@Charles-Fraichot ,

Do you have recommended plug ings or built-in features that works well for bookkeeping

For bookkeeping? I would be very much surprised if there were. Bookkeeping is all about tables and numbers, which are the weak points of text editors. But some bookkeeping-adjacent plugins that might be helpful could be “Expression calculator” (which allows you to use the editor panel as a calculator of sorts). And the Columns++ plugin makes use of “elastic tabstops” to help present and manipulate tabular data.

What is the best way to organize and clean bank statements

I am not sure what Notepad++ brings to the “organize” space. And I am highly doubtful that there are any modern bank statements in a text format, unless maybe as JSON or XML.

working with structured data

Again, not really the strength of text editors. There are some structured data formats, like JSON and XML, that are text based, and thus fall under the purview of text editors like Notepad++. And tools like JsonTools and XML Tools help with those (but, again, often purpose-built tools are better for such data than general text editors are, even with Notepad++'s awesome plugins).

I m looking to avoid … LibreOffice for this part of my work

Avoiding tools purpose-built for the task, especially excellent free tools like LibreOffice, seems to me to be shooting onesself in one’s foot. But the plugins I’ve recommended might make certain aspects of your self-inflicted foot pain more tolerable. Good luck

@Jayson-Allen ,

See details in https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/104192

update: I have versions of the theme files which won’t have the ugly white backgrounds temporaroly at https://github.com/pryrt/notepad-plus-plus/tree/themesPost889/PowerEditor/installer/themes ⇒ they will hopefully eventually be put into the main codebase, for distribution with v8.9 and future. But until then, you can

Exit Notepad++ Go to that URL and download the raw version of your theme(s) For a normal Notepad++ installation, use Explorer to go to %AppData%\Notepad++ if there’s not a themes subdirectory, create it move the downloaded theme(s) into %AppData%\Notepad++\themes When you run Notepad++ next time, it will use the updated theme.

If you have customized your theme with user-keywords or user-extensions, this would overwrite those… I will eventually be writing a FAQ which explains a way to work around those customizations (once I don’t have to link to a branch in my fork of the code to share the theme files).

New FAQ: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27306/faq-themes-in-v8-8-9

@Adam-Sr-Flores

The simplest workaround here is to disable the N++ file-status checking in the Preferences > MISC. > File Status Auto-Detection (select Disable there).

My guess is that either something has recently changed on your remote server (e.g. a networking/caching setting) or you’ve started to experience occasional network connection outages. If you have the File Status Auto-Detection set to its default (Enable for current file), whenever an opened tab in N++ gets activated (switched to), N++ v8.7.1+ issues a threaded (to prevent a possible frozen app state) I/O checking call. As of now, if your server isn’t able to respond in time (3 secs), the checking thread is then forcibly terminated and one can experience such behavior described in your report. I’d like to improve this in the future (e.g. with an adjustable timeout limit), but unfortunately haven’t had time to do it yet.

Could you follow these instructions and paste here the nppLogNetworkDriveIssue.log obtained?

@deleelee

Thanks for the pic. You are evidently using the MenuIcons plugin and it seems that this plugin has a problem with the N++ v8.8.8+ new tab-label length limitation feature. You can try to report/ask for help at that plugin site:
https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/issues

or disable its “*” tab marking feature in the Menu Icons Options settings (select the “No symbol” radio-button there).

@PeterJones

Thank you, that’s very helpful. I’ll do that.

OK, if it’s the intended behaviour then I’ll just live with it. It’s not a very big deal.

Thank you all who answered!

@Eric-Wiseman said in Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years:

Line Operations -> Sort lines works ONLY if you convert Edit -> EOL Conversion ->Unix.

Unless I am missing something this looks like a bug…

As others have already explained, this is not a bug but rather a known and documented limitation, that all line endings must be the same.

If Sort Lines In Locale Order Ascending and Descending do what you want, those sorts implemented differently and are not dependent on consistent line endings. The ending for each line will remain with the text of the line it follows.

The Locale sorts can also sort using a rectangular selection for the keys even if there are tabs or characters of differing byte widths (such as can happen with non-ASCII characters in UTF-8) to the left of the selection, which does not work with the other sorts.

@Pierrick-ram

I think you will need to provide more information. Such as copying the “Debug Info” from your Notepad++ installation and pasting it here. It’s under the ? menu.

Terry

@Alan-Kilborn
Yes, you are right. Thanks for the transparency tip.

@Todd-Marshall ,

Some comments, based on your two most recent posts:

We had no way to know how exactly you used the AI – it could have been either of the following: you prompted it to “take a common problem found in Notepad++ and propose a solution” This version was why I suggested it might have been hallucination Since you didn’t say earlier, I had no way to know this wasn’t what had happened. you prompted it with "brace matching is not working for me in Notepad++, with details X, Y, Z. could you re-write this as a “proposal for improvement” This version was why I suggested that it was bad data fed into the prompt (ie, that you were wrong) This turned out to be closer to the truth, as you described. Both in regards to what you actually asked the AI to do, and with regard to the fact that you were wrong or incomplete in your description to the AI This was a lot of extra effort on your part. Instead of explaining to the AI what you wanted to say, and then have it re-write your text in its own words, you could have just explained it to us in your own words. And it would have been better, because it wouldn’t have introduced the AI-garbage uncertainty. And you wouldn’t have been violating the forums rules for posting. So it would have been better all around. Your posts don’t even match the AI text you posted. In your two most-recent posts, you claim you suggested Ctrl+D, but your AI text actually suggested Ctrl+] … that’s two different keystrokes. So by going through the AI intermediary, you didn’t even know what you posted. Re: Documentation: I have no idea what you mean by “mired in COIK” As the primary maintainer of the Notepad++ documentation, if you have concrete examples of how the Online User Manual is “poorly organized”, feel free to create an issue in the user manual repo with concrete descriptions… but understand that the basic structure is pretty set-in-stone at this point. But if you really meant, “I have been burned by other documentation before, so I don’t bother reading any documentation”, the onus is still on you to give each new application’s documentation a chance before rejecting it out-of-hand. I really don’t care about how good or bad the documentation for a major corporation’s huge flagship product is, and you basing your decision on whether or not to read any documentation based on a bad experience with a huge, gigantic application like that is rather unfair of you to any other documentation Re: the root cause being mismatched braces: you cannot really expect a feature that says “go to matching brace” to work as you described you wanted when the braces aren’t matching. And, in fact, the way that Notepad++ does work helps to indicate that the braces are mismatched, now that you know what that symptom means.

To sum up: don’t post AI-generated content in a Community of human Users of Notepad++; it’s not allowed, and it didn’t work well for you when you did.

@Matt-Brown said in Find / Replace All Behavior Change:

@PeterJones Thank you! Probably my own bone-headed oversight. I know it updated recently and afterwards I noticed the behavior…I’ve never intentionally touched the “wrap around” checkbox. It was unchecked. I appreciate the explanation.

That happens. Glad you figured it out.

(I deleted my intervening post, which was made before your post got approved in the post queue)

@PeterJones Thanks for your efforts, yes, I think that was the issue.

@ioc2e3:

I’m fairly sure the only one of those you can edit in Notepad++ is json.

You’ll have to look up the rest yourself. In some cases there might be more than one way the same file extension is used, so you’ll have to figure out which program wrote the files. (For example, .aff can be a file used as part of a spell-checking dictionary or an Advanced Forensic Format file.)

Even for JSON, you usually shouldn’t just edit a JSON file in Notepad++ unless you know what you are doing. JSON files are highly structured and any given JSON file is normally maintained by a specific program or set of programs for specific purposes. Usually there is a correct way to change the data stored there through a user interface provided by the application, rather than diving in yourself.

It might seem like a pain in the butt, but you need to work out which programs created each of the files that concern you and research those programs to figure out how to examine and/or change these files. If Notepad++ can open them at all, it will probably give you nothing but the ability to mess them up.

So, I’ve checked the session.xml to see how many files and in which encoding are.
https://i.imgur.com/H10X5Sh.png

What I’ve discovered here are inconsistent results.
While I expected all files to be in UTF-8 due to my settings, here I found:

Some (most) UTF-8 files with encoding “-1” in session.xml Some UTF-8 files with encoding “10007” in session.xml Some “Cyrillic -> Macintosh” files with encoding “10007” in session.xml Some “Cyrillic -> Windows 1251” files with encoding “1251” in session.xml

Somehow, N++ for itself has decided and selected alle these different encodings. What I need is to have all my files always in UTF-8, and now I’m thinking maybe to mass-convert all the file to UTF-8 somehow…

@b-squared said in Can't install any plugin - hash mismatch:

Hi,

I get the following error when trying to install a plugin from the Plugin Admin tool. I’ve tried several including Compare, JSON Viewer, 3P, HEX-Editor, JSON Tools.

Your Debug Info shows that you are using 64-bit Notepad++ version 8.8.8; Plugins Admin in that version should be offering Preview HTML 1.3.3.3. From your screenshot, it looks like it’s trying to load a 32-bit plugin with version 1.3.2.0.

I’m thinking that somehow your copy of the plugins list is not getting updated properly. Just to be sure… is this a regular installed version or a portable version, and exactly where are you getting the download?

Any way to install plugins manually, or will I just run into the same issue?

You can install plugins manually and there isn’t a hash check when you do that. Before we go that way, though, we need to figure out why your installation copy of the plugins list is messed up — I have to think it might not be the only thing that’s messed up.

My last message was wrong. Please excuse me.

@andwan0

Your issue has been fixed for the N++ v8.8.6+.