looking at bkav’s HW32.Packed detection, it might indicate, that it is triggered by the nsis compressor setting
SetCompressor /SOLID lzma in nppSetup.nsi, as the result is an .exe with compressed resources.

just like .exe files, that are compressed with UPX.
they often (as in very, very, very often) produce heuristic virus alerts.

and now, with the missing code signing certificate, it might be possible, that the engines do not whitelist the notepad++ installer any more, if they have whitelisted it before.

Thank you, that discussion explains everything for me. Not easy topic.

@Vasile-Caraus

thank you for finding this and reporting back. 👍

this will be very helpful for the future, if others experience the same.
it also helps us as a reminder, to ask for the backup time setting, the next time we get a similar question.

@Marii-Whitaker ,

Welcome to the Community.

Sorry, I cannot understand what you are doing, or what’s going wrong, or what you’re asking.

Please read https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you , then come back and post here with more information.

thanks for your suggestion, @Florent-Pagès

but vim 8.x will take a very, very, very long time, if you try to open a 12gb (12288mb) file on any platform (mac, ubuntu and windows) as it will try to load the entire document first, and only stop when a certain memory limit is reached.
(8.1.1 will crash on occasions on huge files)

@Luca-L ,

Welcome back to the forum.

The syntax highlighting comes from the lexers in the Scintilla component used in Notepad++. To get this updated, you would have to

Look at the newest Scintilla release (v4.1.3 as of Mar 3, 2019), and see if that has already been fixed on the Scintilla side Use the Scintilla Bug Tracker or Scintilla Feature Request Tracker to ask for case-sensitivity in the lexer After it’s implemented and released in Scintilla, you would then have to use the Notepad++ issues tracker, per the instructions in this FAQ to request that Notepad++ incorporates those changes from Scintilla. Unfortunately, Notepad++ is still using Scintilla v3.56 from Jun 2015, so the chances of the Scintilla component being upgraded any time soon are … not very high. Sorry.

Alternates:

you might be able to ask first in the Notepad++ issues tracker if they could incorporate a bugfix into their older version of Scintilla, without doing a full Scintilla update. Still unlikely, I would think. You could compile you own Notepad++ with a newer Scintilla (either from the recent scintilla release, or applying your own bug fix to the XML Lexer). But maintaining your own compilation is not something for the faint of heart. (I’ve never done it, despite the advance usage I often have on Notepad++, because I have never setup the Visual Studio development environment)

@pcmanbob

thanks for your report, i’m glad you got it working on 7.6.3.

So I have no idea what the problem was I can only assume it was some leftover setting in the registry or in a folder that was messing things up.

yes, this is a possibility.
if it ever happens again, don’t hesitate to report it.

@Иннокентий-Гончаров

You will need to follow the advice at the following link to have any hope for your suggestion to be seen by someone that can/will/might implement it: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15741/faq-desk-feature-request-or-bug-report

@Alan-Kilborn

true, i might tend to repetitions, to make things as descriptive as possible, at as many places as possible, if possible ;-)

@John-Murrell

if you like, you can modify (customise) all your notepad++ menus, titles and texts, by editing the file: your_program_files_path\Notepad++\localization\english.xml.

(i know, it’s not really necessary anymore, now that you know how the search mode behaves, but i’d completely understand, if it gets stuck at the back of your eyes, being a daily reminder of your experience)

for the search/replace mode text, change:

<Item id="1624" name="Search mode"/>

to e.g.:

<Item id="1624" name="Search and Replace mode"/>

after saving english.xml, you need to head to settings > preferences > general and change your localization to any other language and back to english, in order to reload all english menus and texts.

note: a notepad++ restart does not suffice to reload english.xml, so you have to swap your language briefly.

welcome to the notepad++ community, @Werner-Vogelweide

unfortunately the DSpellCheck plugin still has some issues on files with very long lines without line breaks.

the only workarounds possible at the moment are these in this order (you can stop at any point, as soon as your issue is resolved):

go to plugins > plugins admin and update to DSpellCheck 1.4.9 if you are on a version below that.
then restart notepad++ and retry with the same documents.

go to plugins > DSpellCheck and disable spell check documents automatically
then restart notepad++ and retry with the same documents.

go to plugins > plugins admin and remove DSpellCheck completely as a last resort.

note: the DSpellCheck plugin will probably not be installed by default any more, when conducting a fresh install of the next version(s), according to the developer, due to the amount of issue reports. it will remain as an optional install at the plugins manager.

@Meta-Chuh
Thank you for the tip, I saw it before posting, it is not doing what I need it to do. My goal is to quickly change the position of one (or more) marked tab(s). Right now it is cumbersome, since on each step it slowly reloads all, and if you have hundreds open, it takes forever. There must be a better way…

@Jonni-Dillon

Should notepad++ not be responding with a message other than “Please check if the file is open in another program” though?

yes, and it will, if you go to settings > preferences > default directory and activate use new style dialog as seen at the screenshot below:

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after you have selected use new style dialog and restarted notepad++, it will behave the following way:

if you try to “save as” or “rename” a file, that already has a | in it’s file name, it will not permit it and not even present you with a save as or rename dialogue. if you try to “save as” or “rename” any file that does not have a | in it’s filename yet, by adding a | to it’s current file name, it will correctly tell you “the file name is not valid” in an alert window.

note: the use new style dialog is the prefered open/save dialogue setting if you are using a mac/linux/windows mixed environment, like i do.

@PeterJones said:

Like @Terry-R says, he does enable periodic backup

I actually do separate backups on critical files. So whenever the ‘floppy disk’ icon lights up in the top menu I will save (shortly thereafter) any critical file. I also have the 2 options ticked so that for ALL other files (generally scratch or test files) I leave it up to NPP to handle the edits (backups) for me.

You are right about crashes, we have seen a lot of postings in this forum where the poster left it ENTIRELY to NPP to handle backups, only to find at some critical moment it failed them. Not necessarily NPP’s fault, it can be attributed to lots of sources, many external to NPP.

And the statement about not trusting critical data integrity to any one software is a good idea. When it’s critical one needs to take care of business themselves, rather than leave it to automated systems. 99.9% of the time it’s all good, however ‘Murphy’s Law’ states when you don’t want it to happen it will!

Terry

@murathp

This does not address your issue, but a suggestion for you might be to give the Navigate To plugin a try. Again, not to do with the potential problem you raised, but maybe an alternative to your workflow to consider.

@Michelle-Jensen ,

Welcome to the forum.

The default viewer/editor is a windows feature: if you click the WINDOWS start button, then type Default app, you can select “choose a default app for each type of file”, and fix the association for HTML and CSS filetypes.

To see how the local HTML renders in your browser while editing in Notepad++, you can see my first post in the “latest Version: Browser Export” thread for how to edit shortcuts.xml. This will bring back the Run menu entries for Launch in Firefox, Launch in Chrome, etc.

Yes, that did it, many thanks