@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.

@Linen-Gray
Nothing in that batch file refers to Notepad++. I think you have associated the update of Notepad++ with the appearance of the message, however you do not show anything to suggest Notepad++ is the cause of this message.

A quick Google search even suggests that Adblock360 might be malware. Use a good A/V system to thoroughly inspect your computer. I could even suggest Malwarebytes as it has a very good reputation in this area.

Terry

@Tomás Preferences > Highlighting > Smart Highlighting > Highlight another view

@Muhammad-Nihal-Naseer ,

Unfortunately, your example data (both before and after) wasn’t good enough to clarify what you wanted.

There are lots of regex that will do what you want on that specific piece of data. But until you define what you actually want under multiple conditions, it will be impossible to make you happy.

For example,

Is Ns what causes it to be “a particular row” Is it possible for there to be “a particular row” that has something other than five numbers Are all your numbers single digits? Or can some of them be multiple digits (like Ns 0 11 2 33 4444)? Are there any spaces before the Ns? Are those spaces or tabs between columns?

The best advice for asking for search/replace help is to give a block of data, showing both things that change, and things that should stay the same.

For example,

Ms 0 1 2 3 4 Ns 0 1 2 3 4 Ps 0 1 2 3 4

would work (by my definition, based on my interpretation of your incomplete spec) with

FIND = ^(Ns) \d \d \d \d \d REPLACE = $1 1 1 1 1 1 SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression

ending up with

Ms 0 1 2 3 4 Ns 1 1 1 1 1 Ps 0 1 2 3 4

… but it would do nothing to the text

Ms 0 1 2 3 4 Ns 0 11 2 33 4444 Ps 0 1 2 3 4

Assuming the rule is “match a line starting with Ns followed by 5 integers of 1 or more digit each”, the FIND would be ^(Ns) \d+ \d+ \d+ \d+ \d+ and the REPLACE would be as I described above. That updated FIND would then turn the “do nothing” text the same way my original did.

But it all depends on what your real data looks like.

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Useful References Please Read Before Posting Template for Search/Replace Questions Formatting Forum Posts Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@KelltimeOG

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/wingup/issues/103

@W-TX under Settings -> Style Configurator
You can choose a language, VHDL is in there, choose what kind of word you want to change ( default, comment, number, etc. ) and you can change color and font.
I don’t know VHDL specifically so I can’t be more specific, but this should suffice for you to play with.

@Gerard-Kiekens said in Notepad++ VERY slow to open:

I agree with you that the size should not change, but it did.

Hard to argue my side cogently when you provide no data.

Editing a fresh Darkmode_Default afterwards solved the problem. This one also increased in size, but kept working as fast as it should.

But not from 220kB to 500MB.

If you want to "play"with it, you can find it here:
https://www.key-can.nl/Info/DarkModeDefault.xml

The file you linked there is only about 220kB as well. And the reason it’s a different size than the actual DarkModeDefault is because it obviously started from an old version of Choco.xml, as evidenced by the copyright notice starting:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?> <!--// choco Copyright (c) 2008 Fabio Zendhi Nagao <http://zend.lojcomm.com.br/>

I can tell it’s an old copy of choco, though, because it is still “Windows-1252”. That was changed to UTF-8 in v7.9.3 from 2021.

DarkModeDefault was originally derived from Zenburn.xml, since the time it was created (it started with the full zenburn preamble, but eventually pared it down to

<!-- Dark mode default style for Notepad++. This file is based on Zenburn them (zenburn.xml) License: GPL2 -->

As you will probably know you can find the themes in %users%\Appdata\Roaming\Notepad++\Themes

That’s where you find your customizations. The originals (kept up to date with each update of the program) are in c:\program files\Notepad++\themes. Historically, Notepad++ would just leave your customized themes completely alone, so they would never show you any of the new styles that had been added/enabled over the last 5 years; in the recent Notepad++ releases (starting in v8.8.9, though I recommend skipping 8.8.9 and 8.9.0 and going directly to 8.9.1-or-newer because of bugs in the first two releases of this feature), it will add any missing styles or missing languages to your active theme, so that way, your Style Configurator will allow you to edit colors for new styles or languages without losing all your old theme customizations.

So the small size difference between your Choco-based theme and the actual DarkModeDefault can be explained by being based on the old Choco. The huge 500Mb size that you reported from earlier cannot be explained by anything that’s been said yet, and I still don’t understand how it could have happened inside Notepad++. And without a hint as to what the edited XML looked like for the super huge file, there’s really no way that mystery will ever be solved.

@Tangfolio ,

From a Windows command line, to pass a filename with spaces to an application, you need to put quotes around the filename. This is the way that Windows defines the command-line interface, and not something specific to Notepad++

update: sorry, that was an abbreviated response. Real life interrupted, so I posted what I had so far, at the time. continuing where I left off:

So, from the command line, notepad++.exe word1 word2.txt would try to open word1 and word2.txt in the current directory, which presumably don’t exist, whereas notepad++.exe "word1 word2.txt" would properly try to open the file with spaces in the name.

If you are using the right-click context menu in Explorer, the normal Edit with Notepad++ (which gets added via NppShell.dll, when you do a normal Notepad++ installation), then it should handle the spaces just fine. But if you created your own Notepad++ entry using regedit or a registry .reg file, you have to make sure that your entry says, "c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" "%1", with the quotes around each, otherwise it will behave as you described.

Again, requiring the quotes around the filename is just the way Windows OS has defined the command-line interface (but similar is true in other operating systems, as well, because any OS must be able to tell the difference between program file1 file2.txt trying to work on two different files and program "word1 word2.txt" trying to work on one file with a space in the name.)

@akurzawa ,

gup.exe is the binary that Notepad++ uses when it is asking the server if there are updates available, and when you are installing plugins using Plugins Admin.

The destination IP that your screenshot shows is the current IP for norepad-plus-plus.org

I am not an expert on the format of your output, but everything I see seems legit to me.

@jpatterson-ATL said in Unsaved?:

But, as a general rule, are you saying that if I didn’t manually save the file, that the cached changes just disappeared when I made the save choice, whatever that was?

See our periodic backup FAQ. Essentially: Notepad++ believed you when you gave it the answer. The “session snapshot and periodic backup” feature was never meant as a long-term backup (there’s the backup-on-save option for that), but as a “try to protect me, if you can, if something goes wrong on the computer between my reasonable-duration saves” feature.

The notes.txt file is stored in OneDrive but the file version history shows the newest date to be over a year ago.

It boggles my mind that you would have a named file that you cared about, and not noticed that it hadn’t saved to the OneDrive in more than a year. And not noticed that the icon on the tabbar had been saying “unsaved changes” for all that time. And that you can go that long without ever thinking about hitting Ctrl+S or clicking the Save menu or toolbar button.

Given your habit, I would highly suggest installing and configuring the AutoSave plugin, so that you don’t lose data again in the future. How to set up that plugin is described in detail in the FAQ.

@LaMar-M said in Modleine Parser No Longer Works:

I’ve been using “ModelineParser_0.2” for several years to automatically select the language. This parser is still available here.

Yes. But it hasn’t been updated in 13 years. Notepad++, on the other hand, releases a new version about once a month.

Recently my NP++ version got auto updated (by IT) to version Notepad++ v8.7.4.

Your IT department chose a version from 14 months ago? It will still be missing security updates found in more recent Notepad++ versions.

But yes, in the intervening 13 years, Notepad++ has made multiple changes to the documented interface for communication between a plugin and Notepad++. There have been some changes that were known to break older/unsupported plugins. But Notepad++ cannot stop all progress just because there are legacy plugins still published out there.

When I open a program that used to default to a specific language, no language is set. I have to manually set it.

Fortunately, the NppFileSettings plugin has modeline support, including recognizing filetype, ft, syntax, and syn for setting which syntax highlighting lexer to use. And its Releases page has 32bit and 64bit downloads, so it will work in your 32-bit edition of Notepad++.

(And also, if you have a consistent filenaming convention with extensions that match the filetype, you can just set the User ext: box in the appropriate language(s) in the Style Configurator to make Notepad++ recognize the file type by extension, rather than by modeline. But if you need modeline support, hopefully NppFileSettings will work for you.)

Notepad++ v8.7.4 (32-bit)

In the modern world, where Windows OS is only maintained in 64-bit, there is virtually no reason to use 32-bit applications. For Notepad++, the only good reason for 32-bit instead of 64-bit is because you have a legacy plugin that only comes in 32-bit, that has no 64-bit version or alternative plugin with the same features.

Looking at your other non-default plugins:

CSVLint (0.4.6.7) PythonScript (0.9.2)

Both of those come in 64-bit versions now.

And PythonScript’s latest official release is up to v2.1.0, which uses Python 2.7.18, with significant bugfixes and feature improvements in both the plugin itself, and in the underlying Python interpreter (interpreter 2.7.1 from plugin 0.9.2, vs interpreter 2.7.18 from plugin 2.1.0). (Given your IT department’s apparent reticence to upgrade, I am not going to suggest moving to the “alpha” version of PythonScript 3.0.24, which uses Python interpreter 3.12.10, even though unless you use a lot of non-unicode files, I personally recommend using the version of the plugin that uses a modern Python interpreter rather than an interpreter that’s past its end of life.)

And assuming that NppFileSettings plugin works as a replacement for the unsupported and incompatible modelineparser plugin for you, then all three of the non-preinstalled plugins that you have shown an interest in will work with 64-bit Notepad++ as well.

As such, if you can confirm that PythonScript v2.1.0 and NppFileSettings will work for you, then I highly recommend that you talk with your IT:

Ask if they can switch to 64-bit Notepad++. Ask if they will support a newer Notepad++. I desparately want to recommend the newest version, because of all the recent security fixes, but if you use UDL, then v8.9.2 probably won’t work for you, so you might have to stick with v8.9.1 until the regression fix for UDL is released in v8.9.3 (hopefully soon)

@harmansinghdeepkandhari:

When you install through Plugins Admin, Notepad++ verifies that the hash of the downloaded zip file containing the plugin matches the hash that was supplied when the plugin was added to or updated in the plugins list.

That is all that is done. Aside from the three plugins included with Notepad++ (MIME Tools, Converter and NppExport), the author/maintainer of Notepad++ does not vet plugins.

Realistically, he could not do that comprehensively. And — in my opinion, wisely — he does not make a halfway, superficial attempt (like running them through a “virus checker”) which would only give a false sense of security and open up the project to claims that it didn’t do “enough.”

Further, it should be understood that plugins in Notepad++ are fully capable of doing anything Notepad++ itself can do. They are C++ programs (or the equivalent) running in the same security context as Notepad++. The architecture is very flexible, but it presumes one only installs plugins worthy of trust.

The user (or system administrator, in a managed system) is completely responsible for establishing the suitability of Notepad++ plugins (just as the same responsibility applies regarding Notepad++ itself). Nearly all are open source; you can examine the code, the issues, and so on. You cannot assume that inclusion in the plugins list means any plugin is “safe”; your own due diligence is required.

FYI, v8.9.2 RC has been updated to RC2:
https://github.com/donho/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/RC2
See original announcement for more information.

@pasha-19 said in styler.xml/WordsStyle/keywordClass association with langs.xml/Language/Keyword/Name:

I was looking to add a WordsStyle with a keyword list to an existing language.

That’s not the way it works. Existing languages are hardcoded (compiled) internally with a list of available styleIDs, and only particular styleIDs have keyword lists associated with them. You cannot just add a WordsStyle with its own styleID and a list of keywords, and hope that the lexer will magically see them. It will not.

My question concerns the styler.xml/WordsStyle/keywordClass that appears to match langs.xml/Language/Keyword/Name. There are some seemingly standard keywordClass values instre1, instre2 and type1 to type7 and maybe type8. Do these seemingly standard values have any additional meaning besides providing a link from the keywordClass in styler.xml to the Language/Keyword/Name in langs.xml?

They have an integer value (0-8). Those correspond to the 9 available keyword lists inside the lexer, which any given lexer may reference zero or more of.

If you use the wrong keywordClass, Notepad++ will not be able to pass the list of words to the lexer. And if you make up a keywordClass or use one that’s not already defined for a given language, the lexer won’t see it, and those keywords won’t get highlighted.

[can] any keywordClass/Name that matches could be used?

Nope, sorry. Each lexer has a predefined list that Notepad++ will pass on to the lexer and that the lexer will recognize.

To sum up: the official list of available keywordClass/name values for any given lexer are listed in the copy of langs.model.xml that ships with a given version of Notepad++: that will always list all the ones that Notepad++ knows about, and if you try to define others than those for any given language, Notepad++ cannot pass it on to the lexer.

However, it may be that your langs.xml or stylers.xml are out of date. If you haven’t updated to v8.9.1 yet, run that update, and the first time you run, Notepad++ will update langs.xml and stylers.xml (or any other active theme) to include any missing styles. You might find that the language you want to customize has more keyword lists available in the Style Configurator now.

If a given language doesn’t have enough different styles to give you differently-colored sets of keywords, you cannot just trick Notepad++ into creating more for you. However, using the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin (you can install it using Plugins Admin from the Plugins menu), you could define a regular expression to match the keywords you wanted. For example, for a given lexer language, if you wanted to add three keywords with red foreground and four with a blue foreground, you could use the following in the EnhanceAnyLexer configuration file (whcih you can easily access using Plugins > EnhanceAnyLexer > Enhance current language.

[LexerName] 0x0000FF = \b(red1|red2|red3)\b 0xFF0000 = \b(blueA|blueB|blueC|BlueD)\b

This will give:
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The EnhanceAnyLexerConfig.ini has documentation in its comments, explaining that it’s 0xBBGGRR for the hex colors, and how to get those colors to only apply within certain parent styles, etc. And https://github.com/Ekopalypse/EnhanceAnyLexer/ is the homepage for the plugin.

@PeterJones
Fixed.
Thank you for reminding me!

Moderator note: with the recent post in this Topic, my attention was drawn here. And I saw that at least one of the most recent links was a malicious download site, so I removed that link. But that has made me revisit all the links in this Topic. Any that are direct links to an actual alternative editor’s official site, or a github page, are left. Ones that are ad-ridden “blogs” with dubious reviews of editors are being removed, because they are all years out-of-date and/or possibly malicious downloads: honestly, if you can type the words “alternative for Notepad++ on Mac”, you can do your own modern websearch and find dozens of those “alternative to” websites which claim to review applictions, and we don’t need this forum to be a link to outdated ad/“review” sites; such links are not helpful to anyone here.

This issue has been fixed:
I did the following. As I use a inline style sheet I created a “css color.css” file in Notepad++. Just a blank page that I can do the following:

I can now paste my HTMLPad 2025 css code into Notepad++ with the colors I changed under Settings> Style Configurator.

I also created a “html-colors.html” blank file and I can copy the html code with colors that Notepad++ provides that has been updated in the Style Configurator.

Next I highlight the text then go to “Plugins” on the toolbar then “NppExport” then “Copy all formats to clipboard”.

I can now paste in the html/css code into Word with the colors I want.

I still cannot create a style in Word 2024 with colors as I suspect it would be too complicated for Word to figure what parts the different text it should color.

@Magic-Mugs ,

Assuming all your open files are real files, and all in the exact same folders on old and new machine, then just copy over %AppData%\Notepad++\session.xml

If some of your files are the unsaved new # tabs, you will also need to copy over everything in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\

But if you want all the same settings from your old to your new, just copy over everything from %AppData%\Notepad++\