@PeterJones An option to change of idle styling like change of rendering could be useful for users. The paste handling is a bit of a scripting enhancement to try to tame the symptoms of the styling process set at 3 which is to style the whole doc. Setting idle styling to 0 processes the styling to only what is viewed and a one liner in a startup script might be enough. Perhaps if an issue is created then more users might join in with their experiences like this issue. Momentum might be needed to change the minds of those who believe in the what has previously been claimed as optimizations.

@shodanx2 ,

Placing the cursor anywhere on the window and middle-click-dragging left and right

Interesting. Apparently I am not creative enough to think of clicking on anything but the window/subwindow/panel frame to try to resize a window/subwindow/panel. Since there’s apparently utilities to enable that in other things, I guess you’re not the only one, but it’s just not something I’d ever thought of. (And sorry, in case it wasn’t obvious, unlike @Alan-Kilborn , I didn’t originally understand that you weren’t just trying a different button on the center bar between.)

Which allows me to middle click drag anywhere on a page and very quickly scroll it up and down.

That sounds very much like browser-style autoscroll features (though in those, they just click-and-release on the middle button, and that switches to autoscroll mode). And autoscroll as a feature has been rejected time after time after time(*) after time after time after time(*) (where the two *-d times were official word from the developer saying that autoscroll won’t be implemented). So while people obviously like it, the developer has made it clear it won’t be native to Notepad++.

So a script (as @Alan-Kilborn has given you hints on) or writing a plugin are the only options for your autoscroll-like behavior.

Regarding the script – if you search the forum for PythonScript and the mouse-based messages, I am guessing you’ll find an ancient script by one of the regulars here who gives an example of intercepting the mouse actions to add features to a script.

@westyles,

I was very confused by your replies, until I reread the exact phrasing of your original I think that “menuId” or “Id” should be used here. (Some of my confusion may have been while hopping back and forth between what you said in the Issue and what you said here, and getting my wires crossed as a result.)

I had interpreted the "Id" in that sentence to be equivalent to commandID in my mind… but I now believe I had misinterpreted that. And I can see that my insistence that using the commandID integer is really easy would be confusing and frustrating for you.

I don’t know what you meant by that "Id" as distinct from menuId, but I will reply on the menuId portion of that suggestion: Notepad++ does not give plugins direct access to the internal translation table it uses for localization. So the PythonScript plugin has no way of knowing, by asking Notepad++, what the underlying menuId string is for a given menu name. So there is no way that PythonScript could give you a function that uses the menuId internal strings instead of the strings displayed in the active menu localization, sorry.

Most scripts for PythonScript are for a single user, or distributed across a single organization in a corporate setting, so my guess is that most people have just written their scripts with a single localization in mind, and not bothered trying to make it more “generic” than that. If you are writing scripts for multi-localization needs, then I can see why this would be frustrating.

That said, hardcoding the translation for the Language menu name is fragile, at best – it will only work until someone decides that there’s a better spelling word for that menu in a given language, or until another localization is added to Notepad++'s distribution. What I might suggest, instead:

create a string like themepath = notepad.getNppDir() + "\\localization\\" + notepad.getNativeLangFileName() , then use import xml.etree.ElementTree to parse that file, to be able to extract the actual <Item menuId="language" name="&amp;Language"/>

@PeterJones Ok, Thank you. I see now Microsoft Excel is the way to go!

@PeterJones I am happy :)

@PeterJones said in HOW Do You Add Keyboard Shortcuts:

Actually, anything in the Scintilla Commands tab of the Shortcut Mapper can have 0 or more shortcuts assigned. It’s not limited to only 2. And it’s not limited to only Copy/Cut/Paste. This is described in the user manual’s Preferences > Shorcut Mapper, specifically in the paragraph that starts with “In the Scintilla commands tab, you can actually assign more than one shortcut to a given Scintilla command”

This might be confusing to @Michael-Neumann, because Cut, Copy and Paste are no longer Scintilla shortcuts; they moved to the Main menu tab, Edit category, as part of the changes that enhanced multiple selections and implemented VS Code-style line cut/copy/paste.

Since the two sets of shortcuts, with X/C/V and with Insert/Delete, are so familiar and either would have been missed, special allowance was made to let those menu items have two distinct shortcuts. No other commands work that way.

@h-jangra said in Feature Request / Question: Soft Wrap at Vertical Edge (Column 80) regardless of window size:

I have added this in NppVim plugin [. . .]I am not sure how to set text width in notepad++

That’s interesting! I’d think that a NP++ plugin can only do things that are also possible in NP++ itself since the underlying engine is the same.

@guy038 said in Columns++ version 1.3: All Unicode, all the time:

Indeed, when you use the following regexes, against my Total_Chars.txt file, with the Columns++ plugin :

(?=\w)[\x{0100}-\x{017F}] (?=\w)[\x{10A0}-\x{10FF}] (?=\w)[\x{2C60}-\x{2C7F}]

They all return an error ?!

Columns++ version 1.3.1 should fix this (when Match case is checked; odd behavior for ranges seems unavoidable when case insensitive mode is in effect; note that Notepad++ native search also gives an error on the second expression with Match case not checked).

Notepad++ version 8.9.1 release candidate is expected any day now, so I rushed this in… hopefully I didn’t make any major mistakes.

Thank you again, @guy038, for catching this bug.

@Cam-K said in How do I change font?:

Noticed on newer versions of N++ that the “Enable global font” option is gone

It’s not gone, just at the bottom of the list, because it’s not what most people should be using. See the global override dialog and the user manual for more on why you shouldn’t use it.

Hello

Thank you for the responses !

@Ekopalypse

I have tried this method

After installing PythonScript, it was unclear where I could add the script

open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py

I tried
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ (no)
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins (no)
C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts (maybe)

It still wouldn’t appear, until restart (this should, auto refresh I believe, when you open configuration at least ?)

It appeared in the menu

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But not in the configuration page

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Click on Plugins->Python Script-> Scripts -> open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py
Did open cmd.exe in the right location

Ah ok, from clicking the “new” script button

The path is
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts
The folder was not created during installation apparently !

Now it does appear !

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And yes this works !

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Thanks !

@PeterJones

Thanks for this suggestion

I gave this a try as well

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Then I edited

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\CustomizeToolbar.btn

I pasted your suggested command
changed the file to a screenshot of the cmd.exe icon I took
I also added you suggested extra space fix

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png View,Show Symbol,Show All Characters,,Icons\allChars.bmp,Icons\allChars_off.ico,Icons\allChars_off_dark.ico

This did not work yet

I used webservice
https://www.icoconverter.com/
To create a .ico file
with these settings
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and I downloaded the 3 files from the github issues

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/standard/toolbar/allChars.bmp
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/light/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/dark/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico

And I placed them in folder

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\Icons

Restarted notepad++

The icon appears and works but the icon is wrong

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I tried these settings

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Also does not work

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also no

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also no ???

Oh wait

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

should have been

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico

Icon has disappeared !

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ok, instead move the file to C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config
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change it back to

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart npp

icon is back, but still question mark

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Maybe the file is not 16x16 256 colours ?

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Looks like it is as specified

Maybe something is wrong with the file …

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I’m not good enough to mentally decode this, looks normal

Hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)

0x02 idType is 1 , which is ICO good
0x04 idCount is 1, just 1 image
0x06 ICONDIRENTRY struct

bWidth is 10 , which is width 16
bHeight is 10, which is width 16
bColorCount 0. does not use a pallette
wPlanes is 1, has color plane , whatever that is, 0 is black and white ?
wBitCount, it is 8 bit per pixel
dwBytesInRes, 1384 bytes ?? idk

…
onion.bmp,onion.ico,onion.ico

ah wait you have BMP in there ??

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File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.bmp,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart

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woohoo !

Wow, I was about ready to give up there !

Thanks both of you, I will go with the CustomizeToolbar plugin as it give me that distinctive icon !

@guy038

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_COPY

copying data to the clipboard

Is document to the clipboard.

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_PASTE

pasting from the clipboard into the document

Is clipboard to the document.

Both functions relate to the document in the editor. The copy function will be good for the task though paste will not work with the search window.

Instead of SCI_PASTE, could use the Run command to run an executable to insert the clipboard text into the search window.

AutoIt3 script automate_columns++_search.au3 :

; Wait up to 3 seconds for the window. $hSearch = WinWait('Search in indicated region', '', 3) If $hSearch Then $sClip = ClipGet() ; get clipboard text ControlSetText($hSearch, '', 'Edit1', $sClip) ; set combo edit ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button7') ; click regex button ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button9') ; click count button $sCount = ControlGetText($hSearch, '', 'Static3') ; read label ClipPut($sCount) ; set clipboard text EndIf

Adjust the title if the window text is localized.

Compile to executable and then add to Run as a command. Get the command id with NppUISpy and insert into the shortcuts.xml file.