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    • guy038G

      Enhancement of the COLUMN EDITOR feature

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      guy038G

      Hi, @alan-kilborn and All,

      Of course, I could use your method to achieve my goal but that is just the reason why I wanted this enhancement which should avoid any further operation !!

      BTW, this idea occured to me while I was writing this other post :

      https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27511/surprising-regular-expression

      In the meanwhile, I’ve found out a nice work-around to realize that goal ! Let’s imagine that you want to do a list of 743 empty lines exactly ( I chose that number as it’s a prime number ). Then :

      Open a new tab Within N++

      Hit the Enter key just once

      Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

      Uncheck all box options

      Check the Wrap around option ONLY

      Select the Regular expression search mode

      FIND \R

      REPLACE $0$0

      Click 10 times on the Replace All button

      => You should get a total of 1,025 lines ( Note that, after each replacement N, the number of lines increases to the value 2 × N + 1 )

      The trick is to repeat the process up to the first number which is greater than 743 !

      Now, open the Search > Go to... option ( Ctrl + G )

      Search for the line 744 ( so 743 + 1 )

      Then, select to the very end of file with the Ctrl + Shift + End shortcut

      And finally, hit the Delete key

      => It should remain the expected 743 lines !

      I readily admit that all the different tasks of my work-around do not take long. However, I still think that a new field Total insertion number, in the Column Editor dialog, filled with the value 743, would have been more elegant and straightforward !

      Best Regards,

      guy038

    • donhoD

      Notepad++ release 8.9.4

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      I deploy notepad++ using the 32 bit exe installer (i.e. npp.%version%.Installer.exe) on 64 bit Windows 11 .
      Up to 8.9.3 I am used to seeing the uninstall entry in the registry at SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Notepad++.

      However, the 8.9.4 installer instead populates SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Notepad++ , i.e. the 64bit rather than 32bit view of HKLM.
      The DisplayName is still "Notepad++ (32-bit x86) " ,
      and the software has installed in to %programfiles(x86)% and not %programfiles% . When I launch notepad++ the help > about menu also displays “32 bit”, so I am fairly confident I have used the 32bit installer.

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      Notepad++ 8.9.4 (x86)EXE Upgrade Leaves Duplicate ARP Entry

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    • CoisesC

      Search++: A work in progress

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      guy038G

      Hi, @coises,

      I re-tested the supposed bug and I simplified the procedure which is necessary to trigger that bug !

      If opened, close the Search++ plugin by clicking on the cross, at the far right

      A Re-open Search++ with the Plugins > Search++ > Search... option

      B Try to close the Search++ panel by clicking on the cross, at the far right => Nothing happens !?

      C After some trys, if you move slightly the mouse, you should be able to close the Search++ panel

      Sometimes, you’ll need to repeat the actions A ato C, up to 5 times consecutively, to trigger that bug. but this event may also occur at the first try !

      I also noted that, when the bug occurs, any subsequent left click on the cross does nothing until I move very slightly the mouse, without any clicking, that is enough, then, to close the search++ panel by clicking againg onto the cross icon. Very strange, indeed !?

      As I suspected that the problem could be an hardware issue with my bluethooth mouse, I disabled it and installed a classical USB mouse, instead. But, unfortunately, results were identical as well as the uncertainty regarding the manifestation of the bug !

      I have different portable versions of Notepad++, but the one which is concerned is the v8.9 release where I installed, both, your Columns++ and Search++ plugins

      Here is my Debug info :

      Notepad++ v8.9 (64-bit) Build time: Jan 10 2026 - 02:25:19 Scintilla/Lexilla included: 5.5.8/5.4.6 Boost Regex included: 1_90 pugixml included: 1.15 nlohmann JSON included: 3.12.0 Path: D:\890_x64\Notepad++.exe Command Line: Admin mode: OFF Local Conf mode: ON Cloud Config: OFF Periodic Backup: OFF Placeholders: OFF Scintilla Rendering Mode: SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE (1) Multi-instance Mode: monoInst asNotepad: OFF File Status Auto-Detection: cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only) Dark Mode: OFF Display Info: primary monitor: 1920x1080, scaling 125% visible monitors count: 1 installed Display Class adapters: 0001: Description - Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics 0001: DriverVersion - 32.0.101.7084 OS Name: Windows 11 Pro (64-bit) OS Version: 25H2 OS Build: 26200.7462 Current ANSI codepage: 1252 Plugins: mimeTools (3.1) NppConverter (4.7) NppExport (0.4) ComparePlus (2.2) ColumnsPlusPlus (1.3.1) NppUISpy (1.2) MultiReplace (4.6.0.33) Marginalize (1) Search++ (0.5.5)

      Finally, note that this portable version of N++ is installed on an USB drive

      Best Regards,

      guy038