@Jürgen-Zimmermann

make the line operations a top level menu. I use them so frequently and always have to locate it in the edit menu

You can make it less burdensome if you customize your editor right-click context menu to add only those Line Operations commands that you actually use.

User manual LINK with info.

@Mark-Olson

If you follow my “Issue also reported HERE” link, you’ll see that OP solved his problem.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Save and start two (ands more) instances:

You could use “sessions” but it may not have the “ease of use” that you are thinking of for your situation. You’d have to experiment.

I think you are absolutely right. I already looked at the “sessions”, but did not notice the settings, which automatically retains change in session during restart. And also open each session in a new instance. One minus - with each restart, you will need to open every session, but i think it is suitable for me, it solves problem with my different size monitors.

Thanks for you help.

@Cariboudjan said in [Suggestion] Option to “Always search “Normal” by default”:

I noticed that the Find in Files process takes about 4-5x longer than usual with this new script. Is there a reason why?

(Strangely, I didn’t notice this trailing comment of @Cariboudjan 's before now…)

The answer is that the script has nothing to do with Notepad++'s Find in Files function, so you need to look elsewhere for why something might be different about it.

All the script does is open (or switch input focus to) the Find window and set the state of some controls on that window. Draw your own conclusions about how that can impact a Find in Files action (…it can’t).

Should I the update [?]

@PeterJones Aaaaah ok. I thought this is more of a reaction to individual post. I was wondering if there is like a voting mechanism on the issues as a whole that shows the developers which issues are “most wanted” in the grand scheme of 1900 opened issues… well I guess in the end developers do not decide based on votes anyway… its not that simple :)

but good to know there is THUMB UP

@Alan-Kilborn 👍

Thank you for your feedback. I also guess that only a person that is interested by this and has developer skill can achieve this. In the meantime, I have contacted Druid to inform them, an integration with Notepad++ would be appreciated.

@crypto_go_

Npp is not a replacement for tools like Wordpad, MS Word, or Libre Office Writer because,
as you noted, it does not store styling information about the text.
Npp treats the content as plain text and uses Scintilla,
the underlying control, and its lexical analysis to color certain parts.

@Sylvester-Bullitt ,

Sorry, the regex engine knows nothing about the “file metadata”, which includes its name.

However, if you use a scripting plugin like PythonScript, you can make a script that does know the file’s name, and has access to a regex engine so that it can search for the file’s name in the active file (or in any other file, for that matter).

@MC-Ivan ,

it’s nothing inherent to v8.4.2.

Which theme have you lost? Have you looked in %AppData%\Notepad++\themes (which is the default location; see also Cloud and -settingsDir if one of those options is used). Have you looked in c:\program files\Notepad++\themes or wherever you installed Notepad++? (Note that if you had shared ?-menu’s Debug Info, I would have been able to narrow them down to precise paths, because all those options would have been shown to us)

If it’s one of the standard themes, you could try re-installing Notepad++ , or grabbing the portable zip and extracting the right theme config file and placing it in the appropriate Themes folder for your installed Notepad++

@Lycan-Thrope said in Bad contrast theme bugs and installer bug:

you forgot to submit your Debug information

Well…it doesn’t actually help too much in this case because the complaint is about N++ behavior that has existed back to the beginning of time (defined as: as long as I can remember – I suppose that makes it a personal beginning of time). So, it’s not like knowing what version the OP has is important. But yes, technically to be correct, all submitted issues should have Debug Info included.

@John-Knox said in Cobol Copy Book:

I have a Cobol copy book which I would like to use to view data in a file.

I did a bit of searching on the web and it suggests COBOL data files are likely to be in encoded format, so binary in nature. Descriptions such as “packed-decimal, Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) or “some type of binary” given that Standard COBOL has binary fields limited by decimal values (to the size of the PICture clause).” or “from AS400, COBOL data file using EBCDIC format”.

If so then Notepad++ is definitely NOT the right application. Notepad++ is a text editor and does not understand binary or otherwise encoded files. Whilst it can allow you to view them, the underlying structure is unknown to Notepad++ so text which may appear visually together can possibly be separated by the data structures involved.

However if the data is indeed text (so assumption it is of fixed width) then there is a plugin called “Fixed Width Data Visualizer” which can be used to visualise data structures. However there is no mention specifically of cobol copy book files, so if you were to try it you would need to experiment and possibly manually add in the data structure from the copy book yourself. That means you would need to be accurate in the structure as copied into the plugin (of course).

The plugin (for 64bit Notepad++) is here

Good luck
Terry

EDIT: if you did open the COBOL data file does it seem like there is a structure to it and does it seem as though it has fixed width sections?

EDIT2: Try this link, several apps on Sourceforge which are likely to have a better chance than Notepad++

@Terry-R
I wil try with first option first and see now it goes for the record set of 35k.
Thank you for your response @Terry-R

@jim-hughes said in Notepad++ has a Reload false alarm / bug? “This file has been modified by another program. Do you want to reload it”? even when it hadn’t been recently modified at all?!:

I’m getting this “file has been modified” warning constantly

This page of the online manual might help.

As you would have read, it tends to be an issue with cloud based storage, is that what you are using?

Terry

@Andreas-V ,

Automatic filetype detection works for me.

My first guess is that you have a file greater than 200MB, because there is a set of options (added in v8.4.7) called Settings > Preferences > Performance which allows you to turn off certain higher-CPU-cost features of Notepad++ for large files, and syntax highlighting is turned off by default for files >200MB.

@eglacias ,
As it’s now owned by Microsoft in part or whole, that’s a distinct possiblity.
I’m not enamored of laughingly called social media either, but that is NPP’s option. I got a Google account with my ‘smart phone’, that I really didn’t use a lot until recently, NPP forums being one of them, and would not ever use any of the other mentioned social media sites. I have a Github account now, only because of NPP, so I guess I have two options, but I’m not fully entrenched in Github at this point either. It’s just to accomplish a few things and learn about it, but again, because of NPP. So, use what doesn’t make you cringe, but those are your options as far as these forums are concerned.
I suspect, that because it’s too easy for people to make unaccountable multiple email addresses that they chose to use that medium for registration. There are several malcontent users that do nothing but try to disrupt forums and it makes it easier to find and block them… like in Hackers as a connection to Dade was found and closed “Thank you for playing”. :)

@Jay-Libove ,
In addition to what @Alan-Kilborn has mentioned, some of my own tests with Notepad++ setup with Google Drive as a cloud install, showed a drastic difference in updating file contents and the times that it gets transferred.

What I discovered, is that the local drive Google Drive is what had to be updated, not the network version of it, as until there was a connect between the desktop and the network Google Drive, no real updating occurred. Even with the connect being constant. My guess is that the desktop version didn’t make an update

Whether OneDrive and Google Drive operate the same way, eveyone that I know that has tried a ‘live’ use of One Drive in the dBASE networking scheme has abandoned it, as it’s not really real time. Updates are sporadic and network connections get dropped and mess things up. Using a “storage” network drive as a real time data server seems to be purposefully unreliable. Just food for thought, in addition that I would never trust my data being stored on anything I don’t have direct physical control of.

Had I not had to test out the cloud option of Notepad++, for those of our users that do use it, so I could test how to write an installer that copies files for our UDL to the cloud location of NPP, I would never have even tried this kind of use. I don’t trust my data to anyone else. At best, I use my Google Drive as a free FTP location to download the UDL installer from. :)

@Ku-Qiu said in Displaying an image as the background of a webpage:

I am wondering whether ‘document list’ is the wrong thing to do.

Yes, it is the wrong feature. Document List shows all the documents that are open in Notepad++. You don’t (normally) open image files in a text editor (because they aren’t text).

But if you want the warm fuzzies of seeing a directory listing in Notepad++ that shows Icon.jpg so you can be more confident that it’s there, you could use the File > Open Folder As Workspace… (“FaW”) on the current directory, and that will give you a directory listing. Or you could View > Project Panels > Project Panel #, and create a new project in the workspace , then add that folder to the project. (But really, I think FaW is your best bet.)

N++ User Manual: Folder as Workspace N++ User Manual: Project Panels

that NPP can display this image as the background without going to find this image with a specific path.

Notepad++ is a text editor. It doesn’t natively display images, and it does not natively render HTML for you. If you want to render HTML inside Notepad++, you can use the PreviewHTML plugin (available through Plugins > Plugins Admin). Or you could just use View > View Current File In > … and pick your favorite browser, which would then launch that browser with the saved version of the HTML page you are actively browsing.

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Ahh, your reply post shows that it appears that you are using PreviewHTML . You should have listed that among your assets.

But still I am not sure whether document list is the best way for my intention

Nope. (See above)

I used to use Matlab.

Using matrix math application for editing webpages? I’m confused.

And they have a navigation pane on the left where you can put all the files you need in the ‘current folder’ so that only files in that folder can be used/run.

Ah, maybe you were just talking about the UI concepts.

No, you cannot limit what files your webpage will see based on what’s in some list in Notepad++. The webpage (and the HTML renderer in whatever plugin you are using) are Notepad++ agnostic: they don’t know, and don’t care, about anything that Notepad++ is doing (and it especially wouldn’t once you used a real browser to view the page, and/or published it to a webserver).

But if you want to be able to see non-text filenames in a panel on the left, so that you can remember image filenames more easily, use the Folder As Workspace feature, not Document List.