@mpheath said in Freezing when pasting large amount of text between quotes or heredoc (language PHP):

SCI_PASTE should send a SC_MOD_BEFOREINSERT message which is why the Lua code posted uses it.

Ah, sorry. I didn’t read the details of your detailed Lua script – I had thought it was just the hooks necessary to send the single message at startup (not using the LuaScript plugin, I don’t know how much overhead/boilerplate it would require for that), so didn’t read it for enough detail to see it was handling the notification.

So yes, it looks like a fix like that would be technically feasible on N++'s side of things.

Should it be proposed as a “Performance”-tab option to Don? ie, give users the choice of which of the four values they want, and have a fifth “3 normally but 0 during paste”? Or do you think it should just stay on the scripting end of things? Or do you think N++ should just do the fancy logic and not give users the choice? (And which of us should put in the Issue? I’ve got the good STR above, but you have a much better understanding of describing the fix than I do.)

@shodanx2 ,

Placing the cursor anywhere on the window and middle-click-dragging left and right

Interesting. Apparently I am not creative enough to think of clicking on anything but the window/subwindow/panel frame to try to resize a window/subwindow/panel. Since there’s apparently utilities to enable that in other things, I guess you’re not the only one, but it’s just not something I’d ever thought of. (And sorry, in case it wasn’t obvious, unlike @Alan-Kilborn , I didn’t originally understand that you weren’t just trying a different button on the center bar between.)

Which allows me to middle click drag anywhere on a page and very quickly scroll it up and down.

That sounds very much like browser-style autoscroll features (though in those, they just click-and-release on the middle button, and that switches to autoscroll mode). And autoscroll as a feature has been rejected time after time after time(*) after time after time after time(*) (where the two *-d times were official word from the developer saying that autoscroll won’t be implemented). So while people obviously like it, the developer has made it clear it won’t be native to Notepad++.

So a script (as @Alan-Kilborn has given you hints on) or writing a plugin are the only options for your autoscroll-like behavior.

Regarding the script – if you search the forum for PythonScript and the mouse-based messages, I am guessing you’ll find an ancient script by one of the regulars here who gives an example of intercepting the mouse actions to add features to a script.

I’m guessing that GUP.exe and/or nppPluginList.dll somehow wasn’t updated before.

@JohnL22 ,

… but since it’s essentially working for you, I have taken that as confirmation that the new perl.xml is an improvement, so it’s in a Pull Request now… hopefully, it will get merged for the v8.9.1 release candidate coming next week.

update: PR has been merged,so it will be in 8.9.1

@guy038

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_COPY

copying data to the clipboard

Is document to the clipboard.

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_PASTE

pasting from the clipboard into the document

Is clipboard to the document.

Both functions relate to the document in the editor. The copy function will be good for the task though paste will not work with the search window.

Instead of SCI_PASTE, could use the Run command to run an executable to insert the clipboard text into the search window.

AutoIt3 script automate_columns++_search.au3 :

; Wait up to 3 seconds for the window. $hSearch = WinWait('Search in indicated region', '', 3) If $hSearch Then $sClip = ClipGet() ; get clipboard text ControlSetText($hSearch, '', 'Edit1', $sClip) ; set combo edit ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button7') ; click regex button ControlClick($hSearch, '', 'Button9') ; click count button $sCount = ControlGetText($hSearch, '', 'Static3') ; read label ClipPut($sCount) ; set clipboard text EndIf

Adjust the title if the window text is localized.

Compile to executable and then add to Run as a command. Get the command id with NppUISpy and insert into the shortcuts.xml file.

See that ︿ above the Name column of the Document List? Like most tabular data tools (spreadsheets, or the data tables in Wikipedia, or what have you), that indicates that the data is being sorted by that column (if you right click, and add the extension column, you can sort by either column). The sort indicator is a 3-state toggle: pointing up ︿ means it’s sorting in alphabetical order, pointing down ﹀ means it’s sorting in reverse-alphabetical, and gone means it’s sorted in the order of your tabs.

up ︿ down ﹀ none 98a5bc45-296d-41cb-8baf-635e729f540f-image.png 4b34c789-9bf5-4185-8d46-eceebbf07ced-image.png 1a0eadaa-367e-4f37-a2e0-0b84748c5cb1-image.png

Nothing changed in Notepad++ itself; you just clicked that header once (intentionally or accidentally), so it’s now sorting alphabetically, like it thought you wanted. You just have to click it two more times to get it to match the tab order.

@Justin-Goodell said in Undo/Redo (CTRL+Z/CTRL+Y) behaves unexpectedly after a few hours (NppFTP, NPP 64-bit, Win11):

use the “alt” key to highlight a chuck of text on multiple lines, then delete that section

Yep, there was that “alt” column mode +DEL undo regression (from N++ v8.8.9), some details & STR in the fix-PR:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/17307

The fix is in the already released v8.9 but due to some other problems in that version, it hasn’t been triggered for a N++ autoupdate (so if you wanna use it, you have to dl & run the v8.9 installer yourself).

@PeterKee
Do you also use N++ macros?

Currently I’ve identified another such (this time a longstanding) bug in the N++ codebase (PR fix is still in progress, it’ll be hopefully in the next version, for a STR look here).

@Ivo-Krab said in Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList:

but modifying the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins is understandably blocked without admin access.

Would it not be possible to allow (as a config choice) to install them in %APPDATA%\Notepad++ instead

The problem is that plugins in Notepad++ can do anything Notepad++ itself could do. They are C++ programs operating in the same security context as Notepad++ itself. From a security standpoint, allowing plugins in a directory that can be modified without admin access would be equivalent to allowing access to Program Files without admin access.

As I recall, that was allowed at one time, and this is why it was removed. Security-sensitive organizations determined that they could not install Notepad++ at all unless they could stop users from installing their own plugins. The developer decided it was better to remove the capacity entirely than to try to implement a switch of some kind.

The work-around, if you can run programs that are not installed in Program Files, is to use a portable copy of Notepad++. If you are not allowed to do that, then logically you would be forbidden to run Notepad++ plugins in a directory you control, since it would grant you exactly the same access.

Hello

Thank you for the responses !

@Ekopalypse

I have tried this method

After installing PythonScript, it was unclear where I could add the script

open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py

I tried
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ (no)
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins (no)
C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts (maybe)

It still wouldn’t appear, until restart (this should, auto refresh I believe, when you open configuration at least ?)

It appeared in the menu

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But not in the configuration page

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Click on Plugins->Python Script-> Scripts -> open_containing_folder_in_cmd.py
Did open cmd.exe in the right location

Ah ok, from clicking the “new” script button

The path is
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\PythonScript\scripts
The folder was not created during installation apparently !

Now it does appear !

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And yes this works !

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Thanks !

@PeterJones

Thanks for this suggestion

I gave this a try as well

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Then I edited

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\CustomizeToolbar.btn

I pasted your suggested command
changed the file to a screenshot of the cmd.exe icon I took
I also added you suggested extra space fix

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png,fRgHGCzWpi.png View,Show Symbol,Show All Characters,,Icons\allChars.bmp,Icons\allChars_off.ico,Icons\allChars_off_dark.ico

This did not work yet

I used webservice
https://www.icoconverter.com/
To create a .ico file
with these settings
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and I downloaded the 3 files from the github issues

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/standard/toolbar/allChars.bmp
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/light/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/src/icons/dark/toolbar/regular/allChars_off.ico

And I placed them in folder

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config\Icons

Restarted notepad++

The icon appears and works but the icon is wrong

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I tried these settings

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Also does not work

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also no

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also no ???

Oh wait

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

should have been

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico,Icons\cmd.ico

Icon has disappeared !

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ok, instead move the file to C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\plugins\config
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change it back to

File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.ico,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart npp

icon is back, but still question mark

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Maybe the file is not 16x16 256 colours ?

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Looks like it is as specified

Maybe something is wrong with the file …

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I’m not good enough to mentally decode this, looks normal

Hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format)

0x02 idType is 1 , which is ICO good
0x04 idCount is 1, just 1 image
0x06 ICONDIRENTRY struct

bWidth is 10 , which is width 16
bHeight is 10, which is width 16
bColorCount 0. does not use a pallette
wPlanes is 1, has color plane , whatever that is, 0 is black and white ?
wBitCount, it is 8 bit per pixel
dwBytesInRes, 1384 bytes ?? idk

…
onion.bmp,onion.ico,onion.ico

ah wait you have BMP in there ??

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File,Open Containing Folder,cmd,,cmd.bmp,cmd.ico,cmd.ico

restart

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woohoo !

Wow, I was about ready to give up there !

Thanks both of you, I will go with the CustomizeToolbar plugin as it give me that distinctive icon !