@cowlinator said:

default font

To quote myself from earlier today:

The wonderful thing about tiggers… er, I mean, Notepad++, is that it’s highly configurable.

If you don’t like a default, change the setting yourself. Style Configurator is your friend.

Why was this chosen

“Courier New” was probably chosen because it’s nearly universal on Windows machines, dating back as far as I can remember(*) in my font-based computing, and can be counted on to be there. And maybe there are people who prefer Courier New over Lucida Console, or whatever other “default” you might want to suggest.

In the end, no default setting will make everyone happy for a given application, so the author picked some default and gave users the ability to change it. Since it’s configurable, the chances are pretty slim that the default will change.

update: * “as far back”: a quick search found that Courier New was introduced as the system font in Windows 3.1 back in 1992. The first reference I can find to Lucida Console was Win 2000.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5714#issuecomment-497283604

@Stefano-De-Blasiis

Did you follow the suggestion of @Meta-Chuh to reinstall the File Switcher plugin?

welcome to the notepad++ community, @jhframe

unfortunately the explorer plugin author has apparently made changes to the older 1.8.5 download, which is in the 7.6.6 plugins admin list.
it’s possible this has happend as he released 1.8.6.

currently, you have to install it manually, by downloading Explorer.zip from here:
https://github.com/oviradoi/npp-explorer-plugin/releases and extract it.

go to the notepad++ menu plugins > open plugins folder to open it in windows explorer. create a folder called Explorer. copy the extracted Explorer.dll into the Explorer folder. restart notepad++

best regards.

@Emric-Landuro

many thanks for reporting back.

I don’t know what was wrong, and i don’t care… sometimes, PCs… hmm…

welcome to the club 😉

best regards.

@Alan-Kilborn said:

Well, OK

He left in a hurry! After posting (in your defence) I looked at his profile, ONLY to find it’s gone. a short fuse perhaps?

Terry

Thank you for the quick response.
Yes, copy udl file to the mentioned folder (userDefineLangs -> without “d”) works. The fonts are shown correctly.
Also yes, the mentioned Issue reflects my experience as well. I use the latest npp version.

I would appreciate your work arround with copy job in a newer version.

@121eddie

What’s the value in that?

I don’t use VS2017. Only to create a SLN / VCXPROJ file and maybe update the SDK. I generally use Notepad++ to develop and then an NppExec script that helps me compile with ‘msbuild’. I don’t do much development in C/C++, mainly scripting with Perl, Python and other text doc manipulation.

Sorry no help :-(

@Meta-Chuh said:

closing and rejecting feature request #722 led to…

I see.

In that issue comment thread it is said “it’s hard for making a consistent UI if we want ‘in selection’ for every find command”. To that I’d say, why not just remove the little border that boxes in the In Selection checkbox and the Count button?

;)

Seriously, though, I’d guess that the code to do, for example, Find All in Current Document with In Selection as a qualifier is much harder than the Count version, otherwise why not include it? I’d use that variant quite often.

There was another edit app in DOS years ago as well, many moons ago called MS DOS Editor.