@Moisey-Oysgelt

Does this crash happen immediately when you try to start Notepad++, or after it is already open?

If you can get Notepad++ to start, please click on the ? at the right end of the main menu, select Debug Info…, then click the button Copy debug info to clipboard.

Add a reply to your original message and paste in what it copies. That might help us guess what is going on.

If you can’t get Notepad++ to start at all, then the question has to be, what changed recently in your system? If you can’t think of anything at all, one thing you could try is to download a portable version from the downloads page, unzip the file and see if that will run. What happens when you try that might give you, or us, a clue.

@Doc-Farmer ,

Is there a new shortcut for Edit>Blanks>Trim Trailing Space?

v8.5.7 was from November 2023 – a year ago. Do you really mean that, or do you mean the most-recent v8.7.5 from December 2025?

Regardless, Edit > Blanks > Trim Trailing Space does not have a default shortcut in either v8.5.7 or v8.7.5 – the Alt+Shift+S keystroke is assigned to Macro > Trim Trailing Space And Save in both v8.5.7 and v8.7.5.

I suggest you look at both menus to see if either says that, or if not there, then Preferences > Shortcut Mapper: filter for trim on the Main menu tab to see Trim Trailing Space, and filter for trim on the Macros tab to see Trim Trailing Space and Save:

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I get the Find drop-down

Do you mean the Search menu drop-down? If so, then my guess is that your keyboard isn’t correctly sending the Shift when doing Alt+Shift+S (maybe an intermittent problem with that key on your keyboard), because Alt+S is the Windows OS “menu accelerator” sequence for "the menu with the accelerator S, which in Notepad++ is the Search menu – so that says that Notepad++ is hearing Alt+S instead of Alt+Shift+S from the OS.

Though it is possible all your shortcuts got cleared – for example, if %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml somehow got deleted or corrupted for you, then the Macro wouldn’t be there anymore and thus nothing would be assigned to that sequence, at which point I believe that Notepad++ would fall back to pretending the Shift wasn’t in your sequence and interpret it as Alt+S for the Search menu. If it did get cleared, you should be able to exit Notepad++, copy the one from C:\Program Files\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml to %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml , and then run Notepad++ again, and the shortcuts and macros should all be back to their defaults.

So my guess is that the problem is that you misremembered, and you’ve really been doing Trim Trailing Space and Save macro shortcut, and that now your Shift key isn’t coming through, or that your shorcuts.xml got cleared.

All that said, with the Shortcut Mapper, you can change the shortcut for either of the actions I’ve mentioned, or most other menu entries, to whatever you like.

@Phat-Huynh-0

In the future, please read this FAQ and use literal blocks of text wrapped in ``` to show your text rather than pasting images.

It is not clear what you want to remove at the end of the line, but if you want to remove everything before CUSTOMER REFERENCE NUMBER: on lines with that text, you can use Search->Replace... to open the find/replace form, check Wrap Around, set Search Mode to Regular expressions, set Find what: to (?-si).*(?=CUSTOMER REFERENCE NUMBER:), leave Replace With: empty, and hit the Replace All button.

Here is the standard documentation for regex in Notepad++.

@Brixter-Tabun

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@Robert-Or-Janet-Diebel said in Keep only one copy of a line that may repeated many times, or only once.:

I wish to search a file and keep only one copy of a line that may be repeated many times, or only once. The output, then is one copy of every line type, with all repetition removed.

Edit | Line Operations | Remove Duplicate Lines does that.

@Andy-S27 said in Support for Windows 11 LTSC:

Appreciate that from a search of past forum posts the question of functionality and support when using Notepad ++ on Windows 10 LTSC has cropped up. However, what’s the position with running it on Windows 11 LTSC, released in Oct 2024 ? I can’t currently find any other references to this when searching.

I’m not sure what “position” you are talking about. Insofar as Win 11 LTSC is Win 11, you can run Notepad++.

But I don’t think Notepad++ will ever be developed under the same “long term support” model with multiple concurrently-supported versions. Notepad++ has one version track, and all upgrades will include bugfixes, security fixes and new features. So if you want bugfixes and security fixes, you have to also accept new features; Notepad++ developers will never go back and release a “security fix” for an older version of Notepad++.

Corporations can afford to pay people to do the multi-version support like Windows offers; huge open-source projects like Linux or specific distros, with Foundation backing and/or huge numbers of volunteers, can find ways to do the LTS-model; but a tiny project like Notepad++, with one owner of the project, and a handful of people who can sometimes devote a little of their spare time to helping with Notepad++ are not likely to be able to support an LTS-type model, and a single upgrade path is all that can be reasonably expected from such a project.

If your point in using Win11 LTSC is to never get new features, then you can replicate that by turning off automatic updates of Notepad++, but then you sacrifice bug fixes and security fixes. If you want bug fixes and security fixes, then you have to take the normal Notepad++ upgrade path which includes new features as well. If you want a chance to evaluate new versions before installing them, you can turn off automatic updates, and when new versions are released, you can try them out through a portable zip first, without disrupting your installed version.

@afk-afk ,

The closest command line option is -n# to take you to a specific line. If you pick a number that’s more than the number of lines (like -n999999), then it will scroll to the end.

@Liming-Tieu said in Notepad++ resets file permission bits for WSL files on save:

I’m getting the same problem with the 64bit version of NPP version 8.5.7

If you can, please 1st upgrade to the latest upcoming v8.7.5 (in the current v8.7.4 is a critical regression, it will be replaced by v8.7.5 soon). Why - there are many fixes which are related to this area, specifically - the next version from the yours (v8.5.8) fixed the overwriting of some NTFS metadata (“Fix saving files losing Alternate Data Stream issue. (Fix #1498, #8451, #8013)”).

(here you will find a convenient overview of all the changes in N++ versions: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/wiki/Changes )

Then please report back here, if your problem persists.

Should be fixed now, thanks for reporting!

@Pj-Doyle
Your question seems to be related to html code and websites. Possibly you are using Notepad++ to generate this code, but as the issue isn’t really a Notepad++ issue you need to go to a HTML forum to get the answer.

Can I refer you to this FAQ post here.

Terry

@dr-ramaanand said in Add number in each line:

please explain how to use the above RegEx

I think the “explain” part was already done.
But it isn’t a “RegEx”; it’s a syntax peculiar to the MutliReplace plugin.

@moyprofile said in I want ctrl-shift-tab and ctrl-tab activate tabs like browser:

I want ctrl-shift-tab and ctrl-tab activate tabs like browser: ctrl-shift-tab should activate the tab left to the active, ctrl-tab should activate the tab right to the active.

They do, plus by default it gives you two pieces of extra functionality as well:

it also pops up a “Document Switcher”, so that you’ve got more feedback on where it’s going and what it’s doing, and it also gives “MRU” (most recently used) behavior, so that Ctrl+Tab, do something, then Ctrl+Tab again will take you back to the first tab, rather than blindly switching to some “next” tab

Both of those extras are user-configurable in the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Document Switcher (Ctrl+TAB) section of the settings.

the ☑ Enable checkbox will turn on and off the switcher; with the checkbox unchecked, it will go to the simple behavior you described; if checkmarked, it will allow the Doc Switcher to make your life easier. the ☑ Enable MRU behavior will make the Document Switcher cycle through in order of most-recent to least-recent, instead of going purely left-to-right. So if you want the Document Switcher, but want it to only allow left/right rather than remembering last-accessed-order, turn off this checkmark.

This is all in the Online User Manual, as you can see from the links I provided.

@martin-honnen said in Any idea why self compiled plugin works on "normal" Windows 11 but doesn't in Windows Sandbox?:

The referenced module was not found.

The sandboxed version of Windows seems to have fewer core libraries than the “full” version, The operating system is saying that your plugin wants to call a function in a core library which is not installed.

Try setting the Windows API level in the Visual C++ project file by defining the _WIN32_WINNT and the NTDDI_VERSION macros to a Windows release that predates Win10: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/winprog/using-the-windows-headers

See, for example, how Notepad++ defines both to target Windows 7 (the oldest version it supports).

Worst case, you may have to to seek out the exact version of Visual Studio the XMLTool author was using.

I agree. He is either a hypocrite or full of propaganda.

@havkicker

Are you trying to say that the Search results panel doesn’t display for you?
If so, you probably want to check the FAQ.

this is driving me to distraction

I guess this has been a distracting problem for you since Aug 2023 at least?

@Arthur-Gordon-Pym said in "Word wrap" option is reset from time to time:

I also have this strange bug

As I think you will be aware, that information isn’t much to go on. You speak of “with latest versions” but don’t specify if it is “the” latest version. Additionally there might well be other factors such as whether you run Notepad++ in single instance mode or “multiple instance”. This is a setting under Settings, preferences, Multi-instance & date (ver 8.7.4). This setting can create the anomaly you see. If you run multi-instance and turn off the word wrap in one instance, and then when closing, make that instance the last to close the setting will change as it writes the change to the config files. Next time you start you will see it turned off.

So far very few have stated they have this problem. We had a previous case where only a few had a particular problem and because of that it took a very long time to establish there was in fact a situation where the issue arose. Yours might be such a situation, or indeed just something you haven’t identified yet which is causing the problem to occur sporadically and not specifically a Notepad++ issue.

Terry

@Bob-Smith ,

The way you avoid that 1200 second time limit is to get enough upvotes that the system doesn’t consider you a threat.

That rule assumes that anyone who has been here long has posted enough good quality posts to have earned a few upvotes.

Given our additional anti-spam that’s been implemented since that limit was originally enacted, I think I’m willing to shrink the delay. But there will still be limitations on you until people have upvoted you enough.

I’m not 100% sure whether I’ve understood your problem.

I was going to ask for a screenshot of your Preferences > Delimiter page, wondering if maybe you had something added to your list of characters… but then I was reminded of the Delimiter selection settings (Ctrl + Mouse double click), which I forget about under most circumstances.

So with the example text

one two three four five six blah(seven eight nine)

if I Ctrl+DoubleClick on one then five then eight, I get one and five and seven eight nine selected. Based on being reminded of the existing of the special meaning for inside-delimiter Ctrl+DoubleClick, that is now my expectation. But I’m wondering if you were hoping for just one and five and eight in that situation. If so, you would have to “defeat” the Delimiter selection settings, by changing the open and close delimiters to something else (or to nothing).

Examples:

Default:
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With no selection-delimiters:
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@Bob-Smith ,

A few years ago, it was requested in the NppFTP repository’s issue tracker, but the maintainer didn’t have time (at least then) to take on the effort of adding all the DarkMode hooks.

I’ve pinged the issue, and updated with the current state (because in the original issue, even the Profiles and Progress panel was still white, not just the Output and dialog boxes) – but the maintainer asked for help 3 years ago, and no one volunteered, so it’s not likely to happen any time soon, unless someone new volunteers. (@chcg is highly involved in a variety of plugins, plus contributes to the main app, so doesn’t often find time for requests like this; hence the 2021 request for help, which was unfortunately ignored.)

@mkupper ,

the OP’s question seemed clear enough to me. While they did not show their debug info …

Maybe you didn’t notice which FAQ @Alan-Kilborn directed the OP to, because “it’s ambiguous” wasn’t meant to say that “the OP question was ambiguous” – “It’s Ambiguous” is one of the headers in the FAQ that was linked to.

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I am thinking that when Alan said, “It’s Ambiguous” and directed the OP to a FAQ that you thought he was linking to the “request for more information, especially debug info” FAQ. But he actually linked to the FAQ: Why Can’t I Just Say “Most Recent Version”, which explains in detail about why the Update Notepad++ doesn’t find v8.7.4 right now, using much the same language that you used in your reply.

update 1: Yes, I admit that “Most Recent Version” FAQ also asks for Debug Info, but the “It’s Ambiguous” section can double as the answer to the FAQ “why does Notepad++ say there’s no newer version, when the downloads page clearly shows a newer version”.
I guess I could make the FAQ more explicit in that regard.

update 2: I have now tried to make the FAQ more clear that it’s answering two questions that both have the same root description, even though they seem, on the surface, unrelated.