@Coises
Thanks, but I am pretty sure that I have tried that without success,
Perhaps the reason it didn’t work is that I probably had the ‘Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support’ checked, which according to @Peter Jones would invalidate the solution.

Thanks a lot to both of you for valuable and knowledgeable support!

Since you typed this message in Spanish, I guess you speak primarily Spanish.

Since you did not get proper letters with accents or tildes in your message, I guess you are using a computer that was set up for English. What to do depends on whether this is your computer or whether you are using a computer that belongs to someone else.

If you are using a computer that belongs to someone else, or that is controlled by your school or your employer, then you should explain your problem to them and ask for assistance.

If it is your own computer, then you should change the language settings to use a Spanish keyboard. You should be able to find instructions by searching for something like how to install Spanish keyboard on Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the right forum for a detailed discussion of that, since it is really a Windows problem, not a Notepad++ problem. The problem can be fixed; you will get better answers by searching than anything I could just paste in here.

Traducido del inglés con Google Translate:

Como escribiste este mensaje en español, supongo que hablas principalmente español.

Como no se ven las letras con acentos ni tildes correctas en tu mensaje, supongo que estás usando una computadora configurada para inglés. La solución depende de si es tuya o de si usas una computadora de otra persona.

Si usas una computadora de otra persona, o que está controlada por tu escuela o tu empleador, deberías explicarles tu problema y pedir ayuda.

Si es tu propia computadora, deberías cambiar la configuración de idioma para usar un teclado en español. Deberías encontrar instrucciones buscando algo como cómo instalar un teclado en español en Windows. Lamentablemente, este no es el foro adecuado para una discusión detallada sobre esto, ya que es un problema de Windows, no de Notepad++. El problema se puede solucionar; obtendrás mejores respuestas buscando que cualquier cosa que yo pueda simplemente publicar aquí.

@samsung-s6-Lite said in Help REPLACING content with incremental order (by +1):

using your method I managed to work out how to do it PARTIALLY using this.

Find what: SnapRestSeconds = \d+
Replace with: SnapRestSeconds = (?=match)
Search mode: Regular expression

This starts them at number at ‘2’ I need it to start at 30 please, can you help?

If it started at 2, then you did one sequential Replace with the same replace expression first. That’s OK — just be aware that replacing “continues from where you left off” if the expression hasn’t changed. After you close and reopen the Replace in indicated region dialog, change the expression, do a Replace All or select Clear History from the drop-down menu beside Replace All, counting will start again from 1.

The expression you want is (?=match+29). (Since match will start from one, add 29 to match to start from 30.)

@Terry-R Oops, I knew it was simple, just the \' which should not have been escaped. And on the site regex101.com only the “Rust” flavor pointed it out !!!
Thanks anyway for the tips …

@Ioannis-Karadimitropoulos said in problem in search:

I search for the string γεα.
I get all these liens that have γεα inside the verses
but I do not get those having γεα at the end of verse

The “like the verse” example you gave is literally in the list of matching results you showed us:
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And, to confirm, when I paste the majority of your post into Notepad++, both of the Line 14919 lines match the γεα

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@Nicholas, looks like you cant!

as @Alan-Kilborn pointed out, the option is there, but it’s greyed out.

is there a toggle that enables editing?

@Ekopalypse I know this is very old post, I have just lived with it till now. I started to try and find the answer again and found my own old post. You are correct the background for the Global Style Smart Highlighting was set to the default background. This fixed my issue.

@Michkovy said in Customizing toolbar buttons and non default icons:

A final question, what format settings do the fluent icons have? Mine are lacking transparency at the moment.

Sounds like yours have 24bpp. You need 32bpp to have transparency.

The Plugins > Customize Toolbar > Help - Custom Buttons actually tells that you need the 32bpp, though it doesn’t explain why. And it also just mentions the 32x32 size – but that means that it has to be downscaled to 16x16 when running with small toolbar icons, so I recommend having both.

(Note on icon editors: VS2022’s icon editor will show the 32bpp image types in the ico file, but won’t let you create a new one with transparency. I generally use GIMP for icon editing, which has no such limitation; a dedicated icon editor like IcoFX will generally work, too. [I believe you have to find a copy of 1.4.6 or older to have a freeware version; the newer versions are commercial products and will stop being able to save after a 30day trial.])

Actually, I didn’t answer your question as asked, I answered what I thought you really meant. But to answer the actual question, the fluent icons in the source code actually use 8bpp with one color index being dedicated to 100% transparent pixel. So if your icon editor will allow that, and 255 colors are sufficient for your icon (probably should be), then you could try that, instead (I believe VS can do transparent in 8bpp mode). If you want to use the same palette as Notepad++'s fluent icons, you could even grab one of the fluent icons from the source code and use that as the basis for your icon(s) – just replacing the image for each of the sizes.

update: the user manual now explains that you need 24bpp or 8bpp to get the transparency.

@PeterJones said in Korean script letters do not group in Notepad and Notepad++ (Help Wanted):

I tried pasting 하ᄂ구ᄀ into LibreOffice Writer, and it combines some of the pieces but not all:
9b81f20d-99dd-4e01-82e8-986bc761c8d4-image.png – it also uses NSimSum font when I paste those characters. And though I pasted them in as the six characters next to each other, once they are in, Writer treats them as 3 characters

I’ve been trying to figure out what is going on here. I know nothing about the Korean language, but I did come across the Hangul jamo while implementing the Unicode rules for determining grapheme cluster boundaries as part of my Unicode-based search.

I don’t recommend trying to read that unless you have a lot of free time and brain power. The bottom line for this purpose is that Hangul syllables are written as separate characters, each of which can be composed of multiple Unicode code points. The most common sequence is LeadingConsonant+Vowel+TrailingConsonant, though there are extensions and complications.

Like many other Unicode characters, Korean characters come in composed and decomposed forms. I think all the modern Korean characters have a single-code-point composed form. They’re usually typed in a decomposed form, though, and assembled into composed form by an Input Method Editor, though decomposed form is permitted in Unicode.

The reason pasting that combination into LibreOffice Writer produces three characters rather than two — which, as you might notice, is also true in the web browser rendering — is because the original poster’s decomposition is wrong. The canonical decomposition of 한국 (\ud55c\uad6d) is ᄒ ᅡ ᆫ ᄀ ᅮ ᆨ (\u1112\u1161\u11ab\u1100\u116e\u11a8), not ᄒ ᅡ ᄂ ᄀ ᅮ ᄀ (\u1112\u1161\u1102\u1100\u116e\u1100). The latter version uses all leading forms for the consonants, but the third and sixth code points should be the trailing forms.

However, the correct decomposition still doesn’t compose visually in any font I can find in Notepad++.

I downloaded the current version of Scite and set the font to NSimSum by using Options | Open User Options File, typing:

font.base=font:NSimSum,size:12

there, and saving. I opened an empty tab and chose File | Encoding | UTF-8. Then I pasted:

한국 á ç

(You can’t see it here, but that is the canonical decomposition of all those characters.) Just as in Notepad++, the Latin letters with diacritics display as composed, but the Korean syllables do not.

Therefore, I think this is a Scintilla limitation. Why it doesn’t compose visually, when LibreOffice Writer and web browsers do, I have not yet been able to determine.

All this might not be as related to the problem @SalviaSage described as it appears to be. Notice that the original post says:

For example, I want to get (한국).

Those two characters are composed. They don’t consist of individual jamo. You can determine that by pasting them into Notepad++. You can also determine that neither the forum nor the web browser is performing the conversion to composed form by pasting this: 한국 into Notepad++. It looks the same here, but it’s six separate characters in Notepad++.

So I think the original poster’s problem has more to do with using, or not using, or misusing, an Input Method Editor. Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about those. Notepad++ will display the composed Korean characters just fine; for some reason, the individual jamo are going directly from the keyboard to Scintilla without composition. I’m thinking perhaps an inline IME is a default for a web browser, but not for Notepad++? I have to leave pursuit of that possibility to someone else.

Actually, I initially took Kedar’s XML, which I assume is based on Chris K’s

@mpheath said in Tall tops/bottoms of Devanāgarī letters are clipped in monospace fonts:

The line height can be altered by increasing the extra ascent or descent with using the LuaScript plugin.

Or using PythonScript plugin: add to startup.py:

editor.setExtraAscent(8) editor.setExtraDescent(6)

And make sure Plugins > Python Script > Configuration has Initialisation set to ATSTARTUP.

Or ExtSettings plugin, using the Upper Line Spacing and Lower Line Spacing fields.

@Stefan said in Text anti-aliased since 6.7.9(.2?):

I just tested with 6.8. Enabling / Disabling windows clear type will change how the N++ menu is displayed but not where i read and edit the document. The “Enable smooth font” switch does nothing on my machine. “SCI_SENDMSG 2611 1” in NPPExec does help but is not persistent. This is really frustrating… Am i doing something wrong ?

Thank you!

Still an issue 10+ years later… Luckily NPPExec supports running scripts on startup:
https://i.imgur.com/DC94mqV.png

@PeterJones,
First time posters, dropping links, is never a good combination, legit or not. It’s presumptive and intrusive, since the only purpose seems to be to dump and run.

@PeterJones Good idea. Regardless, NPP is much nicer to use after your “how-to-fix-it” script, and I’m thankful that you could provide a way to fix it.

@Kendall-DeMott said in Session Fails ? ? ?:

@Terry-R
Terry TY for your help and suggestions.

I don’t know anything about Notepad++'s own backup system,

Then read the FAQ, as @Terry-R suggested. Understanding is always better than not understanding.

PS, when I looked in Notepad++'s backup folder, all there is is just file that load a single tab from mods that I edited, but none of the file were the (5) that I use all the time,

That “backup” folder is where Notepad++ keeps the unsaved changes for any files that have unsaved changes. As soon as you save a file, it will delete the backup, because the periodic backup copies are only intended for tracking unsaved changes; once you save a file, it has no unsaved changes, so there is nothing to track. Similarly, if you close a new 1-style never-saved tab, Notepad++ will prompt you to make sure you aren’t about to lose all your changes with never saving it; but it trusts you: once you tell it you don’t want the file, it will accept your decision, and close that file and remove the periodic backup because the periodic backup is only for files that are actively open in Notepad++.

funny how it backed up all these single files, but not one of them is one of the five tabs that I would open on almost a daily basis.

It backs up exactly the ones that are currently being edited in Notepad++, no more and no less.

I was keeping (backing up) the session file from Notepad++ install Dir, this has never failed in the past.

That very much surprises me, since in a normal installation where your settings files (and backup directory) are in AppData (which yours is, as shown by your Debug Info), then the active session.xml file is the one in AppData, not the one in c:\program files\Notepad++\session.xml

This is the session file, you can clearly see the (5) lines are there, they just not longer load from this file when the default session file from Notepad++'s install Dir is overwritten by my BU file copied from the install Dir:

You seem to be saying different things about the session.xml file. When you try to “restore” you session file from the backup, where do you copy it from? Where do you paste the file to? What order do you do things? Because some of your phrasing implies you are backing up your session file into the installation directory, and other of your phrasing implies you are using the one in the installation directory as the backup. And I’m confused what you’re actually doing.

Assuming you have some directory that I will call c:\backup\ which contains c:\backup\session.xml that looks like what you pasted in your reply, then the steps to get back that session would be:

Exit all copies of Notepad++ Copy c:\backup\session.xml to %AppData%\Notepad++\session.xml Open Notepad++ Assuming those files still exist on the I: drive and the drive is accessible, those files will open at this time

However, any usaved changes that didn’t get saved to the files before will obviously not be there, because whatever went wrong earlier that caused your session to get messed up caused Notepad++ to think it was safe to delete the snapshot from the backup\ folder, so your unsaved changes for those files no longer exist. Going forward, you need to keep in mind that Notepad++'s backup folder is really misnamed and should be called a “snapshot” folder – it’s where a “snapshot” of the unsaved changes are stored, but it’s highly temporary, and should never be relied up for long term backup.

My recommendation, and the recommendation of most of the regulars here, is that you take an active role in backing up your data, and don’t rely on backup settings that you don’t understand. This is the advice I have incorporated in to the FAQ.

If a file or data is critical: 1) save to a known location, often; 2) have an established backup system that is independent of Notepad++; 3) when appropriate, use revision control software like svn or git, so you can better track changes over time. Doing anything less than that says that you don’t actually think the data is critical.

JsonTools maintainer here.

The sort_keys setting in JsonTools should be set to True when pretty-printing JSON for comparison.

This is because the order of keys in a JSON object doesn’t matter: {"foo": 1, "bar": 2} and {"bar": 2, "foo": 1} are the same, but a general-purpose diff tool like ComparePlus doesn’t know that.

@Coises Thank you for the information. It is not happening on 8.6.6 on my machine either. I will stick with this version for the time being.

Reported as Issue #17033.

@PeterJones

That seems to have done the trick!

Thank you so much for all your help today.
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@PeterJones Exceptional, thanks for the help!