@Rob-DF

Try to disable the DirectWrite mode (uncheck N++ menu Settings > Preferences… > MISC. > “Use DirectWrite” checkbox).

@N8-Holt said in Is there a Hot key combo for "Clear all Bookmarks":

It would be convenient for me as I step through a sizeable source code file, setting bookmarks along the way, to be able to optionally set a bookmark when I find a key point in the program but quickly (hot key) be able to first clear all of the trailing bookmarks accumulated up to that point in time.

One of the things about this that’s giving me pause is that bookmarks are semi-persistent. They are stored in the session.xml file. As long as you keep a file or tab open in Notepad++ then the editor will remember the bookmarks when you close or exit Notepad++ and restart it. However, if you close a tab and then immediately re-open it using the recently closed file list then all of the bookmarks for that file are gone.

That said, I’m wondering what you mean by “trailing bookmarks accumulated up to that point in time.” Let’s say you start Notepad++ and see that there are already five bookmarks in a file. You add three more. Would you expect this “clear” function to remove the three you added in this session or would you expect it to clear all eight bookmarks, or do you want to clear some other subset of the bookmarks?

The thing @Terry-R suggested is to add a keyboard shortcut to the Search / Bookmark / Clear all bookmarks function. You may want to start out by first getting used to holding the Alt key down and then tapping the letters S B C followed by Enter. That will navigate to and use Notepad++'s Clear all bookmarks function if that is the thing you are seeking.

If you are not seeking to clear all bookmarks then the answer is “no” to the original question but please provide more information as it may well be possible to work out a way to define and clear a subset of the bookmarks.

@mkupper said :

Which also gets the topic of this thread back onto Notepad++

It never left.

Personally, I don’t understand why the Clear button is disabled for this tab either. Sure, the first several workflows are common to other programs, but the same can be said of the ones in the Main menu tab, and those ones can be cleared.

Either way, I’ve filed a feature request to address this.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Macro command:

@mkupper said:

Search: “(\u+)”

I’m not confident that \u is the “best” thing to use here…and also it fails miserably if Match case is inadvertently checkmarked…

You are right. It should have been a search for (?i)"(\u+)" and I even have the (?i) part in my own notes about using \u. I had noticed that English is likely not the OP’s first language which is why I thought of \u as it also matches letters with diacritics.

Hello, @adelphiauk,

Initially, our Notepad++ forum was hosted by the Web service SourceForge.net

But, in 2015, the forum moved to the NodeBB platform and the bug tracker moved to GitHub

Thus, it’s our web hosting company ! Below, the link to access the NodeBB site :

https://nodebb.org

Best Regards,

guy038

@Gowtham-Sakthivel ,

Aside from the user manual (though I personally highly recommend it), this Community also has a FAQ entry explaining where else to find regular expression resources

Wish I had found this thread earlier! I’ve been wanting this for some time…

The most recent versions of this snap do not seem to work very well on Ubuntu VMs (both VirtualBox and VMware). After several days of trouble-shooting, someone recommended installing the usual Windows version with Wine, and that got things working properly - see the answer I posted to my own Ask Ubuntu question, and my follow-up comments for some additional setup suggestions.

@erjh said in Notepad++ Windows 11 Context Menu Provision For All Users?:

new appx paradigm, I’m not sure what problem Microsoft thinks it solves

In a nutshell - APPX means MSIX, which in turn means containerization (isolation and possible virtualization in a sandbox) of the installed SW and, of course, easy deployment via the MS Store (also streaming, cloud attaching or traditional install possible).

@Gordon-Gordonplex said in Make np++ work like text/word processor?:

I would like my typing to work “normally”, like my email client, or like this very page does.

FAQ: “Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor”. With one exception, Notepad++ does not do typical “word processor” like things such as colors, fonts, margins, etc. The exception that comes to mind is that Notepad++ has settings related to indentation and it’s “auto-indent” part of the indentation settings. Notepad++'s indentation features are tailored creating and editing text in various computer languages that each have their own indentation rules and philosophy.

That said, people are still puzzled as to what you are asking for. You say you have used Notepad++ for years but there’s something about Notepad++ that does not align up with what you want or expect. However, you have not said exactly what it is out of alignment that’s specific to Notepad++.

As it’s a text editor, not a word processor, Notepad++ also does not do something that happens on this forum which is that I’m typing on the left side and to my right the text I type is also being displayed with forum specific markdown tags being processed. If I want bold I press the * * b o l d * * keyboard keys in that order. On the left side I see “**bold**” and on the right side I see the word “bold” in a bold-style font. That’s a “word processor” style feature that Notepad++ does not do. In the Notepad++ world we only see “**bold**” and use other software that will processes the “**bold**” and display it as “bold”.

@Almighty1 said in Community Question - How to start a chat with someone?:

@PeterJones - Thanks! I believe this is another one where enough upvotes is needed to earn the privilege as before, I did not see the “Start Chat With” in the triple-dot menu which is probably why the main chat icon didn’t work either. Ofcourse now, I am seeing the options after my posts had been upvoted a minimum amount of times.

Sorry about that. When writing up those instructions, I didn’t consider that people who are creating new accounts won’t have enough reputation to chat with me or another moderator… I will see if I can come up with something else…

@PeterJones - First of all, many thanks for taking the time to actually go into detail with the answer(s).

In my case for Google when the account was created, I would have preferred the stock avatar with the letter of the first letter of the username and then once I had earned the privilege, then I can have a custom avatar or maybe the better way would have been to allow either the default icon or google but not being able to customize it until it is earned.

Yes, I figured it had to be New User or at the worse possible case, it was a disabled but since with the previously created account using Google and not having any posts, there was no risk to see what would happen if I deleted the account and created it again using github.

I did face two issues, the first one when I deleted the account. I could not get back into the community as NodeBB was complaining the previous user no longer existed and I should refresh the page which I did a few times and the results were the same so it does not even let me view the community as a guest until I manually deleted the cookies for the site. Then when I tried to create the account, I used github because when I first login to the community yesterday, I remember somewhere where the github showed the same avatar I am using now instead of Google’s but after I clicked on github, NodeBB complained about unable to create account due to a internal error saying there was no valid email address in the profile. With both issues, I didn’t do a screenshot of the issue so I could not remember what it said exactly. But in any case, even though NodeBB complained, I did receive the e-mail to verify the email address with the link to click on which was how the account was actually created.

After you mentioned how to change the avatar in your first response, my first thought and experiment was finding the 128 x 128 size for the avatar by searching for the size for NodeBB avatar in pixels and then after some thinking, I figure it’s similar to a physical picture and you put a border layer on top of it for lack of better term, that is what is hiding the rest of the image. My actual image used is actually 68 x 73 so if it used the original size, it would probably fit within the circle except NodeBB itself probably resizes the image so it’s 128 x 128 so one way to fix this is probably to create a canvas that is 128 x 128 first and then put the original sized image on top of it so it will scale the new image instead. If it didn’t enlarge the original image to 128 x 128, then it would be easier to use a photo editor to simply get all wanted pixels within the center of the circle even with the coordinates unknown but what I did was simply added white pixels in all directions until things fit, first by making the the height 128 pixels first before adding pixels on any of the four sides until it fits. Actually, changing the canvas size in this case while keeping the original image size works as well.

Many thanks for the tips.

@brenda-gross said in RegEx help:

one has the character | and one has the work CONCAT

You could try this using the Replace function:
Find What:(?-is)^(?=.*(?:CONCAT|\|))(.*)
Replace With:--\1
Search mode must be regular expression. You can click on “Replace” to do it singularly, or “Replace All” to change the entire open file.

I do wonder though that the single character | might be used elsewhere. Hence why I say using the single Replace button so you step through the file and can check each line is correct for change before changing it.

Terry

It appears that those that like a less-streamlined UI are about to get their dream feature:

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I’ll say no more.

To All, I have updated the gist with revision 8.

Replace constant IDF_WHICH_DIRECTION with alternative IDF_FORWARD_DIRECTION to make it more meaningful with the action. Use html.unescape() on type2 values to resolve entities. Example & will change to &.

@Alan-Kilborn OK, XML comments do not require escapes with entities. -- can be a problem with XML comments so will be reduced to single - if exist.

Replacing IDF_WHICH_DIRECTION is OK so as to avoid user confusion with which direction. The json will inherit the change so the file needs to be removed to get the alternative value of IDF_FORWARD_DIRECTION. Or, just edit the values in the json file to your liking.

@Lê-Thanh-Bảo said in remove hyperlink:

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Step 1: - Open Notepad++ and go to Settings.
Step 2: - Select Preferences.
Step 3: - After opening preferences window, Click on ‘Cloud & Link’ tab.
Step 4: - Click under the ‘Clickable Link Settings’ section in uncheck the ‘Enable’ checkbox.

This. just straight up saved so much frustration :D.
Much love sir. many thanks from random person who registered ONLY to say thanks :D

@guy038, said in About attributes of the language node, in langs.xml:

Regarding the Lua language, the first line is :
I hope that it still works with this layout. Personally, I would expect this syntax :
… For the two languages mssql and sql, the commentLine attribute is moved at end of current line, after the commentStart and commentEnd attributes

Order of attributes is irrelevant to XML (even when parsed by the outdated tinyxml library used in N++)

The embedded Javascript and SearchResult languages do not have any extension ! I suppose that it’s on purpose ?

Since embedded Javascript is only for JavaScript embedded in HTML and similar files, it makes sense to not populate the ext attribute. And SearchResult even more so.

More generally, for a specific attribute, is the attribute="" syntax identical to the total absence of this attribute ?

As far as I know or can determine.

Regarding the backspaceUnindent attribute, it doesn’t seem used, by default, even for the two languages python and yaml which use the four space indentation

Don didn’t bother updating the XML to include the default value for all languages, because the code already assumes the default value.

That attribute will only show up on languages that you change the state of that option – or perhaps on languages where you change any of the langs.xml-related options in the GUI (I haven’t tested that).

Thus, the no status, for the powershell language seems useless, too !

If you toggle it on and then back off (there might have to be an exit/reload between; again, I haven’t tested specifically), it will first populate the attribute with the yes when you toggle it on (and then save settings), then it will populate with no when you toggle it back off (and then save settings).

Once Notepad++ has started tracking a given attribute in its XML settings, it will always write that value when it writes the associated XML on exit; the attribute-is-missing case is just to simplify handling installations that are being upgraded (so a person doesn’t have to re-create their langs.xml in order to be able to toggle that option), and Don made use of this to save the effort of adding that attribute to every language in the model XML file.

… however, looking at the langs.model.xml file, for the powershell language, I just see :
…
So, this may be a mistake on my part, although I don’t use the powershell language, yet !

Right now, the most recent commit for langs.model.xml is here, and it shows that powershell does not include that attribute. Which means for the no value to have shown up in your XML, you either toggled that option or you made some other change for powershell (knowingly or unknowingly).

@datatraveller1 ,
@Alan-Kilborn is right, if what you’re describing is true, although even after enabling the “Exit on Close the last tab” in the preferences dialog, I couldn’t reproduce your issue, so unless you didn’t enable the pin tab feature, and then click the pin, I don’t see how this could have happened. I tried several different variants of it, and couldn’t do it.

Even though I agree with you on trying to see the value of this feature, other than to keep a document pinned and to the left, and unable to be moved once it’s pinned, I see no other value of it for me. If people want it for some reason, good for them, it’s implemented, and fortunately, you also have the option to disable it, so…the OP’s statement to me, seems to exemplify excessive conditions.

I seldom have so many files open that they scroll off the screen, and frankly I find that kind of tab/file poor management and chaotic in nature. Between the File->Recent Files and the View->Document List features, I don’t see the purpose of having excessive amounts of files open at one time. Even assuming one has a header file open, and multiple dependent files open to look at, this seems like bad management, to me.

Even with web development, I would expect more open applications for graphics, FTP, word processor, etc, outside of Notepad++, than mutiple files of .css files, .html files, maybe scripts, etc inside of Notepad++ that wouldn’t be better off being managed (open/closed as needed) by using the Recent Files or Document List features or even the Project Panel or Folder As Workspace views to help manage a set of files in a project. I know some people work differently than perhaps I would, but it seems that excessive amounts of open files would lead to nothing more than confusion, accidental closures (which Pin Tab helps with) or editing the wrong file…etc. Might be just me though. :-)

@PeterJones said in Plugin 'AutoCodepage v1.2.7' für 'notepad++ v8.7.4' funktioniert nicht:

Sorry

No problem, no need to say Sorry :-)

@KoliadaES-Release said in Per-Desktop Instance:

Mostly because the last 5 or so updates seem to be massaging existing material. But it is quite possible I’m missing something important.

What you’re missing (IMO) is that Notepad++ has very few automated tests, so new features have an increased risk of causing regressions in weird unpredictable ways. This is very suboptimal, but nobody has the time or motivation to add more automated tests, especially since UI tests would probably be very difficult to implement.