Hi, @coises, First of all, sorry for the typo. I did mean : As an example, I chose to show all lines containing the the property string, with this exact case, in the ICU.txt file ! You’re perfectly right about the bug. It occurs only when the Always hide all lines and remove Show style from text before Show command option, in the Settings dialog is unchecked After checking this option in the Setting dialog, I could easily verify, with the ICU.txt file, that the 13 green markers were there, along with the 13 lines containing the the property string I also noted that, right after you just show these 13 lines, clicking in the margin right below the line 1183 just displays the remaining lines of the ICU.txt file ! I think that behavior is normal because if you then click on the marker of the 1183 line, it then also displays all lines between lines 1164 and 1183. Moreover, if after showing these 13 lines, in the ICU.txt file, you switch to an other tab, then switch back to the ICU.txt file, this time, it also displays a triangular green marker in the last line 2132 of the file ! Finally, as you said, I could verify that the markers : Were not restored at all after a click on the Reset button which follows a click on the Expand button Were not completly restored after a click on the Reset button which follows a click on the Expand before or Expand after button Were correctly preserved if you immediately click on the Reset button However, the Show only lines with shown text in the Tools dialog seem to work properly, even after switching tabs : lines to show and markers seem preserved ! Best Regards, guy038

@Lycan-Thrope said: Did you make the change permanent No. I made an Issue, so Don can fix it. I don’t have write access to the main website. Update: Oh, I see, after I went through the approvals, that @myfancytextgenerator already guessed that mine was just an issue.

@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

@guy038 The testing looks better. If the Change History -> Show in text option is checked then can see changes to a character for more detail. No need to retest and repost images to show the indicators. A change of the regex pattern to: Find: (?-s)^(?=.{79}).{1,78}\K\x20(?!\R) Replace: \r\n and then press the Replace All button. It does replace less as it does not capture and so only the \x20 space is matched. Unfortunately, it will read the line to length of 79 and then read the line again if line is 79 to continue the pattern so might be slower then your previous tested pattern. The (?=.{79}) is needed to ensure shorter lines are not matched for wrapping. The (?!\R) is probably optional to have in the pattern as it is limited to detecting trailing spaces. Since the pattern uses \K, then the Replace button is not expected to function properly to step through the replacements. The text comparison in my testing shows the regex patterns achieve equal results which seems to be fortunate. That test was done on license.txt.

@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.

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

Hi guy038, interesting series of runs, thanks! Both runs without threads, the 2 m one and most likely the 1 m 28 s one too (see below), are slower than the 1 m 13 s with auto. So the threads do help on your key, even if cold runs vary quite a bit. Yes, the quotes are expected. LoadThreads is stored as text because it can also be "auto", and the quotes are removed when the file is read, so 0 and "0" mean the same. What changed your 8 back to 0 is something else: MultiReplace reads its INI file once at startup and, once its panel has been opened, writes all its settings back when Notepad++ closes. An edit made in the meantime is therefore overwritten on exit. So your 1 m 28 s run most likely still used LoadThreads=0. To test 8: change the line either in Notepad++ before opening MultiReplace, or with another editor while Notepad++ is closed. Then restart Notepad++, and the new value is used. Curiously, in my experience with other tools, four to six parallel threads were always the optimum.

For the reference: I’ve created https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/18554.

@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.

@mpheath Okay, I’ll check it out. Thanks.

@T.I-Digital-Solutions said: I mainly use Notepad++ for working with HTML, checking page source, and making quick edits during SEO tasks, so I was curious about features that could make those jobs easier. With those specifics, then I’d say good plugins to try would be HTML Tag, Preview HTML, and XMLTools. UDL is not useful for HTML, because the HTML lexer that’s built into Notepad++ is better than anything that the simple User Defined Language system can handle. But if you also deal with the server configuration files (like .htaccess files), then the UDL Collection has a UDL available for Htaccess, for example.

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

Hi everyone, I owe the community an apology. My reply in this thread linked to my own website — that was self-promotional and inappropriate for this forum. The question deserved a straight answer without any link attached. I’m sorry, and it won’t happen again. Thank you to the moderators for keeping this place clean.

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

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

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

@Alan-Kilborn Hi, Yes I’m using tab setting of 2. The problem seems to be weirder that just application processing tab characters differently because it’s not uniform. Like I said, in Notepad++, I have the same amount of tabs per line for clean formatting of my CSS file. Yet in the WP portal, the lines will have different amount of tabs/spaces, not all uniformly different by the same amount. For example, this is how it might appear in NP++ . div { (2 spaces)display: block; (2 spaces)font-family: Arial; (2 spaces)text-align: right; (2 spaces)font-size: 20px; } In WordPress, it might look like this: . div { (2 spaces)display: block; (8 spaces)font-family: Arial; (4 spaces)text-align: right; (4 spaces)font-size: 20px; } Note: I had to represent the spaces in brackets as the forum editor removes them from my post.

@PeterJones Good info on StyleID, thanks.