• KNOWN ISSUE: 8.8.2 doesn't appear to be digitally signed

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    TragenT

    It’s even worse that you now need a USB stick / HSM for code signing certificates which makes it even more complicated and expensive.

  • FORUM: Posting Queue

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    PeterJonesP

    @donho ,

    Makes sense.

    Since deleting posts was tedious for me, I had recently been looking into whether I could use the API that the forum offers to write a script to automate some of the cleanup (like with purging the deleted posts/topics), but that will take some time to develop.

    update: As of Nov 9, the purge automation is working, and it will run once a week. (Along with purging deleted posts/topics, it will also delete user accounts that are more than a year old where the user never posted and never logged in after the first day – nearly half of the 30000 accounts were in this category)

  • Please Read This Before Posting

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  • Close on last tab exit missing in settings

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    @Erin-Phillips ,

    In v8.8, the tab bar settings were moved to their own page of preferences, no longer in General.

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    See the v8.8 release notes or the user manual.

    Occasionally, preferences are moved to a different or separate page of the dialog, because new options require more room than exist on the original page – for example, recent additional tab bar settings made it impossible to fit them all with the “general” settings, so they were moved to their own page, so that there’s room for them again.

    The User Manual tries to note all of those moves, so if you have a preference that you cannot find, just search for the preference text (like last tab or exit on close), and it will tell you where it moved to, and where it used to be. (After a few years, the “(changed in vX.Y.Z)” is removed, to avoid too much clutter; but we try to make it easy to find.)

  • Closing np++ closes program behind it.

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  • Does Notepad++ support Language Server Protocol (LSP)

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    @notdodgeball

    thanks - I’ve changed it accordingly.

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    @Lycan-Thrope said in Config Files Need Updating, Too:

    more likely you’re just overworked and missed

    Typo fixed

  • Editar formulas de excel en Notepad

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    Chris Martin 1C

    Hola Jhorbam,

    Lo que estás buscando se puede lograr parcialmente en Notepad++ utilizando resaltado de sintaxis personalizado (User Defined Language, UDL). Notepad++ no tiene soporte nativo para fórmulas de Excel, pero puedes crear una definición de lenguaje personalizada que resalte palabras clave como SUMA, PRODUCTO, operadores como +, =, *, (, ), y los signos de dólar $.

    Pasos para hacerlo: Abre Notepad++. Ve a “Lenguaje” → “Definir tu lenguaje…”. Crea un nuevo lenguaje con un nombre como ExcelFormulas. En la pestaña “Palabras clave”, añade funciones de Excel que uses, como SUMA, PRODUCTO, SI, etc. En la pestaña “Operadores y delimitadores”, puedes agregar =, (, ), {, }, $, y otros símbolos. Personaliza los colores de texto para que se parezcan a los del editor de fórmulas de Excel. Guarda tu configuración y aplícala al archivo.

    Esto no será tan avanzado como el editor de fórmulas de Excel, pero puede ayudarte visualmente al copiar y revisar fórmulas extensas.

    También puedes exportar/importar configuraciones si quieres compartir tu UDL con otros.

    Saludos.

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    @guy038, Thanks to you, I not only solved my problem, but also became better acquainted with the possibilities of Notepad++.
    Best regards

  • Note++ file location

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    @tnet-chrome said in Note++ file location:

    The file config.xml under %AppData% had the recent files list. But if I manually delete any recents, save the file and restart Notepad++ the same list of files is re-added. Why? Where from?

    Because those recents were still in memory when you exited Notepad++, and when Notepad++ exits, it overwrites the existing config.xml with those values from memory – even if you had recently manually edited config.xml. The user-manual section on Editing Config Files has a paragraph explaining how to edit config.xml, because it must be treated differently than the other config files (and config files in general have to be treated differently relative to “normal” files, as that entire section describes).

  • The accents above Cyrillic capital letters are incorrectly displayed

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    Valery OrlovV

    @xomx, thank you very much. When I selected another font (Ebrima), the problem was resolved.

  • is thier any posibilities to find and replace multiple words at once ?

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    CoisesC

    @neeraj10786:

    While I don’t use it myself (and so can’t give detailed advice), it seems like the MultiReplace plugin by @Thomas-Knoefel would be easier to use than built-in methods. If this is a single-time problem, then the built-in methods others have given make sense; but if it is something you’ll need to do repeatedly, I’d check out that plugin.

  • Editor displays "!=" token as "≠" symbol - how to turn off?

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    B

    Many thanks to @PeterJones and @Coises, for the answers, perspective, and (in Peter’s case) updating the User Manual.

    You are right, it was Cascadia Code; changing it to Consolas, for example, got rid of it. My “exhaustive” font testing was… only Cascadia Code and Fira Code, so I literally hit both of the two. I’ve been mostly using Hack font for such a long time, I just haven’t really noticed any of this ligature-supporting fonts. I just got a new PC and hadn’t installed Hack yet.

    I like finding out where I was ignorant and wrong. It makes me less so.

    Cheers and thanks again!
    –BrBill

  • Unexpected text display change for >=

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    PeterJonesP

    @BrBill said in Unexpected text display change for >=:

    @Alan-Kilborn I want to turn this off too. It also displays != as ≠. Does anyone know?

    You didn’t need to post a second time with the same question 15 minutes after your first post here.

    Besides, one answer in the post you were replying to – turning off DirectWrite, which is now setting it to GDI (most compatible) as of a few versions ago – would have worked for you if you’d tried it.

    Or, as I explain here, pick a font that doesn’t have the ligature feature.

    Either works.

  • Applying Diff patches?

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    EkopalypseE

    @pbarney

    Using PS3 and an installed pygit2 library
    you can do something like

    import pygit2 repo = pygit2.Repository(Path(notepad.getCurrentFilename()).parent) diff = pygit2.Diff.parse_diff(editor.getText()) repo.apply(diff)

    This assumes that

    the patch file has been created from a git tool the current file open is the patch file in question the patch file is in the repo directory
  • Quick Question: what Python version for Pythonscript does everyone use?

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    EkopalypseE

    @pbarney

    I only use the pre-release version, PS3,
    as I only work with utf8 encoding, which I think everyone should do.

  • Npp website spelling error

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    @mkupper said in Npp website spelling error:

    FWIW, this Google search gets zero hits other than this forum thread.

    site:notepad-plus-plus.org "featurs"

    I’m guessing that the misspelling, if it ever existed, was corrected a while back.

    Yes, it was fixed within a few days of me posting 😁👍

  • 8.8.2 - coming soon??

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    @rdipardo said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

    edition in a user-local path

    I already checked such possibility (for N++ installer, not for portable eds) and have the non-admin user-installations on my TODO, but so low spare time… (#15182)

    @rdipardo said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

    can still have context menu entries — scoped to HKEY_CURRENT_USER by default

    Very good. I think the NppShell project should take this into account somehow and allow the HKCR registrations when needed/requested. This HKLM default is(?) IMO the reason for a possible regsvr32 zombie process when trying to register the NppShell manually & unelevated (#15182)

    @Coises said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

    I don’t think I’ve ever used a package manager.

    But OTOH you also said that for some SW (Firefox) you allow (welcome(?)) the autoupdates. Such package managers do just that - they remove the burden from the user to constantly check and update their software (even for a portable non-admin user-installation), but at the same time they leave them free to enter this process (if they wanna) and therefore it is not completely hopeless like with the locked stores like WindowsStore or GooglePlay. One example - with the WinGet you can go simply back in the app-versions if you need to (as you do with your “Software\Old”), this is of course impossible with e.g. the GooglePlay (damn hell to them for it!).

    SW-updating “world” just changed and not everything is so bad. So e.g. the WinGet (or more user friendly WinGetUI) way is ok for me (I am not using it for N++, I do it old-school as you do, I admit :-) ). Some relevant links:

    https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24884/winget-real-autoupdater-finally
    https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/n/Notepad%2B%2B/Notepad%2B%2B