@Alan-Kilborn

leaves some colors in my documents (even documents that weren’t involved in the compare! Yuck!)

Maybe the Compare plugin is using some “indicators” that you are using in some other way–so that there’s a conflict? Check other plugins, maybe, for overlap?

It seems like it would be fairly easy to write a Pythonscript to mimic the Compare plugin’s Diff since last save functionality, using Beyond Compare instead, something like this as the last lines of a script:

with open(unsaved_changes_file_path, 'w') as f: f.write(editor.getText()) subprocess.Popen([ beyond_compare_prog_path, unsaved_changes_file_path, notepad.getCurrentFilename() ])

I think I remember that you are familiar with Pythonscript so I’ll leave completing the whole to you…

@MAPJe71 , I think the original request takes it to a level beyond what “change markers” can provide.

Notepad

Here’s an old discussion that proves my theory as the original poster never deemed it worthwhile to reply with the solution:
https://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/331754/thread/fca513a6/

@Annoo-shee

and at the end notepad++ starts?
If so, can you show us the debug-info which you can find under ? menu?

It looks like your system has a problem with spaces in the path or that the installation wasn’t
correctly done.

You could also try to delete the shortcut and recreate a new one.

Cheers
Claudia

try the option “MISC/File Status auto detection/Update silently”

@Paola-Camacho

depending how you installed npp you do have two shortcuts.xml files.
One in INSTALL_DIR\notepad++ and, probably, one in %APPDATA%\notepad++
Check both, one should have listed your macro.

Cheers
Claudia

@Vasile-Caraus

afaik such components are bound to the windows theme and cannot
be modified by npp.

Cheers
Claudia

@Denislav-Dimitrov

sorry but I don’t get the point. Do you want to have the current document closed if you open another one automatically? Or something other?
You don’t look for Settings->Preferences->General-TabBar check Hide, do you?

Cheers
Claudia

@Anthony-MODOLO

do you mean you have explicitly closed these files and after restarting they reappear?

Cheers
Claudia

@Bart-Van-Audenhove

you can use regular expression search and replace with a technique like described here.

Cheers
Claudia

@Tim-OBrien

Menu Edit->Line Operations

Cheers
Claudia

@Jayson-Cohen

If you are comfortable with some programming you might want to check out

PythonScript LuaScript

This community will help, I’m sure.

@Steve-Dyson

Can I change the default character set when an existing file is opened?

unfortunately not at the moment, this has not been fixed yet.

even if you go to preferences > misc > and disable autodetect character encoding, it will open an existing utf8 file as utf8 and not to what you’ve set as your default

@Claudia-Frank

Hi, I already tried that but it doesn’t work. Somehow Windows (or Notepad++) doesn’t “remember” the software associated with the file.

@Luis-Piña-III

depending on how you installed notepad++ you do have either a
backup directory under INSTALL_DIRECTORY\notepad++
or under %APPDATA%\notepad++.

Check if you find the files there, if you can’t find it they are most probably gone.

Cheers
Claudia