See https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26920/fighting-malicious-ads-on-download-pages

@Coises , @PeterJones Now I see your point. So the “Find what” field is not scrolled to the right per se, but just because it happens to have focus when the dialog is opened. When I leave the field it gets scrolled back to the left (and the field receivinf focus is scrolled to the right).

I’ve tried several applications (including Editor and Excel) and found out that this last point (scrolling to the left when the field is left) is not done everywhere. Ofter, the text remains scrolled to the far right.

I don’t understand the logic begind it (when it’s done and when not), but I see that NP++'s behaviour does not differ (much) from that of other Windows applications.

Thank you for your patience.

Upd: Though it seems to be the standard behaviour with the drop dow lists, I still don’t get the rationale behind it. Why should something be shown one way when it doesn’t have focus and the other way when it does?

@Lycan-Thrope ,

As I say in my reply over there, it looks like your copy is getting stuck long before it would ask to restart – it should have printed at least stylers.xml in the Status dialog. When I use my Win11 installed v8.8.1, or spin up a Win10 VM with an installed v8.8.1, it works as expected for me, so I don’t know what’s happening for you. We can continue the debug over in your Issue #2 discussion.

If it doesn’t change anything being as it’s the latest version of NPP, shouldn’t it not shutdown after running it with no changes?

haha, you’re funny. The “latest version of NPP” ships with themes that have many missing LexerTypes (languages) and stylers within the lexers, which is a major reason this plugin is needed. If you’ve never run the old ConfigUpdater.py or the plugin version, it’s guaranteed to make changes. (And even if you have run it before, because it does things like sort the languages, it always attempts to write all the themes, so will ask to restart even if it’s writing the same values back – someday, I might get my logic better to figure out how to compare the old-vs-new for the XML, and not ask to write if it doesn’t need to; but for now, that was the easiest to program.)

@guy038 Excellent! Thanks for the lists…

By the way, after months of trying all sorts of tricks to successfully encode the ÿ character to Hex in a UTF-8 encoded page, I realized that I had to initiate a Windows-1252 page first. And then it successfully converted the PNG to Hex. lol.
The NUL bytes (\x00) were problematic as well because unless they get loaded into a raw binary state, they usually get converted to spaces (20) . So I get it now. ITS A TEXT EDITOR! … but at least Windows-1252 gives me a work-around for bytes 0x00–0xFF
And then of course there’s Base64 to save the day!

Lastly, I copy and paste a lot of binary content , so thanks for IDM_EDIT_COPY_BINARY 42048

Cheers
Lance

@Alexander-Huckel ,

Sorry, I am not sure about the automatic translation of your question: do you mean auto-correction, where it fixes spelling? Or auto-completion, where it helps you type programming keywords or other terms already found in your document?

The latter is native to the app, described https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/auto-completion/ in the manual , and controlled by the settings described https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#auto-completion

Spelling correction is not implemented natively in Notepad++, but the DSpellCheck plugin is highly recommended for doing spell check and suggesting corrections.

@Sergio-Bonfiglio ,
Sorry, don’t have the time to research and provide an answer that is obvious after reading the documentation.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Insert sequential numbers at start of lines:

editor.replaceLine(line_nbr, '{n}) {c}'.format(n=chr(96+running_line_nbr), c=line_content))

Thank you! I had tried editing that line myself but I didn’t quite get it right. It’s all good now thanks to you 😁

@PeterJones
Thanks for your repply
I will atach a sreenshot

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But when i select a language and i setup it the next tine that i setup the program check automaticaly the last language that i checked for use in these language
If i setup the program as default the language doesn’t install other languages

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@W-D-Smith said in NotePad++ preview plugin? I can't find it.:

I’m told I have to have a preview plug in so I can open my page in NotePad++ to see how it looks. I absolutely cannot find this plugin. I just downloaded NotePad, and I’m completely lost. I had tried to use CoffeeCupHTML but it was complete rip-off.

If you are trying to write an HTML page in Notepad++, you can use one of the options in View | View Current File In to see how it renders in your browser.

If you are looking for a rendering within Notepad++, you can get Preview HTML from the built-in Plugins Admin:

Save any open files you want to keep. Select Plugins | Plugins Admin… from the main menu. Scroll down to Preview HTML and check the box to the left of that entry. Click the Install button near the top right of the dialog. Once Notepad++ restarts, open an HTML file and then access the menu for the plugin at Plugins | Preview HTML. (Check the first menu item to turn it on.)

I don’t use that plugin myself, so I can’t tell you much more about it, but no doubt others here can. It looks as if it exclusively uses Internet Explorer rendering, which is a bit out-of-date these days.

If you are looking for something that will let you edit directly in the rendered page, so that you edit how you want it to look and don’t concern yourself with HTML code/tags (what-you-see-is-what-you-get), that is not possible in Notepad++.

@Hugo-Martinez-Jara ,

@Hugo-Martinez-Jara said in Notepad++ cloud:

Hi,
Is there a Notepad++ cloud service?
I’d love to save notes, ideas, or logs in .txt from different devices.
No one, as far as I know, has this solution.
As long as the current Notepad++ UX (in my opinion, the best) is respected.
I’m willing to collaborate in any way, whether by contributing work or financially.
Of course, I don’t speak English.
Writing in English is no problem (ChatGpt)
Thanks
P

Hugo,

Si tienes algo como Google Drive, puedes configurar tu propio sistema en la nube, y Notepad++ se adapta a eso, permitiéndote configurar una configuración en la nube que copiará tus archivos a esa unidad.

¿Para qué gastar dinero si no es necesario?

Si no es compatible con tu versión de Notepad++, simplemente lee y traduce el manual en línea para aprender cómo.

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English -
Hugo,

As long as you have something like GoogleDrive, you can setup your own cloud system, and Notepad++ accomodates that, by allowing you to setup a cloud setup, that will copy your files to that cloud drive.

Why create a cost for yourself if you don’t have to?

Just read and translate the online manual if it’s not native in your Notepad++ version to learn how.

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@Estevao-Jordao ,

Did you really need to come 4 years later to give a URL to a random website when the problem is solved with Notepad++ and the JSToolNpp plugin mentioned then (or the JsonTools plugin which also exists now).

(your link was de-linkified, to avoid this forum becoming a honeypot for posting URLs to random sites unrelated to Notepad++)

“default style” is working fine for my purposes.

I will propagate these configuration changes to any other old installations I may have.

Thanks to all for the very effective help!

-Phil

It sort of makes sense… shortcuts.xml is really just a bunch of overrides… so it isn’t really necessary to be there.

For keycombos, all of the defaults are still there, even without a shortcuts.xml file.

so I think this is expected/designed behavior

Or probably, “just never considered” behavior. :-)

@Molly-Harris-0 Have you tried the Window Manager plug-in?
With the tab bar disabled and using the Window Manager, I think you will have something akin to what you are looking for.

Hello, All,

Just a point of clarification : if you download the 3 parts of this list and want to test some other sorts , remember to add a space char in front of any code-point coded with 4 hexadecimal digits !

Indeed, for a correct empty rectangular selection, the characters must be aligned, like below :

2CE1 ⳡ 2CE2 Ⳣ 2CE3 ⳣ 102E1 𐋡 102E2 𐋢 102E3 𐋣

and NOT like below :

2CE1 ⳡ 2CE2 Ⳣ 2CE3 ⳣ 102E1 𐋡 102E2 𐋢 102E3 𐋣

If you forget to do so, you may see the message : Sorting multiple selections is not supported !

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones said in Linux desktop version of notepad-plus-plus native. (crossplatform):

Besides, with Wine on Linux, I have heard that, except for edge cases, some people can have a reasonably-good Notepad++ experience on Linux.

This is very true, as one of the users of dBASE who specifically requested and encouraged me to work on the UDL for dBASE in Notepad++ is because at the time, his eyes were really bad, and the native IDE editor was not very customizable. He has adapted the dBASE Plus UDL I made so it works with dBASE 5.0 DOS/Windows via a WINE emulator on his servers…where he runs virtual machines for all dBASE versions. Because I was able to make that UDL, he was able to be productive again while getting help with his eyes and is doing much better now, but the point is…Notepad++ works just fine on Linux and Wine. I believe he uses Ubuntu for it, and as @PeterJones has said, only edge cases cause a problem for him, so it shouldn’t be a problem for you running it that way.

@ryangray01,

Again, your only contribution in this topic was to reiterate phrases that had already been used in other posts. Please try to include your own unique perspective in posts. You now have two “could be AI nonsense” strikes against you. You are on very thin ice at this point.

This was tested on Notepad++ v7.8 (32-bit) on Windows 10 (64-bit)

Why would anybody still be using v7.8 (32-bit) on Windows 10 (64-bit) – in 2019, when the original discussion was started, that was reasonable. But 6 years later, when Notepad++ is to v8.8.1, and Windows 10 is at the cusp of end-of-support from Microsoft, I cannot believe you are actually still using that setup, or that there is any benefit today to trying to replicate that 6-year-old setup.