@xomx
Well spotted!

With the signtool, I passed the argument /as to signed with both the first certif and the 2nd one - that makes the duplication signature on binaries when the script runs morn than 1 time.

I just fixed the script to pass /a to sign with the first certif and /as with the 2nd one.

More info:

/a Select the best signing cert automatically. SignTool will find all valid certs that satisfy all specified conditions and select the one that is valid for the longest. If this option is not present, SignTool will expect to find only one valid signing cert. /as Append this signature. If no primary signature is present, this signature will be made the primary signature instead.

The explanation is not explicite for /a. In my experience, usage of this parameter removes all the signatures before signing with the certificate.

The problem of signature duplication is fixed in RC2:
https://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/8.x/8.8.7.RC2/

edit: with some tests, it turns out that the argument /a does nothing for the first signing - without /a it still removes all signatures before signing.

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).

@mpheath

I had to save the UDL with and it worked very well, thank you very much!

@subodhjaiswar said in Style Configurations Reset After Update:

@PeterJones

When my IT admin gave me my laptop with my ID(Domain) configured as part of local administrator group, I just simply install NP++ by downloading from Chrome.

Being part of the administrator group does not force Notepad++ to run in Admin mode. I have always been part of the administrator group, both on my personal PCs and on my work machines. I do not run Notepad++ as administrator.

Then I launched from desktop, or Start–>N+±-> Enter

Did you look at those shortcuts, as I explained?

Then I pinned NP++ and every time my laptop restart I launch NP++ from taskbar

Did you look at that shortcut, as I explained?

Since my TP is a single user and no other user I am not sure how to run NP++ with No Admin

I gave you detailed instructions on how to look for the “Run this program as an administrator” checkbox, both for shortcuts and for the notepad++.exe executable. You have to find the ones that are checked, and uncheckmark them

Please advise on how do I retain my style settings.

The instructions already given told you the first step. If you ignore the first step, you cannot hope to fix your problem.

@Terry-R said in Cannot update portable version -- Windows keeps using old version even though it's deleted:

@helpdata said in Cannot update portable version -- Windows keeps using old version even though it's deleted:

Well, you don’t know the reason it changed the default application. It may have been you to make that occur even if you deny that was the case.

As I said, I REPEATEDLY changed the default app for text files to the I: drive version. I literally navigated again and again to that drive and set that version of the program as default. It did not “take” in Windows, perhaps because the executable had the same name, so Windows decided it’s the same program and did not update. A bug.

Personally I would just install Notepad++ and then if I needed to maintain version control turn off the auto-updater option as I stated in the previous post.

I’m considering that, although I do like portable apps. Any more problems and that’s what I’ll do.

PS your statement of “The I: drive where the portable version has always lived,” is clearly incorrect as has been proven.

Um, no, it has always been on the I: drive, and the I: drive is backed up to the H: drive. This is definitely a Windows issue. Until recently, Windows did not even allow portable apps to be set as default apps:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2795276/is-it-no-longer-possible-to-make-a-portable-progra

Anyway, thanks for the help.

@pbarney said in PHP Linter PythonScript:

my impression is that Pythonscript ships with 2.8

From Plugins Admin, PythonScript v2.1.0 uses Python v2.7.18 (as far as I am aware, there is no such thing as Python v2.8).

However, if you go to the PythonScript releases page, you will see that there is also an “alpha” track of PythonScript v3.0.x (currently at 3.0.24), which use Python v3.12.xx. This is the route I personally recommend (caveat below).

The maintainer of PythonScript has chosen not to take PythonScript 3 out of “alpha” until it fully supports non-unicode encodings (ie, until it supports the 1980s-style character set encodings), so until that point, to get a maintained version of the Python interpreter for PythonScript, you have to manually install an alpha version of PythonScript – essentially, you have to put up with legacy syntax of Python if you want to deal with legacy non-unicode encodings of text. I personally have no need of supporting 80s technology for file encodings (and I pity anyone for whom their circumstances demand that they deal with file encodings that haven’t been brought into this millennium anytime in the last quarter century), so I use the 2020s version of Python for my PythonScript. (My personal opinion is that PythonScript should start shipping PythonScript 3 as non-alpha, and that they just prominently make it clear that if you have to deal with the old character sets that you should instead install the outdated PythonScript2 version from the releases page. But my opinion on such things holds no weight.)

@john-murphy said in where exactly can I find the file where the new macro I just saved was saved?:

Also, go to to the search input window and type name:bbb or whatever you named the file if it’s not bbb. Windows will find it. Of course you need to search from a folder that you can reasonable expect to find the file, so that the search doesn’t take too long.

That has nothing to do with the question asked. You do not name the file that Notepad++ stores macros in. It’s defined internally, and the answers above already explained where to find them.

I cannot prove you are using generative AI, but it sure feels like it. That is expressly forbidden in this forum. You’ve had two posts like that. If you make a third post that has the same unhelpful pseudo-replies, you will be banned.

@soft-parsley
Could you provide your gup.xml file from C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater\ directory?

@Ekopalypse

I recompiled with your code modification and I can’t crash Notepad++ anymore ! :)

So I can confirm your modification fixes the issue on my side. Thank you !

Thank you guys all so very much, now that I know that it’s a GVAS file, I’ll chase down that lead and try to get somewhere!!!

Hello, @barry-lort, @peterjones and All,

@barry-lort, here is an other method to solve your problem !

Let’s suppose that your file contains 100 lines, so 50 lines beginning with #SERVICE and 50 lines beginning with #DESCRIPTION, as below :

#SERVICE:4:8:1:6:0 #DESCRIPTION Angus #SERVICE:4:7:0:3:0: #DESCRIPTION Ayrshire #SERVICE:5:8:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Brown-Swiss #SERVICE:3:6:7:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Galloway #SERVICE:4:9:2:5:0 #DESCRIPTION Guernsey #SERVICE:6:4:7:8:0 #DESCRIPTION Hereford #SERVICE:2:7:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Holstein #SERVICE:6:4:2:9:0 #DESCRIPTION Piedmontese #SERVICE:3:6:3:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Scottish-Highland #SERVICE:4:4:9:3:0 #DESCRIPTION Shorthorn #SERVICE:4:8:1:6:0 #DESCRIPTION Angus #SERVICE:4:7:0:3:0: #DESCRIPTION Ayrshire #SERVICE:5:8:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Brown-Swiss #SERVICE:3:6:7:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Galloway #SERVICE:4:9:2:5:0 #DESCRIPTION Guernsey #SERVICE:6:4:7:8:0 #DESCRIPTION Hereford #SERVICE:2:7:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Holstein #SERVICE:6:4:2:9:0 #DESCRIPTION Piedmontese #SERVICE:3:6:3:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Scottish-Highland #SERVICE:4:4:9:3:0 #DESCRIPTION Shorthorn #SERVICE:4:8:1:6:0 #DESCRIPTION Angus #SERVICE:4:7:0:3:0: #DESCRIPTION Ayrshire #SERVICE:5:8:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Brown-Swiss #SERVICE:3:6:7:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Galloway #SERVICE:4:9:2:5:0 #DESCRIPTION Guernsey #SERVICE:6:4:7:8:0 #DESCRIPTION Hereford #SERVICE:2:7:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Holstein #SERVICE:6:4:2:9:0 #DESCRIPTION Piedmontese #SERVICE:3:6:3:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Scottish-Highland #SERVICE:4:4:9:3:0 #DESCRIPTION Shorthorn #SERVICE:4:8:1:6:0 #DESCRIPTION Angus #SERVICE:4:7:0:3:0: #DESCRIPTION Ayrshire #SERVICE:5:8:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Brown-Swiss #SERVICE:3:6:7:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Galloway #SERVICE:4:9:2:5:0 #DESCRIPTION Guernsey #SERVICE:6:4:7:8:0 #DESCRIPTION Hereford #SERVICE:2:7:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Holstein #SERVICE:6:4:2:9:0 #DESCRIPTION Piedmontese #SERVICE:3:6:3:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Scottish-Highland #SERVICE:4:4:9:3:0 #DESCRIPTION Shorthorn #SERVICE:4:8:1:6:0 #DESCRIPTION Angus #SERVICE:4:7:0:3:0: #DESCRIPTION Ayrshire #SERVICE:5:8:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Brown-Swiss #SERVICE:3:6:7:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Galloway #SERVICE:4:9:2:5:0 #DESCRIPTION Guernsey #SERVICE:6:4:7:8:0 #DESCRIPTION Hereford #SERVICE:2:7:4:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Holstein #SERVICE:6:4:2:9:0 #DESCRIPTION Piedmontese #SERVICE:3:6:3:1:0 #DESCRIPTION Scottish-Highland #SERVICE:4:4:9:3:0 #DESCRIPTION Shorthorn

Now, just follow this road map :

Select any string #SERVICE

Run the Edit > Multi-select All > Match Case Only option

=> All strings #SERVICE should have been selected

Use the Shift + End shortcut to extend the selection to the end of each line

Use the Ctrl + X shortcut to delete these lines and place them in the clipboard

Hit two times on the Down arrow key

=> Each cursor/caret should had been moved two lines under

Use the Ctrl + V shortcut to recopy all #SERVICE lines to their new location

Finally, hit the ESC key to clear the current multi-selection

Voila !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

We could use the multi-selection of all #DESCRIPTION lines, either ! But, in that case, you need to :

Add an empty line at the very beginning of your file

Hit two times on the Up arrow key, right before the pasting operation

P.P.S. :

A similar regex S/R could be :

FIND (?-s)^(.+\R)(.+(\R)?)

REPLACE $2(?3:\r\n)$1

Note that the conditional replacement (?3:\r\n) manages the case where your last #DESCRIPTION line would not end with a line-break !

@rdipardo

I didn’t mean that I run and hide from anything that AI is touched or influenced by. That wouldn’t be practical.

@Wes-Owens

Here is the procedure, which is 100% reliable for me:

Ctrl+F, enter search terms, FIND ALL IN CURRENT DOCUMENT Find Dialog closes. Search Results dialog is shown Hitting F7 will toggle between the Search Results and Editor having focus If Search Results has focus, it will have blue title bar If editor has focus, you will be able to type in editor If Search Results has focus, hitting ESC will close it

See this animated screen grab:

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edit: even if I have the setting that @Terry-R mentioned checkmarked: I see the Search Dialog after hitting the FIND ALL IN CURRENT DOCUMENT button, I still see that the Search Results window is given focus when I do (see the blue title bar for that panel):

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And when the Search Results have focus, the SINGLE KEY ESC is sufficient to close the panel.

@Juan-Delgado said in Windows ARM64 25H2 Notepad++ 8.8.7 doesn't start:

So, I uninstalled the Notepad

I think it helped due to completely deleting the N++ settings, namely the config.xml file. There is a N++ Smart Highlighting bug (already fixed for the next N++ version), more here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17126#issuecomment-3476961976

@Terry-R

Your second option \sR(\s|$) worked like a charm.

Thanks so much for the insight - huge help!

@Joe-Wilton,

Obviously there is some interaction between the characters in the Operators 1 list and the Folding in Code 1 and 2 styles.

The intention for UDL is that no given token (symbol or word) is found in two separate fields: they are supposed to be unique, because you cannot style a token both as an Operator and as a Folding-In-Code, as the two are mutually exclusive. There is an internal order they are processed, but that order is not guaranteed (a few versions back, Notepad++ actually changed the order of a couple of the fields, which broke some UDL that were relying on the old order of processing to handle conflicts in their definitions). If you make the UDL without conflicts, you won’t have problems if Notepad++ changes the internals again.

(By “no given token … is found”, I mean “is found alone”. For example, you could have a fold-open2 of { and an operator of {{ – if it finds double-brace, it will render it as an operator, but a single-brace will be a fold-open2.)

Thanks @Coises & @rdipardo
I tried this and its working but still not better. You can suggest anything if I can add more styling.

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h-jangra/BetterMarkdown/releases/tag/0.1

@James-Burke-0 ,
In addition to what @PeterJones has explained, the only other thing you could do, is bring up dBASEPlus in the Language->User Defined Language->Define your language...User language drop down box, and then `Save As’ and give it a new name.

At that point, you can play with the settings, keywords, etc… all you want in your own named UDL. Because of the way the entire UDL ecosystem works, however, you’ll lose the ability to use the autoComplete file and the functionList file as well, because of their links to the UDL’s file names that those work with, as well as the overrideMap.xml linkage file, but you’d have JUST the UDL to adjust to your likings and then when you’re satisfied, you could go back to the original dBASEPlus UDL and put the changes that you want into the Dialog boxes for the language and then do as @PeterJones says, and just close and reopen the editor and your changes will be applied to the intalled dBASEPlus UDL definition.

If you don’t need the Function List or Auto Complete capability, you can just use your newly named version of the dBASEPlus UDL to view and edit dBASE specific files.

Just in case this is what you meant you wanted to do, to customize the dBASEPlus UDL without losing the original functionality of the original package. I hope this helps.

@James-Burke-0 ,
Yeah…okay, whatever. It’s clear now, you don’t know what you’re talking about and pushing a product that isn’t what you say it is.

Your statement is false, period. It can’t read all known DBF types, as you state because it can’t read level 7 DBF files, which has been the latest official dBASE file type for the past approx 28 years almost since it’s been written to work in Windows, so I’ll consider your postings to be uninformed spam. Have a nice day.