True credit goes to guy038, but I’m glad I could assist.

I understand, that’s why I didn’t post this earlier: my current version is 6.8.3 and the latest release is 6.8.6, so it should at least update my software to 6.8.5. I’m wrong ?

Manual updates are perfectly fine and you don’t have to uninstall old versions.

I notice that in my"?" menu there is no check for updates

You either just have the standalone version of N++ (which does not auto-update) or during the installation you didn’t select the “automatically check for updates” option.

The auto updater is triggered about a week after a release, that way in case any major bugs are found, thousands of people don’t have a bad version.

Bugs can be reported on Github.

As a quick solution. I’d recommend uninstalling the mimeTools plugin.

Ok, I will check that out. One thing I just tried was Uninstalling NPP again and then DELETING the Notepad++ folder. Downloaded the latest and installed. It worked!!! BUT, I installed some of the plugins I had before and bam, does not remember anymore. I think it is Tidy, since that is one of the more recent ones. It could be the XML tools as well.

For anyone trying to figure this out, the plugins I added after it was working, one of which made it fail could be one (or more) of these: Tidy2, XML Tools, NppAutoIndent, NppFTP, JSTool, JSON Viewer.

I have had the last 4 for a long time. Tidy2 and XML Tools are when this issue started.

by the theme chosen i.e. Vibrant Ink

Looks like Vibrant Ink doesn’t have any style configuration for COBOL. Only a few non-default themes have it for COBOL at all.

Hi again.

Fixed it myself. Just in case anyone else want to know how.
I had this row added to associationtable:
<association userDefinedLangName=“RAPID_ABB” id=“rapid_function”/>

And my parsercode looks like this know when it works the way i want it to:
<parser id=“rapid_function” displayName=“ABB Rapid” commentExpr=“!”>
<function
mainExpr=“^[\t ]((PROC|FUNC|TRAP)[\s][a-zA-Z]\w)”>
</function>
</parser>

Maybe it can help someone else.

//Anders S

Thanks guy038 for the solution and explanation. Cheers

Did you even try to use Google?