Probably the OP is talking about lexer-based (or plugin-based) formatting for languages such a C++, Python, XML, HTML, etc. (where the content of the file is pure text and only the view of the text is formatted/colorized). Hard to advise about what might be going wrong for him/her without more detail, though.

@Roger-K.

did you check/confirm that the “global properties file” is there and is accessible?
Maybe by using tools like sysinternals procmon?

Cheers
Claudia

@Vivian-Zheng

Did you have created the bookmarked lines manually or with a find operation?
If the latter is the case you might be able to get what you want in one find/replace action
but therefore more information is needed about your data.

If the first is the case you would need to do bookmark action (menu search->bookmark)
or using a scripting language to solve your problem.

Cheers
Claudia

I agree Scott that it does somewhat seem to be a failure on Notepad++ behalf that you can’t do the macro edits in a ‘proper’ manner within itself.

To offset that, Notepad++ isn’t on it’s own in this. There are other situations where external editors are used when the app itself doesn’t perform to users expectations (slow or unwieldy).

And Peter, agreed that is another option. The thing is though that all these ideas become messy or complicated. Maybe Notepad++ needs to have a “pretty-up” to support this functionality internally and in a correct manner, otherwise each user will resort to whatever measures they think appropriate. For me it’s using that ‘dirty and disgusting’ plain old vanilla Notepad app.

Do you think a “I want this” question to enhance Notepad++ in this manner would get any traction. Concept of breaking the shortcuts.xml file apart and having a separate macros.xml file. That way you would only have 1 situation where the file could be overwritten, and even that could be tempered with a flag so that if you did create a macro or even edit it’s shortcut in the current session you wouldn’t be allowed to open the macro.xml file to edit.

We can all wish!

Terry

@Marco-Orlando

See here.

Thank you for the quick reply Scott. just to be clear, the auto highlight is intended only to alert the user to other instances NOT as an editing tool.

d k

Hello, @gary-rowswell, and All,

To begin with, I would strongly advice anyone, to use the UTF-8 BOM encoding, in all cases. Indeed, compared to the UTF-8 encoding, current file size is just 3 bytes more, which are invisible and stands for the UTF-8 representation of the Byte Order Mark, of Unicode code point \x{FEFF}.

As any decent editor or browser recognizes BOM, you are absolutely sure that your UTF-8 encoded text will be correctly displayed, whatever the Unicode code-point of characters, between 0 to 10FFFD ( except for the surrogates area ), assuming, of course, that the current font used can handle all the characters of your text and displays their glyphs, properly !

For additional information, refer to :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Gary, what you call utf8mb4 seems to be a MySQL encoding ( The mb4 probably means MultiBytes-4 ) and, as well as UTF-8, allows to use Unicode characters, located outside the BMP ( Basic Multilingual Plane ), that is to say with a code point > \x{FFFF}, encoded with four bytes !

Your “🆔” character is part of the Unicode block "Enclosed alphanumeric Supplement", between 1F100 and 1F1FF. See the PDF file, below :

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F100.pdf

Now, if you persist to use the UTF-8 ( so, without BOM ), here is a work-around :

Start Notepad++ ( I personally used the last 7.5.8 version )

Go to Settings > Preferences… > MISC. and check the Autodetect character encoding option

Open a new document ( Ctrl + N )

If its current encoding is different from UTF-8, choose the option Encoding > Convert to UTF-8

Then, insert, preferably in a comment, at least 3 NON-ASCII characters, with code-point > \x{007F} ( or > 127 in decimal ). For this matter, if you can’t type them easily, with your keyboard, you may use the Edit > Character Panel dialog, in N++

Now, add your text containing characters, located outside the BMP, with code-point > \x{FFFF}

Save your UTF-8 encoded file

Close and restart N++

=> The UTF-8 encoding should have been kept ;-))

Voilà !

Notes :

During tests, I noticed that these 3 chars must be inserted BEFORE any character as yours ( “🆔” ) !

In theory, 2NON-ASCII characters seems enough to get the right behaviour !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

I should have explained why we need to add some NON-pure ASCII characters, in current text. This is because, when text contains characters with code-point > \x{007f}, it is always encoded with 1 byte, in ANSI whereas it is encoded in 2, 3 or 4 bytes, in UTF-8. So, this helps N++ to correctly detect the present encoding, even without any BOM !

@Terry-R

I tend to give 'em what they ask for, let them refine it once when they realize they’ve screwed it up, then lose interest like an airplane losing altitude when they keep changing it infinitely and think I’m going to provide an equal amount of free consulting work (which is what it is). Trying to read their minds is a losing proposition. If they provide sample data, they’d better make it representative. Otherwise I point them to some regex docs and wish them well. This ISN’T a regex site, after all…

I just added issue#4729 to ask for something that will improve the auto-save during auto-update: whether it be immediately triggering the periodic backup, and/or updating the dialog message after an auto-update, and/or asking for explicit save before starting the auto-update. I don’t know if it will happen, but it’s at least requested

@Jernej-Habjan

You already made an issue of it…reporting it here also is overkill and is of less significance than reporting it on github.

@JuzBeKind

These references have some good info on “getting to the bottom of this” (I think…don’t really care as this doesn’t affect me):

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15758/some-characters-are-not-displayed-unicode/ https://superuser.com/questions/950256/what-font-does-notepad-use-to-display-e-g-hebrew-when-it-claims-to-use-lucida#950793

Actually, when I first saw that post, it was downvoted; I upvoted it to bring the score to 0.

I have no knowledge of how much is in the NodeBB requirements, and how much it is just in the particular configuration of the NodeBB instance on this site… but I’m still guessing it’s set that way to avoid grudges / retaliation: if you don’t know who downvoted your post, you don’t know who to hold grudge against.

I’m not sure I agree with the unbalanced approach – it’d be more fair to have all votes private, than to have this mix of +=public, -=private.

From the way I see it, plus-votes could have a similar problem with favoritism: if I counted and saw that Claudia had upvoted more of my posts than you had, maybe I’d start going back and upvoting all of her posts, just to ensure that she got ahead in the reputation race. (Or, if I were really vindictive, also downvote yours.)

Hence, why the imbalance of visibility?

Anyway, we’ve really veered off the original topic. Fortunately, ++Vitaliy has provided the best answer possible, I think, given what’s been posted.

I think you will need to supply a sample so we get a better idea as currently the detail is very thin.

I will say though that Notepad++ is primarily a “text” editor. So it’s all about character sets, not adding boxes (images). In saying that though if you are wanting a webpage (html) file then Notepad could easily insert the correct html code into a list you already have. So code like:
<form action="/action_page.php"> <input type="checkbox" name="vehicle" value="Bike"> I have a bike<br> <input type="checkbox" name="vehicle" value="Car" checked> I have a car<br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form>
is something that notepad++ could help you with.

Terry

@ahlabo-_

this is a filezilla related question.

answer:

open filezilla
go to settings > file editing
select “use custom editor” and browse to the notepad++.exe
(probably in c:\program files (x86)\Notepad++\Notepad++.exe)

from now on filezilla will use notepad++ as it’s default editor