@Chris-Fesko using vs 2022 doesn’t mean the code is using .net. My code certainly isn’t. It’s standard c++ throughout (though it is c++20 so i’m not sure how well that work with vc++ 6.0)

@xomx said in "I wanted to make it April 1, but I didn't want to be accused of April Fool's Day... but we're going to do it in April. I'm a very superstitious person":

like promoting the use of Bermuda Triangle know-how for garbage collectors.

Brilliant !

@Leszek-Helak ,

Notepad++ does not natively allow adding new buttons to the Toolbar, without using a plugin.

The Customize Toolbar plugin will allow you to do this.

Use Plugins > Plugins Admin to install Customize Toolbar (and restart Notepad++) Use Plugins > Customize Toolbar > Custom Button to enable the custom button feature Edit %AppData%\Notepad++\plugins\Config\CustomizeToolbar.btn to add the following two linesMacro,Trim Trailing Space and Save,,,*S:Tr,*S:Tr View,Show Symbol,Show All Characters,,*S:¶,*S:¶ The first line is the way to add the macro. Just use your exact macro name instead of Trim Trailing Space and Save. The second line is to overcome a bug in the plugin (the plugin isn’t actively maintained, and it started adding extra spaces when Notepad++ improved the behavior of the [¶] “Show All Characters” button) Note: a drawback to this is that it gets rid of Notepad++'s native icon for the action, which also includes a visible pulldown button to indicate there are options on the Toolbar:
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To get the same pulldown when using the CustomizeToolbar, you have to right-click on the new icon:
814c3d29-6130-4e4c-b780-6716775164bc-image.png If you don’t like the colorful-text-as-icon provided by the Customize Toolbar for the Show All Characters, then you could follow my instructions in this reply in the bug report, which gives some example icons and shows you how to use those icons.
Similarly, if you made a .BMP file and two .ICO files for your macro, and put them in the same directory, you could use the similar method for specifying the images for the macro’s icon. An example, based on the instructions in the bug report:Macro,Trim Trailing Space and Save,,,Icons\myMacro.bmp,Icons\myMacro_light.ico,Icons\myMacro_dark.ico View,Show Symbol,Show All Characters,,Icons\allChars.bmp,Icons\allChars_off.ico,Icons\allChars_off_dark.ico

@David-MS said in Notepad++ v8.7.1 (32-bit) NppShell.dll is intermittently crashing Windows Explorer.:

Does exists a workaround

If you mean by this a workaround to not have to completely uninstall the N++ for preventing the Explorer crashes, then yes - unregistering of the NppShell context-menu handler helps: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/99261

or a fix?

I could not exactly reproduce the issue myself but found some potential problematic places in the NppShell source code and put a “hardening” of that code to my TODO. Unfortunately not enough free time yet. More info and possible future progress in the GitHub issue.

@Robert-Kampfl said in Spracheinstellung (Syntaxhervorhebung - php) geht immer verloren:

It’s set to A = ActionScript when opening any file.

Do you mean “any .php file” or “any .myphp file” or “any file with any extension, whether it’s .txt or .php or .as”?

How or where can I set this to happen automatically again?

Notepad++ generally decides on which syntax highlight Language to use based on the file extension. So, if the file ends in .php, it should automatically be recognized as a PHP file and highlighted properly. Do your files end in .php, or something else?

If they do end in .php, you will want to look at Settings > Style Configurator for PHP and Action Script and make sure there aren’t any conflicting values in the Default ext.: or User ext.: boxes for the two.

A fresh v8.7.5 installation has the following settings for those two languages:

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If you have another file extension that is neither .php* nor .as/.mx (for example, blah.myphp), then you might want to add that extension (without ., like myphp) to the User ext.: box for PHP.

My default setting was always PHP.

Do you mean it used to always use PHP highlighting for .php files by default? Or it used to use PHP highlighting for some other custom extension (like .myphp)? Or do you mean that it used to use PHP highlighting when you create a new file (File > New), even before it’s been saved?

Because the first should be automatic, unless you have a setting conflict. The second, you would have to set the User ext for PHP, as I said earlier. The third, you could set in Settings > Preferences > New Document:

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update: It also might be related to which Theme were you using before relative to now. Because if you had been using one theme (for example, “Hello Kitty”), and had customized the User ext: for “Hello Kitty” on the old installation, but when you upgraded, if you switched to a differernt theme (like the default stylers.xml), then the User Ext would go away (because those are saved on a per-theme basis); or, if you overwrote the theme definition when you upgraded (ie, if you deleted your old installation before installing the new), then when the old copy (“Hello Kitty.xml” for example) was deleted/overwritten, your customizations (including User ext) would be overwritten.

plzz add koltin guys , i love notepad ++ everything i’m writing in it , pluzz doit :3

Hi guys, just wanted to thank you all for this post!

I love shortcuts and just today learned of a way to do it in NP++ thanks to @Alan-Kilborn :)

Update from the far future: SAS was officially enabled in Notepad++ in v8.7.8, so you no longer need to use a script to enable SAS highlighting.

I wanted to add the Stata lexer at the same time I did SAS, but without a GitHub issue requesting it, I couldn’t justify it. If someone can create a GitHub Issue requesting Notepad++ enable the Stata lexer, I could add it to my TODO list, since I now have experience enabling those missing/hidden lexers in Notepad++. You can use https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16148 as an example of an issue requesting a language be enabled – but I would ask that you include keyword lists: The Stata lexer has 2 keyword lists – one for normal keywords, one for data types – so if the Issue/request could include those two lists of keywords, it would make it much easier for someone who knows nothing about Stata to do the addition (since I wouldn’t have to go googling to try to figure out keywords and try to determine which should be called “normal keywords” and which as “types”). If you do create an Issue, please also paste a link here, because I don’t see all new Issues in the repo.

@Alan-Kilborn

Given his level of participation here, I’d have to guess that Don doesn’t care.

Sorry for not being able to spend more time here, and thank you (and others) to be here for helping people. I do care the proper functioning of the forum though.

By “non-Notepad++ solutions”, I thought it was kind of spam disguised as a solution.
Even if someone provides a brief reply such as “Notepad++ doesn’t have the feature you want, try VS Code/Sublime Text/UltraEdit/vi/emacs/…etc”, I think it’s tolerable. The most important thing is that users come here to find a solution, and he/she has got one - be it python, batch, run menu or not run menu, whatever - even if it’s not within Notepad++.

@guy038
Thank you for pinging me.

As @donho created this forum, it seems to me that Don is the only person which has authority to tell us what we should speak of or not in our forum !

The community/forum is not about any specific individual, but about people.
If I used my privilege to silence others by imposing my will, instead of following the rules, I would be the only one left in this place.

Regarding the rules about this tangential discussion, I find Peter’s point to be very fair:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26783/fork-tangential-discussion-about-what-advice-is-on-topic/5?_=1745252343263

Not trying to enlighten anyone, just sharing my 2 cents as part of community.

@PeterJones Thanks!!

@jadelise

FTW! - Many thanks for providing the solution (the nice simple hack the user asked for) - tested on 24H2.

Now I can (finally, after years!) right click on and edit .cmd files. What a relief not to be nagged to install an new version of notepad (even though I have explicitly removed the UWP instance of notepad from the user’s profile. (next – looking for a way to do that globally for the machine. I thought I did so quite a while ago with win10 and “mail and calendar”, but I could very well be mistaken.)