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  • G

    Suggestion: disable updates option at installer

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    Yes/No to All in Reload dialog

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    @Александр-Земцов

    Duplicate, see here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13835/request-yes-to-all-when-open-files-are-changed

  • R

    Make "Find Next" / "Find Prev" buttons an option

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    @guy038 :

    So these are not bad ideas. The biggest problems I see with implementation is the quantity of new proposed new buttons, because:

    screen space is limited, and so many new buttons makes it hard to have enough Alt+symbol (e.g. Alt+a = Replace All button press) key combinations for all of the controls

    Another problem is that currently there aren’t buttons that disappear or change form (within one tab of the Find family dialog) depending upon the state of other controls. I fear that this, and some of the other proposed changes, are just “too much” to change all at once (Notepad++ seems to evolve slowly).

    An additional thing to think about more is the proposed “<<Count” and “Count>>” features. I found that with certain regular expressions you can have matches that “straddle” the caret, thus there can really be 4 different match counts:

    matches that occur globally (anywhere in the file); this is existing functionality matches above the caret position matches below the caret position matches that straddle the caret position

    Here’s some Pythonscript code that will demonstrate. Put the caret in the middle of a word before running this script (CountAboveAndBelowCaret.py):

    import re def CABABC__main(): search_str = r'\w+' search_str = notepad.prompt('enter a find-what regex', '', search_str) if not search_str or len(search_str) == 0: return caret_pos = editor.getCurrentPos() CABABC__main.match_above_count = 0 CABABC__main.match_below_count = 0 CABABC__main.match_global_count = 0 def match_found_above(m): CABABC__main.match_above_count += 1 def match_found_below(m): CABABC__main.match_below_count += 1 def match_found_globally(m): CABABC__main.match_global_count += 1 reflags = 0 editor.research(search_str, match_found_above, reflags, 0, caret_pos) editor.research(search_str, match_found_below, reflags, caret_pos, editor.getTextLength()) editor.research(search_str, match_found_globally, reflags, 0, editor.getTextLength()) notepad.setStatusBar(STATUSBARSECTION.DOCTYPE, '{gc} total matches. {ac} matches above caret; {bc} below.{s}'.format( gc=CABABC__main.match_global_count, ac=CABABC__main.match_above_count, bc=CABABC__main.match_below_count, s='' if CABABC__main.match_global_count == CABABC__main.match_above_count + CABABC__main.match_below_count else ' 1 match straddles the caret.' )) CABABC__main()
  • C

    Two question: function list and bypass windows 'looking for file' long wait?

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    M Nov 3, 2017, 6:59 PM

    As for Q1: Function List shows the functions defined in the current file only. For any additional functionality you could try some of the other available plugins (e.g. TagLEET, TagsView, SourceCookifier) or write your own plugin.

  • B

    как выключить нижнее подчеркивание в нотепад ???? оно стирает символы

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    D Nov 2, 2017, 6:05 PM

    Press the “insert” key on your keyboard. This will change the cursor from “over write” mode to “insert” mode.

    Via Google translate:

    Нажмите клавишу «Вставить» на клавиатуре. Это изменит курсор из режима «over write» в режим «insert».

  • S

    deploying Notepad++ 7.5.1 via configuration manager with few features of notepad++ disabled.

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  • C

    WeBack up save idea

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    S Oct 30, 2017, 6:03 PM

    @Craig-Chaplin

    You should experiment with the Settings (menu) -> Preferences… -> Backup (box on left) -> Backup (groupbox) options…

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    remember opened tabs of my choosing

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    G Oct 29, 2017, 9:13 AM

    Try joining forces with the guy from that post.

  • M

    Brainf* interpreter in RegEx only (find/replace)

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    Why does Notepad ++ Search/Replace feature continue to fail?

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    S Oct 29, 2017, 2:02 AM

    @CAG-Hotshot

    See my first post in this thread: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14567/search-and-replace-failed

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    i see unknown symbols

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    R Oct 27, 2017, 1:58 PM

    Thanks for the heads-up @dail
    This happened to me too, just now. Perhaps related to having too many files tabbed open. Another artifact was after the first CRLF the first character of each line disappeared. I copy/pasted the file and all the text was there, minus the CRLFs.

    Take precautions, act like the file may be corrupt or on the verge of corruption before you do anything else. However, with that in mind, after I closed a couple of files the subject document became the active document and I did a simple ctrl-S and the initial chars reappeared, and the CRLF flags disappeared. YMMV

    The periodic backups are one of the reasons I like Notepad++ so much. Forewarned is forearmed, much obliged.

  • Alan KilbornA

    editor.hideLines() doesn't persist?

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    C Oct 26, 2017, 8:09 PM

    @Alan-Kilborn

    if you use the menu function to hide lines you will see that you do get
    additional markers. These markers are identified by npp when switching a tab.
    So, afaik, either use markerAdd, with
    MARK_HIDELINESBEGIN = 23;
    MARK_HIDELINESEND = 22;
    MARK_HIDELINESUNDERLINE = 21;
    to mark the hidden lines or use npp menu function to get the same result.

    Cheers
    Claudia

  • S

    Why doesn't a tab close return you to tab most recently worked in? [Part 2]

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    S Oct 25, 2017, 5:45 PM

    I misspoke earlier when I said the “rightmost” tab gets activated when any other tab is closed. I should have said “tab to the right of the closing tab”. Unless of course it is the rightmost tab that gets closed in which case it is the tab to the left (now the rightmost!) that is made active.

    Anyway this is an open issue since September of 2015: Closing a file should activate the most recently used document

  • AlienmuppetA

    Give focus to Find window

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    AlienmuppetA Oct 25, 2017, 12:31 PM

    Well, it’s not the real fix, but I’ve done that and I now do not get the problem. Thanks :-)

  • Toni NyblinT

    Letter l and 1 is the same in default N++ new page / text

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    M Oct 24, 2017, 10:10 PM

    @Scott-Sumner said:

    @Mikhail-V said:

    your best bet will be Microsoft fonts like Arial, Times new Roman, Segoe UI

    Well, none of those 3 are fixed-pitch (monospaced) fonts, which goes against the grain of the advice given above. The reason for the advice to use a fixed-pitch font is so that columns of text line up.

    Yes, I know :-) But I am not sure if the OP knows yet those things.
    So just to the possible readers, a short tale about fonts:

    It is true that many e-documents especially before 00’s contained
    so called “space-aligned” columns, i.e. a user simply tapped space bar
    to align columns of text. It was totally ok since anyway computer software
    that day used text mode only - so there were no normal fonts anyway.
    Only single-width characters, like on a mechanical type-writer were possible.
    (That is where Courier font originates by the way - Courier-like fonts were used
    in type-writers, and it is probably best that you can get with a monospaced)

    For example “i” and “m” are looking really weird in a monospaced font,
    because “m” must be actually trice as wide as “i”.
    Not to tell about the lack of any kerning and discrete spacings.
    That is why if you change a text document from Courier to Arial for example,
    you will see a dramatic improvement of the picture.

    BTW, the history of legible type design dates back to the BC, and a good font
    was never monospaced. In other words, type writers and early computing
    fonts made such a “time jump” to the BC, simply due to some technical limitations.
    Nowadays, thanks heaven, PC users can use normal fonts, like in a printed book,
    Such fonts are well designed, and industrial fonts are also optimized
    for readability (well, at a minimum, do not ignore this point completely).

    This conversion created a lot of funny memes, like for example: ‘accidental’ features that people of 70’s so much got used to, e.g. pressing space to align columns,
    does not work with normal fonts well. Users felt pretty bad about that, and
    stood with the monospaced fonts, despite their poor geometry.
    Learning to press “tab” instead of space bar was easy, but still
    some users could not deal well with it, because at the time there
    were no advanced features like tabulations width setup in code-editing
    software (and up till now actually, btw, how it is with NPP? ;-).
    And that is probably the reason why Courier is the default font
    in many code-editors.
    Further this issue even evolved in a holy-war “spaces vs tabs”.

    That’s all shortly.

    resume:
    Well, with all respect to 70’s culture, I would strongly recommend to
    stick to normal fonts, and for special tasks like multiple selections, learn to use special tools like multi-cursors, or learn scripting.
    That will pay-off itself really good.
    Furthermore, creating space-filled contents is really bad for exchanging
    documents, since you should not assume that on the other side
    somebody really lives in a monospaced tradition.
    So unless the OP will work on encryption algorithms or memory
    viewing, use of monospaced will just make it harder to read in general.
    But granted, there are pair of funny issues inherited from 70’s, still
    they are solvable.

  • Robert SnowR

    Automatically changing the color of a phone number.

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    Remember that NP++ is a raw text editor, so the information it will put back into a file will not retain any colour information.

    This is different from DOC files (for example) which store colours and font sizes etc.

  • Rob RobertsR

    I wish Notepad++ had a spell checker.

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    Rob RobertsR Oct 21, 2017, 8:35 PM

    @guy038 Thank you so much, Guy; I was trying all kinds of things with spell check plugins before. Your instructions were perfect :-)

  • patrickdrdP

    npp crashes after left open for some hours

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    Meta ChuhM Oct 19, 2017, 4:24 PM

    @patrickdrd
    i had a similar issue at a client’s place, it wasn’t a bug in np++ but a faulty network drive conection that comes and goes.

    do you have any files open on a network drive opened ?
    if yes what happens if you close all remote files, only leaving open files on the local hard drive.

    also in that case make sure that none of the np++ settings, backup, or sessions are stored on a remote drive, only locally on an internal drive.

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    Scrolling in response to Find

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    Replacement in vertical block

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