@Meta-Chuh Big Thank!

@V-S-Rawat

it usually stays in %Temp%, as e.g. npp.7.6.6.Installer.exe.

you can also always re-download the most recent installers from here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/
this link will always forward you to the latest version.

or select any of the older versions if you need them.

@Meta-Chuh
Just to be clear… I did use the original link you provided to download NP++. It threw this error
(And thanks for the markdown tip)

I added the missing “gpup.exe” and created the folder as before. It was then I discovered the “correct” settings to make AutoSave work. After that – for fun – I tried the portable apps version – and hit the same error message

So here is what is not clear to me.

Am I the only one seeing that error message or is something broken on BOTH sites where we can get a portable version of NP++ ?

Why does checking “save autorecover in the same directory” create a file extension that end with ~ Should it not create a file with the same name and an extension of bak or something similar?

Thanks

@PeterJones and @Alan Kilborn
I appreciate the advice – thanks. Hope the main site will clear show a portable version is available…

Best to All,

Mike

@Luigi-Ferrari
With utf-8 encoding works well

All the steps I took to complete the move:
cd “C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins”
dir .dll
for %a in (.dll) do @echo %a
for %a in (.dll) do @echo %~na
for %a in (.dll) do @if not exist %~na echo %~na
for %a in (.dll) do @if not exist %~na echo %~na & mkdir %~na
dir
for %a in (.dll) do @move %a %~na
dir

Steps that actually did the work:
cd “C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins”
for %a in (.dll) do @if not exist %~na echo %~na & mkdir %~na
for %a in (.dll) do @move %a %~na

Opening NPP again listed the missing addons (all were missing).
One was outdated, I don’t use it anyway.

@Johnny-Heng
Create VBScript with this code, it will launch two programs at the same time.

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run("notepad++.exe")
WshShell.Run("%windir%\system32\osk.exe")

Just change the path to the notepad ++ in the script

@chcg

Is that what we come to since Scintilla in mainstream N++ is so out of date?

welcome to the notepad++ community, @copenhaus

to avoid automatic .txt extension, for files without extensions, e.g. hosts, when saving:

please go to settings > preferences > default directory and activate use new style dialog, as seen at the screenshot below.

after that you can save any extension-less file, as well as saving any file with full manual file extension control.

Imgur

welcome to the notepad++ community, @KryptykHermit

this has almost always been like that (except faulty versioning versions 7.6.1 to 7.6.3)
file version will be 7.x.x.x
product version will be 7.xx

this product version scheme M.mm is also what the auto updater and the notepad++ update servers expect.

if you have written your script based on 7.6.1 to 7.6.3, you will have to modify them accordingly.

Made a $10.00 donation to the project. Thanks again for the help

Thank you now it works as expected…interesting that the setting is called new behavior when it is actually old behavior, but whatever happy it works, I would have never found that so thanks again!

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Alex-C

rainbow brackets (colour coded nested brackets) will currently not be implemented in notepad++, due to limitations of the scintilla component, which it depends on.

rainbow brackets could be done with external plugins, overriding the internal lexer, but as far as i know of, no plugin that is capable to add rainbow brackets to notepad++ exists at the moment.

note: rainbow brackets could also be done with scripting plugins, like pythonscript, to some extent, but i’ve not been able to find any existing, working scripts yet either.

my apologies and best regards.

Meta, Thank you very much, you made my day:)
Cheers,
Ken