This issue appears to stem from how Notepad++'s GUP (Get Update Package) process accesses web resources, rather than a specific version problem. It mirrors a previous issue where the webhost or content delivery network (CDN) intercepted the GUP process. Previously, this interception was due to a CAPTCHA, but now it seems to involve a JavaScript-based verification. In both cases, the GUP process is flagged as an “invalid” access by the host or CDN. Essentially, the host or CDN’s security measures are preventing Notepad++ from successfully retrieving update information.

I just want to add a note here, that if someone wants to use the method Peter has suggested to run a search-and-replace macro, that macro would not be “general purpose”.

That is, you cannot, say, pass search strings or replacement strings in this way, because macros, when made and saved, have their search string, replace string, directory (if “in files”), and other options all “hard-coded”.

I say this because this is the kind of thing people would want to do.

The above doesn’t sound like a problem for @Kelly-A , who needs an operation that is by its nature NOT parameterized.

You can, of course, write script code to do any search/replacement you’d like, but that requires greater programming skills, which not everyone has, or wants to invest the time into.

@VarunAgw

I think that with the current version of Notepad++ available as of today’s date, you’ll find that Ctrl+h will work when you are on the Find tab, to take you to the Replace tab.

@pixelstuff said in Suggestion: Pin or favorite languages in the language menu?:

I find it somewhat tedious to keep scrolling down to the bottom of that menu to constantly get to XML, PHP, SQL, etc.

I use the keyboard to switch languages.

XML is Alt+L+X. PHP is Alt+L and while continuing to hold the Alt key down P+P+P then Enter. SQL is Alt+L and then S. As SQL is a ways down the list I tend to use the down arrow key rather than tapping S until I get to SQL.

I’m using Notepad++ SING 2020 and it’s a really amazing software for all types of tasks.

Never heard of that. Is “SING 2020” a plugin for Notepad++, or something else? What does it have to do with Notepad++?

I need help with translation because my work needs to be around global clients and projects.

There used to be a plugin called the “Translate Plugin” for Notepad++, which helped for translating the text in your document to a different language; it’s not supported by its developer anymore, though someone made a fork of it at https://github.com/databird/npptranslate64/releases – I don’t know if @databird is going to continue to support that fork or not, but that’s got a reasonable chance of being installable and being able to help you with your translation. (This discussion explains some of the difficulties with the original version, and mentions the new 64-bit release.)

I want to know if Notepad++ supports multilingual language. It will be very helpful for me.

Notepad++ “supports” multiple languages, in that the core application doesn’t care what language the text is written in, as long as you are using an encoding that supports all the characters you need – and if you’re using UTF-8 or UTF-16, then the encoding supports all Unicode codepoints, so that should be sufficient. :-)

And Notepad++ “supports” multiple languages, in that you can use the Settings > Preferences > General > Localization feature to change what language is used for the GUI (menu names, etc). Though you can have only one active Localization at a time.

But natively (ie, without plugins), Notepad++ does not have any facility to do translation of text. For that, you could use a plugin, like the npptranslate64 I linked to above. (There have also been some simple scripts written for the scripting plugins and shared in the forum at various times, but they are for simple lists of fixed input-phrase-to-output-phrase mapping, and should not be considered general-purpose translators.)

@PeterJones, thanks for input, the most difficult task is to explain the issues to someone else!

Thanks a lot, just needed an eyeopener! Hope it will help someone else with issues!

Let´s try again.

I click on download symbol in Edge, a list drop down I click on my file and it opens in file explorer If I right click and choose “show more options” I get the “Edit with Notepad ++” selection and if I use it the file opens.
Success, I can use this option!

Second scenario

I click on download symbol in Edge, a list drop down I right click on my file and choose “open file” then it open in File explorer I choose “open with” new window opens and I try to use NP++ it don´t work.

“When you say that choosing Notepad++ as the default program”
I have chosen NP++ as default app in windows apps settings for .txt files.

Notepad++ v8.7.4 (64-bit)
Build time : Dec 4 2024 - 23:50:05
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
DirectWrite : OFF
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 : 22631.4890
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins :
AutoSave (2)
CodeAlignmentNpp (14.1.107)
ComparePlugin (2.0.2)
DSpellCheck (1.5)
HexEditor (0.9.12)
JsonTools (5.6)
mimeTools (3)
NppConverter (4.5)
NppExec (0.8.4)
NppExport (0.4)
NppFTP (0.29.12)
PlantUmlViewer (1.8.0.12)
XMLTools (3.1.1.13)

Thanks a lot, just needed an eyeopener! Hope it will help someone else with issues!

@elecherf said in Bug 8.7.8: notepad is freezing with high cpu usage when sliding down the main split bar towards the bottom:

For now, what I’ve understood is that EnhanceAnyLexer is not compatible with np++ 8.7.8

EnhanceAnyLexer does not use any of the new features/improvements introduced by Npp recently.
I have tested with BookmarksDook installed and can confirm that I see the same behavior, but further testing has shown that this also happens when BookmarksDook is the only plugin, besides the default plugins.

Added marks item to list lines with find, incremental, smart, token 1, token 2, token 3, token 4 or token 5 marks.

The marks item and the change history item will open a 2nd user list so the main user list can show less items.

If your goal is to just copy/move all the opened files to a specific directory,

Yes, exactly, that’s it. But Coise’s method is essentially exactly what I wanted (just with a few extra steps, which isn’t a problem). And combined with Coise’s idea of using sessions (as a backup, for example, if the folder path is temporarily unavailable for Notepad, it now seems impossible to determine/find and reopen only the files that were open without using sessions), what I wanted has essentially been achieved.

Thank you very much!

Just updated to 8.7.7 and my theme was changed to the default. But it’s an easy fix.

Settings->Style Configurator->Select theme-><your-theme>
[Save&Close]

I didn’t even need to run as administrator to have it stick.

@Rockberto-Manenti said in Compare two txt files:

Each of the two files has each line with the name of the artist and the title of the album.
Now I would like to compare the two txt files in order to highlight on the second file all the lines that are NOT present in the first file in order to understand if the albums are already cataloged or not.

For this problem, I would use the find and replace facility with regular expressions. This is going to look like a lot of steps, but it’s not as complicated as it sounds when you see it in action.

First, open the file with the catalog. To ensure you don’t accidentally mess it up, I recommend immediately using File | Save As… to save it under a new name.

Select Search | Replace… from the menu, fill in this:

Find what: $
Replace with: \tCatalog
Wrap around: checked
Search Mode: Regular expression

and click Replace All.

You’ll see that adds a tab and the word Catalog to the end of each line. You can close the dialog for now.

Now, without closing this file, open the file that has your current list. (It will open in another tab.) From the main menu, select Edit | Select All and after that, select Edit | Copy. Now select File | Close and you’ll be back to the file with the “Catalog” tags.

Scroll to the end of the file by pressing Ctrl+End on your keyboard. You will either be at the end of the last line of text or at the beginning of an empty line. If you are at the end of a line of text, press the Enter key so you are at the beginning of an empty line.

Now, select Edit | Paste. That will copy the other file at the end of this file.

Now select Edit | Line Operations | Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending.

That will put pairs of lines from the two files together. Now all that remains is to remove matched pairs, which you can do with another regular expression. Open Search | Replace… again, but this time, enter:

Find what: (?i-s)^(.*)\R\1\tCatalog(\R|\z)
Replace with: (empty — not even a blank)

Leave the other settings as they were the last time and click Replace All.

You’ll be left with a list of lines that were in the current list but not in the catalog list. If any lines were in the catalog list but not the current list, they’ll have a tab and the word “Catalog” at the end.

@Raymond-Timothy-Adanu ,

Given each color is only applied to a single word, instead of a fancy pattern, your screenshot can be essentially accomplished using the existing Style All Occurrences feature, without requiring a feature request.

@Vieri-Di-Paola said:

…or maybe not

It seems like a common sense new way of working for you would be to not keep working with “unsaved” data. But hey, do what you think is best!

You can also consider using “Java Plugin for Notepad++”:
https://dominikcebula.github.io/npp-java-plugin/

@irahsu ,
Glad to hear you’re running good now, and that it was a simple fix.

Funny, I was just re-reading my text and can’t believe I wrote Regex instead of registry. Being involved with NPP has gotten me Regex on the brain. :-)

@guy038 I’m wondering why IDSP (“Ideographic Space”) has been included in this list. It is not a zero width character, so it is a printable (albeit whitespace) character.

@PeterJones The issue is still happening from time to time even now (in 2025), but Your solution still works. Big Thanks!

Wonderful! This was simple way to update AdventureWorks2016 to 2022 for all the tutorials I am using. I have used Notepad++ for many years since a colleague showed me.

@tony-he said in chinese character problem:

what are default Chinese font library in notepad++ 8.7.7？

Notepad++ doesn’t have its own font library. It uses whatever fonts are installed on your computer, and will try to use your chosen Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global styles > Style: Default Style’s chosen font (which you’ve indicated is Consolas for you).

If that chosen font (Consolas) doesn’t have a glyph for a given codepoint, Notepad++ can ask the OS to recommend a different font which will have a glyph for that codepoint; the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Use DirectWrite option affects how Notepad++ interacts with the OS for choosing/displaying those glyphs. If you don’t like the results, you can try changing that setting, restarting Notepad++, and seeing if the other option works better for you. (It is looking like there will hopefully be more options for the DirectWrite setting in the future – whether in the GUI or in a power-user setting – which might give more choices to influence such results.)

As @Alan-Kilborn recommends, picking a font that you like that has all the glyphs you want will help Notepad++ display it the way you like.

Also, there are other posts in the Forum dealing with the CompositeFont concept, which is the way that Windows handles this, so you might be able to learn some more about what the operating system does for Notepad++ behind-the-scenes. But basically, windows has some tables about what fonts it looks for when it doesn’t find a glyph in a certain range of codepoints; doing more searching about the web on CompositeFont may help you learn how to encourage Windows to pick from a “better” font for a given glyph, if you can understand the results (I have only a surface-level understanding of such things, since mathy glyphs are the only “extra” glyphs that I tend to look for when using Notepad++ for my purposes)