@Jim-Dailey said:

…knickers in a wad…

A G∞FY kind of comment.

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@guy038 said:

If @donho comes along to enlighten us…

Given his level of participation here, I’d have to guess that Don doesn’t care.
And, going forward, neither do I.

@Lycan-Thrope ,
In hindsight, and after re-reading the issue, it seems that other than the app change removing the AppPosition from the config.xml file(unlikely?), @Alan-Kilborn 's suggestion would be the best for using his GoogleDrive Cloud setup with just one config.xml for multiple machines. He has already rebuffed that, so unless he reconsiders, I guess we’ll have to wait and see if his feature request gets approved and implemented. Moving on.

In the fork, @mathlete2 informed me:

While there may well be a ready-made solution somewhere within those search results, the post that contains the solution is not identifiable at a glance…

Sorry, I had intended my link to make things reasonably easy, though requiring a little effort of reading some pre-existing posts. If this had been Stack Exchange, I would have been expected to just “close as duplicate”, since the question is already answered somewhere else, but I think that’s harsh; but maybe my expecting someone to search the forum is also too harsh. (I guess even SE’s close-as-duplicate link to the original; it’s apparently time for me to stop just giving people the keywords to search for and instead just finding the exact post myself.)

is not identifiable at a glance.

I thought that the post that the preview shows as “Let’s call the script MailMerge.py” would be easily noticed by looking through those results… but I guess not.

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So here is the post I was intending for @Claudio-Raphael or anyone else to find – it presents a fully-working PythonScript solution; for those who don’t know how to make use of a solution using the PythonScript plugin, this FAQ explains the steps needed.

Sometimes these scripts for the PythonScript plugin get multiple versions, depending on customizations that people request; I don’t remember whether MailMerge has been customized one or more times in other of the search results; so if the one I linked to is not exactly the solution desired, checking out some of the other posts in that search might find alternate versions of the script which will work better in your circumstances.

TL;DR

The MailMerge.py script is here – sorry for any confusion.

@xomx

I’ll leave Windows updates on (for now) and see if the N++ situation recurs.

@mathlete2 said in Unable to see Data in the Notepad++:

FWIW, the Delete part was misleading; the actual instructions say to rename the config file, which backs it up.

You are right, they gave conflicting instructions, saying to “delete/reset” the config file, but then “actually” only saying to rename it. But in general, their advice was bad – and elsewhere, in posts that another moderater had already deleted, that person spammed with links to their own website, which I confirmed had nothing to do with Notepad++, despite claims in the spam posts that going to their website would help solve a N++ problem. They were a spammer, probably assisted with generative AI posts, both of which are forbidden here and grounds for immediate banning.

@ADe Alternatively, you can have a look at https://github.com/ThosRTanner/Docking_Dialogue_Interface/tree/master which is a library you can add as a submodule to your repo which wraps up the dialogue interface. And yes, obviously it reflects my own tastes (and strangenesses).

I used it heavily when working on https://github.com/ThosRTanner/notepad-pp-linter/

@Ramses505 said in Run multiple search and replace - one after another:

Out of interest - can I run some sort of python script that would do this as well ?

Yes. If you already know Python, the PythonScript plugin can let you automate Notepad++ with Python.

If you don’t know Python, this forum is not the place to discuss how to learn Python. There are countless tutorials on the internet for that purpose. I’ll just mention the re library and leave it at that.

@Coises,

How do you go about testing the ARM64 version? I’ve left that out of all my plugin work so far, because I haven’t a clue how to verify that it works at all.

I don’t. I’m following the time-honored tradition of releasing software untested, and hoping that any users will find edge cases for me. :-)

Given that it works as 32b and 64b on Intel processors, and I’m not doing anything that is out-of-the-ordinary, I am hoping that there aren’t any ARM64-specific bugs

@mkupper
My issue has been resolved and is not related to the advanced administrator mode.

@mkupper
Thanks, those 2 links provide reasonable “guess-timates” re: what to expect in the next release.
Murray

@Claudia-Svenson said in How to enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?:

How can I enable syntax highlighting for *.ps1 Powershell script files?

Which Theme are you using? It’s possible that your theme file is out-of-date, or that you are a using a theme that has never had the powershell highlighting added, which would prevent Notepad++ from syntax highlighting, even when it is named blah.ps1.

Please see my post here explaining why; and the User Manual’s Themes: Keeping Stylers/Themes Up-to-date entry for more.

@xomx

The problem with uncheckmarking Auto detect character encoding is that most times you want Notepad++ to autodetect the encoding.
It’s only when it does it wrongly that you don’t want it to. :-)

@Mark-Olson said:

the core developers of Notepad++ prefer Microsoft Visual Studio to Notepad++ for working on the Notepad++ source code. Make of that what you will.

That’s probably because an IDE is wanted for this work, and, as you say, Notepad++ is not the greatest IDE.

and most major programming languages (like the C or C++ it appears you are writing) have better productivity tools elsewhere.

Well, I for one have done pretty well with only Notepad++ for embedded C/C++ work, as well as Python work.

@Susan-Pemble Besides the things @PeterJones suggested you could also try double clicking the title bar area at the top of a window. That will toggle the window it between being a resizable “window” and being full screen maximized.

It may also help for you to post a screen shot of the window you are asking about much like the screen shot you made of Notepad++'s About dialog box in your first post.

@Mark-Olson

Thanks, I used that info while fixing: x64 Release binary for testing

@Mike-Albers said:

(?s)^(?:[^\r\n;];){N}.{0,3996}\r\n|^((?:[^\r\n;];){N}.{0,3996}).?\r\n|^(?:[^\r\n;]?)\r\n

Unfortunately, your regular expression was corrupted because you didn’t post it correctly.
Probably a moderator will come along and examine your “raw” original post and correct it.

Ah, right. I’ve written so many FAQ for the Community, I forgot FAQ: How do I … Convert my Text exists. That might explain things better, since it had more time put into writing it.

@Amit ,
Do keep doing your videos, though @Amit . I think it’s very helpful the way you tackle only one aspect at a time to show & tell about a subject relating to Notepad++.

@ca-bo I think you’re looking for the Fill Find Field with Selected Text option in the Searching section of the Preferences window:

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