Somewhat unfortunately, I can understand the complaint of @fml2 here. As I said earlier in the thread, it has bothered me in the past. Now that I’m fully aware of it (due to this discussion), it will probably bother me in a more significant way moving forward. Perhaps I’ll see what I can do, on a script basis, to change the behavior…

@scampsd

Although the registry is actually the Windows standard, I would personally avoid it and rather use the plugin config directory. Can be determined via NPPM_GETPLUGINSCONFIGDIR.
However, I would create a subdirectory with the plugin name and add a json, xml, toml … file there.

@Coises said in Config Files Need Updating, Too:

For what it’s worth, as the author of Controlled Auto-indent, I can guarantee it was the culprit. It could crash under other circumstances, too, having nothing to do with ConfigUpdater; I just hadn’t hit one of them, and if anyone else did before you, they didn’t report it.

I appreciate that, and I’ll go ahead and download it and test it against the old and new versions of ConfigUpdater. I’ve already downloaded, but not installed the new version of CU yet.

Update: It works fine under the old CU and the new CU. I tried it with CAI enabled and not enabled, and the CU ran through everything, so the crash condition from CAI appears to be gone. Glad I could help find that edge case, unknowingly. :-)

@mpheath

Hello. Thank you very much for this script, it works wonders! There are some misplaced lines (e.g. line 23 in one file corresponding to line 24 in the other one), but nothing that I can’t fix for the script to work within the entire file as it should.

@Alan-Kilborn said in Some functions not shown in function list:

There’s also a sample macro called “Trim Trailing Whitespace and Save” or something close to that, that conveniently does the action every time you save (well, every time you run the macro, which, if assigned to your favorite save-keycombo, e.g. Ctrl+s, will do it).

I used Ctrl+S remapped to Macros > Trim Trailing and Save for years before starting to use editorconfig – and actually I still use that mapping, because I don’t have a .editorconfig file at the root directory of all my drives, so there are still times when the editorconfig plugin doesn’t know to trim trailing for me. Since I almost exclusively use the keystroke vs the toolbar or menu command for my Save, I (almost) always get the trailing removed when I save.

It occurs to me that I could implement a feature in HugeFiles that would load a chunk of a file, run a plugin command on that chunk, append it to a new file, and repeat for each chunk.

Such a feature would AFAICT eliminate the need for scripts like the one posted above.

If this post gets at least 4 upvotes, I will consider implementing this feature. I expect it would be a lot of work but potentially useful.

@Neko_Kaioh said in Plugin/Script to clean up text noise?:

Yeah, I used that one. Theres nothing on the file that I need to worry about, but it doesnt tell me anything I personally can use.

"File Type: MSX Graph Saurus compressed image

MIME Type: application/octet-stream;
Suggested file extension(s): bin lha lzh exe class so dll img iso"

So, if anyone reading this happens to know a program or two that I could try to view the file properly, I’d be very grateful.

At best, you could use the Hex Editor plugin, however, from the information and this discussion so far, it is apparent that your abilities will be taxed, since you can’t tell when a file is binary or not, just by looking at it. If it’s like the file on the left that @PeterJones showed you, I noticed right away the first two letters in the file, PK, and to me that looks like a PKWare file, meaning it’s compressed at best, as matches your description of the file type that web site told you it was. That’s a compressed graphic file, meaning it’s encoded and at this point, I don’t see you having the skill set necessary to use a Hex Editor and be able to debug/decrypt a file.

Your best bet it to use the file in an application that generated it, and you can do that on your own by using that ubiquitous tool, Google, and putting that file type in the search terms and follow all the links you can until you find a tool that you can use to open that file with so that it can be played, viewed or whatever it is that it is designed to do. As @Terry-R has suggested, we can’t help anymore than this.

@Рома-Смирнов ,

When I followed @mkupper’s suggestion of searching the internet for your filename, I was able to see that the name wallet.json is often used for the storing secrets or backups for things like banking apps or for backing up your blockchain wallets – and that the latter often have encryption mechanisms built into their apps for encoding/decoding (because you really don’t want your blockchain secret key to be visible to anyone with a text editor), so it wouldn’t surprise me if the former kind of app did something similar. You should read the documentation for whatever app/blockchain you are using, to see how to read/decrypt those files. But in general, it’s doubtful that the intention is for them to ever be human-readable. (And, IMO, they should not be abusing the JSON file extension by claiming their files are JSON if they are, in fact, encrypted and not plain-text JSON; but this parenthetical is just my opinion.)

And if you are trying to get us to help you decrypt someone else’s online wallet, please understand: doing so, or us helping you do so, is highly illegal in all jurisdictions I have ever heard of, and immoral no matter what jurisdiction you are in. If instructions were ever posted here on how to help someone break into an encrypted wallet, they would be deleted/purged immediately, and the person posting those instructions would be banned permanently from this Forum.

@guy038 said:

If I choose the zero value, as auto-checking is disabled, if I select an important amount of text and immediately invoke the Find dialog, it should fill up the Find what field up to 2,046 characters !

I’d say that that sounds reasonable.

@Terry-R said:

PeterJones had this post, where he suggests making the change in a different way.

Hmm, that post is about adding, not removing.
If you try to remove via the GUI, you’ll find that the Default ext.: edit box is disabled, meaning you can’t change it.
I suggest following the @Ekopalypse advice above.

@Terry-R

Thank you…
it was disable… Why? i don’t know but it’s ok now…
;-)

From here https://xkcd.com/2347/ - I think the author understands our digital infrastructure only too well.

Downvoted because there was a spam link on the comma between the C: and D: near the end.

This is most likely pure AI fabrication, or at least human-made junk to justify the spam link.

However, on the off-chance that AI or human derived their spam wrapper from some real report they found somewhere, I am leaving this “report” here, in case someone can replicate the “findings”.

update:

Notepad++ v8.6.4 (32-bit)
…
Plugins: Explorer 1.9.1, JSON Viewer 2.5

N++ v8.6.4 was from Feb 2024, but Explorer 1.9.1 was from May 2020. I am dubious that a user would be updating Notepad++, but not the Explorer plugin, over that long of a timeframe.

Also, as far as I can tell from the public releases, “JSON Viewer 2.5” will not be coming out for another few years (since it’s currently at 2.1.1, and was at 2.0.2 in 2022), so that’s a non-existent plugin version, and more evidence that this entire report is an hallucination.

@Gordon-Goodfellow said:

ALT+SHIFT+F,

The default for Find in Files is Ctrl+Shift+f, not Alt+Shift+f.

So is there a way of doing this over multiple folders

Well, if the files are all in one parent “tree”, just specify to top-level in the Directory box and checkmark the Include subfolders checkbox.

@d-wright

I presume you are wanting to do things like right-click on files and open with Notepad++ instead of Notepad.

Details are in the online manual, referenced from the ? menu option, then Notepad++ online user manual.

The actual section is here.

Terry

@D-V, please post your Notepad++ debug info. I tested installing the Analyse plugin and it installed without any errors on Notepad++ v8.8.1 (64-bit) and also Notepad++ v8.8.1 (32-bit).

You get the debug info from Notepad++'s ? / Debug Info ... menu.

To post your debug info here in the community forums use </> on the forum’s menu bar and then replace the code_text that </> generates with the debug info.

@sky-247 said in How to jump to a bookmark and show the bookmarked line at the top of the screen, not in the middle:

One option could be to temporarily change the font size or zoom level of the document so that the bookmarked line fits at the top of the screen when you jump to it. You can do this by using the zoom in/out feature or changing the font size. After you have finished reviewing the bookmarked line, you can return the font size or zoom level back to its original setting.

That’s a clever workaround! Adjusting zoom or font size to control line positioning isn’t something I thought of, but it makes jumping to bookmarks feel a lot smoother. Thanks for the tip!

@xomx said in Unable to see Data in the Notepad++:

I’d like to ask the affected users here, for which switching the DirectWrite OFF helped - what OS, graphics card and version of its drivers are they using?

E.g. post: Windows 10, Nvidia GeForce xyz, 2/24/2023 30.0.14.7430

(you can find such info e.g. by WinKey+R, type there devmgmt.msc -> OK, and check the Display Adapters > doubleclick on an adapter > Driver tab)

I have a NVidia RTX driver and also an odd one: "Parsec Virtual Display Adapter"Driver. I’m suspecting that the parsec display might be the guilty one…

@Alfonso-Muñoz
Just to confirm: I use Notepad++ daily and the same started happening for me after a recent Windows update. What was installed on my PC just before the issue started was this major update of Windows 11: Windows 11 version 24H2. Although this is a 2024 version of Windows 11, they did not roll it out over all Windows 11 PCs yet (source).

On my PC this update was installed on May 30th, 2025 through Windows Update. After updating Windows, I noticed several changes in display behavior, so the update definitely changed something in that area. This was also when I noticed Notepad++ malfunctioning.

To resolve the display issue, I also tried uninstalling Notepad++ and install the latest, to no avail.
What helped (probably same as for you):

In Notepad++, go to Settings > Preferences > MISC. Change the rendering mode from “Direct write (default)” to “GDI (most compatible)” Close and restart Notepad++

Thanks for starting this topic, I think I could not have solved my issue otherwise.

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