@PeterJones

Thanks for the reply. All things to consider.

@Lin-Pepsi

Maybe try this setup:

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@Alus said in column editor with negative numbers:

when he reverses the numbers, he also reverses the unselected text.
I had to build the numbers in an empty area

You did not have to do this if you would have done Peter’s step 2.

@Dexter ,

It works fine for me. It might be something specific to your setup.

You should share your ?-menu’s Debug Info, which might indicate something strange, or at least show if you have a lot of plugins.

Debugging techniques:

You might also try to only pick a subset of the files (maybe doing 4 or 5 of the 6 shown, in various groupings) to determine if it’s one specific file that’s causing it, or if it’s just any time you pick a handful of files and open at the same time, it does this.

If you do have plugins, you could see if disabling them fixes it. You can either rename one or more of the directories in the c:\program files\notepad++\plugins directory to disable them one-at-a-time, or just rename the whole plugins directory to disable all plugins at once. Also, if you know how to change the “Edit with Notepad++” action in your registry using regedit.exe, you could add the command-line option -noPlugin to the right-click action, and see if that speeds it up. If disabling one or more plugins fixes it, then the plugins are your culprit.

If that’s not enough, and you can edit your registry, then trying the -loadingTime command-line argument in your right-click action might show you where the time is going.

Double-checking before posting : I had forgotten the “Edit with Notepad++” was provided by NppShell.dll, so you cannot add a command-line argument to it; sorry. However, if you have registry access, you can still try some experiments: go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\* and go into the Shell key if it exists (or create it if it doesn’t). Add a new key NppExperiment under Shell, and set the (Default) inside Shell to Open With Notepad++ Experiment. Create command key under NppExperiment. In the command key, set the (Default) to "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -noPlugin -loadingTime "%1" . Once that’s all done, your right click menu (or, if you’re in Win 11, you might have to use Alt+F10 or whatever its shortcut is today for the hidden old-style menu) and select the “Open With Notepad++ Experiment” when multiple files are selected, and see if it’s better (because of -noPlugin) or gives more info (because of -loadingTime)

(Both of those command-line options are described in the User Manual at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/command-prompt/)

You can close this issue, I agree that it was probably a “timing” issue.

@PeterJones Thank you very much Peter, spot on
BR
Mike

Hello @guy038!
Thank you for the point, I have updated the link, unfortunately it won’t let me edit the original post after 4 hours.

I leave here the new link with the correction: → https://bit.ly/3QbqkXU

@mkupper said in Run Notepad++ As Administrator?:

Thus, you first need to exit or close Notepad++ and then run Notepad++ as Administrator.

Alternatively, you can have the shortcut that enables Admin privileges also run with the -nosession -multiInst command-line options, so that you can run a standalone admin-Notepad++ without closing any existing normal Notepad++ instances.

Thanks! @Ekopalypse now it works properly!

@Barry-Margolius ,
You can start by reading the Notepad++ User Manual in particular the User Defined Language section.
Afteward, if you have any questions you can ask again, but do try first yourself.

Also read the manual as you may be able to change global settings to do the same thing.

@Steve-Valliere
Were you using “SaveAsAdmin” plugin?

@PeterJones said in POLL: File grouping in Search-results -- what kind do YOU want?:

So if you’ve looked at this thread 6 times, that counts as 6 separate “views”, even though you’re only one “viewer”. (For example, I was both view 196 and view 198 by going somewhere else then coming back to this page.)

Hmm, this doesn’t seem to be my experience. It is sitting on 198 and no matter what I do to try and increase it, it stays on 198.

@PeterJones said in [feature request] Folder as Workspace:

We cannot do anything about Feature Requests here except talk about them. For more, see “FAQ: Feature Request” per this ancient issue, it used to be completely unsorted; then he sorted by name within the directory, but it didn’t work for everyone, and the developer indicated here that doing such sorts in a hiearchical display like FaW is difficult, so I doubt much more will happen. If you want to explore, you can see what happened in the other “Folder As Workspace + sort” results of searching existing issues Right click in the empty space at the bottom of the Folder as Workspace panel, choose Add. This is documented in the User Manual. Also, see this feature request to add an icon to add/remove a folder to FaW panel Interesting. I don’t know that anyone has ever asked for that before. It might be worth at least trying to request it officially (see item 0)

Thanks again, Peter.

Apologies, I completely forgot about that.

Those articles seem to be referring to sorting of files within folders. I would like to be able to sort the folders when multiple folders are added to the workspace.

I am so sorry I missed that. I thought I had tried right-clicking empty space but, obviously, I didn’t.

I didn’t think it would be a common request. I shall consider opening a feature request on GitHub.

@PeterJones said:

The error you showed indicates that what you actually
typed had a space between the n and f if config

I can guess what happened now.

I used Copy/Paste rather then keying the entire path myself. But my selection of text to Copy must have stopped after the n in config - but I never noticed it.

@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.)