@pnedev said in Useless Backup System:

It is becoming rather a philosophical discussion now but the other perspective is how often people will find the behavior of the editor awkward.

For all the time Notepad++ has been out there AFAIK @Resonant-Mind is the first to ask for that backup by default (not trying to be disrespectful here, just stating the facts).
I think what @Alan-Kilborn is kind of worried about is that since the change there are already several (two AFAIK) help requests in this forum asking why the .bak files appear and how to stop that. Those are coming from not power users obviously. And since @Alan-Kilborn and a few other folks here are the guys that are actually spending time and effort answering such queries and trying to help it is normal for them to measure the pros. and cons. of such change from the perspective of “How much confusion it will bring and how much maintenance effort”.

I understand both views and since we have prioritized the security and stability here (.bak ON by default) maybe it is worth creating post in the FAQ section describing how one can stop that default behavior.
@Alan-Kilborn , what do you think?

A couple users coming in to ask how to disable it, is not the same thing as a couple forum Golems b!tching about the change and then proceeding to be bigger cry babies than the person that lost data.

These elitist power users fail to recognize, that a lot of professional paid for / not free software out there have their own .bak system and is enabled by default.

So, welcome to being a professional.

@alan-kilborn I’m sorry again. I try to do my best…
Your formulation is perfect.
Just a detail, ‘icon =’ is not important for me. So :
For any other lines, leave them as they are after the ‘song_length =’ line in the output.

@alan-kilborn You’re exactly correct, this has been a great learning experience for me regarding Notepad++ plugin development. I plan to continue improving my current plugins and write new ones. Once again thank you @Alan-Kilborn and @PeterJones for pointing me in the right direction, you’ve been helped a great deal! : - )

@leonardchai Thank you very much. I searched for your plugin in the plugin admin menu and there it was. Works great!

@Alan-Kilborn

Given his level of participation here, I’d have to guess that Don doesn’t care.

Sorry for not being able to spend more time here, and thank you (and others) to be here for helping people. I do care the proper functioning of the forum though.

By “non-Notepad++ solutions”, I thought it was kind of spam disguised as a solution.
Even if someone provides a brief reply such as “Notepad++ doesn’t have the feature you want, try VS Code/Sublime Text/UltraEdit/vi/emacs/…etc”, I think it’s tolerable. The most important thing is that users come here to find a solution, and he/she has got one - be it python, batch, run menu or not run menu, whatever - even if it’s not within Notepad++.

@guy038
Thank you for pinging me.

As @donho created this forum, it seems to me that Don is the only person which has authority to tell us what we should speak of or not in our forum !

The community/forum is not about any specific individual, but about people.
If I used my privilege to silence others by imposing my will, instead of following the rules, I would be the only one left in this place.

Regarding the rules about this tangential discussion, I find Peter’s point to be very fair:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26783/fork-tangential-discussion-about-what-advice-is-on-topic/5?_=1745252343263

Not trying to enlighten anyone, just sharing my 2 cents as part of community.

@Jos-Debouvere177 said:

I’m facing the same problem ‘failure to launch in browser’

“…in browser” ?

Regarding @Gerald-Kirchner’s 2019-02-16T22:54:10.388 post above,

I go to NPP -> ? -> Get More Plugins -> http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Plugin_Central

It seems to me that the ? > Get More Plugins menu item is more dangerous than helpful, in Notepad++ v7.6.3 and beyond. I have thus submitted issue #5325 to either get the behavior of ? > Get More Plugins changed, or get that menu item removed.

@PeterJones
Fixed.
Thank you for reminding me!

Some topics are troll magnets. Are they seeking, HunSpell, .dic, or something deeper?

@kracovwolf said in paragraph line break:

do you know if the macros are stored in notepads settings

This and other such questions are answered in the npp-user-manual.org website, which is linked inside Notepad++ as the ? menu’s Notepad++ Online Document entry.

The location of config files is described in https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/ The macros section of shortcuts.xml is described at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#macros The overview of macros is found at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/macros/

All the same, I think any feature request for a more system-integrated portable version is better placed with a project that deals exclusively with packaging. Scoop and winget are just the first two that come to mind. There’s even a close-sourced project distributing MSI installers.

@Maria-Benich Thank you! It worked perfect!

@terry-r For some reason I can’t use any regexs on the LF versions of these transcripts - I get an error message about the document being read only. Guy038 wrote a new regex that worked like a charm, though.

Thanks again for your help leading me through this. I appreciate it :)

@guy038 those are changes made by me, manually :)

@Alan-Kilborn

ah, is deprecated and will be removed. Point to you ;)

@donho
Sometimes there are users (like me) that do some silly thing, that are not expected.

In version 8.6 a new style had been introduced: “Multi selected text colour”. The effect for me was, that in column-select mode the selection was shown only partially (last line only). It took me some time to find out what was my fault. I use a personalised style, where the default background colour happens to have the value “C0C0C0”, the same value as the background for this new style. Therefore I could not see the selection because it had the same bg-colour as the rest of my text. For “Selected text colour” I use the value “A0A0A0”; after applying this value to the new style, it worked again.

I know, it is really a very special case, but it may happen. A similar situation might arise with other changes in the future. For these cases it would help to have a backup for comparison.

@ahmed-syed I signed in to this site just to say THANK YOU!!! I did not know about the post-it mode and am absolutely loving it.
I knew about adding virtual desktops but it’s good to see somebody else giving them some love. Most people I’ve interacted with just think it’s gimmicky, but if you know how to utilize it correctly, it can be an invaluable multi-tasking tool.