@ClearView said in Changing icons in Notepad++: This is the first time I looked for the Notepad plus plus discussions and was a bit unsure where posts are actively monitored - here or at Github It depends on what you mean by “monitored”: if you just mean, “someone will read and maybe respond”, then both are monitored; if you mean, “someone with the authority to decide whether to implement a change will read and track the request”, then it’s only at GitHub. Here, we are just a bunch of Notepad++ users, trying to help each other. There, it is the official feature-request and bug/issue tracker where the Developer gets to make decisions on what to implement/fix and what not to. In general: discussions and questions go here, in the Community Forum; official feature requests and bug reports must go in the GitHub issues tracker. (I put in the cross-links between the two, not to discourage you, but so that someone who was only reading here would know there was also an issue that might potentially be implemented over there; and so that if someone was reading it only on GitHub, they could come see the context of any discussion that came here.)

As for 15.05.2024 most recent update there is no sex. “The best things in life is free. NotePad++ is free so Notepad++ is the best.” Is what writen right now. I just surprised that it got changed.

@BlaBlaCai , Yes, ComparePlus can fully replace the older Compare plugin (it is Compare plugin’s clone with lots of improvements and additions). Using Compare plugin is a matter of user preference (if you don’t need the new functionality and you like more the synchronization between the views in compare mode - Compare plugin inserts empty lines to synchronize the documents which disables the undo possibility and ComparePlus uses another method to synchronize documents that appear to the user a bit “jumpy” but the undo is kept functional). I am no longer supporting Compare plugin, IDK if it is still supported by other people.

@PeterJones @mpheath Thanks for the solution, which will be implemented in v8.6.7.

I’m thinking that it’s a design choice that the primary/secondary names of the views is not displayed. You can move files from one view to the “other” view. You can rotate the views. If you rotate twice then you have swapped them. When you close the last file in view then it vanishes and the remaining view runs in full screen mode. The default is the primary view on the left and secondary view on the right. When both views have files and thus are visible you can: Switch the focus between the views using F8. Snap a view to “full” screen using the little arrows at the top and bottom of the view divider. This is a bit confusing as you can’t snap back to the divided 2-view mode but instead need to drag the divider. The confusion increases after snapping when you see the little arrows pointing towards the outside edge of Notepad++ but they don’t do anything when clicked. The F8 switch between views does “nothing.” The first time you use the F8 toggle it shoves the divider over a few pixels but not enough to make the other view usable. Right click the divider bar and rotate the views. You can rotate right (which means clockwise) or left (which means counter-clockwise). If you rotate in the same direction twice you have reversed the positions of the views. A confusing aspect is when you have a view snapped to be visible and then do rotate twice then it snaps to the other view. One more detail that can be confusing is the handling of empty new # tabs. If an empty new # tab is the only thing in a view and then you move either a normal file or another new # (empty not) then the empty new # tab vanishes, if, and only if, it also does not have an undo buffer. Normally you can Ctrl+W close an empty new # and it’s silently destroyed, even if it has an undo buffer and is thus dirty. Notepad++ has an exception where it won’t auto-destroy a dirty new # tab if it’s the only thing in a destination view. When you close or move-out all of the tabs in the primary view then the secondary view snaps to full screen without a divider bar. The OP that started this thread was confused when then then did a “move to other view” which made the primary view visible. The OP does not mention rotating and so I assume that means the primary view was restored to the left side of the divider. The OP either had forgotten the view that had been looking at was the secondary view or had made the assumption that if only one view is visible that it must be the primary. The OP was confused that the “other” view popped up on the left when they had expected it to be on the right. Thus, while the view system has its quirks I don’t see a compelling case to make any changes to it. It may help to know why @Tim-Jarrett, the OP, or others are using the view system.

@Brian_cnc , FIND = F\d+\. REPLACE = F20. SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression -— Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

Official issue opened: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15132

@Radomir-Stojanović said in Need help for CNC code.: I have a recurring issue with the beginning and end of my code. I always have to replace the generic text with ‘%’ and manually add an ‘E’ at the end of the program whenever I rewrite it. Is there a way to automate this process? Whenever I get a new program, I have to correct F400. F200. (or any Fxxx. not to have a period at the end of Fxxx). Can I automate that as well? This can easily be done with 3 regular expressions (regex), however the 3rd one won’t be completely sorted, I will speak to that later. So using the Replace function we have the first one which deals with the “generic text issue”. Search mode must be regular expression for all 3 regex I’m showing. Find What:(?-s)\A(\([^)]+\)(\R))+ Replace With:N0 %${2} Click on Replace All Now we deal with all the Fxxx. sequences. Find What:(F\d+)\. Replace With:${1} Again click on Replace All Finally the end line for the code. The primary problem here is that regex cannot count. So there isn’t an easy way for the regex to add 1 to the last line and write a new line with the incremented number and and E. So what my regex does is to write it with xx as the line number. So you would still need to change the xx for the real line number. Although I have provided this regex, I think it would be of limited value as you would still need to edit that last line. Find What:(?-s)(\R).+\K\z Replace With:${1}Nxx E These 2 (or 3) regex can be combined into a macro which is essentially the keystrokes recorded as you type them and once saved (with a name) can be re-run whenever you wish. Terry

@Barry-Seymour said in Feature Request: Toggle Search Results Pane: If the search results pane has focus Press ESC = hide the panel Not a “toggle”, but a single simple keypress. Cheers.

Thank you for those tips. They are very useful.

@PeterJones Thank you very much for the quick response and for the instructions on how to get the multi-edit carets color! Indeed I have a custom theme, and I did not realize it would not be updated automatically, or even that it was the theme that created the options in the style configurator. I added the line you suggested, as well as some others I noticed I was missing and it’s working GREAT now!

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

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.