@Reza-Nezami said in How to hide line numbers?:

I really don’t understand why linenumber is on by default!

Because lots of users like it tha way. (It’s really useful for programming, which is a major use of Notepad++.)

This is a pain in the &% to find where the setting has been moved

Because looking through a few panels of settings is so horrible. Or, gasp, you could read the user manual that’s linked from the ? menu. If you go to the “Editing” section of the preferences in the user manual: go to the “preferences” page and Ctrl+F to find the word “Number”. A few hits down (currently the eighth hit); or, if you remembered that it used to be called “display line number”, you could search for that, the first answer would literally be the new location.

Anyone wants it can go find it and enable it

The same argument could be made that “anyone who doesn’t want it can go and find it and disable it” – with everything else in your argument being used identically for the opposite desire. The designer of Notepad++ made a choice years ago on that, and would need a compelling reason to change the default (especially because all the people who were used to years of Notepad++ having the line number on by default would be seriously put out by the line numbers not being on by default, and they would complain a lot louder than you)

And BTW, we’re all just fellow users of Notepad++ here, so yelling at us (and yes, on the internet, ALL CAPS and Exclamation! Points! is yelling) will do you no good. (Actually, yelling at the developers would do you no good, either. Because that’s an awful way to try to convince them to bend to your will.)

@Dean-Davis62 said in Install Problem:

but no place to accept it then it closes

I just tried the 8.4.8 installer (32bit) and after setting English (default since the laptop is set to english) I also get to the licence window which has “I agree” at the bottom to proceed.

So firstly, which language are using using to install with (maybe an issue with that language so I could attempt to use that setting). Also can you do a screen print of the licence window? You can copy it (use snipping tool if wish to minimize what is shown) and the paste directly into a post here. Also which version of Windows are you installing onto?

Terry

01.2023:
I might be late because this topic is old but i found something for me:

Open CMD, browse to:
“C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater”

Run GUP -options
(GUP.EXE)

You will be prompted for Proxy Information. This will create a File called
“C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater\gupOptions.xml”

It contains the proxy information as following.
<GUPOptions>
<Proxy>
<server>17.17.17.17</server>
<port>0</port>
</Proxy>
</GUPOptions>

Hope that helps some other IT Admins

I’m sure Linux users would love to have Notepad++, myself included.

@Robert-Rodriguez said in Change History and SQLinForm formatting:

turning Show Change History totally off. Is there a setting that I’ve missed

Consult the Change History FAQ.

I had the same issue on latest version today. Turned out I had to run Notepad++ in Admin mode to be allowed to save the files. I was using “Find and replace in files” - it kept saying it made all the replacements I expected except it didn’t. Restarting npp as Admin solved the problem.

I hope this will help others with the same problem.

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

@Alan-Kilborn

How can get this “To store the info of styled tokens, the intuitive & efficient way is using offset/length.”?

@Alan-Kilborn Good to know, thanks.

Thanks @guy038, the solution seems to be working. I will try get this file processed by the engine.

@Alan-Kilborn ok. My bad. I am trying to edit the title with no luck. Using this forum for the 1st time. I’ll see and edit the title if it allows me.

Also note that for this to work you have to have an actual file – no folks, something like new 4, even if you’ve set its Language to html, isn’t going to cut it. Hit the actual Save on it, give it a real name (ending in e.g. .html) on your disk.

Rue the day when Don introduced this “new X” concept (and making it worse: with auto-remembering these “files” over runs of N++). What seemed like a good idea in 2003…hmmm.

@VAVoices ,

That shouldn’t change without you intentionally changing the setting.

Recently, there was another user who discovered that “mysteriously changing settings” were caused because they had two different copies of Notepad++ installed with different config files, and sometimes one was run and sometimes the other. You might want to check for multiple copies of notepad++.exe on your computer.

The other thing I see is that you are running in Admin mode in your screenshot: it may be that in admin mode, Notepad++ is able to write the config files when it exits, but if you run in non-Admin mode that the user you are running as does not have write permission to the appropriate config.xml, so it cannot save the settings, so the next time you run, it has forgotten that you don’t want that option on.

So, if you don’t have two copies of Notepad++, I would suggest looking into permissions of %AppData%\Notepad++\ directory and the files inside. You might find it easier to exit all copies of Notepad++, then use Windows Explorer to go into %AppData%\, and rename Notepad++ folder (maybe to Notepad++.old). Then re-run Notepad++, making sure it is not run-as-admin; this will recreate the %AppData%\Notepad++\ folder and all the critical configuration files that belong there, with everything set back to defaults (and the default for .bak is off, which is what you want), and the permissions should be right for your normal user to be able to save changes to the Notepad++ configuration when it exits.

@RedBlue-Writer said in I think it needs a fix for “Follow current doc”.:

@Alan-Kilborn No. I wanted to see the path of the current document by invoking “Find in Files” using “Shift+Ctrl+f” for a specific text. I also tried it in the menu, but it doesn’t work normally either. Thank you.

I’m mystified by why it doesn’t seem to be working for you; sorry. :-(

@Daniel-Essin ,

A quick web search (using The Search Engine That Knows All) gives me this: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-legacy-print-dialog-windows-11/

According to that article, all classic win32 apps were switched to that dialog in Win 11 22H2.

That article does describe a way they think you can get back the old dialog. Note that it’s a Windows-OS issue, not something specific to Notepad++, so any further discussion would be better suited at a different forum (maybe one made up of OS Super Users, or one specifically for your OS).

@PeterJones ty

@xomx Thank you! For the first time in almost 10 years using NPP, I was going to rollback and disable updating. Very very annoying feature.

oh yes. very easy! (if you are how to do it)
thanks for your reply

@Douglas-Ison

Most errors can be fixed if you know exactly how they occur.
Do you have more information, e.g. what your configuration looks like and if the tabs that are not available after the restart have something in common, e.g. that they are unsaved data or data on a network drive or …?
At the moment it’s actually more likely that you have something wrong on your side, because I’ve been using this feature for years and I’ve never seen this problem.

@PeterJones Thank you very much indeed!

Issue was created: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/12731