@donho Thank you very much for your reply. Please let me know what else you would like me to provide to help out. Thank you very much!

@PeterJones nice I will try and upload this theme as well.

@jeffs555-s ,

With more tabs than will fit on screen, most programs put the left scroll arrow on the left side of the tab bar and the right scroll arrow on the right side of the tab bar.

I am not sure I’d agree with the word “most”.

Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Notepad app (the one that handles multiple tabs) does. But Chrome just keeps shrinking the tab shape, and after a few dozen, I stopped trying to see if I ever got it to show scroll controls OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc (and my memory of Excel) put both the ◀ go-left and ▶ go-right and add-sheet buttons on the lower left Google Sheets webapp puts both the < and > on the lower right As far as I can tell, Visual Studio doesn’t give such buttons; instead, they just have the ▼ pulldown, similar to the one on Notepad++'s menu bar. Mozilla Thunderbird (email client), like Chrome, seems to just shrink the tabs; again, I could never get it to show scroll controls.

So I tried a variety of apps, from different categories of tabbed-like interfaces, and only one of them puts the left-scroll on the left and the right-scroll on the right. In my quick experiment, “most” put them immediately next to each other, wherever they go. But really, it seems there’s no global consistency on such scroll controls. That’s not to say that there aren’t a gazillion other apps that do split them between left and right sides of the Tab Bar – just that it apparently depends on one’s set of applications that they use.

I can understand wanting it as a feature, if it’s what you are used to. It isn’t currently an option in Notepad++ (though it could be requested, as described in our feature request FAQ); and, as far as I know, there aren’t any plugins that currently move the Tab-Bar-scroll-left button to the left side of the Tab Bar (and I don’t know who would win the war between a plugin and the main app as far as trying to position that button, so I don’t know if a plugin could enforce a different location for it)

@bvklaveren said in sha512 certificate cannot be validated:

I have seen the instructions, but installing the self-signed certificate on all computers in the organization is not a practical solution.

Okay. Then ignore the self-signed, since there’s a commercially-signed alternative that can give you confidence that the binary is being distributed by the one who it claims to be.

It only takes one certificate to give the confidence, but it also means that you can ignore any other certificate on the same file, because having two certificates (one self-signed that you choose to distrust and the other commerically-signed which you choose to trust) gives you exactly the same amount of confidence that the binary is valid as does having just the commercially-signed certificate with none others. Whereas for someone who does trust the self-signed, they can choose to trust that self-signed and ignore the commercially-signed as being tainted by money.

Also, why would you include a self-signed certificate if you also have “real” one that can be validated without extra steps?

The “why’s and wherefore’s” are all available in the public, in various discussions on this forum (search for certificate) and the relevant section of the User Manual and in the various announcement pages in the official website. But I’ll sum it up, from my outside perspective:

Because for months, there wasn’t a commercial certificate available, because the corporations behind the certificates are set up to make things difficult to open source projects. And once he did get the new globalsign cert, he didn’t feel it was worth it to undo all the effort he had put into creating the self-signed certificate.

Lastly, it is not in the msi, so why is it in the exe?

apples and oranges?

The MSI is a container, which can be signed, and is signed separately from any EXE or DLL that might be contined therein. So the developer apparently chose to only sign that MSI with the commercially-derived – probably because his system was already setup to sign the EXE with both (because it was setup to sign with just the self-signed, then he added the globalsign cert on top of that once it was available), whereas the MSI didn’t come until a month or two after the globalsign was available, so he probably didn’t think it was worth the extra effort to figure out how to sign the MSI with the self-signed as well.

@mpheath ,

Thanks again for you reply! I plan to test your BufferRestore script after my next “break” in my current project(s). After looking closer at your post and web page, this looks to be a good option for me to use until NP++ has a built in tool…

I do own a rack of servers and plan to spin up a couple extra VMs once I release my own platform/environment for my apps (within the next couple months). The challenge with one of the (main) current platforms which I’m using is, while I pay annually to be a developer for them, their licensing does not allow me to run on more than 1 PC at a time, so it requires me to log out/in each time I switch between PCs or VMs. I can’t maintain the variable “state” if forced to log out.

There are many additional issues with Windows Rebooting… When the current test environments get “killed”, all the opened files are now locked and all the variables are flushed. So it requires unlocking the files, and recreating the previous workflow to recreate the variable “state”. Using a log file doesn’t work well in this environment, because it typically goes back beyond the last save… and could only be applied if the saved file was in the exact state as when the log file was started… not sure if that makes sense?

@PeterJones @guy038 @W-H @Ava-Thompson and everyone

Thanks a lot for checking out NppVim and for all the support. Really appreciate the feedback and the nice words.

Quick updates:

Repo here: https://github.com/h-jangra/NppVim I’m still actively working on the plugin, adding more motions, fixing bugs and making things feel closer to real Vim. More text objects, better repeat for t/f etc all in progress.

I’m glad to hear interest in supporting the project. I’ll set up GitHub Sponsors soon and will update this thread.

Thanks again for trying it out and giving feedback, it motivates me to keep improving it.
Please feel free to open issues on GitHub for any bugs or features you want prioritized.

I seem to recall that there was a bug in the main GitHub repo about this kind of issue, where it was extremely slow to move tabs when a lot of tabs were open.

I also seem to recall that this issue was solved, probably in the last year. I’d recommend that @Wilson-Azambuja-Porto-Alegre-RS install the most recent Notepad++ version and see if that fixes the problem.

@Dan-McGovern ,

-openFoldersAsWorkspace works just fine with -settingsDir and -titleAdd and other similar options, in my experiements.

But, as far as I can tell, once -openFoldersAsWorkspace is specified anywhere on the command line, all path arguments are treated under the rule, “if it’s a folder, put it in the FolderAsWorkspace panel, and don’t open any file-paths directly”.

That seems like the intent, because I don’t think it was considered that notepad++.exe myfile.txt -openFoldersAsWorkspace SomeDirectory\ would be a normal use-case (ie, when adding the feature, didn’t think that you’d want to open a file from one location, plus a folder-as-workspace from another, in the same command-line)

If you don’t have the -multiInst argument, and if you don’t have the multi-instance preference set, then you could break it up into two calls of notepad++.exe

"%np%" -settingsDir="..." -openFoldersAsWorkspace "%workspace%" "%np%" -settingsDir="..." "%file%"

In that incantation, the oFAW has to come first, because of the known-and-never-solved issue that oFAW doesn’t work on an already-running instance of Notepad++.

… But since I seem to remember that you do have the multi-instance preference set, that’s not likely to work for you. In which case, until you do a feature request, and it was accepted and implemented and released, I don’t know that you’ll get exactly what you want.

I’ll update the manual to better explain current behavior with the oFAW option.

@pbarney said in PHP Linter PythonScript:

my impression is that Pythonscript ships with 2.8

From Plugins Admin, PythonScript v2.1.0 uses Python v2.7.18 (as far as I am aware, there is no such thing as Python v2.8).

However, if you go to the PythonScript releases page, you will see that there is also an “alpha” track of PythonScript v3.0.x (currently at 3.0.24), which use Python v3.12.xx. This is the route I personally recommend (caveat below).

The maintainer of PythonScript has chosen not to take PythonScript 3 out of “alpha” until it fully supports non-unicode encodings (ie, until it supports the 1980s-style character set encodings), so until that point, to get a maintained version of the Python interpreter for PythonScript, you have to manually install an alpha version of PythonScript – essentially, you have to put up with legacy syntax of Python if you want to deal with legacy non-unicode encodings of text. I personally have no need of supporting 80s technology for file encodings (and I pity anyone for whom their circumstances demand that they deal with file encodings that haven’t been brought into this millennium anytime in the last quarter century), so I use the 2020s version of Python for my PythonScript. (My personal opinion is that PythonScript should start shipping PythonScript 3 as non-alpha, and that they just prominently make it clear that if you have to deal with the old character sets that you should instead install the outdated PythonScript2 version from the releases page. But my opinion on such things holds no weight.)

@rdipardo

I didn’t mean that I run and hide from anything that AI is touched or influenced by. That wouldn’t be practical.

@James-Burke-0 ,
Yeah…okay, whatever. It’s clear now, you don’t know what you’re talking about and pushing a product that isn’t what you say it is.

Your statement is false, period. It can’t read all known DBF types, as you state because it can’t read level 7 DBF files, which has been the latest official dBASE file type for the past approx 28 years almost since it’s been written to work in Windows, so I’ll consider your postings to be uninformed spam. Have a nice day.

@john-murphy said in Editar formulas de excel en Notepad:

You can click on the cell so that the formula goes up to the input window (I don’t know what it’s called). Highlight the formula there, not within the cell itself. Then Cntl C in excel and Cntl V in NP++

You didn’t actually read the question. The people who answered earlier did. Please don’t try to “help” by giving answers that just use keywords, instead of actually understanding the question asked.

I cannot prove you are using generative AI, but it sure feels like it. That is expressly forbidden in this forum. You’ve had two posts like that. If you make a third post that has the same unhelpful pseudo-replies, you will be banned.

@john-murphy said in where exactly can I find the file where the new macro I just saved was saved?:

Also, go to to the search input window and type name:bbb or whatever you named the file if it’s not bbb. Windows will find it. Of course you need to search from a folder that you can reasonable expect to find the file, so that the search doesn’t take too long.

That has nothing to do with the question asked. You do not name the file that Notepad++ stores macros in. It’s defined internally, and the answers above already explained where to find them.

I cannot prove you are using generative AI, but it sure feels like it. That is expressly forbidden in this forum. You’ve had two posts like that. If you make a third post that has the same unhelpful pseudo-replies, you will be banned.

@Steve-Rhoads

This is a known issue, reported several times. Here’s one of those times (that links to some others): https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/13341

@Freon-Sandoz-0 said in Feature Request: Ask before deleting record of current files:

from the record

Maybe it’s about the already opened N++ session files and not about the recent files list?

If so, rather check the Preferences > Backup > Remember inaccessible files from past session.

More info in: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/session/#inaccessible-files-in-an-active-session

@Mudassir-Raza said in Help for a JSON formatting.:

That JSON snippet looks fine — it’s just not indented properly, so it’s hard to read.

And has syntax errors, since there are four arrays and two objects which are not properly terminated.

You can format JSON in a few ways:

In Notepad++, install the JSON Viewer plugin (as you already did).

Or the JsonTools plugin mentioned above. I tried both on the original data: JSON Viewer refused to format it, because of the syntax errors. JsonTools warned about the syntax errors, but then made its best guess to close off the arrays and objects and then formatted it.

Or, if you just want something quick in the browser, try a free online JSON viewer — it shows tree view and highlights errors instantly.

This is a Notepad++ forum. Unless Notepad++ has no way of doing it, and especially for first-time posters, it is frowned upon suggesting external tools. And since both JSON Viewer and JsonTools can help with that messy data, to some extent, there is no reason to advertise external tools – they both have error detection, they both have pretty-printers, and they both have tree-view panels available, which covers all the features you mentioned of the website, so I can see no good reason to bring up that site.

Given that the conversation was a year old, and the only new information you added was the advertisement for an external website, I was tempted to ban you as a spammer. And since I’m still not convinced that website traffic isn’t the only reason you posted, I am de-linkifying your post. Anyone who is curious about the site you’ve advertised will still be able to figure out where it is, but it will prevent automatic crawlers from wasting site bandwidth here as a redirect to the site you advertised.

@ModelsRUs ,

Reading the comments on the issue you created, it appears the plugin author has helped your confusion, both with regard to Compare coming pre-installed or not (which it doesn’t), but also regarding uninstalling it.

But for those who don’t follow links to the issue boards, the short version:

Notepad++ does not come pre-installed with ComparePlugin or ComparePlus plugin. It is safe to delete D:...\Notepad++_portable\plugins\ComparePlugin\ (as long as N++ is not actively running when you delete it), and it will not in any way, shape, or form mess up nppPluginList.dll. Not noted in the comments: the nppPluginList.dll essentially tells Notepad++ where to download plugins using the Plugins Admin interface; and while it does read the N++ plugins directory to find out what plugins and versions are currently installed, it doesn’t care if that changes outside its control.

What happens if I install “ComparePlus” without “Compare” being removed?

There would be two plugins in the Plugins menu, and each would set up its own toolbar buttons (and I’m not sure you could tell which buttons go with which plugin). And if you used the ComparePlugin comparison, it wouldn’t work right in Dark Mode (see here for a recent issue about that) the two can technically coexist, but you would just always have confusion over which you are using. the intention is to only have one of the two plugins installed. (And since ComparePlus was released, the intention has been for users to uninstall ComparePlugin and just use ComparePlus.)

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.