@Alexandre-Hagihara ,

The slashthrough U+0337 character you showed is a pretty fancy Unicode character, because it is a “combining”/“overlay” glyph, and some fonts have trouble with them. Your selected font may be different for normal mode vs Dark Mode, so maybe the font you have selected in Dark Mode has different Unicode coverage.

But also there is some other behind-the-scenes font-related magic that affects how Unicode is rendered, so even if your font is okay, there might be oddities. Try toggling Settings > Preferences > MISC > Use DirectWrite to see if it draws those characters better (more in the usermanual).

@Von-Galin ,

I second @Alan-Kilborn’s assessment that it’s a good idea.

If you put in the feature request (and if it doesn’t exist alredy, please do create the issue: I would offer to, but the developer honors feature requests from average users a lot higher than feature requests from those of us who hang out in the forums), you could suggest that the setting get saved as an attribute in the <mainView> and <subView> tags, like <mainView activeIndex="1" size="75%"> – that seems the natural place to store that setting.

@pnedev Thanks that appears to be it. I had an fopen in a library to which I was linking and it had no fclose. Seems to work now. Thank you very much for the catch!

@Von-Galin said in Show Search Results in Reverse:

Is it possible after performing a normal search to show the results (line numbers) in reverse, e.g. last lines first ?

No.

If I scroll down the results and work bottom-to-top, this doesn’t occur since the edits are below the “next” search result.

This is the solution, which you’ve already found.

@Jay-S said in Trying to add keywords for PowerShell by editing Langs.xml:

I added just one additional keyword: “start-process” that you can see listed first from below:
<Keywords name=“instre2”>start-process add-content add-history add-member add-pssnapin clear-content clear-item clear-itemproperty clear-variable compare-object convertfrom-securestring convert-path convertto-html convertto-securestring copy-item copy-itemproperty export-alias export-clixml export-console export-csv foreach-object format-custom format-list format-table format-wide get-acl get-alias get-authenticodesignature get-childitem get-command get-content get-credential get-culture get-date get-eventlog get-executionpolicy get-help get-history get-host get-item get-itemproperty get-location get-member get-pfxcertificate get-process get-psdrive get-psprovider get-pssnapin get-service get-tracesource get-uiculture get-unique get-variable get-wmiobject group-object import-alias import-clixml import-csv invoke-expression invoke-history invoke-item join-path measure-command measure-object move-item move-itemproperty new-alias new-item new-itemproperty new-object new-psdrive new-service new-timespan new-variable out-default out-file out-host out-null out-printer out-string pop-location push-location read-host remove-item remove-itemproperty remove-psdrive remove-pssnapin remove-variable rename-item rename-itemproperty resolve-path restart-service resume-service select-object select-string set-acl set-alias set-authenticodesignature set-content set-date set-executionpolicy set-item set-itemproperty set-location set-psdebug set-service set-tracesource set-variable sort-object split-path start-service start-sleep start-transcript stop-process stop-service stop-transcript suspend-service tee-object test-path trace-command update-formatdata update-typedata where-object write-debug write-error write-host write-output write-progress write-verbose write-warning</Keywords>

And… no dice:

I followed your example, but added the start-process in the alphabetical location within that area and it highlights correctly.

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Terry

@Loopbuilder ,

Without re-writing Notepad++, there is no way to change the speed or add caching.

And the “Please Read This Before Posting” links to the “Feature Requests and Bug Reports” FAQ, which explains that we in the forum have no power to make edits to the Notepad++ code.

@SimpleUser said in [Suggestion] Switching tabs using the mouse wheel:

Please develop this option.

It isn’t going to happen.
Just accept the behavior as it is.

@Daniel-Hitson ,

Use Notepad++ v8.0 or newer (right now, I’d recommend 8.1.5), and Settings > Preferences > Dark Mode will give you full dark

@Lee-Fischman ,

The UDL was not designed to allow indentation for code folding – it only allows keyword-based code folding.
To get indentation-based code-folding, you would have to write a lexer plugin for Notepad++.

If there are any other features of Workflowy that you want to know if they are possible to replicate in Notepad++'s UDL system, you will have to describe it in more detail than “can it be like Workflowy”, because as I said four months ago, we aren’t experts in Workflowy, and only you know which features of Workflowy you would like to have in Notepad++.

@Roberts-Rozis

As mentioned in the Please Read This Before Posting pinned to the top of the General Discussion section, just below the “NEW TOPIC” button you clicked:

Please note that while we will try to help you, and even can try to confirm software bugs with you, this Forum is not the official issue tracker. If there is a bug in Notepad++, posting about it in this Community Forum will not make an official request to get the bug fixed. We have a FAQ entry on Feature Requests and Bug Reports. If you ask for a new feature, or point out a bug in Notepad++, we will be quite happy to give our opinions on your ideas, or help provide workaraounds or alternatives for missing features or bugs; but in the end, only the developers can make changes to the application.

In the spirit of that post, my opinion is that it’s not a critical feature; personally when searching files, I usually either want just one directory (which you can do), or the whole recursive structure (which you can do); I cannot think of a time when I’ve only wanted to go to this directory and n below it. But I’m not the deciding vote on whether something gets implemented.

Thank You!
I would never had figured that out.

@PeterJones
It worked, I found this styler.xml file and it was from 2015, I copied it from Windows 10 to Windows Server and colored everything.

Thanks

@Alan-Cameron

Go to the Settings menu and choose Preferences….

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@NN123616

you start a new Notepad… start writing. and autosave grabs it for say unnamed1.txt

Is this possible?

I don’t know much about it, but maybe the AutoSave plugin will do that. I’ve never actually used that plugin.
I think the TakeNotes plugin can do such a thing, although it has been a while since I’ve used it.

If I were doing it for myself, I’d use the PythonScript plugin and a little script, maybe like this:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from Npp import * import os import time try: AUF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED except NameError: def AUF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED(args): if editor.getTextLength() == 0: if not os.path.isfile(notepad.getCurrentFilename()): notepad.saveAs(os.environ['TEMP'] + os.sep + time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S", time.localtime()) + '.txt') notepad.callback(AUF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])

This will, instead of doing “unnamed1.txt”, do a timestamp for a filename; example:

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This demo puts the file in the folder where the TEMP environment variable points, but that’s easily customized to something else.

@Chuck-Roberts-0 ,

I have never seen error messages like that before. But when I was on a Notepad++ as old as NPP v7.5.6, I had never tried it with Windows Server 2012 R2, so maybe there’s something with that specific OS.

It sounds like you have the PythonScript plugin installed, but that it might not be installed properly. I would recommend uninstalling the PythonScript plugin for now, and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then try re-installing PythonScript and see if it works better for you.

It also surprises me that you want to upgrade to v7.5.6 – that’s years out of date at this point. Looking up Windows Server 2012, that’s apparently based on Windows 8. All recent versions of Notepad++ through v8.1.5 (and even v8.1.6-RC, which will likely release in a couple days) should still be compatible with Windows 8-and-similar editions of Windows. So you might consider installing the most recent Notepad++ rather than one that’s that old. (The one caveat: since you are starting with a Notepad++ version before v7.6.3, where the plugin organization completely changed, you will need to re-install all of your plugins if you upgrade to v8.1.5 . I suggest writing down a list of all the plugins you actually use – ignoring “Plugin Manager”, which isn’t compatible with anything newer than v7.5.9 – then install v8.1.5, then use the Plugins > Plugins Admin interface to install your desired plugins.

@Luis-Piña-III said in Preferences > Editing has changed.:

Now where are

Really? This has to be spoon-fed to you?
Look around, man! It’s not that hard!

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to replace text that is only exact match:

Index 10(?!\d)

Thanks a million

@ArchanfelTaiwan said in upgrade cannot replace the new version file:

I think the issue is not read/write permission, and it’s a notepad++ issue. b
In notepadd++ v7.x it’s no this issue when I change to v8.x, each version is the same problem to the current version (v8.1.5).

So you are saying that going from a version 7.x to a 8.x is successful, but going from an older 8.x to a later 8.x does not work, or is it specifically to 8.1.5 that does not work? Is it from a specific version 8.x that you tested and found errors, if so which one?

Is this something you have tried several times, your post suggests so? If so, is it on 1 PC, or several PCs the problem occurs on?

I will repeat my earlier statement, I think it is unlikely the upgrade. These upgrades go through some testing by the developer who if satisfied there does not appear to be any issues, releases it for seasoned users to install (so the automatic update process is not yet triggered). If it passes the test with several users then it will be released for the general population to install via the automatic update process.

So far there has not been any other users who have reported experiencing your problem.

I still think it is the PC setup you have. Do you have any applications that implement version control, or security to protect applications from being changed? Even a badly developed anti-virus application may cause issues like this.

Terry

@GP-User ,

When you use Windows Explorer to open a file or list of files in Notepad++, the Windows OS brings the Notepad++ application to the foreground. That’s the way that Windows OS has been designed. The same happens when I use Windows Explorer to open a file in any other app that I can think of.

So I don’t believe there is anything the developers could do in order to prevent Notepad++ from coming to the foreground. Sorry.

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(translated by Chrome translation, maybe for your convenience):

Когда вы используете Windows Explorer для открытия файла или списка файлов в Notepad ++, ОС Windows выводит приложение Notepad ++ на передний план. Так была разработана ОС Windows. То же самое происходит, когда я использую проводник Windows для открытия файла в любом другом приложении, которое мне приходит в голову.

Поэтому я не верю, что разработчики могут что-то сделать, чтобы помешать Notepad ++ выйти на передний план. Извините.

@PeterJones done! Added to the github issues tracker. Thanks!