@Konsolate said: Everything is lost. Also, while we confirmed with @zack-mosbrucker that the backup folder was empty, you never confirmed that. Are you sure that folder was empty, or did your session file just get reset? (If you don’t know where yours is, it’s probably in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\ – if it’s not there, share your ? > Debug Info and we can help you find it.) Notepad++ backs up the session file into session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak, so if you still have files in the backup\ folder, then you can recover the old session if you exit Notpead++, rename session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to session.xml, and restart Notepad++, and it will go back to the previous version of the session file. And if it still doesn’t open all the files from your backup folder, you can just manually open those files from Notepad++, and then save them to a reasonable known location on your computer, so that you won’t lose them again in the future.

@Michael-Vincent and anyone reading :) Besides the jokes, i’d like some real feedback about the plugin, the code and mainly about the fact that gemini assisted me … Be critical without trolling, do not be afraid to point out all of the funny code, nonsense and incoherence that a light IA can bring within your code unless there is some goods in it . Good jokes are also welcome ;)

@medvidec It’s impossible to know for sure without seeing your code, but I doubt the issue has anything to do with Notepad++. If this “global variable” is supposed to be shared between multiple C++ source files, you have to do the following: declare the variable in a header file as extern, e.g.: // your_header.h #include <string> extern const std::string configFile; include “your_header.h” in every source file that uses configFile . provide a definition (at global scope) of configFile in one (and only one) of the source files that includes “your_header.h”: // source_file.cpp #include "your_header.h" // ... const std::string configFile = "/plugins/config/verilogConfig.txt"; // ... You can read about storage class specifiers to learn more.

@Michael-Vincent said: sanitizing user inputs before use here Obligitory Bobby Tables reference: 🔗 [image: exploits_of_a_mom.png]

@Emmanuel-PIERRE said: Hello today I see that in 8.9.6.4 on win11 the Ctrl is not working, though in all others app this is fine. I have very few plugins in it (mime tools, npp converter, npp exports) so I guess this is not where it comes from. Shortcuts are fine. any idea ? If you mean that the Ctrl key with a letter that isn’t a shortcut isn’t inserting the traditional control character, see Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Prevent control character (C0 code) from typing into document and be sure it is not checked. If you mean that Ctrl+drag on a selection is not working as it does in most Windows programs, that is a known peculiarity which can be resolved in either of two ways: Press the mouse button down first, then the Ctrl key. or Uncheck Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Enable Multi-Editing (Ctrl+Mouse click/selection). If neither of those is your problem, you’ll have to be more specific.

@PeterJones said: Columns++ plugin (though I don’t remember it having the header or full-column highlight, or just a gazillion other features which make column manipulation easier; the author @Coises can chime in at this point). There’s nothing in Columns++ for coloring text. The plugin is helpful if you want to do operations on data in visible columns (like right-justify the entries in a column, add the numbers in a column together, search/replace restricted to a column, do calculations to create a new column, sort on a column in situations that don’t work with Notepad++’s built-in sort) and/or to use elastic tab stops to make maintaining visible columns easier. It doesn’t do any coloring, though. Help is here if anyone wants to examine it to judge whether they might want to install Columns++.

@PeterJones Thank you very much.

@Travis-Young , I cannot replicate your problem: [image: 1781542289284-yamlpaste.gif] When I paste that in, the YAML formats the comments correctly, as far as I can tell. Could you either give the original data, and where you paste it? And your ?-menu’s Debug Info?

@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.

v0.012 released to CPAN Update for Notpead++ v8.5.4 - v8.9.6.4 Update Editor messages and enumerations (hashes) Update Notepad++ menu commands and messages Remove notepad->prompt() and the Win32::GUI dependency [#91] Please comment on Issue #92 if this call is important to you <https://github.com/pryrt/Win32-Mechanize-NotepadPlusPlus/issues/92> Improve test suite Get it working through Perl v5.42 Don’t test as many old versions (too much compute overhead) See CHANGES file for full history, including interveninng v0.009, v0.010, and v0.011 I don’t always post about new versions here (mostly because I get distracted and forget to). But I thought it was important on this one, because notepad->prompt() has been disabled in this version: if notepad->prompt() is important to you, please comment on https://github.com/pryrt/Win32-Mechanize-NotepadPlusPlus/issues/92 and stick with v0.011, which (until further notice) is the most recent version to include the notepad->prompt()

@PeterJones I have been having a crack at it. https://youtu.be/UaXvg9w0_O8 [image: 1781246396141-1349f7c1-791f-4298-b47d-df25824aaf10-image.jpeg] I think I can put … everything in it. If I don’t burn out. Absolutely everything, including what you call the “ridiculous proposal”. (Which mostly just adds a preset system for common searches) I have taken care not to use any API after GDI+. And it’s only alpha borders on icons that keep this from being simple win32 GDI.