@Michael-Fuerst said in Bold text:

Several web sites can convert plain text to bold, italic, etc. which can be then copied into Facebook. For example https://capitalizemytitle.com/bold-text-generator/ If the NP++ encoding is set to UTF-16, some of the output from these converting web sites will appear as bold or italic when pasted into NP++.
However, this text will not retain its bold/italic if edited.
This suggests that bold or italic text could some how be directly typed into NP++

The way this website works is that it replaces your characters with Unicode characters in peculiar ranges. Thus, if you enter:
Show me.
into that website, you get back:
𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞.

But those are not the letters S, h, o, w, etc. rendered in a bold font; they are different characters entirely. If you paste into this web site
you’ll see the analysis — the letters are actually mathematical symbols.

So, when you edit and type using the keyboard, you’re typing ordinary letters, not these odd Unicode characters.

eeee@PeterJones Thank for the information. I tried looking and could not find it. I will certainly post there for the feature.

@Malstroem-Phi said in Too frequent updates are disruptive:

Side notes I had to agree to this in order to post something (which I did not want to):

Our Logging-in FAQ has more on that…

Essentially, the “personal information” it collects was what is sufficient to create your account, defaulting to whatever you’ve put in your Google or GitHub name/email/avatar fields, after which you can edit what is shown.

For the email, there has not been an “update” email sent to the entire userbase in the 9 years I’ve had an account here. For the the notification emails, they are 100% under your control settings – there’s a whole page in your settings devoted to setting your individual preferences, and you can turn off all those emails you want. When we were offering a digest, you could also disable it on the same page, but we turned off digests recently because it was causing too many server errors and causing our email server to be blacklisted as spam.

And most of my last paragraph was essentially explained in the message you read.

So I am confused why you were worried enough to proclaim:

I’ll probably delete the account after a while if it turns out emails are too frequent.

The message you quoted was pretty clear that they wouldn’t be frequent unless you set them to be, and was quite explicit that you could turn off notifications that you didn’t want. I am not sure why this message set off your “worry” reflex.

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Back to the main content:

I think that if the update were a matter of a single click with a very quick restart,

The updater now has the one-click silent update feature, so going forward, the update process should be fairly painless – or at least, have fewer clicks than it used to require. (Though I agree, it asks at an inconvenient time for some – many would want to wait for the update until they are done with the app, rather than immediately after it was launched; the developer has not seemed willing to change the timing of it.)

in a perfect world I would recommend a granular notification system where you can choose what can of update you want to know about, for instance you could choose to skip small fix about features you never use but be notified for security updates or other more critical stuff.

Notepad++ has never really distinguinguished different types of releases. All releases include minor bugfixes, new features, and any needed security fixes. So every release would fall under all the categories (or at least two of the three – security fixes are likely not as frequently needed, depending on your definition of “security fixes”).

And in case you didn’t look at the “read this post first” or the FAQ it points you to – this forum is the Community of fellow Notepad++ users, so none of us here have the decision making power for how Notepad++ implements updates.

@mkupper,

Yes, the “Start in” was a wrong folder, because this was just a demo, and I overlooked it. (I still had to decide if this was worth doing.) Sorry about that.

Now I’ve set up the different n++ portable versions, and everything works as expected. No more fiddling with direct write, no more adjusting UDLs to match the current theme, no more forgetting to turn backup back on. This a is revolutionary change. Thanks!

@Dave-Torr said:

But seems clear it has replaced a convenient one-click option with 2 click - more exercise for my clicking finger!

Again: It was previously a 2-click operation; now it’s a 3-action operation. Read above (clearly you didn’t) for detail on that.

What the change has done has made the right-click “open” command actually usable for me (and guessing here, other users), at a slight inconvenience to you. Sorry for that but IMO the software is better for the change.

@Rob-DF

Try to disable the DirectWrite mode (uncheck N++ menu Settings > Preferences… > MISC. > “Use DirectWrite” checkbox).

@N8-Holt said in Is there a Hot key combo for "Clear all Bookmarks":

It would be convenient for me as I step through a sizeable source code file, setting bookmarks along the way, to be able to optionally set a bookmark when I find a key point in the program but quickly (hot key) be able to first clear all of the trailing bookmarks accumulated up to that point in time.

One of the things about this that’s giving me pause is that bookmarks are semi-persistent. They are stored in the session.xml file. As long as you keep a file or tab open in Notepad++ then the editor will remember the bookmarks when you close or exit Notepad++ and restart it. However, if you close a tab and then immediately re-open it using the recently closed file list then all of the bookmarks for that file are gone.

That said, I’m wondering what you mean by “trailing bookmarks accumulated up to that point in time.” Let’s say you start Notepad++ and see that there are already five bookmarks in a file. You add three more. Would you expect this “clear” function to remove the three you added in this session or would you expect it to clear all eight bookmarks, or do you want to clear some other subset of the bookmarks?

The thing @Terry-R suggested is to add a keyboard shortcut to the Search / Bookmark / Clear all bookmarks function. You may want to start out by first getting used to holding the Alt key down and then tapping the letters S B C followed by Enter. That will navigate to and use Notepad++'s Clear all bookmarks function if that is the thing you are seeking.

If you are not seeking to clear all bookmarks then the answer is “no” to the original question but please provide more information as it may well be possible to work out a way to define and clear a subset of the bookmarks.

@mkupper said :

Which also gets the topic of this thread back onto Notepad++

It never left.

Personally, I don’t understand why the Clear button is disabled for this tab either. Sure, the first several workflows are common to other programs, but the same can be said of the ones in the Main menu tab, and those ones can be cleared.

Either way, I’ve filed a feature request to address this.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Macro command:

@mkupper said:

Search: “(\u+)”

I’m not confident that \u is the “best” thing to use here…and also it fails miserably if Match case is inadvertently checkmarked…

You are right. It should have been a search for (?i)"(\u+)" and I even have the (?i) part in my own notes about using \u. I had noticed that English is likely not the OP’s first language which is why I thought of \u as it also matches letters with diacritics.

@YellowAsterisk said:

it’s selected until you click somewhere else on the panel

If you click in the whitespace of the panel, then yes, current-tab highlighting disappears. But, why would you click in the whitespace? Clicking anywhere else, the current tab is differentiated from the other tabs – unless (very possible), I’m missing something…

Button to close the tab.

Right-click > Close

Button to pin the tab

Right-click > Pin
But… the tab doesn’t move to the “top” of the list. Probably this is just a vestige of pinned tab support gradually evolving.

Hello, @adelphiauk,

Initially, our Notepad++ forum was hosted by the Web service SourceForge.net

But, in 2015, the forum moved to the NodeBB platform and the bug tracker moved to GitHub

Thus, it’s our web hosting company ! Below, the link to access the NodeBB site :

https://nodebb.org

Best Regards,

guy038

@Gowtham-Sakthivel ,

Aside from the user manual (though I personally highly recommend it), this Community also has a FAQ entry explaining where else to find regular expression resources

Wish I had found this thread earlier! I’ve been wanting this for some time…

The most recent versions of this snap do not seem to work very well on Ubuntu VMs (both VirtualBox and VMware). After several days of trouble-shooting, someone recommended installing the usual Windows version with Wine, and that got things working properly - see the answer I posted to my own Ask Ubuntu question, and my follow-up comments for some additional setup suggestions.

@erjh said in Notepad++ Windows 11 Context Menu Provision For All Users?:

new appx paradigm, I’m not sure what problem Microsoft thinks it solves

In a nutshell - APPX means MSIX, which in turn means containerization (isolation and possible virtualization in a sandbox) of the installed SW and, of course, easy deployment via the MS Store (also streaming, cloud attaching or traditional install possible).

@Gordon-Gordonplex said in Make np++ work like text/word processor?:

I would like my typing to work “normally”, like my email client, or like this very page does.

FAQ: “Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor”. With one exception, Notepad++ does not do typical “word processor” like things such as colors, fonts, margins, etc. The exception that comes to mind is that Notepad++ has settings related to indentation and it’s “auto-indent” part of the indentation settings. Notepad++'s indentation features are tailored creating and editing text in various computer languages that each have their own indentation rules and philosophy.

That said, people are still puzzled as to what you are asking for. You say you have used Notepad++ for years but there’s something about Notepad++ that does not align up with what you want or expect. However, you have not said exactly what it is out of alignment that’s specific to Notepad++.

As it’s a text editor, not a word processor, Notepad++ also does not do something that happens on this forum which is that I’m typing on the left side and to my right the text I type is also being displayed with forum specific markdown tags being processed. If I want bold I press the * * b o l d * * keyboard keys in that order. On the left side I see “**bold**” and on the right side I see the word “bold” in a bold-style font. That’s a “word processor” style feature that Notepad++ does not do. In the Notepad++ world we only see “**bold**” and use other software that will processes the “**bold**” and display it as “bold”.

@Almighty1 said in Community Question - How to start a chat with someone?:

@PeterJones - Thanks! I believe this is another one where enough upvotes is needed to earn the privilege as before, I did not see the “Start Chat With” in the triple-dot menu which is probably why the main chat icon didn’t work either. Ofcourse now, I am seeing the options after my posts had been upvoted a minimum amount of times.

Sorry about that. When writing up those instructions, I didn’t consider that people who are creating new accounts won’t have enough reputation to chat with me or another moderator… I will see if I can come up with something else…

@PeterJones - First of all, many thanks for taking the time to actually go into detail with the answer(s).

In my case for Google when the account was created, I would have preferred the stock avatar with the letter of the first letter of the username and then once I had earned the privilege, then I can have a custom avatar or maybe the better way would have been to allow either the default icon or google but not being able to customize it until it is earned.

Yes, I figured it had to be New User or at the worse possible case, it was a disabled but since with the previously created account using Google and not having any posts, there was no risk to see what would happen if I deleted the account and created it again using github.

I did face two issues, the first one when I deleted the account. I could not get back into the community as NodeBB was complaining the previous user no longer existed and I should refresh the page which I did a few times and the results were the same so it does not even let me view the community as a guest until I manually deleted the cookies for the site. Then when I tried to create the account, I used github because when I first login to the community yesterday, I remember somewhere where the github showed the same avatar I am using now instead of Google’s but after I clicked on github, NodeBB complained about unable to create account due to a internal error saying there was no valid email address in the profile. With both issues, I didn’t do a screenshot of the issue so I could not remember what it said exactly. But in any case, even though NodeBB complained, I did receive the e-mail to verify the email address with the link to click on which was how the account was actually created.

After you mentioned how to change the avatar in your first response, my first thought and experiment was finding the 128 x 128 size for the avatar by searching for the size for NodeBB avatar in pixels and then after some thinking, I figure it’s similar to a physical picture and you put a border layer on top of it for lack of better term, that is what is hiding the rest of the image. My actual image used is actually 68 x 73 so if it used the original size, it would probably fit within the circle except NodeBB itself probably resizes the image so it’s 128 x 128 so one way to fix this is probably to create a canvas that is 128 x 128 first and then put the original sized image on top of it so it will scale the new image instead. If it didn’t enlarge the original image to 128 x 128, then it would be easier to use a photo editor to simply get all wanted pixels within the center of the circle even with the coordinates unknown but what I did was simply added white pixels in all directions until things fit, first by making the the height 128 pixels first before adding pixels on any of the four sides until it fits. Actually, changing the canvas size in this case while keeping the original image size works as well.

Many thanks for the tips.

@brenda-gross said in RegEx help:

one has the character | and one has the work CONCAT

You could try this using the Replace function:
Find What:(?-is)^(?=.*(?:CONCAT|\|))(.*)
Replace With:--\1
Search mode must be regular expression. You can click on “Replace” to do it singularly, or “Replace All” to change the entire open file.

I do wonder though that the single character | might be used elsewhere. Hence why I say using the single Replace button so you step through the file and can check each line is correct for change before changing it.

Terry

It appears that those that like a less-streamlined UI are about to get their dream feature:

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I’ll say no more.