@Martin-1 said in autoupdater and connection temp.sh:

@PeterJones That is what i meant. I don’t understand what is being said in those links or what is being said above. hence the repeat of my questions.

Then ask for clarification, rather than ask the same thing over and over.

Besides, the https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarification-security-incident/ link that @donho most recently posted seems pretty clear to me:

Who Was Targeted?

This was a highly selective attack by a state-sponsored group targeting specific high-value organizations. Security researchers confirmed that the vast majority of Notepad++ users were never affected - attackers filtered victims based on strategic value, not random distribution.

For most users: Simply updating to the latest version is sufficient.

If you are a member of a a high-value organization, then you need to find someone on your IT team who does understand all the technical details. (If you are unsure whether your organization would be considered “high value”, then it wouldn’t be.) If you are not, then you are part of the “for most users” group. And those instructions seem quite clear to me: manually update to v8.9.1.

@PeterJones said:

I wish I knew of a notification that was better suited to just-on-resize

Hook the message loop and look for WM_SIZE messages?

I think what you provided should work – the syntax “<xxx>” means that I would replace that string with the specific string I was interested in, because at different times I’d be searching for different strings.

However, I just tried your search string with two different substitutions without success. So, let’s look at simple example. Start with this file:

*Block start 00000000013FC200 00200280 00010000 00000000 00000000 00000000013FC210 00000002 CC5CDDA0 00000000 00000000 *Block end Extra stuff *Block start 00000000013FC200 00200280 00010000 00000000 00000000 00000000013FC210 00000002 CC5CDDA0 00000000 00000000 00000000013FC220 00000000 00000000 01266100 01266100 00000000013FC230 00808000 013FC2B8 00000000 00000000 *Block end *Block start 00000000013FC200 00200280 00020000 00000000 00000000 00000000013FC210 00000002 CC5CDDA0 00000000 00000000 00000000013FC220 00000000 00000000 01266100 01266100 00000000013FC230 00808000 013FC2B8 00000000 00000000 *Block end *Block start 00000000013FC200 00200280 00030000 00000000 00000000 00000000013FC210 00000002 CC5CDDA0 00000000 00000000 00000000013FC220 00000000 00000000 01266100 01266100 00000000013FC230 00808000 013FC2B8 00000000 00000000 *Block end Extra stuff *Block start 00000000013FC200 00200280 00010000 00000000 00000000 *Block end

In this case, the blocks that I want to find are those that contain “80 00010000”. This target occurs in blocks 1, 2, and 5. The string I’m searching for is:

(?s)^*Block start((?!*BLOCK start).)+?80 00010000.+?^*Block end\R(*SKIP)(*F)|(?-s)^.*\R

But when I fill out the Replace dialog box and select Replace All, I get an error that the regular expression is invalid. I don’t use regular expressions so I’m not sure what the errors are, but I suspect it has to do with the asterisks specified in the start and end strings. I found that they need to be escaped with ‘’ , resulting in:

(?s)^\*Block start((?!\*BLOCK start).)+?80 00010000.+?^\*Block end\R(*SKIP)(*F)|(?-s)^.*\R

This gave me a message that 36 occurrences were replaced, but the only thing I was left with was a single line containing “*Block end”. Are there other modifications to the search string that I need to make?

@PeterJones said in Is There a Way to Prevent Pasted Text from Spreading Out with Rows of Spaces?:

implementing it in PythonScript today

Thankfully, I found an old script which did something related, which was easy to update.

# encoding=utf-8 """in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27385/ This will paste the CF_TEXT plaintext from the clipboard, but will convert any series of newline characters into a single space before doing the paste. Because this uses .insertText() instead of putting the modified text back into the clipboard and doing .paste(), it should avoid clobbering the clipboard. (based on @alan-kilborn's clipboard script here: <https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97132>) """ from Npp import * try: editor3h # third editor, hidden except NameError: editor3h = notepad.createScintilla() def get_clipboard_text_without_newlines(): retval = '' editor3h.clearAll() editor3h.paste() if editor3h.getLength() > 0: editor3h.rereplace(r'[\r\n]+', ' ') # replace all newline seqeuences with a single space retval = editor3h.getText() return retval editor.beginUndoAction() editor.insertText(editor.getCurrentPos(), get_clipboard_text_without_newlines()) editor.endUndoAction()

This has been tested in the PythonScript 3 plugin. The PythonScript FAQ explains how to install PythonScript plugin, and how to run a script using PythonScript plugin, and even how to assign a keyboard shortcut to the script. Make sure you follow the instructions for PythonScript 3, not PythonScript 2 (as I have not tested under the older plugin syntax, though it will likely work there)

BTW:

5.1-if your home internet speed is fast enough, setup your own web server to your pc under virtualbox(in case of web server software cve’s/rce’s). I or anyone can help with that. Dont forget to hardening server for security.

IMO, this is BAD advice. To suggest to a non-security specialist who runs this as a hobby, that he should self-host, and try to keep up on all the security hardening, is asking him to get hacked even worse than the hack that already happened. He was literally paying a host to provide such services, and the professionals failed; he has now changed providers to a host who has better security procedures.

Believe me it’s not that hard to setup a webserver or harden it, especially while backed by a strong community. The risks are different when hosting at home between hosting remotely. The hosting firm may be offered money to hijack, or an out-of-date hosting management software had rce was waiting to be abused.

@sagradamoly-stack said in Managing the User Languages tool:

Is there any way to delete all the interim variations without losing all the work getting to a useful final result?

It depends on what you mean.

En masse? No

One at a time? Yes. In the UDL dialog, select each intermediate UDL from the drop-down, and click Remove. Since it’s likely on the order of a dozen or two, it won’t take you that long – less time than asking here took you, I’d wager.

without losing all the work

I mean, deleting the intermediate ones will obviously delete the intermediate stages. If you don’t want to lose them, but don’t want them in the N++ Language menu, use Export to save each to a separate XML file which you can then save in some backup directory, then Remove to take it out of the menu.

@shodanx2 ,

I normally stay out of the “Boycott” discussions, because they’re a complete waste of time (as is this one, for example, so I’ll be leaving this one again), but it seems really odd that you just started complaining about this a year after you successfully created your account and made your first post. But whatever, the haters are going to hate. (update: never mind, you were whining about this a year ago, too.)

If the owners of the forum software and the service that they are donating to host our forum (they normally charge people and organizations to host with them, but are giving the hosting for free to us, so beggars cannot be choosers), or the contributors to their ecosystem (not me, not the developer of Notepad++) ever provide a plugin that allowed a “login with XYZ” for any other OAUTH provider, I would enable that in a heartbeat, because I’m all for giving users a choice. I cannot speak for the rest of the internet, but the email-only didn’t work here, despite your repeated protestations, for whatever reason, so I’ve tried to help give users as much choice from OAUTH providers as possible; unfortunately, those are the only two for now.

Our choice of login has nothing to do with censoring people from speaking (as should be blatantly obvious, because we literally provide a topic for whining about Notepad++ in a forum dedicated to advocating for and helping people use Notepad++ … the N++ developer is highly into free speech), nor “shilling for the techbro cloud elites”, and everything to do with trying to make the user experience as good as possible for as many as we can.

Thank you! Problem solved.

@PeterJones
on the screenshot above Reduce option is already pressed though.
Max tab label length truncates text, which is not the behavior i want to restore - i want the tabs with short names to not have this big gap at the end.

That said, it seems that the “enable pin tab feature” was the culprit, as disabling it seems to have restored the desired tab size behavior.

There still is some extra spacing before the close button though:

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@PeterJones Thanks. I will work on getting the debug. Until then…

After making the edit, which took by the way (saved), I closed the app as usual. Just to be sure I checked Task Manager and found 2 instances of it showing there even though all copies were previously closed by me. I killed it there, unmounted the thumb drive that has the portable version I’m trying to edit, and then did a system restart thinking that might clear anything else.

I remounted the thumb drive and still have an edited Shortcuts file but it is not recognizing the changes. That edit is working with my resident copy on the same system but that was also hard to change when I did it a while back.

Thanks for the help.

@Magic-Mugs ,

Assuming all your open files are real files, and all in the exact same folders on old and new machine, then just copy over %AppData%\Notepad++\session.xml

If some of your files are the unsaved new # tabs, you will also need to copy over everything in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\

But if you want all the same settings from your old to your new, just copy over everything from %AppData%\Notepad++\

@nikkinisly ,

The thing truly named “Plugin Manager” was last compatible with Notepad++ in v7.5.9 from October 2019. Had you really not updated since then?

Or are you talking about Plugins Admin? That’s the builtin replacement since v7.6 in November 2019

And it’s still in v8.9.1:
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My guess is that you deleted gup.exe and/or other of the content in the updater folder, or the plugin list DLL. To find out:

Exit Notepad++ Perform steps 1-3 for each of the following files List of files C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\Config\nppPluginList.dll C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater\GUP.exe C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater\libcurl.dll If any of those files are missing, you will need to reinstall, making sure to include the auto-updater and Plugins Admin, because all of those files are required for Plugins Admin to work Steps Right click on the file and choose Properties Look to see if it still has the Unblock checkbox If it does, checkmark it, then click Apply / OK

here is an example of a GUP.exe that still has the mark of the web:
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After making sure the Mark of the Web is gone from all those files, then restart Notepad++, and Plugins Admin should be there.

@Jay-S

I replied here.

@David-Brown i came here to let you know that my receipt had what appears to be his email address on it (which i’ve blocked out here for privacy):

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seems legit to me, but i can’t know for sure. :)

@Ilhan-Yumer ,

The developer does not read most posts in this Forum. If you would like to suggest such a move to the developer, I would recommend creating a new Issue at GitHub requesting it (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues).