I randomly found this new meta SPDX-License-Identifier: where you can add one line. // Copyright (c) 2026 Jane Smith // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT https://spdx.org/licenses/ https://spdx.dev/learn/handling-license-info/ https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/spdx-tutorial Thought I might mention this as I have never heard of this standard. I assume it is still legal but, IANAL.

@PeterJones - There was nothing unusual that I noticed about the install. Seemed just like any other update done previously. I didn’t realize the backups could be deleted, which is why I never bothered to save. Pretty stupid, I know, but I got away with it up until this point. Anyhow, sounds like my only hope is to try and use Recuva. I’ll give that a shot and cross my fingers that it can somehow be recovered. Appreciate you taking the time to help with this!

@PeterJones Thank you very much.

@PeterJones said: I am assuming you never passed the const char configFile[] to a N++ message. I do not pass the string anywhere and it already affects the plugin acceptance. It is just declared and that is all. It might be some bug in MinGW itself but I am not able to judge. If I remove the initialization and have static const string configFile; the plugin is ok, too. In the meantime I upgraded to version 8.9.6.4 (the newest one) but it behaves the same. Is there a way how to debug what is going wrong when plugin is opened ?

@shodanx2 said: the rest of the layout redesign doesn’t have any difficulties except for some the new proposed features You and I will have to disagree on that statement, because I know I cannot convince you, and don’t feel like arguing with you anymore (hence the post that was live for a few minutes before I deleted it; it’s just not worth the effort). But at this point, I want to emphasize @Coises’ earlier suggestion: Make it a plugin at first. Try it out, take it round the block, learn the difficulties with the extra features you want, get it better, get it bulletproof. All the mockups in the world will count as nothing compared to such real-world proof. If people like it, maybe it will be to the 2020s what TextFX was to the 2010s: a plugin that a huge population of users installed, and that they still ask about a decade after the author abandoned it. But if you want suggestions start simple, with just reworking the “look and feel”, without trying to add the extra features like the live count redo your icon design: the industrial/bolted-plate design looks/feels nothing like anything else in Notepad++, so it doesn’t seem like it’s part of the same app. Design some icons similar to the Fluent toolbar icons, and it would at least fit in with one of the existing GUI options.

@henriknoren Your N++ DockingManager config is broken (IDK how this happen). But you should be able to fix it yourselves by adding two additional lines to your config.xml to have: <GUIConfig name="DockingManager" leftWidth="200" rightWidth="251" topHeight="200" bottomHeight="610"> <FloatingWindow cont="5" x="600" y="400" width="1000" height="600" /> <PluginDlg pluginName="Notepad++::InternalFunction" id="0" curr="5" prev="1" isVisible="no" /> <PluginDlg pluginName="NPPJSONViewer.dll" id="0" curr="0" prev="-1" isVisible="no" /> <PluginDlg pluginName="ComparePlus.dll" id="31" curr="1" prev="-1" isVisible="no" /> <ActiveTabs cont="0" activeTab="-1" /> <ActiveTabs cont="1" activeTab="-1" /> <ActiveTabs cont="2" activeTab="-1" /> <ActiveTabs cont="3" activeTab="-1" /> <ActiveTabs cont="5" activeTab="0" /> </GUIConfig> @peterjones IMO, it’s time to unpin this issue from the top.

@makeymalik , Longstanding known issue: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8660 From what I understand from that Issue, it’s usually related to the OS display-scaling setting in High-DPI modes. There’s a volunteer who has been slowly working through the known DPI issues, but hasn’t gotten to this one

@rspeicher452 , If you’re always on that screen for that laptop, I would recommend changing Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Default Style to use a bigger font size for the text, so that you don’t have to change the zoom. (The “zoom” feature was designed to be temporary, whereas setting the Default Style font size was designed as the perment way to set text size)

NppExec v0.8.12 has been released! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! fixed: WarningAnalyzer failed to match e.g. “%FILE%” (%LINE%) :* Get it here: https://github.com/d0vgan/nppexec/releases/tag/NppExec_v0812

MultiReplace 6.0 is out and will land in Plugin Admin with the next Notepad++ release. The focus of this release is a second formula engine: ExprTk now sits alongside Lua for math, string and conditional replacements, joined by multi-list tabs, tandem mode, and a series of UI and workflow improvements. Several new options live under Plugins > MultiReplace > Settings. Download: Latest build Key Features & Improvements New Formula Engine (ExprTk): A second engine alongside Lua for math, string and conditional replacements. Its standout is the built-in output formatter - a single declarative spec that turns any result into fixed decimals, hex/binary, padded and aligned fields, time durations or formatted dates, applied right where the value is produced. Switch per tab via the (L) / (E) indicator next to Formula Support. The ExprTk integration - the (?=...) marker and the formula functions for reading captures and earlier results - follows the approach pioneered by @Coises in Columns++. Full syntax and examples are in the ExprTk formula reference. List Tabs: Keep different replacement sets available across tabs. State is fully separate per tab. Tandem Mode: MR panel snaps to the Notepad++ window edge and follows it around. Toggle via the plugin menu. Reopen on Startup: Reopens MR automatically if it was open when you closed Notepad++. Opt-in via the plugin menu. Compact Toolbar: New top toolbar layout - more horizontal space for the list. Always Visible List: Keeps the list visible instead of collapsing when you toggle it off. Requires “Keep list always visible” enabled in Settings. Bookmark Matches: Sets a Notepad++ bookmark on every match line. Toggle via the new checkbox next to Mark Matches. Column Reorder & Lock: Drag column headers to rearrange. Right-click for “Lock column width” or “Reset Column Order”. Modified Timestamp Column: Optional column tracking the last edit per entry. A dirty-flag stripe on the left edge marks unsaved changes. Excel-Compatible CSV: Lists save in the standard CSV dialect used by spreadsheets - opens cleanly in Excel, edit there, load back without conversion. Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl+Up/Down: Move selected rows up or down (auto-repeat) Ctrl+L: Toggle list visibility from anywhere in the panel Alt+Up/Down: Round-trip between input fields and a selected row Ctrl+Shift + button click: Run from the input fields while the list stays open Ctrl+Shift+H: Pull selected editor text into Find what (optionally auto-escaped for Regex/Extended mode) [image: 1780756837071-multireplace6.png] Issues or suggestions: GitHub. Happy replacing!