Thank you for the explanation - I do get it now, while Alt-Shift to select text, it works exactly as I expect it would.

I just didn’t understand that’s what I needed to do.

This will help with adding file exclusions in FSRM.

Thank you!

@overstop said in Mindmap like system in Np++ |feature request|:

Maybe for Np++ v8.

No, if anything, this is the best example I’ve ever heard that is crying out to be embedded in a plugin.

@J-N

npp has a callback FILEBEFORELOAD maybe this can/should be used
by npp internally in order to clear any new update notification received
at this point.
Do you by any chance use PythonScript plugin??

Technically every application can be embedded in another application
as long as this other application supports embedding a window.
Legally allowed? I don’t know.

@Johannes-Lorenz ,

Sorry, I’m not quite sure what you’re asking.

If you have One Drive or Google Drive installed and running on your computer, then you can use Notepad++ to edit the file in whatever directory the cloud software puts your files.

If you’re saying that you want to edit a file from One Drive or Google Drive when you aren’t running the cloud application on your computer, then you have to have some way of downloading from the cloud service, putting the file on your local drive, and saving it back to the cloud service; without that, you cannot reasonably expect to use any text editing software that resides on your computer to be able to edit the file.

I’ll get only some HTML-Code

I’m really not sure what you mean by that. My guess is that you’ve looked at the cloud file through your web browser in some mode that wraps the file in HTML, and tried to do a “view source” or similar action. I think in such cases, the cloud service web interfaces generally have a “download” button or “view raw text” button. From there, you could save the file to your local computer, edit it with Notepad++, then use the web-based interface to upload the new copy back to the cloud.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Search and filter IP address results:

Preferences -> Editing

Good catch, thank you.

Concerning the further instructions plea, I know you were kidding, but that’s what I get for not knowing how to shut up my big mouth in time, ha ha.

We’ll see, if there’s interest, it’s a simple thing to accomplish.

@long76

but maybe add flag update anyway?

Well, not within MY power.
It sounds like a FEATURE REQUEST but probably not one that will gain much traction.

Personally, I wouldn’t be so concerned.
Can you load/edit/save the text files you work on, with the version of Notepad++ you have?
If yes, be glad. :-)

@Michael-Vincent I came looking for the same info. I started to use Atom because it picks up on the function names in any open files and offers it in autocomplete. I’m doing PHP. So I start a session by opening my database and helper function files. Then any file I open gets full access to the autocomplete.

I prefer N++ but have been using Atom more lately because I’m doing a HUGE site update and the new function names are not in the old code. It’s saving me a TON of typing.

That said, other than the wording on the preferences screen, the official Notepad++ v7.8.5 Settings > Preferences > Auto-Completion does have those options:
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Unfortunately, I’m not sure it will do completely what @Gourav-Das wants. It has function completion for known functions (and word completion for words found elsewhere in your document); and it has Function parameters hint on input for helping you input the arguments/parameters to known functions. But I don’t know if the <installdir>\autoCompletion\java.xml has all (or even any) of the java.util.Scanner methods in the auto-completion list.

And the more I think about it, even if it did, Notepad++ doesn’t have the necessary language-awareness to be able to see that you’ve declared scan as a Scanner instance, and to thus later be able to tell “if the user wants to autocomplete on methods available to scan, I can remember that scan is a Scanner and supply only Scanner methods”. I know there are editors out there that can do such – but from the ones I’ve seen(*), it’s generally only for one or a limited set of languages; Notepad++ has syntax highlighters for dozens of languages, and the development team cannot be expected to be expert enough in all of those languages to build in that level of language-awareness. It might be possible to add that level of awareness using a plugin, but I don’t know whether such a plugin exists for Java-awareness or not.

(*: For example: the Visual Basic for Applications GUI, and thus the VBA macro-editors for MS Office products, can do that… but it’s for just the one VBA language. And I think Microsoft Visual Studio has some of that… but from what I understand, you have to install each language separately into VS, and you tend to get the whole benefit of the paid MS staff behind such feature sets. There may be custom-purpose Java editors/IDE out there that bring that level of Java-awareness; but I don’t know of any general-purpose editors like Notepad++ that can track a specific variable’s class in whatever programming language you happen to have chosen, and can autocomplete appropriately for that language and class.)

@David-Coleman said in Split Screen Mode:

I know a document can be cloned …
introduce a split screen bar which would allow two viewing areas of the same document

Confused. Isn’t this precisely what “cloning” provides??

It would be great if the clone could be to the bottom pane rather than the right pane

Right click the splitter bar between the views and choose one of the rotate options. Assuming your starting point, you should now have an over/under type view.

FOUND THE PROBLEM!

I had installed a utility called ClipboardFusion. ([https://www.clipboardfusion.com](link url)/)

This utility was modifying the text.

Uninstalled the utility - everything works again!

…any custom words they had before would be lost.

If the .usr file is in text format (don’t know, don’t use the spell-check plugin), perhaps the Compare plugin or a script to perform an automatic merge is called for. Just sayin.

@donho
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@Ekopalypse It worked! Thank you a lot!

@Michael-Vincent

I’m working on synchronizing the themes and I have opened a thread of my own here.

I got a lot of information and many links to even more information from guy038.
Unfortunately the topic is completely new to me,
so it will take some time until I can come up with a script here.

To give a short visual representation of what needs to be done.
The defined foreground colors from the default styler.

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All the colors that are similar should be migrated to one color.
Hoping to reduce the amount of different colors from >120 to 20-30
There will be only one default background and one default foreground color in the lexers.
I.e. on this example image, I would convert FFFFFF and similar to 000000.

The colors used internally by Npp would be handled separately,
because, for example, the background color of the current line must be different.

There is a lot to do but I haven’t given up yet. :-)

@Hans-van-Gelderen ,

I am using the “Bespin” theme.
The theme, which is just a color/style mapping of identified keywords in a certain context, should be irrelevant.

If the theme were set up correctly, then it would be irrelevant. But maybe the theme is out of date.

Think of the theme as a mapping from the named settings in Notepad++ to the numbered array in the lexer (which is part of another separately-maintained codebase, known as Scintilla).
Assume, for example, that in the “old days”, the CSS lexer expected “SETTING A” to be mapped to ID=1 and “SETTING B” to be mapped to ID=2. Then assume the “Bespin” theme was created. Then assume Scintilla changed the CSS mapping to expect “SETTING A” to be mapped to ID=3 and “SETTING B” to be mapped to ID=4. The default theme in Notepad++ was then updated, but no one updated the “Bespin” theme. So you tell the Bespin theme “I want these colors for SETTING A and SETTING B”, and the theme maps those to ID 1 and 2, and the lexer doesn’t see them because it’s looking for 3 and 4. Hence, the theme is not irrelevant to the conversation. (Note, I am not saying this is for-certain the case for the Bespin theme and CSS lexer; I am just saying it’s not out of the realm of possibility; I use the default theme, and rarely edit standalone CSS.)

Thus, because it might very well be the theme, for debugging purposes, please try the default theme.

If you are in the position to get Notepad++ enhanced in this respect

This is a forum for the Community of Notepad++ users. Some here have contributed to the codebase, but the primary developer uses the forum mostly for announcements. And this is especially not a 1-on-1 support desk, where you can expect that I am now committed to solve your problem for you – I voluntarily read and answer in this forum, to help other Notepad++ make good use of the tool, but I am not part of the “in crowd” or a paid employee, and you cannot assume that I will always be available.

Feature requests and bug reports do not go in the Forum – but really, the forum is a good first-line of support, to help educate users before feature requests are made: maybe there is already a way to accomplish the goal in an alternate manner.

I noticed also other keywords in HTML, CSS and Javascript colored/styled wrongly

If it’s colored or styled wrongly in the default styler, then show us where you think it’s wrong, and there’s probably a bug (or a misunderstanding of what the correct behavior is); otherwise, the theme is likely to blame. As I’ve said, the developers don’t regularly update the themes that are bundled with Notepad++.

…and here is the link to the GitHub feature request:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8153

@abdulbadii

OR…you can just create your own forum for discussion of your fork, and don’t muddy the waters here!
Thanks.
:-)

Ok, I figured it out…
Turns out that the langs.xml file in my profile folder was seriously outdated. Many languages (among them Java) were missing, and once I’ve updated it with a new version I am now getting proper highlighting of Java.

@dinkumoil said in Uh oh, virus commentary pending?:

see my comment at the issue tracker entry.

Yes, it’s why I titled this thread with “Uh oh” :-)