@ILoveSkilledCoders said: Unfortunately I don’t understand some of what you said. I am sorry. I thought that explaining to go someplace in Windows explorer and rename files would be easy enough to understand. I cannot make it easier to understand than that. I’m trying to find someone to help explain it to me. & I don’t know what you didn’t understand, so I cannot explain more. to edit those files b/c I don’t want to screw things up & make it worse. I didn’t say to edit any files. I said to rename/copy files. I have no idea if I was in admin mode when I updated. That’s unfortunate. … someone told me you came out with the numbers that tell us how many search results there are, … & then which number result we are on after we press “enter.” I need that so I got excited & updated. Unfortunately it’s not in the Ctrl F search window as I found out. That’s with Search > Inremental Search which brings up the Incremental Search Bar at the bottom of the screen. That’s a simplified version of the search which has always been there, but recently the “live count” was added to the Incremental Search I think I learned years ago that you have to click on Ctrl S at least once to save each file, Each time you hit Ctrl+S on a file, it saves it. That’s the only time that Notepad++ saves it to the given directory. If you only hit Ctrl+S on each file once, then it only saved it once in that directory. The “session snapshot and periodic backup” feature of Notepad++ does not save the file to the normal location. It saves it to the backup directory which I referenced before. In the future: If you want to automatically save your updated/edited files without hitting Ctrl+S or File > Save or the Save or Save All button on the toolbar, you would need to install and configure the AutoSave plugin, as described in the FAQ I linked you to. If you don’t want to install and configure that plugin, then you will have to learn to Save your files on your own. but I had them all saved at one point, otherwise they wouldn’t have been in that Notepad++ folder, so I have no idea what happened. You saved them once, and only once. Never again. That’s what happened. On another note, off & on since the update, I keep getting this error, & then there’s another question after this one which I forgot to take a SS of. https://nimb.ws/i9V1zXa Just paste the image into your post: you don’t need to upload it to a service. [image: 1785784094594-115d78d2-de07-43ff-a056-e06450858f4d-image.jpeg] That means some other program had updated Links.txt since the time you opened it in Notepad++. Your choices are to say “YES”, which will read the copy from disk, and get rid of all your edits, or to say “NO” and overwrite whatever is on disk with what’s currently visible in Notepad++. Which choice is right depends on your computer, and we cannot tell you which is right for you to choose. Also, when I click on Ctrl. F, most of the time it doesn’t highlight & place my cursor in the text field so I can type a new keyword. I had no problems with the other one. That’s controlled on Settings > Preferences > Searching, with the Fill Find Field with Selected Text checkbox and the Max Characters to Auto-Fill... number field. Going back to your original problem: you have probably opened and closed Notepad++ too many times for my file-rename procedure to be of any help. So ignore that part for now. Instead, you will need to open your Windows Explorer (WinKey + E – I believe that worked even back in Win7 days), and then paste %AppData%\Notepad++\backup into the Location Bar of the Explorer window. If your Win7 doesn’t show the explorer bar, then you will have to manually go to C:\users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\backup\ in Windows Explorer. In that directory, there may or may not be a bunch of files with names similar to filename.ext@yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss, where filename.ext is the name of the real file, and the yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss is a timestamp that Notepad++ used. If you have a bunch of those, you can copy those to some safe, temporary directory, and then open all those copies in Notepad++. Look through them, If any of them have the data you want for your real files, then save them to the correct filename in D:\Notes\Notepad++. Close any of them you don’t want. Leave the ones open that you saved to D:\Notes\Notepad++. In the future, either use Ctrl+S (or the menu or toolbar equivalent) to save the file when you’ve made an important change, or set up the AutoSave plugin to save your files for you. If you have difficulty setting up AutoSave after reading the FAQ, please let us know which step of the FAQ you are on and having difficulty with. But I’m not going to type step-by-step instructions for you here, because those instructions are already in the FAQ, and it would be a waste of everyone’s time for it to be typed again here.

@PeterJones ok man Thank you, the method worked.

@Coises said: I might be missing something. Do you find that it is not obvious enough in the document window itself when lines are hidden (the horizontal lines where the hidden lines are)? Thanks for your hint; I see, the mistake is on my side! I use a different background color and my eyes are getting older ;-) Therefore I did not see the lines between the text: My configuration vs. Default theme: [image: 1785264398025-b4c2960d-2d83-4c60-a13b-064ce8ffdd81-image.jpeg] / [image: 1785264414096-3749de5d-cf73-4ea2-ad28-54e459e8bf8d-image.jpeg] Now I know where to look. Good point. I will fix that — not necessarily in the very next release, but I will fix it. I know you have a lot of topics on your list that are much more urgent. For me it is a ‘nice to have’. Thanks for your help.

@BlackX777 , That was brought to the developer’s attention in the repo issues last week. Unfortunately, take-down requests can take time.

moderator aside: I approved the above post after removing what was likely just a spam URL. I am doubtful that the OP actually intended it as anything but an excuse to drive traffic to their 3DS site. But the questions asked aren’t completely out of the realm of general interest for a Notepad++ forum, so I decided to sanitize the post and let it stay, in case it drives actual discussion. Changed the Topic Title to be more generic, to match what’s on-topic for this forum. @mohsin-raza , Those workflow steps all seem reasonable to do in Notepad++. Comparing different versions of articles before publishing. I definitely use the Compare++ plugin to compare files: if you’re using Git or SVN for version control, it even has the ability to do the equivalent of git-diff or svn-diff, without having to manually have two copies with different versions of the same file, so you can see how the file has changed since your last commit, which is quite useful. use Notepad++ for large documentation projects outside of software development. I mean, there are plenty of people who use Notepad++ for making websites. There are some users here who pester us with a gazillion questions on how to edit raw HTML with regex (even though regex isn’t the best tool, since HTML is too free-form for most regex to work effectively). And I use Notepad++ for editing the Markdown of the Notepad++ User Manual. But I don’t do much “fancy” outside of normal Notepad++ usage (with the occasional MarkdownViewer++ to preview the rendered version of the Markdown… though since we use hugo, I actually use hugo to render to HTML and view it in my browser instead, because of hugo’s special features that MarkdownViewer++ doens’t render properly) Do you use any plugins … Depending on the underlying language/filetype of the documentation: HTML ⇒ there are plenty of plugins helpful with HTML – just use Plugins Admin and type in HTML, and it will step through some. Though one of the most useful would be XML Tools, which can help with pretty-printing Markdown ⇒ there are multiple plugins for helping with Markdown: there are some “preview” tools which render your markdown into a panel inside the Notepad++ window, for example. Again, typing Markdown in the search bar in Plugins Admin will give you some ideas GitSCM ⇒ allows you to integrate Git version control actions inside the Notepad++ interface, so you don’t have to drop to the command line or using a git GUI in Windows Explorer custom themes Themes are just the color sets for the builtin languages. Everyone has different preferences as to what colors “look best” to their eyes. I don’t understand how you could think “custom themes” would help; would you care to explain/expound on that? Did you mean “custom User Defined Languages [UDL]”, which allows custom keyword-based syntax highlighting? Then, depending on what languages/format you are using for the text of the documentation, some might help. Notepad++ already ships with a Markdown UDL, but if you don’t like the colors that ship with N++, you can always edit the UDL to choose different colors. And, since it’s a UDL, if you don’t like the decisions that were used for how to apply keyword-based styling to something that’s more punctuation-based, you can play with alternatives. If you have an underlying language/format for your file that’s not found int he Languages list, you should consider looking at the UDL Collection repository, which collects user-submitted UDL, and many languages have one or more user-submitted UDL (and some have associated functionList and autoCompletion definitions). The CollectionInterface plugin (available thru Plugins Admin) can make it easier to install such a UDL (especially with the FL or AC additions) rather than manually trying to figure out where to put each of those files. But all-in-all, your post seems so generic and vague that I’m not convinced that you didn’t just use an AI with a prompt like “pretend I use [INSERT TEXT EDITOR NAME HERE] to edit my documentation, and write a post for me that adds a link to [WEBSITE URL AND NAME HERE] in something that they won’t mark as spam/off-topic”. If that’s what you did, you failed, because we didn’t include your spam link in your post. Please read the rules of this forum before posting more spam. If your future posts – to this topic, or any other topic in this forum – try to re-include links to your site, or other sites you might want to advertize, you will be banned. Other posts in this discussion which include links to sites not related to Notepad++ will also be blocked and their users banned. If this topic just devolves into an attempted honeypot, where the only posts are people trying to violate these restrictions, the topic will be locked.

Corrupted Session Starting in Notepad++ v8.6.5, it will store session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak next to session.xml, and will automatically use that if session.xml is corrupted. However, if you ever find that you open Notepad++ (especially after an update or a system crash) and find that the files opened weren’t in the same state as when you let them, you can try this procedure: Exit Notepad++ Windows Explorer, go to %AppData%\Notepad++ (or in your appropriate config-file location if you aren’t using AppData for config) Rename session.xml to session.xml--keep Copy session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to session.xml Run Notepad++ → If it’s now showing the right copy of your files, great! If not, exit Notepad++, delete session.xml, and rename session.xml--keep back to session.xml .

1.2.2 Syntax highlighting PowerShell Improved absolute, relative, quoted and unquoted paths colors [image: 1785402977913-paths.png] Improved variables interpolation colors [image: 1785402952228-interpolation.png] [image: 1785402954396-interpolation4.png] Added colors for expressions $(..), ${..} Added registry hives colors (HKLM, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, …) Fixed syntax highlighting Fixed variables colors inside paths and quotes Fixed excessive colors of variables, keywords, and functions enclosed in quotes Fixed unexpected sc.. and vk.. colors in AutoHotkey code Disabled colors for variables inside single quotes ' ' (because single quotes prevents var. interpolation)

I found a plugin that solves this problem. https://github.com/numbereleven-a/NotepadPP_AltShiftMenuFix

@PeterJones said: @Kiichiro-Matsushita, welcome to the Notepad++ Community. You said: I tried tinkering with the Style Configurator, to no avail… You don’t tell us which theme you are starting with. You don’t tell us what you tried in the Style Configurator. One would think if you really wanted help, you would give us more to work with. That said, I will give the following advice: How do I change those? Using Style Configurator, after you’ve set your theme, you can choose the Global Styles in the first column, and choose the Current Line Background settings (second column) to change the “you are on this line” highlight; for “you have selected this text”, you need to edit the Selected Text Color (again, second column). Please note for these two settings, Style Configurator only pays attention to Background Color – the foreground color and bold/italic/underline settings are ignored. … Good luck. I had the same issue, this answer worked! Appreciate your time & input