@PeterJones Thank you. As far as I can see, the function has not been removed. Before concluding this, I downloaded the versions one by one and checked the settings to see if it was still there. I was only able to find an option under “Default Directory.” My issue is now resolved. Thank you.

@PeterJones said in Applying Diff patches?:

I commented on that Issue to request that apply patch be considered alongside create patch.

as mentioned here, as of ComparePlus v2.0.0, the plugin can generate and apply standard patch files; see also the release notes. Thanks to @pnedev for the update.

(Until it makes it into the Plugins Admin, the new version can be manually installed from the zipfiles found on the v2.0.0 release page)

@Coises Thanks, it was the smart highlighting. Problem solved.

To expand on the explanation, for a small number of lines, put the caret in column 1 of line 1. Press Shift+Alt+DownArrow multiple times, enough so that a “skinny but tall caret” appears before the column 1 data in all lines, to wit:

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Then press Space two times, to obtain:

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ConfigUpdater Plugin v2.2.1

ConfigUpdater Plugin has released v2.2.1, available thru GitHub release page, with bugfix improvements, mostly to Validation Dialog:

Error handling for null handle ⇒ to prevent potential crashes Disable logfile Monitoring Mode ⇒ it triggers callbacks for many file-changed events, which can bog down setups that use plugins/scripts that add many callbacks Fix progress bar on ConfigUpdater dialog ⇒ makes more-visible progress as each file is processed ValidationDialog: say Line#123 instead of #123 in the Validation dialog error list ⇒ Makes it more clear to the user that the number is the line number, not just some internal tracking number ValidationDialog: Rename Done -> Close ValidationDialog: Rename Go to Model -> Open/Align Model in Other View ValidationDialog: Disabled Validate button when no file selected ValidationDialog: Add ephemeral “Please select a file to validate” choice as initially-selected “file” for validation, which will go away once you’ve made a choice ValidationDialog: Open/Align Model now allows opening the model even when there are no validation errors (or when you haven’t even validated yet) it was previously not allowed because the vector it was looking at to find which line number in model-file was 0-length if there were no errors (or no validation done yet); I was able to update the logic to choose line 0 if there was no selection or no validation errors Update langs.xsd to check for duplicate <Keyword name="xyz"> entries NOTE: if you want this feature, you have to delete the old ...\plugins\config\ConfigUpdater\langs.xsd before launching the ConfigUpdater or ValidateConfigFiles dialogs (only need to delete the file once; after it is regenerated, the new error checking will be available in the future) Only allow one Validator dialog ⇒ It could cause problems if more than one dialog were trying to validate at the same time, and there is no compelling reason for allowing multiple instances of that dialog

Well, I submitted a feature request. It is here:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16852

Any feedback or suggested edits or improvements would be greatly appreciated!

@PeterJones thank you. I completely overlooked this new page in preferences.

@Coises said in NotePad++ preview plugin? I can't find it.:

It looks as if [Preview HTML] exclusively uses Internet Explorer rendering…

F.Y.I.

Preview HTML’s browser host was recently updated to Microsoft Edge.

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You will need Windows 1709 (build 10.0.16299) or a later version to use it. For that reason, I’m not planning to update the Plugin List until some time after consumer editions of Windows 10 pass their EOL date in October.

@PeterJones

Hello again Peter! Thanks for the advice. When I said “hate hate hate” I meant that as more tongue-in-cheek. Maybe that was the wrong foot to put forward first. Sorry if I honked you off. I certainly wouldn’t bring that energy into a feature request.

Edit: I get what you’re saying about essential features of Notepad++. It seems like if there’s an option to turn off, say, current line highlighting, it would make sense to include an option to turn off brace highlighting. I’m sure it won’t surprise you to know that I disable current line highlighting, for much the same that I want to disable brace highlighting – I find it distracting.

Anyway, I’ll throw up a feature request, and if it is never implemented, I’ll deal with it. Overall I love Notepad++ very much.

@Kees-Alderliesten

@Alan-Kilborn is right, e.g. #15639 or #15557.

Notepad++ needs to be a Per-Monitor (V2) app.

You can try this workaround:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/14337#issuecomment-1835791674

@notdodgeball

thanks - I’ve changed it accordingly.

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

@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).

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

@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.

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

@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.

@pbarney

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

@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 😁👍

@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