Hi, @peterjones, @steve-thorpe and All,

In your post to Steve, I suppose that you wanted to advice :

I suggest searching through your registry for notepad++.exe …

BR

guy038

@Alan-Kilborn
Oh i did not catch that, glad there is actually a way to do it at all, even if a bit cumbersome. And yeah, an actual proper checkbox option within preferences would have been ideal, but i’ll take what i can get.

@Paul-Beunk

At Notepad+ it doesn’t save it on exit

Of course it is saved, it is in the configured backup directory.
If you don’t like it, reconfigure your settings by unchecking "Enable session and snapshot … "

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@Robert-Rodriguez said in Why Does app take so long to start?:

it takes 5-10 seconds for Notepad++ to launch

Is it loading some files? Are some possibly large or possibly of a sort that will be colourised by lexers. Are some of the files on a network/remote drive. All these things can have a part to play in how long Notepad++ takes to prepare the window for you to interact with.

Terry

Due to the problem seen earlier, I decided to take another approach, so that Notepad++ would cooperate better with the lines I was hiding in order to achieve the goals of the script.

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered too many bugs with the hidden lines feature, that it isn’t worth continuing. I think that, at least for now, I’m giving up on this idea…

@Brian-Riback ,

Use regular expression mode. Use FIND = \s+ and REPLACE = \x20 (or a single space; both are equivalent).

(BTW: don’t expect people to actually click on a link to a random file in a google drive or other location, since there is no guarantee what’s actually at the other end of such a link.)

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

Does this file exist on your system?:

Of course

There are a number of posters here for whom this is not a foregone conclusion! :-)

@Shekhar-Singh said in limit the number of lines in a document ?:

when the note is fresh & its edited?

Don’t know what that means.

@NyTR0S96 ,

It wasn’t an installer option previously. There is a section in the online user manual about notepad replacement, which explains that Windows 11 doesn’t necessarily allow the old win10-and-earlier method. However, the next version of the manual will include this updated page, which has a workaround that has been tested by some users (and the developer) on Windows 11:

However, in Windows 11 it’s Notepad UWP version installed, you have to remove Notepad UWP to make the above instructions work.

To remove UWP version of Notepad, you have to launch powershell with admin privileges, then run the following command:

Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.WindowsNotepad* | Remove-AppxPackage

Thanks to all for good analysis and suggestions. I’ll take the route of removing the NppTextViz plugin and see how it goes. Appreciate the good support. Thanks!

@temp-temp It doesn’t seem directly possible, but the JsonTools plugin has a menu Open JSON Tree Viewer and then a button Query to CSV that produces at least some kind of table view.

FYI: It seems this issue has been fixed in slack finally:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/9717#issuecomment-1259551873

@Terry-R I thought my question was pretty clear!
How Do You Add A KeyBoard Shortcut!

The link did not work yesterday, I just clicked it right now and it came right up. Thank you!

@Terry-R Thank you, so if highlighting was the real issue, the OP could uncheck Settings - Preferences - Highlighting - Matching - Match whole word only or probably even better, the OP could useSettings - Preferences - Highlighting - Matching - Use Find dialog settings. I think I’ll use this setting in the future.

@Ekopalypse ,
Noted. I haven’t used it, so of course, I had no idea, but I keep reading the positive reviews of it, so was unsure how far it goes. Thank you for explaining that aspect.

@SUMI-ACE

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@PeterJones Thank you sir, I will do that before posting here next time.

Please help us for testing:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24001/when-google-is-possessed-by-profit

@Reza-Nezami said in How to hide line numbers?:

I really don’t understand why linenumber is on by default!

Because lots of users like it tha way. (It’s really useful for programming, which is a major use of Notepad++.)

This is a pain in the &% to find where the setting has been moved

Because looking through a few panels of settings is so horrible. Or, gasp, you could read the user manual that’s linked from the ? menu. If you go to the “Editing” section of the preferences in the user manual: go to the “preferences” page and Ctrl+F to find the word “Number”. A few hits down (currently the eighth hit); or, if you remembered that it used to be called “display line number”, you could search for that, the first answer would literally be the new location.

Anyone wants it can go find it and enable it

The same argument could be made that “anyone who doesn’t want it can go and find it and disable it” – with everything else in your argument being used identically for the opposite desire. The designer of Notepad++ made a choice years ago on that, and would need a compelling reason to change the default (especially because all the people who were used to years of Notepad++ having the line number on by default would be seriously put out by the line numbers not being on by default, and they would complain a lot louder than you)

And BTW, we’re all just fellow users of Notepad++ here, so yelling at us (and yes, on the internet, ALL CAPS and Exclamation! Points! is yelling) will do you no good. (Actually, yelling at the developers would do you no good, either. Because that’s an awful way to try to convince them to bend to your will.)