@gerdb42 Thanks. A little tricky, but will be useful once I’ve worked on a couple of simple ‘test’ examples. It’s not exactly like the Npp version, apparently, but will serve as ‘fairy bike wheels’ until I master this stuff a little more. :-)

@PeterJones

If you have compare plugin installed you can use it, compare english.xml with english_customizable.xml I provided and you’ll see all differences. Anyway below is explanation of couple of them (ones that you didn’t mention).

Ps. you probably know this but you can make context menu and tab context menu work in both localizations by referring to items by their IDs instead of their names. IDs can be found with NPPUISpy plugin or by reading english.xml localization file.

renamed “Window” menu as Tabs as to my observations items inside are tabs, not windows.

“containing folder”. I have not heard this term used anywhere else than NPP. Most common name for showing file folder in explorer is “Show In Explorer”, sometimes also “Open in Explorer”. IMO in this context “current folder” is more intuitive.

“close multiple documents” --> “close multiple tabs”. How often people use NPP to edit “documents” ? For me I edit mainly script or programming source code, txt, ini, xml files, etc… Document gives completely wrong impression (in my opinion) so tab is a better term.

“edit - insert”–>“edit - insert date, time”. If you use the program seldom you will not remember what sort of insert options there are inside so better to have more descriptive menu item name.

“Convert case to”–>“Case”, “Line Operations”–>“Line”, “EOL Conversion”–>“EOL”, unneeded words cluttering UI

“Auto-Completion”–>“Auto-Complete”, latter is de-facto term used for this feature

“View - View current file in”–>“View - Open with”, Open with is more common way to describe this feature

“Encoding - Character Set”–>“Encoding - Non-English Encoding”. Character set is pretty ambigous name but this submenu contains only encoding related to non-english languages so I thought this name would be more descriptive.

“Language - User Defined Language”–>“Language - UDL Settings”. IMO things related to UDL were maybe most confusing and illogical part of NPP UI. So I did a lot of changes there.

“Reload from Disk”–>“Reload”. Usually it is called just Reload or Refresh

“Open in default viewer”–>“Open in default program”

“Folder as Workspace”–>“Workspace - Panel”

“Synchronize Horizontal Scrolling”–>“Sync Horizontal”

“Focus on Another View”–>“Focus on Other View”

“Open User Defined Language folder…”–>“Open userDefineLangs Folder…”

“Notepad++ Online User Manual”–>“USER MANUAL”

“Run…”–>“Open External Program…”

“Close - Close All BUT This”–>“Close - Other Tabs”

Close - Close All to the Left"–>“Close - Left”

“Find in Files”–>“Search in Multiple Files”. This was especially confusing. I had no idea what Find in Files would mean but Search in Multiple Files is pretty self explanatory.

I’ve added this case to the Manual!
https://d0vgan.github.io/nppexec/?q=4.6.20

@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.

@pbarney said:

it needs a lot of scaffolding to handle all the edge cases (saved/unsaved file, command line argument quoting, font encoding

Re unsaved file: You could have simply had the script abort if the active file is unsaved; with a message to the user of course.

Re encoding: If you’d have used PythonScript3 I think encoding issues would have been minimal.

The above are not complaints (negatives) against your script, just comments.

The script works for you…so Great Work!

@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.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v886-released/

@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.