@M-Andre-Z-Eckenrode said: This command requires a rectangular selection. Extend selection to the last line of the document? And, Columns++ Search neophyte that I am, I didn’t heed the suggestion. Had you heeded it, you would still have gotten a rectangular selection, as it says, extending downward from your selection — not necessarily enclosing the whole document, and in any case not the same as selecting the whole document (or selecting nothing at all) first. I should re-word that message, I’m just not sure what to say instead. It’s not actually true (since version 0.8) that a rectangular selection is required; as I mentioned before, the rules are complicated. They won’t easily fit into a message box. It makes sense when you’re using Columns++ for working with columns, but the search kind of took on a life of its own, apart from column work… hence, among other reasons, Search++. I’ve redone the experiment with all the my example text selected, and all instances of ' were successfully replaced with ’, without any anomalies. Thank you for that information. I do appreciate the help you’ve given me with this. While it doesn’t prove anything (almost nothing is ever proven when dealing with an intermittent bug), it suggests pretty strongly that something I changed in moving the Columns++ search process to Search++ has introduced a hidden instability. I’m still looking for it.

@mpheath , I am curious: do you think it’s enough to warrant trying to get v1 in Plugins Admin for the upcoming v8.9.8 RC? Or should I give more time for more people to test? (Or do you think it’s really worth publishing at all?) (And secondary question: for getting the styler output from SciTE, are you just running TestLexers.exe from a N++ or just-scintilla build? or is there another way of generating that? I have my PythonScript styleDebugger script for doing it inside N++, but was curious if there was an easy way to do it directly from SciTE)

@Coises said: Notepad++ won’t let the selection that results from a search split a CRLF line ending. As you can see, it moves the start of the selection from the actual location of the match to after the line ending. I noticed that in a Lua script recently that the Scintilla positionAfter function treats CRLF as a single UTF-8 character. So the CRLF has become what some may call an unbreakable sequence in some situations.

@PeterJones said: You also mentioned “uninstalling the plugins and reinstalling them” – that sounds like you have both plugins installed at the same time. I highly doubt that it’s a good idea to have both Compare and ComparePlus installed on the same instance. Sorry, I only have Compare Plus installed now - so I tried uninstalling and re-installing it to see if it was fixed. Both are not installed. As far as I can tell, neither Compare nor ComparePlus has a “cancel” action. They have a “Clear Active Compare” action. Are you saying that you hit that “Clear Active Compare” button while it’s still working on making the comparison, to stop it in the middle? Or do you just mean that you are clearing the comparison once it’s done? I am hitting this cancel button to stop it in the middle of working; [image: 1786224004669-97162e74-5601-4918-b18e-1dfa20830fa5-image.jpeg] But with normal usage (telling it to compare, looking at the results, clearing the active compare), I have never gotten to the point that the plugin just hangs indefinitely. If you have a pair of files (with no private information) that you can get to cause the hang reliably, and can explain, in detail, the procedure that you use to cause the freeze, then I would recommend that you create an issue at the plugin’s GitHub repo so that you can let @pnedev know about the problem. I will do this - although I suspect it will not reproduce since these same files worked at first for me too. Thank you…

@PeterJones Okay, yes, there are several subdir in that folder that are links (issue #18248). Actually, the first subdir is a plain one and is displayed whereas the second one is a link and is not displayed while preventing the display of the remaining data. I’ll give the RC a try. Thanks again.

@annettekusma said: I also need to be able to move around paragraphs easily during the writing process # header paragraph before paragraph with no enter newlines, but just use line wrap. this allows you to use Ctrl+Shift+Up/DownArrow to move it up or down paragraph after [image: 1785854639307-moveparagraph.gif] I might want to have a couple of textfiles for the larger documentparts though, but I would want to drag a pragraph from one document to another. You would have to have both files open in Notepad++ tabs, and drag the text across between views (or use cut from one tab and paste into the other) automatically created table of contents, That is a word processor / desktop publishing software feature, not a feature of a text editor. Notepad++ can show the list of “functions” in the Function List panel, and for Markdown, I have headers defined as functions ⇒ here is the simplistic functionList definition I use for Markdown. If you put it in %AppData%\Notepad++\functionList as udl_markdown.xml, and then add <association id="udl_markdown.xml" userDefinedLangName="Markdown (preinstalled)"/> in your overrideMap.xml file in the same directory (if you don’t already have one there, copy c:\Program Files\Notepad++\functionList\override_map.xml into the AppData locaton) . But that is only visible inside Notepad++ itself, is not inherent to the file, and is dependent on having the functionList definition mapped in the overrideMap. You can come close to what you want in Notepad++, but it will never have all the features you have requested, because Notepad++ is a text editor, not a desktop publisher, and to expect a text editor to behave like a desktop publisher is to invite disappointment.

@Afik-Gilboa said: in windows 11, the plugin reset itself every time i open npp Could you be a little more specific? For one, add your ?-menu’s Debug Info, which will tell us exactly which version of Notepad++ and which version of NppFTP you are using. For another, what do you mean by “reset itself”? Does that mean that all the settings go away? Or that just your profiles go away but not your other settings? Or does that mean the panel positions reset? Or something else happens? I have been running NppFTP (0.29.15) on recent Notepad++ versions on Windows 11 for over a year, and it’s never “reset itself” in any way that I would consider a reset. So without more information, “I cannot replicate.”

@M-Andre-Z-Eckenrode said: @Coises As you I recently reported an issue with Search++ in a new, separate topic, but I see that several others have reported various issues in this one (presumably, because it’s still a work in progress). I have a new issue to report, and thought maybe I should ask if you prefer that new issues get reported in their own topic (which is generally my default), or for users to just include them in this one. Do you care one way or the other? Either way is OK with me. I suspect the moderators might prefer to keep discussion confined to this topic, though.

@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.