Please note that on Sep 4, 2020, this discussion was continued in another Topic: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19951/notepad-stopped-saving-closed-tabs

Please use that Topic for any further conversation on this question.

@PeterJones said in Old Pythonscript stopped working:

Think about what you just said!

Clearly, and sadly, there isn’t much thinking going on.
The same dumb thing was said HERE, turning the dumbness into an official complaint against a great piece of software. :-(

@Asher-Knopsnider ,

Cookies!

See the FAQ: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place

You seem to have a misunderstanding of this forum. This is a forum for Notepad++, where we talk about (and ask/answer questions about) the Notepad++ text editor.

General programming questions (where “programming” includes writing webpages) are not on-topic here. The best question to ask yourself is “does the answer to the question I want to ask depend on what application I am using to write my code”? If the answer to that question is “no, it doesn’t matter whether I’m using Notepad++ or notepad.exe or something else to write my code”, then the Notepad++ forum is not the right place to ask the question.

@Todd-Scheck said in .dsc files:

pluggin for .dsc files

Doing a google search for this file format immediately turns up a couple of types. One is a file used by Nikon to support images taken on a camera. However they state that the file is used by the software, not to be opened manually. Another is related to WPS Office and as such may well be a binary file, or at least again a file that may contained data formatted only for use with that software.

I hope you understand that Notepad++ is a “text” editor. It does not understand any binary data and will very likely corrupt any such file you attempt to use in Notepad++. If the file is only designed for “internal” use (within the S/W that uses it) again you are likely to cause issues using it in Notepad++.

Do you have more info on what is actually contained in the file you want to open in Notepad++, like the source?

Terry

@Francesca-D-Angelo said in Help needed please:

without the " at the beginning

First off, thanks for reading and doing as requested. It makes it so much easier if the examples can be trusted.

Try my previous solution and just remove the ". That should be sufficient although I do note some of the examples don’t have 3 sets. Your data seems a bit arbitrary as generally delimited data will always have the same number of fields

Terry

@Anatoliy-Sergeev and @Ivan-Bondarenko ,

As @andrecool-68 pointed out, your question has nothing to do with Notepad++. You are trying to hack a binary file from a game. Notepad++ is a text editor. Notepad++ cannot be expected to be able to read every proprietary binary file. No text editor, whether it’s Notepad++ or any other text editor, should be expected to read a proprietary binary file. Notepad++ cannot interpret this binary file as text, even if you or the game designer lies and calls it an XML file. It does not matter whether it’s because the file is encoded or encrypted or compressed or just a proprietary binary format: it is not a text file, and Notepad++ cannot help you read it as text.

Please stop this discussion of game hacking here. It is off topic for this forum.

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@Анатолий-Сергеев и @Иван-Бондаренко ,

Как отметил @andrecool-68, ваш вопрос не имеет ничего общего с Блокнотом++. Вы пытаетесь взломать бинарный файл из игры. Блокнот++ - это текстовый редактор. Нельзя ожидать, что Блокнот++ сможет прочитать каждый проприетарный двоичный файл. Ни от какого текстового редактора, будь то Блокнот++ или любой другой текстовый редактор, нельзя ожидать, что он сможет прочитать проприетарный двоичный файл. Блокнот не может интерпретировать этот двоичный файл как текст, даже если вы или дизайнер игры лжёте и называет его XML-файлом. Не имеет значения, потому ли это, что файл закодирован или зашифрован, или сжат, или просто несвободный двоичный формат: это не текстовый файл, и Блокнот++ не может помочь вам прочитать его как текст.

Пожалуйста, прекратите обсуждение взлома игры здесь. Оно находится вне темы этого форума.

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First of all I’m sorry for the English
i believe i got your help wrong.

I understood that it was going to have posted the question again in another sector of the forum for that reason I asked the question again here.

Excuse me.

@PeterJones Thanks. That will work just fine.

@Vishal-K said in File format changed to unknown , cant read the file data now:

I have few files which were fine 2 days back but suddenly when I opend the file today it is coming to unreadable format

I doubt it was anything that Notepad++ did. My first guess would be that you have been infected with a virus / ransomware / etc – I would run a scan immediately, if I were you.

If that’s not it, maybe you recently installed encryption or compression software, and the file has been modified since you last looked at it in Notepad++.

@Rafa-Rafa said in Perfomance on Win 10 compared to being instaled Win 7:

is a win 10 issue itself or is it notepad++

All other things (same data, same folder structure, same N++ version) being equal, we can probably exclude N++ as contributing a performance difference.

@PeterJones

Ah, okay, I didn’t (re)read the old thread closely enough. I thought something was going wacky with my browser or the site. I was thinking that old thread might be useful HERE, but maybe I was stuck on the “one-step” approach in my thinking (I think @guy038 always has us thinking one-step!), but I like Terry’s multi-step thoughts for that thread now.

may it be affected by menue-settings-preferences-misc-file status auto detection ?

@Ekopalypse Thank your for your reply. I’ll try that!

@I-neuw

Why not just give it a try?

And now, since you brought it up, my review of that plugin, and suggestions for other choices.

It looks to be pretty old (last update 2015), and doesn’t appear maintained It only comes in 32bit (but they still have a non-Unicode “ANSI” version available!) When you do create a new file of a given type, it doesn’t use the File Name entry from the Config Setting dialog at all. Instead, it gives it a random all-caps name, and uses the all-caps version of the File Type dropdown as the extension for the file, rather than using any sort of reasonable extension. (so if you’ve defined a PERL entry, it names it XXXXXX.PERL instead of XXXXXX.pl) I do like that it automatically sets the Language for the new file. It doesn’t let you pick UDL It doesn’t seem to honor the Auto Show in Browser when Saved (HTML) for either File1 (HTML) or for any of the other types (at least not in my experiments). If you click the little IE logo it adds to the toolbar, it opens the active file in an in-Notepad++ instance of IE that the plugin has embedded.

Personally, I find it an interesting idea, but not well-executed. It may have been top-of-the-line in 2015 when released, but I think it could be better today. For getting the same features today, I would use:

I would use the QuickText plugin for snippets, which allow me to do the initial populating of the file (by typing start then the QuickText-expansion keystroke). I would use the builtin View > View Current File In … rather than than its embedded IE instance; if I wanted to render in the Notepad++ environment itself, I would use the PreviewHTML plugin instead The one feature I see missing is automatically applying the Language selection when creating a new file. Of course, when I use Windows built-in Windows Explorer > Right Click > New … > (select file type), I can use Windows to store those templates, and assign a reasonable filename and extension right away; then when I open-with Notepad++ on the new file, it’s been populated from the template and opens with the right Language already selected as well… And this allows you do define a template for any UDL by just using the right extension as well.

(PS: Seeing the new posts from @Alan-Kilborn and @andrecool-68 , I concur that PythonScript could be used to automate the initial template as well, and Npp Snippets is an alternative to the QuickText plugin.)

Number 13 is an unlucky number (at least for the Russians!)

@Doc-John said in Sorting broken with v7.8.9 update?:

As for examples, I haven’t been able to sort any of dozens of files, including lists of only numbers, so take your pick.

This is an idiotic statement.
YOU are the one that needs help.
You’d think you’d bend over backwards to provide even the simplest example and show how it doesn’t work for you.
Sheesh.

@Matthew-Plueard said in How do i move decimal points over using "Ctrl+h" Replace with function?:

move the decimal point over by 2 spaces for each number value

You will need to be a bit more precise in your explanation. Move can go either left or right.

So an excerpt from your file:

(2, 'Work Jeans', '12.00', '6.00'), (3, 'Orange Hoodie', '15.00', '7.50'), (6, 'Military Magazine', '1200.00', '600.00'), (7, 'Military Suppressor', '100.00', '50.00'), (8, 'Vertical Grip', '200.00', '100.00'),

I assume you’d probably want to go right, it makes more sense (cents) to do so, although I’m not going to provide any solution until you can be precise.

In fact with regards the examples I provided from your file, can you provide the result you expect?

When inserting the examples into your post, enter them first, then highlight all the example lines and hit the </> button immediately above the window in which you are typing. They will then appear in the black box as I did.

Terry

i fixed it manually. i noticed my installation has a userDefinedLang folder which contains the default Markup language settings in an XML file, but I also have a separate userDefinedLang XML file which contains my customized languages.

once i fixed it i can see the settings in the XML file i also made a copy on network drive and can see the same formatting in that XML as well.

not sure how i lost the other one but at least i know how to troubleshoot if it happens again.

thanks for the attention