@Ken-Winter

Settings (menu) > Style Configuator…

See if you can change the global font. It isn’t the most user-intuitive thing to set up, unfortunately.

BTW a lot of people have success in Notepad++ with the “Consolas” font.

@Џо-Ни said:

header version is no longer supported

See this FAQ from the author of the plugin. You need to install an older NppCrypt (1.0.1.5), then decrypt any files that were encrypted before, then update to the newer 1.0.1.6, then do a new encryption using the new tool.

I closed accidentally a file called new 46 never saved

Notepad++ will give you a prompt in this case, if you “accidentally” close a file, for example:

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If you answer No to this, Notepad++ takes you seriously.

@Santiago-Quintero

let us try something different, goto https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.7.1.html and download one of the portable versions, the zip package or 7z package. You DON’T have to uninstall the current version just make sure, that you don’t have your current version running when redoing the test with the macros. If this works, then I suspect something corrupted your config files.
So, the steps are

download a portable version unpack it where ever you want make sure the installed version is not running start npp from the downloaded package create you macro and check if it works stop npp and restart npp and see if the macro still works.

If this doesn’t work, then you need to explain in details what exactly you did in each step described above.

Thanks I had a check and it shows the same values as in the drop down lists in the UI and I’ve applied them as well. I also found the verbose backup option (that I hadn’t enabled) so I think I’m out of luck.

@Jin-Wook-Lee said:

can you double check #2?

sure.

looks right to me.

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If it doesn’t work for you, maybe your data didn’t match your example, or something else is going on. Feel free to supply more details.

@Lorenzo-Carrisi

Good that you got something you could use from that!

Actually, this is probably a good opportunity to show off macros in Notepad++.

First, do some (one-time) setup:

Press the toolbar button for starting macro recording In an editing tab view, press an arrow key to move the caret (this is just a dummy action) Press the toolbar button for stopping macro recording Press the toolbar button for saving a recorded macro; give it the name Bat file from Find results and save it Exit Notepad++ Restart Notepad++ Locate your shortcuts.xml file and open it in Notepad++ Do a find on Bat file from Find results and you should be left looking at something like this: <Macro name="Bat file from Find results" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0"> <Action type="0" message="2306" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> Replace the Action line with the following block, making the indent level of the block match that of the old Action line: <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s)^Search.+\R" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="(?-s)^\tLine.+\R" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\s\(\d+\shits?\)$" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='&quot; .' /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="^\s+" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam='copy &quot;' /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="770" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1609" sParam="" /> Save the shortcuts.xml file Exit Notepad++ Restart Notepad++

That’s the end of the one-time setup. That will remain until you delete the macro created.

To use it, each time you need to:

Run a Find-in-Files search that results in several hit files Copy and paste the Find-result panel results (per the earlier instructions on how to do that) into an empty Notepad++ tab (an empty file called test.bat might be appropriate!) Go to the Macro menu and choose Bat file from Find results from near the bottom; you should observe your file of search results has changed into a bunch of copy batch file commands (this step “runs” the macro consisting of several replacement operations!) Save the file Continue from the earlier instructions at step get a cmd prompt in the directory containing...

For the record, I use Imgur through the account I’ve set up there. Perhaps the differences are now explained. Good to know, if these type of inconsistencies come up again here.

@Ekopalypse
Thank you for answering, I found a better way. But really thank you!!

Thank you!

@BigMat-Lecircuit

there was a decision made long time ago that the angled bracket matching isn’t part of the builtin matching function
as too much languages do use angled brackets as operators, which then would falsely color those operators.

At the moment I do see two options for you.

Open a feature request at github and define exactly how you want it to behave and for which languages (which itself shouldn’t use angled brackets as operators in their syntax) or Use one of the plugin scripting languages and make it as a feature for you.

I have an alternativ answer, but must be improved:

FIND: (^.*)(.+?\.)(.+?\.)(.+?\.)

REPLACE BY: $3 $1 $4 $2

Great answer, @PeterJones thanks a lot !

@Tair-Tairoff

Adjust the setup to your liking at Settings (menu) > Preferences > MISC. > File Status Auto-Detection

@PeterJones

I thought it had something to do with ::
Based on your info, i now use this workaround:

<KeyWord name=“myStaticFunction” func=“yes”>
<Overload retVal=“myClass | string”>
<Param name=“string sValue”/>
<Param name=“bool bSort”/>
</Overload>
<Overload retVal=“myClass2 | string”>
<Param name=“string sValue”/>
<Param name=“bool bSort”/>
</Overload>
<Overload retVal=“myClass3 | array”>
<Param name=“string sValue”/>
<Param name=“bool bSort”/>
</Overload>
</KeyWord>

I’ve added "myClassName | " before each return value so i can easily find the parameter list i need for given class…
it’s not as perfect as it could/should be, but it will work for now. Hopefully they’ll make a fix in the future ;)

Thanks for your help!

@Aleksey-Sherbakov

sorry, but I do not really understand your problem.
Is it about highlighting your code? Or is it about the end result, your webpage?
In both cases, can you explain in more detail what you see and what you expect to see?

@Darrel-Zeltner

I assume you want to have automatic file changes disabled, correct?
If so, goto settings->preferences->misc and disable file status auto-detection

@andrecool-68 said:

And why stopped the release of Npp Help.chm?

I don’t know. That stopped being supported before I was involved with the documentation team. Probably it boils down to “maintaining one set of documentation is hard enough; maintaining multiple sets is a nightmare” – though that’s just my guess.

Personally, I’m just glad that we’ve been given permission to help maintain the one set, so that way there will be something. It will take a while to get the full documentation set, and it might not be perfect – but it’s much better than the one that was hopelessly out-of-date and not able to be edited.

@Ekopalypse:

Thank you very much, it works pretty fine!

@ungesundes-halbwissen

from my short test it looks like it is working for utf8 encoded but not for “ansi”
encoded files if those files haven’t been loaded into the current session.