@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.)

@peterjones
Thank you very much. Everything is perfect.

@guy038 Thanks Guy and Terry

this is a machine file so certain piece have more operations than others (operations like Dimple)

terry’s code worked really well. Thank you again Terry, now i just have to do the reading to comprehend

@lisa ,

Not built in. Notepad++ does not know how to remote-control Chrome (or any other app)

That said, as a workaround, just copy the URL from Chrome yourself, and paste it into your Notepad++ document.

Or use Chrome’s built-in bookmark feature, as that is that feature’s reason existence

@konrád-lőrinczi said in Modify shortcut menu entry executes HTMLTidy:

When I press the Macro > Modify shortcut / Delete macro menu entry in Notepad++, HTMLTidy is executed on the current file, then I get a popup error dialog:
TextFX
“Writing error summary to C:\winprg\Notepad++\plugins\NppTextFX\Config\tidy\HTMLTIDY.ERR”

Debug info:
Notepad++ v8.1.9.3 (32-bit)
Build time : Dec 6 2021 - 19:16:45
Path : C:\winprg\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : ON
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud

Config : OFF

OS Name : Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)
OS Build : 7601.0
Current ANSI codepage : 1250
Plugins : BetterMultiSelection.dll ccc.dll ComparePlugin.dll DSpellCheck.dll HTMLTag_unicode.dll mimeTools.dll NppCalc.dll NppCCompletionPlugin.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NppFavorites.dll NppSnippets.dll NppTextFX.dll NppTextViz.dll PreviewHTML.dll QuickText.dll Remove Duplicate Lines.dll SelectQuotedText.dll SessionMgr.dll SherloXplorer.dll SurroundSelection.dll Translate.dll WebEdit.dll WindowManager.dll

How to fix this problem?

Thanks!

this happened to me too, just remove textfx and reinstall it, problem is am already defined macro (alt-shift-s) that is conflicting with textfx