Thank you guys all so very much, now that I know that it’s a GVAS file, I’ll chase down that lead and try to get somewhere!!!

@rdipardo

I didn’t mean that I run and hide from anything that AI is touched or influenced by. That wouldn’t be practical.

@Wes-Owens

Here is the procedure, which is 100% reliable for me:

Ctrl+F, enter search terms, FIND ALL IN CURRENT DOCUMENT Find Dialog closes. Search Results dialog is shown Hitting F7 will toggle between the Search Results and Editor having focus If Search Results has focus, it will have blue title bar If editor has focus, you will be able to type in editor If Search Results has focus, hitting ESC will close it

See this animated screen grab:

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edit: even if I have the setting that @Terry-R mentioned checkmarked: I see the Search Dialog after hitting the FIND ALL IN CURRENT DOCUMENT button, I still see that the Search Results window is given focus when I do (see the blue title bar for that panel):

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And when the Search Results have focus, the SINGLE KEY ESC is sufficient to close the panel.

@James-Burke-0 ,
In addition to what @PeterJones has explained, the only other thing you could do, is bring up dBASEPlus in the Language->User Defined Language->Define your language...User language drop down box, and then `Save As’ and give it a new name.

At that point, you can play with the settings, keywords, etc… all you want in your own named UDL. Because of the way the entire UDL ecosystem works, however, you’ll lose the ability to use the autoComplete file and the functionList file as well, because of their links to the UDL’s file names that those work with, as well as the overrideMap.xml linkage file, but you’d have JUST the UDL to adjust to your likings and then when you’re satisfied, you could go back to the original dBASEPlus UDL and put the changes that you want into the Dialog boxes for the language and then do as @PeterJones says, and just close and reopen the editor and your changes will be applied to the intalled dBASEPlus UDL definition.

If you don’t need the Function List or Auto Complete capability, you can just use your newly named version of the dBASEPlus UDL to view and edit dBASE specific files.

Just in case this is what you meant you wanted to do, to customize the dBASEPlus UDL without losing the original functionality of the original package. I hope this helps.

@pbarney said:

it needs a lot of scaffolding to handle all the edge cases (saved/unsaved file, command line argument quoting, font encoding

Re unsaved file: You could have simply had the script abort if the active file is unsaved; with a message to the user of course.

Re encoding: If you’d have used PythonScript3 I think encoding issues would have been minimal.

The above are not complaints (negatives) against your script, just comments.

The script works for you…so Great Work!

@notdodgeball said,

If you are talking the MarkdownViewerPlusPlus plugin by nea, its indeed been dormant for many years, although I suspect it still works and you may have a problem on your end.

I can confirm MarkdownViewer++ still works… in that I still semi-actively use it in Notepad++ v8.8.7-64bit (it’d been a few weeks since the last time, so in case I had misremembered and it was on v8.8.5 that I’d last used it, I double-checked today, and it can still display my Markdown)

@Dragon-Red said,

Do you plan to upgrade the DLL so that this plugin is usable again?

In case you were curious, this Community Forum is the Community of Notepad++ users. Further, plugins are maintained by their respective authors or maintainers, not by the Notepad++ Developer, so even if you incorrectly thought this Community was the way to get in contact with the Notepad++ Developer, he’s not the right one to contact when you want an fix for a plugin. (And, as @notdodgeball told you, MarkdownViewer++ is effectively unmaintained at this point, unfortunately.)

@Juan-Delgado said in Windows ARM64 25H2 Notepad++ 8.8.7 doesn't start:

So, I uninstalled the Notepad

I think it helped due to completely deleting the N++ settings, namely the config.xml file. There is a N++ Smart Highlighting bug (already fixed for the next N++ version), more here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17126#issuecomment-3476961976

@Jerry-Scannell said in backward search doesn't work any longer:

All of a sudden searching backwards through a file doesn’t work and I have to have proper case for strings I am searching. Does anyone know about this? Is it a setting that has changed for some reason? I am using version 8.7.5 if that helps.
Thanks in advance,
Paul

That setting hasn’t changed since 2020 (v7.8.7).

If you are in Regular Expression search mode, you cannot do backward search, unless you have followed the User Manual instructions (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#preferences-for-advanced-users) to set the regexBackward4PowerUser attribute in the xml config file, and restarted N++.

But, as I said, this is nothing new. So a “sudden change” presumably was you choosing Regular Expression mode.

@Pieter-Hoeben

You probably have the “Search Mode” set to “Regular expression”. Change it to “Normal”.

@James-Burke-0 said in Avoiding Tabbed Spaces:

Is there a toggle for NPP to NOT insert tabbed spaces at the beginning of a line? Somewhere in Preferences, perhaps?

You probably want Settings | Preferences… | Indentation | Indent using: Space character(s).

In case anyone is interested, I’ve created a version of this that runs as a Windows application rather than as a Notepad++ plugin, so it works in all applications:

Compose for Windows

This should be considered experimental. Since it works everywhere, not just in Notepad++, it has more potential to mess things up if I’ve missed something.

Since it has no connection to Notepad++ (other than being a spin-off of the plugin described in the original topic message):

The convenience features for editing a user definitions file which I added in response to @PeterJones’ notes aren’t included.

Further discussion will be off-topic here. Please raise questions and concerns in the Issues for the project.

The actions to create GitHub pages are, for some reason and at least temporarily, not working on this repository, which affects the normal presentation of the help file. However, you can still read the help file here (though some links appear to be garbled).

@Maurizio-Scian The real problem is that most Americans don’t know left from right. True right wingers wear BLUE ball hats. American right wingers wear RED ball hats. Now is that fucked-up or what? And what’s more, real communists restore old American cars and put diesel engines in them without catalytic converters. America communists ride electric bicycles and believe in climate change. Lets try to keep this in mind when discussing politics.

@mpheath

I had to save the UDL with and it worked very well, thank you very much!

Just a heads up for recent N++ users, search for the text no-break space in Windows Character Map, select it at top left and copy/paste into a UTF encoded N++ window with Word wrap and View>Show Non-Printing Characters ticked, it shows up as NBSP highlighted.
Or, the character is pasted here on the next line:
 
Works at least in the unposted forum edit box - but not in the preview pane it seems.