Thanks for the tip William Algie :
I also went to the plugins - Plugins-Admin, and looked at the Updates Tab, and ColumnTools 1.4.4.1 was avalable, so I updated it, and now the problem seems to be solved.

@PeterJones said in Feature Request: Pin frequent searches:

In fact, you already had one of the previous official issue requests.

Thus making this thread entirely a waste of everyone’s time.

@Hellena-Crainicu ,

as @Ekopalypse said, the post directly above yours, which you replied to, already answered your question. There are only the 5 individual colors, but they are not mutually exclusive. So if you want more than that, you combine the colors: For example, if you have the text Style_1_4_5 and want it a different color from the 5 built-in style colors, what you could do is highlight that word, apply style 1; it should have remained highlighted, so then you could also apply style 4; it should remain highlighted, so then you could also apply style 5. After applying the 3 different styles, the color combination will be different from any of the 5 builtin styles – so it will not be color1, or color4, or color5, but a mathematical combination of the three colors. Using combinations of 1 or more of the 5 builtin styles, you can create 2⁵-1=31 different colors, all 31 of which are shown in Claudia’s post.

Also, Claudia left the Community years ago (and I still miss her insights and helpful contributions), so she will not come back to reply to your post.

@J-Brouwer

why cannot one edit an own topic anymore after 5 minutes

Until very recently, it was a 3 minute limit! :-)

The reason for it is more complicated, but I like to think of it as not allowing history to be changed, because it can make other history not make sense.

If someone says something in a post, and 5 replies happen to a specific point in that original post because the user made a typo, fixing the typo 5 posts ago invalidates the logic of the additional posts. (Typos are one thing, other “mistakes” are more important – but maybe you get the idea)

If you post something, and later find you have additional information or realize you made a mistake, simply add an another post with clarifying data.

There was investigation into the possibility of letting the current final poster in a thread edit it with no time limit, but apparently the forum software – BTW, not affiliated with Notepad++ in any way; it is just software used, much like you use Notepad++ but don’t have control over its code – doesn’t offer that as a feature.

@guy038 ,

I was leaning toward checked / unchecked / disabled already. With both native English-speakers and non-native speakers saying that those words would be understood and reasonable, that’s what I’ll go for. If there’s ever ambiguity with the disabled, I might use disabled (greyed out).

And I do like @AdrianHHH’s suggestion of explaining the convention somewhere.

Thanks for chiming in.

@Jeronymite said in change.log causes display of last active tab to be wrong tab:

have done as you recommended

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/12138

@Freedom-SBS ,

Hmm. I wonder if the server doesn’t think your account has permission to access the root directory contents. Maybe try setting the default directory to your account’s “home directory”, and see if that works. Also, try seeing if the same thing happen with a separate *FTP client (maybe FileZilla or WinSCP or something similar)? if it happens with another client, then you will need to talk with the sysadmin or support for the server/provider. If it doesn’t, then the problem is probably too deep for me – you might want to file an issue with the NppFTP plugin’s issue tracker

I’d agree that going with the preference setting Peter mentions is the way to go, if this type of popup annoys you at all. End of story. Stop reading now… Unless you don’t want to enable that preference setting (e.g., you still want to be warned if multiple files are to be saved).

The feature request that Peter cites solves the problem specifically asked for:

not to do the popup when only the single viewed file is modified

So the real and exact answer is to make sure you are running 8.4.3 or later.

However, note that the popup will still occur if you invoke Save All and there is exactly one modified file and that file is not the currently active file. The only way it doesn’t occur is if the Save All is invoked and the current file is the only one modified. In this case the Save All is exactly equivalent to a Save, so no popup happens.

Hello, @rodica-f, @alan-kilborn and All,

See also my answer about mixing styles :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/64932

Best Regards,

guy038

Hello, @aldwin-ryder, @alan-kilborn and All,

See also my answer about mixing styles :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/64932

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones said in Automatically start NP++ if it was running at Windows shutdown:

But since any Reasonable Notepad++ User™ ;-) will always have Notepad++ running, then just put Notepad++ in your Startup list, and if you have Notepad++ set to remember the current session (default condition), then the next time it runs, it will open the same files.

I am a reasonable user :-) and will put NP++ on the startup list.

The other option, of course, is for @venky to start from scratch with a new UDL. Then build it up slowly, so that every piece is known working.

Here, I start with blah.txt, with the UDL editor docked. I switch to the default User Defined Language (so it really starts from scratch), Create New, give it a name (Second), and switch the active language for just this file to Second.

Then I go into keywords, use lowercase warning and give it a color, to show that it’s case sensitive. (I forgot while recording this second video that the screenshot above already showed the Warning case matched what was in the pasted UDL definition)

I go into the second keywords box with capitalized Warning, assign it a color, and watch the color change in the editor.

If a user is having trouble getting a UDL to work, I recommend starting from scratch, and building it up slowly, because then you can see each individual step work.

@Snabel42 said in XML Tools not installed:

Would I assume correctly in that unlike the portable install, the NSIS-based installer preserves user settings across upgrades and re-installs?

99.9% of the time, yes. Certain users have said that they lost their settings, but no one has ever given a repeatable procedure that makes the NSIS installer overwrite existing config files.

I recently check the word count of my post do hamsters eat broccoli and its showing wrong word count what could be the possible reason.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Saving the current loaded session:

but it isn’t respectful to people you are asking to make software changes to tell them how easy something should be.

I do not see any disrespect in asking to make changes and simultaneously supposing the changes are easy.
Notepad++ has already many functions having to do with saving (the “Save” function it self at first) so that the mentioned function is only a fork of something, that already exists (and makes the program ergonomically better).

@Alan-Kilborn said in Saving the current loaded session:

they may ask YOU to make the necessary software changes and submit them as a user contribution.

I would do it if I only could.
But as a user and tester I only can give feedback and post it here or on github. I have done this humble contribution, nothing more.

@Alan-Kilborn
🙏🏼

@Stefan-Pofahl

I usually proceed as follows

Clone the repo open npp and start UDL dialog use import from the UDL dialog and point to Julia_Notepad++.xml from the cloned repo restart npp adjust the colors to my needs

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@Kod-yazalım

I think Alt+x was somewhat of a hidden thing, that worked before the addition of some new UI elements, notice:

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Really all it was doing was closing the current tab, so if you really like that keycombo you can just reassign the Close action in the Settings (menu) > Shortcut Mapper…, like so:

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