Added marks item to list lines with find, incremental, smart, token 1, token 2, token 3, token 4 or token 5 marks.

The marks item and the change history item will open a 2nd user list so the main user list can show less items.

If your goal is to just copy/move all the opened files to a specific directory,

Yes, exactly, that’s it. But Coise’s method is essentially exactly what I wanted (just with a few extra steps, which isn’t a problem). And combined with Coise’s idea of using sessions (as a backup, for example, if the folder path is temporarily unavailable for Notepad, it now seems impossible to determine/find and reopen only the files that were open without using sessions), what I wanted has essentially been achieved.

Thank you very much!

Just updated to 8.7.7 and my theme was changed to the default. But it’s an easy fix.

Settings->Style Configurator->Select theme-><your-theme>
[Save&Close]

I didn’t even need to run as administrator to have it stick.

@Rockberto-Manenti said in Compare two txt files:

Each of the two files has each line with the name of the artist and the title of the album.
Now I would like to compare the two txt files in order to highlight on the second file all the lines that are NOT present in the first file in order to understand if the albums are already cataloged or not.

For this problem, I would use the find and replace facility with regular expressions. This is going to look like a lot of steps, but it’s not as complicated as it sounds when you see it in action.

First, open the file with the catalog. To ensure you don’t accidentally mess it up, I recommend immediately using File | Save As… to save it under a new name.

Select Search | Replace… from the menu, fill in this:

Find what: $
Replace with: \tCatalog
Wrap around: checked
Search Mode: Regular expression

and click Replace All.

You’ll see that adds a tab and the word Catalog to the end of each line. You can close the dialog for now.

Now, without closing this file, open the file that has your current list. (It will open in another tab.) From the main menu, select Edit | Select All and after that, select Edit | Copy. Now select File | Close and you’ll be back to the file with the “Catalog” tags.

Scroll to the end of the file by pressing Ctrl+End on your keyboard. You will either be at the end of the last line of text or at the beginning of an empty line. If you are at the end of a line of text, press the Enter key so you are at the beginning of an empty line.

Now, select Edit | Paste. That will copy the other file at the end of this file.

Now select Edit | Line Operations | Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending.

That will put pairs of lines from the two files together. Now all that remains is to remove matched pairs, which you can do with another regular expression. Open Search | Replace… again, but this time, enter:

Find what: (?i-s)^(.*)\R\1\tCatalog(\R|\z)
Replace with: (empty — not even a blank)

Leave the other settings as they were the last time and click Replace All.

You’ll be left with a list of lines that were in the current list but not in the catalog list. If any lines were in the catalog list but not the current list, they’ll have a tab and the word “Catalog” at the end.

@Raymond-Timothy-Adanu ,

Given each color is only applied to a single word, instead of a fancy pattern, your screenshot can be essentially accomplished using the existing Style All Occurrences feature, without requiring a feature request.

@Vieri-Di-Paola said:

…or maybe not

It seems like a common sense new way of working for you would be to not keep working with “unsaved” data. But hey, do what you think is best!

You can also consider using “Java Plugin for Notepad++”:
https://dominikcebula.github.io/npp-java-plugin/

@Alex-De-Lara ,
Agreed. I use the Open-Shell UI, because I like the older Windows layout and menus, and I hate when people change things for everyone just for the sake of change.

Google is just as bad for this, as are supermarket marketing idiots that think changing where things are placed will make a shopper cover more sales area they want them to see things at, to spur impulse shopping…when in reality, they are alienating their customers and making them buy less out of frustration for not being able to find their favorite items where they their favorite items used to be. It’s human nature to categorize and memorize where things are at, and by doing things like this, they are just losing their customers business.

@irahsu ,
Glad to hear you’re running good now, and that it was a simple fix.

Funny, I was just re-reading my text and can’t believe I wrote Regex instead of registry. Being involved with NPP has gotten me Regex on the brain. :-)

@guy038 I’m wondering why IDSP (“Ideographic Space”) has been included in this list. It is not a zero width character, so it is a printable (albeit whitespace) character.

@PeterJones The issue is still happening from time to time even now (in 2025), but Your solution still works. Big Thanks!

@Shohreh ,

You are not showing the View > Tab menu, despite what you said.

This is View > Tab:
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The Move Tab Forward Ctrl+Shift+Page down and Move Tab Backward Ctrl+Shift+Page up are exactly the feature you are asking for, in the menu you claim you want them in.

The View > Tab menu is described here in the Online User Manual.

What you have actually shown in your screenshot is the menu that pops up when you right-click on the tab’s title on the tab bar, which is described here.

If you don’t like the actions that are available by default in that tab-bar right-click context menu, you can customize it using tabContextMenu.xml, as described here. (Essentially, you copy the example to the main name, customize the entries to include the extra commands you want, and then save and exit Notepad++ and re-run, and from then on, the new commands you asked for will be available in the context menu).

Wonderful! This was simple way to update AdventureWorks2016 to 2022 for all the tutorials I am using. I have used Notepad++ for many years since a colleague showed me.

@tony-he said in chinese character problem:

what are default Chinese font library in notepad++ 8.7.7？

Notepad++ doesn’t have its own font library. It uses whatever fonts are installed on your computer, and will try to use your chosen Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global styles > Style: Default Style’s chosen font (which you’ve indicated is Consolas for you).

If that chosen font (Consolas) doesn’t have a glyph for a given codepoint, Notepad++ can ask the OS to recommend a different font which will have a glyph for that codepoint; the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Use DirectWrite option affects how Notepad++ interacts with the OS for choosing/displaying those glyphs. If you don’t like the results, you can try changing that setting, restarting Notepad++, and seeing if the other option works better for you. (It is looking like there will hopefully be more options for the DirectWrite setting in the future – whether in the GUI or in a power-user setting – which might give more choices to influence such results.)

As @Alan-Kilborn recommends, picking a font that you like that has all the glyphs you want will help Notepad++ display it the way you like.

Also, there are other posts in the Forum dealing with the CompositeFont concept, which is the way that Windows handles this, so you might be able to learn some more about what the operating system does for Notepad++ behind-the-scenes. But basically, windows has some tables about what fonts it looks for when it doesn’t find a glyph in a certain range of codepoints; doing more searching about the web on CompositeFont may help you learn how to encourage Windows to pick from a “better” font for a given glyph, if you can understand the results (I have only a surface-level understanding of such things, since mathy glyphs are the only “extra” glyphs that I tend to look for when using Notepad++ for my purposes)

@PeterJones this issue is back in a slightly different form: this time there’s no captcha, but a JavaScript check, which always fails when called from notepad++.exe

I have also commented on the GitHub issue.

I do understand the need for the ISP/host to combat DDOS. Maybe there is a way to get them to help?

@rdipardo ,
Never mind, it was my fault. I labeled the directory as WebEdit27, and it couldn’t be found. changed the name of the directory to just WebEdit and it popped up. Doh!.. :-)
Got it working and thanks, and hope this licensing issue gets resolved. I like this type of system for html. It reminds me of my first program HoT MetaL Pro, that I learned with when creating my first websites HTML pages. :-)

@St-P It seems safer, easier, and more supported to turn off or disable Enable Notepad++ auto-updater that’s available on the Settings / Preferences / MISC. page.

Also, for your script to work on a standard installed copy of Notepad++ you need to be in administrative mode.

@Lycan-Thrope said in Unsaved Files Recovery Script:

No one, that makes their way here, can claim to be a computer neophyte. Period. If they have done any computer work previously, they will have learned the major rule. Save and save often. That NPP has an additional edge of protection, should not make them abandon their common sense computer behavior that should have been ingrained in them before they got here.
Because it’s suddenly fashionable to jump off a cliff, does that mean everyone should go jump off a cliff? Certainly not
(…)
the prudent way to mitigate data loss, is to purposely save the document, originally and often.

Once again, we agree on these points. However, they aren’t as relevant to the points we are making as you seem to think:

I have already acknowledged that most NP++ likely discover the Session feature by accident, but perhaps I wasn’t clear about linking this discovery to the independent usage that I also mentioned. Personally, I discovered this feature as I was using NP++ on my own, and I’m guessing that this is true for most of the other users who make use of this feature as well. So, your “fashionable to jump off a cliff” argument isn’t likely relevant here (at least not for the majority of users).

Either way, users who do make use of it learn that it is (surprisingly?) reliable - content is preserved in the vast majority of use cases. However, despite this high degree of reliability, I don’t think users are relying on it for important data, regardless of how they discovered it in the first place. Personally, I simply use it for things like scrap notes - content that isn’t important enough to warrant a new file in any of the various directories that I work out of, but important enough to be (potentially) useful again in the future, yet would not be significantly missed if lost.

Obviously, I can’t speak for other users, but I’d imagine that they use this feature for the same sort of thing. Either way, I certainly agree that anyone who relies on it for more important content is doing so unwisely. In fact, this principle would still apply if the feature were to be reinforced: the goal of the proposed reinforcement is not, as you seem to fear (and rightfully so), to make users comfortable with expanding the importance of the content within their preserved files, it is simply to mitigate inconveniences. So, it’s not crucial to reinforce any limitations that this feature might have, but it is undeniably preferable.

@Robert-Leduc

Suggestion: If you don’t know what a plugin is doing, perhaps uninstall it.