@guy038 said in Change of the selection mode:

Open the search dialog ( Ctrl + F )

I just tried that. Then I tried doing just a Ctrl+A to select all the text more simply, and the Alt+Shift+UpArrow trick still worked to turn that stream into a zero-width column. That’s actually useful, as I often like getting a column at the beginning of the line. (It’s useful for going the other way – using the column editor to insert the line numbering.)

But be warned: if the final line of the file doesn’t have a newline, then my method will end up selecting a rectangle from the end of the last line to the beginning of the first line:
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The regex version avoids that by making sure it only selects lines that end with a newline.

This usually won’t be a problem for me, since I usually have a newline at the end of my file. I’ve just created a macro of the Ctrl+A then Alt+Shift+UpArrow sequence, and assigned a shortcut. It might just enter my standard workflow. So thanks, @guy038.

Actually, I just found another difference. @guy038’s regex vesion will only select a “paragraph” worth, since it will stop at the first blank line. So if you have

intro 1. blah 2. blah 10. blah ending

If your cursor is on intro or the line after, the regex will select the list. But if you’re on line 1. blah, then it will only select 2 and 10. And if you’re on the last line of the list, then it will actually select the ending paragraph.

So it depends on what quirks you want, and whether you want “paragraph” or “whole document”, whether you should record the macro with my Ctrl+A or @guy038’s regex, or a slightly modified regex to match your most common use case(s). Since macros record searches, any of those could be made into a macro for a single-keystroke for what you want.

A little “almost” missed update: WebEdit has been added to the nppPluginList and is available in Notepad++ v8.8.6. 🥳

Regardless, I still would like to add a few more small features to the plugin. I’m trying to make these available in the latest releases,* and if everything works fine, I’d like to eventually submit them to the nppPluginList with a new (and a last?) PR.

* To try it out, just overwrite the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\WebEdit\WebEdit.dll file with the downloaded and unzipped one – but make a backup anyway. ;)

@Justin-Brown said in Please recommend encryption plug-in:

@PeterJones I know this is an old thread, but it is precisely what I was looking for. But I am curious if you are concerned about the ability to “undelete” the temp file when you use your script. Does rm fully remove the file, including overwriting bits? Or has Windows improved it’s undelete such that it is no longer a concern?

I hadn’t noticed I used rm. That’s an old win32 port of the gnu linux rm command (from the gnuwin32 bundle; hasn’t been updated in years). I have never looked into the source code, so I don’t know for sure if it overwrites first, but it’s doubtful.

I also no nothing about the advanced features of windows del or the powershell equivalent. However, I don’t know whether microsoft has made those secure deletes, either. (A Notepad++ forum isn’t the best place to research about windows features, especially the more esoteric aspects.)

If research in appropriate places doesn’t give you the answers you want or hope for with regard to windows file deletion, you might look into installing a secure command-line-based file deleter; it would very much surprise me if such a utility didn’t exist, but I have never gone looking for it, so I have no specific recommendations. But if you find such a utility that you trust, then use it (with its appropriate command-line options) in place of the rm -rf that I used in the script

@Wester said in Alt key interferes with work:

Same problem here – I’m studying the software and taking notes in Notepad in both Russian and English, and every time this stupid layout pops up and blocks input.

As @Michael-Vincent said 3 years ago, hitting Alt is used as an accelerator to keyboard-access menu bars in almost every win32-api-based Windows application. Include Microsoft’s own notepad.exe.

Who even came up with this?

A small company called Microsoft has been using that feature in their operating system for decades. I am sorry this bothers you.

The devs of a program whose only purpose is text input didn’t consider that pressing Alt would ruin typing when switching languages? Or did no one think that there are not only Americans but also people who actually use multiple keyboard layouts? And what are all these weirdos even writing here?

And then you switch to full on insult mode, being rude to people who had nothing to do with that design decision that happened decades ago. Brilliant, and well argued. (That last sentence was sarcasm, in case you couldn’t tell.)

@DoktorDemento said in notepad++ store version for windows 11?:

but is there any chance of a Microsoft Store listing for N++?

Essentially 0% chance. The developer does not want to go through the hoops required for the MS store, regardless of whether they now allow EXE installers or not. He has rejected the suggestion multiple times.

@Pulp-Sendo
Already fixed for the upcoming N++ v8.8.6.

Hello, @coises and All,

I’ve just tried your last ColumnsPlusPlus v1.3 release and indeed, the search is now considered as a true Unicode search, whatever the individual encoding of each file !

Let’s consider this simple UTF-8 text :

This ‟ is a † very • small ‰ text ‱ for › test 201F 2020 2022 2030 2031 203A in Unicode UTF-8 enoding

And this ANSI text :

This ? is a † very • small ‰ text ? for › test ? 0086 0095 0089 ? 009B in Windows-1252 encoding

IMPORTANT Don’t forget, when this second text is opened in N++, to run the Encoding > Convert to ANSI option, first !

Now, we can create the following table, which recapitulates the Non-ASCII characters used in my examples :

•--------•-----------------•-----------------• | | Windows-1252 | Unicode | | •--------•--------•--------•--------• | Char | Dec | Hex | Dec | Hex | •--------•--------•--------•--------•--------• | ‟ | ? | ? | 8223 | 201F | | | | | | | | † | 0134 | 0086 | 8224 | 2020 | | | | | | | | • | 0149 | 0095 | 8226 | 2022 | | | | | | | | ‰ | 0137 | 0089 | 8240 | 2030 | | | | | | | | ‱ | ? | ? | 8241 | 2031 | | | | | | | | › | 0155 | 009B | 8250 | 203A | •--------•--------•--------•--------•--------•

In Notepad++ :

Within an ANSI file, the regexes [†-‰] or [\x86-\x89] would only find the characters † and ‰ but not the • whose Win-1252 code ( \x95 ) is after \x89

Within an UTF8 file, the regexes [†-‰] or [\x{2020}-\x{2030}] would find the characters † and ‰ and also the • whose Unicode code-point is between 2020 and 2030

In Columns++ :

Within an ANSI file, the regexes [†-‰] or [\x{2020}-\x{2030}] would find the characters † and ‰ and also the • whose Unicode code-point is between 2020 and 2030

Within an UTF8 file, the regexes [†-‰] or [\x{2020}-\x{2030}] would find the characters † and ‰ and also the • whose Unicode code-point is between 2020 and 2030

Note that using the range [†-›] within an ANSI file, a N++ search of the • char would have been successful as its code-point ( 2022 ) lies within the 2020 and 203A range !

Now, @coises, I cannot test easily the CJK behaviour of your new search engine as it’s obvious that I do not a default CJK code-page, needed for such a study ! However, I do not see why your new search behavior couln’t be applied to any kind of Unicode chars ;-)

Best Regards,

guy038

Actually, I initially took Kedar’s XML, which I assume is based on Chris K’s

@Greg-Wille ,

There’s a workaround: if you use Window > Sort By > Content Length Ascending/Descending, it will sort the tabs by content length, which also sorts the Document List.

Because that sort feature exists through a different menu, it’s not likely that the developer would add it to the Document List panel as well (and it’s guaranteed that it won’t happen if you only have a post here, because as our FAQ explains, this is not the place for feature requests).

Hello. In version 8.7 and earlier (including version 8.8.5), the cursor appears out of place. Please fix this.
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There is one more thing that requires an explicit mentioning in the documentation:

When exactly NPPN_CMDLINEPLUGINMSG is sent to plugins? In particular, is it sent before or after NPPN_READY? (Currently it is sent before NPPN_READY. But will it be so in the future?)

@mostlyhuman

If you happened to look at the online manual in reference to this:
NPP tabs settings it will say:
Clicking that hollow icon, will “pin” the tab, which will change the icon to a filled-in “pin”, and will move the tab to the left side of the Tab Bar (before any unpinned tabs, but after any tabs that are already pinned).

So currently only left.

As stated in the FAQ section you could request a “new feature”. Read the post titled Feature Request or Bug Report as to how to go about requesting this.

I will say though that unless you get some followers for this idea it might be unlikely the developer will want to expend valuable time coding it into the application.

Terry

@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).

@h-jangra
I’ve been waiting for this plugin for quite long, thank you for your contribution!
I just tried out the initial release (v1.1.00) it works well in recent npp version, and I’m very happy to just navigate using vim commands.

I’m looking forward to updates! How can I sponsor your work?

@Nicholas, looks like you cant!

as @Alan-Kilborn pointed out, the option is there, but it’s greyed out.

is there a toggle that enables editing?

@Ekopalypse I know this is very old post, I have just lived with it till now. I started to try and find the answer again and found my own old post. You are correct the background for the Global Style Smart Highlighting was set to the default background. This fixed my issue.