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  User Defined Language Collection
  • donho  

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  thanks for important information.
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  New enhancement for User Defined Language System
  • donho  

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  Copying the userDefineLangs to %ProgramData% does not work. And installing the whole application to %ProgramData% is a really bad idea security wise and will be blocked by AppLocker anyway.
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  Notepad ++ Shutdown is EXTREMELY slow when Folder is open as workspace
  • Taryn Vivino  

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  Drupal might produce many folders and files but eventually, it always assists and contribute to the neatness of my project. As I’ve been leveraging and testing a drupal web hosting and surprisingly it really does have introduces me to less complexity. It’s indeed a fine framework and CMS that PHP has introduced.
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  Disable Code Folding?
  • Adrian Parker  

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  @Terry-R said in Disable Code Folding?: So presumably the save session option together with tagging that XML file as “normal text” might allow it to stick and therefore not slow down the opening process. Some other thoughts. Look at the session.xml file located (normally) under %appdata%\Notepad++ folder. It includes the following lang="None (Normal Text)", of course it could be any including XML for each file saved in a session that’s used for the next opening of Notepad++. Possibly you could open your XML file once (by itself) in a Notepad++ session, change language to normal text. Have the “save session for next launch” ticked. Close Notepad++ and then backup that session.xml file. Whenever you want to open this file (all by itself initially) swap the session.xml files. I haven’t tested this and I’d say it’s not what I would call normal practise. Another alternative is to run a portable Notepad++ environment and customise it so that it cannot run the XML lexer (is that possible?). I had a quick look and cannot identify a file called that. I see the lang.xml file refers to the extensions but changing that alone probably won’t prevent the XML lexer from working. I also looked at Preferences, Language and see an option to disable languages such as XML. The online manual here doesn’t elaborate enough to tell us what effect that has. Maybe another experienced forum member might know that answer. OR a combination of the above, using a portable Notepad++ environment with the session saved for next launch setting ticked and ONLY this XML file as the file to open with it set to language normal text. That way you don’t change lots of settings for “normal” editing. Cheers Terry
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  Can I make a User Defined Language that gives functionality similar to Workflowy?
  • Lee Fischman  

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  Recent autosave for some files but not others
  • Amber Cohen  

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  @PeterJones Perhaps the non-autosave portion of your posting could be adapted for the user manual (if not already covered in such depth there). Some good information in your posting.
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  Problem with find / replace with wildcards. Will put in the same Regular expression twice
  • Regina Oswald  

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  @Regina-Oswald said in Problem with find / replace with wildcards. Will put in the same Regular expression twice: but not the special goal with twice repleacing of the same regular expression I’m actually not sure what you are meaning by that. I suspect it might mean something very specific to the replacement you wanted to do. The documentation is only going to describe the capabilities; it can’t possibly describe all possible application nuances of those capabilities.
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  My first user defined language
  • John Davies  

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  Thank you. That’s a great start.
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  How not to generate a copy when you open the same file
  • Shenmue-is-life  

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  @Terry-R said in How not to generate a copy when you open the same file: There are other suggestions I can put forward: There is a 4th option: 4. If you use any plugins they may have caused the problem. use the ? on main menu and look at the command line arguments to run Notepad++ without any plugins and test again. Terry
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  Recovering an Unsaved File that was Closed
  • Robert Waddell  

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  @Ekopalypse said in Recovering an Unsaved File that was Closed: especially if you can remember the name of temporary file Well, if you named your tab zebra for example (surely nobody would let a long-term, critical data file sit there for a long time with a name like new 2), you’d have to look for a file to recover named like this: zebra@2021-06-21_164728 or – gasp – even: new 2@2021-06-21_164728 In other words, expect that type of naming, DON’T just go looking for something with only the base name, because I don’t think you’ll find it.
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  Optimization for large files
  • Daniel B  

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  Possible, maybe. Likely, no! Applications that handle huge files are designed for that specific goal and there are lots of tradeoffs to be made in the design. The majority of Notepad++ users are developers that deal with files well under 1MB. Many of them depend on plugins that interact with Notepad++ and Scintilla in a pretty direct (non-abstract) way. Redesigning Notepad++ and Scintilla to handle huge files quickly will almost surely break many of these plugins and hurt a much larger portion of Notepad++ users than the people who want to open huge files. Your need is real but the solution should be to find the right tool for the job rather than expecting the wrong tool to evolve. BTW, there is also a very big difference between viewing a huge file and editing a huge file. There are lots of good viewers and fewer good editors. Huge files are always auto-generated (typically logs) what is the point of editing them? When I dealt with such the concept was usually to find the area of interest and trim 1M lines into 10K lines of interest that Notepad++ handles easily.
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  Customize toolbar button can't display icon.
  • water5  

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  Thank you for the correction on the ability to change back. To be clear: I define the action of the editor in changing anything that I didn’t explicitly select as ‘forcing’; as it forces a change I didn’t make. It does not lock the change; but it does go beyond ‘Enable dark mode’ and makes modifications to settings contained in a different selection dialog. Again, thank you for clarifying the interaction between mode selection and icon selection.
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  • Shoaib Israr  

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  Closed files (not saved, no need to be saved) re-appear and Marco's not saving
  • Leon Meijer  

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  @Leon-Meijer , If it’s not saving macros, and if sessions aren’t being saved properly (or are coming back after files have been closed), I think maybe you don’t have write permission where your config files are located. Could you please copy/paste from Notepad++'s ?-menu’s Debug Info? And also show us a screenshot of your Settings > Preferences > Cloud & Link dialog settings – these two will tell us where your config files should be located, and then we can help you figure out where to check for write permissions: If Cloud & Link is checked to set a cloud path, then config files including session.xml and shortcuts.xml will be stored in that folder, and so that folder and those files will need write permission; or else, if the Debug Info shows Local Conf mode : ON then the config files will be in the same directory as notepad++.exe (also shown in Debug Info), so you will need write permission there; otherwise, those config files go in %AppData%\Notepad++ 🛈, and you will need write permission on that directory and files. Regarding automatic vs manual sessions: Sharing a screenshot of Settings > Preferences > Backup will tell us what your session and snapshot settings are. The “remember current session” will remember what files are opened, and which view they are in, as long as Notepad++ has write permission to session.xml (see above). “Enable session snapshot and periodic backup” will keep a backup copy of all unsaved files (including unnamed files), so turning that off will prevent it from re-opening unsaved files next time (but when you exit Notepad++, it will ask you if you want to save or discard the unsaved files). Tried the “save session” but I don’t know what’s suppose to be saved? because split-view? no, Yes, actually, Save Session does include the information on which file tabs are in which view in split-view. But the manually saved sessions also have to be manually loaded. So if you exit after manually saving the session, you will have to manually load the session to get that state back. The fact that Save Session saves split-view is really easy to test: 1) Have split view, with files open on each side. 2) File > Save Session, pick a known file name. 3) File > Close All. Split view goes away. 4) File > Load Session, and select the session file you saved. 5) The files are re-opened, and split view is back. “save session” … Marco’s? no… Correct. Macros are saved automatically when Notepad++ correctly exits, assuming it has write permission to shortcuts.xml. Macros have nothing to do with the Save Session command. O btw, when creating split-view (like open file in another view) the font size on the right view is smaller then it is on the left. That means that at some point, you dragged the separator bar between the two views to make them unequal. Because Notepad++ defaults to balanced views on split view.
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  Whats with row 96?
  • Priyo Susilo  

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  @Priyo-Susilo said in Whats with row 96?: May i know why the cursor is going crazy when I reach row 96? Its always bounce back to row 95 when i try using mouse/keyboard to move the cursor to the next row. Windows 10 64-bit / Notepad++ from version 6 something - every version including the newest 8. 1 release 64-bit I’ve used and I’ve never seen what you describe. Please provide your menu “?” => “Debug Info…” and definitive steps to reproduce - what kind of file are you working on, is this a new file you’re creating or an existing file, can you open files longer than 96 lines, what happens then … ? Cheers.
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  Commodore 64 BASIC - UDL.xml
  • Colonel_Konami  

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  @Colonel_Konami You can submit your UDL officially by seeing the instructions for doing so HERE.
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  Folder as Workspace (Problems)
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  Request: improvements on Document List Panel
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  @PeterJones Thank you very much! I am really feeling that Notepad++ is an excellent code edit tool!
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  Search and Replace in Column Selection Mode
  • Miscellaneous Processing  

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  @PeterJones said in Search and Replace in Column Selection Mode: But ask politely, or you will likely be ignored. I think the OP turned it into an idiotic request, even though you warned them against doing something dumb; see: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10012 I know if I were a developer on Notepad++, I would certainly ignore this request. What is wrong with people?
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  Installed notepad++ on a new machine, can't figure out a setting that my other machine uses.
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  THANKS!