@cashfields ,

Your post would have been much easier to read if you actually typed your text in the post, rather than typing your text in the image.

It looks like what you would like is the ability to have the file history be set to “relative” instead of “absolute”. Unfortunately, the developer already rejected a feature request which requested that you be able to store a session (File > Save/Load Session… commands) automatically as relative. And if sessions were too complicated to do that for, in his mind, then doing it for the file history is definitely right out.

However, if you save a session, and then edit it to be relative, I believe it works … so you could then load the relative session anytime your USB changes drive letter, and it would hopefully work for you.

(I know it’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but given his rejection of that feature request, it’s the best you’re going to get.)

Or, for a poor-man’s session: make a batch file that opens each file relatively in the batch file.

@pasha-19 said in styler.xml/WordsStyle/keywordClass association with langs.xml/Language/Keyword/Name:

I was looking to add a WordsStyle with a keyword list to an existing language.

That’s not the way it works. Existing languages are hardcoded (compiled) internally with a list of available styleIDs, and only particular styleIDs have keyword lists associated with them. You cannot just add a WordsStyle with its own styleID and a list of keywords, and hope that the lexer will magically see them. It will not.

My question concerns the styler.xml/WordsStyle/keywordClass that appears to match langs.xml/Language/Keyword/Name. There are some seemingly standard keywordClass values instre1, instre2 and type1 to type7 and maybe type8. Do these seemingly standard values have any additional meaning besides providing a link from the keywordClass in styler.xml to the Language/Keyword/Name in langs.xml?

They have an integer value (0-8). Those correspond to the 9 available keyword lists inside the lexer, which any given lexer may reference zero or more of.

If you use the wrong keywordClass, Notepad++ will not be able to pass the list of words to the lexer. And if you make up a keywordClass or use one that’s not already defined for a given language, the lexer won’t see it, and those keywords won’t get highlighted.

[can] any keywordClass/Name that matches could be used?

Nope, sorry. Each lexer has a predefined list that Notepad++ will pass on to the lexer and that the lexer will recognize.

To sum up: the official list of available keywordClass/name values for any given lexer are listed in the copy of langs.model.xml that ships with a given version of Notepad++: that will always list all the ones that Notepad++ knows about, and if you try to define others than those for any given language, Notepad++ cannot pass it on to the lexer.

However, it may be that your langs.xml or stylers.xml are out of date. If you haven’t updated to v8.9.1 yet, run that update, and the first time you run, Notepad++ will update langs.xml and stylers.xml (or any other active theme) to include any missing styles. You might find that the language you want to customize has more keyword lists available in the Style Configurator now.

If a given language doesn’t have enough different styles to give you differently-colored sets of keywords, you cannot just trick Notepad++ into creating more for you. However, using the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin (you can install it using Plugins Admin from the Plugins menu), you could define a regular expression to match the keywords you wanted. For example, for a given lexer language, if you wanted to add three keywords with red foreground and four with a blue foreground, you could use the following in the EnhanceAnyLexer configuration file (whcih you can easily access using Plugins > EnhanceAnyLexer > Enhance current language.

[LexerName] 0x0000FF = \b(red1|red2|red3)\b 0xFF0000 = \b(blueA|blueB|blueC|BlueD)\b

This will give:
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The EnhanceAnyLexerConfig.ini has documentation in its comments, explaining that it’s 0xBBGGRR for the hex colors, and how to get those colors to only apply within certain parent styles, etc. And https://github.com/Ekopalypse/EnhanceAnyLexer/ is the homepage for the plugin.

@Alan-Kilborn
Current line background colour is now white, also tried minty green
Selected text is now the minty green
Multi-selected text color is also minty green

minty green for all 3 then Current line background colour white.

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@FreeMeow Thank you!

@Coises This is an excellent solution. Not only did it solve this specific issue for me (as I transition away from my job, and need to save out many learning notes), but this taught me new tricks that I didn’t know Notepad++ was capable of. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

This issue has been fixed:
I did the following. As I use a inline style sheet I created a “css color.css” file in Notepad++. Just a blank page that I can do the following:

I can now paste my HTMLPad 2025 css code into Notepad++ with the colors I changed under Settings> Style Configurator.

I also created a “html-colors.html” blank file and I can copy the html code with colors that Notepad++ provides that has been updated in the Style Configurator.

Next I highlight the text then go to “Plugins” on the toolbar then “NppExport” then “Copy all formats to clipboard”.

I can now paste in the html/css code into Word with the colors I want.

I still cannot create a style in Word 2024 with colors as I suspect it would be too complicated for Word to figure what parts the different text it should color.

@Magic-Mugs ,

Assuming all your open files are real files, and all in the exact same folders on old and new machine, then just copy over %AppData%\Notepad++\session.xml

If some of your files are the unsaved new # tabs, you will also need to copy over everything in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\

But if you want all the same settings from your old to your new, just copy over everything from %AppData%\Notepad++\

Thank you! Problem solved.

@David-Brown i came here to let you know that my receipt had what appears to be his email address on it (which i’ve blocked out here for privacy):

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seems legit to me, but i can’t know for sure. :)

@PeterJones

Hello,

Here is a demonstration of what altsnap does

You can press the ALT key, or the “hot click” which on my mouse is mouse button #5.

And this allows moving and resizing a window from anywhere.

https://youtu.be/Wzt7hSyGGmc

It is very ergonomic as you don’t have to position the cursor on the thin window edges.

I think this is quite rare and cutting edge practice, most people I think just maximize their window and use one application at a time.

But I have a very large desktop of 4x 40 inch 4K monitors and I needed more efficient way to move the windows around.

As for the scrolling, there are two “middle-click” based scrolling methods I know about. There’s the autoscroll round thing which I don’t really like, it’s like using a thumbstick. It’s good if you want to let it scoll at a constant speed like the text scroll at the beginning of star wars but it is otherwise clumsy and slow to use, not “dextrous”.

I prefer the “scroll anywhere” method which is similar to like you would scroll a touch tablet interface.

I demonstrate both of these modes here

https://youtube.com/shorts/yHuWI4f1rOg

So, what I am asking is like scroll anywhere but in a left-right direction to move the center divider around.

@Maxitrol-Mat said in 4k resolution:

While some things look good, some other things look microscopic.

One thing that may help: In Preferences > Toolbar, try choosing a “large” UI option.

@ViniwDOrazio

Yes, when working with multi-line matches enclosed by the same pre- and suffix, you should try to match something unique before the prefix.
If the number of lines is fixed, you could also adjust the offset configuration parameter accordingly.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Simple and light is often the opposite of universal.

This is often the case, but not always.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

If you solution is “universal enough” for you, fine;

Of course, when there is no ideal option, you have to choose the one that is most suitable for the situation.

@Alan-Kilborn said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Good luck achieving all of those all of the time.
Or do you have a “pick any 2” or “pick any 3” type rule? ;-)

Thanks. It happens to everyone at some point ;)
But it must be universal and fast, even if it means making the code complex.

@PeterJones Thanks so much for the quick reply. Installing the release candidate fixed the issue for me. Much appreciated!

@El-Greco-0 ,

The Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab is the “Document Switcher” feature. By default, Settings > Preferences > Misc > Document Switcher has ☑ Enable MRU behavior checkmarked, which turns on Most Recently Used (MRU) order for the Ctrl+Tab order. If that is unchecked, then the Ctrl+Tab order is determined by the order of the tabs in the view, so if you turn off that option and use Window > Sort By > Name A to Z, then Ctrl+Tab will follow alphabetical order.

The reason why Ctrl+Tab defaults to MRU, is because it is often (maybe even mostly) used as the quick/simple “swap between this tab and the last tab I used”, rather than cycling through the entire list. Also, there is a separate set of keystrokes, Ctrl+PageDown for next-tab and Ctrl+PageUp for previous-tab, which already follows the order of tabs in the view (so also affected by the Window > Sort By > … sorting), so it’s already easy to navigate between tabs in the view order by another similar means – so again, it makes sense to default the Document Switcher Ctrl+Tab to use Most Recently Used behavior…

@PeterJones said in HOW Do You Add Keyboard Shortcuts:

Actually, anything in the Scintilla Commands tab of the Shortcut Mapper can have 0 or more shortcuts assigned. It’s not limited to only 2. And it’s not limited to only Copy/Cut/Paste. This is described in the user manual’s Preferences > Shorcut Mapper, specifically in the paragraph that starts with “In the Scintilla commands tab, you can actually assign more than one shortcut to a given Scintilla command”

This might be confusing to @Michael-Neumann, because Cut, Copy and Paste are no longer Scintilla shortcuts; they moved to the Main menu tab, Edit category, as part of the changes that enhanced multiple selections and implemented VS Code-style line cut/copy/paste.

Since the two sets of shortcuts, with X/C/V and with Insert/Delete, are so familiar and either would have been missed, special allowance was made to let those menu items have two distinct shortcuts. No other commands work that way.