@Terry-R
Thanks for letting me know.

@Terry-R This is very helpful and I was unaware of that issue. Thank you. Based on dates, it looks like I was using 8.8.5. It seems likely, especially the description of removing the structure around the installation.

@xomx After restarting our Samba instance, the issues appear to be resolved. Apologies for the false alarm, but thank you for the responses!

@Coises

Already an issue about this feature:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17170

The 2 blank tabs known when the feature was committed:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/11134#issuecomment-1575226268

@Charles-Fraichot

Glad you found a good solution. Thanks for letting us know.

@Alan-Kilborn said in 'Find in Files' doesn't appear to work:

If a folder doesn’t exist, I think when the search is initiated, input focus will immediately jump to the Directory: box, signaling a problem with that folder to the user (without a message box). Not on a PC right now, so can’t verify; going from memory.

I see you are correct. However… I also see that the search results show 0 files searched. So I don’t see how it could be a problem with what is in the Find box. The directory might exist, but not be the one OP meant to search.

It works! Thank you very much!
Greets Eddie

@deleelee said in Notepad++ 8.8.8: 2 issues detected:

So I guess it’s a decision between wanting shell icons on tabs or an unsaved changes indicator.

or the 3rd option - as I said, create new MenuIcons plugin GitHub issue and its author most likely fixes it and publishes a new compatible version

@Mark-Olson said in Menu command for ensuring current position is visible:

I agree with you that this is pretty confusing, and agree that using the arrow keys should have the same effect as typing. This would obviously be a separate feature request though, and as you noted I rather doubt that it would be accepted because it would only add confusion for some other users.

After sleeping one night about it, and rereading your posting about typing any char and undo. Also in your issue #17297 and @Alan-Kilborn 's issue #12107 … I have changed my mind a bit, because I think that both situations of keystrokes (typing char from keyboard input or pressing arrow key) should be handled in the same way. This would make consistent behaviour of the application.

I think, keystrokes should always have direct effect on a visible caret, so the caret should be made visible first, and afterwards perform the action from keyboard (typing char/moving caret).

Keystrokes on an invisible caret look more like undefined behaviour. The user does not know, where his focus is. Even making caret jump to next visible position could be unexpected, because user did not know where he previously has been. Maybe user is even confused, because of the jump.

So from this perspective, the current behaviour of arrow keys could be worth considering if it is unexpected/inconsistent.

@Wolfgang-Grafeneder ,

Read Find Text Copied From Excel Cell and the issue(s) it links to, as there was an entire recent discussion on this.

Hello @offshore9521 and All,

Humm…, @offshore9521, there are two separate problems with your regex !

From your INPUT text :

Your regex (?<![\.\!\?])\r\n([a-z]) means :

If a \r\n sequence, followed with a letter (a through z), is not preceded by :

A dot

An exclamation mark

An interrogation mark

Then rewrite this letter

BTW, you can shorter this regex as (?<![.!?])\r\n([a-z])

But, the ’ character is not a character of the [.!?] list. Thus, this explains why your regex merges the lines 1 and 2

Now, I suppose that your true goal was : if a line is not a true sentence, then merge that line with the next one with a space character ? This lead to the following regex S/R :

FIND (?<![.!?’])\r\n(?=\w)

REPLACE \x20

So, any \r\n sequence, which respects the before and after conditions, is simply replaced with a space character

Notes :

As you see, I included the ’ character within the list of the forbidden chars, in the negative look-behind

I used \w, which is identical to the [\u\l\d_] class character, instead of [a-z] to not bother about case !

Remark :

FIND (?<![.!?’\r\n])\R(?=\w)

REPLACE \x20

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. : As an exercice, try to understand why the following regex S/R does not work as expected :

FIND (?<![.!?’])\R(?=\w)

REPLACE \x20

To help you, don’t forget to click on the ¶ icon of the Toolbar !

@prof-tech said in Can't get the old toolbar:

Help! I have tried everything to get the old toolbar and it doesn’t appear! can anyone help me?

Settings > Prefernces > Toolbar: the “Fluent UI” variants are the “new toolbar” and “standard icons: small” are the “old toolbar” (and the “Hide” checkbox turns it on and off)

Hello, @brenda-gross-0 and All,

Very easy with regexes !

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Un-tick all box options

FIND (?-i)(?<=\l)(?=\u)|_

REPLACE \x20

Tick the Wrap around option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click, once only, on the Replace All button

Voila !

Notes :

The leading part (?-i) is an in-line modifier which force to take care about the case of letters, meaning non-insensitive search !

Then, due to the alternation symbol |, two individual regexes are performed, simultaneously :

(?<=\l)(?=\u) which searches for an empty string between a lower-case letter and an upper-case letter

_ which simply searches for the underline character

In both cases, the replacement changes the regex search with an normal space character \x20. I could have chosen to type a single space char, instead !

The regex search may also be expressed as a non-capturing group : (?-i:(?<=\l)(?=\u)|_), with the leading non-insensitive option

Best Regards,

guy038

@Jayson-Allen ,

See details in https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/104192

update: I have versions of the theme files which won’t have the ugly white backgrounds temporarily at .../themesPost889/PowerEditor/installer/themes ⇒ they will hopefully eventually be put into the main codebase, for distribution with v8.9 and future. But until then, you can

If you have customized your theme with user-keywords or user-extensions, this would overwrite those… I will eventually be writing a FAQ which explains a way to work around those customizations (once I don’t have to link to a branch in my fork of the code to share the theme files).

update 2: The installer themes in the source code have been updated to have all the styles needed (to be able to fix the problems from v8.8.9). You can go here to grab the theme file(s) you want: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/tree/master/PowerEditor/installer/themes

New FAQ: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27306/faq-themes-in-v8-8-9

Updated linter++ to v1.0.2

This has mostly been concerned with changes to the dockable window with the results:

There’ve also been a few other minor improvements/fixes - see the Changes.md file

Downloadable from https://github.com/ThosRTanner/notepad-pp-linter/releases if you can’t wait for the plugin list to be updated.

I have noticed going from the executable to the MSI, when installing from Intune, that remnents of the old version get left behind. 2025-12-18_12-23-57.png

Also, when we deployed 8.8.8 and the program updates to 8.8.9 that it doesn’t clean up and you see two versions.2025-12-18_12-06-12.png

These are registry entries which should have been cleaned up in both events. I probably should have stuck with the original executable. 😕

Hi @Clicketyclick,
I’ve updated DoxyIt and tested it on my x64 machine.
Please give it a try: https://github.com/AN-2101/DoxyIt/releases/tag/v0.4.5