Fixed with https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13840/notepad-7-4-1-release

Microsoft fiddled with the fonts – in the German support section, a Microsoft person suggested that someone opens a ticket in their FeedbackHub and they did. If enough people vote for that ticket, Microsoft will eventually look into this, so please vote this up: https://aka.ms/O4qeld. Here’s the original discussion (in German): https://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/forum/windows_10-start/creators-update-1703-courier-new-schriftart-font/c6a91f0f-a1ee-45f1-89b9-34ec59d06743

@Claudia-Frank

Ah, at some point I must have unmapped F1. Looking at a default install, F1 is tied to “About Notepad++”. Activating “About Notepad++” via the mouse (on the ‘?’ menu) (with random highlighted) invokes the Easter Egg functionality, so it appears it is tied to that function rather than only the keystroke.

@Jesse-Sipple

you should get the same result if you use the
same encoding and same font which is used in MS notepad.

If this isn’t the case, can you upload that file?

Cheers
Claudia

You are right!
I forgot something like that. I did itagain paying attention to those details and the Macro works!
Thank you very much! :D

@Claudia-Frank
@guy038

Thank you so much I wanted this a lot!

Cheers,
Matteo.

See also https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.4.html, should be fixed in the meantime, also 7.4.1 is on the way, due to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13820/weird-7-4-issue-unable-to-save-new-files

@饒彥章

there is no setting to change the behavior of SCI_BACKTAB you need to change the code.
Whether there is another solution depends on what exactly you try to achieve.

Cheers
Claudia

@Lionel-Yeo

html doesn’t seem to have user defined keywords field so we need to edit langs.xml directly.

Eg. add f7-page to the keyword list like … event f7-page face…
make sure alphabetical ordering is kept.
Should result in something like this

Cheers
Claudia

@John-Baker

If you want to fix it and require a more detail explanation please let me know.

the issue itself has been already opened and is labeled as enhancement but as said, I don’t know if Don will spend more time in investigation and fixing.
Personally I think it doesn’t make much sense but who knows, maybe he will do it.

Cheers
Claudia

Last one seems to be https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/XML Tools/Xml Tools 2.4.9 Unicode/, just 2.4.8 is available from the plugin manager currently.

Which version do you use? Or is it a different plugin?

@Joe-Bonifazi

Could you try the following parser:

<association id="cimplicity_ctx" userDefinedLangName="CimScreen" /> <association id="cimplicity_ctx" ext=".ctx" /> <parser displayName="CimEdit Text File Format" id ="cimplicity_ctx" > <classRange mainExpr ="(?x) (?(DEFINE) (?'NAMED_CHAR'\b(?i: B(?:ackspace|ell) | C(?:arriageReturn|haracterTabulation) | Delete | Escape | FormFeed | L(?:eft(?:Brace|CurlyBracket)|ine(?:Feed|Tabulation)) | N(?:ewLine|ull) | QuotationMark | R(?:eturn|ight(?:Brace|CurlyBracket)) | Tab )\b) (?'STRING_CHAR' [^\r\n\x22\x7B] | \{ (?: \d+ | \x26 (?: [Hh][A-Fa-f0-9]+ | [Oo][0-7]+ ) | (?&amp;NAMED_CHAR) ) \} ) (?'STRING' \x22 (?:(?&amp;STRING_CHAR))* \x22 (?: \s+\x26 \s+(?&amp;STRING) )* ) ) \(GmmiObject \s+(?&amp;STRING) (?: [^(] | \((?!Gmmi(?:Object|Script)\b) )* \(GmmiScript\s+(?&amp;STRING)\s*\) " > <className> <nameExpr expr="\(GmmiObject\s+\x22\K[^\r\n\x22]+" /> </className> <function mainExpr="(?x) \x22 (?:Function|Sub)\h+ \K \w+ [^\r\n\x22]* \x22 " > <functionName> <funcNameExpr expr="[^\x22{]+" /> </functionName> </function> </classRange> </parser>

Practice some modesty/caution before calling specific behavior a BUG.

Files do NOT have encoding.
Encoding is applied to the file’s byte stream when it is loaded into a buffer within Scintilla.
On load, an automatic detection algorithm is used to select an encoding. Many threads in this forum state a wish for an option to override this automatic selection.
After load the user can override the encoding.

The question of whether file reload should re-trigger the automatic detection or not is an open user interface decision with no ONE RIGHT ANSWER.

Since the scenario you described of a file changing its contents in the background in away that will trigger different encoding result from the automatic detection apply to 0.001% of Notepad++ users I think that maintaining the current encoding of the buffer is the choice that benefit the majority of users.