Thankyou for trying to solve this.

As sugested, I have just now downloaded the notepad++ Zip package to my desktop system, extracted the files to a folder on the desktop and run the .exe and I get the same problem that I reported before. I have done that with both the 64bit and 32bit versions of notepad++, both show the same incorrect behaviour. I then checked notepad++ running on an Asus laptop computer, also with Windows 10, and the problem does not appear on that machine. So I guess the problem only occurs with some Windows 10 systems.

With the desktop machine, I find that the problem does not occur if instead of clicking on Cut, Copy and Paste with the mouse I use the keyboard combinations ‘Ctl X’, ‘Ctl C’, ‘Ctl V’ so for me the answer for the time being at least is to use those keyboard combinations instead of the mouse.

I dont know of anything unusual about my desktop computer which is working fine for all my other software. It does have two 2560x1600 pixel monitors connected to a single graphics card, but that has not been a problem with other software. I dont know if it helps but this is the system information summary, including for the display:

System Information report written at: 12/21/19 15:38:12
System Name: DESKTOP-UGQ9O4I
[System Summary]

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DESKTOP-UGQ9O4I
System Manufacturer ASUS
System Model All Series
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU All
Processor Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 4001 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 2902, 31/03/2016
SMBIOS Version 2.8
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Product Z97-K
BaseBoard Version Rev X.0x
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = “10.0.18362.387”
Username DESKTOP-UGQ9O4I\John_local
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 9.66 GB
Total Virtual Memory 18.3 GB
Available Virtual Memory 10.4 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection Off
Virtualisation-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption: TPM is not usable, PCR7 binding is not supported, Hardware Security Test Interface failed and the device is not Modern Standby, Un-allowed DMA-capable bus/device(s) detected, TPM is not usable
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualisation Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

[Display]

Item Value
Name NVIDIA Quadro K2200
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_13BA&SUBSYS_109710DE&REV_A2\4&3834D97&0&0008
Adapter Type Quadro K2200, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA Quadro K2200
Adapter RAM (1,048,576) bytes
Installed Drivers C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_ref_pubwu.inf_amd64_b7e5dd1387001335\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_ref_pubwu.inf_amd64_b7e5dd1387001335\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_ref_pubwu.inf_amd64_b7e5dd1387001335\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_ref_pubwu.inf_amd64_b7e5dd1387001335\nvldumdx.dll
Driver Version 23.21.13.8816
INF File oem23.inf (Section102 section)
Colour Planes Not Available
Colour Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 2560 x 1600 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xF6000000-0xF70FFFFF
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xFEAFFFFF
Memory Address 0xF0000000-0xF1FFFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000E000-0x0000EFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967291
Driver C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERSTORE\FILEREPOSITORY\NV_REF_PUBWU.INF_AMD64_B7E5DD1387001335\NVLDDMKM.SYS (23.21.13.8816, 16.15 MB (16,936,560 bytes), 09/11/2017 09:53)

Ok, got it, I was editing the “contextMenu.xml” in the “C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++” folder.
I have now edited the one in “C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++” and it’s working as expected. :)

Thanks for reading nonetheless. ;)

@Jack-Shankle ,

The title of the page that Alan sent you to was “Request for Help without sufficient information to help you”; he didn’t send you there just so you could see the ```z-trick (which you implemented wrong, because you used a single-quote ’ rather than a backtick `).

The reason he sent you there is because you have asked us for help, but not told us anything that will be useful in helping us-and-you to debug your problem. Until you give us something to go on, there is nothing for us to say, excepting, “I have tried to rename a file in Notepad++ 7.8.2 64-bit, and it has worked every time for me.” (Which, for me, is a true statement.)

Unless you can describe your circumstances in enough detail that we can replicate your problem, there is nothing we can do to help you. What exactly did you do to try to rename the file? where is the file located? does that file require admin privileges, are you running notepad++ with admin privileges? All of these are questions that were asked in the FAQ; after reading that FAQ, we were hoping you would come back and give us some responses to those questions (including the full ? > Debug Info, not just the manually-summarized version info that you included).

If you want help, give us details.

Where can I see how many pages will print if I print the document?

In the paper tray.

Sorry, that sounds like a snarky answer, but in Notepad++, it’s the technically-correct answer. Because of line-wrapping, WYSIWYG-printing-vs-not, etc, there isn’t just a simple formula that Notepad++ can use to determine how many actual pages will end up being printed, so it doesn’t even try.

If you have a print-to-PDF printer defined in Windows (Microsoft often installs one with MS Office; or there are freeware alternatives, like PDFCreator provides), you can print to PDF first, which will then tell you the number of pages (and then you can either print again from Notepad++, but this time to paper; or you can print from your PDF viewer instead).

These two already-existing issues are related to your request. If one or both of them are ever implemented, you would get the info you want “for free”. Unfortunately, with how old they are, the chances are they won’t be implemented.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4236 https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/3610

@Joël-Sabourin-Poirier

I do not want to permanently highlight them

I think @Ekopalypse 's suggested method is actually better than Smart Highlighting for this purpose. And…it isn’t really permanent, you can clear it later.

Plus you can make it really fast to implement and clear by using keyboard combinations rather than mousing through the menus.

And the killer feature part: Even if Smart Highlighting did what you wanted, you couldn’t quickly navigate to far apart versions of the duplicate text sections, you’d have to visually look for them. With Eko’s method, and he pointed this out, you can quickly jump to the next occurrence, even if very far away from the original.

I’m not a developer on Notepad++, but I really don’t see Smart Highlighting being changed to cross line-boundaries.

Hi, All,

I’ve just banned that account, permanently

BR

guy038

Are there moderators on this project?
Such users must be banned for life!

Probably not extending that prompt. But how about:

Say no to the prompt - I don’t want to lose my changes Plugins => Compare => Diff since last Save Make edits / merges directly in Notepad++ Bob’s your uncle.

Cheers.

@Сергей-Друзь said in Not organized file structure in a folder! 📂:

Why isn’t there a folder 📁 for each plugin

Because the plugin authors chose not to use their own folder. Plenty of plugins (like PythonScript, NppFTP, and PreviewHTML) do use subfolders of the %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\config folder; but there are also others (NppExec, MarkdownViewer++) that don’t.

You would have to request an update from every individual plugin that doesn’t use its own sub-folder to get that to change. Good luck with that.

This may be gaining some traction; see recent activity here.

@Eduard-castany said in Send File i-Mail:

to do an action in a Files Menu

In the Files menu? No.

However, you can add something to the Run menu. If i-mail is some application found at c:\path\to\i-mail.exe, and you could send a file to i-mail by running c:\path\to\i-mail.exe --attach "d:\path\to\file", then

Close all instances of Notepad++ and start one instance

File > Open %AppData%\shortcuts.xml

In the <UserDefinedCommands> section, add

<Command name="send via i-mail" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">"c:\path\to\i-mail.exe" --attach "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"</Command>

Save and close shortcuts.xml

Exit Notepad++ and reload

Run > send via i-mail should now work

Of course, if it’s a different path, or need more or less arguments, you need to customize that example. Basically, you need to know the full command-line command to attach a file to i-mail, then you put that as the ___ in the <Command ...>___</Command>, using $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) it the place of the filename; and if there’s a possibility of spaces in the path, put quotes around it.

More documentation on <UserCommands> in the usermanual’s Config FIles doc

@PeterJones Thank you for letting me know. As I mentioned, this was so others searching for the topic would know that an update was available already.

@PeterJones [Forenote: Sorry for the late reply. This will be my usual habit here, though, because I had many things to do in some other places - Well, those sorts of things. Also, I had some problem with composing this reply, kinda…]

[1] Least likely to be updated? Hmm, that is sad, but for some reasons, I can’t really complain about it.
⠀⠀⠀For the open issues and or request not getting traction, yeah, that does sound very unfortunate… Although, I am a bit curious on why. I would like to know if there’s a problem or something regarding UDL development, but this isn’t necessary for me to know, so I could pass on this one.

[2] Hoh~? I’m not stuck?

[3] Hmm, this is really interesting. Definitely gunna check those out. Thank you.

[4] Write a new lexer, hum, definitely not doing it anytime “soon”… Beg or bribe to write a new lexer doesn’t sound fun… Contract or hire might be overboard for my project(?)… Requesting code changes sounds reasonable, but I’m not sure on wha- wait… Maybe I need to request the change/extra option of separators from the puny spaces to something else and the inclusion of whitespaces identifier (Since whitespaces are ignored) on a specific section. Yeah… That might work…
⠀⠀⠀Thinking about it, the change shouldn’t be to remove space as a separator or anything altogether but to add an extra option on or for all sections. A checkbox that allows an advanced user to use the advanced feature, such as this or something else - heck, regex would be super great. And then- erm… Nah.
⠀⠀⠀Realistically, that wouldn’t happen. So eh, let’s just cut it there for now. I am a bit tired for it.

⠀⠀⠀Anyhow, great reply. +1
⠀
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@DeLiXx said in Remove "yes, for all", "no, for all" when not needed:

A good strategy would be to showcase the new feature with the greyed out buttons in a single major version as it’s being done now and hide it as suggested for all following releases.

I respectfully disagree that that is a good strategy.

Works for me.

Thanks,

John

@Alan-Kilborn said in [Feature Request] Undo for Auto-Insert: tags and parentheses:

Is this any textual change? Or is it truly any change?

In the context of any change Notepad++ did that the user did not specifically do themselves. I wont say this is a hard rule though.

@PeterJones Thank you very much, I will try tomorrow

@Qasim-Ijaz

as you reference 7.4 I assume you are using this version as well,
so the obvious question would be why you don’t update to a newer
version which has fixed this?

@GowaP

You can use my AutoCodepage plugin for that purpose, available via Plugins Admin.

Interesting, thanks for the investigastion. From my experience it feels like something with getting the focus back to the file. as if “Ctrl+R” is leading to have the focus on the current file lost, after the reload it is regained. When the focus is regained, the check for modification kicks in and if the file was modified in the mean time, it asks if the file should be reloaded. If the focus is lost, maybe it is possible to reload with Ctrl+R without having the focus lost?

Reading your posting reminded me on the first posting in this thread and the sidenote: since “Monitoring tail -f” doesn’t work as I expect it.

The “eye-button” also known as since “Monitoring tail -f” would solve this issue, if it worked as I’d expect it. I experience the same as here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4955