You are an angel :-) My mistake is that I tried to copy from Excel instead of making a new document i Notepad++ and that resulted in many very strange things. Now everything is ok. Thank you!

Best regards Magnus

@Mark-Warbinek

I assume you hit the MAX_PATH (260 characters) limit, which means
the amount of characters in the full path is not allowed to exceed 260 chars, might this be?
If so and because you are on windows 10 there MIGHT be a solution.
Stop npp and edit the registry

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

add a REG_DWORD variable called

LongPathsEnabled

and give it a value of

1

See here for the explanation of this.

Note, I don’t have any experience with this key but rumors on the web say
that 32bit applications might have issues when having set this key and using
api calls which do respect that key.

Cheers
Claudia

@kichi-po
@Scott-Sumner

looking at the message from outer space and this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+art&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY_Oe-0vvaAhWG2SwKHUqfB78Q_AUICigB&biw=1653&bih=918

it would be a funny thing if someone creates a image to ascii art converter plugin for np++ ;-)

@Alexandre-Machado

thanks for the key information (local ssd, ntfs compression)
i can not reproduce this delay on my ssd (non compressed folder, appx. 50mb file) using a 32 bit version of np++ 7.5.6.

could you try to temporarily adjust some np++ settings to try out if it makes any difference ?

settings > preferences > backup >>>
disable following options:
remember current session for next launch
enable session snapshot and periodic backup
backup on save > none

Thanks for help.
I found an option named “permissions” in ubuntu software configure just beside the option “remove”.
Turn on “Read/write files on removable storage devices” works well.

@Johnny-Shizzle

might be but is/was this a plain text file at all?
What is the file extension?

Cheers
Claudia

It’s because you’ve assumed the “convert” was in NPP, but really it’s in WordPress.

When you copy a selection from Excel and paste into a textual context, every line ends with a newline character (so if you only select one column, every CELL ends with a newline character), and multiple columns are separated by TABs. When you paste that text into WordPress, it appears to be converting the newline into a <br />. But when you paste it into NPP, it just interprets it as an end-of-line.

I don’t have WordPress convenient right now, but my next debugging steps would be:

What happens if you paste into NPP, then re-copy from NPP and paste into WordPress? What happens if you paste into NPP, then use column-select (alt+drag selection), copy, then paste into WordPress?

Search > Replace dialog

Find what : ^\R Replace with : (empty) Search Mode : ☑ Regular Expression Hit Replace All

@Scott-Sumner

You are right, if multiple panels are in one group it is different, also freeing the panel
doesn’t work if you click on windows title instead one needs to double click the tab field.

And it seems behaving awkward, to be honest - at least on linux it draws only half
of the panel first and then once updated the rest. (??)

Cheers
Claudia

The problem was solved once I showed the file extensions in Windows. Not sure how that fixed it but it now is saving the modified file with the .csv ext instead of defaulting to .txt which happened before even when selected All Files .. Thank you!

Thanks Meta Chuch.
It works. The name of version I’d dowloaded has the suffix x64, but obviously it wasn’t the right file.

Apply the shortcut you want to the feature you want. Then go to the conflicting function, and either change or delete its shortcut.

@Sagor

sorry, afaik there is no such setting available.

Cheers
Claudia

Ah, yes, forgot all about the Search/Replace on whole folders. I might be able to automate things a bit more through autohotkey.

Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll fiddle with that until I can get where I want with Python (and come back if I manage something elegant enough to be shared).

Have a nice week-end!

thank you. i am new and did not know that existed

Oh, that’s a good idea. I didn’t know these gists existed. I guess I will post my code in these things instead, then link remains the same, but code changes :)

Never mind! It’s WORD. The problem is that section of the style area is so complicated that it took a while to load, and I was being impatient clicking one after the other (with no indicator that anything was loading as I clicked), so I assumed WORD had the same settings as the last thing I clicked.

@Mutahar-Jy

Pointed you to the answer in the nearly identical thread you started…