@peterjones than you for the answer.

I agree that standard Windows associating methodology can cover a major number of usecases when working with text files. But sometimes Windows or some apps open files for you without asking what editor to use (under the hood they call default notepad in similar way like I specified above).

It looks like the parameter -notepadStyleCmdline was created specifically for this “hack” with replacing default notepad, but there is something wrong with parameter processing in NPP.

@mh-hilpert
I have no experience with processing such large files from a network drive with Npp.
To find out what is going on in such a case, I would run Wireshark and Procmon to track the behavior.

@peterjones Done, added this same info to issue 9710.

If we’re going to have “automated context menus”, why not add a Copy to this one? :-)

Like Peter, I don’t have a strong opinion on the OP’s annoyance. If one “likes to highlight the paragraph I am reading”, I’ll notice that the “Quote” menu thingy doesn’t obscure that paragraph at all.

@alan-kilborn said in Autosave disable when you select multi instance:

so I presume there is a good reason for current behavior?

My guess is because if you have two instances that both have enable-session-snapshot turned on, then whichever instance is closed last will be the one whose session wins, and that would confuse/annoy some users and would guarantee data loss.

Having a feature that guarantees unexpected data loss is a bad idea in my opinion, and is the reason that I would guess that the developers have prevented session-snapshot from being enabled on additional instances.

@james-trowbridge Do you know about ascii codes, like ‘A’ is 41 hex is 65 decimal, and ‘a’ is 0x61 is 97?

Hence, in ext mode, searching for single letter ‘b’ is the same as searching for either \x62 or \d098.

@bo-chen

Probably not many here are equipped to answer the part about “Mega”. I for one know not what that is.

And/or is this a bug/flaw in the way notepad++ auto detects changes? Did the going back one hour at the daylight savings time trip it up?!

Probably, as N++ doesn’t need any code to handle DST IMO. It isn’t a big deal.

@dick-adams-0 said in NPP No Longer Remembers Previous Search Criteria:

Why would NPP think I wanted new documents to start with the letter ell?

It doesn’t.

never saved the new document, so why did NPP keep presenting it with a single letter ell when I launched NPP? Is that normal behavior?

N++ by default remembers unsaved changes to documents. Yes, it is normal behavior. You can change the way N++ handles this so that you get prompted to save/discard any unsaved changes when Notepad++ exits, if you want that behavior.

I’d say what happened was that you somehow “fat fingered” an l into your document, you never noticed it, and it just “hung around” as an unsaved change. N++ had no way of knowing it was unintentional.

@peterjones

Wow, cool popup preview if you hover over the blue “Invisible Characters Unwanted” text … apparently another aspect of the recent NodeBB update!

@hot12345 said in How to setup Cloud settings between 2 or more PCs and how to recover?:

Do I it wrong?

You must have done it wrong, because the SaveSession/LoadSession feature works exactly as designed.

Please note that Save Session only saves real files. Files that are unnamed/unsaved (the “new 1” and similar tabs) are not saved in the session file.

Watch this video to see it in action, including seeing that the unsaved/unnamed file is not saved as part of the session:

@laurie-stearn ,

This is essential equivalent to this recent post, where I explained one of the sequences that was in that SU discussion.

@jim-birch said in [Feature request] Capacity to copy Summary info:

to be able to copy all or part of the information on the summary page

That would be great, although not for the reasons you say (for which Peter has already given you solutions).

If you want to attempt to influence Notepad++ future direction on this, you can make an official feature request, details on doing so are found HERE.

@James-Trowbridge said in Replace a CRLF with a space in Notpad++:

but I cannot figure out what to put in the “Replace with:” field to replace the CRLF with a space (in other words NOTHING).

Your first mistake is to call a space NOTHING. It is a character just like ALL other characters. To be returned it must be in the “Replace With” field. Just hit the “space bar” once and you get the space character, try that.

Terry

@PeterJones Thank you again for your suggestion, but it’s a fastidious way. Meanwhile a better solution, I use small stickers (Post-It) on tabs. It’s quick and easy to change.

@James-Trowbridge ,

Personally, I have always used the ancient Windows OS feature charmap.exe for accessing special characters – I have it saved in my Notepad++ Run menu with a keyboard shortcut to make it easy to access from Notepad++ … once it pops up, I choose “Group By: Unicode Subrange” and pick the category (“subrange”) of characters to choose from.

But I just tried @guy038’s Win+; (and I think his “or” was meant to be Win+. instead of a second semicolon-based shortcut, because that’s the shortcut that the Emojis and Symbols panel told me to use when I first invoked it by Win+;… but now it’s stopped showing me that) – I might have to try to remember this one, because it might be faster (and supported longer into the future) than the old charmap.

@jim-murray ,

Boy, wouldn’t that be nice. Too bad the Notepad++ Developer doesn’t have a budget and manpower of Microsoft-proportions helping him implement features. ;-)

BTW: HTML doesn’t have variables or functions. Are you really talking about the JavaScript embedded in an HTML document?

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Addendum: one of the power users here is currently working on developing an LSP (“Language Server Protocol”) client plugin for Notepad++: LSP is what Visual Studio uses for linking to various “LSP servers” which can give it augmented right-click and code-completion features that go beyond the code-completion that Notepad++ provides by default. Assuming that an LSP server exists for the language of your choice (his examples show ones for Python, V, and D; there might be one for HTML/JS/ASP/PHP/etc or some subset thereof). So once that plugin is ready for prime time, and if an LSP server existed for the combo of web technologies that you are programming for, you might be able to get some or all of the feature set you’re looking for (eventually).

Additionally, there are a variety of HTML and web-related plugins already available for Notepad++, and while waiting for the full features of LSP, some of those might help make your development easier.

I must use the Installed Version of Notepad++, not the Portable Version as to work.

Lest other readers of this thread believe it, it is not true.

I made a Python script

Well, how exactly did you do this?

If you did Plugins > Python Script > New Script, and give your script a name and some lines of code, after you Save it for the first time you can go to Plugins > Python Script > Scripts and it will be shown there.

However, if you create a new .py file in the ...\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\ folder in some other way, it will not show up in the menus until after you restart Notepad++.

Using the New Script method, there’s an automatic way for the plugin to know to modify the menus right away. Using any other method – how could it know? At startup of N++ (and thus the plugin), it scans the scripts folder to build the menus the initial time, so it finds all existing scripts at that time.

@achalk ,

Technically, it does still exist, but it is not maintained, and is only available for 32bit Notepad++ .

Of course it was stupid of me to even think that that could be not a Windows problem.

But what is peculiar is that this issue is somehow connected to the pointer color (or rather the scheme color).

I’m using Windows 10 and if it is Mouse Properties > Scheme > Windows Default (system scheme) then everything looks okay, but Windows Black (system scheme) gives me that “ugly” pointer that is shown above.

If not a zoom indicator in status bar, may be an indicator directly in the “View/Zoom” menu?
So as it is in XnView - see picture.

xnview-zooming.jpg