@Alexander-Anisimov said in Notepad++ lags when text files are on FTP:

Yes, that’s about right. But to be perfectly clear - that happens less frequently than when you Ctrl+S save a file that is in your Notepad++ list, that’s / are stored on that mounted disk via WebDAV - that’s when you definitely get a momentarily lag.

I’ve tested what you’ve proposed - still, when you actually save the file - it makes entire Notepad++ freeze, which may seem as a mild nuissance at first, but over time in your day-to-day usage - it becomes annoying.

If I’m following what you wrote correctly, disabling file status auto-detection has worked to solve the problem described in your original post; but a different, similar behavior, locking up for a long time when you save a file, is still present.

I did some searching, but I wasn’t able to determine whether Windows uses a “write-behind cache” (that might not be exactly the correct term in this use) for WebDAV. If (as I’m guessing) it does not, then Windows is not telling Notepad++ that it can proceed until the file has been completely uploaded to the server.

Notepad++ can’t work around that.

There are other ways, using third-party software, to mount a WebDAV location as a drive; I believe some of those implement write-behind caching. The inevitable cost of this is that when Notepad++ says the file has been saved, it would only mean it has been saved to the local cache. If uploading fails, you would either get that message later, from the application that does the mounting, or you wouldn’t get it at all (it would just be in an error log somewhere).

This article might give you some ideas:

Performance Testing WebDAV Clients

We probably cannot help you any further here.

@PeterJones Thank you, so I just put the script in, but how can I bind a hotkey something like Ctrl+Shift+C to it?

@PeterJones

Sorry I wasn’t trying to stir up trouble. Either you are correct or I may simply have mangled things by going in the wrong order.

Here is a pic showing miswritten regex I found via AI, which was what I was trying to correct. I did not find the ErrorList language feature until after writing my initial post.

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@PeterJones
Many thanks!
Regards,
RPrinceton

@NebulaPulseX
MultiReplace covers the complexity you’re dealing with quite well. While it doesn’t support syntax checking, it handles regex, variables, and multiline edits. Bulk replacements work across all open files in Notepad++. Folder-based processing is on the roadmap.

@deleelee said in The 'shortcuts.xml' file is NOT re-created if you delete it, on purpose or by mistake !:

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your meaning but, if the “exe” directory is the one containing notepad++.exe, the portable version does have shortcuts.xml there.

You ignored the context of the discussion: the specific question @guy038 asked was,

Is is normal that a default shortcuts.xml file is NOT created if absent in current folder ( for a portable version )

Or, phrases a different way: “if you delete the shortcuts.xml and start Notepad++, why doesn’t it re-create it with default shortcuts”

So, definitionally, if you’ve deleted the shortcuts.xml from the portable directory, there is no shortcuts.xml from which NPP can read the defaults, since NPP doesn’t have a .model for shortcuts.xml and it has no where else to look. (I was contrasting that to the normal installation, where if you delete the App data shortcuts.xml, NPP can recreate it using the shortcuts.xml in the exe directory)

@rinku-singh it’s been long & i forgot for what exact reason I asked. Thanks, anyway.

@Bernard-Schleich-0

I currently use

https://github.com/Tatsu-syo/noMeiryoUI

in Windows > 7 removed settings to adjust fonts in Notepad++ and other programs . In Preferences, General -> Reduce may need to be unchecked for OS settings to be used.

Size of fonts changed should be modest as larger sizes may not fit in the area allocated in the GUI.

Microsoft appears to want users to use Scaling instead of the legacy of WindowMetrics.

@mkupper said in Question(s):

I verified that at least for my current setup that the zoom level seems to have no affect on the printed results.

Same here. Perhaps I was unclear.

If I leave the zoom at default and adjust the font size for Default Style to be large enough for me to read easily on my monitor, I would set a font size of 14 or 16 points with Liberation Mono. (14 is bit smaller than I like, 16 is too big, 15 isn’t an option.) Those are too large for printing, though.

If I set Default Style to 12 points, printing is reasonable. If I then zoom in 3 steps, I’m just about where I want to be to read easily on the screen — without affecting printing.

The question I was answering was, “Why not just change your default font size?” Because that does affect printing (and, though I hadn’t remembered until I tried just now, also isn’t as fine-grained as zoom).

@PeterJones, thanks. Of course, it’s Notepad++, a little too fast with the typing and posting of the question.

Thanks for the paths.

@Farhan-Yazid said in How to highlight text?:

Hi, any shotcut button to assign the highlight funtion?

By default, the Style One Token / Style All Occurrences of Token commands do not have keyboard shortcuts.

But if you use Settings > Shortcut Mapper, set Filter = style, you can choose any of them and use Modify to set a keyboard shortcut for that token-highlight style.
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(In case it’s not clear: Style all using Nth style in that dialog corresponds to Search > Style All Occurrences of Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]; Style one using Nth style corresponds to Search > Style One Token > Using Nth Style [or the right-click context menu equivalent]. And for further clarification: the Search > Mark All that @Alan-Kilborn mentioned 6 years ago is the same as what’s now known as Search > Style All Occurrences of Token)

@Denis-Rionnet

This usually works quite reliably as long as the underlying file system supports it.
Where are these files stored and which file system is used?

@ANDRES-MARIANO-MARTINEZ-PEÑA

Yo sólo utilizo versiones portables, es decir, versiones que no necesitan ser instaladas, sino que simplemente se copian en un directorio.
Para instalar un paquete de instalación sin entrada, hay que pasar el parámetro /S a setup.exe. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options.

I only use portable versions, i.e. versions that do not need to be installed, but simply copied to a directory.
To install an installation package without input, you have to pass the /S parameter to setup.exe. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/#installer-options.

@PeterJones said in TranslateID (FolderName) in UserDefinedCommands (shortcuts.xml):

If you look again at the reference you linked, the TranslateID attribute is defined for the contextMenu.xml; however, the <Command> tags in the shortcuts.xml do not have that attribute listed as being available.

Thus, I do not believe what you are looking for is currently possible. Thus, I think you would have to follow the instructions in our FAQ to put in a feature request to ask the developer to add TranslateID to the shortcuts.xml <Command> tag.

Hello, @PeterJones.

I truly appreciate your quick response and such a clear explanation!

Indeed, upon rereading the documentation I referenced, I realized I misunderstood the use of the TranslateID attribute. It applies to contextMenu.xml, not shortcuts.xml, as I had mistakenly assumed. That was an oversight on my part, and I appreciate you pointing it out so objectively.

In my case, this was just curiosity based on that mistaken understanding. It’s not something essential for daily use of the application. I’m glad to have learned the actual scope of this functionality.

Thanks again for your kindness and clarification.

@PeterJones, that’s the holy grail of the daily coding grind: no open issues and fun stuff on the roadmap!

There is an issue about this:

Search function impracticality #10438