Hello, @pellelin, @mpheath, and All, Oh…, @pellelin, in my previous post, I forgot to mention confidentiality and sensitive information. Of course, I completely understand why you don’t want to send me your summary file! However, if you could send me an example — even a shorter one, with any personal information removed — I’m sure I could find a suitable replacement, using regular expressions ! I only need the text’s formatting / text’s frame, not the words themselves . BR guy038

@donho no I didn’t, but the last installations worked without problems and I have not done anything in the installation folder. Anyway, the program works now, and I’m apparently the only one who experienced the problem, so no need to investigate it further. Thank you for the time taken!

@Ekopalypse said: Those are exactly the things that keep holding me back. I have no idea who came up with them, but… can’t we just fire that person? I mean, obviously I’m not the only one this affects. :-D @Ekopalypse , I appreciate your research into this, and I’ll look at it again, later, at least for dBASE. The problem, however for dBASE is it’s IDE, which is a program that is a virtual machine , and unless I can control the dBASE IDE via, say, OLE, from Notepad++, it’s going to be an impossible attempt, as far as I know. It boils down to one of the problems I’ve been having trying to get a file edited in NPP, to open inside the dBASE IDE, which, essentially runs it, since after editing, you want the file compiled and run. Sending a file to the IDE doesn’t give the option of compile only, or run only. It does both. When it does both it will attempt to compile and run the file, but the problem is that the last active directory, is still hardcoded in the environment and the .ini file (any time it starts up) for the IDE, and will open there and then throw a database error , or file location error, and not allow the file to be opened. Much like Notepad++ won’t allow changes to it’s environment and files to be changed until restarted and reloaded. Even using a slight of hand to bring up a directory file dialog box inside the IDE to allow going to the file, fails because the IDE environment STAYS in the last active directory. It requires changing that directory inside of the IDE to direct to the directory that can compile and run that file. Inside the IDE, one can compile and run, separately. Not from the outside, which I suspect is an unexpected security precaution. There might be a way to change the .ini file settings before using Run to start the application, (something I may look at) but that’s a lot of trouble for varying paths, apps…etc., for something that should be simple if the communication was easier. I’m still looking at this aspect, at least as a possible solution for opening files in the IDE to be compiled and run, and would be a step toward the Debugger, but it’s not there yet and time, as we’ve mentioned, is at a bit of a premium right now. The problem with the Notepad++ Run (as well as the Windows Run) is that the path has to be hardcoded. It doesn’t work with the NPP Run variables being passed to the commandline path to open the dBASE IDE, but even if it did, the environment doesn’t allow for that path to change the “last active directory”. I know, it’s frustrating. :-( The easiest way I can think of, to better commmunicate, is if dBASE is an OLE server that Notepad++ can connect to and allow commands to be sent to the IDE to manipulate it from inside. If that is possible, then maybe that can then be put into, say, a PythonScript inside Notepad++ to automate the process. Unfortunately, searching the Notepad++ documentation, I don’t see any mention of Notepad++ being OLE capable. As of right now, until I can either find out how to use text commands to the Debugger (which is also, an app run inside of the IDE runtime), or figure out how to use OLE with Notepad++ and the dBASE environment, communication with the standalone debugger app for dBASE will have to go on that way in the back burner. Not ruling it out or giving up, just putting it where it has to go for now, until my understanding, knowledge and capability improves. In the meantime, I need to find that person causing all these IRL chores and have a talk with them…unfortunately, I suspect if I do start having a conversation with ‘him’, people will view me crazier than they already do. :-)

@PeterJones said: Notepad++ copies the current contents of the file on disk Yes, function “Backup on save” does exactly that, it’s not suitable. I need to save the current version of an open document. I will use third-party software to save a copy of the file on external flash disk to the specified directory on the PC. Writing plugins for Notepad++ is very interesting, but there is absolutely no time for it. Thank you.

@PeterJones - Yes! It works that way for me, too. That’s the magic bullet - have Windows to add it to the Open With list, which triggers creating the file in AutomaticDestinations\ which will then start collecting file names. I now have my jump list back. Thanks for helping me puzzle this through. I have a few files that I use daily and this makes my work flow much more efficient.

@xomx , Dave Bowman: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL. " HAL: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” [image: 488a3017b34fe587.png]

@PeterJones Hi Peter, No there is only ever the 2 forms of the lines. I usually applut a lex sort then remove duplicate lines. So I would end up with: G7ODA,IO93WS, G7ODA,IO93WS,PE, P01AZ,IO55WS, P01AZ,IO55WS,XY, I can sort again after as that takes split second. Thanks for the suggestion, I shall try that.

@peterjones Yes, mostly the issue is for end user. Thanks for complete explanation!

@Taras-Tkachenko , No version of Notepad++ has such a button on the tabs bar. There is one on the far right of the menu bar (beyond the ? menu): [image: 1780441214049-dbd16aed-078a-4380-be71-254794b615fc-image.jpeg] That one can be turned off using Settings > Prefeerences > General, where there’s a setting ☐ Hide right shortcuts ＋ ▼ ✕ from the menu bar – if you checkmark that, and restart, then it will hide those three symbols. Notepad++ never sets that option by default, so maybe you accidentally set it at some point. If it’s checkmarked, just uncheckmark it, and restart, and those three buttons will be back. But, again, Notepad++ doesn’t have a similar button on the tabbar (and never has). You can, however, double-click to the right of the tabs, and it will create a new tab without needing to find the symbol [image: 1780441370585-7b98eeb8-54c3-49c2-bb2c-1ca8c9df8891-image.jpeg] User Manual on related topics: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#general https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-interface/#tabs

@Em776102 , There’s nothing to stop you from being inspired by Notepad++ to make an android app that behaves similarly. And there’s nothing to stop you from trying to use the Notepad++ source code to make an android app that behaves similarly (though it’s not going to be easy, as the Win32 API is completely different than what you need on mobile, and Notepad++ is win32-api through-and-through). But if you try to publish it as “Notepad++ for Android”, you will find yourself in trouble, because while the code of Notepad++ is open source, that doesn’t mean that the “Notepad++” trademark is free for you to use.

Explained with a proposed fix at https://github.com/ffes/nppsnippets/issues/77#issuecomment-4602799602

@jabcreations said: The only “people” using 800x600 these days are bots. That’s an absurd exaggeration. Whether or not there’s anyone on 800x600, there are plenty of people still using 1920x1080 monitors. (In case you don’t believe me, per April 2026 Steam HW/SW survey, more than 50% of Steam users are running at 1920x1080. So it’s still reasonable behavior for more than half of users – and that’s skewed toward gamers, who are more likely to have “fancy” tech; I am confident that in general, even higher percentage is still using 1920x1080.) Did I miss something or does this need to be a feature request? Could it be improved for 4K users? Likely (I’ve never used a 4K monitor, so I have no experience). There’s a long-open set of 4K issues in the official tracker, and it wouldn’t surprise me if this were already one of the open issues remaining… You might want to search the 4K issues in the repo to see if it already exists. But in the meantime, what’s your OS display scaling set to. Normally, with 4K, it’s somewhere in the 150% to 200%, IIRC from other posts. But if you’re at 100%, then of course GUI elements will be tiny.

@Geoff-Taylor , That is the effect of one of the “security fixes” that prompted v8.9.6.1’s existence. See my reply to see more of the implications of the security changes, and note the discussion it spawned

@Bernard said: this is to request feature id est Folder Workspace responds to clicks on line containing file name if the click is on blank area beyond end of file name . Interesting idea. I see no harm in asking for it. However, this is the Community of Notepad++ users. Our feature request FAQ explains the process for checking for existing requests and adding a new request if it doesn’t already exist.

@smcclosr said: Not 100% user if this version addressed this specific issue, It almost definitely did not. The changes between 8.9.6 and 8.9.6.1, as announced in the forum and by looking at the git-diff at GitHub, were completely related to vulnerability fixes (COPYDATASTRUCT, removing commandLineInterpreter hidden config file option, and making it harder for saved-Run-menu entries from shortcuts.xml to run apps from non-approved directories), and do not seem in any way related to OneDrive. (And least, I don’t see how any of them could affect saving of files to OneDrive) My guess was the change in v8.9.6 that changed behavior relative to v8.9.5 was the “saving dirty read-only files” fix (but that’s just a guess… and it wasn’t changed/reverted in v8.9.6.1, so that doesn’t seem a plausible explanation for your experience.) but it is resolved for me now. Hopefully it stays that way. Good luck.

In a humorous anecdote, I just rejected an AI spam post that titled itself (translated from the original language): “AI Super Student”. If all AI bots would be kind enough to announce themselves as AI, that will make our jobs as moderators so much easier. Thank you. ;-)

Hi, All, From the @pellelin’s post, here is an improvement of my previous post : I now added the complete path of each file , followed with a \ character and the file name ! Once any Search Results panel is displayed : Hit the Ctrl + A shortcut Hit the Ctrl + C shortcut Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N ) Paste the Search Results contents in this new tab ( Ctrl + V ) Run the option Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order ( IMPORTANT ) Now, open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) Uncheck all box options FIND (?-si)^\tLine\x20+(\d+)(?=(?s:.+?)^\x20\x20(\u:.*\\.+)(?=\x20\())|^\x20\x20\u.+\R REPLACE ?2\2\t\1\t Check the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Replace All button Now, re-run the Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order option ( IMPORTANT ) Finally, save this new tab for future study within N++ or Excel ! Now, @pellelin, if you don’t have already the Columns++ plugin installed in your configuration, I kindly advice you to install it ! After installation of this plugin, close and re-open Notepad++ First, run the Plugins > Columns++ > Elastic tabstops option Then run the Plugins > Columns++ > Convert tabs to spaces option Now, in order to right-aligned the line numbers, do the following regex replacement : FIND (\d+)(\x20*)(?=\x20:\x20) REPLACE \2\1 With the same parameters, in the Replace dialog, than above ! For example, I did a search of the word the, whatever its case, in Normal mode, on any .txt file of an USB key Search "the" (77312 hits in 507 files of 590 searched) [Normal] I got an INPUT file of 51,5544 lines for about 10,2 Mb And, after the above process : Reverse line order Regex Replacement Reverse line order Which took 82s, I got an OUTPUT file of 51,047 lines, for about 12,2 Mb, with Complete file path, Line number and Text, all aligned [image: 1780319031552-b25954ec-283c-4b15-9603-bf0d370d3c2d-image.jpeg] Best Regards, guy038 P.S. : In this version, I didn’t report the number of hits. If this information matters too, just ask me about it !

@Abdellah-Hss Hello thanks for this input, I thought I had to provide all system versions in order to be accepted to admin plugin list. Today I’ve added ARM64 version and will fork the admin list to update it asap. Thanks for the feedback I actually didn’t know the way to publish it via official channel. Hopefully once I get through with this process it will make the list and be easier accesible. Edit I’ve just added the plugin to official list on x86, x64 and ARM64. Till the next update you can only install it via dll or bat installer I provided on github.