That is super helpful. Thanks you guys so much!!

Thank you very much. I will check that out

Thank you. I will have a look at that

@scorpcat007 said in is there a way to download the user manual?:

guess they closed the conversation. :(
never understood why forums are in such a rush to close conversations. seems like this is still relevant.

As one of the people involved in npp-usermanual issue#163, who put a lot of effort into solving the problem, and convincing the owner to incorporate the fix, so that the zipfile of usermanual will be downloadable for this and every future version of the Notepad++ user manual, I am rather frustrated that you would look just the word “closed” on the issue and thus complain here, without also looking over at the “accepted” label that is plainly visible on the same page:
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… and without reading down to the end, where you can see links to the three pull requests that went about implementing the request:
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… or seeing the mention of the issue where the usermanual for Notepad++ v7.9.5 was released to the npp-user-manual.org website:
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We weren’t in a rush to close the conversation… we were in a rush to solve your problem, and did our best to implement the requested feature. And once we did, and only then, did we close the request. The reason we closed the issue is because the feature was given to you, and had been published to the live website, as Alan linked.

The admin deleted my old account. And I’ve renamed myself using the control panel:

Use your current federated account to log in. Navigate to:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/user/your-current-user-name/edit/username Edit the user name in the form. Click “Change Username” button.

My issue is resolved.

In the future, someone would have to create a similar forum thread to get help.

In my case, my old account had my name and no activity associated with it. So, it was an easy call to delete it.

My problem came because I’ve cut ties with Facebook. So, if you’re likely to do the same, you might come here first and associate your forum account with a new ID provider. Then you can leave the old provider.

i can confirm that behavior - in win 10 enterprise
if you run npp as Admin - it will not bring up front new file on opening
if you run npp as non admin - it will
see https://superuser.com/questions/498534/how-to-get-notepad-to-open-files-properly-in-windows-8

@Alan-Kilborn

This is what I need. Appreciate for your prompt assistant, thank you Cheer!!!.

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for taking the time to reply to my inquiry. I agree that in the past TextFX is awkward. It used to work to give me the date time function and permitted hot keys to be used. Now it just doesn’t work the way it used to. But I did find a solution in another thread that works for me in my current incarnation of Notepad++ v7.9.5 which I posted here in a reply to astrosofista.

Awesome! Thnk you very much

@Jim-Van-Fleet

Were you starting with the “portable” version of Notepad++?
I’m not sure it is relevant, but what you’ve discussed makes me remember an issue concerning the portable version and the path to theme files needing to have a hard-path (exactly what you’ve done).
Again, not sure it is germane to your situation…

@Alan-Kilborn
:-D 1st of … :-D

@David-Brigden52 said in Notepad++ File Status Auto-Detection not working:

I use a dark theme rather than the default Would that make a difference?

I could be wrong, but I cannot see how.

not seeing this behavior. It irritates me.

I can understand that.

In full disclosure, I do sometimes see Notepad++ not update as quickly as I’d like – this screen capture was quite cooperative.

Sometimes, I think it doesn’t notice until the system clock is about 1min beyond the timestamp of the file. (And I think I’ve even seen longer delays when the file was created on a machine whose time was off from my local machine.)

I don’t know the full algorithm that Notepad++ uses, but my guess is that in the real-life circumstances, it’s a combination of Windows not having yet flushed the file to disk from the other process and Notepad++ not polling constantly (it wouldn’t want to spend all its cpu cycles on checking for changed files).

In the contrived circumstances like my example derived from your instructions, I would expect pretty consistent behavior (since the individual processes of the time/copy-con commands will flush to disk when they close).

If I’m ever getting impatient, I just use the File > Reload from Disk to make sure it’s up-to-date. (The funny thing is, that’s sometimes accompanied a few seconds later by “this file has been updated”, when it then updates to the state of the file that I just manually updated to).

You might try experimenting with the MISC > File Status Auto-Detection settings… maybe having recently changed from one to the other enabled the algorithm to work more consistently for me, or something…

Unfortunately, I am out of solid ideas, and since such problems are often the combination of many factors, it may be difficult to come up with a complete solution. But hopefully someone else has ideas for you to test.

Ok, so first, I was mystified at what was wanted, with a posting which had more words in the title than in the body. But, it appears Peter had some intuition for that, so…

Second, I don’t see a lot of value in the suggestion. Sure, it’s fine, but would I like to see devs spend their cycles on that? Nope, I have other ways to do that function, that exist right now. I want to see devs spend their time on increasing real text editing value added functions.

Third, opening a new instance of a running Notepad++ has some problems IIRC about saving any changed settings, or disabling backups, or some such.

That all being said, I do run a second instance (typically a close-to-virgin instance), to try out problems people bring up right here!
I create a Run menu item to run a current portable version using the -multiInst command-line parameter.

Hello, @Alan-kilborn and All,

Thank, alan, for your feedback !

Yes, I know that the Pos number, in the status bar, refers to exact position (starting from 0), in current file, of the first byte of the sequence needed to write a character, in a specific encoding ! For instance, the UTF-8 sequence of the 🎷 character, representing a saxophone, is the four bytes sequence ( F0 9F 8E B7 ). So, if you insert in a new tab, the string A🎷Z0 you can jump, with the Search > Go to... feature, when the Offset radio button is set, to :

Pos 0, right before the A letter

Pos 1, right before the 🎷 letter

Pos 5, right before the Z letter

Pos 6, right before the 0 digit

And, if you try the offset 2, 3 or 4, which are all within the UTF-8 encoding of the 🎷 character, you would just jump to the next Z char !

This behavior is now correct, because I created an issue about this problem. Refer to this issue !

Now, I think that you’re right regarding your assumption about the two bytes used by a char, over the BMP : this has really something to do with the two bytes of the surrogate mechanism !

For instance :

The regex to get the 🎷 character, use its surrogate pair \x{D83C}\x{DFB7} ( as we cannot use its complete hexadecimal code \x{1F3B7} )

The general regex (?-s).[\x{D800}-\x{DFFF}] finds any character over the BMP ( Basic Multilingual Plane ), so with code-point over \x{FFFF}

BR

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll add a screen shot in a bit.

@Ado-Netok said in How to add left and right margins feature in open text file?:

I may look for another text editor.

There are good reasons to switch text editors.
How could this possibly be one of them?
Plus, I don’t know that most are this type of “margin friendly”.
This is more of a word-processing function.
Are you sure you don’t want a word-processor instead of a text editor?

@PeterJones

Cool. I wonder if Bob and Alice are going to become regular contributors here? :-)

@Alan-Kilborn said in Lines containing the Unicode Word-Joiner U+2060 display oddly:

@PeterJones

If you’re going to experiment like that, probably should do it with DirectWrite both on and off. So many choices. :-)

Good idea. DejaVu Sans Mono looks good when DirectWrite is turned on.
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So, the options are enabling DirectWrite, changing font, or both. :-)

@Michael-Wurster Thank you for the quick reply. I’m not a developer so the solutions you provided will not be a quick fix for me but I’m not afraid to wade in “dark” waters so I’ll add one of the suggested plugins to the tool box and see what happens. Ideally, I’ll be able to figure out how to add text for column headers as well and from that point on I can have a “template” to call up when I need to edit/create one of these files for test purposes.
Thanks again.

Hello, @robin-melin, @peterjones and All,

Okay, I understood the problem ! In two locations of, both, the @robin-melin’s vb.xml file and the @MAPJe71’s vb-3.0.FL.xml file, we have an ending regex part (?=[\t ]*\()

The correct regex should be (?=[\t ]*\(|$) !!

So, here is, first, the corrected contents of the @MAPJe71’s vb-3.0.FL.xml file, where I used a 4 spaces indentation :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- =================================================== [vb_function] --> <parser id="vb_function" displayName="Visual Basic (.NET|Script|for Applications)" commentExpr="(?m:((?&lt;=&apos;).*?$)|((?i:REM)([\t ].*?)?$))"> <classRange mainExpr="(?s:(?&lt;SCOPE&gt;(?i:CLASS|TYPE)).*?(?i:END[\t ]\k&lt;SCOPE&gt;))" displayMode="node" > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?i:CLASS|TYPE)[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)(?:.*?[\r\n])" /> <nameExpr expr="[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)" /> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?m:^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$))" > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PRIVATE|PROTECTED|PUBLIC)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY))[\t ].*?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?:[\t ]*\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

And secondly, here is the corrected contents of the @robin-melin’s vb.xml file, where I used a 1 tabulation indentation :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <functionList> <!-- ========================================================= [ VB ] --> <parser id ="vb_function" displayName="Visual Basic (.NET|Script|for Applications)" commentExpr="(?m:((?&lt;=&apos;).*?$)|((?i:REM)([\t ].*?)?$))"> <classRange mainExpr="(?s:(?&lt;SCOPE&gt;(?i:CLASS|TYPE)).*?(?i:END[\t ]\k&lt;SCOPE&gt;))" displayMode="node" > <className> <nameExpr expr="(?i:CLASS|TYPE)[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)(?:.*?[\r\n])" /> <nameExpr expr="[\t ]+(?:[A-Za-z_][\w]*\b)" /> <nameExpr expr="[A-Za-z_][\w]*" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?m:^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|SHARED|SHADOWS|OVERRIDABLE|OVERRIDES|READONLY|WRITEONLY)[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$))" > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:STATIC[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <funcNameExpr expr="(?i:(?:GET|LET|SET)[\t ]+)?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </classRange> <function mainExpr="^[\t ]*(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|(?:DECLARE(?:[\t ]+(?:ANSI|UNICODE|AUTO))?))[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)" displayMode="$functionName"> <functionName> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:(?:PUBLIC|PRIVATE|PROTECTED|FRIEND|PROTECTED FRIEND)[\t ]+)?(?:(?:STATIC|(?:DECLARE(?:[\t ]+(?:ANSI|UNICODE|AUTO))?))[\t ]+)?(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:SUB|FUNCTION|PROPERTY)).*?(?:\(|$)"/> <nameExpr expr="(?i:(?:GET|LET|SET)[\t ]+)?[A-Za-z_][\w]*(?i:[\t ]+(LIB|ALIAS)[\t ]+[\w&quot;\.]+)*(?=[\t ]*\(|$)"/> </functionName> </function> </parser> </functionList> </NotepadPlus>

Robin, I tested your two examples as well as the Peter’s one and everthing is OK, whatever the vb parsing rules file used !

Best Regards,

guy038