you fully understood the problem.

this is a description of the problem:
suppose I open a file (available on the net) with the notepad, another user who opens the same file but with another software (for example Ultraedit or Vim) must not be able to modify it.

I hope I explained myself

@Marcelo-Castro

Unfortunately there is no direct way to copy redmarked text, nor in general copying any non-whole line result from a search (whole-lines can be copied by bookmarking while marking, then there is a command to copy bookmarked lines).

So you can take @MAPJe71 's suggestion…make a copy of your file (if needed) and then remove the text (via Find something and Replace with nothing) you don’t want and keep the text you do want.

There are some other ways to copy redmarked text; this thread discusses some of them: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/12710/marked-text-manipulation

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.