Hi @guy038, thanks for testing again! In case you’re curious, here’s roughly what the new loading threads in 6.2 do. As soon as the file list is known, a few worker threads start reading ahead: they open the files, read them, check for binary content and decode the text. The main thread takes the files in list order as soon as each one is ready, puts it into a hidden Scintilla document and searches it. So the hits and their order stay the same, but reading and searching now overlap. On a USB stick MultiReplace uses four threads by default. With a cold cache, as in your test, most of the time goes into waiting for your USB key, and that is where it helps: up to four files are read at the same time, and the search runs while the next ones are still loading. If you want to see what the threads bring on your key: with LoadThreads=0 in the [ReplaceInFiles] section of the INI file, every file is read on the main thread as before (see the README; it takes effect after restarting Notepad++).

@guy038 The Change History markers and indicators should be evaluated also as part of the tests. All green markers in the images is suspiciously odd. Perhaps all of the text was pasted and saved which caused that to occur? With Change History showing what changed, the view of what is better may change.

@Robk-Blue said: indentations perfect to 2 spaces Does this mean that you have Notepad++ set up such that tab characters are visualized as two spaces, or that you aren’t using tab characters at all and simply have Notepad++ directly insert two spaces when you press the Tab key when your caret is in a tab-stop column? If you are inserting tab characters in your Notepad++ document, then copying your text to another program for processing allows that other program to interpret tab characters as it sees fit (which could easily be different from “two spaces” in Wordpress’s default handling). Possible solutions to your “problem” might be to stop using tab characters (if that’s truly what you are doing), or look into adjusting Wordpress’s settings for how to handle tab characters (if it has such settings).

JsonTools v8.6 is now available for download (it’s not up on the Plugins Admin yet, pending my PR to NppPluginList). Major changes: Fixed potential for Notepad++ to hang or crash due to: RemesPath queries with a for loop over an empty array Maliciously crafted schemasToFnamePatterns.json config file RemesPath queries that generate too-deep JSON (which previously could have caused stack overflow) List of 16 most recently used unique RemesPath queries (stored in config file, accessible by menu command) New control in JSON to CSV form, allowing columns to be listed in the order that they occurred in the first record, rather than in alphabetical order

@PeterJones Good info on StyleID, thanks.