@peterjones, sorry… I tried my best to not hijack a thread with another issue, which is why I approached it this way since I had 3 different questions to hash out. I don’t see this happening in the future and will just make a new post with my need and only focus on questions related to other posts without expanding outside of the scope… Btw, I couldn’t update that typo because of the 3 minute rule, but since the shared code was correct, I figured it would be figured out.

@johnny-stevens , Plugin Manager hasn’t been compatible with Notepad++ for years. I assume you mean the Plugins Admin. A fresh unzip of Notepad++ v8.2.1 shows that Plugins Admin links to Compare Plugin v2.0.1 [image: 1646057536495-b32887c5-11c8-43b5-b997-2474079bef0e-image.png] v8.2.2 was never officially released (there was a RC with that number, but it was released as v8.3). v8.3 Plugins Admin links to Compare Plugin v2.0.2. [image: 1646057638013-b66b0f5d-371c-4783-880a-ca6b0ae8ba5f-image.png] In other words, the actual releases link to the right versions of the Compare Plugin. WooHoo, it does it right!

@michael-vincent Yeah, thank you very much for sharing your story. I also experienced sublime and ultraeditor before and then come back to Notepad++. It’s neat and very light-weight to run. Cheers.

@zylstra said in With the "replace all" button, replace everything in truth.: Are either of you UI designers? Or at least designers for this application? I’m an old-timer here on this site, so I know where this is going… It comes up occasionally. Everyone thinks they have the best idea for how this UI should be designed. And everyone proposing changes gets shot down, because there is no “best idea”. So if you want to continue complaining about this UI, go ahead, but I guarantee that it is pointless and no one will care about your complaints. The answer is to learn how to use the software – it isn’t that difficult. Some of your initial statements show that you have no clue about a traditional text editor’s search and replace functions and the basic workings that have been in place for decades. Tangentially related: Perhaps you will like (i.e., find amusement in) these issues: Find - Replace dialog enhancement and simplification Enhancement of the Search and Replace dialog (S&RD) in N++ and related tools: descriptive Help and new Features explained

@leonardo-silva said in Need some extra messages for plugins: Posted there Specifically, issue #11253

Hi all, @guy038 said in Autocomplete over multiple lines: Hi, @romain-bocquiau, @peterjones, @michael-vincent, @alan-kilborn and All, Peter, I think that the BetterMultiSelection plugin, of @dail, allows and keeps the multi or column selection on several lines, together with the auto completion feature ! Just tested ! Best Regards, guy038 It was exactly what i needed. thank you.

Continuing to polish the plugin before the release :) Latest dev version NppExec20220215 includes small improvements, such as: new flag 64 for “npe_console c<N>”, “npe_console s<N>” and “npp_exectext” fixed: “npe_console k3” did not work with Alt+key (internal) CNppExecCommandExecutor::ExecuteChildProcessCommand supports multi-line input https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/NppExec/NppExec Plugin (dev)/

@willy-wombat said in XML Tools: Linearize incorrectly removing spaces.: The XML Tools Thank you, some of the community users use that plugin, but this is the wrong place to report a bug for a specific plugin. You may find better results here - the authors are pretty active - having just release an update for N++ 8.3. Cheers.

@terry-r [image: HGCaAH.jpg] I see. Thank you very much for the guidance.

@robert-bratton I’m the developer of the plugin. Unfortunately there isn’t anything I can do. Our corporate security also uses some flavor of CrowdStrike as well. I’m on Notepad++ 8.1.9.3 (64 bit) and I don’t plan on using 8.3 due to the various issues it is causing. I don’t have any issues, though I’m sure each deployment of CrowdStrike is different.

@peterjones said in [Need Help] npp c++ plugin: Well, the PythonScript console is a docking panel of sorts, and could be used for outputting such data, as long as the OP just wants a simple text output, and doesn’t care about fancy formatting. All true, but I think the OP is going for something more sophisticated.

Did you find a solution to this?

@aldo , In many of the builtin lexers, comment blocks or multiple sequential comment-lines already do have a “fold” button to the left, which can be used for hiding the comments. [image: 1644191063524-1755d37f-efd6-4e22-82eb-8c242287e5e4-image.png] [image: 1644191091745-3b87fdb6-b1fe-4079-be97-2f84832bdb4c-image.png] For User Defined Languages (UDL), it will only fold the comments if you check on the “Allow folding of comments” checkbox: [image: 1644191289740-3885d555-5c27-4e06-8978-40e43bfe94b5-image.png] [image: 1644191347363-85d64c2e-457a-479a-9f53-0230754a3b47-image.png]

@michael-vincent said in DSpellCheck crashes on Notepad++ 8.2.2 test builds: @Predelnik I see you here sometimes Unless he has a second account, or only logs on in hidden mode, his account info: [image: 1643641547375-a0845116-ff85-4297-a6fe-ec6a1c094fd6-image.png] … indicates that he hasn’t been here in over two years… I think the issue on the repo is more likely to catch his attention. ;-)

@manousos-p-koutsoukos said in Quick Text and Regex: im trying to make it recognize a html opening tag and add the closing tag That is the wrong use of that plugin. Notepad++ auto-completes HTML tags automatically. Settings => Preferences => Auto-Complete [image: 1643630948969-5606e962-4630-4aa2-b81a-64fb9405b8e4-image.png] Cheers.

@john-huang From Npp’s point of view you only provide the main menu via the function item array, everything else has to be handled by your plugin. To do that, ask Npp for the plugin menu handle and once you have it, find the menu item you want to add sub-items to like here. Now, to know when an npp user has clicked on such a menu item, you need to listen to the messageProc and act accordingly. If it is necessary to manipulate the main menu of the plugin at runtime, then you need to ask Npp for a list of pre-assigned menu items. I agree that this part could be described in more detail in the manual, which I will do soon. If there is anything else that you think is not well described or maybe irritating, let us know. @Alan-Kilborn It is the same for any Windows program coding. Creating the menu, yes, but with some Npp-related *quirks that I hope I described clearly above. *can’t find another/better word for it.

Vote to adding Custom/user adapters for autocompletion