@Harry-Nelson

Worth noting N++ behavior is now just like all other Windows applications. It’ll add the extension of recognized file types but otherwise you need to do as @PeterJones suggests. I much prefer it this way … predictable and like other Windows applications.

Cheers.

@PeterJones FIND = (?-is)^.+~\h*(?=\d+km) I hope I got it right in the reply, Peter just this command resolves to, thank you very much. GL

Hi @daniel-lysk, @michael-vincent, @ekopalyse and All,

An other useful little trick :

Let’s imagine that our previous table has the size file values left justified, as below :

ACP5191 *PGM CBLLE 5120000 RELEASEID: ITI 19.045.004 06/12/15 14:12 ADS0130 *PGM CBLLE 3137536 VERSION 9.0.1 02/20/17 14:00 ADS0910 *PGM CBLLE 18124800 VERSION 10.1.5 02/11/20 00:38 GUY0000 *PGM CBLLE 123456789 RELEASEID: ITI 3.020.074 08/15/17 10:30

Now, in order to get the same values right justified, move the caret right before the left-justified numbers and note its column number C, in the status bar. Then, use the number C-1 in the regex S/R, below :

SEARCH ^.{42}\K(\d+)(\x20+)(?=\x20)

REPLACE \2\1

Click on the Replace All button

And… voila ! Even, if you have 1,000,000 records, it would have been the same !

ACP5191 *PGM CBLLE 5120000 RELEASEID: ITI 19.045.004 06/12/15 14:12 ADS0130 *PGM CBLLE 3137536 VERSION 9.0.1 02/20/17 14:00 ADS0910 *PGM CBLLE 18124800 VERSION 10.1.5 02/11/20 00:38 GUY0000 *PGM CBLLE 123456789 RELEASEID: ITI 3.020.074 08/15/17 10:30

Note that the regex S/R, below, does the opposite. It left-justifies the size files. So you get, again, the original file !

SEARCH ^.{42}\K(\x20+)(\d+)(?=\x20)

REPLACE \2\1

Cheers,

guy038

Here’s a new feature request ticket
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8568

It turns out this has been requested several times before dating back to 2016. Interestingly, @donho (I think he’s one of the devs?) stated in an old ticket https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/2243 that this was already implemented, and the ticket was closed. I don’t know if this was supposed to be implemented back then and got removed for some reason (or he made a mistake?), but there have been more tickets since then requesting the same thing.

@Guus-Ellenkamp

Notepad++ is developed using the Win32 api and is solely dependent on it. A native Linux version would require a nearly complete rewrite of the application…and you’d have to be crazy to want to do that.

@Alan-Kilborn

May be you are not so wrong after all, and the key word in the manual is could be “periodically”, which is not very precise.
What does it mean exactly? (did not find what is the delay between 2 checks, neither where it can be configured)

Best regards.
Olivier.

@Globalcom-Santo

What makes you think that it isn’t macro-recordable?

@Jon-Peterson

Verify this setting:

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@Haqim-Zuhari said in My 2 cents about Notepad++ (i really2 love notepad++):

Change this icon from workspace to a better one or remove it

This topic has already been asked by me, and the author of Notepad ++ does not want to delete these curved icons))

That was extensive. Thank you. For real.

Now, turns out Npp was right and notepad and github are wrong.
That’s what I get for copy and pasting code from random sites.

Glad it was sorted. Saves me a bunch of time.

@Frank-Posa ,

Since v7.8.7, even the new-style applies an extension based on the selected file type in the save/save-as dialog. If you type no extension, it will take the first extension from the Save as type box:
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Knowing that typing your own extension (like blah.ext) will override the auto-extension, I tried a trick of typing blah. to try to convince it to use an empty extension: as shown in the screenshot above, it still appended .txt to the filename, making it blah..txt, which isn’t what I wanted. However, if you then change Save as type to All types (*.*), and don’t type an extension, it will save the file with no extension.
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It’s a little extra work, but that will enable you to save a file with no extension. (Alternately, change your workflow slightly: create the file in Windows Explorer with no extension, then right click and open-with Notepad++ or drag the file into the open Notepad++.)

Unfortunately, we’re finding that no matter how the save-options are defined, someone will think that NPP has done it completely wrong and not given the option they want.

@Sebastián-Orias-Sender said in Notepad++ funciona en linux?:

Hola tengo como sistema operativo Ubuntu y cuando pruebo notepad++ me dice el siguiente mensaje:
No se puede encontrar la aplicación en su sistema
Me pueden ayudar?

Debes instalar Notepad++. Si estás usando un Ubuntu relativamente reciente, lo harás a través de Snap.

You must install Notepad++. If you are using a relatively recent Ubuntu, you will do this via Snap.

@Hassan-Iqbal

the second part sounds like a feature request.

@SlamJammington

My first guess is that you use notepad++ from the windows store, could this be? If so, this is NOT the official application which is available from here.

If this is not the case, may I ask you to explain in detail what you are doing? Step by step so that one can replicate what is happening.

In addition, please post the debug-info from the ? menu.

@Best-Sellers

Your steps don’t really “repro” all that well.

Click on New

What does this mean?
Toolbar button for new document?:

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That is the only thing on the UI (without doing more actions that you haven’t described) that would give a “New” behavior.

Right Click on the new sheet and click on Save As

If I right click on the new “sheet” I get no option to Save As:

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However, if I right-click on the tab of the sheet (but you didn’t say that, so I’m confused) I get that option:

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But choosing it I get no crash, I get:

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And then continuing on to save the file I still get no crash, thus to:

Observe that Notepad++ app crashes.

I say “I can’t reproduce”.

I’m doing all this on N++ 7.8.8.
Does it make sense that you should have also told us what version you are using?

At this point I have to point you HERE.

@PeterJones Sorry, I hit the link and … sorry again.

And if Notepad x64 7.0 (npp.7.bin.x64) is the only version that will work, maybe someone can show me how to enable the Plugin Manager so I can load a few basic plugins - its not listed in the PLUGINS section.

@雑雑

If you are going to follow the advice given, you should create one issue per suggestion item. No one will take you seriously if you jumble a bunch of stuff together in one issue.

Also, I’ve read over your list of suggestions. As a long-time user of Notepad++ (so I think I have somewhat of a grasp of its design), I don’t see a lot of value there (sorry).

Here are some additional comments:

While launching two windows, I want the search tool to switch to the search for the active window.

Not reasonable. You are talking about multiple instances of Notepad++. The design is to allow this, but in an independent (and limited) way.

Please add “▲first hit” and “▲last hit” to the search tool.

Presume the second up arrow should be a down. This is easily achieved by using Find All in Current Document and looking at (and/or jumping to) the first and last line of the results.

This is a convenient feature that is implemented in other text editors. (screenshot)

Can’t tell if this is another request for first/last hit, or next/previous hit. If next/previous, then menu items and hotkeys F3/Shift+F3 already exist for it.

When the search window is active, you must click the editor window once to activate it in order to overwrite the file (Ctrl + s).

Yes. Do you understand the concept of “input focus”? The keys that work when the editor window has focus do not (in general) work when other windows have focus.

Immediately after startup, you cannot create an empty file with “Ctrl + S”.

This is a fairly common “complaint” and it isn’t a big issue. I mean, you’re going to put data in fairly soon, right? If you have to save it like right now immediately, type one character and then you’ll be able to save.

It would be nice to have a shortcut key to reload the file.

The default is Ctrl+r which is pretty clear from the File menu.

@Андрей-Максимов

File->Restore recent closed file (CTRL+SHIFT+T) maybe this can help?