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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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  Dark mode: please darken the bright white line after folded code.
  • John Liudr  

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  @PeterJones said in Dark mode: please darken the bright white line after folded code.: a new Language:Global Styles > Style:Fold Horizontal style whose foreground color sets the color of that line Thanks @PeterJones ! Here is my new “feature request” issue: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10313#issue-958429921
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  NotePad++ 8.1.2 - Windows 10 x64 21H1.1151 - Save Dialog - Unable to enter filename
  • alphacentauris44  

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  @James-Rosemary said in NotePad++ 8.1.2 - Windows 10 x64 21H1.1151 - Save Dialog - Unable to enter filename: I got the same issue. I’m on Windows 10 pro 20H2. Notepad++ 8.1.2 Since @alphacentauris44 didn’t reply to my advice, did you see that advice that I gave to @alphacentauris44 ? If you did, did you try the advice? – That is, did follow the link to the other recent discussion and follow the instructions there? Those instructions tell you how to try out the latest unreleased build of Notepad++ (aka the “development version”). If the development version fixes the problem, then great, let us know, and you can use that version until the next release of Notepad++ which will include the fix. If the development version doesn’t fix it for you, then let us know soon, and we can direct you to where to post so that one of the developers can see that the development version fixed the problem for vista and win7, but not for win10. But until either @alphacentauris44 or @James-Rosemary (or some other future poster) replies with whether or not they tried the development version, and whether or not it fixed it for them, the developers will assume that the problem is fixed in the development version.
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  menu item "copy" leads to a reduced Notepad++ window.
  • François SKODA  

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  @François-SKODA said in menu item "copy" leads to a reduced Notepad++ window.: It’s a long time I hope this little & spectacular bug to be fixed. It’s probably hard to fix a bug that likely happens to exactly one person (you) and that person hasn’t reported it to the official issues list. Or maybe you have?
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  Search with F3
  • Raanan Barzel  

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  In any case, this appears to be a re-occurring subject; the OP posted nearly the same thing a while ago. https://smashkarts.co
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  [Version 8.1] Impossible to save a temporary file when a directory was selected when saving another temporary file
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  @PeterJones Thanks!
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  Default Langauage for Files with No Extension
  • waynecnr  

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  @waynecnr said in Default Langauage for Files with No Extension: How can I set the default Language (XML, or JSON) for files with no extension? I don’t think you can, at least not with the configuration options available to you. In the case of XML or JSON, when you go to settings, style configurator, then select xml or json in the language box, you can ONLY add additional file extensions. There isn’t an option to remove the default ones, which is essentially what you want. I ran a small test and got these results: You can run Notepad++ from the commandline with additional arguments. So notepad++ -lxml d:\temp\this-is-an-xml-file-with-no-ext would load the named XML file (which has no extension) and then command Notepad++ to colourise it using the XML lexer. If the XML file had (on it’s first line) some code such as <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> (taken from the config.xml file, part of Notepad++ installation) then Notepad++ would automatically use the XML lexer as it does attempt to interpret the language to use by the content of the file. I presume a JSON file would also need to have some unique (to JSON) coding at/near the start so it could also be automatically recognised. Terry
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  Updater enhancement
  • RunninglVlan  

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  @RunninglVlan said in Updater enhancement: For example, someone would like to install only major version updates or only minor version updates, ignoring patch versions. Which might be meaningful for some applications. But Notepad++ isn’t very regular about such things. Usually vN.0 has some spiffy new feature… but sometimes, it’s just because the v(N-1).9 was the last version released. Sometimes, vN.M.(x+1) is just a bugfix from vN.M.x, but sometimes it has fancy new features that make it significantly better – and, when it is the bugfix, sometimes the bug that it fixes is really important to fix, and you wouldn’t want to ever run the unfixed version. Often, vN.0 or vN.M.0 have more bugs than vN.1 or vN.M.1, just because the new feature hadn’t been put completely through its paces yet. To be clear: you’re free to use whatever decision criteria you want, and I’m not trying to say that’s not allowed. But looking only at version number on Notepad++ will tell you nothing about whether it’s just a bugfix or a new feature revision, or give any indication as to how stable any given feature is, or otherwise assuming that it carries more information than a number to distinguish it from the earlier number is giving more weight to the pieces of the number than are really there. But, as @Ekopalypse linked, we cannot change the code base from this Community forum.
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  Run Path reset when close notepad++
  • RA Melis  

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  @RA-Melis If it’s just to run a Python script, not even the -i switch is needed. Just ...python.exe "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)". This has the advantage that you don’t have to exit the shell. The script is executed and the result is displayed in NppExec’s console window.
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  survey: Incremental search usefulness
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  @Alan-Kilborn Yes, this is a fact, it’s hard to argue.
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  PHP editing help
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  @jim-murray said in PHP editing help: I also use visual studio and i suggest that you copy some of their helps … You might not be aware, but Microsoft, who publishes Visual Studio, has a huge budget and a team of full-time software developers devoted to making their code work and developing new features. Notepad++ has one primary developer who runs Notepad++ in his spare time, and a few volunteers who regularly contribute to the code base when they have time. All in their spare time, unpaid. when i hover on a function or variable ask if i want to see all references or goto its definition depending on the context if i hover on a reference ask if i want to go to its definition. remember the way back after i move There are plugins which offer some of what you’re looking for – for example, TagLEET allows finding the definition of a function (and I think variable declarations) and listing other instances, even if it’s in another file… though I don’t know the “remember the way back” is possible with that plugin. The developer and his team of volunteers have decided not to implement code that would be better implemented in a plugin, or already are fully or partially in a plugin, so that won’t be added to the main application. blink the matching brace when i hover on its partner. color emphasis is not enough for these old eyes. If the default color choices aren’t sufficient for you, you are free to use Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Brace Highlight Style to define a color/style that does work for you. Or you could use Search > Goto Matching Brace (defaults to Ctrl+B keyboard shortcut) to move the cursor between opening and closing braces. And in languages that use braces for folding, you can look at the folding lines. There are at least three separate indicators for matching brace, so I doubt they will add a fourth to blink the match (plus, blinking text is evil; just look at any 90s-era website). BTW: in case you didn’t realize: this is just the Community Forum – that is, we are all fellow users of Notepad++. Putting a post here does not mean that the developers have seen your request. If you look through the Forum, you will find a FAQ which tells you more about this.
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  Plugins - too much of a good thing
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  @PeterJones @mere-human Thank you for the gentle reminder about 'Feature Requests. [Feature Request] - exceeding ID_PLUGINS_CMD_LIMIT #10263 has been made
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  Function list: new hover color makes it unusable
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  Thank you for looking into it and Sorry for my late reply. I use a modified default mode with black background. The problem is that hovering makes the function darkblue on black + underlined, which: gives the impression that you can click on it once to go to the function, (default behaviour in all other applications) but that doesn’t work. makes the function that you are looking at less visible than others.
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  Darken the ctrl-tab file list in dark mode
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  Thanks for the recent dark mode update! The boarders are no longer searing into my eyes and to decorator boarder is also dark. Except for the ctrl-tab file list which is still quite bright (not as bright as starting up npp), I’m very happy with the update. I use a deep black theme and the dark mode is so great with the deep black theme! I know this is free software so don’t expect every wishes granted. I donated to it to make the authors feel appreciated for their good work. Anyone who uses the software regularly and has a few dollars to spare should do that. Separately, this ctrl-tab continues to be an issue. I hope with the arrival of dark mode, the ctrl-tab rendering could depend on whether we’re in dark mode.
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  Cursor behavior like Delphi cursor
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  @Alan-Kilborn Hi! I will try all this plugins, thank you!!!
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  How to print vertical line connecting beginning and end of a function
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  @Dennis-Johnson , I do not believe that the fold indicators are printable, sorry.
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  Plugins Admin Dark Mode?
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  Yes, it’s not yet implemented. Dark mode is added to all dialogs gradually.
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  Python gotoLine() Not going to line after Open()
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  Awesome advice as usual. A 10ms delay did it. I will investigate the SCN_PAINTED notification to implement it properly Thanks and very much appreciated