@ubaldo-p , Apparently no one else has that error (at least none of the 63-or-so views of your post have resulted in anyone willing to admit to the problem). I have used the Compare plugin successfully with v8.1.9 without difficulty. But I didn’t have to install it, because Compare plugin already was installed when I upgraded to v8.1.9. So today, since you hadn’t gotten a response, I took a fresh Notepad++ v8.1.9 portable unzip, and used Plugins Admin to install the plugin, and there was no difficulty. The things I would check if I were you: make sure you have write permission in the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins directory (or the equivalent for your installation) – or you could temporarily run Notepad++ as Admin in order to install the plugin, if your normal user doesn’t have necessary privileges. make sure you have the proxy settings (?-menu, Set Updater Proxy) correctly defined in Notepad++ if your machine requires a proxy for internet connections.

@mykola-biloshytskyi , So you completely ignored everything I told you – you did not use the template I gave you, you did not use the formatting buttons, you did not response to all three questions. However, it doesn’t matter. The command-line data that you showed proves that the problem is not with Notepad++ or with the plugin NppExec. The problem is with the syntax you are using on the command line – because you are getting the same error there that you did in NppExec. Your question is thus a Java question, not a Notepad++ or NppExec question. You are going to have to find a Java forum and ask your question there.

@desmond-frobisher , When asking for help, it’s often better to err on the side of giving more, detailed, explicit information, rather than vague assertions. Please share ?-menu Debug Info from both devices Please share the Plugins > NppCrypt > About entry (or equivalent) for both Please check the NppCrypt settings on both, to make sure they match (sharing screenshots would help convince us) Please make sure nothing changed in the file during the “copy”. If it went over an FTP transfer, the line endings may have been corrupted. If it went via email attachment or what have you, maybe something got corrupted during the encoding/decoding/attach/extract process. Check the file sizes on both machines to make sure it’s the same number of bytes, etc. Without detailed information, our best guess is “operator error” (that is: “you are doing something wrong”), which isn’t helpful to you. If you want help, you have to help us help you.

Try Ctrl+Shift+t Also known as File > Restore Recent Closed File. And see also the related File > Open All Recent Files, which re-opens the full list shown in the recent-files-history.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Style Token text coloring issue: @Tomáš-Kocourek It works. Read the release note and/or the manual when you move to a newer version of Notepad++ than the one you are used to, because…THINGS CHANGE. Here’s a hint, though: [image: 1635680210350-ea328cac-7dee-48f7-ad83-1460c38446f9-image.png] @PeterJones FAQ this one? Thanks, this helped :-)

@Ronald-Koons , Sorry, I don’t believe it does. However, if another Compare Plugin user knows differently and can show us how, great!

@Ronald-Koons , I never have found the need for using “First to Compare” button. When I start my comparison, I just put my “old” file on the left and “new” file on the right, and click the “compare” button, and it works exactly as I expect it to. Okay, with a little experimenting: if I have all my files in the same view (so multiple tabs, none on the right), then if I click “First to Compare” in the “old” file, then “Compare” in the “new” file, it puts the one marked “first” on the left and the one where you clicked “Compare” on the right. And when i ended that compare, the “new” file moved back to the only active view with all the others. So the “First To Compare” button appears to be used only for marking the order of comparison when both files are starting from the same view. FYI: If you still want a change in behavior (I don’t think you need one), the author of the Compare Plugin has an issues page where such requests should be made. However, the author of the Compare plugin is no longer working on that incarnation of the plugin, and is instead working on a “ComparePlus” plugin to replace it. There has been no timeframe given for the newly-named plugin. However, the author does have issues for the Compare Plugin that are marked for ComparePlus v1, so if you put in your request through the compare plugin issues page, they might be included in the replacement plugin.

@artie-finkelstein Thank you for your response.

@PeterJones Thanks for your information I will get it a try

Helo, @victoronrust and all, A possible work-around would be to delete, TEMPORALLY, any character, displayed in inverse video, but the normal line endings : Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) SEARCH (?!\r|\n)[\x00-\x1F\x80-\x9F\x{2028}\x{2029}] REPLACE Leave EMPTY Tick the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Replace All button Press the Esc key to close the Replace dialog Once, you thoroughly studied your file contents, just do a Ctrl + Z action to get the initial text ;-)) Best Regards, guy038

@Roberto-Moreno Here’s a way of doing it with PythonScripting (PythonScript is a plug-in): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from Npp import * try: HINF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED except NameError: def HINF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED(args): if editor.getTextLength() == 0: editor.setText('Created by Bob') notepad.callback(HINF__callback_npp_BUFFERACTIVATED, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED]) One option is to put most of that script into startup.py, or make a call to the script from startup.py if you don’t embed it.

@Firehold I use the Explorer plugin and have installed TortoiseGit. That gives me some integration: [image: 1633105018493-6a3b4e0c-f7cb-4cde-8da1-4cd29fe4b8bd-image.png] Cheers.

Please find a fully-working prototype of the C++ wrapper (proxy) plugin here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jsz0liLzrVw9H42p0vrZO9VNMQNv8P2j The README file is included, if you have questions. I haven’t create a project on GitHub because I’m not sure about the name of the project. NppMenuSearchCpp looks logical in terms of implementation, but it does not look so good as part of Notepad++'s plugins menu. Any suggestions are welcome - both regarding the name and the functionality. Feel free to use the sources of this plugin as a base of your own wrapper, if you want to create one for some other plugin.

For me this sounds like you either have a feature request or think there is a bug in the interface. If that is the case, then I would recommend to open an issue at the official github issues page. If this isn’t what you want, please explain in more detail what you are looking for.

v0.008 released to CPAN add notepad->showDocList, notepad->isDocListShown, and notepad->docListDisableColumn for working with the Document List panel (previously “Doc Switcher” panel) incorporate the new messages and menu commands thru v8.1.4 (#80) add notepad->getStatusBar(), which will get the text of one of the sections of the status bar (#65) add notepad->getDebugInfo(), which (for new-enough Notepad++) includes the ‘Command line’ entry from Debug Info (#74) add %WINMSGBOX for use with notepad->messageBox (#73)

@artie-finkelstein By default, NppExec’s Console becomes visible when any script is executed. To avoid it, npp_console ? should be used. (See NppExec Manual, section “4.1. NppExec’s Console behaviour”). I tried to reproduce the situation with npp_console local off under an if block within NppExec’s temporary script (Plugins -> NppExec -> Execute NppExec Script), and everything worked as expected: set local a = 123 if $(a) == 123 then npp_console local off // the Console becomes hidden endif strfind // produces an error "about to start a child process: "strfind"" sleep 2000 // the Console becomes visible

@Walter-Di-Biase One thing to be aware of, though, with hiding lines: When you switch the active tab in Notepad++, Notepad++ itself will restore any lines you previously had hidden. So, if you want them to remain hidden (probably), you’ll have to capture the “buffer activated” event and then re-hide based on your saving of what was hidden before. Sounds a bit complicated? Yes, it is.

@Michael-Vincent said in NppMenuSearch crashing as of Notepad++ commit 84c1505: I’ve opened a bug on the NppMenuSearch Github Issues - hoping to reach @peter-frentrup . FIXED!!! - see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21783/nppmenusearch-version-0-9-5-available

Sorry for the late and already too late reply, but I usually stay away from the computer on weekends. I assume that Python does its string processing before the boost::regex function gets a chance to interpret the string, but I’ve never really looked into it. The lambda or explicit function solution seem to be the way to solve this problem.

@dail this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!