@niko-hamil ,

Unfortunately, as you may have surmised from the resounding silence, there is not much you can do: if the periodic unsaved-file “backups” aren’t in their folder, then the crash caused Notepad++ to exit during the brief time that the files didn’t exist (or you didn’t have the unsaved-file backups option turned on)

For the future, I recommend saving your files to known locations frequently, rather than leaving them opened-and-unsaved. For more, see our backup FAQ

@alan-kilborn
ok, thanks for that :)

for the rest the program works, if I run it directly.

@peterjones

congrats, very nice. In the future it may be easier to create them with the newly added NPPM_CREATELEXER message.

@alan-kilborn Perfect! Thanks so much.

@pallieguy said in Notepad++ 8.4.2 not recognizing file extension to define language:

I wonder when I did that?

Probably at one of the updates: there was a while when the installer would not notice an old installation if it wasn’t in c:\program files\notepad++, so even if you had installed to D:\notepad++\, the updater/installer would put the newer copy in c:\program files\notepad++ instead. IIRC, that has been fixed (I spent a couple minutes searching through the issues list, but wasn’t using a narrow enough set of search terms, so couldn’t find it buried in all the other results), so the next time you run the installer/updater for whatever version you end up keeping, it should hopefully default to the existing location.

@peterjones @Alan-Kilborn
Just wanted to thank you guys for your feedback and advice the other day.

After unistalling Notepad++ and deleting the folder in the programs file, as well as the one in #APPADATA#, I downloaded Notepad again, and installed xml-tools. I took the advise from @Snabel42 and unchecked some options in the plugin meny, and things seemed to work fine.

But not for long … I belive there is some issues with the plugin, and that it affects the performance of Notepad++, making it unresponsive for shorter or longer periodes, both when using find/replace and when working more manually with the text, on the keyboard and/or with the courser.

I’ll go to the plugin people on github and post an issue, but thanks again!

Mats

@d-east ,

Interesting, I did lots of experimenting after someone mentioned sessions to me, and found the following sequence:

Only one instance open of Notepad++ Open change.log and license.txt (closing anything else first) File > Save Session… => main.sess File > Close All Settings > Preferences > Multi-Instance & Date > Multi-Instance = Open Session in new instance View > Document List turned on Open readme.txt Exit Notepad++ and restart At this point, the Document List is still visible File > Load Session… => pick main.sess It opens change.log and license.txt in a second Notepad++ instance, but this instance does not have Document List visible Exit the second instance of Notepad++ Exit the first instance of Notepad++ Restart Notepad++ to prove that Document List is still visible, which proves that the setting is still in effect

This confirms your issue.

I was going to point you to the FAQ for where to submit bug reports, but it turns out issue #9710 already shows a report of the same issue: “Document List panel is not shown when new instance is run”.

@teo-deb ,

Weird. You might want to grab a fresh copy of nppPluginList.dll from one of the portable downloads, and see if that fixes it. Because I know that nppPluginList does not crash v8.4.1 (or any other version of Notepad++ I’ve used since v7.6.3 stabilized on the modern nppPluginList)

@alan-kilborn I have thought hard, I just hate indenting with spaces

@ken-detweiler said in periodic backup suddenly stopped working:

“Enable session snapshot and periodic backup” absolutely does not work

Great bug report.
What version of Notepad++ are you referring to?
I am certain there will be further questions for someone that says something “absolutely does not work” and those are 4 words of a 10-word description.

@Sean-Moody ,

I think this script will do what you want

# encoding=utf-8 """https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23149/find-and-replace-with-increments/4 This will start by matching text from `{` at the beginnig of a line to `}` or `},` at the beginning of a line Inside those groups, it will replace all "zone_#" or "zone #" with the value of the counter The counter will increment between `{...}` groups """ from Npp import * import re counter = 1 def replace_group(m): global counter out = re.sub(r'(?<=zone[ _])\d+', str(counter), m.group(0)) counter = counter + 1 return out console.clear() editor.beginUndoAction() editor.rereplace(r'(?s)^{\h*$.*?^},?\h*$', replace_group) editor.endUndoAction()

The editor.rereplace line matches from { at the beginning of a line to } or }, at the beginning of a line. It then calls replace_group() on that match. The second function does the search-and-replace inside that group, looking for zone followed by either _ or space, followed by one or more digits, and replaces those digits with the current value of the counter. Every group of { to }, will increment the counter by one, so each chunk will get a unique number, but use the same number inside.

Assumptions:

That your example data isn’t missing leading spaces, because the regex assumes the { and }, are at the beginning of the line. That there aren’t any other { and }, at the beginning of lines embedded inside (so nicely indented and properly formulated json) That zone_1 and zone 1 within a single {…} block should all get the same counter value That you don’t have any zone_### inside your blocks that you don’t want changed (you didn’t show any, but…)

@lycan-thrope said in NOTEPAD++ 8.4, 8.4.1 and 8.4.2 crash:

eded knowledge y

Thank you so much to both of you, indeed …
I try to update them, and see what will happen.
Stef

Found out I had to run NotePad++ as administrator.
Now all file associations work.

My bad.

@adam-kalinowski

.lnk files are binary files; Notepad++ is a text editor. So, even if you could open them in Notepad++, it wouldn’t be a great plan to edit them with it.

I have the same issue: why Notepad++ displays space character as NUL in a .txt file?
The .txt file just displayed fine in any other text editors including UtraEdit.

@lycan-thrope Thank you!

@alan-kilborn said in File TabBar Context Menu:

@tekbear

Yes, see HERE.

Thanks, I just finished getting it done (debugging a spelling mistake is painful). For the benefit of others here is an example:
npp custom context menu.png

Hello, @gabriel-mourão, @alan-kilborn and All,

I’m sorry, Gabriel, but your final search regex seems invalid -:((

May be it’s some typos, introduced by the forum syntax, but one correct syntax is :

!\\[([^]]+[A-Za-z{}=\\/!_-\s])\\]\([^)]+[A-Za-z{}=\\/()!_-\s]

Using the free-spacing mode, (?x), this syntax can be split as below :

(?x) !\\[ ( [^]]+ [A-Za-z{}=\\/!_-\s] ) \\] \( [^)]+ [A-Za-z{}=\\/)!_-\s]

Note that :

On one hand :

The part [^]]+ matches the chars range ![\vec{Q}=m \cdot \vec{\Delta v}

The part [A-Za-z{}=\\/!_-\s] matches the single char ]

On the other hand :

The part [^)]+ matches the chars range (vec{Q}=m_!cdot_!vec{!Delta_v}

The part [A-Za-z{}=\\/)!_-\s] matches the single char ), at the end

I suppose that it’s not exactly what you want !

Your need could rather be expressed as :

First search for an exclamation mark and an opening square bracket ![

Then, search for the smallest range of chars…

Till an ending square bracket ]

Now, search for an opening parenthese (

Then, search for the smallest range of chars…

Till an ending parenthese )

This leads to this simple regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-s)!\\[(.+?)\\]\(.+?\)

REPLACE \$$1\$

Best Regards,

guy038

@alan-kilborn Works for me! I had it on Follow current document, but if NPP wasn’t open already, it still defaulted to Public Documents. (Odd, because I never use Public Documents for anything.)

Thank you for helping — I figured it would be something simple that I overlooked.

@alan-kilborn said in How to show ascii value of one selected character or a double byte character?:

I will create an issue on your github page

I did this HERE.

(Sorry for getting off-topic.)