See three options for editing the context menu for Notepad ++.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7741#issuecomment-569251698

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7747#issuecomment-566532078

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Actually, to be fair, some of the PR shown in the OP’s original link are closed without being merged into master sources, but the majority of those shown in the view presented by that link were actually merged.

@Lee-Allen

It’s currently a problem with Notepad++ (7.8.4 and earlier) as you’ve discovered.

It appears there is a change coming in the next release which will prevent this from happening; details.

But meanwhile, left-click and drag your taskbar from the bottom (presumably) of screen to one of its sides. This should allow you to grab the Find window with the mouse and move it back more central. Then you can put the taskbar back to being along the bottom.

Alternately, in the Notepad++ main window, press ctrl+f then hold the Alt key and tap and release the spacebar. This will popup a menu with a “move” option showing. Choose that move option and then use the arrow up key to bring the Find window back above taskbar level. Press Enter to release the Find window from “move mode”.

So, you get into this situation by moving the Find window (with the mouse) really “low” on the screen, and letting it go when most of it is offscreen and the part that remains is completely behind (but still showing through) the taskbar. Try to avoid doing this. :-)

Actuually, looking deeper at the code change on github mentioned above (actually by running the executable provided with that change), I see that nothing about it will prevent you from “losing” the Find window again in this same way. :-(

However, it appears that the NEXT ctrl+f press will bring the Find window back to a location where you can again work with it, instead of having to resort to “tricks/workarounds” to do so. :-) So in the future if it gets “lost”, just press ctrl+f and it should appear again.

@wS-Стас said in c++ syntax for all files:

And there are times when the highlighting does not work at all and in order for it to work, you need to restart the program or close the file and open it again.

That is actually one thing I would expect if a lexer is used which is not written for that kind of file.
I never experienced this if the correct lexer for the current file did the highlighting.

In order to make this work, that every programming language file, as far as notepad++ knows it,
displays its comment in the same color and font you have to go through each defined language
and reconfigure there comment line settings.

Another alternative might be to explicitly mark those lines like here

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Might be possible by recording a macro - didn’t try it.

Or using a scripting language like @PeterJones mentioned.

One possible scenario, you built a debug version instead of a release version.

@Raul-A-Ocasio-Gonzalez said in Delete everything after a value.:

Notepad++ has the option to reverse a search

What does that even mean?

If I’m doing a regular expression search mode search, my Backward direction checkbox is disabled. Clearly earlier you were talking about a regex search. Hmmm.

@aajez

I can’t tell for certain because your screenshot is small and doesn’t reveal all, but…

It appears your search expression may match complete lines. If this is true, you can copy the matches with the following technique:

Switch to the Mark tab of the Find window. Tick the Bookmark line option. Probably also tick the Wrap around option. Press the Mark All button. All of your matches will be highlighted in red, and a bookmark symbol will appear between the line numbers and the text of the lines that hit. Go to the Search menu, Bookmark submenu, and choose from that Copy Bookmarked Lines

In the event that your search expression does not match entire lines, there are some more involved techniques for copying the text, but I’ll leave that alone for now, unless we hear back that that’s really what you need to do. Also, it appears there is an open issue for copying red-marked, without using the bookmarking method; see “Marked text needs to be copyable”.

Hello,@cisco779k

Follow these steps to replace multi line data :

Step 1 :- Go to the menu Plugins>Plugin Manager>Show Plugin Manager
Step 2 :- Than select Check Tool Bucket and Install.
Step 3 :- Restart Notepad++.
Step 4 :- Press ALT + SHIFT + F to multi line edit.

I hope above information will be useful for you.
Thank you.

Cool. Thank you for the update.
I tried to search this forum to prevent any duplicative posts but didn’t find it here.
Looking forward to seeing it fixed but it is not critical.

Tom

tanks for your wonderful reply.
and i have already see your link about reg-ex documentation…
but there is always little time to do what you want to do!

@Alan-Kilborn

it was in focus i just did not use the keyboard to cycle trough options, i could no get the “artifact” using the mouse,and you are correct ,once you get to the “artifact” you can cycle it with “space bar” so not useless after all :D

Hello
problem solved with unlock last version!

Sorry for the noise!

Alain

ok, tanxs for your post!
Regards

tanxs guy038.
I’m glad you went ski, even if the weather was not perfect… every now and then it is good to detach from the pc!
tanxs for your reply, but not just for the answer itself, as for the spirit you put into it…
thank you so much for your very appreciated answers.

@Zachery-S

I’ve run both on Windows 10 64-bit. I migrated to exclusively use only N++ 64-bit about a year ago. It depends what plugins you want / use - not all are available on 64-bit. For me, the DBGp plugin is the only one I use(d) that I can’t get on 64-bit (32-bit only). I had an issue with MultiClipboard as well, but was introduced to Ditto on this forum and it’s way better than the MultiClipboard plugin.

@Rob-Saunders said in Debugger redirect getting deleted:

@ldlx I just updated to 1909 recently and discovered this same issue. I’m not using Sophos, so I’m pretty sure it’s a straight up Microsoft issue. I can’t even manually edit the registry key after giving myself every permission under the sun. It seems MS is hell bent on us not using this functionality anymore. :(

Ok, nevermind. I just uninstalled my antivirus (I was using Bitdefender) and suddenly everything works fine.

@Greg-Teater

Both of your suggestions a) and b) would require some changes to the code base of Notepad++ (will not happen in the near future, if ever).

Thus, my suggestion is to create a desktop shortcut to a script file that changes the config file of your Notepad++ installation before running notepad++.exe. The config file is in XML format, the script has to delete the /NotepadPlus/FileBrowser XML node.

The following is a VBScript solution. Please note: You have to change lines 19 and 20 according to your needs.

The location of the Notepad++ config file depends on the type of installation you are running, a portable one or created by the Npp installer.

Installed by installer: %AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml
Portable: <Npp-Directory>\config.xml

Save the script for example as NppLauncher.vbs and create a desktop shortcut to it. Then open the properties of the shortcut and change its target to the following command:

wscript.exe "<Path-To-The-Script-File>"

The script forwards all received command line arguments to Notepad++.

Option Explicit '------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Variables declarations '------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dim objFSO, objXmlDoc Dim strNppPath, strNppExePath, strConfigPath, strCfgFilePath Dim strNodePath, colNodes, objNode Dim intCnt, strArguments '------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Create base objects '------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objXmlDoc = CreateObject("MSXml2.DOMDocument.6.0") strNppPath = "<Path-To-Npp-Installation-Directory>" strConfigPath = "<Path-To-Directory-With-Npp-Config-File>" strNppExePath = objFSO.BuildPath(strNppPath, "notepad++.exe") strCfgFilePath = objFSO.BuildPath(strConfigPath, "config.xml") strNodePath = "/NotepadPlus/FileBrowser" '------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Main script '------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Open Npp XML config file objXmlDoc.async = False objXmlDoc.validateOnParse = False objXmlDoc.preserveWhiteSpace = True objXmlDoc.load(strCfgFilePath) 'Delete XML node regarding "Folder as Workspace" feature Set colNodes = objXmlDoc.selectNodes(strNodePath) For Each objNode In colNodes Call objNode.parentNode.removeChild(objNode) Next 'Save Npp XML config file objXmlDoc.save(strCfgFilePath) 'Start Notepad++ with provided command line arguments strArguments = "" For intCnt = 0 To WScript.Arguments.Count - 1 strArguments = strArguments & " " & Quote(WScript.Arguments(intCnt)) Next Call Execute(strNppExePath, strArguments) '=============================================================================== ' Surround a string with double quotes '=============================================================================== Function Quote(ByRef strString) Quote = """" & strString & """" End Function '=============================================================================== ' Run application with provided arguments '=============================================================================== Function Execute(ByRef strApp, ByRef strArgs) Dim objWshShell Set objWshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Execute = objWshShell.Run(Quote(strNppExePath) & " " & strArguments, _ 1, _ False) End Function

@guest-new, @peterjones and All,

Once again, I would like to underline, like @guest-new, the quality of the answers provided by @peterjones. The overview exposed and the variety of solutions given is simply amazing !

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello @pinuzzu99, @peterjones and All,

@peterjones, you said :

some keyboards (like small laptops or ultra-compact mobile keyboards, like the one shown below) have no HOME or END keys!

I did not know about it ! Personally, I would be very sorry to use such a keyboard. From time to time, I think, on the contrary, of buying myself a big keyboard, for on-line gaming enthusiasts, with a lot of extra function keys , fully configurable ;-))

@@pinuzzu99, finally, thanks to the Shortcut Mapper, you’ve found a work-around ( Alt + Down Arrow ) Nice ;-))

Best Regards,

guy038

Does this dialog not work for you? Or do you just not like it?

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If you don’t like the way it’s implemented, feel free to write the code fixes yourself, and submit a pull request, and see whether it gets incorporated; or, if you don’t have the right coding skillset, then follow the FAQ to make a feature request – that’s the way open source software works.

Whining and complaining in a community forum won’t do you much good (and won’t win you any brownie points with the people who might answer your question(s)).