@Roman_Kridd ,

can you add feature

No, we are fellow users. We can discuss new features, and the pros and cons, but we cannot make code changes or track official feature requests in this Community of Notepad++ users. (See our FAQ.)

add more groups in syntax keywords? (Unlimited groups)

That’s not likely to happen.

Notepad++ gets the number of keyword groups from each language from the library called “Lexilla”. Every lexer in Lexilla would have to be modified to accept and understand the extra keyword groups. The Lexilla group does not have the manpower (or desire) to give “unlimited” or even “a bunch of extra” groups to any given lexer. Considering there are dozens of independent lexers in Lexilla, they are not going to want to have to make the edit to all of them to support even “a bunch of extra groups”, let alone "unlimited’, for all the lexers. (If you wanted that feature, you’d have to ask Lexilla for it, they’d have to agree, then Notepad++ would have to incorporate the newer Lexilla and provide an interface for more than 8 sets of keywords on its end. I wouldn’t even bother with the request to Lexilla, if I were you. And either way, don’t bother with a Notepad++ feature request until Lexilla gives you that miracle, because there’s nothing Notepad++ can do to force Lexilla’s hand.)

Sorry.

Fortunately for you, @Ekopalypse has released an EnhanceAnyLexer plugin, which you can install from the Plugins Admin. This plugin allows you to make regex-based highlights in a file that has an active lexer. So you could make a bunch of regex like (word1|word2|word3) for your extra group#1, (more4|more5|more6) for your extra group#2, and so on; each group would have keywords separated by the | character, all wrapped inside parentheses (). You can define a different foreground color for each of those regex, and you can have a separate set of regex for each lexer language.

@CILLIER-Christophe

Probably what you want can be achieved if you invest in setting up and using the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin.

@PeterJones

Of course, my statement was a generalization – it is what usually happens.
Another big contradiction was when “change history” was introduced – it was defaulted to on.
Typically, though, if a new alternative to an old behavior is introduced (disk icons to alternate icons is a perfect example), the old behavior is favored (defaulted) over the new.

@PeterJones Thanks for the explanation. I have been running as admin by default and never thought about the restrictions of doing that so I’ve turned that off for now. I bet I’ll forget that’s what I’ve done the next time I install a plugin and it doesn’t work 😆

The problem is that the font is smoothed in both cases with checked/unchecked option “Enable smooth font”.
Only smoothing method is changed. So you can see little difference when zoomed.

You should get sharp and aliased fonts when this option is disabled.
Smoothing won’t go away. Thats the bug.

@PiotrMP006
Uncheck “DirectWrite” option in settings (MISC.) to fix it.
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@ThosRTanner ,

however you posted that should work.

People with 0 reputation (ie, new users) can create a New Topic with no problem, as @bulrush15 already found out. (And after making this dummy post, they successfully asked their question(s))

I think the reputation may make it tricky for you to answer though

There is no trick involved. You have misunderstood the system, and have apparently not paid attention to developments in the Forum. First, because you didn’t see that @bulrush15 had earned 3 upvotes for this Topic hours ago, long before your reply, so it was no longer an issue, whatever the current state of the Forum. And second, because people with 0 reputation can reply on the Forum with no difficulty. (The oddity that was around for the first couple months of the 0-rep-no-linking rule has been fixed for months now.)

To clarify: 0-reputation prevents a user from posting links to outside sources. But they may create new Topics and they may reply to any existing (unlocked) Topic. They may even quote their reply, as long as the text they are quoting does not contain a link to an external site. (Internal links, such as the “in-reply-to” link and the @-mention, have worked since we updated the NodeBB, months ago.)

@Sylvester-Bullitt Thanks, but I already had the double-click speed cranked up to the max.

However, with the help of your comments (and those from other posterss), I think I finally discovered the root cause.

The various replies got me to wondering if the problem was outside Notepad++. I originally assumed NPP was at fault, since that was the only place I saw the symptom. But then I realized NPP was the only app where I insert characters inside text many times a day (because NPP is my only tool that lets me see the soft hyphen characters). This reminds me a little of the old adage “When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

To make a long story short, I started Googling again, and stumbled across a post on another forum that hinted the problem might be hardware related. Specifically, it suggested that dirt, dust & other gunk accumulating inside the mouse might be interfering with its moving parts, causing the false double-click messages.

My mouse is corded (i.e., no way to open it, since it has no battery), but even a cursory exam of the outside showed a lot of junk filling up the outside seams, especially at the bottom of the two click buttons.

So I took needle and scraped out all the grime and crud I could see in the outside seams & re-tried the insertion point clicks. To my amazement, 99% of the problem went away! I speculate the 1% outliers are due to residual dust & dirt deep inside the mouse that I couldn’t see to remove.

So I’m going to declare victory on this issue! Thanks to all who took the time to reply. If nothing else, we came up with something that may help future troubleshooters.

@mischlrebl ,

Using a workspace structure

If by “workspace structure” you mean you have defined a Workspace in an active Project Panel, then you can use the Project Panel > RightClick > Find in Projects… action (equivalent to using Ctrl+F to bring up the Find dialog, and changing to the Find in Projects tab). Then search for FIND WHAT = \A(?s:.) to find the first character in a file, and set any FILTERS as necessary to only find the right kinds of files. It would then search in all the files in whichever Project Panel checkbox(es) are checkmarked.

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Other than that, just searching the workspace.xml is a reasonable workaround.

…a bit late to the party but if s/o stumbles over this thread:

The NP++ plugin LineHighlighter does the job very well, Virustotal showed 0/71 pos. virus/malware tests for the plugin.

@Diddylucs said in Increase a number:

Hello i cant use any programming languages. Is there a simple way to increase this sample of numbers by one e.g the 304 to be 305 in the first row and so on up to the 313 would be 314.
Thanks
<Ord name=“$304” value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$305" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$306" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$307" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$308" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$309" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$310" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$311" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$312" value=“station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/
<Ord name=”$313" value="station:|slot:/Drivers/NiagaraNetwork/

If they are all in sequence and all the same number of digits, as in your example, make a rectangular selection around the numbers (left-click to the left of the first number, then Alt+Shift+left-click to the right of the last number) , then choose Edit|Column Editor… from the main menu; select Number to Insert, fill in the options and click OK.

@Coises said in How to set Notepad++ to display all opened files as NORMAL TEXT without coloring?:

Just check the Enable global

It may be the best suggestion yet, owing to its simplicity.
Only the OP knows for sure what they want; if they don’t return to comment, we won’t know.

@Alan-Kilborn
Thank You …

@Scott-Badger ,

The Notepad++ developer doesn’t actually implement any builtin languages himself: he uses a library called “Lexilla” for doing the syntax highlighting. As a result, if you wanted that added natively into Notepad++, you would have to go make an official feature request at the Lexilla Project “Issues” page, then wait for them to decide whether to implement it or not (doubtful; from what I remember, their response to requests for a new language is usually “we’ll include it if someone will write it and create a PR for us”, unless it’s just a slight variant of an existing language); after Lexilla creates or merges the new language lexer, then you have to wait for Notepad++ to update its Lexilla copy (nowadays, it tends to do that any time the developer has noticed a new Scintilla/Lexilla release)

In general, the expectation is that for languages that aren’t in the list of 80+ languages included with Notepad++, the first line of defense is for the user to create a User Defined Language (“UDL”), with first checking the User Defined Language Collection and its list of contributed UDL definitions to see if someone else already has created it and made it public – I do see “DAX” with a description that confirms it’s Power BI, so at least that one already exists for you. You can follow the instructions in the Collection for how to install a UDL from the Collection.

@Ray-Hamel,

See this note from the author and these historical discussions: forum search for “mac” in title

@Dianta-Daniswara-Putra said in help me notepadd++ error:

Why is it that every time I run Java this error code always appears even though the compile time is perfect and there are no errors?

If you manually open a windows command prompt (cmd.exe or powershell.exe window), and change to the d: drive and cd d:\stuktur then run java struktur what happens? If you get the same error, then that’s your problem; if you get something different, then your environment variables or something else is different between the windows command prompt. You need to make sure that you have all the same settings in the NppExec script that you do to get the windows command line working.

@MarkusBodensee said in Can i always show active tab when editing autoscrolling tab bar if needed:

Maybe it is worth to file a bug report on Github, since I am not the only one observing this.

Since this is a real, it would definitely make sense to report it at GitHub, as described in our FAQ, otherwise the developer will never be made aware that people are seeing this.

@guy038 said in Emulation of the "View > Summary" feature with a Python script:

did you receive my e-mail to you, on March, 21, with an attached zip archive to possibly reproduce the problem ?

Hi Guy. Yes, I did receive it but haven’t had time to work with it. Because of your prompting, however, I just did finish evaluating it.

I believe that what is happening in the buggy case is that THIS PS bug is manifesting (side note: it’s a bug that I reported). When the caret is at the first location in the file (aka position 0) – which is one of your test cases – then the bug kicks in.

The bug has been fixed, but I don’t believe there has been a release of PS2 after the fixing, so only PS3 contains the fix (which is why I – running PS3 – did not see a problem with your script code that did not include the bytes_count check against 0).

I hope this clears it up.

@Alan-Kilborn cool man!

Thanks for the feedback! Can’t wait to update to 8.6.5 then!

You have a good one!