Thanks dail, but it didn’t work. Also thanks for the rep points. This problem is specific if you open Notepad++ directly from the executable. If you first open it using the Shell via opening a file that is associated with Notepad++, this problem doesn’t occur. So it is still possible that most users are opening Notepad++ indirectly via opening a file and not experiencing this issue. Try opening Notepad++ directly from the executable and then opening a file associated with it. If the problem persists beyond my computer, it should cause it to crash. I’m also using Windows 8.1 in case that matters. Cheers, A

Thank you. Your solution did work greatly.

The official bug tracker is on Github.

Hi Gary, i support your Idea, except for the “Yes To All”-Button - in my opinion it also would be fine :-) KR, Robert

So that’s very straightforward according to my previous post. Invoke the Find Dialog box (Search menu, choose Find…). With your editing cursor at the top of your file, activate the Replace tab in the Find dialog box. In the Find What Field, use the single character ^ (which means roughly search for beginning of line). In the Replace with Field, use http://google.com/. Make sure the Search Mode option is set for Regular Expression and that the Direction choice is Down. Press the Replace All button.

@Huang-Joe I don’t think this is possible, not even with a plugin. To try to explain… I guess you can say that there is 2 ways to look at Notepad++ A text editing environment that provides a shell and tons of features, and allows opening of text files within - which is somewhat the way you are looking at it and therefore you expect to allow for no editor windows to be open since it is only a component of a larger app. A simple text editor wrapped with tons of features, but it’s core is that text editor. If so, it makes sense that you always need an editor window open, since this is the entity of the app. Regards, David

You can try using SourceCookifier instead, it’s a really powerful plugin of Notepad++ based on “exuberant ctags” C program

Thank you, Dail! Your LuaScript tool works very well for me: I tried with the PythonScript (as suggested in the wiki), but I get a “general exception” error.