@Louis-Windsor said in Facilities to create PostScript hotkeys:

@PeterJones

Sorry - POSTscript was a typo. I meant PythonScript…

Response to your response from the AI

Your AI is wrong. Please do not rely on it anymore. I cannot argue the points with the AI, as it is not capable of thought, but I will respond to one point:

❌ There is NO WAY to assign a hotkey to a PythonScript 3.x script.

I literally used hotkeys in PythonScript 3.0.24 on near daily basis. It is obviously possible, as I do it.

Based on its response, I am assuming you were giving it an argumentative prompt, and/or it was prompted by my use of “nonsense” to get defensive. That is unfortunate, as it is not helping you get the information you need.

I hope I can explain to you how to do it, without using the FAQ – though I will personally be followinng the steps from the FAQ.

At this point, please stop feeding my responses to the AI, and getting it to argue with me. Try the steps I outline, and show all of the same screenshots I do to confirm that you are getting different results when you follow the same instructions. Without your actual results, neither I nor anyone else can help you. (And obviously, the AI just wants to encourage you to fight with me, which is not helpful for anybody.)

I will reword the instructions that I already wrote in the FAQ just to help you. This is how important it is to me to help you understand how to do this.

I am testing these steps PythonScript 3.0.25, and will be following my own instructions that I am typing to you while I take the screenshots. These replicate the steps in the FAQ.

My assumptions are:

you already have PythonScript 3.0.x installed – hopefully 3.0.25, but the interface hasn’t changed since before PythonScript 2.0, so the screenshots should still match what you have. you already have created the script, and it shows up in Plugins > Python Script > Scripts

These are the instructions I am following from the FAQ:
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The instructions, with screenshots:

First, here is confirmation that I’m running PythonScript 3.0.25, based on a screenshot of PythonScript ABOUT box:
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please show your ABOUT box if following these instructions do not work for you

This shows I have already created the ProvidedScript.py, and it is in my scripts menu, but not in the main PythonScript menu.
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please show a screenshot of your Scripts submenu if these instructions do not work for you

The FAQ instructions tell me to go Plugins >Python Script > Configuration…: I follow those instructions, and confirm the menu entry exists:
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When I click that menu entry, I see the following dialog:
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please show a screenshot of your Python Script Configuration dialog if these instructions do not work for you

The FAQ instructions tell me to pick User Scripts next. That is already selected, as shown in screenshot for step 4

The instructions tell me to select ProvidedScript.py. I click that, so it’s now got a highlight/selection bubble around it:
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The instructions tell me to “Click the left Add to add the script to the Menu items table”. In this dialog, I see two Add buttons, so in the next step, I will click the left one: here is a screenshot with that button pointed to with a big green arrow. Do not click the one with the red arrow:
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I follow the instructions to click the left Add button. Now the dialog has changed, to include my script in the Menu items list:
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The instructions next say to click OK. I won’t supply another screenshot, as that button is easily findable.

The FAQ instructions tell me to “Exit Notepad++ completely and restart the application”. You have to do this in order for Notepad++ to be able to assign the keyboard shortcut. If you skip this step, the remainder of my instructions will not work. So I exit and restart Notepad++ (no screenshots)

The FAQ next says, “Plugins > Python Script will now list ProvidedScript”: here is a screenshot showing that is true for me:
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The FAQ says to use Notepad++'s shorcut mapper using Settings > Shortcut Mapper. First, here is a screenshot of the menu, which includes that entry:
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When I click that entry, I get the following dialog:
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As the FAQ says, I next “select the Plugin commands tab”. In that dialog, I see “Plugin commands” at the top, so I click it, and see:
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As the FAQ says, I next “Filter = ProvidedScript”. I see the Filter box in the dialog, so I type ProvidedScript there, and now see
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Cool, I can see that ProvidedScript is available to the Shortcut Mapper with PythonScript 3.0.25 at this point. Making good progress.

If following these instructions is not working for you, please change the Filter to PythonScript, and then show a screenshot of your Shortcut Mapper dialog

The FAQ says, “Click on ProvidedScript in the list”, so I click on it. and can see that it’s been highlighted as active:
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The FAQ instructs me to Modify, so I click that button, and a new dialog pops up:
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The FAQ next says, “and set the shortcut as desired”, so I pick Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P:
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if following these instructions is not working for you, please share the screenshot here, if you made it this far

The FAQ tells me that OK is next, so I click that, and it goes back to the full Shortcut Mapper dialog, which now shows that Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P is the shorcut:
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At this point, the FAQ tells me that I can Close the dialog, so I do.

To check, I look at the Plugins > PythonScript menu again, and see that it now lists the shortcut next to ProvidedScript. Cool:
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Finally, I do Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P, and it runs my script.

This was all with PythonScript 3.0.25. But it will work with any of the recent 3.0.x versions. And, in fact, it would even work with PythonScript 2.1, because those dialogs are essentially unchanged between the versions.

At this point, I have confirmed that PythonScript 3.0.25 allows me to use Notepad++'s Shortcut Mapper to set a keyboard shortcut (“hotkey”) for a script in PythonScript.

Follow these instructions, and it should work for you. If you have difficulty, provide the screenshots requested.

Don’t bother feeding these into the AI. It won’t help you. Just try the instructions, and if they don’t work, provide the data so we can help you figure out why it’s not working.

update: Since I know the instructions work, I am guessing that you probably missed step 10 – exiting Notepad++ completely and restarting the application. Without that step, Shortcut Mapper will not see the script. Given the implications of your original post, this seems like the most likely thing to have gone wrong

update 2: aside from the screenshots requested, if you have problems, make sure you also go to the Notepad++ ? menu, and share the Debug Info results, in their entirety

@Alan-Kilborn said in New feature: Allow additional line on each search results:

@Coises

I can’t tell if you’ve considered this, but one way to do it would be in conjunction with hiding lines. You could hide lines that don’t meet the criterion of -M through +N, where M would be a user-chosen number of lines before the hit, and N a user-selected count of lines after the search match.

At first thought, I believe that would be significantly easier to implement than doing it in the search results window. As a plus, it (or a close approximation) could even be available after the search with something like an “expand visible blocks” command.

The downside is that Show commands only work on the current document; you can’t show in all open documents (and it wouldn’t even make sense for find in files, whenever I finally get that done). At present, my use of hidden lines (using Scintilla’s function directly) and Notepad++’s way of doing it (keeping its own internal table, inaccessible to plugins, of what ranges are hidden) are at odds with one another, which causes any changes my plugin has made to hidden lines to be lost when any other tab is switched into the view. Thus far, I have not been able to devise any solution to this.

@Samir-Sumantlal-Shah said in Hopefully Notepad++ can display correctly ...:

GujaratiMT

Searching suggests that “Gujarati MT” is a Apple system font that is not available elsewhere.

Are you by any chance using the new MacOS port of Notepad++? That port is not maintained or endorsed by the creator of Notepad++. You would have to raise issues with it in its own repository. We’re not going have a clue here.

Thank you Peter. Makes perfect sense. Much appreciated!

@Shobansky ,

See my longer answer to you here.

I’m not sure why you started a new Topic when you were already participating in a Topic about exactly the same thing, and when there was a Topic created 5 days ago that was essentially the same thing. (Also, naming a Topic “feature request” is not helpful to people looking through the titles of the recent posts, because it tells them nothing about the contents of said feature request. Titles should be meaningful if you want meaningful discussion.)

Also, since I’m not sure you’ve seen it, our new feature FAQ explains that, while we can talk about ideas all we want in this Community of Notepad++ users, it isn’t an official Feature Request until you follow the instructions in that FAQ to post the Feature Request to the official Issues tracker for the project.

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@Shobansky ,

A few months after the original post was made, this FAQ was created, which explains how to use pork2sausage plugin (or the run menu, or the NppExec plugin) to transform text. And since things like Prettier or js-beautify exist, it makes more sense to pass formatting to an external utility that’s customized for a specific programming language, to make users of that programming language happy – rather than relying on limiting the formatting to whatever rules that one developer adds to the editor. (Given the arguments people have over the auto-indentation, and how the developer hasn’t been able to keep everyone happy even on that “simple” aspect of formatting, trying to get a generic formatter to the point that everyone is happy is virtually impossible.)

I don’t understand why it doesn’t have some formatting capability like other editors…

Every editor has strengths that it focuses its feature development on. Notepad++'s strengths are in the ease and availablilty of plugins and running external applications… so plugins specific to the language (like HTML Tidy) or plugins that launch external programs (like pork2sausage) are the way that Notepad++ made it easy to get formatting customized the way you want it, rather than restricting you to the ability of the N++ developer to support and implement.

And the developer’s philosophy is that, unless it’s something that he wants to put his own stamp on, if it’s already been implemented well in a plugin or can be easily run through the run-menu/pork2sausage/nppexec, then he doesn’t want to waste his effort on doing something mediocre built-in when something good-to-great already exists. As someone with a full time job completely unrelated to Notepad++, he wants to focus his limited development time to things that he likes, he wants, or that he can add value to.

Moreover, in the modern realm, things are moving toward LSP-based solutions – so if the languages you program in have LSP servers available, then (as was mentioned in this very similar question a few days ago) you can use one of the LSP plugins (the plugin by Kered or @Ekopalypse’s LSP client plugin) – so if your language’s LSP server has the code formatting feature, the LSP plugin you choose should be able to activate that.

@dz15mlru

Disable automatic encoding recognition. For Windows-1251 encoded Russian, auto-recognition will always open as Macintosh. If you start editing files, you will have two encodings, or rather garbage from two encodings, which will be difficult to fix manually, since you will have to re-read all the texts (this is a module for spoiling files). When you disable automatic encoding assignment, you will only have ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16. WindowsXP-7-8-10-11 it will always open the ANSI file correctly, in 1251 encoding, as this is the default encoding. The remaining UTF-8 and others will also open automatically correctly. You will get rid of the problem forever. The automatic text encoding recognition module is needed if you open files in Arabic in ANSI, but in reality you will never do this, since a Russian-speaking person has only Russian-language files on their computer. People who want to make the file available to all people on earth save the file in UTF-8 encoding and it will always open correctly for you. You don’t need automatic file recognition, as it’s only for local files that you’ll never get from someone else’s computer abroad.

Отключи автоматической распознавание кодировки. Для русского языка в кодировке Windows-1251 автораспознавание всегда будет открываться как Macintosh. Если начать редактировать файлы, то у вас будет две кодировки, точнее мусор из двух кодировок, который будет трудно исправить вручную, так как вам придётся перечитать все тексты (это модуль для порчи файлов). Когда вы отключите автораспозначание кодировки, то у вас будет только ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16. WindowsXP-7-8-10-11 всегда откроет файл ANSI правильно, в кодировке 1251, так как это кодировка по умолчанию. Остальные UTF-8 и прочие откроются также автоматически правильно. Вы навсегда избавитесь от проблемы. Модуль автоматического распознавания кодировки текста нужен если вы открываете файлы на арабском языке в ANSI, но в реальности вы никогда этого не сделаете, так как у русскоязычного человека на компьютере есть только русскоязычные файлы. Люди, которые хотят сделать файл доступным для всех людей на земле сохраняют файл в кодировке UTF-8 и он всегда откроется правильно у вас. Вам не нужно автоматическое распознавание файлов, так как оно только для локальных файлов, которые у вас никогда не появятся с чужого заграничного компьютера.

@Jeff-Esposito said in Notepad++ VERY slow to open:

e gotten my new computer Notepad++ takes 40-50 seconds to launch. I have removed all plugins and don’t check recent file history at launch is checked.
There are no open unsaved tabs, even though that is how I want to use it and use it on my old pc and my work laptop. the install

It becomes slow when using “Show Folder As Workspace” (which displays the workspace folder on the left side).
It starts quickly when this option is turned off.