Actually, I’m now thinking that my use of \u is the problem. I’m looking for it to cause the next character to be output in UPPER CASE, but looks like Python is expecting four hexadecimal digits to specify a Unicode code point.

@PeterJones said

mybrowser.exe file:///E:/dwgs/Json/OSM_tag_history/index.html?$(CURRENT_WORD)

This was the solution. upvote.

Currently, Notepad++ will auto-format the “<!–” and “–>” and replace them with some weird characters (long arrow).

Can this be disabled so it looks normal, instead of that auto-formatting…?

It is a feature of your chosen font. I am guessing you use Fira Code or Cascadia Code as your font, though there are any number of other fonts which also use ligatures. The User Manual’s Settings > Prefences > MISC > Direct Write Rendering Mode explains a Notepad++ setting which can cripple your font, if that’s what you want (though it also makes it harder for Notepad++ to render many emoji or non-latin text in your text files); or you could choose a font that doesn’t have the ligature feature (like the Fira Mono or Cascadia Mono, which are the non-ligature versions of the same fonts as those I mentioned above, as suggested in the User Manual) and not have to change the rendering setting in Notepad++.

@Victorel-Petrovich Another good idea: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8037

@PeterJones said in AutoComplete XML Problem:

Thus, it does not see the # at the beginning as being part of a “word” when trying to auto-complete.

I thought something like that might be the case but there was always a possibility of user error!

You’d have to do #PB instead of #P before it would pop up
Use Settings > Preferences > Delimiter’s

By default the PureBasic IDE doesn’t show autocomplete before 3 characters anyway so I can’t see an issue there personally, but there’s a workaround for anyone who just can’t live with that.

I am updating the wording of the user manual:

Thank you for your amazing response! That’s just what I’m looking for.

@tlt1970s
The ComparePlus plugin is your best bet for this sort of task.
I highly recommend this plugin for all Notepad++ users. I regard it as almost essential.

@Bernard-Jouffrey

Antivirus software in use?

:) you are not lucky, eh?
…
It looks like the reason it works for me is that I’m using the LF EOL, not CR LF as typical in Windows.

Cheers

P.S. @Brent-Ficker if you’re not familiar at all with regex, the “Extended” mode setting would work for this particular problem too, to gently introduce you to such things.

@PeterJones

I had to reinstall to get the English Customizable file installed (C:\Notepad++\localization\english_customizable.xml). I made some recommended changes (name="Exit&amp;°"), changed to English and then back to English Customizable and tested it and it did not exit as desired; thanks!

@ilya-zabelin ,

The certificate / signature is not broken – it is signed using a CA (Certificate Authority) Certificate that you don’t have. You just need to follow the instructions linked to as the self-signed-certificate link in the Release Announcement, which links to the official website instructions: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v883-self-signed-certificate/ . Or the online user manual has an entire section on how to install the CA cert on your machine.

(GlobalSign refused to let the developer get a certificate issued in the “Notepad++” name, so he made this new CA cert to “bridge the gap” until he is able to get some paperwork filed with his local government to register “Notepad++” as an organization, so that hopefully GlobalSign will be willing to use the “Notepad++” name on the certificate; government beaurocracy can be slow, so it might be a while, which is why the CA cert needs to be installed in the interim.)

@Patrick-909

And keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to menu commands by choosing run > modify shortcut and switch to the Main Menu tab on the Shortcut Mapper.

It would be good to have the Open in Default Browser be located in either the View or Run Menus, but creating a shortcut works for me.

@xomx said in Unable to see Data in the Notepad++:

I’d like to ask the affected users here, for which switching the DirectWrite OFF helped - what OS, graphics card and version of its drivers are they using?

E.g. post: Windows 10, Nvidia GeForce xyz, 2/24/2023 30.0.14.7430

(you can find such info e.g. by WinKey+R, type there devmgmt.msc -> OK, and check the Display Adapters > doubleclick on an adapter > Driver tab)

Win 11, VMware SVGA 3D, 4/28/2023, 9.17.6.3
Win 11, Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, 6/21/2006 10.0.26100.4484

Accessing a VMware virtual machine via Remote Desktop Connection (RDP)

@Danie-Bosman,

I used moderator powers to fix your embedded image.

Are the arrows indicatiing Tab characters, or merely indicating where the indents are?

Your drawn red arrows are the View > Show Symbol > Show Indent Guide indicators. They show up whether you are set to spaces or tabs, so it won’t help you determine which you are set to.

OTOH, the related View > Show Symbol > Show Space and Tab do show spaces vs tabs:

126dc4bb-05c5-4be7-aa93-20a8ffd5e33a-image.png

As @Alan-Kilborn said, the long right arrows are tab characters, the mid-dots are space characters.

Unfortunately, your screenshot did not include enough information to tell what language your code is in. Like I said, the screenshot needs to include the status bar to show us that, and you cut it off before the status bar. Your language looks vaguely VisualBasic-like, but that’s just a guess. (Though it’s confusing to me that your tab name claims *.txt, but it’s syntax highlighted like code; have you associated .txt with something other than normal text?)

Anyway, whatever language it’s set to, whether you are willing to show the status bar or not, assuming you can read the status bar yourself, or can look in the Language menu to determine what language is active for syntax highlighting your .txt file with code, you need to click on that language’s entry in the Indent Settings box that lists all the languages, and see what the Indent Using is set to for that language: see whether it’s set to Use default value, in which case it will follow the [Default] settings you show in you screenshot; or it might not have that set, and instead have its own, like Makefile does:

Examples comparing my settings for Visual Basic with Use default value vs Makefile with its own set to use tabs:

Visual Basic 1e2784be-9137-4be5-9b25-e49554bfbb19-image.png Makefile 2ec29bcd-b77d-4519-9876-c610152b64fa-image.png

update: But given your indication that you seemed to think the guidelines were tab characters (which they aren’t, necessarily), then my guess is that you were just misinterpreting what you were seeing, and this whole time, you really do have spaces where you thought it was still inserting tabs. Again, View > Show Symbol > Show Space and Tab will show you definitively and unambiguously whether the characters are spaces or tabs.

@Mark-Olson Thanks for the help, I’ll try it when I get back from vacation. Kind regards Thore