Oops, embedded special characters (e.g $) would need to be “escaped” in the search expression; example \$. Note: NOT needed or desired in the “replace” part. Sorry for the omission.

There are so many things wrong with this… This is a forum about Notepad++, which is not the same thing as Windows notepad.exe. Your script is referencing the Microsoft product, not the open-source Notepad++ project that this forum is dedicated to. You seem to be asking how to code something. This is not a coding forum. You seem to be asking how to make a email attachment that automatically runs on someone else’s computer without their desire to have it run, and to have it do malicious or at least rude things. DON’T DO THIS This is tantamount to creating malware / virus / trojan / worm / etc. No, we are not going to help you “improve” this script to make malicious software.

@Ekopalypse said in new site rss?: thought you were talking about this community/forum site If you read back through the conversation, I thought the same thing. It wasn’t until @patrickdrd 's penultimate post that I realized he meant the main site. :-)

@Alan-Kilborn Great, thank you very very much :)

@Zsolt-Kántor said in There is no other way to associate files from NP++ Preferences only if you start the app with Admin rights?: I hope it will in the future version. Well, it doesn’t look good as (a) that pull request is from 2018 and (b) it is a closed pull request.

I don’t know but I don’t think so. You can file a feature request here if you like: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues BR

@Meta-Chuh said in Notepad++ 7.6 autoupdate disable: change the nextUpdateDate value in config.xml to the next millennium. nextUpdateDate=“30000101” for example Thanks for the workaround! It worked for me 🙂

@PeterJones Again many thanks for your effort and patience. I will try to work out your line of thought, but that will not be today, perhaps not even tomorrow. Busy as hell and in the mean time I work as I have done two years or so, which is rather a nuisance. But again I appreciate your helpful thinking. I will be back as soon as I can. Cheers.

DSpellCheck is at v1.4.13, and I haven’t got jN installed, so I checked the other one. MenuSearch is the culprit. When I close NP, it disappears from the process tree as well. Sorted :)

Thank you @gurikbal-singh . The information you provided matches few conditions.

@PeterJones Heheh…Peter holds people hostage to some decoding effort…hehehe. Wish I’d thought of that technique. It’s got snarky me written all over it. LOL In other words, Nice one Peter!

Now it works like a charm. Thank you again!

@Akshay-Khatavkar said : I want to get certain columns from the file and convert it to csv file format You could do it with code. Or you could use Notepad++'s column-select mode (*) to grab a column and paste it into your favorite spreadsheet app. *: Edit > Column Mode… shows you how: [image: 1569688831632-e0a84169-ecc7-41f2-947e-365178020c69-image.png]

@The-Rain said in Advanced Visual Theme: Is it possible to apply a visual design like this for Notepad ++? Why? No. You cannot affect the styling of the GUI itself in that manner. You can affect the text and background colors, so you can make light text on dark background: there are plenty of builtin “dark” themes that ship with Notepad++, or you can design your own theme to your liking. There is documentation on themes and the Preferences > Style Configurator dialog.

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@GreatMCGamer said in Plugin for opening files from clicking text in a file?: When clicked the plugin will look for the specified file by going 2 folders backwards from the file find_and_open_file_x86.zip find_and_open_file_x64.zip wacth at youtube

@PeterJones said in Custom Styles for 'Special' Comments: So I see a conflict: do you want to use a UDL ([Language > Define Your Language](https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user- If using the builtin HTML lexer, unfortunately Settings > Style Configurator > HTML dialog doesn’t seem to list any styles that have user-defined keywords. And even if you could, I think comments would override that. I was hoping to simply modify the built in HTML lexer. Thanks for confirming that that is not possible. However, there are workarounds: you can add extra highlighting to a builtin lexer (like the HTML lexer) using regexes via the script EnhanceAnyBuiltinLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares, in this linked post you can add extra highlighting to a UDL language using regexes via the script EnhanceUDLLexer.py that @Ekopalypse shares in this linked post I will check these out, but regex is usually challenging for me. I’ll give it a go. Thanks again, Tom Benedict

@Gerhard-Petrowitsch said in UDL-XML for Perl: Can you give me a pointer on how to realize option 1? The Preferences > Style Configurator documentation explains: Some language/style combinations (like Preferences > Style Configurator > Perl > INSTRUCTION WORD) will additionally have a list of default keywords (not editable) and user-defined keywords (which allow you to add new keywords to apply this style to).

@Randy-Reist said in Notepad++ File Association vs. No Authenication: authentication error. Authentication errors in Notepad++ sound like a proxy issue. See this topic for how to set up Notepad++ to properly see your proxy. Unfortunately, there are some proxy configurations that NPP doesn’t handle. You may have to turn off the auto-updater, and manually install updates and maybe plugins as well.