I’ve looked for other installations and didn’t find any, but like I said in my last post, I uninstalled and reinstalled and am now running 8.6.8; I may have checked config.xml after the reinstall. Whatever the case, it’s been behaving since the reinstall. Thank you all for your help.

@Michael-DeWaters , FAQ: Notepad++ is a text editor, not a word processor, so it cannot set fonts arbitrarily for different paragraphs or phrases inside paragraphs. And if, as @Alan-Kilborn assumes, you are asking how to write HTML, then You’ve asked your question in the wrong place

@Ekopalypse Perfect, many thanks!

@Nguyễn-Đông said in what is this?: how to edit it? That is not reasonably answerable on this forum.

@Michael-Vincent said in How to enable Plugins Admin when building notepad++?: I think it’s a separate project that you need to build separately: Is there a way to actually combine this build with that of NPP itself, or to put it another way: is there no way to avoid building them separately and copying the plugins dll into NPP afterwards?

@Anton Nope. There is no autodetection. Whether spaces or tab characters are used is solely a function of the setting selected for it for the particular language (based on extension) of the file.

@Marty-Kay Read the message @PeterJones posted above three years ago on how to get the FF. If you want Notepad++ to do something special with FF then you could try FAQ: Feature Request or Bug Report Notepad++ already has a number of configuration settings related to printing. With that in mind I could see some support for FF being added. However, I suspect though that the request for FF support would get declined or ignored as the FF feature could easily creep into a later request to display a horizontal line at the FF and then to creep into displaying page number and the line within that page. It sends Notepad++ drifting into the FAQ: “Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor” territory.

@PeterJones thanks for the tip. The problem was solved.

in the search box on the explorer bar at the bottom of your screen (by default), you need to type “open with”, it will bring up a menu that has the apps > settings > default apps window open for you. You will see a text box that says “search for a file type”. In that box type “txt” without the quotes, or “.txt” without the quotes. You should see an option for notepad++ in the resulting list, as long as notepad++ is installed on your system already. click on the notepad++ icon, and it will be assigned as the default app for .txt files. you should now be able to right click in any usual spot i.e. your desktop, and you should now see an option to use notepad++ under the “new” menu item from the right click menu.

@Mark-Olson thank you! :)

@Paolo-Santini , I can confirm, v8.6.7 remembered the Find / Replace / Find-in-Files dialog size from one run to the next, whereas v8.6.8 does not. I will point this out to the developer in the v8.6.8 release announcement. -– update: It had actually already been pointed out in the announcement thread, and I had forgotten. There is an already-fixed issue here, so it will be fixed in the next version.

In addition to what Peter said, inside your loop you would call notepad.open(), then do your replacement(s), then call notepad.close().

@Mark-D said in Insert specific text: do you have a link for the quick text plugin You can install it using Plugins Admin. But here’s the link: https://github.com/vinsworldcom/nppQuickText

@mkupper Thankyou for your response. I have now resolved the problem. In my Global Styles, the Font Style had been changed to Courier. Once I changed this to Arial, it all worked as previously. What I don’t know is what changed it away what it was previously? The only thing to change on my Windows 10 was to install the new Microsoft font set which includes Aptos. Apart from this, I made no changes to my text files or to Notepad++ settings for maybe years. So, was it related to a version change in Notepad++ or the font change to Windows? I may never know. Regards Patrick

@Nachum-Shmilovitz I have never used Notepad++'s session snapshot and periodic backup feature, nor do I want Windows to decide when to install updates and restart my computer automatically (and took measures to stop it from doing so), so I have never encountered the problem of NUL char file corruption. That’s the reason why I’m not happy with the disablement of the NppSaveAsAdmin plugin, too. My workaround is to patch the version info of the plugin’s DLL file to outwit Notepad++'s compatibility check in PluginsAdmin. This can be done with the small tool Resource Hacker. I set the version number from 1.0.211 to 1.0.212, so the plugin can be used again. After saving a file with the plugin Notepad++ shows an error dialog mentioning an invalid handle but nevertheless the file gets saved correctly. The other option, patching Notepad++'s nppPluginList.dll file, doesn’t work because this file is signed. Any changes of this file prevents it from being loaded with Notepad++.

@Todd-Hoatson-0 said in File display using multiple fonts simultaneously?: Also, I find it odd that Show Symbol > Show All Characters does not reveal that this character is there It depends on the character. Unicode has quite a few characters, such as in the Combining Diacritical Marks block, that will cause odd shifts much like the " the orange dot is misplaced, overwriting some other character" that you are seeing. Notepad++'s “show all characters” feature enables display of what are known as the non-printing characters. The Combining Diacritical Marks and other Unicode characters that cause display changes are defined as “printing characters” and so are not included in the list of things that become visible with Notepad++'s show all characters. When need a true “show all characters” then I do a hex dump of the file. As you seem to have a good idea of where the strange stuff is in your file you can copy/paste just that fragment into a hex dump utility. I see there are on-line hex dumps. There are also on-line UTF-8 decoders that may highlight the unusual or invisible characters you are dealing with.

@Pioter-Jenyderka said in So I can't type letters in my notepad but I can type context menu because of reasons: options command and compile Compile? Notepad++ is a text editor, not a developer environment. By default, Ctrl+comma does not do anything in Notepad++. In Visual Studio Ctrl+comma brings up a code search dialog box. Maybe you have asked your question in the wrong place? @Pioter-Jenyderka also said: maybe something stupid that can be resolved with one click but not when you are in hurry. Being in a hurry can be the problem.

@jaime-h said in Cursor and vertical line?: Columns Tools plugin Column Tools is not compatible with a stationary edge line due to the Scintilla API. There is no such thing in Scintilla as a vertical highlight, so I used the edge line to “fake one”. I thought with multi edge Scintilla API it could have been possible, but when that was released, the necessary calls were not there. You either use “column highlight” and the edge follows the caret, or you use Notepad++ settings to get edge(s) stationary. Cheers.

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you, thank you that worked. I’ve been looking at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#regular-expressions and found only one mention of using “w+” , like I said all the information is confusing and probably 98% of it I’ll never need or use, but I will make note of the links. Thank you for your assistance I so appreciate it.