@xomx

is it there a Notepad++ Inc. or LLC now?

LOL.
I have been struggling with administrative hurdles & certificate companies over the past few months to make it happen. In short: I had to register Notepad++ association (which has existed since 2019 to obtain a DigiCert certificate) with INSEE, a French government agency, Then I had to change the association old postal address to the new one so the certificate company could verify the authenticity of association via mail.

As a result, it’s possible to obtain a certificate under the open-source project’s name - on the condition that a NGO with the same name is created, and registered in the country where the project maintainer resides. This way, the project is recognized as a business entity by the certificate company, allowing them to issue a certificate to the entity. Nonetheless, Notepad++ still retains its community-driven, non-profit status.

There’s another path that avoids this painful process. Over the past few months, I recieved an offer from Azure Trusted Signing to have “Notepad++” named certificate signed via GitHub actions.

If it works, it would be great for nppPluginList to be released independently - so it can follow its own release circle, separate from Notepad++'s. Notepad++ could then update nppPluginList via WinGUp.
However, there is an unsolved login issue, and I’m still waiting for their team to fix it.

@James-Burke-0 ,
In addition to what @PeterJones has explained, the only other thing you could do, is bring up dBASEPlus in the Language->User Defined Language->Define your language...User language drop down box, and then `Save As’ and give it a new name.

At that point, you can play with the settings, keywords, etc… all you want in your own named UDL. Because of the way the entire UDL ecosystem works, however, you’ll lose the ability to use the autoComplete file and the functionList file as well, because of their links to the UDL’s file names that those work with, as well as the overrideMap.xml linkage file, but you’d have JUST the UDL to adjust to your likings and then when you’re satisfied, you could go back to the original dBASEPlus UDL and put the changes that you want into the Dialog boxes for the language and then do as @PeterJones says, and just close and reopen the editor and your changes will be applied to the intalled dBASEPlus UDL definition.

If you don’t need the Function List or Auto Complete capability, you can just use your newly named version of the dBASEPlus UDL to view and edit dBASE specific files.

Just in case this is what you meant you wanted to do, to customize the dBASEPlus UDL without losing the original functionality of the original package. I hope this helps.

@James-Burke-0 ,
Yeah…okay, whatever. It’s clear now, you don’t know what you’re talking about and pushing a product that isn’t what you say it is.

Your statement is false, period. It can’t read all known DBF types, as you state because it can’t read level 7 DBF files, which has been the latest official dBASE file type for the past approx 28 years almost since it’s been written to work in Windows, so I’ll consider your postings to be uninformed spam. Have a nice day.

@PeterJones said in possible to create a openfile dialog under jn-npp-plugin ?:

Or the plugin has a wiki , so that documentation might help you with your issue.

For example, this page in its wiki describes how to call win32 api functions from the plugin. Using that, and the topic that @Alan-Kilborn linked, where @Ekopalypse showed how to wrap that same win32 api dialog using PythonScript plugin, combing the two ideas might allow you to do the same wrapping in jn-npp-plugin.

@fml2 said in Separately set the beginning and the end of selection:

Goes to study the NP++'s menues

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/editing/#edit-menu
is a good place to start. The other menus are described in appropriate places in the manual

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.

So updating to 8.8.7 should eliminate the problem originally described.

@Rick-Kosters, .docx files are compressed files, so unless you’re able to uncompress them first, you’ll never be able to use a third-party program to search them.

For what it’s worth, 7-ZIP, Pkzip, WinZip, WinRAR, etc are all capable of opening those files. If you do unzip them, you’ll find a number of files and folders. What you’re looking for is most likely in word\document.xml.

@notdodgeball said,

If you are talking the MarkdownViewerPlusPlus plugin by nea, its indeed been dormant for many years, although I suspect it still works and you may have a problem on your end.

I can confirm MarkdownViewer++ still works… in that I still semi-actively use it in Notepad++ v8.8.7-64bit (it’d been a few weeks since the last time, so in case I had misremembered and it was on v8.8.5 that I’d last used it, I double-checked today, and it can still display my Markdown)

@Dragon-Red said,

Do you plan to upgrade the DLL so that this plugin is usable again?

In case you were curious, this Community Forum is the Community of Notepad++ users. Further, plugins are maintained by their respective authors or maintainers, not by the Notepad++ Developer, so even if you incorrectly thought this Community was the way to get in contact with the Notepad++ Developer, he’s not the right one to contact when you want an fix for a plugin. (And, as @notdodgeball told you, MarkdownViewer++ is effectively unmaintained at this point, unfortunately.)

@PeterJones Thank you for the explanation and my apologies for the confusion. I meant for both sides of lines to have the same number of dashes. I guess I did not catch that.

Your regex code worked and that was what I needed. Thank you very much!

@PeterJones

Changing only the ink color is much better than nothing, it works very well, thank you!

@Steve-Rhoads

This is a known issue, reported several times. Here’s one of those times (that links to some others): https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/13341

winget install Notepad++.Notepad++

I think the sandbox has winget. It has been a while since I have used it. Use -i if you want to select install options.

@Freon-Sandoz-0 said in Feature Request: Ask before deleting record of current files:

from the record

Maybe it’s about the already opened N++ session files and not about the recent files list?

If so, rather check the Preferences > Backup > Remember inaccessible files from past session.

More info in: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/session/#inaccessible-files-in-an-active-session

@ModelsRUs ,

Reading the comments on the issue you created, it appears the plugin author has helped your confusion, both with regard to Compare coming pre-installed or not (which it doesn’t), but also regarding uninstalling it.

But for those who don’t follow links to the issue boards, the short version:

Notepad++ does not come pre-installed with ComparePlugin or ComparePlus plugin. It is safe to delete D:...\Notepad++_portable\plugins\ComparePlugin\ (as long as N++ is not actively running when you delete it), and it will not in any way, shape, or form mess up nppPluginList.dll. Not noted in the comments: the nppPluginList.dll essentially tells Notepad++ where to download plugins using the Plugins Admin interface; and while it does read the N++ plugins directory to find out what plugins and versions are currently installed, it doesn’t care if that changes outside its control.

What happens if I install “ComparePlus” without “Compare” being removed?

There would be two plugins in the Plugins menu, and each would set up its own toolbar buttons (and I’m not sure you could tell which buttons go with which plugin). And if you used the ComparePlugin comparison, it wouldn’t work right in Dark Mode (see here for a recent issue about that) the two can technically coexist, but you would just always have confusion over which you are using. the intention is to only have one of the two plugins installed. (And since ComparePlus was released, the intention has been for users to uninstall ComparePlugin and just use ComparePlus.)

@PeterJones ,

thank you for the description! A did it and it works like a charm! It is indeed amazing what’s possible with Notepad++! Likewise it’s also amazing what a friendly and helpful community it has!

@guy038

I implemented your suggestions in version 1.1.

Hex values for the Unicode code points are shown if there are no more than eight code points in any of the normalized forms.

@PeterJones
That’s really unfortunate to find out… Even though it was made possible by mistake, we actually had it! So it’s certainly technically possible to implement. Wish an exception can be made for the Multi-line feature and an ID code can be assigned to be able to call upon it outside of Preferences.
Well thank you very much for the reply because I know now, so appreciate it.

@PeterJones Thanks for the reply been waiting for something like this for years! Just set up the latest 1.2 version (released yesterday coincidentally) . NppVim is wonderful! It does everything ViSimulator did, it also fixes a few minor issues I have delt with in ViSimulator and added features.

Fixes:

Works in newest versions of Npp + 64 bit. Using v $ actually selects to the end of the line now. ViSimulator went to end selection minus one character at the end. Can use Ctrl+f to NP++ find in regular or edit mode. In ViSimulator I needed enter edit mode to use Ctrl+f to find.

Added feature:

Can use : <integer> to jump to line numbers now, had to use Ctrl+g to use Npp’s one becuase ViSimulator did not support it. Can now use inputrc commands I used in the past like c i w, and y i w to cut or yank a whole word while in the middle of it

This is great, I’m really glad this exists now!

Thank you, your help was very useful and effective.

@Wilson-Azambuja-Porto-Alegre-RS said:

When I have dozens of tabs open, the scroll wheel blinks as many times as there are tabs open in order to position a specific tab, making the process extremely slow.