@Emmanuel-PIERRE said: Hello today I see that in 8.9.6.4 on win11 the Ctrl is not working, though in all others app this is fine. I have very few plugins in it (mime tools, npp converter, npp exports) so I guess this is not where it comes from. Shortcuts are fine. any idea ? If you mean that the Ctrl key with a letter that isn’t a shortcut isn’t inserting the traditional control character, see Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Prevent control character (C0 code) from typing into document and be sure it is not checked. If you mean that Ctrl+drag on a selection is not working as it does in most Windows programs, that is a known peculiarity which can be resolved in either of two ways: Press the mouse button down first, then the Ctrl key. or Uncheck Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Enable Multi-Editing (Ctrl+Mouse click/selection). If neither of those is your problem, you’ll have to be more specific.

@PeterJones said: Columns++ plugin (though I don’t remember it having the header or full-column highlight, or just a gazillion other features which make column manipulation easier; the author @Coises can chime in at this point). There’s nothing in Columns++ for coloring text. The plugin is helpful if you want to do operations on data in visible columns (like right-justify the entries in a column, add the numbers in a column together, search/replace restricted to a column, do calculations to create a new column, sort on a column in situations that don’t work with Notepad++’s built-in sort) and/or to use elastic tab stops to make maintaining visible columns easier. It doesn’t do any coloring, though. Help is here if anyone wants to examine it to judge whether they might want to install Columns++.

@Em776102 not sure what your use is, for example in termux on android you can use nano. For most quick edits it’s enough I guess… Need something more advanced, use: Acode - code editor | OSS Surely it’s not our beloved notepad++, but quick search may reveal even more alternatives.

@xomx , Dave Bowman: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL. " HAL: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” [image: 488a3017b34fe587.png]

( @Lance-Marchetti , you originally posted this as a separate topic: I merged it into the original, so it’s easier for people to follow the conversation. )

@chtaylo3 , You only need to post in the “Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList” topic if there’s a feature or bug with the Plugins Admin and the list DLL itself. If there are issues with your PR to add it to NppPluginList, those will be discussed in the PR itself – and it looks like yours has been accepted already. If you want to just announce your new plugin, you can just create a new Topic in the Plugin Category to tell us about it. Hence, I am moving your post to its own Topic. And congrats on creating a lexer plugin!

@CodeBiene said: MenuIcons (2.0.7) This is most likely not a N++ issue but that plugin one: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16798 https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16867 @CodeBiene said: files are prefixed with a star “*” This is not a N++ feature but that plugin one. Seems it causes more problems than benefits: https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/issues/71#issuecomment-4321741836

@Kendall-DeMott , The installer shouldn’t lose your settings – it tries hard to not overwrite – but not impossible. But after it’s installed, it shouldn’t lose all the settings. One guess is that the config.xml file doesn’t actually have normal write permissions, so when you make all the changes inside Notepad++, it tries to save the settings, but cannot – I would have thought it would prompt you for that, but maybe not. Use Explorer to go to %AppData%\Notepad++\, and right click on config.xml, and check the permissions, to make sure your normal user has write permission to the file; and also make sure you aren’t running Notepad++ As Admin – it would have Administrator in the title bar, and list it as Admin Mode: ON in the ? > Debug Info – because maybe your system is set up so Admin cannot write to your AppData directory. Another guess is that you have two copies of Notepad++, and when your settings are changing, it is because it’s using a different copy of Notepad++, pointing to a different config location. Use Windows search to look for notepad++.exe, and see if it finds more than one copy. (If you have multiple drives, make sure you check them all.) I thought or was told that the the app’s preferences etc. loaded from the Session file? Nope. Settings are stored in config.xml. The list of open files is stored in session.xml I can’t remember where you can change the setting or edit a line so more items are remembered in the Find What window, can you please tell me how to set it to (12) It’s a Preference for Advanced Users, which can only be changed by editing nbMaxFindHistoryFind and similar attributes, as described in the User Manual. When manually editing config.xml, you have to follow the steps in the Editing Config Files section, reading about the differences in how you have to treat config.xml because of its unique status in Notepad++'s inner workings.

@perdrix52 , It works for me: [image: 1781706853432-2df53d4e-a553-473e-8d32-147c22eb6d7c-image.jpeg] [image: 1781706887521-43e468c4-e3db-4f30-819a-76dfd8e22e8f-image.jpeg] Sounds like a font issue and/or rendering-mode issue to me. What are your settings on Settings > Preferences > Searching (especially Use Monospaced font in Find dialog) and Settings > Preferences > MISC > rendering mode dropdown? And what encoding is your file that contains Japanese text?

NppExec v0.8.12.1 has been released! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! improved: now WarningAnalyzer automatically removes “” around a file path/name fixed: the Console Output Filters dialog did not clear WarningAnalyzer’s cache improved: now Highlight’s [I], [B], [U] have Italic, Bold and Underline style Get it here: https://github.com/d0vgan/nppexec/releases/tag/NppExec_v08121

@Travis-Young , I cannot replicate your problem: [image: 1781542289284-yamlpaste.gif] When I paste that in, the YAML formats the comments correctly, as far as I can tell. Could you either give the original data, and where you paste it? And your ?-menu’s Debug Info?

@makeymalik , Longstanding known issue: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/8660 From what I understand from that Issue, it’s usually related to the OS display-scaling setting in High-DPI modes. There’s a volunteer who has been slowly working through the known DPI issues, but hasn’t gotten to this one

@rspeicher452 , If you’re always on that screen for that laptop, I would recommend changing Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Default Style to use a bigger font size for the text, so that you don’t have to change the zoom. (The “zoom” feature was designed to be temporary, whereas setting the Default Style font size was designed as the perment way to set text size)

@Taras-Tkachenko , No version of Notepad++ has such a button on the tabs bar. There is one on the far right of the menu bar (beyond the ? menu): [image: 1780441214049-dbd16aed-078a-4380-be71-254794b615fc-image.jpeg] That one can be turned off using Settings > Prefeerences > General, where there’s a setting ☐ Hide right shortcuts ＋ ▼ ✕ from the menu bar – if you checkmark that, and restart, then it will hide those three symbols. Notepad++ never sets that option by default, so maybe you accidentally set it at some point. If it’s checkmarked, just uncheckmark it, and restart, and those three buttons will be back. But, again, Notepad++ doesn’t have a similar button on the tabbar (and never has). You can, however, double-click to the right of the tabs, and it will create a new tab without needing to find the symbol [image: 1780441370585-7b98eeb8-54c3-49c2-bb2c-1ca8c9df8891-image.jpeg] User Manual on related topics: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#general https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-interface/#tabs

@donho no I didn’t, but the last installations worked without problems and I have not done anything in the installation folder. Anyway, the program works now, and I’m apparently the only one who experienced the problem, so no need to investigate it further. Thank you for the time taken!

@jabcreations said: The only “people” using 800x600 these days are bots. That’s an absurd exaggeration. Whether or not there’s anyone on 800x600, there are plenty of people still using 1920x1080 monitors. (In case you don’t believe me, per April 2026 Steam HW/SW survey, more than 50% of Steam users are running at 1920x1080. So it’s still reasonable behavior for more than half of users – and that’s skewed toward gamers, who are more likely to have “fancy” tech; I am confident that in general, even higher percentage is still using 1920x1080.) Did I miss something or does this need to be a feature request? Could it be improved for 4K users? Likely (I’ve never used a 4K monitor, so I have no experience). There’s a long-open set of 4K issues in the official tracker, and it wouldn’t surprise me if this were already one of the open issues remaining… You might want to search the 4K issues in the repo to see if it already exists. But in the meantime, what’s your OS display scaling set to. Normally, with 4K, it’s somewhere in the 150% to 200%, IIRC from other posts. But if you’re at 100%, then of course GUI elements will be tiny.

Hello, Trying to do IPv6 in Syntax Highlighting for FortiOS. As I wanted to have a different font color for the dots and the colons in the IP address, I use those as operators, and have 0-9 A-F (Uppercase A-F) as keywords set to prefix. This only works if you’re building configs though, and will go back to default if there are lower case a-f hex values if you do a copy/paste type of thing in NPP. I chose to opt for uppercase A-F since all FortiOS words are case sensitive and must be lowercase(Not strings/objects mind you). You can, while configuring the device, set IPv6 addresses with these uppercase hex values. Note: You can specify objects without string delimiters, but I find that to be bad form. And if you include grep filtering in NPP, these keywords could be exposed. Keywords List Group Prefix Mode: Checked 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F Operators 1 . : /

I requested here: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17508 I then made a plugin here: https://github.com/shoulders/npp-exclusive-file-lock Thanks

@guy038 This method can be used to skip a string and replace part of a shorter, similar string, even when it precedes the long string. So, if the input text is:- abc abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz We can get an output like this:- ABC abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz by using this in the Find and Replace fields respectively with the “matches newline” box unticked (unchecked): FIND (?-s)abc.*xyz(*SKIP)(*F)|abc REPLACE \U$0 I am posting this here for the benefit of people who land on this page after searching online for something similar Explanation: Using $0 in the replace field is for replacing everything that is found while searching, which in this case is abc but due to the \U preceding the $0, it is replaced with the same in uppercase as ABC.