welcome to the notepad++ community, @Samuel-Rowe

only the new style file dialogue accepts . and .. at the path input area.

please go to settings > preferences > default directory and enable use new style dialog as seen at the screenshot below.

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Looking at the Scintilla documentation, there’s SCI_MULTIPLESELECTADDNEXT, which says “If the current selection is empty then select word around caret”. Unfortunately, that’s not in the Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Scintilla Commands list. Looking at the Scintilla History, that command was added in Scintilla 3.5.7, but Notepad++ uses Scintilla 3.5.6: if Don had done one more update, that command could have been in the Shortcut Mapper. Sigh.

But @guy038’s macro-suggestion should be workable for you.

@Alan-Kilborn

Thanks for the preceding helping effort.

@Tolken-Sak

See here - if this is intended to be a feature request.

@UpThe-Creek

afaik every change is automatically registered and saved when npp stops.

What do you mean?

@xuzo said:

Let’s say I have this text:

a
b
c

Now to select the whole thing, I need to drag the mouse all the way to to the top, is there a shortcut to do that?

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@Andrey-Ws

TextFX can format empty spaces ?

the best thing is, if you test everything yourself, by downloading the portable notepad++ 7.6.4. 32 bit from here:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.6.4/npp.7.6.4.bin.zip
(the portable version will work completely isolated from your installed version and is perfect for any testing. any settings or plugin installation you do at the portable version, will not modify anything at your installed version. that’s why many of us use this version for testing)

extract npp.7.6.4.bin.zip to your desktop.
start it by double clicking on notepad++.exe inside the npp.7.6.4.bin folder.
use the built in plugins admin to download textfx, or any other available plugins you would like to try.

happy testing.

This is like having teeth pain - you know when you touch the teeth with your tongue it hurts but you try it over and over again :-D

Me? I write down the things that I want to work on,
Then, later, usually on the weekends (because I work on weekdays)
I work on them and I get somewhere.
Small steps, eventually get you to places. But, it will never be perfect.

@LED-WORLD said:

ITS .COL FILE (<1KB) OPENIN NPP++
TEXT FILE IS HERE
PLEASE TELL ME WHICH SETTING I NEED TO DO FOR VIEW ANY GOOD FORMAT THAT’S MAKE MAY LIFE LITTLE EASY…

your .col file is not human readable such as .dat file
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@Ices-Eyes said:

Posted on the github issue…

For those who want to follow along: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5428

Glad I decided to log in on a Saturday.

Thanks for getting that released, @vor0nwe. Much appreciated.

It means I’ll probably finally get around to upgrading to 64-bit at home.

@Meta-Chuh I am so grateful for your generous words. It’s a special art which is not very common unfortunately. And we are fortunate that we have you with it.

@Shawn-Holderfield

I assume you overwrote default style font size, correct?
If so, overwrite line number margin in global styles with a smaller size.

@KyferEz , Welcome to the Notepad++ Community.

Settings> Preferences > Delimiter, enable ☑Add your character as part of word, and include the hyphen - (and any other punctuation you want considered part of a “word”).

Hello, @gipadm , and welcome to the Notepad++ Community Forum.

That’s an interesting idea.

Since this it the Community Forum, and not the issues-tracking page, the developer is more likely to notice your request if you follow the instructions in our FAQ for making a feature request.

Once you do, please post a link of that issue# to this forum topic.

Good luck