Just to mention, for people using Intune to deploy notepad++. if you activate the “managed installers” option, any apps not signed wil lbe signed with a valid certificate and therefore users don’t have popup for the “unknown publisher”. I think you can do the same with SCCM. Will not help regular users, but jsut in case.

@PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.8.3 Release Candidate:

Considering @donho said above, “BTW, I should make https work, I know - it’s on my TODO list.”, I can confidentally conclude that the goal is to get it renewed. ;-)

FYI,
It’s done with let’s Encrypt:
https://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/

Since this has come up twice in the last couple months, I have cleaned up the instructions and split them off into a dedicated “FAQ: Using the GCC version of Notpead++”

Here is a funny scenario:

type “menu” in the Search textbox; select Plugins -> NppMenuSearch -> Menu Search… press Enter.
As the result, the Search textbox does not have a focus!

Well, I know this is a strange use-case: call itself, but anyway :)

Hello, @alan-kilborn, and All,

Alan, you’ve just understood all my stuff quite correctly and even more regarding your last example with $+{Test} and $+{foo}, whose I did not think of !

Best Regards,

guy038

Thanks Peter. I was starting to wonder if I was running NP in an odd way that was preventing it from working correctly. 😊

@rdipardo said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

edition in a user-local path

I already checked such possibility (for N++ installer, not for portable eds) and have the non-admin user-installations on my TODO, but so low spare time… (#15182)

@rdipardo said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

can still have context menu entries — scoped to HKEY_CURRENT_USER by default

Very good. I think the NppShell project should take this into account somehow and allow the HKCR registrations when needed/requested. This HKLM default is(?) IMO the reason for a possible regsvr32 zombie process when trying to register the NppShell manually & unelevated (#15182)

@Coises said in 8.8.2 - coming soon??:

I don’t think I’ve ever used a package manager.

But OTOH you also said that for some SW (Firefox) you allow (welcome(?)) the autoupdates. Such package managers do just that - they remove the burden from the user to constantly check and update their software (even for a portable non-admin user-installation), but at the same time they leave them free to enter this process (if they wanna) and therefore it is not completely hopeless like with the locked stores like WindowsStore or GooglePlay. One example - with the WinGet you can go simply back in the app-versions if you need to (as you do with your “Software\Old”), this is of course impossible with e.g. the GooglePlay (damn hell to them for it!).

SW-updating “world” just changed and not everything is so bad. So e.g. the WinGet (or more user friendly WinGetUI) way is ok for me (I am not using it for N++, I do it old-school as you do, I admit :-) ). Some relevant links:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24884/winget-real-autoupdater-finally
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/n/Notepad%2B%2B/Notepad%2B%2B

Replace was where I was having the issue and it brings up some challenges that Find does not - basically, you would need a shortcut for “Ignore and Find Next” and one for “Replace and Find Next” and you’d have to remember those shortcuts.

@Coises; TBH, now that I’ve learned to resize the screen. I’m okay with it. I think most users have multiple monitors these days and use the find/replace dialog on the second monitor.

@Coises and @mkupper - I wasn’t aware of the caret button to move the dialog to two lines. I think that and an OPTION to dock the find dialog in the lower-right corner so I don’t have to re-size the screen would be perfect for what I want.

Again - none of this addresses the context issue - which isn’t a primary concern of mine, but I still think it should be accommodated, if possible.

@Alexander-Anisimov said in Notepad++ lags when text files are on FTP:

You may be right. In my understanding, WebDAV is another way of connecting protocol but still is FTP, although different.
May be I am wrong.

You are wrong. :-)

WebDAV is a protocol that is similar to HTTP that web browsers use with web servers. As WebDAV looks like HTTP on the network it works with NAT, firewalls, web proxies, etc. Accessing a WebDAV server is just like accessing a web server. Many web browsers have built-in support for WebDAV.

That said, if there are bandwidth or latency issues accessing a particular WebDAV server then all applications, including Notepad++ will be impacted.

WebDAV itself is not slow or laggy.

If I was stuck with needing to edit files that are on a slow or laggy server then I probably would create script that first copies the file to the local hard drive, runs Notepad++ on the file, and then keeps an eye on both the local and remote copies of the file. If the local copy changes then I push it out to the remote server. If it changes on the remote side then pop-up a warning. A tricky aspect is that Notepad++ allows people to exit Notepad++ and then resume editing. Thus I can’t depend on Notepad++.exe going away as a signal that I no longer need to monitor and synchronize that file but also need to watch Notepad++'s session.xml file.

@Kunal-Mehta

Everything is possible if someone with enough time and desire can tackle this.
Unfortunately I personally don’t have the necessary time to realize this, the little free time I have at the moment is not even enough to maintain my own plugins with the necessary love and care.

Microsoft’s Windows Defender was not allowing the npp.8.8.2.portable.7z file on my machine claiming:
Detected: Trojan:Win32/Suschil!rfn

One puzzle is is that if I expand npp.8.8.2.portable.7z into a folder that a full scan of that folder reports “0 threat(s) found.”

Windows Defender was using 1.431.348.0 created/updated on 07/02/2025 6:13 AM. I checked for updates and got 1.431.355.0 created/updated on 07/02/2025 11:10 AM. I re-ran the scanner and it reports no threats found.

I assume this is not related to the code signing issue as I assume Windows Defender would still detect viruses in and and quarantine signed files.

I’m guessing it was a false positive from Windows Defender’s 1.431.348.0 package that Microsoft has since fixed.

I figure I’d better document the solution(s) for others that may tread this path. A summary of some of the steps needed (of course built on top of Mark’s work!):

Ensure you register your modeless dialog with NPP (NPPM_MODELESSDIALOG, in Main.cs we call NppFormHelper.RegisterFormIfModeless(Form, bool)) The WPF System.Windows.Controls.UserControl should be in an System.Windows.Forms.Integration.ElementHost, which is in a System.Windows.Forms.Form. I’ve subclassed the ElementHost to handle WM_SHOWWINDOW to update the Visible property, and to trigger a (slightly delayed) refresh of the visuals when we get a WM_SIZE. There I invalidate the visuals and update layouts. There may be a way to skip this, but it’s working, so I’m not trying to fix it. In the WPF UserControl, when it’s Loaded, we have to get the presentation source (as a HwndSource) and add a hook to respond to the WM_GETDLGCODE and tell the source that we DLGC_WANTCHARS and DLGC_WANTARROWS, and maybe we also need DLGC_HASSETSEL.

I’ve pulled most of it into a method called MakeModelessDialog. And now for a short recording of it working!

2025-06-28 Typing in Notepad++ modeless WPF dialog works.gif

@PeterJones

I haven’t checked the Scintilla source code, but I’d be surprised if the code didn’t just ignore the alpha value.
A quick test seems to confirm this.

81a75ca8-8b44-4ca7-90cf-a0e31b288f38-{D5638942-D3BC-41B4-83BB-90B7C809D881}.png

Hello, @ottiditto, @pbarney, @peterjones and All,

A tiny piece of information : The & character is not a regex character, so the following syntax is sufficient :

FIND (?-s)^((.*? layer=")(25)(".*?>>NAME.*\R))

REPLACE ${1}${2}21${4}

Best Regards,

guy038

@xomx said in How does one create a desktop icon for this program please?:

C:\Program Files\Notepad++\

Thank you to everyone for your replies. I followed the advice of @xomx and opened Program Files. I couldn’t find a .exe file but right clicked on the Application itself within the folder and that yielded a “Create Shortcut” which allowed me to get the desktop icon I was wanting.

@PeterJones said in in correct version reporting:

some insight as to why the Windows program/features install version isn’t getting updated for you.

@eli-rosen said in in correct version reporting:

user for almost 20 years,

The following will be only my guess.

Since @eli-rosen uses the N++ installers for so long, maybe he previously used there also a v7.9.1 x64 one, but then he has started to use that Automox (sorry, IDK it) and it can do whatever stuff, so maybe it’s simply forgetting/blocking to update the corresponding Registry item.

It shouldn’t be a remnant from a previously installed 32-bit v7.9.1. In such a case there should be a separate uninstall-item visible (with a corresponding Registry hive HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Notepad++\)

@Terry-R Thank You!

I’m not entirely sure how to vote on this because - if with the permission of the original author, I don’t think a new name would be required. However, any other option should have a new name