This discussion has made me realize that I’m guilty of letting the “perfect” be the enemy of the “good” - so, to rectify that, here is my current, combined, unfinished (and likely “perpetually unfinished”) version of @Ekopalypse and @Alan-Kilborn’s keyboard programs. I realize that this program is way longer than it needs to be, both in terms of code and comments, but I took this on as a learning experience; if anyone is interested in suggesting further improvements, I’ll be glad to receive them.

@Terry-R ,

@guy038 and I are the primary FAQ maintainers, though there are a couple others who have permissions to edit the FAQ entries. If you message either of us when you notice something out-of-date in a FAQ, we’ll generally handle it promptly.

(For example, I just changed the links in that FAQ)

Though I don’t have time at this instant, I have also added a TODO to my list searching for other Boost links to see if there are more that should be changed. (I don’t think we have as many volatile Scintilla links, since Scintilla has one single source for documentation, and doesn’t link doc-per-version.)

@dail said in Why Does the app take so long to start?:

No it is not normal. It is possible it may be due to a certain plugin taking a while to load (or lots of plugins). Try starting it with plugins disabled to see if that helps.

Yes It is normal.

@Leomar-Costa The issue referenced by @xomx seems largely to affect people working in Portuguese, and furthermore, who have running:

TOPAZ OFD/Warsaw (a rootkit required by brazilian banks to allow you to log into your account using Windows)

so it’s worth your while to look at that discussion. If your situation is similar you’ll benefit from seeing how others worked around the problem.

and so thanks for your for your explanation !

All the best

@Michael-Vincent said in 8.4.9 fails to detect a latest update 8.5:

I thought that refund form was only for version 8.4.3?

The Notepad++ author should make it clearing that it is a continuing offer…

@ivan-bergamaschi ,
Let’s do this, this way. I went to the website I linked to showing what zpl code looks like, and I selected it and copied it to NPP from the website:
zpl_labelcodecopytoNPPfromwebpage.PNG

I then pasted it into Notepad++ like this here:
zpl_labelcodeinNPP.PNG

As you can see, all the line endings here, did not translate being copied into Notepad++. regardless, I then printed the page to a .pdf file here:
zpl_labelcodeprintedfromNPP2PDF.PNG

As you can see, NPP printed the “code” per NPP, not the commands and associated representations you expect to be printed. Also note, that printing into PDF from NPP, it added a return symbol at the end of the line that I did not enter, so apparently what you see is not what you get, depending on the printer used.

I suspect since it was a .pdf, there are defaults for that, and may have printed differently on a text only printer, and it would probably if it is able to send to your printer, add things that are not ‘standard’ for your printer to accept. After all, this is a text editor, not a lable printer, so it is going to do things according to how NPP interprets things. Your job will be to find out why and if possible, change what is necessary to make it come out the way you want on the printer you want it to come out on.

Unless someone here has similar experience using what you use, it would be incumbent on you to figure it out and maybe come back here with an answer that will help someone else in the future. Isn’t technology and freedom fun? :-)

Ah, OK, many thanks!

@guy038

Thanks to @guy038 for pointing out what I should have seen when referring to the option to copy selected Lines for pasting into another tab.

I went looking for when that was implemented and it appears to have been added way back in version 7.9 here, #12, if my search is correct, so for over 2 years.

It is always nice to see a feature when one least expects it. This app keeps on giving and giving.

Terry

@PeterJones Thanks for your help !

@Amit said in Document Map Highlighter shown on weird location for 4K Monitor:

Are there a post on this forum for Recommendations for those who are using Notepad++ on 4K monitors? It would be a nice edition to have some notes/workarounds to play it nice with 4K resolution.

There’s a search capability for this forum.
You also might check out actual ISSUES filed against the software.
Good luck.

Hi, @bidule, @alan-kilborn and All,

Well, I noticed that in my last v.7.9.2 version, compatible with Windows XP, my Encoding menu looks like this :

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As you notice, between this v7.9.2 screenshot and the v8.5 screenshot of @alan-kilborn, in his post, there differences in the names of the non UTF_8/ANSI encodings :

For 7.9.2 release :

UCS-2 BE BOM

UCS-2 LE BOM

Convert to UCS-2 BE BOM

Convert to UCS-2 LE BOM

For 8.5 release and versions from v8.0 :

UTF-16 BE BOM

UTF-16 LE BOM

Convert to UTF-16 BE BOM

Convert to UTF-16 LE BOM

The differences is that :

The encodings relative to UCS-2 can ONLY encode characters of the BMP Unicode plane, between \x{0000} and \x{FFFF}

The encodings relative to UTF-16 can encode ALL Unicode characters, between \x{0000} and \x{10FFFF}, as well as the UTF-8 encoding

So, since the v8.0 release, there is a significant improvement about writing the exact characters, when they have an Unicode code-point over \x{FFFF} !

However, note that, when you want to search any character over the BMP so > \x{FFFF}, you MUST use the equivalent surrogate regex syntax of this character !

For instance the 💦 character, with the Unicode code-point 1F4A6 cannot be searched with the regex \x{1F4A6} but can be reached with its equivalent regex syntax \x{D83D}\x{DCA6}. Of course, you may also directly paste this specific character in the search field !

Refer to any Internet site relative to characters to get the correspondance between the hexadecimal code-point of a character and its surrogate value, expressed in a two consecutive double-byte string

Best Regards,

guy038

@Bob-Selby

I suppose you could use multiple instances to somewhat achieve the goal.

You can use the -multiInst command line parameter, and/or there are some Preferences regarding this feature:

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@fap-lord

@fap-lord said in How do I make my Notepad++ similar to the default Notepad?:

i get that the features are useful for some people, but at least i would like to be opt out of them easily. is that too much to ask?

Yes, actually it is. Considering there are plenty more applications out there with similar names, you could have chosen any of them, but you most likely chose this one because it appears at the top of a search list as the most used/downloaded and highly rated FREE notepad replacement.

This link can take you to plenty others with the same kind of name, that aren’t of the same caliber as this one.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/note-taking-apps-for-windows-10

@cisco779k ,
You seem to have quite a vocabulary for a non-english speaker, so try using your intelligence for learning regex, rather than crying for help and using $20.00 word swipes at the volunteers, who I wouldn’t blame for letting your posts die from neglect from here on out. And yes, polemic fits this post just fine.

So let’s consider a “quick refresh” context menu choice for Search results. Fairly simple to add a menu item. User invokes menu item, what happens? Oh, software reruns the search? Well, how does it do that??

This would presume that whatever is right-clicked upon has some way of knowing what the search was. All it actually “knows” is what the search term was (because it can read that from the text in the window). It doesn’t know the state of the Match case checkbox at the time of the search, it doesn’t know the Search mode, it doesn’t know if the item came from a Find All in Current Document or a Find in Files, and if a Find in Files what was the Directory, the Filters, etc., etc. So a major code restructuring would have to take place in order for each search to be retained so that this stuff could be recalled when needed, i.e., when a quick-refresh is called for.

The Search results window is pretty much just a dumping ground for output. It doesn’t carry around a lot of extra data about the search that was conducted, for purposes of reconstructing that search later. Why? Because whomever wrote that code didn’t think it was necessary for it to do so. And, up until this point, it wasn’t needed.

@Ronny-Fritsch said in Tab font size shrank to tiny size - how to change it back?:

Display Settings -> advanced Display Settings -> advanced Settings for Text and other Elements -> User defined Skale Setting -> Change to 125%
after this, the Windows User logs out after logging in again the bug is fixed.
You can now change the Skaling back to normal

Thanks Ronny-Fritsch, This worked!!! Was trying since very long to fix this issue.

@Bob-Wright ,.

I first assumed that when you said,

the notepad++ method of “highlighting” or marking that appearance is basically useless.

you were just trying to be rude.

But then you said,

That functionality you see, the turning the demarcated characters both red, my installation does not display that functionality. Perhaps it is a failure of the “theme” I am using.

So now it looks like you changed a setting, and that then obfuscated a built-in feature, so you genuinely didn’t know that the feature you wanted existed and works out-of-the-box. It’s hard not to assume the worst when a rude / argumentative tone is taken from the start.

Which theme do you use, that it doesn’t show the matching braces? If that’s the default behavior of one of the bundled themes, I will see if we can get the developers to fix that. Without specific details of which theme and which version of Notepad++ you are using (?-menu, Debug Info for full version info), I won’t be able to dig into whether there is something wrong with a particular theme that ships with Notepad++ or not.

the work around CTRL-B

That’s not a workaround. That’s the Notepad++ feature that takes you between braces. And if your settings prevent you from seeing the highlighting, that’s not the fault of the Notepad++ development team – they assume that users won’t change colors in such a way as to make a highlight invisible unless that’s what they want.

If the delimiters were clearly demarcated

They are. Out of the box, with no settings changes, they are a bright red. I don’t know how much more clearly they could demarcate it.

Meanwhile if I have to RTFM to use what should be an intuitive or obvious feature

Anytime you don’t understand or cannot find any feature of a piece of software, the reasonable expectation is that you would read the manual. For Notepad++, I and others have spent dozens (hundreds by now?) of hours improving the manual over the last few years. When you or anyone else comes and says that they cannot be bothered to read the manual, it’s rather a slap in the face.

what should be an intuitive or obvious function

it is. It’s a bold red highlight on both the { and the } in default Notepad++ settings. If that’s not intuitive and obvious, I don’t know what is.

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@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.