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      Silent update is way too loud and intrusive

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      PeterJonesP
      @Nephilimi said: I’m actually curious now, is the general population not using this on their servers? There are only a handful of people who have come to the Community Forum from the “server” perspective – and most of those were coming to say, “why don’t you use installation-toolkit-xyz to make IT’s life easier”, and never really went into detail into how they were deploying to that point. And though it might not meet all the needs, the newer MSI installer (new to v8.8.8 in Nov 2025) seems to have quieted those types of inquiries down. So in the Community, while we get great insight into how individual/personal users use Notepad++, we don’t have much insight into the server-deployed side of things. (In our minds – or, at least in my mind – the “general population” are individual users, not server-based users. I have no clue how the numbers actually pan out between the two user-bases; we just get a individual-user-bias in the Forum.) But my guess is that the server-admins had auto-update turned off when they’d install it: either through pushing a custom config.xml to each user’s %AppData% folder, or through using a doLocalConf or -settingsDir to point to a more central config location (or, once the feature was enabled, bundling their own config.xml in the installation directory, which then gets used as the template for new %AppData%-based config.xml), or through deleting gup.exe in the old days or now using disableNppAutoUpdate.xml in the install directory
    • RWieber79R

      NotePad++ crashes using compare plus immediately after clicking compare

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      All, Please try and use ComparePlus v3 - it is the latest released version. If you experience any problem with it you could report it directly here or you could write here in the Notepad++ community forum for help and advise from fellow users. I also visit the forum from time to time to check the “news” for our favorite editor :) Good luck and thanks
    • Guido ThelenG

      SQL Formatter Plugin SQLinForm has now Visual NAvigator for complex SQL

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      Lycan ThropeL
      @Guido-Thelen said: And no, it isn’t limited to Standard SQL. The Navigator visualizes the result of the formatter, so it works with every dialect the formatter supports (30+, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Snowflake and more). For now it shows SQL statements and DDL. If you run into a statement it doesn’t break down correctly, I’d be glad to get a sample. That’s good to know, that it handles the different variants, and although I don’t get to do a lot of difficult/complex SQL, there are many in the dBASE community who do, as they use dBASE as the frontend interface and ADO to connect with the different SQL backends to replace the aging BDE. I’m sure any of our developers who use the dBASE UDL we made can probably use this as well. I clued them into using CSV Lint and Csv Query plugins for working with manipulating text data before importing it, so this tool will also come in handy. I saw some of their complicated SQL when doing the UDL so I could properly implement color coding, keyword and AutoCompletion features and used their sample SQL statements to test against for color coding and keyword collisions. You’re right, the problem with Workbench is you need a live connection to the data, so this will be a great non-connect SQL diagnostic tool for them. Thanks for doing it and hopefully I’ll be able to play with it sometime soon, but right now my plate is full elsewhere with RL issues.
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      dark theme preference on main website doesn't work as expected.

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      Lycan ThropeL
      @MarkusBodensee , Okay, I followed your instructions to reproduce and I did, in fact reproduce it upon starting Firefox a new, but like @peterjones has mentioned, that’s a Firefox issue. A clue might be that I have everything reset between browser uses, so everything gets reset upon shutting down. I have high security setting. I have somewhat of an explanation, however. Many times when I’ve signed out of sites, I can go to resign back in, and the ‘username’ is still valid, and all I have to enter is my password. via Firefox password feature. Sometimes things mess up and won’t function, and I have to close the browser to reset everything, and apparently, that is what’s happening with the Notepad++ main page. When you refresh the page, it’s doing a kind of soft reset (Ctrl/Alt/Del), versus a hard reset(power button), when you do a reload and resets parameters.