Ah, OK, many thanks!

@guy038

Thanks to @guy038 for pointing out what I should have seen when referring to the option to copy selected Lines for pasting into another tab.

I went looking for when that was implemented and it appears to have been added way back in version 7.9 here, #12, if my search is correct, so for over 2 years.

It is always nice to see a feature when one least expects it. This app keeps on giving and giving.

Terry

@PeterJones Thanks for your help !

@Amit said in Document Map Highlighter shown on weird location for 4K Monitor:

Are there a post on this forum for Recommendations for those who are using Notepad++ on 4K monitors? It would be a nice edition to have some notes/workarounds to play it nice with 4K resolution.

There’s a search capability for this forum.
You also might check out actual ISSUES filed against the software.
Good luck.

Hi, @bidule, @alan-kilborn and All,

Well, I noticed that in my last v.7.9.2 version, compatible with Windows XP, my Encoding menu looks like this :

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As you notice, between this v7.9.2 screenshot and the v8.5 screenshot of @alan-kilborn, in his post, there differences in the names of the non UTF_8/ANSI encodings :

For 7.9.2 release :

UCS-2 BE BOM

UCS-2 LE BOM

Convert to UCS-2 BE BOM

Convert to UCS-2 LE BOM

For 8.5 release and versions from v8.0 :

UTF-16 BE BOM

UTF-16 LE BOM

Convert to UTF-16 BE BOM

Convert to UTF-16 LE BOM

The differences is that :

The encodings relative to UCS-2 can ONLY encode characters of the BMP Unicode plane, between \x{0000} and \x{FFFF}

The encodings relative to UTF-16 can encode ALL Unicode characters, between \x{0000} and \x{10FFFF}, as well as the UTF-8 encoding

So, since the v8.0 release, there is a significant improvement about writing the exact characters, when they have an Unicode code-point over \x{FFFF} !

However, note that, when you want to search any character over the BMP so > \x{FFFF}, you MUST use the equivalent surrogate regex syntax of this character !

For instance the 💦 character, with the Unicode code-point 1F4A6 cannot be searched with the regex \x{1F4A6} but can be reached with its equivalent regex syntax \x{D83D}\x{DCA6}. Of course, you may also directly paste this specific character in the search field !

Refer to any Internet site relative to characters to get the correspondance between the hexadecimal code-point of a character and its surrogate value, expressed in a two consecutive double-byte string

Best Regards,

guy038

@Bob-Selby

I suppose you could use multiple instances to somewhat achieve the goal.

You can use the -multiInst command line parameter, and/or there are some Preferences regarding this feature:

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@fap-lord

@fap-lord said in How do I make my Notepad++ similar to the default Notepad?:

i get that the features are useful for some people, but at least i would like to be opt out of them easily. is that too much to ask?

Yes, actually it is. Considering there are plenty more applications out there with similar names, you could have chosen any of them, but you most likely chose this one because it appears at the top of a search list as the most used/downloaded and highly rated FREE notepad replacement.

This link can take you to plenty others with the same kind of name, that aren’t of the same caliber as this one.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/note-taking-apps-for-windows-10

@cisco779k ,
You seem to have quite a vocabulary for a non-english speaker, so try using your intelligence for learning regex, rather than crying for help and using $20.00 word swipes at the volunteers, who I wouldn’t blame for letting your posts die from neglect from here on out. And yes, polemic fits this post just fine.

So let’s consider a “quick refresh” context menu choice for Search results. Fairly simple to add a menu item. User invokes menu item, what happens? Oh, software reruns the search? Well, how does it do that??

This would presume that whatever is right-clicked upon has some way of knowing what the search was. All it actually “knows” is what the search term was (because it can read that from the text in the window). It doesn’t know the state of the Match case checkbox at the time of the search, it doesn’t know the Search mode, it doesn’t know if the item came from a Find All in Current Document or a Find in Files, and if a Find in Files what was the Directory, the Filters, etc., etc. So a major code restructuring would have to take place in order for each search to be retained so that this stuff could be recalled when needed, i.e., when a quick-refresh is called for.

The Search results window is pretty much just a dumping ground for output. It doesn’t carry around a lot of extra data about the search that was conducted, for purposes of reconstructing that search later. Why? Because whomever wrote that code didn’t think it was necessary for it to do so. And, up until this point, it wasn’t needed.

@Ronny-Fritsch said in Tab font size shrank to tiny size - how to change it back?:

Display Settings -> advanced Display Settings -> advanced Settings for Text and other Elements -> User defined Skale Setting -> Change to 125%
after this, the Windows User logs out after logging in again the bug is fixed.
You can now change the Skaling back to normal

Thanks Ronny-Fritsch, This worked!!! Was trying since very long to fix this issue.

@Bob-Wright ,.

I first assumed that when you said,

the notepad++ method of “highlighting” or marking that appearance is basically useless.

you were just trying to be rude.

But then you said,

That functionality you see, the turning the demarcated characters both red, my installation does not display that functionality. Perhaps it is a failure of the “theme” I am using.

So now it looks like you changed a setting, and that then obfuscated a built-in feature, so you genuinely didn’t know that the feature you wanted existed and works out-of-the-box. It’s hard not to assume the worst when a rude / argumentative tone is taken from the start.

Which theme do you use, that it doesn’t show the matching braces? If that’s the default behavior of one of the bundled themes, I will see if we can get the developers to fix that. Without specific details of which theme and which version of Notepad++ you are using (?-menu, Debug Info for full version info), I won’t be able to dig into whether there is something wrong with a particular theme that ships with Notepad++ or not.

the work around CTRL-B

That’s not a workaround. That’s the Notepad++ feature that takes you between braces. And if your settings prevent you from seeing the highlighting, that’s not the fault of the Notepad++ development team – they assume that users won’t change colors in such a way as to make a highlight invisible unless that’s what they want.

If the delimiters were clearly demarcated

They are. Out of the box, with no settings changes, they are a bright red. I don’t know how much more clearly they could demarcate it.

Meanwhile if I have to RTFM to use what should be an intuitive or obvious feature

Anytime you don’t understand or cannot find any feature of a piece of software, the reasonable expectation is that you would read the manual. For Notepad++, I and others have spent dozens (hundreds by now?) of hours improving the manual over the last few years. When you or anyone else comes and says that they cannot be bothered to read the manual, it’s rather a slap in the face.

what should be an intuitive or obvious function

it is. It’s a bold red highlight on both the { and the } in default Notepad++ settings. If that’s not intuitive and obvious, I don’t know what is.

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@Jürgen-Zimmermann

make the line operations a top level menu. I use them so frequently and always have to locate it in the edit menu

You can make it less burdensome if you customize your editor right-click context menu to add only those Line Operations commands that you actually use.

User manual LINK with info.

@Mark-Olson

If you follow my “Issue also reported HERE” link, you’ll see that OP solved his problem.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Save and start two (ands more) instances:

You could use “sessions” but it may not have the “ease of use” that you are thinking of for your situation. You’d have to experiment.

I think you are absolutely right. I already looked at the “sessions”, but did not notice the settings, which automatically retains change in session during restart. And also open each session in a new instance. One minus - with each restart, you will need to open every session, but i think it is suitable for me, it solves problem with my different size monitors.

Thanks for you help.

@Cariboudjan said in [Suggestion] Option to “Always search “Normal” by default”:

I noticed that the Find in Files process takes about 4-5x longer than usual with this new script. Is there a reason why?

(Strangely, I didn’t notice this trailing comment of @Cariboudjan 's before now…)

The answer is that the script has nothing to do with Notepad++'s Find in Files function, so you need to look elsewhere for why something might be different about it.

All the script does is open (or switch input focus to) the Find window and set the state of some controls on that window. Draw your own conclusions about how that can impact a Find in Files action (…it can’t).

Should I the update [?]

@PeterJones Aaaaah ok. I thought this is more of a reaction to individual post. I was wondering if there is like a voting mechanism on the issues as a whole that shows the developers which issues are “most wanted” in the grand scheme of 1900 opened issues… well I guess in the end developers do not decide based on votes anyway… its not that simple :)

but good to know there is THUMB UP

@Alan-Kilborn 👍

Thank you for your feedback. I also guess that only a person that is interested by this and has developer skill can achieve this. In the meantime, I have contacted Druid to inform them, an integration with Notepad++ would be appreciated.