Strange.

When you disable Settings > Preferences > MISC > ☐ Enable Notepad++ Auto-updater, then exit and reload Notepad++, is it still disabled? If you open %AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml (or, if you are using local config, then your c:\program files (x86)\notepad++\ directory, or wherever you installed notepad++), there should be a line that says something like:

<GUIConfig name="noUpdate" intervalDays="15" nextUpdateDate="20180227">yes</GUIConfig>

If it says “yes”, then it should be doing “noUpdate”, so it shouldn’t be auto-updating. If it says “no”, then it should be doing the update. (reverse logic in the config.xml compared to the state of the toggle switch in the preferences)

If all the copies of config.xml say “yes” to noUpdate, and if the GUI’s preferences shows the auto-updater is disabled, and it’s still trying to update, you could try to rename the gup.exe and possibly gup.xml in your c:\program files (x86)\notepad++\updater\ (or equivalent) directory

There’s a plugin called Menu Search that might work for you. It’s available in the Plugin Manager.

There have been other threads in the past on high-resolution monitors, like https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14634/app-scaling-in-4k-resolution and https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13528/high-resolution-monitor-issues … but those seem more focused on the interface than the text size.

If it’s just the text size is too small, you could try changing Settings > Style Configurator > Global Styles > Default Style > Font Style > Font Size to a bigger font.

I did some searching. According to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-5.9.1-release-is-available.html, “As a result Notepad++ future releases won’t be supported under Windows 98/ME environments, since VS2010 cannot be used to target Win9X.” I believe that means that 5.9.1 should work Win98.

If you’d rather use a more modern Notepad++, I might recommend installing the most recent NPP on your host machine, and use the NppFTP plugin (also available thru plugin manager) to “remotely” edit the files on your virtual box.

@Some-Body169

As far as I can tell, this is not a Notepad++ question, so please don’t ask it here.

@Abygail-Paseos

I assume your goal is to see the result of your python scripts immediately.
If so, then using NppExec plugin seems to be the only reliable way to do if you
install the python 3.6 msi packages as well.

You cannot use NppExec (running on windows level) with MacOS Python installation
and having output shown in NppExec console window.

There are two main issues here, first wine doesn’t wait for a “native” process end,
it will return immediately after start and that means you most likely miss the output from the python script.
Second, pipeing between windows pipes and unix pipes doesn’t really work - I always got strange results.
The most successful version was to use a tcp server on linux and tcp client on wine (python script plugin).

So if you want to run your python scripts with your OS python installation you need to call them manually.

What I do in such a case is to have a proxy script and using clipboard module.
If script has been written and saved, right-click on tab to save full current path to clipboard,
switch to the terminal and call the proxy script which basically ready the clipboard and
executes the file via execfile.

Cheers
Claudia

or https://github.com/cghersi/snip2codeNET

See https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/1896 and https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14734/notepad-uwp-package-in-windows-store-almost-there regarding availability in windows store.

@Andrew-Gilbertson said:

not quite the “at a glance” feature

Right, for sure, that’s why I said “not much help”.

There may be some merit in the suggestion (for an option) to show one level of containing folder on the tabs. I like it. +1
Any more than one level, though, and the tabs probably get so wide they are unwieldy.

Hello, @maknol, @peterjones, and All

Here are two regexes, which could be useful to you :

(?-i)\u+ will match any non null sequence of Cyrillic Capital letter(s)

(?-i)(?<=\l|\u)(\d+|[[:punct:]]+)(?=\l|\u) will look for any non-null sequence of digit(s) OR punctuation character(s), ONLY IF surrounded, both, before and after with a letter, whatever its case

Then, each occurrence found could be, easily :

Converted to lower-case ( Ctrl + U )

Converted to upper-case ( Ctrl + Shift + U )

Deleted ( Delete )

You may also combine the two regexes, above, in the single regex, below :

(?-i)\u+|(?<=\l|\u)(\d+|[[:punct:]]+)(?=\l|\u)

However, due to some bugs with backward assertions of the Boost regex engine, used by N++, it may miss some occurrences

Just test, on the text below, the two individual regexes, above, first, then, the global one to see the slight differences :

аbc33def abc//DEf aBC33def aBC//DEf ' english абв33где абв//ГДе аБВ33где аБВ//ГДе ' cyrillic

Now, @maknol, which kind of symbols are you expecting within words ? For a few amount of these symobls, we could restrict the matches, let’s say, to digits and the / symbol, for instance ?

And regarding the differences between the case conversions :

Proper Case and Proper Case (blend)

Sentence case and Sentence case (blend)

just looks at that example, below :

---------------------------------------- INITIAL text ----------------------------------------------------------------- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE abc aBc abC aBC Abc ABc AbC ABC 0000 everyone is permitted to copy and DisTRIbute verbatim copies of this License DOCUment. but changing it is NOT allowed. ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ ---------------------------------------- Proper Case -------------- ( Alt + U ) --------------------------------------- Gnu General Public License Abc Abc Abc Abc Abc Abc Abc Abc 0000 Everyone Is Permitted To Copy And Distribute Verbatim Copies Of This License Document. But Changing It Is Not Allowed. ---------------------------------------- Proper Case (blend) ------ ( Alt + Shift + U ) ------------------------------- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Abc ABc AbC ABC Abc ABc AbC ABC 0000 Everyone Is Permitted To Copy And DisTRIbute Verbatim Copies Of This License DOCUment. But Changing It Is NOT Allowed. ---------------------------------------- Sentence case ------------ ( Ctrl + Alt + U ) -------------------------------- Gnu general public license Abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc 0000 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document. But changing it is not allowed. ---------------------------------------- Sentence case (blend) ---- ( Ctrl + Alt + Shift + U ) ------------------------ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Abc aBc abC aBC Abc ABc AbC ABC 0000 Everyone is permitted to copy and DisTRIbute verbatim copies of this License DOCUment. But changing it is NOT allowed.

From above, Peter and All, it’s easy to deduct that :

The Proper Case command UPPER-cases the first letter of each word and LOWER-cases all the other letters of each word

The Proper Case (blend) command UPPER-cases the first letter of each word and did NOT change the case of all the other letters of each word

The Sentence case command UPPER-cases the first letter of each sentence and LOWER-cases all the other letters of each sentence

The Sentence case (blend) command UPPER-cases the first letter of each sentence and did NOT change the case of all the other letters of each sentence

Best Regards,

guy038

@guy038

Unfortunately I’m not sure if that’s the cause of issues with LuaScript running on XP. I know that the plugin itself doesn’t use that type of function call. I’m not sure if the Lua interpreter does underneath…if so it’s probably not something I care to dig into.

@Scott-Sumner

Thanks again Scott.
You have been of great help.

I don’t appear to have a session.xml file.

is that is what’s causing the problem?