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  • Troglo37T

    How Do I Get Rid of the Line in the Margin When I Type Something?

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    Troglo37T
    @mpheath Okay, I’ll check it out. Thanks.
  • Dean-CorsoD

    How to normalize fancy Unicode text back to regular text?

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    PeterJonesP
    The answer, as far as Notepad++ is concerned, is “use the PythonScript solutions already presented, or similar, and/or the plugins mentioned.” People can use keywords found here to do their own web searches, if they want more background information. So I’m not sure there’s more that needs to be said, here. Looking at the history of this topic on the moderator/admin side of things, this topic (and similar ones, some of which have already been locked) is a “honeypot” for users trying to do links to their “fancy text generator” websites, and we don’t want this forum to be just a link farm to external sites. As such, and because the original conversation had completed 3 years ago, I am locking this topic.
  • Michael MankiewiczM

    Vertical tabs with horizontal text?

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    PeterJonesP
    This discussion does have something that the Issue doesn’t: the explicit list of limitations/improvements to the Document List that would need to be implemented to make it an acceptible alternative. @yellowasterisk said: Highlighting the opened tab as in the tab bar (with colored top etc.). Color would be nice. But as @alan-kilborn pointed out, it does show the “selected” bar on the active Document when you’re working in the editor side of things. And true, if you click in the empty space in the Document List, it de-highlights that… but I’m not sure that’s unexpected, so probably color would be better. Option to drag the tab. You cannot drag (yet), though #13961, #7690, and #2221 are all open requests for the drag-the-tab. If someone wanted to successfully code that (vibe or otherwise), meeting all the requirements in CONTRIBUTING.md, that would be awesome, since it’s literally been a request since 2016. As a workaround, as mentioned in this comment, and as I reiterated in this comment, the Ctrl+Shift+PageUp/PageDown shortcuts for View > Tab > Move Tab Backward/Forward do work, even when the Document List panel has focus: so if you click on the tab you want to move, instead of dragging, you can Ctrl+Shift+PageXXX to move it around in the list. For long lists, you can hold the combo to just wait while it progresses through the long list. (And if you assign keys to the View > Tab > Move to Start/End actions in Shortcut Mapper, you can use those shortcuts there, as well.) Option to enlarge vertical tabs, like the current horizontal tabs with ‘Reduce’ option unchecked. Admittedly, this doesn’t exist. (update: deleted portions of my reply that were basically replica’s of @alan-kilborn’s response from Jan 2025)
  • S

    dark theme preference on main website doesn't work as expected.

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    Lycan ThropeL
    @shocked-gamer , @peterjones is right. I only use Firefox myselff, and it’s in dark mode right now…however, you have to be signed in. For instance, I always sign out. When I do, the light theme comes back on, until I again, sign in. I believe it’s linked into your account, and it apparently works, or it wouldn’t go dark after I’ve signed in.
  • donhoD

    Notepad++ release 8.9.8.1

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    CoisesC
    @Xuân-Thơ-HOÀNG said: @Coises Notepad++ v8.9.8.1 appears to misdetect a valid UTF-8 file without BOM as OEM 855. The file contains valid UTF-8 multibyte characters and can be decoded successfully as UTF-8. When “Autodetect character encoding” is disabled, closing and reopening Notepad++ correctly identifies the file as UTF-8. Re-enabling autodetection causes the same file to be detected as OEM 855 again. For example, string UTF8 Ok but incorrect auto-detection: 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 Just my personal opinion, not any sort of “official Notepad++ position”: Autodetect character encoding is an accident waiting to happen. There is no way to consistently and accurately detect character encoding on Windows, because Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, did not choose to store the character encoding of a file in any sort of metadata. If you really have many files with different legacy character encodings, you will have to intervene manually to get correct results. There is no way around it. Autodetect character encoding might or might not reduce the number of cases where you must manually select the correct encoding, but sometimes it will be wrong. You can use the Encoding | Character sets menu to select the correct encoding before you modify the document in any way. More common is to have just two potentially ambiguous cases: so-called “ANSI,” meaning the system default code page, and UTF-8 with no byte order mark. Outside of contrived examples and files that were supposed to be UTF-8 but contain invalid byte sequences, it is easy to tell those two apart with a very high rate of accuracy. (However, Notepad++ has a bug that can cause UTF-8 files to be mis-detected as ANSI.) That works better if you do not check Autodetect character encoding.
  • K

    Last Opened Files are not There when Reopening after Windows 11 Update

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    PeterJonesP
    @Karen3D , That sounds like a permissions issue… but you aren’t running in Admin mode, so usually there isn’t such a thing. What are the results of the following experiment? Exit Notepad++ delete %AppData%\Notepad++\session.xml Run Notepad++ Open 3 files Exit Notepad++ Look at %AppData%\Notepad++ Is there session.xml ? If you open it (with notepad.exe or some other editor), what are its contents What permissions does it have? Windows Right-Click properties, Security tab, click on your username, it should have all the normal permissions checkmarked, like: [image: 1791574173538-9a809e1e-abff-40ed-aa52-7df27aa9f984-image.jpeg] If it’s there, and your three files are listed, then when you next run Notepad++, it should load those files. If it does, great, problem solved. If it doesn’t, then as long as it’s not a security issue (ie, unimportant filenames/paths without secrets in the path), it would be great if you could share the contents of the session.xml, as well as confirming that your Debug Info is identical to what you shared above, and paste screenshot of your Settings > Preferences > Backup
  • RWieber79R

    NotePad++ crashes using compare plus immediately after clicking compare

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    Echoing what @Lycan-Thrope said — it is worth trying the GDI workaround before settling on the old Compare plugin, because that older plugin is no longer maintained and can develop incompatibilities with newer Notepad++ releases. To try the fix suggested earlier in this thread: go to Settings > Preferences > MISC., find the rendering-mode drop-down (DirectWrite is the default), switch it to GDI, then fully restart Notepad++ and run the same comparison again. The crash appears tied to how ComparePlus draws its difference highlighting under DirectWrite, so GDI sidesteps it. Two extra things worth checking if it still crashes: Test with all other plugins removed, in case something else interacts with it (XML Tools was installed alongside ComparePlus in the original report here). Check whether file size or shape matters — try a small pair of files first, then the large XML files, to see whether size plays a role. If you get a chance, please report back whether the GDI switch helped. The plugin author said a reworked ComparePlus is on the way that should fix the DirectWrite problem, so a data point either way helps everyone following this thread.