my apologies, seems that this problem occured after an ugly computer shutdown (empty laptop battery or a savage windows update, no idea what occured). after more testing on my side, all seems to run fine now thanks for your time and patience

I wrote a plugin that can be used to configure left cursor movement to stop at left margin. Since this relies on a Scintilla setting you have to use at least Notepad++ v7.7. Untick option Wrap cursor at line start. The plugin’s name is ExtSettings. You can download it >>> here <<<. It will also be available soon via PluginsAdmin.

@dinkumoil said: @WinterSilence As @Alan-Kilborn said I’m developing Notepad++ plugins in Delphi. Have a look at the GitHub repo of my NppUISpy plugin. In the folder src/Lib you’ll find my modified and extended version of the Delphi Plugin Framework, based on the work of Damjan Zobo Cvetko. It is 32 bit/64 bit capable and already adapted to the new Scintilla v4.1.4 API used since Notepad++ v7.7. Thanks, I see on next week!

Thank you very much guys! I’m proud of free software community for fast replying and useful answers! Have a nice day! :)

@Peter-Wokke and a save option As to saving, there’s a method here, although it is probably not for noobs.

@ajay-gohil said: How to developed a NPP plugin with example it’s depend on what kind of language (c# , c++ , pascal )you are knows hello word plugin template using Lazarus is here

Thank you Alan

@pnedev and @dinkumoil Thank you both for your help, it is now working beautifully as expected. I have removed the unnecessary hToolBarIcon and converted the icons to BMP format.

I would script this from the command line probably in Perl - in fact, I already have.

@justdudeone I think you should read @Ekopalypse arguments carefully. But let me try to give you a specific example: I fetch everyday a nightly log from our build server named build_<date>.log. E.g. build_18082019.log. I open it with Notepad++ and observe it. I close Notepad++. I delete the file since I no longer need it locally. With your proposed solution within a year Notepad++ will remember within its auto-session 365 files that will never reappear again and spend considerable amount of time trying to open each of these files. I will not be aware of this list of files that Notepad++ tries to open in the background (other then noticing that Notepad++ becomes SLOW). The example could be modified to using files over network shares which can be even more catastrophic due to occasional VERY long network timeouts. Try to be a little less egocentric and realize that Notepad++ needs to balance different requirements of thousands of usage patterns.

See also topic 13286, topic 13468, issue 1232, issue 1657, issue 1861, issue 2910 and issue 3095.

@Alan-Kilborn said: Maybe @Ekopalypse 's suggestion to create the .ini file will go somewhere if the OP is trying it? Created LocationNavigate.ini in c:\notepad++\plugins\config as per Ekopalypse’s post. No luck.

It isn’t for C#, but just going to be written in C#. I am a C# developer, though I can code in php, java, python, are various other languages, I would love to code in the language I use daily. I have a few ideas for plugins, such as section finder in np++. https://github.com/rhyous/SectionFinder, which is already written in C#.

@chcg many thank

NppFTP is a very good tool, but still does not support scp properly, and using public/private key authentication is still a struggle, or at least I cant get it to work. I use it at home for certain servers, but at work I prefer WinSCP and NPP when not using vim. I hope this thread will inspire some plugin developer to integrate shellcheck into a plugin, have some kind of line highlighting or popup/tooltip type popup showing the output of shellcheck validation, maybe even a autoreplace text, which needs to be used with care :-)

@Alan-Kilborn said: Maybe worth pointing to that template… Thanks, yes of course it is worht ;-) - it is here.

@lawriehodges No worries!