@Sam-Fourie , It’s been suggested before, as in issue #17430. The developer stated explicitly: It’s not my intesion to “lock” the document by using “Pin a document”. It’s just a way to make the documents grouped in front so users find them more easily. Checked with MS VC Studio, their behaviour is the same as Notepad++, and I think it’s the right behaviour. It works the way the developer wants, and he has rejected the suggestion to make it work the way you want. update: I’m not saying it’s not a good idea. Just that the developer (who is the final decision maker) is the one you’d need to convince. And, given that he’s already rejected the idea, you’d have to come up with something more than “I really want it” to convince him otherwise (and it would have to be posted in the issues tracker, presumably as a reply to the issue I linked, not in the user Community).

For anyone who wants to get rid of that annoying “This file has been modified… Do you want to reload it…” prompt/dialog box, do the following: Go to Settings Click Preferences Click MISC. Under “File Status Auto-Detection” click Disable from the drop-down menu Close

@ThosRTanner said: This doesn’t seem terribly useful for an installation package though. This is exactly my use case: I download the zip archive end selectively extract only changed files. Some of the files in my installation I explicitly do NOT want to get overwritten. In the end it is really just a matter of taste. And I really appreciate the possibility to choose my desired format. From this I support the current situation, that both format are presented for download.

Hi, @dougk.az, @peterjones and All, Oh, yes, Peter, you’re perfectly right ! But I must be a little tired from this heat wave. Since June 22, in the room where my desk is, even with a fan, the temperature has usually been between 29 °C and 30.5 °C. It’s awful ! BR guy038 Oh ! Now, I also realized that @dougk.az never spoke about the form feed ( FF ) characters, of code \x0C but spoke about the line feed ( LF ) chars, of code \x0A As I said above : really tired by heat !!!

@vvPeterJones I switched Settings>Preferences>Print from “No background color” to “Black on white” and the print is much better.

@PeterJones said: So, sorry, I don’t know of a way to do that. But I am now curious if someone else knows of a way, or if one of the codebase experts knows why it might not be possible (or whether it’s a feasible feature request or not). (I’d apologize for providing a ‘non-answer’ as my answer, when you haven’t gotten a ‘real answer’ first… but I wanted to caution future respondants to not jump to the same conclusion I did at first without actually giving it a try for themselves.) No worries I like to see how people tackle problems. And with a software as vast as N++ where I know only a small percentage of all the functions, even a non answer shows me something new most of the times. Coises answer does the trick. In an ideal world I’d like a way to switch the behaviour so Alt+drag copies, but for all intents and purposes the solution works for me.

@Sylvester-Bullitt said: Any idea when the next release will be out My guess: sometime in the next few weeks to a month or so – most of the time, that’s the cadence of the release schedule. But it all depends on when the developer thinks enough things have been added/fixed to warrant a new release. If it annoys you a lot, you can manually download and run the installer for an older version, and use that version which behaves as you want while wait to upgrade again until after you see the next version announced

@perdrix52 , It works for me: [image: 1781706853432-2df53d4e-a553-473e-8d32-147c22eb6d7c-image.jpeg] [image: 1781706887521-43e468c4-e3db-4f30-819a-76dfd8e22e8f-image.jpeg] Sounds like a font issue and/or rendering-mode issue to me. What are your settings on Settings > Preferences > Searching (especially Use Monospaced font in Find dialog) and Settings > Preferences > MISC > rendering mode dropdown? And what encoding is your file that contains Japanese text?

@Travis-Young , I cannot replicate your problem: [image: 1781542289284-yamlpaste.gif] When I paste that in, the YAML formats the comments correctly, as far as I can tell. Could you either give the original data, and where you paste it? And your ?-menu’s Debug Info?

@Emmanuel-PIERRE said: Hello today I see that in 8.9.6.4 on win11 the Ctrl is not working, though in all others app this is fine. I have very few plugins in it (mime tools, npp converter, npp exports) so I guess this is not where it comes from. Shortcuts are fine. any idea ? If you mean that the Ctrl key with a letter that isn’t a shortcut isn’t inserting the traditional control character, see Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Prevent control character (C0 code) from typing into document and be sure it is not checked. If you mean that Ctrl+drag on a selection is not working as it does in most Windows programs, that is a known peculiarity which can be resolved in either of two ways: Press the mouse button down first, then the Ctrl key. or Uncheck Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Enable Multi-Editing (Ctrl+Mouse click/selection). If neither of those is your problem, you’ll have to be more specific.

@PeterJones said: Columns++ plugin (though I don’t remember it having the header or full-column highlight, or just a gazillion other features which make column manipulation easier; the author @Coises can chime in at this point). There’s nothing in Columns++ for coloring text. The plugin is helpful if you want to do operations on data in visible columns (like right-justify the entries in a column, add the numbers in a column together, search/replace restricted to a column, do calculations to create a new column, sort on a column in situations that don’t work with Notepad++’s built-in sort) and/or to use elastic tab stops to make maintaining visible columns easier. It doesn’t do any coloring, though. Help is here if anyone wants to examine it to judge whether they might want to install Columns++.

@Konsolate said: Everything is lost. Also, while we confirmed with @zack-mosbrucker that the backup folder was empty, you never confirmed that. Are you sure that folder was empty, or did your session file just get reset? (If you don’t know where yours is, it’s probably in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\ – if it’s not there, share your ? > Debug Info and we can help you find it.) Notepad++ backs up the session file into session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak, so if you still have files in the backup\ folder, then you can recover the old session if you exit Notpead++, rename session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to session.xml, and restart Notepad++, and it will go back to the previous version of the session file. And if it still doesn’t open all the files from your backup folder, you can just manually open those files from Notepad++, and then save them to a reasonable known location on your computer, so that you won’t lose them again in the future.

@PeterJones I have been having a crack at it. https://youtu.be/UaXvg9w0_O8 [image: 1781246396141-1349f7c1-791f-4298-b47d-df25824aaf10-image.jpeg] I think I can put … everything in it. If I don’t burn out. Absolutely everything, including what you call the “ridiculous proposal”. (Which mostly just adds a preset system for common searches) I have taken care not to use any API after GDI+. And it’s only alpha borders on icons that keep this from being simple win32 GDI.

Hi, All, From the @pellelin’s post, here is an improvement of my previous post : I now added the complete path of each file , followed with a \ character and the file name ! Once any Search Results panel is displayed : Hit the Ctrl + A shortcut Hit the Ctrl + C shortcut Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N ) Paste the Search Results contents in this new tab ( Ctrl + V ) Run the option Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order ( IMPORTANT ) Now, open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) Uncheck all box options FIND (?-si)^\tLine\x20+(\d+)(?=(?s:.+?)^\x20\x20(\u:.*\\.+)(?=\x20\())|^\x20\x20\u.+\R REPLACE ?2\2\t\1\t Check the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Replace All button Now, re-run the Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order option ( IMPORTANT ) Finally, save this new tab for future study within N++ or Excel ! Now, @pellelin, if you don’t have already the Columns++ plugin installed in your configuration, I kindly advice you to install it ! After installation of this plugin, close and re-open Notepad++ First, run the Plugins > Columns++ > Elastic tabstops option Then run the Plugins > Columns++ > Convert tabs to spaces option Now, in order to right-aligned the line numbers, do the following regex replacement : FIND (\d+)(\x20*)(?=\x20:\x20) REPLACE \2\1 With the same parameters, in the Replace dialog, than above ! For example, I did a search of the word the, whatever its case, in Normal mode, on any .txt file of an USB key Search "the" (77312 hits in 507 files of 590 searched) [Normal] I got an INPUT file of 51,5544 lines for about 10,2 Mb And, after the above process : Reverse line order Regex Replacement Reverse line order Which took 82s, I got an OUTPUT file of 51,047 lines, for about 12,2 Mb, with Complete file path, Line number and Text, all aligned [image: 1780319031552-b25954ec-283c-4b15-9603-bf0d370d3c2d-image.jpeg] Best Regards, guy038 P.S. : In this version, I didn’t report the number of hits. If this information matters too, just ask me about it !

@Bernard said: this is to request feature id est Folder Workspace responds to clicks on line containing file name if the click is on blank area beyond end of file name . Interesting idea. I see no harm in asking for it. However, this is the Community of Notepad++ users. Our feature request FAQ explains the process for checking for existing requests and adding a new request if it doesn’t already exist.

@CJBlake1 , Rereading my original response, that came out harsher than I intended. I got interrupted with real life, and had decided to post as-is, before I had a chance to audit my post, so it was too “raw”. What I was really trying to say: I don’t think the specific version of Edge is really relevant to your issue. I am assuming that you used to have XML associated with Notepad++, and then suddenly it wasn’t anymore. Unfortunately, many applications (Edge included) have programmers who think that there software is the only one that matters, and that they should “take back” their favorite filetypes (like XML), regardless of decisions a user has already made. So I’m assuming that some recent update in either Edge itself, or in Windows in general, caused Windows to change (or reset) the default application for the XML filetype. There is nothing that Notepad++ can do to prevent the OS or an overeager application from hijacking the filetype. The best thing you can do in a situation like this is to use the OS tools to re-associate the filetype with the program you want. In Windows 11, the most reliable method for doing that seems to be using the Open With from the right-click menu: right click on an XML file, choose Open With, select Notepad++, and be sure to say, “always use this app from now on”.

@Italian-menu , Why in the world would you think your post helpful? “depending on what you’re using” – of course they are using Notepad++. This is a Notepad++ forum. If you cannot give a human-created Notepad++ -specific answer, don’t bother posting.