It would be nice! I was just looking for a hub myself! I decided to just Google it and found a few.

It’s your right to choose whatever text editor you want to. However, crashes cause data loss; it is always your responsibility to make sure that critical data is backed up.

More information about the issue can be found at (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15748/faq-desk-crash-caused-my-file-to-be-all-nulls).

If you wanted to be helpful, instead of just complaining, you could try to reproduce the problem: whoever can be the one to find a reliable, reproducible way to force a crash causing the data loss will provide a necessary tool in fixing the problem: so far, the author has not been able to reproduce the problem, and thus cannot debug it.

Hello @david-bailey and All,

I have never read, yet, a more intelligent text, about the general problem of backups :-)) I, personally, think that this article deserves to be located in the FAQ section !

Cheers,

guy038

Many thanks, Claudia. That’s it. Very much appreciated.

Cheers.

THANK YOU!!!

I am sorry for the delay in thanking you, I must wait 1200 between posts! And then the internet went out because of all the rain!

@Fly-Wire

delete your characters put the cursor into the next line, press and hold shift+alt click with the mouse into the position of the last line holding the data to be move ctrl+x go up to the line with the initial delete chars ctrl+v

Took longer this to write than to do.

Cheers
Claudia

see my response here (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15699/all-files-are-showing-up-as-symbols-in-notepad)

@Alex-Parfenov

Agreed that NPP is not an IDE, but, once one adds the proper plug-ins to it, these are some of the things that can be done with it:

Compile and link programs and jump to errors in the source code (NPP Exec) Tag and use tags on source files (TagsJump and TagsView) Keep many sets of files (sessions) at hand for editing (Session Manager) Easily compare editor files to files in source control and check in files (Tortoise SVN) Open files by name/pattern that are part of a solution (Solution Hub)

I suspect that a fair portion of long-time NPP users are programmers of one sort or another, and for good reason: it has a lot of features we use (syntax highlighting and the like) and it supports plug-ins that allow it to function pretty much like an IDE.

Good idea. I’m also interested in this.

@cipher-1024 Thank you for the answer. Good idea for workaround. At least highlighting will not fall into constant error.

@perlsmith

See here.

thanks a lot claudia and scott!

@Claudia-Frank

sorry, needs to be modified to

this is normal behavior as the lexer needs …

Cheers
Claudia

@fruv

I think you get a better chance to get this done if you follow what @PeterJones wrote here.

Cheers
Claudia

@fruv

This almost qualifies as a FAQ…or a FAFF (Frequently Asked-For Feature)…see here.

Hi,
I also have the same issue, and I just updated to the newest version. The problem was “gone” right away, because the AutoSave plug-in https://sites.google.com/site/fstellari/nppplugins wasn’t compatible and thus disabled (I downloaded 32-bit NPP by mistake).
So, for me at least, it seems that plugin causes the jumps whenever the program loses focus.

@Suanne-Minden

being able to make text bold would be great. These files need to be in .txt format not html.

There is no such thing as basic formatting (e.g. bold) in .txt !

to be able to pin most used files so they are readily available

You might try the Explorer plugin as it gives you a Favorites panel which I use as a “pinning” mechanism.