• Please Read This Before Posting

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  • v8.7 Search Results Missing

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    xomxX

    This v8.6.9-v8.7.2 issue has been fixed (GitHub commit).
    The fix will be included in the next Notepad++ version (probably v8.7.3).

    @PeterJones
    I would leave this topic pinned for a while longer until the fix reaches most N++ users.

  • HELP: Having trouble with Macros in v8.5.3 or later

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    Mike NewmanM

    Moderator Note: The contents of this post were moved to a separate topic, Macro works normally, but fails when shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+C, because it’s actually separate from the >=v8.5.3 issue for this Topic.

  • How does one create a desktop icon for this program please?

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    @xomx said in How does one create a desktop icon for this program please?:

    C:\Program Files\Notepad++\

    Thank you to everyone for your replies. I followed the advice of @xomx and opened Program Files. I couldn’t find a .exe file but right clicked on the Application itself within the folder and that yielded a “Create Shortcut” which allowed me to get the desktop icon I was wanting.

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  • What makes notepad++ capable of making an html ???

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    Since this has come up twice in the last couple months, I have cleaned up the instructions and split them off into a dedicated “FAQ: Using the GCC version of Notpead++

  • Keyboard shortcuts from external apps not working

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    @Ekopalypse said in Keyboard shortcuts from external apps not working:

    @Bernard-Danino

    Right, that’s strange.
    I use Deepl, there is also the shortcut ctrl+c+c and as you can see in this screenshot, it works.

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    Understood. I passed it on to Reverso. Maybe they have an explanation, although the ticket I opened over there didn’t yield anything. Maybe this new info will get them going.
    Thanks

  • How to use VS Code keymap in Notepad++?

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    N

    Hi, I ran into the same issue.

    I unfortunately don’t have enough time to manually check every single vscode keymapping, but with the courtesy of an LLM I was able to generate a “good enough” shortcut map that has all the functionality I need, which is mostly just alt+up/down and ctrl+/

    https://gist.github.com/nopeless/b18fe37105fd165cd9c637d4a2a2b48b

    Here is the link

  • Some files no longer load. Many files are missing in the document list.

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    @john-murphy ,

    I had delayed responding, because I’m not sure I understand exactly what’s going on for you. I was hoping someone else understood your post better, so they could provide help. But since it’s been a few days with no response, I will chime in saying, “I am confused”.

    I try to load a file I use often and it opens a workspace

    How do you load the file? Windows Explore double-click? Windows Explorer right-click and picking Edit with Notepad++? Notepad++'s File Open or toolbar equivalent? Double clicking on the filename in the View > Folder as Workspace’s panel? Double clicking on the filename in the View > Project Panels > Project Panel N? Something else I haven’t thought of?

    I cannot think of any way to get any of those actions to launch the project/workspace panel or folder-as-workspace panel. (Those last two had to manually open the panel first, before double clicking, and double clicking would still open the file.)

    About the only thing I can think that would change Notepad++ to automatically open a “workspace” instead of a file would be if you had set Settings > Preferences > MISC’s Workspace file ext: to an extension that happened to match your file’s extension (in this case, I think you want Portguese general.txt, and it would really surprise me if you’d set that extension setting to txt); but if you did that, and the content of your file was the right XML to match a workspace definition, then Notepad++ would open that workspace instead of opening a file. But that doesn’t quite sound like your symptoms, and it would be really confusing to me.

    I think you need to explain more step-by-step what you are doing – maybe even with screenshots at various points along the way, so we know exactly how you got to where you are.

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  • Cannot change Encoding to correct encoding of UTF-8

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    @Coises said in Cannot change Encoding to correct encoding of UTF-8:

    Open Settings | Preferences… | MISC. and look for Autodetect character encoding.

    Thank you for your suggestion, this liitle “trick” with unchecking Autodetect fixed the issue for me

  • AsNotepad.xml nolonger working as it did

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    Chris GorringeC

    Thanks Peter. I was starting to wonder if I was running NP in an odd way that was preventing it from working correctly. 😊

  • NPP context menu implementation

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    CoisesC

    It’s open source. Look here:

    https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppShell

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    @Kunal-Mehta

    Everything is possible if someone with enough time and desire can tackle this.
    Unfortunately I personally don’t have the necessary time to realize this, the little free time I have at the moment is not even enough to maintain my own plugins with the necessary love and care.

  • Notepad++ replacing '!='

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    PeterJonesP

    To future readers: I have updated the User Manual’s description of the DirectWrite settings to show:

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    This should hopefully help guide people in how to use or disable this feature of their chosen fonts

  • Unexpected change in language

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    @Pat-Mitchell ,

    Since this question had nothing to do with the installer issues from the original post that you replied to, I forked it out to a separate question: this will get it in the right place so people know you are looking for help on this separate issue.

    There are two ways that I could interpret your question: your first phrase, “My note pad switched to a foreign language”, makes it seem like the user interface (menus, dialog boxes, etc) changed to a different language. For that, @Jonathan-Johansen’s advice is solid. As it says in that discussion, if you cannot figure out which menus to click to access the settings, because it’s too foreign for you, you can exit Notepad++, and use Windows Explorer to go to %AppData%\Notepad++\ (or appropriate config file location for your Notepad++) and delete nativeLang.xml – when you restart Notepad++, it will go back to the default English language.

    But you also said, “When I try to load a document, it comes up foreign and unreadable” – and the Settings > Preferences > General > Localization (or deleting nativeLang.xml) can do nothing about that. Notepad++ shows you the text that’s in a file, regardless of what localization language your user-interface is set to. If the text is in Chinese characters, it doesn’t matter whether your user interface is set to English, Russian, or pig latin – the text will still show up as Chinese.

    So if you are loading a file and it is showing up in valid Chinese – if you don’t know, you could copy the text, and paste it into your favorite online translator, and if it can spit out meaningful English when it translates, then it probably is valid) – but if it’s showing up as real Chinese, that means the file is really written in Chinese. So either you are not opening the same file as you did before (if you are sure that exact same file used to be in English), or someone edited that file and replaced its contents with the Chinese. However, if the text copied from the file cannot be translated (even if you put the translator website into “automatically detect language”), then it’s probably a binary file. If so, you are either opening a different file, or someone zipped it or changed it to a different format (a .docx or .pdf are not text files, so Notepad++ cannot be used to read them); or maybe someone encrypted the textfile, in which case you will have to ask them how to decrypt it before you try to edit the text in Notepad++; or, unfortunately, if your machine has been infected with ransomware or some other malware, that malicious code (which has nothing to do with Notepad++) may have encrypted or destroyed your text files, maybe in the hopes that you would pay them to give you back your original files (never do that; clean things up and restore your data from your backup, if that’s the condition you are in).
  • How to navigate DSpellCheck?

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    @PeterJones

    Thank you. I thought something was wrong with my Windows setup or keyboard.

  • Export Data to Excel

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    @Caroline ,

    I am going to echo @Mark-Olson’s sentiment, but with a lot more wordy detail, because that’s the kind of answers I give here. ;-)

    Notepad++ does not have a native compare function. Since you are saying you are using Notepad++ to compare, I have to conclude that you are using either the old Compare plugin or its much-improved successor ComparePlus. (If you are still using ComparePlugin, remove it and install ComparePlus, as that is the one that is getting continued support going forward.)

    Unfortunately, even ComparePlus doesn’t have any feature to export its comparison to any format (whether it be something “standard”, like normal diff output or a patch file, or something unusual like a custom spreadsheet format)

    Just so you know, Notepad++ is a text editor, and Excel natively works with binary data files. There is a text-based intermediary – the CSV format. But I cannot think of any standard CSV-based format that would be reasonable for a difference/comparison (ie, I have never heard of diff or similar tools outputting to a CSV format), so I doubt there’s anything ready-made that exists for Notepad++, any other text editor, or any command-line-based text-comparison tool like diff.

    Since no one here is likely to know what are “CRIMS codes” or what “RPA running [in Excel]” is, or what format that spreadsheet-based tool would want the “differences” in for comparison, there’s not much else we can do at this point.

    If you were to give us some short dummy “CRIMS”, along with a table

    | header 1 | h2 | h3 | |---|---|---| | A1 | B1 | C1 | | A2 | B2 | C2 | | A3 | B3 | C3 | header 1 header2 header3 A2 B2 C2 A3 B3 C3 A4 B4 C4

    And show us what pieces from the CRIMS codes (or the “comparison of CRIMS codes”) map into each of those cells.

    If it’s not too complicated, someone might be able to create a script for the PythonScript plugin that would take one or more CRIMS files and create the text-based CSV spreadsheet, which you could then open in Excel and use the “RPA” tool. And if the CRIMS codes and/or the difference format that you want is too complicated, it might be beyond the scope of free help in a text editor forum; so don’t be surprised if no one is able to help you with that, unless it’s just a simple mapping from a simple data format.

    (However, if comparing the differences between two CRIMS codes is something that people in your field often do with an RPA running in Excel, it would very much surprise me if there weren’t already tools – either command-line or Excel/VBA-based – that didn’t do the comparison or otherwise convert the CRIMS codes into the right format to read in Excel. In which case, it’s not a question for Notepad++ users.)

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    @Maxim-Rodin ,

    Settings > Preferences > Print, uncheck Print Line Number