@vbloke2020 ,

The ...\Microsoft\Windows\Recent folder is a Microsoft Windows-specific folder, where the Windows OS keeps links to “recently used files”. So if files are being created there, it’s likely a link, and it’s likely because you have the Windows feature for tracking recently-used-files open, and you had recently opened a file called CustomDestinations<alpha_numerics>.temp, whether intentionally or as a side effect.

You can control the MS Windows setting at Start Menu > Settings > Personalization > Start, with the “Show recently opened items …” toggle.

If it’s really Notepad++ that’s “creating” that file, likely one of your plugins is creating a temporary file someplace else (presumably in a temporary folder), and then Windows is creating a shortcut to that file in that ...Windows\Recent folder.

@Tanja-Burovska ,

There is no official native port of Notepad++ to the Mac. However, I believe there are some here who have used the Notepad++ on a Mac before, probably using something like Wine (which is a tool for running Win32 applications on Linux, but since Mac is built on Linux, I believe I’ve heard Wine works on Macs, too). So the best I could say is, “try installing Wine for Mac, then install Notepad++ using Wine”. Unfortunately, I don’t have access to those environments or tools, so I cannot give you more than that.

have nothing to do with Notepad++'s existing FunctionList

At least FunctionList will scan the entire text. I thought maybe it can resolve the hierachy path at the same time. But now I think it’s more like the Scintilla’s job.

It appears to be more of a request appropriate for the XMLTools plugin.

I don’t know if such a plugin exists or can be build. And It’s not limited to xml codes If I can get Scintilla’s folding hierachy, right?

@Jap-Leuk ,

The menu entries Edit > Comment / Uncomment > … do work – including toggle (Ctrl+Q) and single-line comment (Ctrl+K), even in the most recent Notepad++ (v7.8.9)

You hint that you are authoring some sort of webpage (“the text … was not used on the website”), but you are mentioning c/c+±style comments /* ... */ and // ... . Javascript does use c+±style comments, but you were not very helpful in the description of the problem; I cannot tell what’s really going on for you.

If the same exact code, manually typed in some other application (like Microsoft’s notepad.exe) produces the same results that you get when you type the code in Notepad++, then the question is really about the coding, not about Notepad++, so you’ve asked the question in the wrong place (cookies!), and you need to find a more appropriate forum for your question.

However, if you are truly convinced that Notepad++ itself is doing something wrong, you will get better help if you can explain the problem by using actual text (use the </> button on the forum toolbar to format your text so it doesn’t get mangled by the forum) and/or screenshots of what’s happening. (If you find that all your screenshots are from your web browser, once again I maintain that you’re probably asking the question in the wrong forum.) You need to explain to us what you think Notepad++ is doing wrong, what Notepad++ is actually doing, and how you think Notepad++ should do it differently.

@Terry-R

Enjoy the holiday, forget about the forum for a while! :-)

Okay. But, and it is a big BUT, people don’t want to type a filename AND select a dropdown in N++.

Or maybe they do, because we used to have huge noise about how N++ wouldn’t autoappend the extension based upon what they chose in the dropdown.

Thanks.

(The only reason I’m using the Microsoft Store version is that this is a work laptop and I don’t have admin privileges to otherwise make a portable install of Notepad++ the default text file handler. But your point is noted.)

@guy038 said in FunctionList help:

I realized that my nice theory is, most of the time, rather useless

So I guess I am confused by this.

Just select all this text… (and further instructions)

Yes, but isn’t it often the case that you don’t have handy such an exact text you need to search for?

Maybe you need to search for a certain character, and all you have is its code. Example, the cheese wedge from before. You may immediately know that it is \x{1F9C0} but that’s all you know and you want to search for it.

@tseGIT

Do you think that is better than the session file approach?
I don’t.

@Ekopalypse
Thank you very much, worked perfectly !

@Makwana-Prahlad Ok Thank you very much

@Kosmos-Huynh

Something like this should do what you try to achieve

from Npp import notepad import os root_directory = r'C:\xyz\xyz\A' for _dir, _, _files in os.walk(root_directory): for _file in _files: if _file.endswith('.mht'): __file = os.path.join(_dir, _file) notepad.open(__file) notepad.saveAs(__file.replace('.mht','.txt')) notepad.close()

@David-Smith-0

If you are going to make a feature request, HERE might be a good place to put it, although it isn’t an open issue, developers might reopen it for your new request.

@VTGroupGitHub said in Sort as "aaAAbbBBccCC" or "AAaaBBbbCCcc" but not "AABBCCaabbcc", "aabbccAABBCC", or "aAAaBbbBCcCc":

as I almost made … my post body “See title.”

Thank you for not. That might’ve earned you a downvote on your OP from some users here, rather than getting you an answer. :-)

@tseGIT

Ah, so it wasn’t call or start at all?
It was the HexEditor plugin.
Maybe that should be the first debug question with all problems, “Are you using the HexEditor plugin?” It seems to cause a good number of strange issues.

Replace With = >${=java.util.UID.randomUID\(\)}<

@Alan-Kilborn
It’s tough to make that assumption, when so little data is provided.

You’re right.
What is an example, such an answer

for others: this was re-opened a few days later at the new topic: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19977/how-to-configue-notepad-with-any-programming-languages … any further discussion on this question should go there rather than here.

@Ekopalypse

OK, thank you for your effort!
I will try to work my way along your great example script here:
https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/blob/master/scripts/Samples/EnhancedPythonLexer.py

@Alan-Kilborn Like I wrote to the other respondent, much appreciated. Another farming metaphor: You’ve opened the gate to a grove (trove) of information. (The pun, and puns in general now that I think about them, we gotta admit it doesn’t hurt to crack a grin and roll our eyes!)(Y’know, now that I think about it some more, a pun may well be about the only humor that can be easily conveyed in plain text without having to explain it with a #hashtag.) Thanks again.

@gerdb42 said in simple wildcard search:

(?<=\b\w{3})[TW]

This one may be problematic with N++ because it starts off with a lookbehind.
Due to the nature of the way N++ conducts searches, I wouldn’t be confident in this one.
I’d go with one of the other suggestions.

@Absolute-Ciroc ,

Macros don’t record/show the pulling down of menus. They perform the individual actions (equivalent to what’s called from menus or keyboard shortcuts).

Unfortunately, some menu entries, while they are perfectly valid in macros, do not record properly; if you share what actions you want to take in your macro, we can help you figure out whether they can be recorded, or if they have to be manually added to the macro.

If you are trying to pick individual entries from the Most Recently Used File list (which you have covered up in your photo), then the chances are “no, Macros cannot access those” (though Restore Recent Closed File and the actions below should be (I believe) available to macros).

official docs: macros overview = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/macros/ official docs: macros config-file syntax = https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#macros