A new version of MultiReplace (v5.0.0.35) is ready and will be available with the next Notepad++ release. For early testing, it can already be downloaded here.

The focus of this release is on a new Settings Panel, improved Search Results visualization, and overall usability enhancements.

Key Features & Improvements Settings Panel: A comprehensive configuration dialog replaces manual INI file editing. All options are now organized into clear categories: Search & Replace, List View, CSV Options, Export, and Appearance. Refined Toolbar Icon: The icon has been updated to improve clarity. List Search Bar: Press Ctrl+F while focused on the replacement list to open a search bar. Quickly find entries in large lists by searching through the ‘Find’ and ‘Replace’ columns. Search Results Window Enhancements: Color-coded matches (up to 28 colors) for easy visual distinction per list entry. Double-click the Matches count to jump directly to the results. Duplicate Line Detection: Identify and mark duplicate CSV rows. Delete or inspect duplicates with optional bookmark navigation. Binary Escape Sequence: Extended mode now supports \bNNNNNNNN for binary values. tonum() Function: New helper to convert strings to numbers, supporting both dot and comma as decimal separators. MATCH and CAP Variables: Now always return strings. Use tonum(CAP1) for calculations. Selection Mode: The ‘In Selection’ radio button no longer disables itself, enabling smoother repeated searches. Document Filtering for Open Docs: Find and Replace in Open Documents now supports wildcard-based filename filtering. Unified Filter Syntax: Filters now use semicolons (;) as separators in both ‘Open Documents’ and ‘Find in Files’ modes. This enables filtering for filenames containing spaces. Performance: Various optimizations for Replace All, Find All, and FlowTabs alignment on large files.

New Settings Panel with organized categories
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Double-click the Matches count to quickly navigate through results
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Enjoy!

@PeterJones I managed to do it, I uninstalled it again and when it asked about settings, I answered no, upon startup it was like a completely new installation.Screenshot_1.png nnn.png
When I started up, I changed the theme and it worked, thank you very much for the tips.

@PeterJones Thanks. I will work on getting the debug. Until then…

After making the edit, which took by the way (saved), I closed the app as usual. Just to be sure I checked Task Manager and found 2 instances of it showing there even though all copies were previously closed by me. I killed it there, unmounted the thumb drive that has the portable version I’m trying to edit, and then did a system restart thinking that might clear anything else.

I remounted the thumb drive and still have an edited Shortcuts file but it is not recognizing the changes. That edit is working with my resident copy on the same system but that was also hard to change when I did it a while back.

Thanks for the help.

Hi,
I would like to test your plugin but, unfortunately, I run windows arm-64 and this plugin only runs on x86. Do you think it’s possible to release an ARM version ?
Thank you.

@Javier-Utrilla said in show the current zoom:

something like U | Zoom +10

It’s fine…but why not make the abbreviated encoding MORE descriptive, and the zoom info LESS descriptive. E.g. (just my thinking): U8B |Z+10

@Ivo-Krab said in Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList:

but modifying the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins is understandably blocked without admin access.

Would it not be possible to allow (as a config choice) to install them in %APPDATA%\Notepad++ instead

The problem is that plugins in Notepad++ can do anything Notepad++ itself could do. They are C++ programs operating in the same security context as Notepad++ itself. From a security standpoint, allowing plugins in a directory that can be modified without admin access would be equivalent to allowing access to Program Files without admin access.

As I recall, that was allowed at one time, and this is why it was removed. Security-sensitive organizations determined that they could not install Notepad++ at all unless they could stop users from installing their own plugins. The developer decided it was better to remove the capacity entirely than to try to implement a switch of some kind.

The work-around, if you can run programs that are not installed in Program Files, is to use a portable copy of Notepad++. If you are not allowed to do that, then logically you would be forbidden to run Notepad++ plugins in a directory you control, since it would grant you exactly the same access.

@xMRi

As far as I know, no. Npp explicitly checks this and throws an exception if no function is defined. So I would say, use an “About” menu item.

@donho said in v8.8.9 and ConfigUpdater plugin:

@PeterJones

It’s already fixed in the GitHub, but I didn’t make the plugin list cutoff deadline.

Are you talking about it?
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/pull/999

It’s in the current PluginList in RC normally.

I ran:

Plugins > ConfigUpdater > Reset Validators Plugins > ConfigUpdater > Update Config Files

The open tab with ConfigUpdater.log no longer shows any errors

@h-jangra

It could be, yes, because I downloaded it and ran setup_arm64.bat in a normal cmd shell, and it worked.
But it could also be due to how you originally set up Rust. I also played around with this a bit, but couldn’t reproduce your problem.
I had MSVC installed via the Visual Studio installer, and then I installed the Rust toolchain. Some weeks later I add the arm extensions for VS and added the target to Rust, and it works for me.

@Ekopalypse I tried simple plugin now using go. It did worked, let see if I can improve. If its good then I should make template for it.

@h-jangra

I doubt that you can implement this in Scintilla in a reasonable way, but the other idea of having a preview is there, and there are at least two plugins, here and here that can give you some ideas.

after a look at jn-npp-plugin on github it seems Win32 API is not available in win x64 and i didn’t find other way to use openfiledialog…
i am looking at python plugin now .

thanks for your help

The following code supports PythonScript 3.0.23 as well as earlier versions of PythonScript 3.x.

#------------------------------------------------------------------------ # If the character specified in the current selection is a white space, # then prompt the user to enter the alignment character (or characters), # using this character as the initial default. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ default_align_char = ',' from enum import Enum class PaddingSide(Enum): LEFT = 0 RIGHT = 1 def align_selected_text(max_align_char_count = None, padding_side = PaddingSide.LEFT): """Insert padding into the lines in the selection, as needed, to align up to max_align_char_count instances of a specific character or string of characters The default is to align all instances of the specific character. At present, the alignment character is taken as the character at the top of the current selection. You can uncomment some code below to change this policy to instead take the alignment character from within the selection at whichever end has the cursor. Either way, if that character is white space, the user is prompted to type the character (or characters). If you really wish to align on a white space character, you can just click OK at the prompt. When prompted to type the alignment character, the user may enter a sequence of characters, e.g., "-->", in which case the alignment is on the instances of that entire character sequence. For example, if the user enters "-->" at the prompt, then instances of the "-" character get aligned only if they're followed immediately by the characters "->", while instances of, say, "-1" and "- " remain unaltered. If there is no current selection, then aligns all lines in the editor. If there is a current selection, then aligns only the lines that are at least partially included in the selection, and the selection is changed to the entire block of newly-padded lines. Parameters ---------- max_align_char_count : positive integer, optional The maximum number of instances to align of the specific character. For example, set to 1 to align only the first instance of the character on each line. The default is to align all instances of the specific character. """ from Npp import editor #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # For the alignment character, take the character just inside the bounds of # the selection block (at either the start or the end, as determined below). #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- editor.targetFromSelection() selected_text = editor.getTargetText() # Use this code to get the align_char unconditionally from the start # of the selection. align_char = selected_text[0] # Optionally use this code to get the align_char from within the selection # at whichever end has the cursor. # (startByte, endByte) = editor.getUserCharSelection() # if startByte == editor.getCurrentPos(): # align_char = selected_text[0] # else: # align_char = selected_text[-1] # If the character from the selection seems implausible as the # align_char, then prompt the user for it. if align_char.isspace(): from Npp import notepad global default_align_char align_char = notepad.prompt('Align character:', 'Enter Alignment Character', default_align_char) if align_char is not None: default_align_char = align_char #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #%% Get the lines of text within the selected alignment block #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (startLine, endLine) = editor.getUserLineSelection() startPos = editor.positionFromLine(startLine) endPos = editor.getLineEndPosition(endLine) text_lines = editor.getTextRangeFull(startPos, endPos).splitlines(True) #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Remember whether there is a user-selected block, so we can restore a # corresponding selection after aligning the text. #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- restore_selection = editor.getSelectionStart() != editor.getSelectionEnd() #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Align all instances of align_char within the lines of text #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- if align_char is not None: # Enable the following to save the align_char, however it was determined, # to be the default_align_char when prompting for it next time. # default_align_char = align_char padding_side_offset = padding_side.value * len(align_char) if max_align_char_count is None: align_char_count = max(line.count(align_char) for line in text_lines) else: align_char_count = max_align_char_count start = 0 for instance in range(align_char_count): # Set the target column using the index of the align_char, ignoring # immediately preceding space, or the length of the line tgt_char_col = max(len(line[:line.find(align_char, start)].rstrip()) for line in text_lines) for (idx,line) in enumerate(text_lines): align_char_col = line.find(align_char, start) if align_char_col >= 0: text_lines[idx] = line[:align_char_col+padding_side_offset].rstrip().ljust(tgt_char_col) \ + line[align_char_col+padding_side_offset:] start = tgt_char_col + len(align_char) editor.setTarget(startPos, endPos) editor.replaceTarget(''.join(text_lines)) if restore_selection: startPos = editor.positionFromLine(startLine) endPos = editor.getLineEndPosition(endLine) editor.setSelectionStart(startPos) editor.setSelectionEnd(endPos) if __name__ == '__main__': align_selected_text()

In case anyone is interested, I’ve created a version of this that runs as a Windows application rather than as a Notepad++ plugin, so it works in all applications:

Compose for Windows

This should be considered experimental. Since it works everywhere, not just in Notepad++, it has more potential to mess things up if I’ve missed something.

Since it has no connection to Notepad++ (other than being a spin-off of the plugin described in the original topic message):

The convenience features for editing a user definitions file which I added in response to @PeterJones’ notes aren’t included.

Further discussion will be off-topic here. Please raise questions and concerns in the Issues for the project.

The actions to create GitHub pages are, for some reason and at least temporarily, not working on this repository, which affects the normal presentation of the help file. However, you can still read the help file here (though some links appear to be garbled).