Problem solved. In the View->Show Symbol menu the Show All Characters item was checked. Clearing it fixed it. I have been using Notepad ++ for several years, and I had never changed anything in that menu choice until today. Thanks for the help.

If the 64th line of a group happens to fall on a blank line with no content, the Mark operation would not show that – no text to color red.

To solve this case, perhaps using “bookmarks” will help. Add this condition to the original Mark All operation:

Bookmark line: ticked

This would show like this on an affected line:

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@Alan-Kilborn I think I’ll duplicate it and make “hex to decimal.py” and “decimal to hex.py” to skip the dialog. Very helpful.

@amymor @Alan-Kilborn

I suppose that I have found the cause of the problem
It looks like calling NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME with a value of -1 can cause npp to crash. I assume this also applies to NPPM_GETLANGUAGEDESC, as I suspect the problem manifests itself when getLangDesc is called.

Thread 1 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ff6413bc493 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ff6413bc493 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #1 0x00007ff6413d8f2d in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #2 0x00007ff6413dab12 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #3 0x00007ff6413d4ce1 in notepad++!GetNameSpace () #4 0x00007ffd14c0e858 in USER32!CallWindowProcW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #5 0x00007ffd14c0e3dc in USER32!DispatchMessageW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #6 0x00007ffd14c20bc3 in USER32!SendMessageTimeoutW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #7 0x00007ffd16ed0d74 in ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher () from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll #8 0x00007ffd14251124 in win32u!NtUserMessageCall () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\win32u.dll #9 0x00007ffd14c0df02 in USER32!SendMessageW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #10 0x00007ffd14c0d68a in USER32!SendMessageW () from C:\WINDOWS\System32\user32.dll #11 0x00007ffce3751888 in notepadpp__Npp_call (n=..., msg=2107, wparam=18446744073709551615, lparam=0)

I add a check in EnhanceAnyLexer to prevent calling it in this case

pub fn(n Npp) get_language_name(buffer_id usize) string { lang_type := n.call(nppm_getbufferlangtype, buffer_id, isize(0)) if lang_type == -1 { return 'UNKNOWN_ERROR' } mut buffer_size := int(n.call(nppm_getlanguagename, usize(lang_type), isize(0))) + 1 mut buffer := alloc_wide(buffer_size) n.call(nppm_getlanguagename, usize(lang_type), isize(buffer)) lang_name := unsafe { string_from_wide(buffer) } return lang_name.to_lower().replace('udf - ', '') }

An issue has been opened.

@PeterJones Thank you!

Thanks Peter, it worked. :)

@Neil-Schipper said in How do you color certain text after a keyword in notepad++?:

you described here

Oh, come on, that was more than a day ago. I can’t seriously be expected to remember something from that far back! ;-)

@Matt-pointvicente

If you “disagree” with that well than so be it.

I think Peter is willing to take your complaint seriously, as long as you can provide what he asked for, specifically from above:

If you disagree with my experiments, please show example text…

As it is, you’ve given nothing but an additional whine.

@Nancy-Tietz

I, like Terry, have some advice about multiple instances, but mine is much more concise: Don’t do it, the potential problems (most of which are outlined by Terry) outweigh whatever possible advantage you think you are achieving.

@PeterJones

Thank you. I’ll try this solution as well.

@Alpha-LeFactor said in Quickie Question -- Which do I install?:

Installing software makes me nervous, these days.

I feel your feeling.
But with Notepad++, you’re good.
But maybe I don’t totally believe this because I’ve never installed it – I’ve only used the portable version.
Perhaps you didn’t know this exists?
Nobody has ever convinced me there are benefits to the installed version.

@skysurvf

See HERE.

@Terry-R Thank you so much for your help.

@Emalino-Emalero said in How to delete a stipulated number of letters at the beginning of each line?:

Wouldn’t it be possible to implement this function in text mode in the program?

Possible yes, probable, unlikely. Since this uses a rudimentary expression that easily covers the process.

There is another idea that works without regular expressions, it involves the use of a box that covers all 5 characters of all the lines. So you use Ctrl+Alt+mouse button which allows creating a box around the first 5 characters (or any number). Then you’d delete.
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Terry

Or, it could be a problem similar to this one, in regards to two things that seemingly look identical, are really not:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11999

@Nando-Piscopo ,

When you know it’s “yet another TextFx” question, have you considered looking to see if it’s a FAQ? Because it is. And as the “LineUp” entry in that FAQ suggests, Elastic Tabstops plugin might help you line up columns (though it’s been a while since I’ve used it, and I don’t remember if it has that specific column-feature or not).

That said, the FAQ also links you to the NppTextFX2 plugin, where someone took the original TextFX code and made it compatible with Notepad++ v8.4-and-newer (though there might still be one or two features which aren’t working … if you find missing/broken features, file a bug report with the NppTextFX2 repository)

FYI: the plugins CSV Lint (which allows each column to be colored differently, to help visualize columns even without the LineUp feature) and CsvQuery (which makes it easy to search big CSV, if you know SQL syntax) are generally considered useful when working with CSV files as well.

@Terry-R @guy038 Thank you so much! You guys saved me a lot of time. It works perfectly accurate

@Jeff-Esposito said in Notepad++ VERY slow to open:

What is it and why is it doing this?

Glad to hear you figured it out, and sorry for the late reply, but I try to stay away from the computer on weekends.

Windows provides the ability to collect statistics about running processes, and that is what procmon uses. I don’t think profiling information is particularly useful in most cases. The only scenario I can think of is if you are developing a driver that is loaded by the kernel, then you can get the information if it is working fast enough or leaking memory by comparing the collected values.

@Terry-R OK, so RTFM. lol Fair enough. Thanks!

I forgot to mention some things in my earlier post:

The scripted switch between light and dark mode doesn’t work while Notepad++ is open. You have to close it, run the script and open it again (should be no problem if Notepad++ remembers the current session for the next launch and regular backups are made).

For Linux-users: setting custom colors in the Compare plugin settings windows doesn’t work (at least on my Mint box, probably because of a link to a missing Windows system color picker). You have to modify the color codes manually in the config files. If you stick to dark mode all the time, you can just set the custom colors once in ComparePlugin.ini and omit the custom light and dark config files and the switching scripts.

@Phantom-Lord: coincidentally, I called my script to switch to light mode “Hit the lights” (Metallica in-joke).