@h-jangra

I doubt that you can implement this in Scintilla in a reasonable way, but the other idea of having a preview is there, and there are at least two plugins, here and here that can give you some ideas.

@PeterJones I think I found the culprit behind this.

Looks like I had my Avast autoupdater to ON, and probably it was the reason behind quiet updates for both Notepad++ and my Mozilla Thunderbird 42.

It became a routine for me to reinstall old versions over and over and over agian.

Thank you for your response.

Really appreciate your help and detailed approach.

@PeterJones
Thank you for the reply. Yes, I understood that inference. I was hoping there was additional tweaks to try. Yes, I could do a reply. It was triggered on a very minor edit. Maybe the site support would be interested in the issue. But it’s not important to me now.

@Rick-Kosters

You can try the free Agent Ransack utility from https://www.mythicsoft.com
It works with .doc, .docx and .pdf files too.

@rdipardo

I didn’t mean that I run and hide from anything that AI is touched or influenced by. That wouldn’t be practical.

@James-Burke-0 ,

Also, please don’t waste our time by asking the same question repeatedly in different ways. I told you this in early November, in this post, where I said, “instead of providing you a Save button…”, and went on to explain the same thing.

It’s very annoying to go to all the trouble of giving a detailed answer, and then to get proof that the answer is completely ignored by the person who asked.

@Jeff-Esposito

Hi, I had the same problem.

In my case it was (alsmost certain) caused by heavily editing the DarkMode-Default theme that got a size of over 500Mb. I Suspect it was caused by using many custom colors.

It has nothing to do with BitDefender. We have the BitDefender Endpoint Security running on our machines too.

Switching from dark mode Default to another theme completely solved the problem for me.
\Editing that theme with default colors did not slow down startup.
Give it a try.

Tip:

You can keep your personal theme by coping and renaming it. It will them show up in the themes
list. You can find the themes in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++

Gerard Kiekens
(Key-Can Computer Services The Netherlands)

@bvklaveren said in sha512 certificate cannot be validated:

I have seen the instructions, but installing the self-signed certificate on all computers in the organization is not a practical solution.

Okay. Then ignore the self-signed, since there’s a commercially-signed alternative that can give you confidence that the binary is being distributed by the one who it claims to be.

It only takes one certificate to give the confidence, but it also means that you can ignore any other certificate on the same file, because having two certificates (one self-signed that you choose to distrust and the other commerically-signed which you choose to trust) gives you exactly the same amount of confidence that the binary is valid as does having just the commercially-signed certificate with none others. Whereas for someone who does trust the self-signed, they can choose to trust that self-signed and ignore the commercially-signed as being tainted by money.

Also, why would you include a self-signed certificate if you also have “real” one that can be validated without extra steps?

The “why’s and wherefore’s” are all available in the public, in various discussions on this forum (search for certificate) and the relevant section of the User Manual and in the various announcement pages in the official website. But I’ll sum it up, from my outside perspective:

Because for months, there wasn’t a commercial certificate available, because the corporations behind the certificates are set up to make things difficult to open source projects. And once he did get the new globalsign cert, he didn’t feel it was worth it to undo all the effort he had put into creating the self-signed certificate.

Lastly, it is not in the msi, so why is it in the exe?

apples and oranges?

The MSI is a container, which can be signed, and is signed separately from any EXE or DLL that might be contined therein. So the developer apparently chose to only sign that MSI with the commercially-derived – probably because his system was already setup to sign the EXE with both (because it was setup to sign with just the self-signed, then he added the globalsign cert on top of that once it was available), whereas the MSI didn’t come until a month or two after the globalsign was available, so he probably didn’t think it was worth the extra effort to figure out how to sign the MSI with the self-signed as well.

@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.

@ioc2e3:

I’m fairly sure the only one of those you can edit in Notepad++ is json.

You’ll have to look up the rest yourself. In some cases there might be more than one way the same file extension is used, so you’ll have to figure out which program wrote the files. (For example, .aff can be a file used as part of a spell-checking dictionary or an Advanced Forensic Format file.)

Even for JSON, you usually shouldn’t just edit a JSON file in Notepad++ unless you know what you are doing. JSON files are highly structured and any given JSON file is normally maintained by a specific program or set of programs for specific purposes. Usually there is a correct way to change the data stored there through a user interface provided by the application, rather than diving in yourself.

It might seem like a pain in the butt, but you need to work out which programs created each of the files that concern you and research those programs to figure out how to examine and/or change these files. If Notepad++ can open them at all, it will probably give you nothing but the ability to mess them up.

@donho

Thank you for all the work you do, I’m a huge fan of Notepad++, I wanted to confirm a few details due to the heavy usage of Notepad++ in my environment:

Regarding the WinGup fix in v8.8.8, Was the temp.sh (or similar) exfiltration vector reported in v8.8.4 possible on a clean, official installation of Notepad++?

Was administrative privileges on the Windows computer where 8.8.4 is install required to exploit the vulnerability?

You mentioned the fix landed in v8.8.8, but can you confirm if this vulnerability was introduced specifically in v8.8.4 (due to changes in the updater), or were versions prior to 8.8.4 (like 8.8.2/8.8.3) also susceptible to this specific gup.exe hijacking technique? What about 8.8.5-8.8.7?

For users currently running v8.8.4 who want to verify they haven’t been impacted before updating: Aside from monitoring network traffic for temp.sh, are there specific things we can check for, like modifications to the update xml file or other modified files/logs in the program directory?

This issue bothers me as well. I’ve already found a way around but unfortunately my half finished PR got lost together with my SSD which went w/o farewell into the Silicon Heaven and took some of my unbackuped freetime projects with it.

I’ll try next week.

@PeterJones Thank you!

@PeterJones nice I will try and upload this theme as well.

@me

I printed out a cookie recipe in NP++ and LO Writer

Try to be more explicit. I actually use LibreOffice and, until @PeterJones explicitly stated it in his response, I had no idea what you were talking about when you said “LO”.

@JuergenBelle ,

Further to what @h-jangra said, since N++ v8.8.6, you can just paste your multi-line text into the Replace, and use the Search @h-jangra suggested, and you don’t need the plugin at all…

If your replacement has parentheses () or dollar signs $, it might not work as you expect, so you might have to escape them, as described in the user manual (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#substitutions)

I seem to recall that there was a bug in the main GitHub repo about this kind of issue, where it was extremely slow to move tabs when a lot of tabs were open.

I also seem to recall that this issue was solved, probably in the last year. I’d recommend that @Wilson-Azambuja-Porto-Alegre-RS install the most recent Notepad++ version and see if that fixes the problem.

@Alan, listen to @PeterJones when he says to scan your computer for viruses. TextShaping.dll is commonly used in DLL sideloading exploits, and if your executables are trying to call it when it resides in a place it doesn’t belong (your Notepad++ directory), then there’s a good chance your computer has been hacked.

That doesn’t mean you should freak out just yet, just take some steps to ensure that you’re not hacked.

@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.)

Thank you guys all so very much, now that I know that it’s a GVAS file, I’ll chase down that lead and try to get somewhere!!!