@peterjones ,
great.
I also found #59714 and #26203 there.

For example, when I think of “Customize Toolbar”, it is quite a job to set up the toolbar again on another computer. I can copy the “CustomizeToolbar.btn” and “CustomizeToolbar.dat” by hand.
But as you say, the step isn’t that big anymore.

If I understand correctly, the NPP settings come from “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++” to “cloud location path”.
Are all plugin settings in “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config”?

In any case, I think it’s great!
That would complete the picture :-)

Greetings Conniff

Lots of information to unpack from initial post. Though well decribed. I always disable auto updating as it all seems intrusive to me :) as I like being in control as much as possible.

@ea117-admin said in Notepad++ Update Behavior Suggestion:

Just “update”. Not “re-make all my installation decisions again.” Someone who wants to remake all installation decisions again can still do that by running the full interactive installer again.

It is a NSIS installer. A default inbuilt argument is /S (must be uppercase), which performs a silent install. This can be used for a new installation or an upgrade installation.

If the updater could have an option to append /S to the command line to run the upgrade install, then try to issue a request.

If doing over multiple machines, then perhaps handle the upgrade yourself and deploy the new installer and use the /S argument.

@ron-matthews ,

It is assumed, at present, that this a bug

Or you could conclude, based on the v8.2.1 announcement and release notes, that it was an intentional feature implementation, as evidenced by #3 in the notes.

@peterjones thank you

… and if I take a fresh 8.1.2 portable unzip, and switch to Bespin, I see all the comment lines like the ones you said were hidden, if I’ve understood:

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So I think you can just update your Bespin.xml.

If not, please use the </> on the toolbar, and share an example snippet of text that shows the problem, and maybe even give us the contents of your Bespin.xml. For example, here is the file I have the screenshot for:

/* Normal comment */ /* Normal comment with post Ácute Ãnd Õther Àccents ================== */ IF (expression) BEGIN blah END /* ==================Normal comment with pre/post and Ácute Ãnd Õther Àccents================== */ IF (expression) BEGIN blah END

@mathlete2 ,

It’s not working because commentEnd must be non-blank if you want commentStart to work. If I set it to <Language name="batch" ext="bat cmd nt" commentLine="REM" commentStart="::" commentEnd="::REM">, save, exit, reload, then load a file in Batch, the Ctrl+Shift+Q will block-mode, where it puts :: at the beginning of the current selection and ::REM at the end of the current selection; but if I set commentEnd="", it will instead just use the commentLine for the block-comment commands as well, ignoring both commentStart and commentEnd. I tried some experiments, and even if you did something as simple as commentEnd=" " (where it uses a single space in the attribute value), it will use :: for the beginning and a space for the end.

But please note, if you do get it working that way: block comments are meant to allow for multi-line, and abusing cmd.exe’s label syntax (which is actually what :: is for) to be a pseudo-comment will not create a multi-line comment in cmd.exe syntax. It would just put :: at the beginning of the selection and whatever non-empty text you chose for the commentEnd at the end. Which means, if you have more than one line selected, only the first line would be commented out.

If you want to use :: as your line comment, then you should just change commentLine="::", and then line-comment will always use that (and block comments will instead apply the line-comment individually to all selected lines). But you cannot set it up in a way soas to have two different single-line comment syntaxes, as that is not how the comment-feature was designed.

(we literally just added the text These attributes can only define one type of line and block comments; if your language has multiple types of either, you will have to choose the _one_ type that you'd like Comment/Uncomment to work with. to the user manual: it hasn’t even had time to be released to the website yet. but it will be in the next revision of the website.)

@peterjones THX :)

@peterjones Thanks!

Because they both indicate the same thing and are grammatically correct in this context, they are interchangeable. The phrase “opened files” has the past participle form of the verb “opened,” but the phrase “opened files” contains the adjective “opened.”

@alan-kilborn That worked. Thank you so much! image_2022-01-24_084149.png

nppSetup.nsi | Fix installer x64 not detected the previous installation location | 16 days ago

Looks like already fixed for next release.

@peterjones muchas gracias compañero, me sirvió bastante ya lo logré solucionar. Un abrazo. Mil gracias.

@jabcreations

It’s in the Search menu, not the Edit menu. (probably in that menu because searching and marking and bookmarking are all intertwined in Notepad++, whereas coloring text has nothing to do with editing, because it doesn’t make changes to the file when saved)

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Thanks! You help me a lot

In the start menu, you can make a new shortcut to notepad++ that runs it with the command line arguments -multiInst -nosession. When you click on that shortcut, it will open a new multi-instance window without the current session, but it won’t change the open-with-notepad++ behavior.

Non-multi-instance instances (like those opened with open-with) and those that open with a shortcut will confuse your settings, because depending on which one you exit last, it may save your settings in a state that doesn’t match what you want. This may or may not be what you want, though.

@real-cat I’m inclined to agree with you. When writing code, developers have to weigh several trade-offs before settling on a final product. My guess is that this is one of them. I can handle it.

@hadock987 said in I have to type in UTF-8 code rather than words:

I suspect that when typing in Chinese words in Notepad++, Notepad++ do not encode them in UTF-8 code.
Is my guess true? How can I resolve it?

I suspect you’re wrong. It’s really easy to check: the status bar on the bottom of Notepad++ will show whether or not it is editing in UTF-8 mode.

[somesection] HoldToSpawn = 按住~y~Backspace~s~來讓~b~

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D:\Users\Peter\Downloads\NppCommunity>xxd uni.ini 00000000: 5b73 6f6d 6573 6563 7469 6f6e 5d0d 0a48 [somesection]..H 00000010: 6f6c 6454 6f53 7061 776e 203d 20e6 8c89 oldToSpawn = ... 00000020: e4bd 8f7e 797e 4261 636b 7370 6163 657e ...~y~Backspace~ 00000030: 737e e4be 86e8 ae93 7e62 7e0d 0a s~......~b~..

The e68c89 is the UTF-8 3-byte encoding for the one you have shown as &#x6309; in the later example, so Notepad++ is doing the right thing with Unicode characters properly entered when Notepad++ believes it is in UTF-8 mode.

Though I just realized: do you think that typing &#x6309; in Notepad++ will save the unicode character 按 in the bytes of the ini file? If you think that, you are sorely mistaken. Notepad++ saves the characters you type. And unlike HTML/XML, Notepad++ doesn’t translate XML/HTML entities into their actual characters when you save or display the file. So if your ini is really

[somesection] HoldToSpawn=&#x6309;&#x4F4F;~y~Backspace~s~&#x4F86;&#x8B93;~b~...

Then you are getting exactly what you should: you typed a bunch of ascii characters, including ampersand, number sign, ex, six, three, zero, nine, semicolon, and that’s what your game is seeing.

looking again at your post, where you compare the failing screenshot with extra box bytes in the top screenshot, compared to the one below which seems to be correct where you give it enties, maybe you really did type the Chinese characters in the first example. So I crossed out the entity paragraph.

If your game isn’t really expecting the .ini file to be in UTF-8, or if it only believes it is UTF-8 if it has the BOM, you may need to change to Encoding > UTF-8-BOM instead of Encoding > UTF-8 to better convince your game to process the .ini file as UTF-8.

So, to sum up: most likely, either you don’t actually have Notepad++ editing in UTF-8 mode (in which case, you just need to change the encoding in Notepad++), or your game doesn’t recognize an .ini file as UTF-8 without the BOM (in which case, you need to change to UTF-8-BOM in Notepad++ so it saves the BOM character), or your game doesn’t accept UTF-8 for the .ini, despite your assertion that it does.

@eric-bret ,

The same way you do with any other Windows application: There are a plethora of ways; you can search the internet for “associate txt with another application”, since we cannot be expected to be experts in all versions of Windows and Windows Server, and what config options you are comfortable with. As a hint, I usually use Right Click > Open With and check make-default, and/or directly edit the registry; GPO might do it, but I’m not a GPO expert.

Also, if you run Notepad++ as administrator, the Settings > Preferences > File Association dialog will allow you to try to set associations.

You can search this forum for “association” to find more discussion on file association, including some gotchas and difficulties with various methods.