First off, thanks so much for swift replying and sorry for not giving any information as I was too lazy to do more research on how to ask for help here. My apologies!

Notepad++ v7.8.9 (64-bit) Build time : Jul 15 2020 - 20:31:49 Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe Admin mode : OFF Local Conf mode : OFF OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) OS Version : 1903 OS Build : 18362.1082 Current ANSI codepage : 65001 Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

I also have tried resetting all settings to default by deleting all .XML files under this folder: %APPDATA%\Notepad++. Uninstall/reinstall Notepad++ as well but it didn’t help either.

Finally fixed the issue by rebooting my PC :facepalm:

Thanks so much again!

Peace out!

@overstop ,

The developers announce new versions when they come out – there will be a post in the Announcements section of the forum, and the official download page will be updated; about 2 weeks after the release, auto-update will be triggered. The developers don’t pre-announce “next version will be coming out in XXX weeks, with new features YYY and ZZZ”, so asking us when the next version will be is not going to help; that’s why @Alan-Kilborn told you months ago that there is no published roadmap.

As a reminder, this isn’t a corporate product, where there is a big paid team, whose primary goal in their job is to make Notepad++ better on a regular schedule. Rather, it’s an all-volunteer effort. The primary developer has a “day job”, and Notepad++ is just his passion-driven side project; he has a few other code contributors who help make changes, but it’s all volunteer-run, in their free time, with no fixed or guaranteed schedule.

From what I’ve found in a short Google research is, that ex4 is some kind of properitary data format and thus is not a plain text file. N++ probably isn’t going to help you with that format.

@guy038 - thx for sharing, not sure why I’ve missed those.

@Alan-Kilborn interpreted:

I think what is being said is that Plugins Admin installed Pythonscript 3.0.3 for the OP.

The Plugins Admin does not install v3.0.3.

If that is what he was trying to say, then he was wrong.

64bit: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/blob/master/src/pl.x64.json#L796-L805 32bit: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/blob/master/src/pl.x86.json#L1086-L1095

both of those show quite clearly that the nppPluginList points at the v1.5.4 download, as it should.

What happened was that @V-S-Rawat already had 3.0.3-alpha installed; when he tried to install v1.5.4 somehow (he isn’t clear whether he did it through Windows or Plugins Admin) that Plugins Admin still showed that v3.0.3 was installed. My guess is that if he tried with Plugins Admin, it doesn’t downgrade a plugin to an earlier version, so v3.0.3 was still there. Or my other guess would be that he tried to manually install v1.5.4 without first deleting v3.0.3, so there was some conflict between the plugin DLL and the python DLL, or some such, causing the crash.

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Now, replying to the OP:

@V-S-Rawat wrote:

plugin admin will go ahead and download and installe 3.0.3

No, it did not. Plugin Admin just couldn’t fix the mess you’d made by all your manual installation without uninstalling previous versions. You cannot blame that on Plugins Admin.

Plugins Admin will not install a newer version until the plugin maintainer issues a PR to the nppPluginList , and until that version of nppPluginList gets distributed with the subsequent version of Notepad++. There is no version of Notepad++ currently existing which has a Plugins Admin that will install v3.0.3.

Plugin Admin will always download and install latest version

Wrong again. Plugins Admin will only download the one version that is hardcoded into nppPluginList for that version of Notepad++. They have not yet implemented the feature which will allow nppPluginList to be updated without releasing a new version of Notepad++.

Plugins Admin is a tool, and you have to know how to use that tool.

If you don’t want to install the version of a plugin that Plugins Admin lists as available, then it is your responsibility to install it correctly manually, and your responsibility to download a copy that is compatible with your version of Notepad++, and your responsibility to make sure it’s compatible with any pre-existing config files (or, in the case of PythonScript, scripts that you’ve written), and your responsibility to clean up the mess when something goes wrong.

Attached an XML file and a Video showing the Problem.

https://mega.nz/file/Buol0YyB#nHXTOSQFwI1LfmZLRfHJ3eL8L691Pkr21D89arbk81c

@guy038 said in Search for word and if found move it up one row:

…with 40 space characters

My bet is that it isn’t a constant 40 spaces that is wanted.
It will depend upon the other lines and where ** NEW ** occurs in them.
However, and it’s a big however, we need more data to be able to help!

Correct! Thank you.
Indeed was a Win file (CR+LF) and works fine searching & replacing:
\r\n;;;;;;;;x;
to
;;;;;;;;x;

Windows has another api: SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems, which is much faster than invoking expolerer.

See my implementation.

@PeterJones

oh my … not a good sign … maybe should stop scripting for today :-D

Thank you Peter.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8568

@PeterJones
THANK YOU!
whether it was my computer monitor or font size or shrunken size window in Notepad++ I simply could not see the underscored red dots showing the spelling errrors. They showed up CLEARLY in the copy/pasted JPGs in my response… I just didn’t see them on my computer.

Oh my… Does this mean I’ve passed middle age? Sorry …
Thank You again!

@Ze-Roberto

Not 100% sure what you mean, since you were very brief, but let’s assume that if your text is found you want to delete the entire line it is found upon.

For your example, you would do set this up:

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Perhaps also tick Match case.

Then you would press the Replace or Replace All button.

@pascal-scalpa

The bug is always here !

There is no bug.

For the record, I chose to post a comment on this issue to second the suggestion and add my remarks.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4700

@jamminjames

works for me.

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Did you try to start without any plugins loaded?

@Hassan-Iqbal said in Is it possible to create "hyperlink" to places within a notepad++ document?:

Is there a way to do this in Notepad++ while using plain text files? It would require that Notepad++ identity certain sequence of characters as being a link to another line or marker in the file.

Пример текста можете привести?

@Ekopalypse said in Function List tab stops:

What about adding a WS_TABSTOP here?

I was able to try that and get it to compile! Sadly, it did not work. Seems to be a bit more complicated.

Cheers.