The other option, of course, is for @venky to start from scratch with a new UDL. Then build it up slowly, so that every piece is known working.

Here, I start with blah.txt, with the UDL editor docked. I switch to the default User Defined Language (so it really starts from scratch), Create New, give it a name (Second), and switch the active language for just this file to Second.

Then I go into keywords, use lowercase warning and give it a color, to show that it’s case sensitive. (I forgot while recording this second video that the screenshot above already showed the Warning case matched what was in the pasted UDL definition)

I go into the second keywords box with capitalized Warning, assign it a color, and watch the color change in the editor.

If a user is having trouble getting a UDL to work, I recommend starting from scratch, and building it up slowly, because then you can see each individual step work.

@Snabel42 said in XML Tools not installed:

Would I assume correctly in that unlike the portable install, the NSIS-based installer preserves user settings across upgrades and re-installs?

99.9% of the time, yes. Certain users have said that they lost their settings, but no one has ever given a repeatable procedure that makes the NSIS installer overwrite existing config files.

I recently check the word count of my post do hamsters eat broccoli and its showing wrong word count what could be the possible reason.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Saving the current loaded session:

but it isn’t respectful to people you are asking to make software changes to tell them how easy something should be.

I do not see any disrespect in asking to make changes and simultaneously supposing the changes are easy.
Notepad++ has already many functions having to do with saving (the “Save” function it self at first) so that the mentioned function is only a fork of something, that already exists (and makes the program ergonomically better).

@Alan-Kilborn said in Saving the current loaded session:

they may ask YOU to make the necessary software changes and submit them as a user contribution.

I would do it if I only could.
But as a user and tester I only can give feedback and post it here or on github. I have done this humble contribution, nothing more.

@Alan-Kilborn
🙏🏼

@Stefan-Pofahl

I usually proceed as follows

Clone the repo open npp and start UDL dialog use import from the UDL dialog and point to Julia_Notepad++.xml from the cloned repo restart npp adjust the colors to my needs

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@Kod-yazalım

I think Alt+x was somewhat of a hidden thing, that worked before the addition of some new UI elements, notice:

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Really all it was doing was closing the current tab, so if you really like that keycombo you can just reassign the Close action in the Settings (menu) > Shortcut Mapper…, like so:

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@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for your Response, i have re-installed NP++ and followed this and it works. Cheers.

I lost all my open tabs too. At least 20, maybe more. That is the first time this has evver happened.

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you

@Alan-Kilborn You never know :)
Anyway looking into getting some windows 2000 hardware collected, I think I think I have thought things through enough.

@James-Clow , I don’t think so. I haven’t found such alternative.

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for finding the workaround.

@DavJenkins said in New feature request: Monitoring (tail -f) position after refresh:

It is impractical to toggle the tail setting off and on, …especially since there is no hotkey for doing so.

Assign whatever unused key you want in Settings (menu) > Shortcut Mapper… :

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For the rest, you can make a feature request, see HERE for some guidance on doing so.

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for the Windows theme suggestion - that should fix my issue. As for your confusion;

@Alan-Kilborn said in [Suggestion] Extend dark mode colours to all elements in NP++:

“cool customized dark mode” <— what exactly does that mean?

It means that some of the theme colors, to be specific the text and border colours, I modified to neon green (I do like to play script kiddie), and it looks cool (to me, at least). Anyway, thanks again.

Section 6 (and 4 and 5) of the GPLv3 actually covers the required terms to distribute the ‘object form’ of GPL licensed software.

All true. However those sections were drafted in the days of CD-ROMs and 3.5" diskettes. Nowadays, you “convey” the source by hosting it on GitHub.

Granted, Linux package maintainers do bundle the source files and make scripts; but only because their package policies are as old as the GPL itself.