Thank you for all of the information. While it might be fun to dig into the Windows APIs again, I was hoping for something simple I could run with NppExec, etc. without a lot of coding. Since it’s not a lot of extra work to move the splitter manually, I’ll live with that for now. And maybe the MarkdownPanel team will find my request worth implementing, though it’s possible it can’t be done since one side is a NPP tab and the other is a panel.

@PeterJones this worked perfectly! Thank you very much

@Dan-Walter-0 said in Networking problem:

Before I open a ticket with my helpdesk, I want to know if there is anything I am missing on the application configuruation level.

From your N++ DebugInfo, I think not.

But could you 1st follow the instructions in my linked issue and paste here the nppLogNetworkDriveIssue.log obtained?

@Dawn-Brockman-0 You should be able to do this with a few find and replace.

You make copies in a new folders as you said you do, let’s say “D:\MoviesFolder” You can use “Find in Files” with Regex to remove all the rows that are not year/genre/stars. make sure the “Directory” is the correct directory so you don’t break files from other places, don’t know if there is undo for this operation. I never tried to run it on mkv/mp4, but I assume you already have files that look like the xml you provided and we use them.
b09b9845-a2f2-49b6-a1f5-ac76a1b6d425-image.png If you want to remove the tags, you can run another find&replace with:
Find: .<(year|genre|stars)>(.?)</\1>.*\R?
Replace: \2\n
You will now have only number and names so you will have to deduce yourself what is a year, what is a genre, and what is a star, but as long as Ryan Reynolds is not a genre yet you should be fine.

@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.

@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)

@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”.

@mpheath ,

Thanks again for you reply! I plan to test your BufferRestore script after my next “break” in my current project(s). After looking closer at your post and web page, this looks to be a good option for me to use until NP++ has a built in tool…

I do own a rack of servers and plan to spin up a couple extra VMs once I release my own platform/environment for my apps (within the next couple months). The challenge with one of the (main) current platforms which I’m using is, while I pay annually to be a developer for them, their licensing does not allow me to run on more than 1 PC at a time, so it requires me to log out/in each time I switch between PCs or VMs. I can’t maintain the variable “state” if forced to log out.

There are many additional issues with Windows Rebooting… When the current test environments get “killed”, all the opened files are now locked and all the variables are flushed. So it requires unlocking the files, and recreating the previous workflow to recreate the variable “state”. Using a log file doesn’t work well in this environment, because it typically goes back beyond the last save… and could only be applied if the saved file was in the exact state as when the log file was started… not sure if that makes sense?

@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)

@prof-tech said in Can't get the old toolbar:

Help! I have tried everything to get the old toolbar and it doesn’t appear! can anyone help me?

Settings > Prefernces > Toolbar: the “Fluent UI” variants are the “new toolbar” and “standard icons: small” are the “old toolbar” (and the “Hide” checkbox turns it on and off)

Hello, @brenda-gross-0 and All,

Very easy with regexes !

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Un-tick all box options

FIND (?-i)(?<=\l)(?=\u)|_

REPLACE \x20

Tick the Wrap around options

Select the Regular expression search mode

Click, once only, on the Replace All button

Voila !

Notes :

The leading part (?-i) is an in-line modifier which force to take care about the case of letters, meaning non-insensitive search !

Then, due to the alternation symbol |, two individual regexes are performed, simultaneously :

(?<=\l)(?=\u) which searches for an empty string between a lower-case letter and an upper-case letter

_ which simply searches for the underline character

In both cases, the replacement changes the regex search with an normal space character \x20. I could have chosen to type a single space char, instead !

The regex search may also be expressed as a non-capturing group : (?-i:(?<=\l)(?=\u)|_), with the leading non-insensitive option

Best Regards,

guy038

@Jayson-Allen ,

See details in https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/104192

update: I have versions of the theme files which won’t have the ugly white backgrounds temporaroly at https://github.com/pryrt/notepad-plus-plus/tree/themesPost889/PowerEditor/installer/themes ⇒ they will hopefully eventually be put into the main codebase, for distribution with v8.9 and future. But until then, you can

Exit Notepad++ Go to that URL and download the raw version of your theme(s) For a normal Notepad++ installation, use Explorer to go to %AppData%\Notepad++ if there’s not a themes subdirectory, create it move the downloaded theme(s) into %AppData%\Notepad++\themes When you run Notepad++ next time, it will use the updated theme.

If you have customized your theme with user-keywords or user-extensions, this would overwrite those… I will eventually be writing a FAQ which explains a way to work around those customizations (once I don’t have to link to a branch in my fork of the code to share the theme files).

New FAQ: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27306/faq-themes-in-v8-8-9

@Pierrick-ram

I think you will need to provide more information. Such as copying the “Debug Info” from your Notepad++ installation and pasting it here. It’s under the ? menu.

Terry

@Sinsearach ,

Just updated after quite a long while,

So that means it wasn’t just v8.8.8 that you had the problem with. Please only use the “Notepad++ x.y.z release” announcement topics for changes between immediately-previous version and this version. For example, that v8.8.8 topic should only mention regressions that changed behavior between v8.8.7 and v8.8.8. Any other problems you find when you jump from v8.1.5 (for example) to v8.8.8 should go in “help wanted” (where I put this duplicate discussion), and if can be confirmed as a bug in Notepad++, we will direct you on where to put in the official bug report. But it’s not an immediate regression with v8.8.8, so doesn’t belong in that discussion.

TextFX (NppTextFX2) plugin

mumble mumble… I wish the person who had done the conversion to make it compatible with N++ v8+ had renamed the menu and About box, not just the underlying DLL. (Not your fault, I know… but if someone accidentally just calls it TextFX, we are led to believe it’s the out-of-date incompatible plugin. So thanks for at least putting the real name in parentheses.)

plugin will not work (appear at all), whether installed manually or through plugin admin,

Weird. I just took portable v8.8.8 on my Windows 11 machine, and used Plugins Admin to install NppTextFX2 1.4.1, and it installed just fine. When N++ restarted, the TextFX menu was there, and I tried a couple random commands, and they did what was expected.

I would be very much surprised if this were a Windows 10-vs-11 thing, because NppTextFX2 hasn’t changed recently, and N++ itself is tested on both Win10 and Win11…

Yes I ran as admin.

when did you run as admin? when you installed the plugin? or when you tried to run the plugin? or both? Because if you’ve got a portable Notepad++, it should be in a directory where you have full write access… and you shouldn’t need to Run as Admin (in fact, since v8.8.6, you probably shouldn’t need to Run As Admin for just about anything; it will individually ask for permission when writing files in protected directories). But if you installed it as Admin, maybe it broke the permissions of your portable directory

In your portable 64-bit (you shouldn’t need to use 32-bit in modern OS): please do the following:

go to ?-menu, and share your Debug Info with us show us a recursive directory listing of your portable Plugins directory, so that we can see that the directory hierarchy is correct (dir /S from a cmd.exe prompt, or powershell equivalent)

@Arp-Rip said in How to copy and paste large line ?:

I want to copy and paste from line 234566 to 6573242.

Due to it is pretty large line, I can not push the mouse left key and pull.

What kind of effective method that I can do this ?

Ctrl+G then 234566 to go to first line, and place the caret wherever you want to start on that line Edit > Begin/End Select (or keyboard shortcut equivalent) Ctrl+G then 6573242 to go to final line, and place the caret wherever you want to end the selection on that line Edit > Begin/End Select (or keyboard shortcut equivalent) Everything between the Begin and End will be selected

I think what is really needed, are 2 new keyboard shortcuts to:
(a) move to/from 1st and last tab

View > Tab > 1st Tab already has a default shortcut of Ctrl + Numpad1 View > Tab > Last Tab doesn’t have a default shortcut, but Shortcut Mapper can assign one quite easily (Settings > Shortcut Mapper > Main menu, Filter = last, click on Last Tab and Modify to set to whatever keyboard shortcut you would prefer) Notepad++ has hundreds of menu commands (a thousand? probably pretty close). They cannot all come with default keyboard shortcuts, and the user is expected and encouraged to customize the shortcuts to match their individual needs.

(b) move to/from previously selected tab.

If Settings > Preferences > MISC page’s Document Switcher section has both ☑ Enable and ☑ Enable MRU behavior turned on, that’s exactly what Ctrl+TAB does. If you don’t hold down the Ctrl, it just toggles between the current tab and the previously-used tab. And if you hold down the Ctrl, it allows you to navigate through in order from most recent (top of list) to least recent (bottom of list).

So all three features you mentioned already exist, and 2 out of the 3 have default keyboard shortcuts already defined. So to get everything you want, you just have to use the Shortcut Mapper to assign a key to the Last Tab command (which might naturally go to Ctrl + Numpad0, to align with the the Ctrl + Numpad1 for the 1st Tab).

Useful References Document Switcher feature: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-interface/#document-switcher Document Switcher preferences: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#misc

@luk3Z ,

You could share it in the centralized NppThemes Collection at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppThemes/ , which makes it easier for people to look through available themes (and with the CollectionInterface plugin being able to directly access that Collection, the plugin can simplify their installation process)

@b-squared said in Can't install any plugin - hash mismatch:

Hi,

I get the following error when trying to install a plugin from the Plugin Admin tool. I’ve tried several including Compare, JSON Viewer, 3P, HEX-Editor, JSON Tools.

Your Debug Info shows that you are using 64-bit Notepad++ version 8.8.8; Plugins Admin in that version should be offering Preview HTML 1.3.3.3. From your screenshot, it looks like it’s trying to load a 32-bit plugin with version 1.3.2.0.

I’m thinking that somehow your copy of the plugins list is not getting updated properly. Just to be sure… is this a regular installed version or a portable version, and exactly where are you getting the download?

Any way to install plugins manually, or will I just run into the same issue?

You can install plugins manually and there isn’t a hash check when you do that. Before we go that way, though, we need to figure out why your installation copy of the plugins list is messed up — I have to think it might not be the only thing that’s messed up.