This issue has been fixed:
I did the following. As I use a inline style sheet I created a “css color.css” file in Notepad++. Just a blank page that I can do the following:

I can now paste my HTMLPad 2025 css code into Notepad++ with the colors I changed under Settings> Style Configurator.

I also created a “html-colors.html” blank file and I can copy the html code with colors that Notepad++ provides that has been updated in the Style Configurator.

Next I highlight the text then go to “Plugins” on the toolbar then “NppExport” then “Copy all formats to clipboard”.

I can now paste in the html/css code into Word with the colors I want.

I still cannot create a style in Word 2024 with colors as I suspect it would be too complicated for Word to figure what parts the different text it should color.

@Magic-Mugs ,

Assuming all your open files are real files, and all in the exact same folders on old and new machine, then just copy over %AppData%\Notepad++\session.xml

If some of your files are the unsaved new # tabs, you will also need to copy over everything in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\

But if you want all the same settings from your old to your new, just copy over everything from %AppData%\Notepad++\

Thank you! Problem solved.

@David-Brown i came here to let you know that my receipt had what appears to be his email address on it (which i’ve blocked out here for privacy):

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seems legit to me, but i can’t know for sure. :)

@PeterJones

Hello,

Here is a demonstration of what altsnap does

You can press the ALT key, or the “hot click” which on my mouse is mouse button #5.

And this allows moving and resizing a window from anywhere.

https://youtu.be/Wzt7hSyGGmc

It is very ergonomic as you don’t have to position the cursor on the thin window edges.

I think this is quite rare and cutting edge practice, most people I think just maximize their window and use one application at a time.

But I have a very large desktop of 4x 40 inch 4K monitors and I needed more efficient way to move the windows around.

As for the scrolling, there are two “middle-click” based scrolling methods I know about. There’s the autoscroll round thing which I don’t really like, it’s like using a thumbstick. It’s good if you want to let it scoll at a constant speed like the text scroll at the beginning of star wars but it is otherwise clumsy and slow to use, not “dextrous”.

I prefer the “scroll anywhere” method which is similar to like you would scroll a touch tablet interface.

I demonstrate both of these modes here

https://youtube.com/shorts/yHuWI4f1rOg

So, what I am asking is like scroll anywhere but in a left-right direction to move the center divider around.

@Maxitrol-Mat said in 4k resolution:

While some things look good, some other things look microscopic.

One thing that may help: In Preferences > Toolbar, try choosing a “large” UI option.

@ViniwDOrazio

Yes, when working with multi-line matches enclosed by the same pre- and suffix, you should try to match something unique before the prefix.
If the number of lines is fixed, you could also adjust the offset configuration parameter accordingly.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Simple and light is often the opposite of universal.

This is often the case, but not always.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

If you solution is “universal enough” for you, fine;

Of course, when there is no ideal option, you have to choose the one that is most suitable for the situation.

@Alan-Kilborn said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Good luck achieving all of those all of the time.
Or do you have a “pick any 2” or “pick any 3” type rule? ;-)

Thanks. It happens to everyone at some point ;)
But it must be universal and fast, even if it means making the code complex.

@PeterJones Thanks so much for the quick reply. Installing the release candidate fixed the issue for me. Much appreciated!

@El-Greco-0 ,

The Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab is the “Document Switcher” feature. By default, Settings > Preferences > Misc > Document Switcher has ☑ Enable MRU behavior checkmarked, which turns on Most Recently Used (MRU) order for the Ctrl+Tab order. If that is unchecked, then the Ctrl+Tab order is determined by the order of the tabs in the view, so if you turn off that option and use Window > Sort By > Name A to Z, then Ctrl+Tab will follow alphabetical order.

The reason why Ctrl+Tab defaults to MRU, is because it is often (maybe even mostly) used as the quick/simple “swap between this tab and the last tab I used”, rather than cycling through the entire list. Also, there is a separate set of keystrokes, Ctrl+PageDown for next-tab and Ctrl+PageUp for previous-tab, which already follows the order of tabs in the view (so also affected by the Window > Sort By > … sorting), so it’s already easy to navigate between tabs in the view order by another similar means – so again, it makes sense to default the Document Switcher Ctrl+Tab to use Most Recently Used behavior…

@PeterJones said in HOW Do You Add Keyboard Shortcuts:

Actually, anything in the Scintilla Commands tab of the Shortcut Mapper can have 0 or more shortcuts assigned. It’s not limited to only 2. And it’s not limited to only Copy/Cut/Paste. This is described in the user manual’s Preferences > Shorcut Mapper, specifically in the paragraph that starts with “In the Scintilla commands tab, you can actually assign more than one shortcut to a given Scintilla command”

This might be confusing to @Michael-Neumann, because Cut, Copy and Paste are no longer Scintilla shortcuts; they moved to the Main menu tab, Edit category, as part of the changes that enhanced multiple selections and implemented VS Code-style line cut/copy/paste.

Since the two sets of shortcuts, with X/C/V and with Insert/Delete, are so familiar and either would have been missed, special allowance was made to let those menu items have two distinct shortcuts. No other commands work that way.

Hello

Thank you for the responses !

@Ekopalypse

I have tried this method

After installing PythonScript, it was unclear where I could add the script

open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py

I tried
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ (no)
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins (no)
C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts (maybe)

It still wouldn’t appear, until restart (this should, auto refresh I believe, when you open configuration at least ?)

It appeared in the menu

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But not in the configuration page

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Click on Plugins->Python Script-> Scripts -> open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py
Did open cmd.exe in the right location

Ah ok, from clicking the “new” script button

The path is
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts
The folder was not created during installation apparently !

Now it does appear !

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And yes this works !

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Thanks !

@PeterJones

Thanks for this suggestion

I gave this a try as well

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Then I edited

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\CustomizeToolbar.btn

I pasted your suggested command
changed the file to a screenshot of the cmd.exe icon I took
I also added you suggested extra space fix

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png View,Show Symbol,Show All Characters,,Icons\allChars.bmp,Icons\allChars_off.ico,Icons\allChars_off_dark.ico

This did not work yet

I used webservice
https://www.icoconverter.com/
To create a .ico file
with these settings
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and I downloaded the 3 files from the github issues

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/standard/toolbar/allChars.bmp
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/light/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/dark/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico

And I placed them in folder

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\Icons

Restarted notepad++

The icon appears and works but the icon is wrong

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I tried these settings

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Also does not work

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also no

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also no ???

Oh wait

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

should have been

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico

Icon has disappeared !

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ok, instead move the file to C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config
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change it back to

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart npp

icon is back, but still question mark

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Maybe the file is not 16x16 256 colours ?

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Looks like it is as specified

Maybe something is wrong with the file …

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I’m not good enough to mentally decode this, looks normal

Hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)

0x02 idType is 1 , which is ICO good
0x04 idCount is 1, just 1 image
0x06 ICONDIRENTRY struct

bWidth is 10 , which is width 16
bHeight is 10, which is width 16
bColorCount 0. does not use a pallette
wPlanes is 1, has color plane , whatever that is, 0 is black and white ?
wBitCount, it is 8 bit per pixel
dwBytesInRes, 1384 bytes ?? idk

…
onion.bmp,onion.ico,onion.ico

ah wait you have BMP in there ??

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File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.bmp,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart

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woohoo !

Wow, I was about ready to give up there !

Thanks both of you, I will go with the CustomizeToolbar plugin as it give me that distinctive icon !

@Justin-Goodell said in Undo/Redo (CTRL+Z/CTRL+Y) behaves unexpectedly after a few hours (NppFTP, NPP 64-bit, Win11):

use the “alt” key to highlight a chuck of text on multiple lines, then delete that section

Yep, there was that “alt” column mode +DEL undo regression (from N++ v8.8.9), some details & STR in the fix-PR:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/17307

The fix is in the already released v8.9 but due to some other problems in that version, it hasn’t been triggered for a N++ autoupdate (so if you wanna use it, you have to dl & run the v8.9 installer yourself).

@PeterKee
Do you also use N++ macros?

Currently I’ve identified another such (this time a longstanding) bug in the N++ codebase (PR fix is still in progress, it’ll be hopefully in the next version, for a STR look here).

I’m guessing that GUP.exe and/or nppPluginList.dll somehow wasn’t updated before.