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.

Tabs v spaces As Peter said, the most important part is consistency. Mixing tabs and spaces together makes no one happy. I will throw out a couple arguments for tabs here: Indentation of code, markup language, et. cetera is meant to show the structure of whatever. Tabs are a logical, structural element. Spaces are physical. Different users may want different sizes of indentation. If i want 4 character indentation and my coworker wants 2, tabs can be set to show our preferred width. Seems for the most part that spaces are winning out though.

Hello, @alan-kilborn, You said : For clarity for future readers of this thread, which method is this one? I was referring to these steps : First, run a Edit > Blank Operations > TAB to Space option Then run the regex replacement below, where C represents the maximum number of chars after you want a line-break : SEARCH [\x20\r\n]*\z|(?-s)^(?=.{C+1,}).{1,C}\K(?:\x20*\R|\x20+) REPLACE \r\n for Windows files    or    \n for Unix files Finally, run a Edit > Blank operations > Trim Trailing Space option You then said : And, because I’m currently away from my Notepad++ and can’t try it myself, why are these "must be OFF"s? I must apologize because I was mistaken ! I did some other tests and it happens that the status of the View > Word wrap does not matter But I confirm that showing the line-endings chars breaks the correct spliting of text when using the Edit > Line Operations > Split Lines option STR : In Settings > Preferences... > Margins/Border/Edge > Vertical Edge Settings insert the value 78 , ONLY For clarity, just uncheck the View > Word wrap option and the View > Show Symbol option Paste the beginning of the License.txt file, below, in a new tab : COPYING -- Describes the terms under which Notepad++ is distributed. A copy of the GNU GPL is appended to this file. IMPORTANT NOTEPAD++ LICENSE TERMS Copyright (C)2021 Don HO <don.h@free.fr>. This program is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; Version 3 with the clarifications and exceptions described below. This guarantees your right to use, modify, and redistribute this software under certain conditions. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. ****************************************************************** GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. Now, in the new tab, select all this text with Ctrl + A Run the Edit > Line Operations > Slipt Lines or Ctrl + I option => You should get the text below : COPYING -- Describes the terms under which Notepad++ is distributed. A copy of the GNU GPL is appended to this file. IMPORTANT NOTEPAD++ LICENSE TERMS Copyright (C)2021 Don HO <don.h@free.fr>. This program is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; Version 3 with the clarifications and exceptions described below. This guarantees your right to use, modify, and redistribute this software under certain conditions. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. ****************************************************************** GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. Now, undo, with Ctrl + Z, the last action in order to return to the unwrapped text again Click on the ¶ icon or run the View > Show Symbols > Show All Characters option RE-select all contents of the new tab Run again the Edit > Line Operations > Slipt Lines or Ctrl + I option => This time, you should get this text : COPYING -- Describes the terms under which Notepad++ is distributed. A copy of the GNU GPL is appended to this file. IMPORTANT NOTEPAD++ LICENSE TERMS Copyright (C)2021 Don HO <don.h@free.fr>. This program is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; Version 3 with the clarifications and exceptions described below. This guarantees your right to use, modify, and redistribute this software under certain conditions. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. ****************************************************************** GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. And, obviously, these two texts are quite different ! Test done with a portable N++ v8.9.8 - 64 bits installation ! Best Regards guy038

@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

@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.

Hi, @thomas-knoefel and All, For these Search Results : Search "Fi" (27 010 hits in 646 file(s)) [1 153 file(s) searched], I got, successively, using your valuable instructions : 1 m 13 s 78, then 1 m 10 s 85 and finally 1 m 11 s 06 when LoadThreads="auto" 1 m 25 s 78 and 1 m 26 s 39 when LoadThreads="0" 1 m 09 s 54 and 1 m 09 s 55 when LoadThreads="8" So, the two tests with LoadThreads="8" seem very slightly better !? Note that : From Laptop documentation, my processor is an Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 2.80 Ghz (up to 4.7 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ) 12 MB L3 cache, 4 cores 8 logical processors From informations système, I saw for Processeur : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz, 2803 MHz, 4 cœur(s), 8 processeur(s) logique(s) Total installed RAM : 32 Gb This explain why I wanted to test with 8 threads. But, may be this assumption is not pertinent ! ? Best Regards, guy038

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

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

@PeterJones Good info on StyleID, thanks.

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