@PeterJones said in I need a function/plugin to extract only unnecessary text from lines:

@Ragnar-Lodbrok ,
I think the answer is “there is no way to do it in one meaningful regular expression, because your data is not consistent enough”

The data is not consistent as it appears to be harvested data:

https://github.com/RagnarLodbrok1981/proxy-scraper-checker
forked from
https://github.com/monosans/proxy-scraper-checker

That may explain the pipe characters in the log like as shown in the repository’s readme image. This appears to be dishonest obtained data.

@tino-tesu said in v8.8.6 - the function list is not working:

That was a easy fix. I could add a new line after.

Great.

Notepad++ has a long-standing bug wherein if you have a FunctionList parser that includes a class, every class must have one or more whitespace after the last “closing” tag. Usually, it shows up with C/C++ classes, which end with } … but the bug also occurs for other classes in functionLists.

The reason why v8.8.5 worked without the newline is because the v8.8.5 FunctionList parser for SQL didn’t try to do classes, so didn’t trigger that bug.

@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 !

. , ; After deleting the {} , it worked. Obviously there is some interaction between the characters in the Operators 1 list and the Folding in Code 1 and 2 styles.

Thanks, @Terry-R and @PeterJones - there’s a lot in that plugin that I’m not sure I’ll need or understand, but the Elastic Tabs does what I need for now.

@PeterJones said in Default LF and not CRLF:

only one instance (in theory, the last to close) has permission to write the settings to disk.

that (or my original phrasing of “in theory, the first instance”) are both technically right, and practically wrong. it’s actually very confusing, and it depends on which configuration file you are talking about.

I took a portable, and put it into multi-instance mode. then opened two instances. Instance 1, I set to Dark Mode + Small Toolbar Icons, instance 2 I set to Light Mode + Big Toolbar Icons. I closed Instance 2, and looked, and saw that config.xml was saved, but session.xml did not save. then I closed Instance 1, and saw that config.xml was saved again and session.xml was saved this time. So in this run, both were able to write to config.xml, but only the first instance was able to write to session.xml. When I ran one instance of Notepad++ after this, it was in Dark Mode + Small Toolbar, which shows that instance 1 definitely “won” for the config.xml

I started a new pair of instances – this time, they both started out in Dark Mode + Small Icons. Then I changed Instance 1 to Light Mode + Small Icons, and changed Instance 2 to Dark Mode + Big Icons. I closed instance 1, and saw that both config.xml and session.xml were saved. Then I closed instance 2 and saw that config.xml was saved but session.xml was not. This seems to confirm my working mental model. When I started one instance after this, it was Dark Mode + Big Icons, which was the instance 2 setting, and thus the last one closed “won” for config.xml again.

Hence, the way I will phrase things, at least based on my best understanding for now:

When multiple instances of Notepad++ are open, each will write its config.xml when it exits, so the last instance closed is the one whose config.xml will “win”. However, only the first instance of Notepad++ in multi-instance mode gets permission to write to session.xml, so only that first instance will ever save its session.

@PeterJones Thanks for the reply been waiting for something like this for years! Just set up the latest 1.2 version (released yesterday coincidentally) . NppVim is wonderful! It does everything ViSimulator did, it also fixes a few minor issues I have delt with in ViSimulator and added features.

Fixes:

Works in newest versions of Npp + 64 bit. Using v $ actually selects to the end of the line now. ViSimulator went to end selection minus one character at the end. Can use Ctrl+f to NP++ find in regular or edit mode. In ViSimulator I needed enter edit mode to use Ctrl+f to find.

Added feature:

Can use : <integer> to jump to line numbers now, had to use Ctrl+g to use Npp’s one becuase ViSimulator did not support it. Can now use inputrc commands I used in the past like c i w, and y i w to cut or yank a whole word while in the middle of it

This is great, I’m really glad this exists now!

Thank you, your help was very useful and effective.

@Lee ,

Since it last worked in v8.8.2, the problem wasn’t actually with the v8.8.6 specifically, so it doesn’t belong in the v8.8.6 announcement, which is only for regressions between v8.8.5 to v8.8.6 specifically. Problems that aren’t specific to the newest version should be talked about in the Help Wanted section (where I moved your post), not in the announcements. If it can be confirmed as a bug in Notepad++, we will then encourage you to create an bug report in Notepad++'s GitHub-based Issues tracker.

There is a command-line argument, -loadingTime, which could help debug a slowness.
Are you able to edit the shortcut that you use, so that you can see what it says takes a while?

Actually, do you have anti-virus or similar computer-protection software? Because v8.8.3, which is the first version that you have a problem with, was the first version to use a self-signed certificate, rather than a DigiCert certificate. I am thinking that it’s likely that your AV software is getting hung up on that – so it scans notepad++.exe once per boot. Follow the instructions in the 8.8.3 description (or equivalently, in the User Manual’s Self-Signed Certificate section, choosing Local Machine) to make sure you’ve got the certificate installed correctly. If that’s not enough, there’s an example in this discussion, the user eventually found that going to the “HIPS” setting in Comodo Internet Security (the AV/safety SW on that machine) and setting it to allow Notepad++ was enough to get rid of the problem: so you should check your AV/safety SW for HIPS or similar settings to allow/trust/whitelist certain apps.

@Eric-Y ,

has anyone else seen this?

I have not.

If it were just randomly typing it where your cursor/caret is, I would say that maybe you have a dirty or flakey keyboard. But since it seems to be happening in random locations, even though your caret/cursor is not there, I might blame a flakey plugin, or maybe you have a broken AutoHotKey or similar external program that’s incorrectly injecting keystrokes into Notepad++.

To debug a Plugin as the possible issue, see our Crash FAQ: Possible Culprit: Plugin – the FAQ focuses on crashes, but really that section of the FAQ applies for debugging any problem that might be caused by a plugin.

unfortunately, we cannot really help you debug AHK or other external programs.

@Cheok-SC said in 15sec freeze with word wrap:

Is Word Wrap really that heavy of a performance cost?

Yes.

There’s a reason that Settings > Preferences > Performance automatically deactivates word-wrap for large files, when all the other performance issues start with the checkboxes off, so you have to decide to also deactivate other features for large files. Word wrap and syntax highlighting are the two biggest performance costs, because they involve processing the entire file

@Neculai-I-Fantanaru

Look for the file in “appdata”. More detail HERE.

@guy038:

You’ve given me something to consider.

It had not occurred to me that converting to “normalization form composed” could decompose a fully pre-composed character. I see now that the specification does describe how that can happen. It just wasn’t intuitive that it could do that, and I hadn’t read closely enough. So there are pre-composed characters that exist, but cannot be synthesized from their components (at least not by these algorithms). Ugh. That’s going to mess with something else I’m trying to build.

I’m not sure how useful any of this is — I threw it together when I was investigating some oddities with Korean text display. I wanted a fast way to convert between decomposed and composed forms so I could try to figure out what was happening.

I will see if I can find a reasonable way to show all normalization forms. I entered your request as Issue #1, so hopefully I won’t forget about it.

Showing the Unicode code points, as well as the UTF-16 and UTF-8 code units, for a character or a selection of characters is another thing I would like to do. If I do it, I think I’m more likely to put that in a new, different plugin that would use a docking panel; I could perhaps include the encodings for the canonical forms in the same display.

@gerdb42 Thanks. A little tricky, but will be useful once I’ve worked on a couple of simple ‘test’ examples. It’s not exactly like the Npp version, apparently, but will serve as ‘fairy bike wheels’ until I master this stuff a little more. :-)

I too would really like to have a quick toggle on/off of the Multi-line Tab Bar feature and I found a post on GitHub providing a customized macro that supposedly does it it, but it didn’t do anything when I tried it.
I’m hoping anyone here can please test it and confirm if it does work or not so I know if it’s me or not.
And if it’s not just me, would anyone with the expertise please be able to do a working solution?
Thank you!

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/13712#issuecomment-1588408192

Also found a Multi-line Item id number here if it’s of any use…
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/ce58b424bdeec3616943f9ea8cd257f66700c3c0#diff-a6ac7ceba70d88bf1547fd1defd760bd55052dcdb78c44f9d46d99ef1f450472L962

@Ilia-Nenashev said in JSON String Escape / Unescape:

Such possibility I have found only in https://github.com/RolandTaverner/npp-json-escape-unescape-plugin but there is some risk of installing compiled plugin from outside of community.

Well, I’m (the author of the npp-json-escape-unescape-plugin) not that far outside the community. Also, I’ve finally fixed the plugin solution so anyone can build it from source (see the instructions in the README).