@Satori said in How to Set a Larger than 28 Default Font Size OR Set a Default Zoom Size:

Other Options?:
If anyone knows of other ways that might get to this result, I’d love to hear them!

The dropdown only goes to font size 28. However, if you set a bigger value in the right config file, it will default to larger than that.

See OnlineUser Manual: Config Files: Editing Config Files for general hints about editing Config Files, but for you, the following should work:

Close Notepad++ Open %AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml E:\Notepad++\stylers.xml [note1] [note2] in either Notepad++ or in another editor Change the line <WidgetStyle name="Default Style"... to set fontSize="64" or whatever huge font you want Save stylers.xml and exit the editor Launch Notepad++; the new, bigger font size should be in effect. Please note that Style Configurator > Default Style > Font Size will show up as blank now, because it’s not in the list of available dropdown sizes.

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notes note 1: for a normal installation, it would be in %AppData%\Notepad++\stylers.xml, but I saw your Debug Info (thanks!) showed you were using local config mode, so I adapted my answer; this note is primarily for future users who don’t have NPP on the E: drive. note 2: if you have a theme selected, it will be E:\Notepad++\themes\<themename>.xml or %AppData%\Notepad++\themes\<themename>.xml instead

@Luis-Piña-III

If you mean “How do I make the cursor not blink?” then what you do is set the Blink rate to S for “slow”:

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Drop the Settings menu and choose Preferences… to get there.

@Pete-Lucas ,

“Not responding” generally means either the OS or CPU is overwhelmed – either because Notepad++ itself is using too many CPU cycles (which I almost never see except in giant regex searches, though other people occasionally report it) or because another app is taking so many cycles that Notepad++ gets only occasional cycles and cannot complete normal tasks. So you would have to do things like look at the Windows OS tools Task Manager and/or the Resource Monitor to see how much CPU is being used by other apps vs. Notepad++.

Often, people report Notepad++ slows down (or stops responding) when it’s trying to do a big search-and-replace (which isn’t what you’re doing, since you’re just loading a file). Or if it’s a humongous file (>100Mb) and it’s trying to do a lot of syntax highlighting – but since your file type is .cfm, and Notepad++ doesn’t by default have a syntax highlighter associated with that filetype, so that’s probably not it. (Also, you say “simple”, so I am assuming small. Is .cfm a ColdFusion Markdown file for you? That’s what a quick search for that file extension guesses, but you don’t tell us.)

You might have a plugin that’s trying to do something with a .cfm file. If you shared your ?-menu’s Debug Info, it would tell us what plugins you have installed. And if you wanted to try with the -noPlugin command line option, it would disable all plugins… if -noPlugin makes it suddenly work 100% reliably, then you’ll want to go through and figure out which plugin is causing the slowdown.

Alternately, maybe the .cfm file was on a network drive or a shared drive (so that it had multiple people accessing, or you are accessing across a network), or maybe some other medium that was being slowed down because some other application was accessing the drive at the same time, not allowing Notepad++ to correctly read the file.

Or maybe you had a file from a network or shared drive in your Recent Files History; if so, go to Settings > Preferences > Recent Files History and check the checkbox for “Don’t check at launch time”, which as explained in the manual will avoid checking if files in the Recent Files History still exist.

Mostly, you’ve given very little to go on, so I had to make guesses based on the normal causes of slowdowns. There is nothing inherent about the .cfm file extension which causes Notepad++ to stop responding, so the problem is likely somewhere else … and the hints above will help you try to solve or workaround the problem.

Basically you need to modify the startup behavior of Notepad++ via Windows Compatibility tab.
You can get here many ways, I’m just using task manager since I had notepad++ open.

Start notepad++ CTRL+ALT+DEL - open task manager. find notepad++ and right click on it and select --> Properties. Click the Compatibility tab Click Change High DPI Settings Check “override high DPI scaling behavior” and set it to Application
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@markusjevringsesame said in Notepad++ 8.1.5 has weird margins in the entire application with the editing space a tiny part in the middle:

a reboot might fix it, and it did

Maybe not a PERMANENT fix.

@Pierluigi-Vitiello ,

Regular expressions have a concept called “escaping”, where you put a \ before the special character, and it turns it into a literal character. So if you want to search for a literal dollar sign $ rather than the end-of-line that the symbol means in a regular expression, search for \$ instead of $.

see the docs at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#single-character-matches for more on the escaping sequence.

I think * is used for comments

This construct is used for comments within a regex:

(?# … )

So, for example:

(?# I am a comment )

Sorry answered my own question. it is a setting in Preferences -> Searching
Don’t fill find field… was checked

@Extreme-Gio Something about your reply (maybe the words “old method”) reminded me of something I put together a while back which was very easy to repurpose to meet your need (completely outside of Notepad++):

@echo OFF rem -- Cellvars.cmd -- Ref: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21946/there-is-a-plugin-for-inster-sequence-numbers rem x is start index, gets incremented; set x=0 rem xp is the leading padding string used in the var name; stays constant; it's length should be the number of 0's needed while x is a single digit set xp=0 REM set tot num of vars needed set count=17 DEL /P out1.txt :LOOPN9 set x2=%xp%%x% REM the number after the ~- should be (length of xp) + 1; example: for 500 vars, need xp=00, and use :~3 in next command echo var cell%x2:~-2%=Math.round(msg.payload.minutely[%x%].precipitation *600) /10; >>out1.txt set /a x=%x%+1 if %x% LSS %count% GOTO LOOPN9

Save it to new file Cellvars.cmd and execute it at command prompt. Output goes to a file called out1.txt so make sure there’s no local file with that name that you need to keep.

@Name-Private ,

But it folds to the very end of my code/text?

For UDL folding in comment, it works just like described at https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/folding-in-comment/ , which you can get to from the link in the UDL dialog:

If I make a quick UDL that just defines comments like HTML comments: <!-- this is a comment --> Then I can use Folding in comment style, like described at https://ivan-radic.github.io/udl-documentation/folding-in-comment/ <!-- openFold --> stuff here <!-- middleFold --> blah <!-- closeFold --> outside of folding-in-comment

which if that UDL is active will show up as:
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… and then when folded:
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Note that the folding begins and ends with the keywords defined.

Also, is it possible to add this folding function into the already existing HTML language?

You cannot combine folding from a UDL and folding in a builtin syntax highlighter like HTML, sorry. Only one lexer – either UDL or a builtin – can be active at a time.

deleting the * stars in front and back of the search-phrase did it *facepalm

thx a lot for your effort n time to help me

Thank you for a great and extensive reply - I’m not used to using explorer [I use Free CommanderXE donor ], however I did try find C:…AppData without success. The %AppData% worked a treat and I found the back ups. Unfortunately this was 0030 Melbourne Australia time and I switched off. Today [0911 Melbourne Australia] I fired up again and, of course the backups were over written but all the other tab contents were there but not Z, title of missing one]. My fault entirely, I tend to use and resort to manuals if necessary- pain in the posterior, I write manuals for sport so I’m used to read ^%$&#manual.

My system is a Raid 5 and should be bog standard, The ? I didn’t realise had this debug info, viz
Notepad++ v8.1.5 (32-bit)
Build time : Sep 26 2021 - 15:15:32
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 2004
OS Build : 19041.1237
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

Although I notice your version is 2009, mine is 2004 on auto upgrade. So far Notepad++ is a great program and should come standard with all MS systems, all it needs is a smack system for people like me who don’t save manually. I think I was thinking does <save> save the doc on which I’m working only or the whole lot.

Thanks again for your excellent reply. Lu

@PeterJones said in notepad++ crashed, all data in file is lost!:

the first item in the change list addresses your issue. Good timing: same day fix

Well, maybe not such good timing, as the data has been lost already. :-(

But the really great news is that moving forward @User-Name can continue working just like always, without a concern that he should have an independent backup strategy in place for his valuable data. Thank goodness. :-)

@BET_BioBE
@Alan-Kilborn said in Clipboard history:

Ditto […] (and certainly don’t know if you can search its entries).

Ditto, and yes you can search its entries:

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There are tons of configurations for it - including a dark mode theme, and I just have a shortcut for “Paste” as CTRL+ALT+V so normal CTRL-V does normal paste, my Ditto shortcut launches the Ditto window you see above to select what to paste and then click or Return on the entry inserts it.

The greatest advantage of this over Notepad++ built-in or plugin - Ditto is SYSTEM WIDE - it captures all my clipboard (including the image I copied and pasted above) and makes it available to ANY application.

Cheers.

@Alan-Kilborn Just trying to be sort of vague to cover my ass here as I am sharing data from a customers SAP system…
But NEXT time! ;)

Everything went into the user manual I am writing for the use of that excel sheet, with references back here.

@Neil-Schipper

It’s inconclusive, unless OP comes back for more help.
We’ve seen it many times.

@jiskapav Good that you have the more general (dimension-neutral) solution.

If Alan (or someone else) had not provided a pythonscript solution, I would have proposed a pair of macros-with-hotkeys (one to copy, one to paste) for each dimension. Thus, 4 macros might have satisfied 90% of your need.

@Григорий-Новожилов My interpretation of your need as pseudocode:

For each string in Condition between first occurrence on a line of // and the next occurrence of /

For each occurrence of that same string in result, also between a leading double slash and single slash on a line

advance count

What I’d probably do is:

Prepare:

Make safe copies of both files. Obtain a modern Windows “diff” (file & directory compare) tool. You can install the Compare plugin (Plugins, Admin…), but standalone ones are friendlier and more sophisticated and there are good free options.

Then:

Clean both files so they contain only the strings of interest, one per line. This can be done with a macro (incorporating a {non-regex} find), or, a regex S&R. (Try learning and fooling around with these on your own. https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/ If you need help, ask.) Sort first cleaned file (menu: Edit, Line operations). Sort second cleaned file. Use diff tool on the cleaned sorted files.

Now the mismatches in counts will jump out at you, and it will be much easier to count them.

Note that (a copy of) the cleaned (and maybe sorted, your preference) Condition file can be the start point for your report file.

If this is still too hard (because very big files, or, many entries, or done frequently) there will be a need for more sophistication.

Some fancy diff tools might have options to automate the counting.

@Patrick-Kelly said in Need to totally remove Notepad++ so I can reinstall:

Are any of the instructions just given changed in this case?

Yes as the portable version contains all customisations within its “installed” folder. So you just need to delete that folder to clear out the installation. That’s the beauty of the portable version, it’s self-contained.

So your original post was a bit sparse on details, are you having a problem getting Notepad++ to run? If so what sort of problem? Can you provide the Debug Info, use ? menu, then “debug info” which can be copied and pasted here.

Terry