@PeterJones
Many thanks!
Regards,
RPrinceton

@NebulaPulseX
MultiReplace covers the complexity you’re dealing with quite well. While it doesn’t support syntax checking, it handles regex, variables, and multiline edits. Bulk replacements work across all open files in Notepad++. Folder-based processing is on the roadmap.

@deleelee said in The 'shortcuts.xml' file is NOT re-created if you delete it, on purpose or by mistake !:

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your meaning but, if the “exe” directory is the one containing notepad++.exe, the portable version does have shortcuts.xml there.

You ignored the context of the discussion: the specific question @guy038 asked was,

Is is normal that a default shortcuts.xml file is NOT created if absent in current folder ( for a portable version )

Or, phrases a different way: “if you delete the shortcuts.xml and start Notepad++, why doesn’t it re-create it with default shortcuts”

So, definitionally, if you’ve deleted the shortcuts.xml from the portable directory, there is no shortcuts.xml from which NPP can read the defaults, since NPP doesn’t have a .model for shortcuts.xml and it has no where else to look. (I was contrasting that to the normal installation, where if you delete the App data shortcuts.xml, NPP can recreate it using the shortcuts.xml in the exe directory)

@rinku-singh it’s been long & i forgot for what exact reason I asked. Thanks, anyway.

@Bernard-Schleich-0

I currently use

https://github.com/Tatsu-syo/noMeiryoUI

in Windows > 7 removed settings to adjust fonts in Notepad++ and other programs . In Preferences, General -> Reduce may need to be unchecked for OS settings to be used.

Size of fonts changed should be modest as larger sizes may not fit in the area allocated in the GUI.

Microsoft appears to want users to use Scaling instead of the legacy of WindowMetrics.

@mkupper said in Question(s):

I verified that at least for my current setup that the zoom level seems to have no affect on the printed results.

Same here. Perhaps I was unclear.

If I leave the zoom at default and adjust the font size for Default Style to be large enough for me to read easily on my monitor, I would set a font size of 14 or 16 points with Liberation Mono. (14 is bit smaller than I like, 16 is too big, 15 isn’t an option.) Those are too large for printing, though.

If I set Default Style to 12 points, printing is reasonable. If I then zoom in 3 steps, I’m just about where I want to be to read easily on the screen — without affecting printing.

The question I was answering was, “Why not just change your default font size?” Because that does affect printing (and, though I hadn’t remembered until I tried just now, also isn’t as fine-grained as zoom).

@Farhan-Yazid said in How to highlight text?:

Hi, any shotcut button to assign the highlight funtion?

By default, the Style One Token / Style All Occurrences of Token commands do not have keyboard shortcuts.

But if you use Settings > Shortcut Mapper, set Filter = style, you can choose any of them and use Modify to set a keyboard shortcut for that token-highlight style.
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(In case it’s not clear: Style all using Nth style in that dialog corresponds to Search > Style All Occurrences of Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]; Style one using Nth style corresponds to Search > Style One Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]. And for further clarification: the Search > Mark All that @Alan-Kilborn mentioned 6 years ago is the same as what’s now known as Search > Style All Occurrences of Token)

@ANDRES-MARIANO-MARTINEZ-PEÑA

Yo sólo utilizo versiones portables, es decir, versiones que no necesitan ser instaladas, sino que simplemente se copian en un directorio.
Para instalar un paquete de instalación sin entrada, hay que pasar el parámetro /S a setup.exe. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options.

I only use portable versions, i.e. versions that do not need to be installed, but simply copied to a directory.
To install an installation package without input, you have to pass the /S parameter to setup.exe. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options.

@PeterJones said in TranslateID (FolderName) in UserDefinedCommands (shortcuts.xml):

If you look again at the reference you linked, the TranslateID attribute is defined for the contextMenu.xml; however, the <Command> tags in the shortcuts.xml do not have that attribute listed as being available.

Thus, I do not believe what you are looking for is currently possible. Thus, I think you would have to follow the instructions in our FAQ to put in a feature request to ask the developer to add TranslateID to the shortcuts.xml <Command> tag.

Hello, @PeterJones.

I truly appreciate your quick response and such a clear explanation!

Indeed, upon rereading the documentation I referenced, I realized I misunderstood the use of the TranslateID attribute. It applies to contextMenu.xml, not shortcuts.xml, as I had mistakenly assumed. That was an oversight on my part, and I appreciate you pointing it out so objectively.

In my case, this was just curiosity based on that mistaken understanding. It’s not something essential for daily use of the application. I’m glad to have learned the actual scope of this functionality.

Thanks again for your kindness and clarification.

There is an issue about this:

Search function impracticality #10438

@Coises

As I read it, it seems that the OP wants their Preference to be updated if they use the Edit, Blank Operations, TAB to Space (or Space to TAB).

Of course, I too could be confused. The lack of detail does make the OP open to interpretation.

I’m with @PeterJones on this.

One is a “Preference”, the other a “one-shot function”. This function should not be making changes to a Preference. And at the moment it isn’t, which I believe to be the correct decision.

Terry

@Alan-Kilborn Hehe, “for in much wisdom is much grief”.

I see that a GitHub user @paulm31 is submitting a AutoHotKey_V2.udl.xml to the User Defined Languages Collection in PR #324 – I have to assume that’s related to this post, even if it’s not you, given the timing.

That PR is merged, and CollectionInterface shows the AutoHotKey_V2.udl entry for me.

See https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26920/fighting-malicious-ads-on-download-pages

@guy038 Excellent! Thanks for the lists…

By the way, after months of trying all sorts of tricks to successfully encode the ÿ character to Hex in a UTF-8 encoded page, I realized that I had to initiate a Windows-1252 page first. And then it successfully converted the PNG to Hex. lol.
The NUL bytes (\x00) were problematic as well because unless they get loaded into a raw binary state, they usually get converted to spaces (20) . So I get it now. ITS A TEXT EDITOR! … but at least Windows-1252 gives me a work-around for bytes 0x00–0xFF
And then of course there’s Base64 to save the day!

Lastly, I copy and paste a lot of binary content , so thanks for IDM_EDIT_COPY_BINARY 42048

Cheers
Lance

@Alexander-Huckel ,

Sorry, I am not sure about the automatic translation of your question: do you mean auto-correction, where it fixes spelling? Or auto-completion, where it helps you type programming keywords or other terms already found in your document?

The latter is native to the app, described https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/auto-completion/ in the manual , and controlled by the settings described https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#auto-completion

Spelling correction is not implemented natively in Notepad++, but the DSpellCheck plugin is highly recommended for doing spell check and suggesting corrections.

@Sergio-Bonfiglio ,
Sorry, don’t have the time to research and provide an answer that is obvious after reading the documentation.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Insert sequential numbers at start of lines:

editor.replaceLine(line_nbr, '{n}) {c}'.format(n=chr(96+running_line_nbr), c=line_content))

Thank you! I had tried editing that line myself but I didn’t quite get it right. It’s all good now thanks to you 😁

@PeterJones
Thanks for your repply
I will atach a sreenshot

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But when i select a language and i setup it the next tine that i setup the program check automaticaly the last language that i checked for use in these language
If i setup the program as default the language doesn’t install other languages

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