@guy038 said: Now if, for any font, you select all the text of that new tab and run an Edit > Line Operations > Split Lines operation, for most of them, indeed, the spliting behaviour occured right after the 78 capital letter P. However, for eample : For the proportional Times New Roman font, the spliting action occured after 76 letters P For the fixed witdh **``Consolas font, the spliting action occured after 77 letters P The explanation may lie in something I discovered while bug-hunting in the Elastic tabstops function of Columns++: when DirectWrite is in use, the width of characters can work out to fractional pixels (this is true for both fixed and proportional fonts); but Scintilla only reports the width of strings as integers. So due to the effect of rounding to integers, the width of a string of 78 letters P is not necessarily 78 times the (reported) width of one letter P. Notepad++ uses 78 times the width of one letter P. (Not that it matters much, since none of this is likely to be what anyone wants or expects anyway.)

Tabs v spaces As Peter said, the most important part is consistency. Mixing tabs and spaces together makes no one happy. I will throw out a couple arguments for tabs here: Indentation of code, markup language, et. cetera is meant to show the structure of whatever. Tabs are a logical, structural element. Spaces are physical. Different users may want different sizes of indentation. If i want 4 character indentation and my coworker wants 2, tabs can be set to show our preferred width. Seems for the most part that spaces are winning out though.

Hi, @coises and All, You said : Since all you need to do to cancel a selection is to click anywhere in the document, I didn’t figure anything more would be needed. I agree with you that’s not a big task ! I just wanted to point out, that if you want to keep focus on the Search++ dialog, in order to use any other Alt + ... command, I do not see any command which could cancel the selection ! Now, regarding the five shortcuts problem, you’re totally right : my FRENCH keyboard is a standard one and in order to get, for example, the Alt + 1 action, I must use the combination Alt + Shift + 1 ! Now, I do not mind to stay with these Alt + Shift + 1-5 shortcuts ! But, if you find a way to detect the keys themselves, that would be fine too ! BR guy038 P.S. : Sorry for thinking you might have made a mistake when assigning those 5 shortcuts !

@fml2 said: Out of interest: is it possible to configure Notepad++ in a way that the folder marks are also displayed at the last element of the structure? The document’s fold structure is determined by the underlying Scintilla editing component. Notepad++ simply visualizes the fold structure. While some alternative styles can be enabled at the application layer, what you’re requesting would require changes to Scintilla.

@Mark-Olson That’s really helpful, especially the point about a huge single-line file being slower than a much larger file with shorter lines. I hadn’t considered that line length could make such a big difference to Notepad++ performance. I’ll definitely take a look at the Large File Restriction setting and the HugeFiles plugin as well. Thanks for sharing all these details!

@Sevens99 said: I wonder if I’m the only one experiencing this issue. It’s a known problem of the modern NppShell, see the GitHub issue #15683 Most likely this is the culprit but I have no easy solution ready. Also no spare time to fix that (maybe during the end of year holidays), so your workaround (or similar) is what I currently recommend to do for the affected users (you don’t need to rename the NppShell.dll, unregistering that shell extension from within the admin-rights powered CMD by regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\contextMenu\NppShell.dll" will do it). What’s interesting - the problem manifests only on some PCs/configs (I, for one, have never encountered it).

Rants like this are only allowed in the Boycott Notepad++ category, so I moved it from a reply in the General Discussion to its own topic here Do not reply to normal discussions with such rants.

@ThatsYar_ , Can you share your ?-menu’s Debug Info? Does the same problem occur if you turn off all plugins (using -noPlugin command line option)? Is it for all files that need admin? Or just in one directory? Or just the one file?

Hi, @thomas-knoefel and All, For these Search Results : Search "Fi" (27 010 hits in 646 file(s)) [1 153 file(s) searched], I got, successively, using your valuable instructions : 1 m 13 s 78, then 1 m 10 s 85 and finally 1 m 11 s 06 when LoadThreads="auto" 1 m 25 s 78 and 1 m 26 s 39 when LoadThreads="0" 1 m 09 s 54 and 1 m 09 s 55 when LoadThreads="8" So, the two tests with LoadThreads="8" seem very slightly better !? Note that : From Laptop documentation, my processor is an Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 2.80 Ghz (up to 4.7 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ) 12 MB L3 cache, 4 cores 8 logical processors From informations système, I saw for Processeur : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz, 2803 MHz, 4 cœur(s), 8 processeur(s) logique(s) Total installed RAM : 32 Gb This explain why I wanted to test with 8 threads. But, may be this assumption is not pertinent ! ? Best Regards, guy038

@Steven-Guillemet said: Hopefully this will let Notepad++ ditch its current method Until that patch has effectively 100% deployment, Notepad++ should not change its implementation, otherwise it breaks something that currently works for anyone who hasn’t applied that fix. (If there’s a way to make the two methods coexist peacefully, or if there’s a way the installer can test the version and use the appropriate alternative, then that’s great. But if not, then breaking a feature to support bleeding edge is a bad idea)

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That’s a clever little experiment! I never really thought about using regular expressions to represent mathematical patterns like multiples of 3, but it makes sense when you look at the binary sequence. Definitely a fun way to explore just how powerful regex can be beyond ordinary text searching.