IIRC, “Brief emulation” is an old term that people have come to understand to mean “keyboard shortcut” compatibility…in other words, can you flip a switch in Notepad++ and then have all the default shortcuts from Brief doing their corresponding functions in Notepad++.

The answer is NO to the “single switch flipping”, but you can program individually shortcut keys to most Notpad++ actions. It could be a lot of work to set up, but with good results obtained in the end.

See Settings menu -> Shortcut Mapper…

@Studio-VSDesign

one idea which comes instantly into my mind is … could you make a screenshot and upload it?

Cheers
Claudia

@paolo-ciafaloni

How should we know? :-)
I don’t expect that the official package has an virus but other bundles could have.
It could be also, that this is a false-positive identification.
If you are unsure, test it against multiple virus apps.
Like with https://www.virustotal.com.

Cheers
Claudia

You may have trigger a paste command with an empty text while you were recording your macro.

You can debug your macro : have a look in the C:\Users\luke.skywalker\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml file
here is mine.

<Macros> <!--Trim Trailing and save - Alt+Shift+S --> <Macro name="Trim Trailing and save" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="yes" Key="83"> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="42024" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="41006" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> </Macros>

Cmd 42024 => <!–Trim Trailing Space - -->

Try to post yours

xmf => xml
sorry for the Typo, I should’nt write on my smartphone

@cmeriaux

That’s not the same as having a hard-limit like the OP is asking for, but it helps! :)

Are you thinking of the “Remember current session for next launch” checkbox? That’s in the “Backup” preferences section.

Hello bege10,

To fully distinguish the different GOTO, CALL and START commands, of your batch file, I suppose that you need all the contents of the line, starting with these commands :-)

If so, here is, below, a batch parser, which should work nice !!

Open your active functionList.xml file

Change the present batch_label id parser contents by the parser, below :

<parser id=“batch_label” displayName=“BAT Label” commentExpr=“^[\t ](::|REM).?$”>
<function
mainExpr=“^[\t ]*\K.+?$”
displayMode=“$functionName”>
<functionName>
<nameExpr expr=“(call |goto |start |(?<=:)).+?$”/>
</functionName>
</function>
</parser>

Notes :

The commentExpr string is, either, the word REM or the symbol ::, preceded by possible leading space/tabulation characters and followed by any range, even null, or characters

Then, the mainExpr string, from which the different entities, to display in the FunctionList window, will be extracted, is any, non-null, range of characters, which follows possible leading space/tabulation characters ( and different from comment ranges ! )

Finally, the expr string is, either :

The word call, goto or start, followed by a space and any non null range of characters Any non null range of characters, following a colon ( : )

IMPORTANT :

The functionList regex engine does NOT act as the Notepad++ one. By default, it considers that the dot meta-character ( . ) match, absolutely, any character ( standard or EOL ones )

But, as the Notepad++ regex engine does, it considers that the ^ and $ assertions stand for the beginning and the end of any line

So, when you want to match, from any location, all the remaining characters of a line, TWO syntaxes are possible :

.+?$ which matches any non-null range of any character, ( standard or EOL ones ), till the nearest EOL location, due to the lazy quantifier +?

OR

(?-s).+ which matches any non-null range of standard characters only, due to the in-line modifier (?-s)

Of course, if the range of characters may be a zero-length string, prefer the syntax .*?$ OR (?-s).*

Best Regards,

guy038