@Shobansky , See my longer answer to you here. I’m not sure why you started a new Topic when you were already participating in a Topic about exactly the same thing, and when there was a Topic created 5 days ago that was essentially the same thing. (Also, naming a Topic “feature request” is not helpful to people looking through the titles of the recent posts, because it tells them nothing about the contents of said feature request. Titles should be meaningful if you want meaningful discussion.) Also, since I’m not sure you’ve seen it, our new feature FAQ explains that, while we can talk about ideas all we want in this Community of Notepad++ users, it isn’t an official Feature Request until you follow the instructions in that FAQ to post the Feature Request to the official Issues tracker for the project.

@metaad Please try this one: https://github.com/donho/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/TEST

@donho, thanks for your work. Just a small text issue in change.log: [image: 1776927252471-201ed2b9-32b0-4e6b-87e8-053029c2feca-grafik.png] versus [image: 1776927304555-cbe0c0b0-b7d2-4cf4-8aef-4fbb24ae565c-grafik.png]

@PeterJones That “Stopped working” is a common overall expression there for the app crashes, hungs etc. So @mapsonx should open that “details” you mentioned or simply launch the Windows EventViewer, i.e.: press WinKey+R to invoke the Windows Run-dialog copy & paste there: eventvwr.msc /c:"Application" and click OK wait for the Event Viewer launching and attaching to OS logs search/filter there for “Error” Level records (or simply follow the ReliabilityMonitor published date/time of the N++ problem), with “notepad++.exe” within app crashes usually have as log Source “Application Error”, frozen apps “Application Hang” Then publish here what the content of such a record tell us, e.g.: Faulting application name: notepad++.exe, version: 8.9.3.0, time stamp: 0x69bc8a94 Faulting module name: USER32.dll, version: 10.0.19041.6926, time stamp: 0xcd1afcbd Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x00000000000467cd Faulting process id: 0x296c Faulting application start time: 0x01dcce3ba0a16cb7 Faulting application path: ...\npp.8.9.3.portable.x64\notepad++.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\USER32.dll

@Lars-Hesselberg said: the Find dialog seems to pop up where it left at last Find. This seems very reasonable to me. …sometimes a “Seek & find”! Shouldn’t be…it’s where you “left (it) at last Find”. Summary: Put it where you want it to appear always, and it will always appear in that same spot.

@tauniaxd , I have added the ability to do rgba(0,127,127,0.05)-type colors to the on-demand script at https://github.com/pryrt/nppStuff/blob/main/pythonScripts/nppCommunity/21xxx/21044-ColorizeHtmlCssColors.py [image: 1776539472904-1e6ece19-b4de-4475-b379-0649d96b2d4f-image.png] If you prefer full underline, then change lines 24 and 26 of the script to use INDICATORSTYLE.PLAIN instead of INDICATORSTYLE.DASH [image: 1776539591564-aa370073-5db8-4431-b80e-7ffc21b3c61c-image.png]

And please don’t forget the easiest solution, just uncheck the option to install the Context Menu Entry during Notepad++ installation. [image: 1775845639874-5769799f-767f-43f8-9077-4fa41520f267-grafik.png]

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@Shobansky , A few months after the original post was made, this FAQ was created, which explains how to use pork2sausage plugin (or the run menu, or the NppExec plugin) to transform text. And since things like Prettier or js-beautify exist, it makes more sense to pass formatting to an external utility that’s customized for a specific programming language, to make users of that programming language happy – rather than relying on limiting the formatting to whatever rules that one developer adds to the editor. (Given the arguments people have over the auto-indentation, and how the developer hasn’t been able to keep everyone happy even on that “simple” aspect of formatting, trying to get a generic formatter to the point that everyone is happy is virtually impossible.) I don’t understand why it doesn’t have some formatting capability like other editors… Every editor has strengths that it focuses its feature development on. Notepad++'s strengths are in the ease and availablilty of plugins and running external applications… so plugins specific to the language (like HTML Tidy) or plugins that launch external programs (like pork2sausage) are the way that Notepad++ made it easy to get formatting customized the way you want it, rather than restricting you to the ability of the N++ developer to support and implement. And the developer’s philosophy is that, unless it’s something that he wants to put his own stamp on, if it’s already been implemented well in a plugin or can be easily run through the run-menu/pork2sausage/nppexec, then he doesn’t want to waste his effort on doing something mediocre built-in when something good-to-great already exists. As someone with a full time job completely unrelated to Notepad++, he wants to focus his limited development time to things that he likes, he wants, or that he can add value to. Moreover, in the modern realm, things are moving toward LSP-based solutions – so if the languages you program in have LSP servers available, then (as was mentioned in this very similar question a few days ago) you can use one of the LSP plugins (the plugin by Kered or @Ekopalypse’s LSP client plugin) – so if your language’s LSP server has the code formatting feature, the LSP plugin you choose should be able to activate that.

@ioc2e3 , This is a copy of your GitHub issue. But I don’t think anyone has any clue what you actually want or are asking about. Could you please clarify what you’re asking about? Is it something that only happens if you use that specific localization, or does it happen in English as well?

@Bodenseematze said in 8.9.4 installation shows error for AppX call: I don’t know the exact message Probably(?) the same as in the https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/105358

@Rex-Theodore You can always use the Run menu to call up the formatters with the current buffer. However, since you mentioned that you use Python, you can use the PythonScript plugin and trigger an action whenever you receive a NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED. If you want more features, you might want to check out Kereds or my LSP client for Notepad++. However, this means that the languages you use must have an LSP server.

@Fii-Ert said in 傻逼软件，傻逼作者，傻逼呆湾人: 美国干涉台湾，又怎么说？ 台湾的绿圾执政党，自甘堕落化为纳粹，由不得别人不干涉！ 347 你这种逻辑，正是共产主义灌输教育的典型特征——试图将共产主义的侵略行径粉饰为某种“好事”，而事实绝非如此。这本质上不过是一种混淆视听的企图。你将美国的援助视为“干涉”，这纯粹是你基于自身偏见所构建的一种妄想式解读，而非客观现实。中国必须远离台湾，这一点毫无商量余地。

@Hiroki-H1974 said in The Column count of Zenkaku chr. is 1?: So, the position is not the same even if Col: count is same because the line contains some Zenkaku chrs. I don’t know Japanese; please forgive me if I’ve missed the point in some way. The column (“col:”) in the status bar is just a count of characters from the beginning of the line, starting at one. (That’s not even always what you might expect; combining characters that form a single visible character are still counted separately.) Aside from a few things like cursor positioning, line wrapping and selection with the mouse, Notepad++ (like the Scintilla control it uses for editing) doesn’t concern itself with the physical space occupied by characters. In English, we can use a proportional font, and a line of twelve characters will show the next “column” as 13, whether they are IIIIIIIIIIII or WWWWWWWWWWWW. So (though I haven’t attempted to test it), regardless of font, I would expect that there would be no recognition of the difference between half-width and full-width characters.

@William-Fields said in Curse of the Curly Quotes: When pasting code into NP++ from another source, no matter what I do, if the source has curly quotes, the pasted content has curly quotes. Right. That’s because the curly quote characters have different codepoints from ASCII quotemarks. It’s doing the right thing. If you want to convert, then use a regular expression: FIND = [“”] REPLACE = " SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression REPLACE ALL change all curly quotes to straight quotes when opening documents or pasting content There’s no such command or option in Notepad++, because that would be Notepad++ changing characters from one codepoint to another without user interaction, which is the antithesis of text editing https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/102348 The Direct Write ligature-effects from the post you showed is just the fonts changing the appearance of characters based on font ligature rules, but the underlying characters that Notepad++ is presenting are the exact same characters as found on disk. On the other hand, the curly quotes that you are copying and pasting are different characters from the ASCII quote.

@martin-honnen , Please be careful when forking and keeping the original name for an apparently-abandoned plugin. Sometimes, it turns out it wasn’t as abandoned as thought – something like that happened with NppConsole plugin (as obliquely mentioned in a recent Topic here): a few years ago, it appeared abandoned, so a regular here took the source code, and made their own fork, but kept the original name (thinking it would be safe, because it appeared to be no longer supported in the original channel); but then, fast forward a few more years, and the original author did provide their own upgrades to the original plugin – so now there are two competing development paths, each having version numbers not present in the chain for the other, which will make any future questions in the forum confusing, as to which NppConsole plugin is actually being talked about. Similarly, if morbac ever decides to come back to the plugin, then your fork and the original could have conflicting and/or confusing version numbers and naming. I would highly recommend coming up with your own name for your product, if you are planning to continue development and support on your version of the plugin. If it’s really just a one-off thing, and you aren’t planning on future bugfixes/improvements/support, then it’s up to you whether it’s worth the rename; but if you want to continue to work on the plugin, then I’d suggest the rename. OTOH: if you can get permission from @morbac to take over completely, then it’s safe to keep the original name, because you’ve got the permission. (It’s most clear, in cases like that, if you can get write permission to the original repo – @chcg was able to do with @bruderstein’s PythonScript, and that sense of continuity makes it more obvious that his is still the “official” PythonScript.)

@Steve-Plumlee said in Flickering screen on the latest edit that i've made (like a preview of current and previous state): @GM-Bobby-B Hi I am having the same experience. I suspect this is a new “Feature” but I have been unable to determine where the setting is to turn it off. Did you ever figure it out? @Lycan-Thrope Appreciate your FAQ items but I think this is a feature that was added. Maybe one of the dev’s can answer that Forum search didn’t result in any other posts so maybe it’s a plugin or something? No, if the video that the original poster put in reddit last year is realy what you’re seeing, it’s not a “feature”. @Lycan-Thrope linked to the FAQ because the original poster didn’t give enough version information to be any help. And despite thanking him for the link to the FAQ, neither did you. Share your ?-menu’s Debug Info to let us know what version you are using, and many other things that are often relevant to debugging uncommon problems. That user has never come back to this forum since the original post, so never even saw @Lycan-Thrope’s answer. And the people in Reddit just found that changing the caret blink rate in the preferences “fixed” it for them… though that should have nothing to do with what Notepad++ displays. My guess is that it was really a plugin causing the problem, or that the underlying cause is actually something slowing down the entire computer, causing it to refresh Notepad++'s screen at odd times. If you think it might be a plugin, we’ve got a different FAQ which has a section on diagnosing “Possible Culprit: Plugin”: you should follow the steps included there.

@shodanx2 See HERE.

@Martin-Bishop said in Notepad++ not responding:. I followed the steps above and was certain it was a new plugin I installed earlier in the day, but the removal of plugin, creating a backup Notepad++ folder in %AppData% and completely uninstalling NP++ before reinstalling it hasn’t fixed anything. For now, the only way to start it is to use the -noPlugin command line argument on my usual shortcut to the program. If using -noPlugin makes it work, that means it’s one of your plugins, or an interaction between multiple plugins, causing the issue. Our freeze/crash/plugin FAQ explains how to try to isolate which plugin is the culprit.

@Rene-Balduk , Are you in an IT-controlled environment that requires connecting to a proxy to connect to the internet? If so, then you (or someone from IT) will need to launch Notepad++ As Admin, and set ? > Set Updater Proxy to the right value. (127.0.0.1 is your localhost – ie your own computer – and it surprises me that it would be pointing to a proxy on your own machine)