Boycott Notepad++

bad window

PeterJones — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:34:12 GMT

@makeymalik , Longstanding known issue: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8660 From what I understand from that Issue, it’s usually related to the OS display-scaling setting in High-DPI modes. There’s a volunteer who has been slowly working through the known DPI issues, but hasn’t gotten to this one

Notepad ++ Should have intellisense plugin Like VS Code.

pnedev — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:55:16 GMT

@baberzaman , You can also check NppGTags plugin from Notepad++'s Plugin Manager (this is its project URL: https://github.com/pnedev/nppgtags) - it uses Global GTags to index your code-base and then you can look-up identifiers and do greps. P.S. You love Notepad++, “Boycott Notepad++” is probably not the proper place for your thread. It is more suitable for general discussion or plugins sections as a question and/or suggestion for Notepad++ improvement. BR

Why is the forum so scary?

PeterJones — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:26:14 GMT

@Mister-Smitt , As you are just here to whine and complain and curse, I will move this “topic” to “Boycott Notepad++”, where such belongs. And then, since I have that Category set so that I never see new posts there, I can hopefully just ignore anything else you post. Good luck with your whining, ad hominem attacks, and anti-social behavior. It will serve you well in life.

notepad++ loading takes a long time

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:17:49 GMT

Bug Report

C C — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:52:55 GMT

I have been using Notepad++ for years. I frequently get this message, usually after a Windows 11 restart. [image: 1770914864120-84e247a1-494a-4e82-8eec-d4fd39f06a65-image.png] I’ve updated Notepad++ whenever prompted, I’ve reinstalled to try to fix the problem. The problem seems to come with the program. I don’t know why I would get this message or what they want ME to do about it. I don’t even know where to find the extra DLL. Help?

notepad++，政治言论独裁的软件而已

Jonathan Johansen — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:07:52 GMT

@王阿喵 I’m a new member of the forums. I’m sorry that statement upsets you. It’s a benefit of being a person where you won’t be censored, that you can say what you want. The bananas metaphor may just lead to a worse relationship, right? Open source projects can be copied though, and if you can get a few people to agree, you can start a competing open source product, right? May the peace of Christ be with you, friend.

Yeah! Screw these guys and their awesome free software!!

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:45:25 GMT

What an idiot

Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:09 GMT

Is there a We don't stand with Ukraine version?

Coises — Mon, 12 May 2025 01:22:53 GMT

@Aaren-Myatt said in Is there a We don't stand with Ukraine version?: I don’t think labelling a stance on a war on a software download is very sensible. The developer who has made this software possible clearly believes in the cause enough to attach it to his work. If that troubles you too much for you to feel good about using it, it’s open source software. You can clone it on GitHub and build it yourself with any changes you like.

Download Says we are with Ukrine

Mon, 05 May 2025 20:41:09 GMT

All the off-topic go here

guy038 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:26:09 GMT

Hello, @peterjones and All, Peter, in one of your posts, that I cannot seem to find, you mentioned a new feature in Windows 11 Notepad that, by default, allows you to close the application, even if there are unsaved files, similar to Notepad++ Just in case you have not figured out, on your own, how to change this default behavior ( witch would really surprise me ! ), here is the method : Open Microsoft Notepad Click on the gear icon, on far right of the Menu bar Look for the line When Notepad starts Click on the arrow on the far right of this option Select the Start new session and discard unsaved changes option Close and re-start Notepad => The old Notepad behavior should be back with just an untitled tab when starting Microsoft Notepad ! Best Regards, guy038

Where's the Kudos thread?

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:04:23 GMT

We are with Ukraine

王阿喵 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:12:10 GMT

@Deniss-Johanssen 虽然乌克兰遭到了毁灭，但则连斯基的人民得到了那些所谓的明主自由

[BUG] Updating removes my doLocalConf.xml every time

xomx — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:57:54 GMT

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16233

Your forum UI is non-standard and almost prevented me getting help.

Alan Kilborn — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 03:43:10 GMT

@KoliadaES-Release said in Your forum UI is non-standard and almost prevented me getting help.: Nobody reads anything these days, esp. when they first ‘jump in` But few proceed to just totally bitching about it; perhaps you’re a rare individual. Going on a rant is fine, but it is best if it is an “educated rant”. I’m sure that Peter’s recent effort (above), which is just more for you to read, is certain to be ignored.

Complaint about political messaging (originally a reply in v8.7.3 Announcement)

Lycan Thrope — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:52:53 GMT

@Timothy-Hoogland , Although I may disagree with the developer’s POV, you and I have a choice of what we may want to do. If it offends you that much, stop using the free product. I disagree with the developer, as someone who was being banned, long before by the cancel culture running rampant on, then Twitter, that I chose not to ‘apologize’ and let them pound sand. Simply for tellling Fake News reporters losing their jobs to “Learn to Code”, which at that time was considered a slam. No loss. When Musk bought Twitter and changed it to X, I was able again to log on without the ‘Apology Butt Kiss’ document that you had to agree to. Although I disagree with some people’s opinion on X, I would defend their right to say it, something that I was not afforded when it was Twitter. On the other hand, I enjoy using the software and if not for these “Boycott Notepad++” complaints, I’d most likely never see the download messages that the developer chooses to put his opinions on. I may disagree with him, but it’s his right to say and do what he wishes with his site, software, etc in his control. It’s also my option, if I chose, to let him pound sand and not use this useful piece of software by emulating the cancel culture idiots that I detest. I believe in speaking with my eyeballs and wallet, something most people don’t seem to grasp or are unwilling to choose to do. So even if you’re willing to back-up your complaint by not using the software, you probably won’t affect the developers opinion and are considered simply to be, yelling into the wind. Either way, you’ve just lost the ability to use a very useful piece of software, which would be your loss.

why virtue signaling?

audioscavenger — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:46:23 GMT

There is no point other then taking users hostage of the author’s views. As much as I (and we all should) support Taiwain in their fight against the fascist bully that the PRC is, virtue signaling has no place in software development. I support the author 100% on Taiwan, but disagree at 90% on the Trump part. This is wokism plain and simple, and it alienates more than half your audience. Author is French and should know better.

[SOLVED] What's with the schizo behavior of the mouse wheel???

SocietyReboot — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:40:46 GMT

@Alan-Kilborn I did some search and appears that: this feature was added to Windows 10 in April 2018 with Update (version 1803) - about 3 years after the first Windows 10 release such a feature was already used in Mac OS called “Scroll inactive windows” since 2016 with macOS Sierra. WizMouse though was much older, since January 19, 2009. Conclusion: probably everyone copied it from WizMouse :)

The real haters can't hate

PeterJones — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:17:25 GMT

@shodanx2 , I normally stay out of the “Boycott” discussions, because they’re a complete waste of time (as is this one, for example, so I’ll be leaving this one again), but it seems really odd that you just started complaining about this a year after you successfully created your account and made your first post. But whatever, the haters are going to hate. (update: never mind, you were whining about this a year ago, too.) If the owners of the forum software and the service that they are donating to host our forum (they normally charge people and organizations to host with them, but are giving the hosting for free to us, so beggars cannot be choosers), or the contributors to their ecosystem (not me, not the developer of Notepad++) ever provide a plugin that allowed a “login with XYZ” for any other OAUTH provider, I would enable that in a heartbeat, because I’m all for giving users a choice. I cannot speak for the rest of the internet, but the email-only didn’t work here, despite your repeated protestations, for whatever reason, so I’ve tried to help give users as much choice from OAUTH providers as possible; unfortunately, those are the only two for now. Our choice of login has nothing to do with censoring people from speaking (as should be blatantly obvious, because we literally provide a topic for whining about Notepad++ in a forum dedicated to advocating for and helping people use Notepad++ … the N++ developer is highly into free speech), nor “shilling for the techbro cloud elites”, and everything to do with trying to make the user experience as good as possible for as many as we can.

I hate Notepad++ because the maximum file size it lets me open is only ...

scampsd — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:43:28 GMT

My logfiles typically are less than one gigabyte, but the more information is needed, the larger they might become, but then I’m talking about sizes about 2-3Gb, I cannot even imagine getting at 5Gb. So this looks to be covered.

Where do I report errors?

Joseph Millenbach — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 22:14:25 GMT

@oleviolin Nice to see someone else frustrated/confused by the organization here. And in case anybody else sees this later… Reverting to the previous working version is another workaround idea. Assuming you need it now, and don’t mind working around the automatic update automation (if enabled for you). If you can find a bug online they often will tell you when the issue started. Or you can just start installing from an older setup version and testing. Keep trying something older until it works again. Or use the last version you’d been on…

The setting Save previous session should be more precise

Alan Kilborn — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:11:49 GMT

@Alan-Kilborn said in The setting Save previous session should be more precise: Things like F3 (i.e., shortcuts while in editing tabs) don’t work in other windows/dialogs. But soon: Notepad++ 8.6.6 will allow F3 and Shift+F3 to work while the Find or Replace windows have input focus. See point #6 here: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25742/notepad-v8-6-6-release-candidate

Lost 3 hours work

Lycan Thrope — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 02:01:05 GMT

I misspoke. Apparently, if the file is open in a NPP tab, and you close NPP, open the file in another app and change something, apparently NPP is smart enough to read the file from disc again. So…apparently, it’s mostly if you have the file in a tab while NPP is open and change something in the file in another app…ie, use one app at a time and close files. :-) …or be aware of the possilibity of confusion. :-)

Ctrl+Shift+... not registered in npp shortcutmanager but type sys chars

Mark Olson — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:40:06 GMT

@kuzduk-kuzduk I’m pretty sure this will be changed in Notepad++ 8.6.5 (should be released soon).

Whaa......

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:39:29 GMT