Ah, right. I misunderstood the old thread: I thought that as of v6.8.8, it wasn’t supposed to be blocking the rest of Notepad++… but now that I re-read that, the original complaint there was that it was always-in-front, even if you tried to pull a different application in front to use.

I agree, it does seem to be designed such that a find-in-files blocks all other Notepad++ actions, and so it wouldn’t be a bug, it would be a feature request. Though, as you say, github issues don’t inherently distinguish between the two, except by tags.

I hadn’t looked to see if there were already open issues on the topic; I just thought if the OP wanted to make an issue of it, that previous issues should be checked to avoid duplicates.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Leo-de-Vetten

you will need a little guide, because microsoft edge is a bit tricky.
it can not be launched directly by running microsoftedge.exe "path_to\yourfile.html" as it is done using internet explorer, firefox and chrome.
instead we will have to make shell api calls.
but that’s not difficult, once you’ve read this guide.

step by step guide - how to add “launch in edge” to notepad++:

open the folder %AppData%\Notepad++\ in explorer

find the file shortcuts.xml and open it in notepad++ for editing.

copy the following line and paste (insert) it anywhere inside the <UserDefinedCommands>section

<Command name="Launch in Edge" Ctrl="yes" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="69"> shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)</Command> now your shortcuts.xml should look like the screenshot below (plus your ie and other user defined commands):

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save shortcuts.xml and restart notepad++
(exit and reopen notepad++ to activate your shortcut changes to the run menu)

if you now run “launch in edge” on any file, edge will open and display it, as seen at the screenshot below:

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note: you can also use the keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+shift+eto launch edge with your file

good luck and happy html coding 😉👍

It is appearing in my w8.1-64 with npp 7.6.2 though I have replaced windows alt tab with vista switcher.

vista switcher screen shot

Thanks.

I started that boilerplate because if you just link to the FAQ’s, people tend to ignore the links, but if it’s got some context, you might convince a couple people to actually follow through and read the FAQ(s). But I got tired of rephrasing the same thing every time, so made up my boilerplate to paste in. Feel free to use it – it’s basically a pastable FAQ.

and thanks for the thanks from teacher to alumnus 😃👍

side note:
it feels nice to get a thanks from a teacher (peter) to a student (me)
hope the who is who didn’t get mixed up in it’s context above.

thanks for the suggestions,
I’m having similar problems on android with an app I use to log my sms messages,
some text is unicode and some is not I guess,
because if I select unicode some part is recognized, but not all of it,
the same if I reverse it, I contacted the app developer and he said that it’s not one of his priorities (to fix it) now, so there is an issue in general

as for the xml file, the problem started from the fact that I couldn’t send the file as an email from my work’s desktop to my mobile (it was rejected by exchange server - only mail I have access to - I’ve still haven’t figured out why… anyway…), so I opened it, I copied the content, I pasted it on github and then I opened my mobile browser and I got the text from github, somewhere on the whole process greek characters broke

I opened the file from the disk now and it is utf-8-bom, but it didn’t matter I guess

@Mark-Wevers

Let’s consider the following scenario.
You create a file A.txt and save it.
Your backup solution, whatsoever it is, needs to know that it needs
to backup that file. Normally this is done by using either a command
to back it up or by using some kind of scheduler which executes such
a command in a cycle.

What happens if the backup tries to save the file.
It opens the original file, reads it, closes it (hopefully)
opens the backup file and tries to write what has been read before.

Now what if the pc gets shutdown in between the step of opening
the backup file and trying to write it - file gets corrupted.

Thank you, @guy038. I had been trying the notation similar to (?(1)00:01) in the replace, rather than (?{1}00:01), which is why I wasn’t able to get the conditional to work right.

@V-S-Rawat

OMG, I thought you were talking about something within Notepad++! Like a file-reload prompt or something!!

Dude! That works - that completely works!

Thanks you SO MUCH!

@PeterJones said:

funny-looking text

made my day 😂👍😂 best description ever.
i confirm that you can always (*) open a jpg as binary text representation in notepad++ and upload it via nppftp. nppftp will analyse the content and change to 8 bit binary type i automatically.
( * disclaimer: my always means: at least every time i did this, it worked ;-) )

@Bart-Tecter said:

did you check one of those files?

That is a reasonable suggestion.

If you want to increase the chances of the developer noticing this suggestion and possibly implementing it in a future release, you can follow the instructions in this FAQ to add a feature request in the official issues-page.

@Arash-m ,

“bold” isn’t quote the word I would use, because all the text is identical size/boldness for the 32bit and 64bit.

But yes, the 32bit is listed first (that could arguably be caused by “alphanumeric sort”) and 32bit has the big download icon, whereas the 64bit just has the textual links – so it does seem to emphasize / encourage 32bit download over the 64bit download.

If you want to improve the chances that the developer will notice your suggestion, follow the instructions in the FAQ for adding an issue to the issues page.

ps: sorry, my first

See @Scott-Sumner’s “help with Markdown in this forum”

should have been

See @Scott-Sumner’s “help with Markdown in this forum”

I copied/pasted from the rendered rather than the source, so the link disappeared.

The link was there below in my FYI section, but I wanted to make it clear.