerful by including any Run/Macro/Plugin commands, then N++ code could be changed, for the better.

    It’s about the long term vision for Macros: is it desirable to make them more powerful, to give more power to the average user that doesn’t have time to learn scripting, or not?
    (IMO, it makes it easier even for those who know scripting)

    I already found some raw initial algorithms for making the user’s menu-command IDs constant - if other people want to work with the C++ part.

    I’m not sure he’s noticed how much I abuse the macro system

    I don’t think you are abusing it; you’re simply working around the current limitations.
    That’s normal: any software has limitations; no software is perfect from the get-go. It evolves.

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

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    Richárd StockingerR

    @erik-neyman
    Hi,

    first of all, please hide/change your secret_key setting (or remove the image), as this is a public forum and others may misuse it. :(

    Unfortunately, there may be bugs in the latest NppOpenAI v0.5 update (updates/fixes can be found on the NppOpenAI development project page), so I suggest that instead of setting a route_chat_completions, you should specify the URL “all at once”, e.g.

    api_url=https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions

    Edit: You can leave the route_chat_completions setting unchanged.

    I apologise for the error!

  • Security shouldn't be the privilege of rich people
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    xomxX

    @Zhane-Hernandez said in notepad++ flagged as malicious, should i worry?:

    https://hybrid-analysis.com/sample/ca3f56a705b26536b44f9213dd75f420139902f8d0a2851b176351cd3dab8685

    Did you check that hybrid-analysis report?!
    I found its Risk Assessment part hilarious (remember, N++ is a text editor, so who would e.g. expect it to work with the Clipboard or the keyboard ;-) ), so commented some stuff below:

    Spyware Contains ability to open the clipboard Contains ability to read clipboard data Contains ability to retrieve keyboard strokes Found a string that may be used as part of an injection method Fingerprint Contains ability to retrieve information about the current system Queries process information Evasive Found a Wine emulator related string Marks file for deletion Possibly tries to evade analysis by sleeping many times

    From the Spyware part is only interesting the “Found a string that may be used as part of an injection method” - I guess it will be a N++ or its underlying libraries autodetection pattern string signs for different shells recognition etc.

    Fingerprint part is a typical AV nonsense, that stuff use 99% apps.

    And Evasive - “Wine emulator related string” is correctly there because N++ needs to detect&disable some stuff (e.g. Scintilla DirectWrite) while running under the WINE emulator. “Marks file for deletion” probably means that the AV scanner just found the MS MoveFileEx WINAPI sign used in the code or the NSIS installer postponed deletion of the loaded NppShell extension. “Possibly tries to evade analysis by sleeping many times” - here IDK whether to laugh or cry at the state of the so-called “risk detection”.

  • All the issues (publications/questions) about binary translation
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  • Say fuck to Notepad++ here, and only here
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    Walter CookW

    @Travis-Owens231 Thank You, Travis

    It’s like boycotting the Google because you don’t like the political views of your neighbor because he delivers mail to an executive the works for Google! I can promise you, if you lived like that you would never be able to use anything.

    I guess we better start checking the political opinions of whomever is administering each server between our computers and every site we visit!

    People, Just Chill!

    Walter Cook

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

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    T

    @martaisty I agree, this is a pretty awesome idea! I actually forgot there was a war going on.

    I’m a new user of Notepad++ and I already love it very much, both the politics and the software itself.

    It’s nice to see Don Ho has provided several ways I can help stop this damn war.

    As he suggested, I wanted to donate to one of the reliable organizations “Dronators” which is to help Ukraine assemble an army of drones but that project is already over and it’s no longer possible to donate.

    Anyways, I don’t think they will need my $50 as the project has collected $1,443,157,017! Impressive, but the war didn’t stop, what a bummer!

    In the end I chose to donate to the National Bank of Ukraine which is reliable as it is the national bank of Ukraine. Don Ho says this is to “help people suffering” and funding the military always leads wars to stop, eventually.

  • Share personal tips on how to use Notepad++, cool uses for Notepad++, and similar

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    guy038G

    Hi, All,

    As many of you are probably planning your summer vacations, here is a website that should keep you entertained while you relax on the beach. Provided, of course, that you don’t forget your cell phone at home !

    https://regexcrossword.com

    To get the general purpose of this site, go first on the https://regexcrossword.com/about page

    And to whet your appetite, here is an example of puzzle to solve, which I have transcribed below :

    https://regexcrossword.com/challenges/palindromeda/puzzles/0eef9c22-d204-4704-81b6-86c556b242b1

    (ENT|NTE|NET)+ [WEAR]+ [R-Z]E+[M-R] (T|E|N)+ N E T (.)+W+\1 E W E [LENT]+ T E N

    Visit also the https://regexcrossword.com/howtoplay page

    Enjoy and happy holidays to everyone !

    Best regards,

    guy038

  • Computer/Programming Jokes are welcome here

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    Lycan ThropeL

    @donho ,
    I’m not sure this is humor for it’s own sake, or a veiled attempt at sarcasm. Either way, I don’t want govenment, especially the UN in anything, period. :-)