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  • Michael MankiewiczM

    Vertical tabs with horizontal text?

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    PeterJonesP
    It looks like @LucaSorvillo took me up on the recommendation: Created new Issue #18496 , so there’s an “open issue” to PR against Created PR#18497 to implement it as a sub-option of the Tab Bar > Behavior > Vertical option
  • 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.
  • Troglo37T

    Is There A Way To Retrieve My Settings

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    PeterJonesP
    @Troglo37 , It’s much too late now, but for “open all tabs”, Notepad++ has the session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak, which should be one version of your session file out of date (for example, my session file is dated yesterday at 7:13pm, and my corruption-backup is from 2:37pm that same day). So, in the future, if you open Notepad++, and it doesn’t have all your old session files open, before doing anything (before closing Notepad++ or trying to save or load anything), make a copy of session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to tryme.session.xml so it won’t be overwritten, exit Notepad++, rename session.xml to bad-session.xml, copy tryme.session.xml to session.xml, and start Notepad++: that should take your in-case-of-corruption session as your active session … so if the previous time you exited and started was good, you should be back to that session. That won’t fix your corrupted stylers (colors). Unless you had a recent change in one off your Style Configurator settings, I am surprised Notepad++ was trying to write to your stylers.xml, because it only tries to write it if there was a change. But maybe the reboot process confused some bit in memory making Notepad++ think it needed to.
  • 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.
  • Troglo37T

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

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    @mpheath Okay, I’ll check it out. Thanks.
  • CoisesC

    Search++: A work in progress

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    Search++ version 0.7.2 is available Additional known bugs thus far: Show only lines with shown text, and the Reset button in the Expand visible dialog, do not restore hidden line markers correctly. That’s a simple omission which will be fixed in the next release. Some Search++ operations that affect hidden lines do not take into account the possibility that the hidden and shown lines and the markers in the margin that indicate hidden lines can fall out of sync. If the same file is opened in both views, Search++ affects hidden/visible lines only in the view which is active, but the markers are changed in both views. In Scintilla, markers and fold points are properties of the document, but hidden lines and whether a given fold is expanded or contracted are properties of the view. Because Notepad++ uses markers to keep track of hidden lines and to implement the ability to show them again, there’s a bit of a conflict. In principle, it should be impossible to have lines shown in one view and not in the other, except when the only thing hiding lines is collapsed fold points. As far as I can tell, Notepad++ doesn’t let you hide or show lines in one view of the document without the same thing happening in the other view, so long as you use only native Notepad++ commands. However, it’s useful to be able to have one view showing the entire document and another showing only lines of interest, and I don’t want to break that. The extent of problems this might cause is not yet known. For now, expect surprises if you open the same document in both views and use any of the Search++ features that affect hidden lines.
  • 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.
  • Michael FuerstM

    Bold text

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    Yes, you can get bold/italic text directly into Notepad++. As Coises explained, those “bold” letters aren’t formatting at all; they’re ordinary Unicode characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Notepad++ is a plain-text editor, so it can’t do rich-text bold, but it handles these Unicode characters like any other text — you can type, paste, search and replace them. Two easy ways to insert them without a website: Edit > Character Panel, then double-click the characters you want. Type the character’s hex code point and press Alt+X to convert it (e.g. 1D44E for 𝑎). If you’d rather convert longer passages in one go, a fancy text generator turns plain text into dozens of stylish Unicode fonts — bold, italic, script and more — ready to copy into Notepad++ or Facebook. Just keep in mind what Coises said: they’re still plain characters underneath, so editing them afterwards means retyping or regenerating that part.
  • Patrick DanileviciP

    Save as .md default

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    PeterJonesP
    Years later, I finally had the time to figure out how to implement “UDL as Default Language” for PR#18499 to close my Issue #11097 and related Issues. It was just just merged, so will be in the upcoming v8.9.9 RC
  • donhoD

    v8.9.9 Release Candidate will be available in one week

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  • 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.