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  • A

    AJC Active Backup 2.7 - instant backups on Windows to protect while you work

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    S Nov 7, 2018, 1:09 PM

    @Andrew-Cutforth

    I don’t think anyone is offended, but usually such postings have something like this at the bottom:

    Full disclosure: I am the author and I charge money for this.

    So when automatic backups controlled by Notepad++ were suspected of being related to the NUL NUL NUL problem, I turned that feature off and created my own backup-on-every-save feature using Pythonscript and WinZip (command-line). I’m not saying that it is the best-thing-ever, but it works (for me), and it is cheap (free), easy and useful. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it is not all that hard to come up with an independent backup solution for Notepad++ -edited files. This is not to take away anything from your solution, Andrew, just to point out other options. :-)

  • M

    Infuriating bug...opening a file will sometimes return an error cos the file suffix doesn't match

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    M Nov 7, 2018, 12:23 AM

    Thanks for that. I’ve ticked the box as suggested in the second link and will wait to see if the issue gets resolved. Never bothered to customise N++ but I see there is a lot that can be done to suit it to one’s preferences.

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    File size filter for "find in files" function

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    S Nov 6, 2018, 1:52 PM

    Admittedly, it’s a limitation with no great workaround. Your best course of action would be to create a feature request for this if the same one doesn’t already exist (search first before creating new).

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    Trojan Horse alert...

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    Change style for all languages

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    S Nov 5, 2018, 7:29 PM

    I think I would like a darker theme myself (or, diehard that I am, one that matches the “classic Borland IDE theme” for those that remember that). However, every time I’ve been inclined to try a darker one, I’ve quickly hit problems similar to what @mmannion is talking about and I’ve backed off, going back to the “bright white” default. I don’t think I have the ambition to go the route he’s going down… :-(

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    NppExport releases

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    A Nov 3, 2018, 10:58 AM

    very good, maybe I can integrate my modifications with yours and make a pull request.
    I will do it when I will have some time

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    Is there a dark theme available?

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    C Nov 2, 2018, 12:26 PM

    where do you find the colors for the tabs and borders aso?

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    Can you change Launch IE to Launch Edge

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    B Nov 1, 2018, 6:15 PM

    @budski82 Got it… made Edge default html then reassigned in Shortcut Mapper. Learned something new today, … Thanks for the karma!!

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    Scrollbar error

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    W Oct 27, 2018, 2:13 PM

    @Scott-Sumner
    thank you Scott

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    File / Open dialog not helpful in 7.5.8

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    P Oct 26, 2018, 2:13 PM

    Thank you Scott!

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    How long before bugs are even acknowledged? 6 months & counting!

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    G Oct 25, 2018, 8:43 PM

    Hello, dinkumoil and All,

    Your report of all your investigations was really interesting. So, as you say, we must live with that fact !

    In return, you could find some interest, too, in reading these two technical reports, of the Unicode consortium, below, which can be used as a reference text :

    http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/

    http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/

    I just have a glance to these documents, reading some parts and, like me, you’ll understand the complexity and richness of all the technical solutions envisaged to satisfy everyone, regardless of their mother tongue ;-))

    By the way, I do like this sentence, given in the preamble of the link What is Unicode? :

    Unicode provides a unique number for every character,

    no matter what the platform,

    no matter what the program,

    no matter what the language.

    Best Regards,

    guy038

  • Gernot SchraderG

    Thanks a lot

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  • Denis MarinD

    Can we add a button in the tool palette

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    @Denis-Marin

    I suppose you haven’t taken the time to work with Customize Toolbar to make it do what you want. I’m sure it is possible; probably just requires a bit of “extra effort”.

    Just a thought, but you could add Save As… to the right-click context menu (the one where Cut / Copy / Paste / etc. appear). This might be almost as good as a toolbar button as it would allow invoking the action from the mouse, but I suppose in reality that is no better than going File -> Save As… (equivalent number of actions).

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    Is it possible to run notepad++ from CD?

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    Meta ChuhM Oct 23, 2018, 8:49 PM

    @George-Brooks

    when i made my old, portable tools cd’s (before switching to usb sticks)
    i simply created an sfx self extracting archive of the portable version of notepad++
    (you can use winrar or 7zip to create one)

    this sfx was automatically extracted and run from %temp% as suggested by @Scott-Sumner, which sufficed my needs at that time, as i couldn’t write back any data to the cd anyways.

  • Emistry HaoyanE

    Syntax Highlight - Mardown Language

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    dinkumoilD Oct 21, 2018, 7:57 PM

    @Emistry-Haoyan

    A Markdown syntax highlighter is available here.

  • John RederJ

    Inserting text at the beginning of a line that begins with a letter

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    John RederJ Oct 21, 2018, 4:17 AM

    That did the trick! I had inserted some blank lines to increase readability in the HTML document, but I just eliminated them, and everything went along well. I have about 10,000 lines of poetry to format, and I’m only up to 2,400 at the moment. This will make the rest of this task go much faster!

  • dinkumoilD

    European Commission approved acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft

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    @Scott-Sumner

    It seemed like Don was interested when somebody told him that Microsoft bought GitHub (though I remember that most of the other commenters in that thread reacted like you now). The approvement of the European Comission was an important step to complete that and I thought he might be interested in this as well.

  • William O JacobsW

    saving file name as text not pdf

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    William O JacobsW Oct 19, 2018, 9:05 PM

    Thank you very much. I checked in the order as you put it and the file explorer hide extensions for know file types is NOT checked.
    When I go to the settings preferences default directory the Use new style dialog is not checked or the open all files below it either.

    Now I did a test of a pdf file and it was a pdf file and changed the name to test.pdf. I then went to save the file with the same name at the beginning and hope the txt which I can see below in the save as bar would take out the .pdf and insert the .txt like it had done for many years but it said do you want to replace it and I said yes at least once and the file was an adobe extension in the file explorer directory and when I went to the file to open it, the adobe said it could not open the file. The file became a 1kb file in size and was still saved as test.pdf and I did not see it as a text file like I have to create for my work. I at least wanted to test with a file to see what would happen but I still have to take the file name and at least reduce it to test and note pad ++ does make the file .txt if there is not a period and some three letters that are there at all. Thank you for helping to have me investigate a few things today. Take care.

  • Mirco BabinM

    Thank you

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  • Rodrigo XiDoR

    How i use replace commands

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    dinkumoilD Oct 15, 2018, 7:17 PM

    You could do that by

    using the block editor to insert line numbers at the beginning of all lines. using a regular expression to do your replacements. removing the line numbers added in step 1.

    At first place the cursor to the beginning of the document (line 1, column 1) then open the Column Editor. You can find it under Edit (menu) -> Column Editor... (default shortcut ALT+C).

    Choose Text to Insert, enter a SPACE character in the input field and click OK. Open the Column Editor again. Choose Number to Insert, set Initial Number to 1, set Increase by to 1, leave the Repeat field blank , choose under Format the item Dec and click OK.

    Now every line of your document should be preceded by its line number, separated by a SPACE character.

    Now open the Find & Replace dialog. Tick the Wrap around checkbox and under Search mode choose Regular expression. In the Find what field type ^([0-9]+) (.*?x)(.*) (Note: x is your search term ) and in the Replace with field type \1 \2\1\3. Then click Replace All.

    As the last step remove the line numbers by using the column editing mode. Set the cursor to the beginning of the document and press ALT+SHIFT+Down until you’ve reached the end of the document. Now you can delete the line numbers and the trailing SPACE characters by pressing the DELETE key.

    The regular expression I provided above may or may not fit your needs, you have to try. If it doesn’t work come back and provide specific informations about the problem.

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