@Lycan-Thrope said in Config Files Need Updating, Too:

I thought using the Validate Files would correct whatever was found
…
My viewing the new aspects made me believe the validation and correction was automatic by clicking those functions … Guidance?

Sorry, I was hoping the section on Validation in the README would be enough. I guess I need to add a help button and see if I can explain things better.

The validation has occurred, and it has found errors.

Unfortunately, I cannot program enough intelligence into the plugin to be able to figure out the right/best way to fix the problems, so it does not correct errors for you. That’s why the double-click will take you to the right spot in the problematic XML file. Further, the stylers.model.xml button can be used to open the model file side-by-side with the problematic XML – and the plugin will do its best to align the model file so that it’s showing the same section of its XML as has the problem in the other (though, looking at the order that line#652 is listed, I think my alignment algorithm might need some work: that line proved assumptions wrong).

You are then supposed to compare the two, and use the semi-understandable XML error messages to help you figure out… Maybe I’ll have to figure out a way to convert the errors that the validation library spits out into something more human-readable.

'5' is a duplocate key... indicates that there are two <WordsStyle> entries that have the same StyleID. StyleID must be unique for Notepad++ to be able to correctly map that row in the XML (or that entry in the Style Configurator’s Styles: list) to the underlying Lexilla style. When there are two with the same StyleID, Notepad++ only picks one to show in the Style Configurator and send to Lexilla. So you need to compare your XML with the model XML, and figure out what the right solution is: Do you just need to pick one of the two duplicates and delete it (and if so, your human intelligence is needed to decide which is the right entry to keep and which to delete) Or does one of them have the wrong styleID, and you just need to change it to a different value '' violates enumeration constraint... indicates that you have a keywordClass attribute on your <WordsStyle> that has an invalid value (in your case, the empty string). keywordClass needs to be one of the known types as listed in the error message, or the attribute needs to not exist at all. You need to compare the failing XML to the model, and need to figure out what value of keywordClass should be there – or whether to delete the attribute altogether (if it’s not there for that styleID in the model)

along with the Download new models. I fear I may just not know what these new capabilities are supposed to perform, so I don’t want to assume what they are supposed to do.

The Download Newest Model Files grabs the most recent stylers.model.xml and langs.model.xml from the Notepad++ repo, and overwrites your possibly-out-of-date models. This will make sure that the model used when validating is the “current best practice” found in the repo. (I really thought that the README was clear on that one. Is it not?)

since I can’t screenshot the whole text since the box isn’t wide enough and it can’t be copied for inclusion in here under code format.

Created issue #23: I’ll see if I can get Ctrl+C and/or dialog resize to work. (I’ve never done either from C++; I really don’t have a lot of GUI-programming experience, so I’ve always started with “functional enough GUI for me to do what I want” for my plugins, without aiming for super-fancy features.)

Many thanks to @PeterJones and @Coises, for the answers, perspective, and (in Peter’s case) updating the User Manual.

You are right, it was Cascadia Code; changing it to Consolas, for example, got rid of it. My “exhaustive” font testing was… only Cascadia Code and Fira Code, so I literally hit both of the two. I’ve been mostly using Hack font for such a long time, I just haven’t really noticed any of this ligature-supporting fonts. I just got a new PC and hadn’t installed Hack yet.

I like finding out where I was ignorant and wrong. It makes me less so.

Cheers and thanks again!
–BrBill

@BrBill said in Unexpected text display change for >=:

@Alan-Kilborn I want to turn this off too. It also displays != as ≠. Does anyone know?

You didn’t need to post a second time with the same question 15 minutes after your first post here.

Besides, one answer in the post you were replying to – turning off DirectWrite, which is now setting it to GDI (most compatible) as of a few versions ago – would have worked for you if you’d tried it.

Or, as I explain here, pick a font that doesn’t have the ligature feature.

Either works.

@pbarney

Using PS3 and an installed pygit2 library
you can do something like

import pygit2 repo = pygit2.Repository(Path(notepad.getCurrentFilename()).parent) diff = pygit2.Diff.parse_diff(editor.getText()) repo.apply(diff)

This assumes that

the patch file has been created from a git tool the current file open is the patch file in question the patch file is in the repo directory

@pbarney

I only use the pre-release version, PS3,
as I only work with utf8 encoding, which I think everyone should do.

@mkupper said in Npp website spelling error:

FWIW, this Google search gets zero hits other than this forum thread.

site:notepad-plus-plus.org "featurs"

I’m guessing that the misspelling, if it ever existed, was corrected a while back.

Yes, it was fixed within a few days of me posting 😁👍

@rdipardo said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

edition in a user-local path

I already checked such possibility (for N++ installer, not for portable eds) and have the non-admin user-installations on my TODO, but so low spare time… (#15182)

@rdipardo said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

can still have context menu entries — scoped to HKEY_CURRENT_USER by default

Very good. I think the NppShell project should take this into account somehow and allow the HKCR registrations when needed/requested. This HKLM default is(?) IMO the reason for a possible regsvr32 zombie process when trying to register the NppShell manually & unelevated (#15182)

@Coises said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

I don’t think I’ve ever used a package manager.

But OTOH you also said that for some SW (Firefox) you allow (welcome(?)) the autoupdates. Such package managers do just that - they remove the burden from the user to constantly check and update their software (even for a portable non-admin user-installation), but at the same time they leave them free to enter this process (if they wanna) and therefore it is not completely hopeless like with the locked stores like WindowsStore or GooglePlay. One example - with the WinGet you can go simply back in the app-versions if you need to (as you do with your “Software\Old”), this is of course impossible with e.g. the GooglePlay (damn hell to them for it!).

SW-updating “world” just changed and not everything is so bad. So e.g. the WinGet (or more user friendly WinGetUI) way is ok for me (I am not using it for N++, I do it old-school as you do, I admit :-) ). Some relevant links:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24884/winget-real-autoupdater-finally
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/n/Notepad%2B%2B/Notepad%2B%2B

@PeterJones thanks a lot for the nuances. Indeed, I first wondered about the difference from the group indexing starting at 1. Then also about the difference from the quantifier ( {n} where n is an integer >= 1 https://www.regular-expressions.info/refquick.html).
Thanks for the $0 group placeholder mention, I wondered about that too, now I understand what it captures.

I understand the regex as this:

Find:

Put everything that preceeds the occurence of interest into a group (1st group referenced by the placeholder with the starting index at 1 ($1) — though there is a placeholder 0 ($0) which references the whole set/string instead of any subgroup of it)). Exclude the occurence of interest from the that group, but state is a the search delimiter for the regex just outside the group.

Replace with:

Capture the group with it’s placeholder (make a copy of it and store it: $1 = foo / ^((?:.?foo){0}.?) for the 1st occurence (N+1) with index 0). Use the 2nd/next occurence as external delimiter reference to stop the regex search at (^((?:.?foo){0}.?)foo). Then append the new value (XOO) to the copied unchanged group.

I think I see what you mean when considering there must always be a 2nd /next occurence for the regex to work so it can’t be starting at zero? While in the background the engine uses a zero based indexing for the 1st element of the occurences series.
0 is the 1st element in the indexes series, 1 is the 2nd and so on.
While for the groups placeholders, 0 isn’t an ordinal reference, it’s an arbitrary reference to the set. The ordinal reference starting at 1 in this case.

I need to check the doc and do more practice to get over the confusing parts!

The quantifier also starting at 1 though index 0 is still valid but return no value (or the whole set but with empty values)?

For example:

19 empty string matches:

0.gif

[A-Z]{0} goo A greAS gir PE

https://regex101.com/r/dYnJmE/1

/ [A-Z]{0} / gm Match a single character present in the list below [A-Z] {0} matches the previous token exactly zero times (causes token to be ignored) A-Z matches a single character in the range between A (index 65) and Z (index 90) (case sensitive) Global pattern flags g modifier: global. All matches (don't return after first match) m modifier: multi line. Causes ^ and $ to match the begin/end of each line (not only begin/end of string) 0-0 empty string 1-1 empty string 2-2 empty string 3-3 empty string 4-4 empty string 5-5 empty string 6-6 empty string 7-7 empty string 8-8 empty string 9-9 empty string 10-10 empty string 11-11 empty string 12-12 empty string 13-13 empty string 14-14 empty string 15-15 empty string 16-16 empty string 17-17 empty string 18-18 empty string No match/invalid:

1.gif

[A-Z]{} goo A greAS gir PE

https://regex101.com/r/CtqQ0D/1

/ [A-Z]{} / gm Match a single character present in the list below [A-Z] A-Z matches a single character in the range between A (index 65) and Z (index 90) (case sensitive) {} matches the characters {} literally (case sensitive) Global pattern flags g modifier: global. All matches (don't return after first match) m modifier: multi line. Causes ^ and $ to match the begin/end of each line (not only begin/end of string) Your regular expression does not match the subject string. 5 matches:

2.gif

[A-Z]{1} goo A greAS gir PE

https://regex101.com/r/MImsNL/1

/ [A-Z]{1} / gm Match a single character present in the list below [A-Z] {1} matches the previous token exactly one time (meaningless quantifier) A-Z matches a single character in the range between A (index 65) and Z (index 90) (case sensitive) Global pattern flags g modifier: global. All matches (don't return after first match) m modifier: multi line. Causes ^ and $ to match the begin/end of each line (not only begin/end of string) 4-5 A 9-10 A 10-11 S 16-17 P 17-18 E 2 matches:

3.gif

[A-Z]{2} goo A greAS gir PE

https://regex101.com/r/p1WOWQ/1

/ [A-Z]{2} / gm Match a single character present in the list below [A-Z] {2} matches the previous token exactly 2 times A-Z matches a single character in the range between A (index 65) and Z (index 90) (case sensitive) Global pattern flags g modifier: global. All matches (don't return after first match) m modifier: multi line. Causes ^ and $ to match the begin/end of each line (not only begin/end of string) 9-11 AS 16-18 PE

Thanks for the tip.

Replace was where I was having the issue and it brings up some challenges that Find does not - basically, you would need a shortcut for “Ignore and Find Next” and one for “Replace and Find Next” and you’d have to remember those shortcuts.

@Coises; TBH, now that I’ve learned to resize the screen. I’m okay with it. I think most users have multiple monitors these days and use the find/replace dialog on the second monitor.

@Coises and @mkupper - I wasn’t aware of the caret button to move the dialog to two lines. I think that and an OPTION to dock the find dialog in the lower-right corner so I don’t have to re-size the screen would be perfect for what I want.

Again - none of this addresses the context issue - which isn’t a primary concern of mine, but I still think it should be accommodated, if possible.

@Ling-Ling ,

When you install Notepad++, it installs the right-click context-menu entry using a “Shell Extension”. The User Manual has an entire page on the Shell Extension, including a secion on how to unregister the Shell Extension so that the “Edit with Notepad++” entry goes away

@Alexander-Anisimov said in Notepad++ lags when text files are on FTP:

You may be right. In my understanding, WebDAV is another way of connecting protocol but still is FTP, although different.
May be I am wrong.

You are wrong. :-)

WebDAV is a protocol that is similar to HTTP that web browsers use with web servers. As WebDAV looks like HTTP on the network it works with NAT, firewalls, web proxies, etc. Accessing a WebDAV server is just like accessing a web server. Many web browsers have built-in support for WebDAV.

That said, if there are bandwidth or latency issues accessing a particular WebDAV server then all applications, including Notepad++ will be impacted.

WebDAV itself is not slow or laggy.

If I was stuck with needing to edit files that are on a slow or laggy server then I probably would create script that first copies the file to the local hard drive, runs Notepad++ on the file, and then keeps an eye on both the local and remote copies of the file. If the local copy changes then I push it out to the remote server. If it changes on the remote side then pop-up a warning. A tricky aspect is that Notepad++ allows people to exit Notepad++ and then resume editing. Thus I can’t depend on Notepad++.exe going away as a signal that I no longer need to monitor and synchronize that file but also need to watch Notepad++'s session.xml file.

@Marshall-Brooks said in Double Ctrl+F won't bring the find dialog to the front of the primary window.:

Also - somewhere along the way (8.81 or prior), Alan’s suggestion was implemented:

v8.3.3 in March 2022, so a few months after Alan’s 2021 post. See https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/wiki/Changes#833

@Alexander-Anisimov said in Copying file itself into clipboard in Notepad++:

how can I bind a hotkey something like Ctrl+Shift+C to it?

That’s explained in the FAQ. Search that page for “shortcut” (step 4 of the instructions) if you didn’t notice it.

@Ertan-Küçükoglu said in Pascal multi line string highlight:

It would be nice to have it visualized as string in Notepad++

Notepad++ uses a library called “Lexilla” to handle deciding what characters in a document to syntax highlight. When I use their testbed “SciTE” editor, it is showing that it’s treating the line ending with ''' as an “unterminated string”. But it apparently doesn’t know that Delphi recently added multi-line strings with the triple-quote syntax.

The Lexilla project has ome reported issues about Pascal and Delphi – you can look through those, and see if any mention the multi-line strings. If not, you might want to request that they add it. Once they add it, and Notepad++ updates its Lexilla library, then Notepad++ could add that new styleID to the Style Configurator options for Pascal. But until they add the support, there’s nothing Notepad++ can do about the official lexing of the language.

However, as a workaround, there is a plugin called “EnhanceAnyLexer”, which allows you to add regex-based foreground colors. Doing multi-line stuff with a regex is risky if there’s a mismatched triple-quote somewhere, but once you install EnhanceAnyLexer, open your Delphi/Pascal file, use Plugins > EnhanceAnyLexer > Enhance current language, which will open up a [pascal] section in the EnhanceAnyLexerConfig.ini. Set it to the following

[pascal] ; Everything between pairs of triple-ticks is colored cyan 0xCCCC00 = (?s)'''.*?''' ;excluded_styles = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,20,21,22,23

(make sure you use the ; or # to coment out the excluded_styles, otherwise it won’t color properly; you can, of course, pick any 0xBBGGRR values you want to choose your own color, as described in the comments of the INI file.)

With that INI saved, it will mean that from now on, the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin will color triple-quote multi-line strings in Delphi/Pascal files. like this example:
5ba5abdd-c30f-4536-b470-290f55647f1a-image.png

Since some people aren’t clear when I’ve given such instructions: once you save the EnhanceAnyLexerSettings.ini, the EnhanceAnyLexer will always apply that regex-based coloring to Pascal/Delphi files (you don’t have to run Enhance current language every time you want to turn it on; with the plugin installed, and the ini saved, it will be automatic).

@Denis-Rionnet said in Notepad++ has a Reload false alarm / bug? "This file has been modified by another program. Do you want to reload it"? even when it hadn't been recently modified at all?!:

I understand that this behaviour can be disabled via the settings panel (it works: the warning gets muted)).

How and where? nvm - found it with Google - Settings>Misc>File Status auto-detection.

I’m having the same issue - for me, typically when I don’t save the file in NPP, lock the computer, and then unlock it and go back to editing.

Files are stored on a network hard drive (not Cloud storage). File protocol is SMB, if that is what @ekpalypse is asking.

I don’t think I’ve seen the message in NPP previously, but I’ve just started using it heavily.

I agree, the feature was handy when it worked.

For me, nobody else edit’s these files, and the one other program that I might edit them in notifies me if they were changed in NPP, so I’m okay with disabling it, but I’d like to see it fixed.

Debug info:
Notepad++ v8.8.1 (64-bit)
Build time : May 3 2025 - 18:41:09
Scintilla/Lexilla included : 5.5.6/5.4.4
Boost Regex included : 1_85
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : “Z:_Brooks Work\FM ExtendScript\Scripts_2025\OPS_JG_Update_Variables.jsx”
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
Scintilla Rendering Mode : SC_TECHNOLOGY_DEFAULT (0)
Multi-instance Mode : monoInst
File Status Auto-Detection : cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 23H2
OS Build : 22631.5472
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins :
JSMinNPP (1.1905.1)
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.6)
NppExport (0.4)
NPPJSONViewer (1.34)
XMLTools (3.1.1.13)

@PeterJones

Sorry I wasn’t trying to stir up trouble. Either you are correct or I may simply have mangled things by going in the wrong order.

Here is a pic showing miswritten regex I found via AI, which was what I was trying to correct. I did not find the ErrorList language feature until after writing my initial post.

Screenshot_20250618_203154_RVNC Viewer.jpg