@Coises Wow that is amazing - will save so much time thanks

I wonder what the rationale was for allowing multiple shortcuts for the same Scintilla command, but only one shortcut for non-Scintilla commands? Perhaps because “Copy” (and related) command is (or used to be) very common in apps as Ctrl+Insert as well as Ctrl+c? I wonder how hard it would be to allow ALL commands to have multiple shortcuts. (The current workaround is to define a macro for a single command, and then assign the macro a keycombo).

THANK YOU! Version 1.5 solved all problems! Blue bullets and Mark tags are back.

Thank you Peter. I appreciate the quick reply.

@Ofer-Ton , Are you using the Hunspell library in DSpellCheck Plugin? If so, the plugin downloads the dictionaries from https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries , then places the .dic and .aff files into %AppData%\Notepad++\Plugins\config\Hunspell\ (or whatever directory is shown in the Plugins > DSpellCheck > Settings… > Hunspell Dictionaries Path setting)… So if you have grabbed an offline copy of the right dictionary files, you should be able to put them in that directory and restart Notepad++, and the DSpellCheck/Hunspell should show them as available in the plugin’s Language: pulldown. (Sorry, I don’t know the ASpell side of things, so I cannot give the equivalent instructions if you’re using that library instead)

@ PeterJones Thank you!

Thanks!

@ec974 said in Cryptage: Hello Administrator(s), It would be nice to be able to encrypt a file with a Ctrl + something (or other simple manipulation). Thanks for thinking about it First, English is the preferred language of this forum. Second, there’s a plugin for encryption, I think it is called NppCrypt, but check Plugins Admin to be sure.

That did the trick, thanks!

@Jongolo-Der-II Notepad++ is the wrong tool for this job. Try SQLiteStudio.

@Deny-Firmansyah : Find: (?-s)(.*),(\d+)$ Replace: ${2}, ${1} Search mode: Regular expression

@Un-Known Your title and example suggests that the question numbers are already correct, you just want to add a zero before them, and you say you have 325 questions; so I wonder, do you want: 01- 02- ... 09- 010- 011- ... 099- 0100- 0101- ... 0325- which is what your question, taken precisely, says? Or: 001- 002- ... 009- 010- 011- ... 099- 100- 101- ... 325- which is what I think @PeterJones assumed you meant? Also, are the numbers themselves already correct (just missing the leading zeros), or do you need to renumber, too? If all you wanted was to add one zero before every question number, and the pattern follows your example that all question lines, and only question lines, start with a number, then all you need is: From the menu, select Search | Replace; in the dialog, set: Find what : ^(\d) Replace with: 0$1 Search Mode : Regular expression and use the Replace All button.

@ArminRay said in UDL folding breaks halfway through the file: It works fine for about the first third of the file, but then breaks halfway through the file. Unfortunately, the UDL folding has never been perfect, and it’s been pointed out to the developer for years: nothing has ever come of such reports (or any of the other feature requests for UDL). We essentially have to live with imperfect folding for UDL, or not use it. (Some of my UDL don’t fold right even near the top of the document, if the first line(s) of the document are a comment. So it might be that a comment somewhere in your file is the culprit for breaking folding. And consider yourself “lucky” that it works for even the first 1/3 of the file.) If you write a Lexer Plugin, you can define the folding yourself, and it might work better for you than UDL’s built-in folding. But that’s a lot of work, and I doubt you’ll go that far. (Sorry, there’s not much else I can say. It’s annoying that a much-used feature of Notepad++ has essentially been left to rot, letting people use what works, but ignoring what doesn’t or what could be made better. The best I can do is commiserate with you, because I cannot offer you any hope that the UDL system will ever get better.)

@_ A couple of comments (well, it turned out to be a lot more…): Gotcha#1 - If Notepad++ is already running then when you start a new instance of Notepad++.exe it sees that a copy is already running and will hand control to that. It does not pass along that it was started minimized. Thus Notepad++ will appear to start as a window or maximized if that’s what you already had it as. Gotcha #2 - If Notepad++ is already running, but minimized, then attempts to start Notepad++ as minimized end up both passing control to the already running copy but also activating it to a normal or maximized window. Gotcha 3 - There is another “gotcha” where if Notepad++ is running as a maximized window, you exit/close it, and then attempt to start it as minimized that Notepad++ will fire up as maximized. The only thing works is for you to be running Notepad++ as a non-full screen windowed application, for you to exit/close it, and then to start it as minimized. The second issue is your syntax for how to start Notepad++ seemed rather mangled. I don’t know if the mangling was your attempt to copy/paste a correct command into the forum or if attempted the wrong syntax to start with. I suspect you started with the wrong syntax as you mentioned “<ScriptBlock>,<No file>:line 1” etc. which is unexpected regardless of how you were trying to start Notepad++. The syntax I used from PowerShell was: Start-Process "C:\npp\npp858x64\notepad++.exe" -WindowStyle Minimized I got the C:\npp\npp858x64\notepad++.exe part that is inside the quotes from Notepad++’ ? / Debug info... menu. A box or window will pop up. The second line of that box for me was: Path : C:\npp\npp858x64\notepad++.exe I copy/pasted the part into the command line that I used for testing this. A normal installation of Notepad++ is usually in the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe directory meaning people would use: Start-Process "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -WindowStyle Minimized Again though, the gotchas mentioned above will apply regardless on if you try to start Notepad++ from Powershell, via a .lnk shortcut file that says “run minimized” or the command prompt’s START command with the /MIN option run run either the exe or shortcut. All of them will fail to be minimized if any of the gotchas I listed above apply. To start a minimized Notepad++ you must: Not already have Notepad++.exe running. That when you exited/closed Notepad++ that it had been a windowed app (not maximized) regardless on if you may have had it minimized at the time you closed it. It’s a rather narrow eye-hole in the needle but you can nail it 100% of the time if those two conditions exist. If you absolutely must start a minimized copy of Notepad++ then I would: Install a portable copy somewhere. Rename the portable copy of Notepad++.exe to something else such as min-notepad.exe. In your powershell script see if the min-notepad.exe process is running and if so, kill it and wait for it to terminate as we will then be updating the config.xml file. In your powershell script inspect the config.xml file for your portable copy and see if the line for <GUIConfig name="AppPosition" ... has isMaximized="yes". If so, change that to be isMaximized="no" and save it. Now you can start min-notepad.exe in minimized mode but there is still one more gotcha… You need to start min-notepad.exe with the -multiInst command line option to prevent it from locating a copy of Notepad.exe that is already running and passing control to it. The PowerShell command becomes: Start-Process "C:\npp\npp858x64\min-notepad.exe" -ArgumentList @("-multiInst") -WindowStyle Minimized

Thanks for your reply. I will look into those.

Peter jones THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! that worked!

Hello, @cal-Murphy, @terry-r, @peterjones, @alan-kilborn and All, Yes, Alan, I must admin that this syntax is really confusing for most people and doesn’t provide a sustential benefit, unless you use this particular syntax below : SEARCH (?x-is) \x20 (?# SPACE char ) \( (?# OPENING Paren. ) .+ (?# Some STANDARD chars) (?= \. [ ]Filename ) (?# ONLY IF '. Filename' after ) | (?# OR ) \x20 (?# SPACE char ) \( (?# OPENING Paren. ) [^(\r\n]+ (?# some NOT PAREN. chars ) (?= \. flac ) (?# ONLY IF '.flac' after ) Note that I still use the \x20 syntax because the [ ] syntax does not work in this forum ?? However, I kept my free-spacing regex as a single line to avoid the multi-lines bug in some cases ! BTW, @cal-murphy, do you remember that you asked us, six months ago, about a similar problem, which was relative to the same bunch of data ! Refer to :    https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24415/copy-then-paste-elsewhere Cheers, guy038

Hi, I think it refers to the new option in the “Searching” section of the “Preferences” dialog where you can change the number of selected characters to automatically check the “In-selection” option in the Find dialog. Better explanations in the user manual (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#searching) and the tooltip in the input field of the new option in the “Preferences” dialog.

Agree. Also, Word scrolls the text “dumb”, while Notepad++ looks out for all sorts of things all the time, like matching brackets relative to cursor (and stuff). Anyway, since I admire Notepad++ so much, I had thought that also the scrolling performance must be world class. It probably is, taking all its capabilities into account.