Here are the latest binaries of SmartMath. This is a fully-working unofficial build that is going to be added to the official git repository… unless more improvements are suggested :) What’s new: the archive structure corresponds to the expectations of the Plugins Admin; the plugin searches for its documentation file near the SmartMath.dll, as well as in the “plugins\doc” folder; the plugin shows a warning when it does not find its syntax files in the expected locations under the “userDefineLangs” and “autoCompletion” folders of Notepad++. 64-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pTS_cBdU_Q0vkG03cubqWZ9TDdYiSsXW/view?usp=drive_link 32-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qsI5Hsx4XmyRlhVeGsplAoTX391WEnOv/view?usp=drive_link

@PeterJones Thank you now as for my other questions …

@guy038 , I have also noticed that, recently, the username filter in the advanced search page doesn’t populate usernames. I had thought it might have just been me. I know that @barisusakli from NodeBB occasionally logs in, and they recently updated the forum software for us… maybe that version had a bug, because the admin panel says there’s another version available since they last updated us. Until then, once you make your search, you can edit the URL to set &by=PeterJones to search for my posts (right now, the URL probably has &by= with no value). It’s not as convenient as the drop-down, but it is a workaround.

@T.I-Digital-Solutions , These super-generic “what’s your workflow?” posts come up every once in a while. Maybe you should try to search up the older ones – they follow almost exactly your wording, so they shouldn’t be hard to find. I don’t seem to remember the original poster coming back and learning anything from them, or even interacting again in most cases, so I don’t know that there’s really much point to them. But since you ask, UDL and built-in syntax highlighting are non-negotiables, and I like the regex-based s+r (though I don’t need the complicated expressions that so many people ask us to make for them). As far as plugins go – for automating stuff for myself, PythonScript and NppExec and QuickText (I set up most of my workflow stuff ages ago, such that I don’t do anything new with those plugins, really… they just sit in the background making my life easier without me thinking about them anymore.) But really, context-less questions like this are meaningless. What features, plugins, etc, would help you depend completely on what you do in Notepad++. If you never touch HTML, then someone saying all their favorite XML/HTML plugins would not help you one whit.

@gromittoo , I have never seen that happen. The only way I know of for the two Views to appear to have different font sizes is if there is a zoom difference. I know you said you returned to default zoom, but the two Views don’t sync zoom in modern Notepad++, so you have to return to default zoom for each View separately. (Click one view, reset its zoom; click other view, reset its zoom) If your views are top/bottom, rather than left/right, they aren’t guaranteed to have the same number of rows, so right click on the divider between, and Rotate Left to get back to side-by-side views, which always have the same vertical space. Alternatively, if the font sizes are actually visibly the same, by a given line takes up more vertical space because of line wrap, you can drag the separation bar left/right to balance the width, or turn off line wrapping. I want to compare two files, side by side. My searches led me to use the View -> Move/Clone Current Document -> Clone to other view… That advice showed two copies of the same file, and doesn’t compare two separate files. You can move (not clone) the second file into the other view, if you really want two different files side-by-side. And if you’re really comparing two files, the ComparePlus plugin is your friend. (It can be installed using Plugins > Plugins Admin)

@rdipardo , I got a statement of sorts in regard to this request, specifically, this comment: Using AI to create a PR for an open source project - is it a good thing or a bad thing? I have no judgement on that. For me, the only criterion that matters is whether the merged code will be maintainable in the future. On this point, I have to say that AI-generated PRs (I can usually tell during code review), often do not meet the critera in their current state - but many human devs don’t either.

@PeterJones Oh!! Understood!! thank you!!!

@Adam-Narkiewicz , (sorry for the slow reply: when I first read your post, I was in the middle of something, and couldn’t go looking for the issues, so I hoped that someone else would reply with similar information. Since no one has, I am doing it now.) Honestly, I believe the bug is in step 5: it shouldn’t do that “check for underlying file existence” when you tell it to Close All (or when just closing one file, as in Issue #11866; or when you tell it to reload a file, as in Issue #18718). The developer tried (per this comment) to find a way around this, but hasn’t found a viable solution yet. After asking whether to keep a file in the editor, Notepad++ closes it no matter what my answer is. For me, since you already said “close all”, I don’t see a problem in Notepad++ closing it. I am not convinced it should’ve asked in the first place. Fortunately, if there are unsaved changes – so if you’ve edited the file, so there are unsaved changes to the file that doesn’t exist anymore – it will interrupt the process and ask you to save it, and when it fails, it stops the process (not the best solution, but better than losing data). So this oddity at least won’t let you lose unsaved changes accidentally when doing Close All for files that have disappeared. So that’s something. asks me whether to keep some deleted files open, but not all That does seem problematic, to me. I guess after doing the single check, it finally believes your request to Close All meant to Close All. In conclusion: Since Issue #11866 exists for the single file-close, I don’t think this needs a separate official issue. I’m glad it’s “not particularly annoying” to you, because it could be a long time (if ever) before a solution can be found.

@ChotaFallen , Under default Monokai, I cannot replicate: [image: 1790262087450-9491595a-6d67-4abf-8758-f5ed5da6beb3-image.jpeg] However, if I change the Default Style > Background for Monokai (to a green similar to your second screenshot), I can see it: [image: 1790262414327-b8f97a3a-d5b4-43cd-b0f3-a1c35e66c366-image.jpeg] It’s because Monokai (and most themes) hardcodes every background color for every style, rather than using “inherit”. Here’s an example using the default style: [image: 1790262562644-9ba07e02-fb1d-4d2f-a580-d6cb2d7d5924-image.jpeg] The theme color choices aren’t always perfect, and not everyone is going to agree with color choices made. As such, you can customize to what you want. If you want most of the backgrounds for your theme to inherit from the “default background” rather than being hardcoded, you can go through and right click the background color for any that are the default. (Or, as a footnote, I will also explain a process that you can edit the XML for your customized Monokai, to automatically change anything that has a background that matches the monokai default background to inherit from default background, so that you can do it in a lot less time.) What I need is a better highlighed line I am working in, its black on dark that has nothing to do with highlight. … If I try to change it via Style congiruator the line will be solid in the color I choode doesnt matter for fore or background. Which “highlight” do you mean? And I am not sure what you aren’t liking about it when you change it. Current line highlight: default Monokai: [image: 1790262875579-db922444-92f4-4df3-91f4-9865727004fd-image.jpeg] set it to something else: [image: 1790262905945-fca66fe1-82d2-47cd-92cb-8c1ca0e6bc54-image.jpeg] it does exactly what I expect: it changes the current line background color 0x3E3D32 to something based on the color I selected. Selected text colour: default: [image: 1790263082002-6cf5b4c1-7b2e-47bc-8b20-47ad2ea1884a-image.jpeg] modified: [image: 1790263104839-6318a4e3-6d6a-4583-b949-855a439f304c-image.jpeg] again, it does what I expect Smart Highlighting: default: [image: 1790263153651-1107e88c-b40c-4622-b0e9-d2676004c323-image.jpeg] changed to cyan: [image: 1790263182686-3ba38b0a-1f92-4d9d-ba94-b36ef4d0c6f3-image.jpeg] this one, it’s actually combing the selected color with the normal background color, so it’s not exactly the same color you chose; but again, that’s not unique to Monokai Find Mark Style: used when you use Find > Mark dialog [image: 1790263284015-0e9c9f44-f393-44ae-b29a-386e362939bd-image.jpeg] Mark Style #: used when you use Search > Style … Token options: [image: 1790263340517-131aa3df-93bd-4977-9bd9-3143c4a7fbcb-image.jpeg] There are a few other, less likely, choices that you might mean by highlight. But rather than showing that I think it does what’s expected, it would be better if you were more specific about what you were doing, and what you don’t like, and what you would like. Footnote: Make Monokai backgrounds inherit quickly I assume you have a copy of Monokai.xml in %AppData%\Notepad++\themes\ . Exit all copies of Notepad++ Copy Monokai.xml to Monokai_custom.xml Edit Monokai_custom.xml with Notepad++ Confirm that <WidgetStyle name="Default Style" has bgColor="272822" – if not, manually edit it to use that Search > Replace, set Search Mode = Regular Expression FIND = (?-s)bgColor="272822".*\KcolorStyle="(?:(2)|(3))" REPLACE = colorStyle="(?{1}0)(?{2}1)" REPLACE ALL FIND = (?-s)(bgColor="272822"(?:(?!colorStyle).))*\h*/> REPLACE = colorStyle="${1} colorStyle="1" /> REPLACE ALL On the “Default Style” line again, delete colorStyle="1" Save the file Exit Notepad++ and re-launch it Settings > Style Configurator > Select Theme = Monokai_custom Now if you change Monokai_custom’s default background color, it should propagate to all the other styles (both normal text and each language), so it really changes the background throughout.

@Bondige-Ramesh , I am sorry you are having difficulty. Assuming you mean “Notepad++”, not “Notepad” (they are two different applications – Notepad++ is what’s discussed in this forum; Microsoft’s notepad.exe is a separate product, and is not the focus of this forum) please share your ?-menu’s Debug Info, so we know what version of Notepad++ you are using, and get some useful information to help us replicate and diagnose your problem please be more specific than saying “suddenly loaded as empty” over and over. If it’s just a matter of you had a file, then accidentally deleted its contents, there is not much we can do to help you: we have a FAQ about backups, which gives a couple places to look, depending on what your Notepad++ backup settings are. But the chances are, now that the file loads empty, you have likely lost your data.

I think keeping discussions focused on the original topic helps everyone get more useful answers. At the same time, related side discussions can be valuable when they add context or share practical experience. A clear distinction between the main topic and tangential advice makes the community easier to follow.

Years later, I finally had the time to figure out how to implement “UDL as Default Language” for PR#18499 to close my Issue #11097 and related Issues. It was just just merged, so will be in the upcoming v8.9.9 RC

XBrackets Lite v2.0.4 Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! improved: a manually typed closing bracket steps over an auto-completed one, even after typing text inside the pair. For example, typing ( automatically inserts ), producing (|), where | indicates the caret position. Typing abc places the characters inside the pair, resulting in (abc|). Typing the final ) then steps over the existing ), resulting in (abc)| instead of adding a duplicate closing bracket (abc)). changed: while searching for “XBrackets.txt”, the plugin first checks the “plugins\XBrackets” folder, and only then checks the “plugins\doc” folder. a few internal corrections. https://github.com/d0vgan/npp-XBracketsLite/releases/tag/XBrackets_v204

@docpomus , I am sorry no one replied yet. Usually when that happens, it means that either gup.exe or nppPluginList.dll (in subdirectories of your Notepad++ installation folder) still have the “mark of the web”. To check (and clear) the “mark of the web”, exit Notepad++; right click on the exe or dll file; select Properties; in the General properties tab, if there is a message at the bottom with “unblock”, checkmark that checkbox, and click OK. Do that for either/both files. After that, the plugins should be able to update from Plugins Admin again.

I said: In case anyone else is interested, you can try previewing plain-text wireloom files with this development build of Preview HTML. This feature has now been merged, with additional support for offline Markdown previews that will render wireloom code blocks: [image: 1790348955006-wireloomx898.gif] All rendering is done by client-side JavaScript modules, so MS Edge is still required. @Keith-Collyer said: What would be really good would be if the developers of these re-merged their plugins! Don’t look now, but no fewer than three new Markdown plugins have appeared in the past two weeks — and they all depend on the WebView2 runtime (i.e. Edge).

@peterjones Installed Notepad++ v8.9.8.1, and this problem went away [image: 1790343129511-%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9.png] p.s. And I don’t need to unblock files received from the Internet, because after a clean install of any Windows, I will block this option through the registry.