welcome to the notepad++ community, @zejjnt

if you have recently updated to notepad++ 7.6.6 from e.g. 7.5.9:
the plugin folder structure has changed a bit, due to user demands of making the plugins folder more sorted and human readable.

before, the plugins folder was a single folder, where all plugin dlls and eventually their additional files were stored.
this caused many users not to know which files belonged to which plugin, making a manual plugin cleanup very difficult without performing a complete clean re-install.

now, the plugins folder is more structured, separating each plugin into a dedicated folder, which matches the plugins’s .dll name.

solutions:

to migrate old plugins:
(compatible plugins only)

please go to plugins > open plugins folder... to open up your plugins folder in windows explorer. look for a plugin dll name of a plugin you might need, e.g. HexEditor.dll. create a folder with the dll’s name, but without the .dll extension, e.g. HexEditor. move your plugin dll to this folder, e.g. HexEditor.dll to plugins\HexEditor. if existent and known, move additional plugin helper files to the new folder as well. (HexEditor will not have any)

to reinstall supported plugins:

please go to plugins > plugins admin. search for your desired plugins and select them. press install to install your desired and available plugins.

note: there are more plugins compatible with 7.6.6 than provided at the plugins admin available plugins list.
please search at our community for additional manual install instructions for many of those plugins.
if you can’t find it, please open a new topic, we will help you on all plugins which are known to run on newer versions of notepad++.

direct answers:

And the plugin manager and plugin admin detect different updates

important note: do not use the old plugin manager on newer versions of notepad++, like 7.6.6, as it is incompatible, due to not being aware of the new folder structure.
as for now, plugin manager is no longer maintained, and serves it’s purpose only for versions 7.5.9 and below.

And when I remove EVERYTHING and start fresh, there is no plugin administration at all so yes, I have tried to start over.

important note: if you remove “EVERYTHING” you will also remove the plugins admin’s nppPluginList.dll, which contains the compatible plugin list, resulting in the disappearance of plugins admin from the plugins menu.

many thanks and best regards.

Another option would be LuaScript. Edit the startup file, add the following, and restart.

npp.AddShortcut("Toggle Indentation", "Ctrl+E", function() editor.UseTabs = not editor.UseTabs end)

@Meta-Chuh said:

you can open up both files in notepad++ to copy and customise all required missing parts from stylers.xml to Ruby Blue.xml.

@megamanzteam : For the changes that @Meta-Chuh recommended to take effect, you have to save the Ruby Blue.xml, then exit all instances of Notepad++ and reload Notepad++. You might find it easier, after you’ve copied the JSON section from stylers.xml into Ruby Blue.xml to immediately save-and-exit. Once you’re back into Notepad++, Settings > Style Configurator should list JSON again, and you can tweak the JSON colors to your heart’s content.

@Michał-Gumiński

Be assured that all your answers may be found here.

@Geoffrey-Taylor

I don’t believe that plugin lends a dynamic nature to the toolbar icons.

@John-Booth said:

More details in case someone else should run into this down the road:

Thanks for coming back with that. It will hopefully help future readers of this thread.

Glad it’s working for you now!

@Gaby-Rivas

See here.

@Peter-Blacky

Open your batch file into a Notepad++ tab.

Press ctrl+f to open the Find window.

Put \ in the Find what box.

Untick the Match whole word only option box.

Select Normal for the Search mode.

Press the Find Next button.

@Randy-DiCotti

it defines escape characters, which disable a delimiter

for example if you have " as start and end, but you want to write it in the middle without breaking the highlighting, you can “escape” this character or sequence with another preceeding character, usually \.

more info: https://udl20.weebly.com/delimiters.html

Darn, that’s a bit annoying; but at least I know throwing different brackets at the replace line won’t do anything now.

Appreciate the help!

I think I found a solution there :
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13296/find-and-replace-everything-between-and-including-parentheses

with this :

https://i.imgur.com/u1CEkbx.png

(you have to select the text 1st for some reason … )

I do this: select everything and then copy … then convert the encoding … paste from the clipboard and save
The most interesting why Sublime Text does not break the Cyrillic alphabet when you convert encoding?

welcome to the notepad++ community, @MILDMAYHEMPVP

if you want to avoid answers like:

put your files on a usb drive. put your usb drive into an envelope. folder your envelope to close it. go to your local post office. declare your folded envelope as an export item and send it overseas.

we would need more information like:

are you using notepad++ at all ?
(if not true press the X at the top right corner of your browser window)

what file did you open in notepad++ ?
(only applies if point 1. is true, otherwise point 2. will not be visible by now)

did you open any file in notepad++ at all ?
(only applies if 1. is true and 2. is not known to you)

what is your definition of the terms export and transfer, as well as their difference to save a file ?
(if you managed to read until here, we can say hooray, thanks for all the fish, and now for something completely different 😉)

@Jay-Patel said:

it contain text is not in readable

It depends on what the content of the .lic file is what can open it. There are often multiple programs that use the same file extension to refer to very different kinds of data. A .lic often (but not always) implies a license file of some type.

A site like nirsoft (where @andrecool-68 linked) lists apps that happen to deal with a file named .lic – it doesn’t say whether or not it matches your particular .lic file.

If it’s a text-based license file (or other text-based format), then Notepad++ will be able to show you the contents just fine; but if it’s a proprietary binary format (for a license file, often used to tell commercial software that you have paid the publisher for a license; otherwise, proprietary binary data is common, no matter the extension), then either you need to use an application that can recognize that particular binary format, or understand that for some types of files (like a paid license file), the publisher doesn’t make the binary format public, because it will likely result in people trying to hack their license or proprietary data files, to steal trade secrets or gain access to applications or features that the customer has not paid for.

We have a FAQ about some of these concepts – it focuses on why .docx and .pdf documents aren’t readable in Notepad++, but the concepts are the same.

@Donáth-Dániel

Press and release the Insert key

@kopalypse
Thank you for the webbrowser suggestion. I tried it and it gets me 90% to my objective.
on my PC It lauches a window in internet exploror 11, not my default browser. Thank you for the suggestion and I will look deeper down this path to see if I can change this default.

@ PeterJones
your code samples and comments are perfect guidance for my knowledge level.
I have much to learn, thank you all for your responses.

@andrecool-68 said:

@Meta-Chuh
Plant it horizontally))

Super… nO cONFUSION aT aLL. :P

@Michael-Pollard

It sounds like a problem, surely. But for what you are trying to accomplish, have you considered

right clicking a tab and choosing Move to Other View (then you will have 2 editing windows that you can visually compare the contents of 2 files in, right in one instance of Notepad++)

using the Compare plugin