BTW:

5.1-if your home internet speed is fast enough, setup your own web server to your pc under virtualbox(in case of web server software cve’s/rce’s). I or anyone can help with that. Dont forget to hardening server for security.

IMO, this is BAD advice. To suggest to a non-security specialist who runs this as a hobby, that he should self-host, and try to keep up on all the security hardening, is asking him to get hacked even worse than the hack that already happened. He was literally paying a host to provide such services, and the professionals failed; he has now changed providers to a host who has better security procedures.

Believe me it’s not that hard to setup a webserver or harden it, especially while backed by a strong community. The risks are different when hosting at home between hosting remotely. The hosting firm may be offered money to hijack, or an out-of-date hosting management software had rce was waiting to be abused.

@sagradamoly-stack said in Managing the User Languages tool:

Is there any way to delete all the interim variations without losing all the work getting to a useful final result?

It depends on what you mean.

En masse? No

One at a time? Yes. In the UDL dialog, select each intermediate UDL from the drop-down, and click Remove. Since it’s likely on the order of a dozen or two, it won’t take you that long – less time than asking here took you, I’d wager.

without losing all the work

I mean, deleting the intermediate ones will obviously delete the intermediate stages. If you don’t want to lose them, but don’t want them in the N++ Language menu, use Export to save each to a separate XML file which you can then save in some backup directory, then Remove to take it out of the menu.

@shodanx2 ,

I normally stay out of the “Boycott” discussions, because they’re a complete waste of time (as is this one, for example, so I’ll be leaving this one again), but it seems really odd that you just started complaining about this a year after you successfully created your account and made your first post. But whatever, the haters are going to hate. (update: never mind, you were whining about this a year ago, too.)

If the owners of the forum software and the service that they are donating to host our forum (they normally charge people and organizations to host with them, but are giving the hosting for free to us, so beggars cannot be choosers), or the contributors to their ecosystem (not me, not the developer of Notepad++) ever provide a plugin that allowed a “login with XYZ” for any other OAUTH provider, I would enable that in a heartbeat, because I’m all for giving users a choice. I cannot speak for the rest of the internet, but the email-only didn’t work here, despite your repeated protestations, for whatever reason, so I’ve tried to help give users as much choice from OAUTH providers as possible; unfortunately, those are the only two for now.

Our choice of login has nothing to do with censoring people from speaking (as should be blatantly obvious, because we literally provide a topic for whining about Notepad++ in a forum dedicated to advocating for and helping people use Notepad++ … the N++ developer is highly into free speech), nor “shilling for the techbro cloud elites”, and everything to do with trying to make the user experience as good as possible for as many as we can.

Hello, @vitalii-dovgan,

By choosing Your option, I meant that the @peterjones’s option , with a link to the remote version, seems the best choice !

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! 🤗
I understand now why it behaves differently than before and can totally relate.
Keep up the great work! 👍

btw, i am simply using the superbly integrated ‘Read-Only’ functionaility! So I get the the safety AND convenience (no restart required).

All the best.

@PeterJones

Ah VERY HELPFUL.

I did not realize that what I had quoted was actually a listing of tab headers.

The shading was too subtle for me to recognize that this was not an errmsg, but were actually clickable tabs.

When v8.9.1 started, the tab which was active when opening PluginAdmin was (for whatever reason) the ‘Incompatible’ tab which was entirely blank – leading me to make my error.

Old people are such fun!

Thank you so much, all is well. Well, at least it is with NPP, which is the most one can hope for at the moment - the wider world seems to be slipping beyond repair.

@cashfields ,

Your post would have been much easier to read if you actually typed your text in the post, rather than typing your text in the image.

It looks like what you would like is the ability to have the file history be set to “relative” instead of “absolute”. Unfortunately, the developer already rejected a feature request which requested that you be able to store a session (File > Save/Load Session… commands) automatically as relative. And if sessions were too complicated to do that for, in his mind, then doing it for the file history is definitely right out.

However, if you save a session, and then edit it to be relative, I believe it works … so you could then load the relative session anytime your USB changes drive letter, and it would hopefully work for you.

(I know it’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but given his rejection of that feature request, it’s the best you’re going to get.)

Or, for a poor-man’s session: make a batch file that opens each file relatively in the batch file.

@PeterJones Hi, and thank you for your answer. Yes, the problem was partly due to the language, but I managed to address it before you replied. However, the other issue was actually a conflict with a shortcut from another application.

Cheers!

@Alan-Kilborn
Current line background colour is now white, also tried minty green
Selected text is now the minty green
Multi-selected text color is also minty green

minty green for all 3 then Current line background colour white.

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@Mister-Smitt said in Where does this nasty line highlighting come from??:

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How to fix this?

Read this FAQ

And I would like you to spit in the face of the person who did this when you are next to him.

Okay, I just spit in my own face. Does that make you feel better?

(New features sometimes have bugs. The new feature of updating your horribly-outdated theme to give you access to all the modern styles that have been hidden from you for years was a great idea, but the original implementation, under certain circumstances, had unintended side effects. And the relatively few people who updated to v8.8.9 or 8.9.0 have to go through a bit of extra effort; those who skipped those two versions will not have the side effects. But if spitting in my face helps you, go ahead.)

@FreeMeow Thank you!

@PeterJones , Perfect, many thanks,

@PeterJones
Thanks for the clear explanation, That really cleared up my confusion. I appreciate you taking the time to break it down and explain what actually happened and why updating is safe now.

Thank you! Problem solved.

@PeterJones
on the screenshot above Reduce option is already pressed though.
Max tab label length truncates text, which is not the behavior i want to restore - i want the tabs with short names to not have this big gap at the end.

That said, it seems that the “enable pin tab feature” was the culprit, as disabling it seems to have restored the desired tab size behavior.

There still is some extra spacing before the close button though:

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@PeterJones Thanks. I will work on getting the debug. Until then…

After making the edit, which took by the way (saved), I closed the app as usual. Just to be sure I checked Task Manager and found 2 instances of it showing there even though all copies were previously closed by me. I killed it there, unmounted the thumb drive that has the portable version I’m trying to edit, and then did a system restart thinking that might clear anything else.

I remounted the thumb drive and still have an edited Shortcuts file but it is not recognizing the changes. That edit is working with my resident copy on the same system but that was also hard to change when I did it a while back.

Thanks for the help.

@PeterJones Thanks. Changing the rendering mode to GDI, DirectWrite (retain frames), or DirectWrite (Draw to GDI DC) seems to stop the issue.

Here’s the debug info:
Notepad++ v8.9.1 (ARM 64-bit)
Build time: Jan 18 2026 - 21:12:46
Scintilla/Lexilla included: 5.5.8/5.4.6
Boost Regex included: 1_90
pugixml included: 1.15
nlohmann JSON included: 3.12.0
Path: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line:
Admin mode: OFF
Local Conf mode: OFF
Cloud Config: OFF
Periodic Backup: ON
Placeholders: OFF
Scintilla Rendering Mode: SC_TECHNOLOGY_DEFAULT (0)
Multi-instance Mode: monoInst
asNotepad: OFF
File Status Auto-Detection: cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode: OFF
Display Info:
primary monitor: 2304x1536, scaling 150%
visible monitors count: 1
installed Display Class adapters:
0000: Description - Qualcomm® Adreno™ X1-85 GPU
0000: DriverVersion - 31.0.133.2
OS Name: Windows 11 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version: 25H2
OS Build: 26200.7628
Current ANSI codepage: 1252
Plugins:
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.7)
NppExport (0.4)