@mpheath Thanks for this suggestion. It seems to be the simplest solution. A bit of an overkill since it would only be needed for my Python stuff, yet I like keyboard shortcuts, growing up on DOS and all. Thank You! I really appreciate the help. :)

@Kendall-DeMott , The installer shouldn’t lose your settings – it tries hard to not overwrite – but not impossible. But after it’s installed, it shouldn’t lose all the settings. One guess is that the config.xml file doesn’t actually have normal write permissions, so when you make all the changes inside Notepad++, it tries to save the settings, but cannot – I would have thought it would prompt you for that, but maybe not. Use Explorer to go to %AppData%\Notepad++\, and right click on config.xml, and check the permissions, to make sure your normal user has write permission to the file; and also make sure you aren’t running Notepad++ As Admin – it would have Administrator in the title bar, and list it as Admin Mode: ON in the ? > Debug Info – because maybe your system is set up so Admin cannot write to your AppData directory. Another guess is that you have two copies of Notepad++, and when your settings are changing, it is because it’s using a different copy of Notepad++, pointing to a different config location. Use Windows search to look for notepad++.exe, and see if it finds more than one copy. (If you have multiple drives, make sure you check them all.) I thought or was told that the the app’s preferences etc. loaded from the Session file? Nope. Settings are stored in config.xml. The list of open files is stored in session.xml I can’t remember where you can change the setting or edit a line so more items are remembered in the Find What window, can you please tell me how to set it to (12) It’s a Preference for Advanced Users, which can only be changed by editing nbMaxFindHistoryFind and similar attributes, as described in the User Manual. When manually editing config.xml, you have to follow the steps in the Editing Config Files section, reading about the differences in how you have to treat config.xml because of its unique status in Notepad++'s inner workings.

@AGoh2019 There are also two LSP plugins, here and here that offer semantic autocomplete, diagnostics, and more. My lspclient and the aforementioned dap plugin are still marked as alpha versions. While this is probably more accurate for the dap plugin, the lsp plugin is actually relatively stable. The only thing that’s personally holding me back from upgrading this to a beta or even a 1.0 release is my code… which is… in need of improvement. The only thing the dap plugin is really missing is the ability to handle structured variables like classes or structures. Currently, it only displays the variable itself, but not its fields. Otherwise, this plugin is more or less ready for use. If the language being used supports “repl” then it’s fully functional, though not yet very user-friendly.