@abdulbadii OR…you can just create your own forum for discussion of your fork, and don’t muddy the waters here! Thanks. :-)

Ok, I figured it out… Turns out that the langs.xml file in my profile folder was seriously outdated. Many languages (among them Java) were missing, and once I’ve updated it with a new version I am now getting proper highlighting of Java.

@dinkumoil said in Uh oh, virus commentary pending?: see my comment at the issue tracker entry. Yes, it’s why I titled this thread with “Uh oh” :-)

This PS, saved as startup.py (user NOT machine and PS configuration changed from LAZY to ATSTARTUP) should do the trick [image: 1587224222184-e6fb0b18-db39-4bab-a14c-ebdea5b99411-image.png] from Npp import notepad, MENUCOMMAND if '-tailmode' in notepad.getCommandLine(): notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.VIEW_MONITORING) and npp like this notepad++.exe -multiInst -nosession "FULL_PATH_OF_THE_FILE" -z -tailmode

Hi, @craksoft, and All, You said : So this long thing (?-s)(?<=\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d)\h+.{8} is 6 number ? I don’t know what you means, exactly !? The regex expression (?-s)(?<=\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d)\h+.{8} deletes blanks characters and the next 8 characters, when preceded by a date, with the YYYY-MM-DD format. No more, no less :-) BR guy038

@Jack-Adrian-Zappa said in Notepad++ losing unsaved documents: but that means that some update turned it off, Maybe “some update” was pretty smart, protecting you from features currently in question. :-) I would think that should be a priority to fix. There’s been some attempts.

@Hadi-Jam if you want it to be always on top then start npp with the command line paramter -alwaysOnTop.

@Michael-Vincent said in Need the ability to have fixed-width line number column: (Scintilla multiedge) You mentioned “multiedge” briefly above; I agree that this could definitely help the OP. And, it appears a native multiedge capability is coming soon to Notepad++ ! See https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/8107 and : [image: 1586774152209-f8d30148-91ff-48c1-a887-3c9de23250d5-image.png]

Hi @guy038 Thank you, your’s is good advise, as well as @Alan-Kilborn’s. As I told him, I only took into consideration the Windows case, ignoring other platforms. Will try to not forget it. Best Regards

@chilkoot Great! It is good to hear that it worked for you. Best Regards.

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The discussion is continued HERE.

@khk-khk I’m not sure why you are opening a separate new thread each time you are replying, but OK, it is good that things are making sense on your end! :-)

@dail Yes, that makes sense. As I said in my earlier post, the picture looks fine… but not nice.

Hello, Hi, @tư-mã-tần-quảng and All, I forgot to explain my regex S/R : SEARCH (?s-i)(\h+<name>.+?)(\h+<id>.+?\R) REPLACE \2\1 So : First, the part (?s-i) has already been explained by @alan-kilborn ! Then, the part \h+<name> searches for some horizontal blank characters, followed with the string <name>, with this exact case Now, the part .+?, due to the s modifier, looks for the shortest non-null range of any char, even EOL ones, till … some blank chars, again, followed with the string <id>, with this exact case The two parts above are stored as group 1 because of the surrounding parentheses. Note that it, necessarily, ends with EOL chars, as followed with the <id> line ! Then the part \h+<id> matches any horizontal blank chars, followed with the string <id>, with this exact case Finally, the part .+?\R matches the shortest non-null range of any char till… the next EOL chars, so ending the <id> line Again, the two parts above are stored as group 2 because of the surrounding parentheses. Note that the \R syntax stands for any kind of line-break ( \r\n for Windows files, \n for Unix files and \r for Mac files ) In replacement, the \2\1 rewrites, in reverse order, the single-line group 2 ( line <id> ) and the multi-lines group 1 Best Regards, guy038

@khk-khk Thanx to all - I’ll try

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to opt out of OAuth App but continue to have access to the NPP forum?: Just a bit more, here… Thanks for the clarification: that was probably wise to add the extra information.

@guy038 in case of overlapping matches Well, I meant non-overlapping matches of course. Often while marking data it is simpler to come up with 3 or 4 successive marking operations on different data in order to capture everything you want; coming up with one regex, while perhaps an interesting exercise, would likely be distracting from your at-hand task.

Suddenly the light bulb went off… Click Plugins > Compare > Settings and then experiment with the colors to find a background color you like for mismatched lines.

Fixed in the following commit: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/a09c0a17dbdb4bb9a414a4a6fedf761987a80032 Thank you for your help!