Notepad++ 8.6.6 will allow F3 and Shift+F3 to work while the Find or Replace windows have input focus.
See point #6 here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25742/notepad-v8-6-6-release-candidate

@mkupper
sorry, I’m an idiot. Of course I do use an 64bit-version.
as I was beginning this discussion on march 23th 2024, I have used a very wrong “title” or “RE”: “Big files cannot opened in v8.6.4 (x84)”. This is wrong!
every time I have installed and I’m using this “npp.8...Installer.x64.exe”. really.
Does there exist an admin, who can change the titel? It would be lovely. thanks a lot. Yours Klaus

@Daniel-Essin ,

Since you came back and created a new Topic (which I locked) about the same thing, you apparently forgot about this one. Please don’t create duplicate Topics.

As Alan said, “it works for me”.

However, looking at your list of plugins, there are a few there that I’ve never heard of… and when there is strange behavior in Notepad++, especially for something as core as double-clicking a word, the first place to look is in trying to disable plugins. This FAQ gives the procedure for how to check by turning off all plugins and one-at-a-time. (Yes, I know, you aren’t crashing; but the FAQ even admits that it’s useful for other situations where the plugin might be to blame.)

@rjm5959 said in Exporting pages from Hits?:

1S####-##C CENTRAL LOAN ADMINISTRATION YY/MM/DD
LETTER LOG HISTORY FILE FOR NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC1 PAGE ####

I know nothing about the context in which you’re using this data, but are you sure that you’re not leaking confidential data to the internet by posting this here? Because if you are, consider anonymizing it.

It appears that an official issue has been created here:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15080

Thank you very much, it helped a lot!

OK, very sorry for the wrong code, just habit. Many thanks for correcting!

That is how it works, as long as you have clicked on the Document List panel.

OK, yes, just clicking an item in the list and pressing any key does not work (that’s what I tried).

But if you click on the Document List title, it will change to a highlighted title bar, like:
Maybe such a mouse over hover field, don’t know the name, saying this would be good. Is there a shortcut which could do what that mouse click does?

Many thanks, also for updating the help.

I’ve tried to differents options (global styles, directwrite, update plugins,…) but it does not work. Finally I have had a clean install and work it!

I don’t know why, because other than plugins, I don’t remember touching any option

Thank you all

I just uninstalled and started over, and all seems OK now…

@Steve-Carlsson
I could recommend how to do this with plugins, but I won’t, because this is fundamentally not a task for Notepad++.

I would recommend learning PowerShell or Python, to name just two of the many tools that can accomplish this for you. Of course, if you only need to rename 10-20 files once, you could probably do this by hand in less time than it would take you to write a script.

If you choose to go that route, StackOverflow and Google would be your best friends, not this forum, because this forum is really only for discussing how to do things with Notepad++.

@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!