@leonardo-dicaprio As PeterJones pointed out Notepad++ is a Windows native application. However, you can use Wine bottler or even PlayOnMac app (Free) on Mac to install Notepad++ on Mac. I have had the same requirement when I wanted to use Notepad++ on my iMac. So, I ended up making a video tutorial about it. Here is the link. (How to install Notepad++ on Mac). Hope it is helpful.

Few things to consider:

Since it is not a MacOS native app, the user experience will not be as smooth as other Mac apps. Also, usually on Mac, you have Command key that is used instead of Control key for common keyboard tasks. However, when you are using Notepad++ on Mac using PlayOnMac, you will still be using Windows like keyboard shortcuts. In fact, that is a good thing, since you don’t need to learn new shortcuts. However, it does feel a bit non-intuitive.

So, if you planning to use Notepad++ as your main developer text editor, I would refrain from that on Mac. (also, disclaimer, this video is from my youtube channel on Notepad++).

Hope it helps.

Hi, @alan-kilborn, and All,

Actually, I was inspired by this article :

https://www.rexegg.com/backtracking-control-verbs.html#skipfail

where it is said :

In effect, (*SKIP)(*FAIL) says: “Throw away anything you can match to the left of me.”

Please, visit this excellent regex site :

https://www.rexegg.com

BR

guy038

@peterjones thanks for concern

@daniel-0 said in free space at the bottom:

tried reinstall (I removed all previous settings and files from C/users/ and program) but it setting was still enabled

You probably didn’t nuke where the settings are really stored.
E.g., %appdata%\Notepad++ (see HERE).

…

unless what you are talking about is you want the “body” and “backround”, etc, to have different colors.

That ability has never existed in the HTML/PHP/ASP parser as far as I am aware, so if that is what you were wanting, it doesn’t yet exist. For example, here’s similar code in the HTML parser of v8.3.3:
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I now assume that what you’re wanting is for it to render the style similar to the way CSS is highlighted, but just inside the <style> tag in the HTML or PHP (or similar):
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That would require a feature request, because we fellow users in the Community forum cannot add features to the codebase. Further, I don’t think a feature request for Notepad++ will be sufficient: Notepad++ uses the Scintilla Lexilla lexer for handling the syntax highlighting, so I believe you would have to convince Scintilla/Lexilla to add CSS highlighting inside their HTML/PHP/ASP parser, and they would have to implement it, then you would have to lobby the Notepad++ developers to update to the newer version of Scintilla that contains the updated parser.

@alan-kilborn Good advice. It’s good enough the way it is

@кирилл-фролов ,

It’s hard to say. I occasionally see that, but normally reloading a minute or two later, it will go away. I had never correlated it with the email digest (but I don’t have the forum emailing me the digest anyway, which would make it hard to correlate).

Since the NodeBB group is kindly freely donating the webserver space for this Notepad++ Community forum, it doesn’t bother me if every once in a while, there is a brief time when navigating here gives a 503 error.

@ravenmacdaddy ,

I’ve never used Scoop, so I know nothing about how it works. The Notepad++ developers have nothing to do with “outside” installers, like Scoop or Chocolatey, so cannot change anything to make those “work”. Some other sites are known to change the binary or otherwise mess with the installation process in ways that make Notepad++ not work.

If you can use the normal installer or the official portable zip from the official website, those are known to work right

@luis-piña-iii ,

Generally, an unexpected square in your document on a unicode character means that the current font doesn’t have a glyph for that character. You might try toggling the Settings > Preferences > MISC > ☐ Use DirectWrite (May improve rendering special characters, need to restart Notepad++) – this often makes such glyph issues work better by allowing the OS to do behind-the-scenes things to borrow a glyph from a different font for that character.

If that doesn’t work, you might investigate changing Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Default style’s Font setting, and see if another font will properly render the glyph that your current font does not.

Gang! As of today, v8.4.2 now fixes the horizontal scroll issue with Notepadd++ with Logitech MX series mice. It’s been so many years I am so grateful to the team for fixing this.

I had to use keep editor open like TextPad just to keep files open that required horizontal scrolling. Thank you guys!

@uwe-keim

As I said, the behavior you seek has been “on the table” for a long time, and nothing has changed. I don’t know that Notepad++ 's limited dev team wants to get too bogged down in searching features, but I have no insight into their thinking.

You might benefit from using an external tool for searching large filesets (allowing you to start a search and then keep working in Notepad++) which can open files in Notepad++ at the match point when the search completes. I don’t know of an ideal tool for this, but GrepWin seems to be a good start…

@shwetmala-sinha

You’re really going to have to describe your problem better, but probably your best first step is to update Notepad++ to a version newer than one that is almost 5 years old now.

@kozakmak said in userDefineLangs for .txt:

BUT! features of different themes are not taken into account, for example, dark and light

Out of curiosity, do you really change themes or light/dark that often? Everyone I know just picks their favorite theme and just leaves it like that for normal usage. If you have a use case (other than the few minutes, hours, or days required to say, “no, I like theme/mode X better than theme/mode Y”) where you frequently change themes or light/dark, I’d love to hear it… because I’ve occasionally seen people complain about things not following theme/mode changes, but whenever I’ve asked for a use case where changing is necessary, I’ve never seen a reason that makes sense to me: maybe you will be the first. (And if I know of use cases where it’s important, either I can figure out workarounds in such situations, or if it makes sense, I could start lobbying the developers to expose new API that will give information about the theme – the Dark-vs-Light mode is now in the API, thankfully)

If you aren’t changing themes or light/dark modes, then just put in the colors that work well with your theme. If you are changing themes often, then as Ekopalypse says, there isn’t a way for the plugin to know what theme you are using for now, so you’ll unfortunately have to live with that mild annoyance of editing and saving the EnhanceAnyLexer config whenever you do change theme. (If you are changing themes enough that it goes beyond mild annoyance, maybe you should consider which is a higher priority to you: changing themes, or the custom “normal text” highlighting.)

@ekopalypse
its work
thx

Reopening a “just-closed” file is somewhat of an exceptional action. Thus, having to go to the File menu for it is not that big of a deal.

@ekopalypse Great. Thanks a lot.

@jim-julian

Not with the standard functions of Npp, but with a scripting plugin and the interception of the FILEOPENED event this is possible. If you want to take this step let us know.

@rene-zinsheimer
If you are doing log analyses I have a free tool that you might find very useful. It is called RCFV, the Really Cool Filter Viewer, and you can download it at www.takamomto.com. (As of 6/3 the website is a little screwy due to outside factors but you can still get the latest release of the software there.)

Since he didn’t mention the version number, I thought I’d chime in and say that the code fix that Don linked to was included in v8.4.2, so it is now readily available for download.

guy, thank you so much for your string. it work like a charm

all the best