@Alan-Kilborn

It would have been more amusing if you had included an explanation of how this was you in trying to solve a current Notepad++ coding problem. :-)

You’re not wrong.

Here’s the whole story:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/15681

Long story short: I tried to remedy the network file disconnected hanging problem. So I used thread. It leads the zombie process after closing Notepad++. Of course, the thread solution has been abandoned partially.

@mkupper said in An updated list of Notepad++ "Easter Eggs":

Npp’s code makes frequent use of hard coded values, negative logic, and path not taken style of coding. It keeps you on your toes.

You state this like it is overall a “bad thing”. IMO, it in general is very typical code for its time.

I’ll not agree with “frequent use of hard-coded values”, generally. The case you’re discussing, though, may be an exception with its introduction of -2. The use of -1 is fairly typical, though. I’m not a fan of it, as it often makes things “awkward”, but I did just use it myself in the code that returns the color id of a tab (where -1 signifies “no color”).

For use of “negative logic” and “path not taken”, I can’t comment unless some specific examples are given, but again I think N++ code is pretty typical of most code of its era in this regard.

@donho Easter egg! Now updated to “We come in peace”.
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@donho The game of spending hours to change or add one character.

@Terry-R Seen a few of these pics.VW Bug.jpg

@mkupper Best I can do is change the font.

@donho ,
Well, it’s not a concealed…umm…coaster so it can’t be a weapon. : -)

@donho,
Amen to that. :-)
I always seem to be needing to do something and I can tell when it slows up that something is up. Go get coffee or something to keep going and it starts updating or boots closing everything. I fully endorse Malkovich’s sentiment. :-)

Welcome to the AI driven future…

Are there web sites that will translate plain human languages into AI speak or Aiglish?

@donho

Took me longer than I’d like to admit, but…it looks like a wind chime!

It thought it was Admiral Ackbar, until I clicked on it and realised it was a trap.

@mkupper said in 0110001001101001011101000010000001110110011100110010000001100010011110010111010001100101:

is there a way to do it in one shot within Notepad++.

Yes, but only if you count running a pure python PythonScript script with no editor/notepad functions

Believe it or not, “NotepadSharp” is the name of a (very obsolete) plugin with a long list of features, many of them now replaced by N++'s built-in capabilities.

While looking at the win32 xml APIs, I found https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ms762722(v=vs.85)

Specifically the C API here:

HRESULT load( VARIANT xmlSource, VARIANT_BOOL *isSuccessful);

where

Parameters xmlSource[in] An indicator of the source XML to parse. This may be an URL (String/BSTR), a Request object (in an ASP page), an IStream, SAFEARRAY of bytes (VT_ARRAY|VT_UI1), a DOMDocument object, or any object that supports IStream, ISequentialStream, or IPersistStream. See Remarks for more information. isSuccessful[out, retval] True if the load succeeded; False if the load failed. Return Values S_OK The value returned if successful. S_FALSE The value returned if the load fails. E_INVALIDARG The value returned if the isSuccessful parameter is Null.

So you have to pass a pointer to a bool to hold more or less the same information as the return value of the function, and if you pass a null pointer, you get your hand spanked…