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    • CoisesC

      Search++: A work in progress

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      guy038G
      Hello, @coises and All, Many thanks, @coises, for your new release. Sorry for the late reply — every Friday, since the beginning of fall, I’ve been going on hikes with a group of seniors ! You said : Correct failure to find a zero-length match at the end of a file, selection or span of marked text when the previous match included last character of the file, selection or span of marked text. I did verify, for example, that the regexes ^(?-s)((?!test).)*\R|\z, (?-s)^((?!test).)*$\R? and (?-s)^((?!test).)*(\R|\z) correctly detect the last empty line 10. Nice ! You said : Condense Tools | Synchronize sub-menu. To this purpose, here is a little test, using my example text, below, pasted in a new tab : bla blah this is the test to do bla blah test bla blah Preamble : Uncheck, if necessary, the Bookmark lines when marking text (Shift: Configure) option in the Tools menu Uncheck, if necessary, the Default commands search within selections option in the Settings dialog Uncheck, if necessary, the Default commands search within marked text option in the Settings dialog Uncheck, if necessary, the Always unmark all text before Mark command. (Otherwise add to existing marked text). option in the Settings dialog Now : 1 Mark every test word 2 Mark every blah word 3 Then, manually, bookmark the lines 4 and 7 containing the word test 4 Choose the Synchronize marks and bookmarks option 5 Finally, hit the Shift key and click on the Mark all text in bookmarked lines (Shift:clear first) => All the existing marked test is cleared first, then all text, in the two bookmarked lines, is marked, as shown below : [image: 1792245552765-59f2b21f-6c1e-4681-a740-34a1bee6c7f8-image.jpeg] 6 Now, use the Remove marks from active document document to clear all the marked text and click on the two blue bookmarks to clear them, as well 7 Redo the steps from 1 to 4 8 Finally, simply click on the Mark all text in bookmarked lines (Shift:clear first) => All the existing marked text is preserved, then all text, in the two bookmarked lines, is marked, as shown below : [image: 1792245583295-64d10cec-acda-4f8b-870f-eba6af5b26d1-image.jpeg] You said : Implement Tools | Expand visible configure tool window. Bravo for your new configurable dialog via the Expand visible 1:1 (Shift:configure) option, in the Tools menu. Every click, possibly repeated, on buttons Expand before, Expand after and Expand act as expected ! [image: 1792245636740-56bcd802-4314-4681-93c2-dd8a24afcc25-image.jpeg] The button Reset clears all these context lines and I suppose that the save button ( not tested ) can remember special settings like : show me, by default 3 lines before and two lines after ! You said : Hidden lines now show unhide margin markers. Hidden lines stay hidden after leaving and returning to a tab (except for the first and last line,… As an example, I chose to hide all lines containing the the property string, with this exact case, in the ICU.txt file : I had the bottom message Showing 13 matches and, indeed, only 13 lines were visible. However : I did not see any unhide margin markers ??? While switching to another tab then switching back to the ICU.txt did show me all the property strings but all the lines were visible and not the 13 lines containing the the property string only ??? Best Regards, guy038 Oh… I have not read your very last post yet. You said : Show only lines with shown text, and the Reset button in the Expand visible dialog, do not restore hidden line markers correctly. Personally, I did not notice this bug, even when clicking on the Reset button during my test with the ICU.txt file, described above ?
    • donhoD

      Notepad++ release 8.9.8.1

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      CoisesC
      @Xuân-Thơ-HOÀNG said: @Coises Notepad++ v8.9.8.1 appears to misdetect a valid UTF-8 file without BOM as OEM 855. The file contains valid UTF-8 multibyte characters and can be decoded successfully as UTF-8. When “Autodetect character encoding” is disabled, closing and reopening Notepad++ correctly identifies the file as UTF-8. Re-enabling autodetection causes the same file to be detected as OEM 855 again. For example, string UTF8 Ok but incorrect auto-detection: 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 Just my personal opinion, not any sort of “official Notepad++ position”: Autodetect character encoding is an accident waiting to happen. There is no way to consistently and accurately detect character encoding on Windows, because Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, did not choose to store the character encoding of a file in any sort of metadata. If you really have many files with different legacy character encodings, you will have to intervene manually to get correct results. There is no way around it. Autodetect character encoding might or might not reduce the number of cases where you must manually select the correct encoding, but sometimes it will be wrong. You can use the Encoding | Character sets menu to select the correct encoding before you modify the document in any way. More common is to have just two potentially ambiguous cases: so-called “ANSI,” meaning the system default code page, and UTF-8 with no byte order mark. Outside of contrived examples and files that were supposed to be UTF-8 but contain invalid byte sequences, it is easy to tell those two apart with a very high rate of accuracy. (However, Notepad++ has a bug that can cause UTF-8 files to be mis-detected as ANSI.) That works better if you do not check Autodetect character encoding.
    • Vitalii DovganV

      Improving Find in Files performance

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      Thanks a lot @guy038 for running the whole thing again, this time it didn’t finish in seconds ;-) Nice to see the results panel still usable with almost 10 million hits, even the jump to line 690 in that DLL at the very end. Interesting that walking the whole drive for those 130 PDFs takes almost the entire run, 5m45 of 5m48 for MultiReplace, and it’s the same picture with the other tools. The 4 “not decodable” are most likely UTF-16 files with an odd number of bytes. N++ simply drops the last byte there, the next MultiReplace build will do the same in Find in Files (Replace leaves them alone, writing them back would lose that byte). Speed is next on my list.
    • donhoD

      Notepad++ Release Candidate v8.9.8.1

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      @donho Typo: “7 Fix Netork Path Warning dialog usability problem.” --> Network
    • Troglo37T

      Is There A Way To Retrieve My Settings

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      PeterJonesP
      @Troglo37 , It’s much too late now, but for “open all tabs”, Notepad++ has the session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak, which should be one version of your session file out of date (for example, my session file is dated yesterday at 7:13pm, and my corruption-backup is from 2:37pm that same day). So, in the future, if you open Notepad++, and it doesn’t have all your old session files open, before doing anything (before closing Notepad++ or trying to save or load anything), make a copy of session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to tryme.session.xml so it won’t be overwritten, exit Notepad++, rename session.xml to bad-session.xml, copy tryme.session.xml to session.xml, and start Notepad++: that should take your in-case-of-corruption session as your active session … so if the previous time you exited and started was good, you should be back to that session. That won’t fix your corrupted stylers (colors). Unless you had a recent change in one off your Style Configurator settings, I am surprised Notepad++ was trying to write to your stylers.xml, because it only tries to write it if there was a change. But maybe the reboot process confused some bit in memory making Notepad++ think it needed to.
    • J

      remove the find in files feature

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      @PeterJones i just wont bother using notepad++ again, ill go find a better alternative
    • Troglo37T

      How Do I Get Rid of the Line in the Margin When I Type Something?

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      Troglo37T
      @mpheath Okay, I’ll check it out. Thanks.
    • T

      Confirmation or disable the Find All in All Opened Documents

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      Feature request created: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/18429 Put the several possibilities given my lack of knowing how the backend works and the feedback I’d gotten on this thread of possible feasibilities. I do stuff on both a Work computer using IT’s selected version of Notepad++ as well as home use, so even if I could get AutoIt working on my personal computer, I probably can’t get it running on my Work computer (permissions) I’ll try to train myself to alt+d
    • Michael MankiewiczM

      Vertical tabs with horizontal text?

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      PeterJonesP
      It looks like @LucaSorvillo took me up on the recommendation: Created new Issue #18496 , so there’s an “open issue” to PR against Created PR#18497 to implement it as a sub-option of the Tab Bar > Behavior > Vertical option
    • Dean-CorsoD

      How to normalize fancy Unicode text back to regular text?

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      PeterJonesP
      The answer, as far as Notepad++ is concerned, is “use the PythonScript solutions already presented, or similar, and/or the plugins mentioned.” People can use keywords found here to do their own web searches, if they want more background information. So I’m not sure there’s more that needs to be said, here. Looking at the history of this topic on the moderator/admin side of things, this topic (and similar ones, some of which have already been locked) is a “honeypot” for users trying to do links to their “fancy text generator” websites, and we don’t want this forum to be just a link farm to external sites. As such, and because the original conversation had completed 3 years ago, I am locking this topic.
    • deleeleeD

      Strange behaviour with find all in current document results

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      deleeleeD
      @Alan-Kilborn said: @deleelee 9 is single digit and 12/14/22 are each two digits. Thank you, that’s exactly what it was.
    • P

      Search and Replace for CNC Help Needed

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      PeterJonesP
      @Paul-Adamczyk said: Still much to learn. Useful References: Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation
    • RWieber79R

      NotePad++ crashes using compare plus immediately after clicking compare

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      Echoing what @Lycan-Thrope said — it is worth trying the GDI workaround before settling on the old Compare plugin, because that older plugin is no longer maintained and can develop incompatibilities with newer Notepad++ releases. To try the fix suggested earlier in this thread: go to Settings > Preferences > MISC., find the rendering-mode drop-down (DirectWrite is the default), switch it to GDI, then fully restart Notepad++ and run the same comparison again. The crash appears tied to how ComparePlus draws its difference highlighting under DirectWrite, so GDI sidesteps it. Two extra things worth checking if it still crashes: Test with all other plugins removed, in case something else interacts with it (XML Tools was installed alongside ComparePlus in the original report here). Check whether file size or shape matters — try a small pair of files first, then the large XML files, to see whether size plays a role. If you get a chance, please report back whether the GDI switch helped. The plugin author said a reworked ComparePlus is on the way that should fix the DirectWrite problem, so a data point either way helps everyone following this thread.
    • S

      dark theme preference on main website doesn't work as expected.

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      Lycan ThropeL
      @shocked-gamer , @peterjones is right. I only use Firefox myselff, and it’s in dark mode right now…however, you have to be signed in. For instance, I always sign out. When I do, the light theme comes back on, until I again, sign in. I believe it’s linked into your account, and it apparently works, or it wouldn’t go dark after I’ve signed in.
    • guy038G

      A little-known plugin of @Coises that's worth checking out !

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      guy038G
      Hello, @coises and All, Thank you very much, @coises, for your valuable advice ! As I already used a user definitions file, named Definitions.json5, containing the main examples from the documentation : Before starting N++, I simply included your modified implicit combining rules section to the definitions.json5 file, described below : { // A user definitions file is a JSONC file containing pairs of keys and values // listing what you type after the Compose key and what Compose types in response. // Each pair except the last must be followed by a comma. // Two forward slashes begin a comment: Compose for Notepad++ ignores // the slashes and everything after them on the same line. // You can use the standard escapes \n (new line), \r (return), \t (tab), // \" (quote within a quoted string) and \\ (backslash within a quoted string). // You can also use Unicode escapes, \u followed by four hexadecimal digits, // for example: "\u20ac" for "€", the Euro sign. Escape sequences for characters // outside the basic multilingual plane (code points 0x10000 or greater) // can only be entered as a UTF-16 surrogate pair. // You should save this file with a .jsonc extension. // Compose for Notepad++ reads the file each time you launch Notepad++, // so be sure to save it in a place where it won't be disturbed. "implicit combining rules" : { "'" : ["\u0301", "\u030B", true , "\u0317"], // acute accent | double | same as plain | acute accent below ")" : ["\u0306", false , true , "\u032E"], // breve | - | same as plain | breve below ">" : ["\u030C", false , true , "\u032C"], // caron/hacek | - | same as plain | caron/hacek below "," : ["\u0327", false , "\u0313", "\u0326"], // cedilla | - | comma above | comma below "ç" : ["\u0302", false , true , "\u032D"], // circumflex | - | same as plain | circumflex below "\"": ["\u0308", false , true , "\u0324"], // diaeresis | - | same as plain | diaeresis below "." : ["\u0307", false , true , "\u0323"], // dot above | - | same as plain | dot below "è" : ["\u0300", "\u030F", true , "\u0316"], // grave accent | double | same as plain | grave accent below "?" : ["\u0309", false , true , false ], // hook above | - | same as plain | - "+" : ["\u031B", false , true , false ], // horn | - | same as plain | - "-" : ["\u0304", false , true , "\u0331"], // macron | - | same as plain | macron below ";" : ["\u0328", false , "\u1DCE", true ], // ogonek | - | ogonnek above | same as plain "*" : ["\u030A", false , true , "\u0325"], // ring above | - | same as plain | ring below "é" : ["\u0303", false , true , "\u0330"], // tilde | - | same as plain | tilde below "_" : ["\u0332", "\u0333", "\u0305", true ] // underline | double | overline | same as plain }, "CC" : "\u2102", // double-struck capital C "rx" : "℞", // prescription symbol "dia" : "💎", // diamond symbol "br" : "Best Regards,\r\n\r\nguy038\r\n" // End of Post } Then, I started N++. To be sure that this json file was correct : I ran the Plugins > Compose > User definitions file... option. I clicked on the Select button. => No error occured ;-) And, indeed, no need to use the |Alt Gr] key and the [SP] key anymore, within the implicit combining rules section, on my French keyboard ! So, I also updated the main_Compose.txt file, in my Google drive account, which can be downloaded from the same address as before. Best Regards, guy038
    • Z

      XML Tools plugin is not maintained

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      Lycan ThropeL
      @PeterJones said: [IANAL, and I don’t know the legal term for a non-registered trademark] An unregistered trademark, sometimes informally called a common law trademark, is an enforceable mark created by a business or individual to signify or distinguish a product or service. –For future reference. The stronger case needs to be made as you mention to differentiate what could be called a trademark name versus a generically descriptive name. Such as the difference between Borax as a chemical and Borax as a trademarked product name. I am not a lawyer [IANAL], either, but I have done legal research from time to time, on these types of subjects as well, in the past.
    • Carlos SánchezC

      [New plugin] Smart Math

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      Vitalii DovganV
      Here are the latest binaries of SmartMath. This is a fully-working unofficial build that is going to be added to the official git repository… unless more improvements are suggested :) What’s new: the archive structure corresponds to the expectations of the Plugins Admin; the plugin searches for its documentation file near the SmartMath.dll, as well as in the “plugins\doc” folder; the plugin shows a warning when it does not find its syntax files in the expected locations under the “userDefineLangs” and “autoCompletion” folders of Notepad++. 64-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pTS_cBdU_Q0vkG03cubqWZ9TDdYiSsXW/view?usp=drive_link 32-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qsI5Hsx4XmyRlhVeGsplAoTX391WEnOv/view?usp=drive_link
    • Michel ChasseyM

      email address not recognized

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      @PeterJones Thank you now as for my other questions …
    • guy038G

      Some options of the advanced NodeBB search no longer work correctly !

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      PeterJonesP
      @guy038 , I have also noticed that, recently, the username filter in the advanced search page doesn’t populate usernames. I had thought it might have just been me. I know that @barisusakli from NodeBB occasionally logs in, and they recently updated the forum software for us… maybe that version had a bug, because the admin panel says there’s another version available since they last updated us. Until then, once you make your search, you can edit the URL to set &by=PeterJones to search for my posts (right now, the URL probably has &by= with no value). It’s not as convenient as the drop-down, but it is a workaround.
    • K

      Last Opened Files are not There when Reopening after Windows 11 Update

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      PeterJonesP
      @Karen3D , That sounds like a permissions issue… but you aren’t running in Admin mode, so usually there isn’t such a thing. What are the results of the following experiment? Exit Notepad++ delete %AppData%\Notepad++\session.xml Run Notepad++ Open 3 files Exit Notepad++ Look at %AppData%\Notepad++ Is there session.xml ? If you open it (with notepad.exe or some other editor), what are its contents What permissions does it have? Windows Right-Click properties, Security tab, click on your username, it should have all the normal permissions checkmarked, like: [image: 1791574173538-9a809e1e-abff-40ed-aa52-7df27aa9f984-image.jpeg] If it’s there, and your three files are listed, then when you next run Notepad++, it should load those files. If it does, great, problem solved. If it doesn’t, then as long as it’s not a security issue (ie, unimportant filenames/paths without secrets in the path), it would be great if you could share the contents of the session.xml, as well as confirming that your Debug Info is identical to what you shared above, and paste screenshot of your Settings > Preferences > Backup