@Alan-Kilborn said in Open with search:

@pdanes said in Open with search:

it changes in mid-stream. When I first call it, the dialog opens with “Find”, but after a while, it switches on its own to “Najít”. I haven’t (yet, anyway) taken the trouble to find out exactly when, or see if I can isolate the exact cause - I’ve been too busy just trying to get it working at all

Well THAT is certainly strange!

Isn’t it, though? What is happening is that only the first SendMessage call opens the dialog with “Find”. As long as the dialog stays open, and I simply put in different texts to search for and press the find button, it stays “Find”. As soon as a second SendMessage call is issued, or I manually switch to a different tab in the dialog, or I manually press ctrl/F (whether or not the search dialog is closed first), it immediately switches to “Najít” and stays that way from then on, for as long as Notepad remains open. If I completely close it, and it is opened again by the database and the search dialog is opened by the database’s SendMessage call, it is “Find” again. It seems that the very first SendMessage must bypass some initialization code. Maybe there is some other call I should issue first, some “SetInitialParameters” sort of thing, but I don’t really feel like looking for something that may not even exist. Just checking for both versions of the title works well enough. If someone who understands what’s going sees this and chimes in with some direction, I’ll fix it. If not, this works well enough.

A little odd, but I’ve seen stranger behavior from software.

Do they have a real Python interpreter built into Notepad? That’s some text editor.

It isn’t exactly “built-in”. It’s a plugin. But a rather miraculous one. :-)

So it seems. Python is probably something I should devote more time to. More and more situations are cropping up where knowing it well would be useful. At this point I can usually muddle my way to some result, but I don’t really ‘know’ the language, and I should.

@Vitaliy-Dovgan said in Suggestion: Find in Files from command line:

Notepad++ already has a very powerful Find in Files functionality (Ctrl+Shift+F).
… (snipped) …
If it looks like a good suggestion, let’s discuss the design here. E.g. what exact names to use for the command arguments, what exact behavior to expect from Notepad++, what other options we may want to set, etc.

Based on the number of people chiming in with “I use ... from the command line” it appears they don’t see the finder built into Notepad as the best available.

I myself have been using plain old findstr that is built into Windows but often use it in batch file wrappers that end up feeding the results into Notepad++ much like what the proposed -ff style command line options would do.

@Denis-Rionnet said in Notepad++ has a Reload false alarm / bug? "This file has been modified by another program. Do you want to reload it"? even when it hadn't been recently modified at all?!:

I understand that this behaviour can be disabled via the settings panel (it works: the warning gets muted)).

How and where? nvm - found it with Google - Settings>Misc>File Status auto-detection.

I’m having the same issue - for me, typically when I don’t save the file in NPP, lock the computer, and then unlock it and go back to editing.

Files are stored on a network hard drive (not Cloud storage). File protocol is SMB, if that is what @ekpalypse is asking.

I don’t think I’ve seen the message in NPP previously, but I’ve just started using it heavily.

I agree, the feature was handy when it worked.

For me, nobody else edit’s these files, and the one other program that I might edit them in notifies me if they were changed in NPP, so I’m okay with disabling it, but I’d like to see it fixed.

Debug info:
Notepad++ v8.8.1 (64-bit)
Build time : May 3 2025 - 18:41:09
Scintilla/Lexilla included : 5.5.6/5.4.4
Boost Regex included : 1_85
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : “Z:_Brooks Work\FM ExtendScript\Scripts_2025\OPS_JG_Update_Variables.jsx”
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
Scintilla Rendering Mode : SC_TECHNOLOGY_DEFAULT (0)
Multi-instance Mode : monoInst
File Status Auto-Detection : cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 23H2
OS Build : 22631.5472
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins :
JSMinNPP (1.1905.1)
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.6)
NppExport (0.4)
NPPJSONViewer (1.34)
XMLTools (3.1.1.13)

@lycan-thrope
To be clear, I have no idea how to use github, a pull request, etc. So I’m really novice in this area. As a note, the Autocompletion and functionList files (with the same name) seem to be the problem with just zipping up the files and since I have no way of knowing where users have their installations, my assumptions about 64 bit/32 bit/Standard install and stand alone install have all been pushed to the side as I tried to explain where to install the files, and am not sure what I would have to do to get a .zip version to do it automagically. I know, there’s a lot I don’t know…tell me something I don’t know. :-)

Lee

@valery-bogomolov ,

This thread is becoming rather mixed-up.
Please open an issue in NppGTags repo to discuss its autocomplete problem there.

At first look it seems that the parser you are using (GTags maybe) is not recognizing some symbols in your codebase. AFAIR, the parser won’t be able to parse Unicode right if you are using it.

Due to the problem seen earlier, I decided to take another approach, so that Notepad++ would cooperate better with the lines I was hiding in order to achieve the goals of the script.

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered too many bugs with the hidden lines feature, that it isn’t worth continuing. I think that, at least for now, I’m giving up on this idea…

@rjm5959 said in Exporting pages from Hits?:

1S####-##C CENTRAL LOAN ADMINISTRATION YY/MM/DD
LETTER LOG HISTORY FILE FOR NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC1 PAGE ####

I know nothing about the context in which you’re using this data, but are you sure that you’re not leaking confidential data to the internet by posting this here? Because if you are, consider anonymizing it.

@Darius-Gricius

GitHub issue #15324.
Fix is already in progress, it should be included in the upcoming next N++ version.

@Cee-Qhawekazi-Mhlongo You must press Install before you can use that!

@Kang-Tri Firewalls rarely get in the way of plugins. Disabling them as a general practice in an attempt to solve a problem that someone can’t articulate well is bad advice.

@guy038 said:

I just hope that these two regex S/R work nice, too, on your VERY BIG unordered ASN data list ;-))

Delighted to confirm that your hack (the first one) delivered a proper sort of the large listing (AS7552).

If you’re curious my kit took some 48sec compared to the inconsistent ‘results’ provided by 7.7.1 in (what would’ve normally have been) about a second.

Thank you @guy038 for providing that workaround to the native code’s flawed 7.7.1 …for which I await a fix.

@Carlos-Zhang said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:

Plugins > Open Plugins Folder: Nothing happened. File Manager did not open.

I also fixed this by this page:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929833/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system
FYI.

@andrecool-68

But only as long as you have not opened more than the maximum number of files to be saved.

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Create/maintain some sort of database for this info

But I see a disadvantage - maintenance. How to keep this kind of db clean. I would say that during runtime of npp one can expect it but
after a restart it will become a nightmare to keep it clean.
How would one handle temporarily inaccessible files, moved or deleted files.
On the other side if you can configure an extension or lexer to always
open a file in a specific encoding then I assume most of the issues are solved.

@Victorel-Petrovich said in Using Mark (Markers) and Styles:

the conclusion is that this feature is broken (if I can break it so easily).

it is easy to get the UI out of sync just using the built-in features (no scripting).

Ah, OK – I thought you meant something with the script.
Yes, the feature is very broken, for many reasons.
This has long been known.

@pnedev said in Useless Backup System:

It is becoming rather a philosophical discussion now but the other perspective is how often people will find the behavior of the editor awkward.

For all the time Notepad++ has been out there AFAIK @Resonant-Mind is the first to ask for that backup by default (not trying to be disrespectful here, just stating the facts).
I think what @Alan-Kilborn is kind of worried about is that since the change there are already several (two AFAIK) help requests in this forum asking why the .bak files appear and how to stop that. Those are coming from not power users obviously. And since @Alan-Kilborn and a few other folks here are the guys that are actually spending time and effort answering such queries and trying to help it is normal for them to measure the pros. and cons. of such change from the perspective of “How much confusion it will bring and how much maintenance effort”.

I understand both views and since we have prioritized the security and stability here (.bak ON by default) maybe it is worth creating post in the FAQ section describing how one can stop that default behavior.
@Alan-Kilborn , what do you think?

A couple users coming in to ask how to disable it, is not the same thing as a couple forum Golems b!tching about the change and then proceeding to be bigger cry babies than the person that lost data.

These elitist power users fail to recognize, that a lot of professional paid for / not free software out there have their own .bak system and is enabled by default.

So, welcome to being a professional.

@alan-kilborn I’m sorry again. I try to do my best…
Your formulation is perfect.
Just a detail, ‘icon =’ is not important for me. So :
For any other lines, leave them as they are after the ‘song_length =’ line in the output.

@alan-kilborn You’re exactly correct, this has been a great learning experience for me regarding Notepad++ plugin development. I plan to continue improving my current plugins and write new ones. Once again thank you @Alan-Kilborn and @PeterJones for pointing me in the right direction, you’ve been helped a great deal! : - )

@leonardchai Thank you very much. I searched for your plugin in the plugin admin menu and there it was. Works great!