@decrepit-old-geekoid said:
Notepad++ v6.9.2
Build time : May 18 2016 - 00:34:05
Wow! That’s ancient. You do know that there’s been a decade of improvements to the software since then? Including a lot of security fixes?
I use the date and time short format from the TextFX menu a lot. I would like to use a keyboard macro to run it, but I’m running into problems.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used that version, but in modern Notepad++, you cannot macro-record plugin commands. We have a FAQ: Automating Notepad++, which has a section on how to “cheat” the macro system (manually edit the macro to include something like a plugin command), but I don’t know if the NppUISpy plugin works on a Notepad++ that old, so I don’t know if you can have the easy way to find out the command ID that gets assigned to the TextFX
If you choose to update, and I recommend that you do, some notes:
you could install the 64-bit version instead of the 32-bit version, which would allow editing bigger files
there is no more “PluginManager”: that was abandoned somewhere around 2018 (v7.6) because the PluginManager started trying to show ads inside Notepad++, which was anathema to the Notpead++ owner. Since v7.6.3, Notepad++ has had a stable “Plugins Admin” tool built into Notepad++
NppTextFX doesn’t exist in its old form, since the original plugin’s author had long-abandoned that plugin. But in modern Notepad++, someone has forked it to NppTextFX2 (currently, v2.0.3), which you can install from the Plugins Admin interface
DSpell check and NppNetNote plugins are still around, so you can install those from Plugins Admin
I don’t see docMonitor in Plugins Admin, so I’m not sure what that is. It may be that modern Notepad++ has the features you need built in (it’s got a “tail -f mode” and the “File Status Auto-detection” settings, but I don’t know if that covers everything you wanted from the docMonitor plugin)