@Scott-Sumner Thank-you for the Windows 7 data point. Confirmed the 7.5.7 tab behavior change across all of our Windows 10 systems–versions 1607 and 1803. We are not experiencing any issues with 7.5.6 and will simply postpone our application upgrade.

Hi, @andrew-clark, @scott-sumner, @claudia-frank and All

Ah :-(( I should have tested my idea of changing (?-s) into (?s), before posting. Actually, in case of multi-lines range of characters, between parentheses, the suitable regex S/R is , rather :

SEARCH (\([^()]+?\))|\x20

REPLACE \1

Hope it’s the right one, this time :-D

Cheers

guy038

Confirm I see the issue you’re describing in 7.5.7 (unsaved changes cause clones to de-link). This is definitely part of my problem.

But I just realized my issue with find-in-files opening a new de-linked copy is due to windows junctions. I’d somehow opened the files with the actual location then was searching via the junction folder. Notepad++ probably has no way of knowing it’s a symbolic link to the same file. Symlinks are trouble. :/

Scott, that worked. I am not a developer but Ive used REGEX in old school REXX

THANKS!

Thanks for the suggestion. After the usual searching Google and finding useless answers, screaming, throwing the computer out the window, etc, I rebooted Windows. Problem mysteriously went away. Arrggh!

Seems as I was even more clueless than I thought. I totally forgot about adding the ending to the file by hand. It has worked now. Thanks a lot

Hi,
menu and choice name will not be accurate in my answer because I’m not on an English installation, but I guess it will be close enough
to open all files with a given extension with Notepad++ by double click, right click on such a file in the file explorer, choose properties, and select Notepad++ as the application for opening (you might need to give the full path to the binary).
To tell Notepad++ to apply a language to an extension, go to menu list Parameters, choose Syntax coloration, select the target language in the panel, and type your extension in the fields on the bottom (on my install only two choices). And then of course save and apply.

@donho You might want to have a look at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.note.pad misusing the logo
and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woop.notepad
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartappspro.notepad