@Terry-R said in XML-Tools - Validation problem:

It may contain something you/we cannot see.

@Thorsten-Kreutz

Yeah, my first thought was that maybe one of the strings contains a non-printing character that’s causing the issue. Turning on the Show Non-Printing characters or Show All Characters setting would reveal whether this is the case.

@Mark-Olson said in Markdown & Lint:

VSCode has a Markdown language server that I quite like; maybe you could use that.

I am afraid this is not possible because this extension uses node-ipc as a communication channel.

node-ipc: use node IPC communication between the client and the server. This is only supported if both client and server run under node.

If other LSP servers that use stdio or socket, i.e. tcp, are available, this would of course be an alternative.

I just want to add a note here, that if someone wants to use the method Peter has suggested to run a search-and-replace macro, that macro would not be “general purpose”.

That is, you cannot, say, pass search strings or replacement strings in this way, because macros, when made and saved, have their search string, replace string, directory (if “in files”), and other options all “hard-coded”.

I say this because this is the kind of thing people would want to do.

The above doesn’t sound like a problem for @Kelly-A , who needs an operation that is by its nature NOT parameterized.

You can, of course, write script code to do any search/replacement you’d like, but that requires greater programming skills, which not everyone has, or wants to invest the time into.

@PeterJones @xomx
When I switched the rendering mode to “GDI (most compatible),” the font display ended up looking even stranger than before, especially with Chinese fonts. It felt like I’d been transported back 60 years.

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@coltrane31 said in Different foreground/background colors per tab?:

Is it possible to have two versions of the app installed at the same time

See the user manual for “instances”; the user manual may be accessed via your ? menu in Notepad++. There are several alternative things you could do in this regard, although to get “different fg/bg colors per tab”, it all seems a bit much to go through.

@PeterJones, thanks for input, the most difficult task is to explain the issues to someone else!

Thanks a lot, just needed an eyeopener! Hope it will help someone else with issues!

Let´s try again.

I click on download symbol in Edge, a list drop down I click on my file and it opens in file explorer If I right click and choose “show more options” I get the “Edit with Notepad ++” selection and if I use it the file opens.
Success, I can use this option!

Second scenario

I click on download symbol in Edge, a list drop down I right click on my file and choose “open file” then it open in File explorer I choose “open with” new window opens and I try to use NP++ it don´t work.

“When you say that choosing Notepad++ as the default program”
I have chosen NP++ as default app in windows apps settings for .txt files.

Notepad++ v8.7.4 (64-bit)
Build time : Dec 4 2024 - 23:50:05
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
DirectWrite : OFF
Multi-instance Mode : monoInst
File Status Auto-Detection : cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 23H2
OS Build : 22631.4890
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins :
AutoSave (2)
CodeAlignmentNpp (14.1.107)
ComparePlugin (2.0.2)
DSpellCheck (1.5)
HexEditor (0.9.12)
JsonTools (5.6)
mimeTools (3)
NppConverter (4.5)
NppExec (0.8.4)
NppExport (0.4)
NppFTP (0.29.12)
PlantUmlViewer (1.8.0.12)
XMLTools (3.1.1.13)

Thanks a lot, just needed an eyeopener! Hope it will help someone else with issues!

@elecherf said in Bug 8.7.8: notepad is freezing with high cpu usage when sliding down the main split bar towards the bottom:

For now, what I’ve understood is that EnhanceAnyLexer is not compatible with np++ 8.7.8

EnhanceAnyLexer does not use any of the new features/improvements introduced by Npp recently.
I have tested with BookmarksDook installed and can confirm that I see the same behavior, but further testing has shown that this also happens when BookmarksDook is the only plugin, besides the default plugins.

Peter’s script above is (mostly) fine, but I’ll offer a couple of comments:

I like to save/restore the active tab using a Python “context manager”. This is used by wrapping the code block that changes the active tab into a “with … :” block. The advantage of this approach is that the saving and restoring is integrated; you don’t have to remember to do the restoring, it just happens. My context-manager for this restores based upon “name” rather than index, so if the code wrapped by it changes the tab ordering, or closes/opens tabs, the restore can still work (within reason). I will be publishing this context-manager script soon as part of a larger script.

The above script won’t work in this scenario: The active tab is cloned and the view 1 cloned tab is active when the script is run – what happens here is that when the script has finished executing, the view 0 clone’s tab is left as the active one. I believe this is actually a bug in Notepad++ and I will be making an official bug report soon about this.

Some related discussions, in these topics:

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20008 https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/19395 https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20319

It’s a pity that there is no such functionality for subsequent instances :(

@Terry-R said in Replace many letters at same time.:

\U\1.

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Its perfect!!

Thank u very much Sir!!!

Claudio Raphael

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences? I pasted from the internet, and forget it’s a different font, just that line. So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

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Looking at your image, I would say almost certainly the person who created the text you copied used something like this:

https://www.namecheap.com/visual/font-generator/serif/

to make it. The characters that look that way are not ordinary letters. If you search for carte you won’t find it — because it’s actually 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞, which are completely different Unicode symbols from this block.

It’s a “trick” — and one of the reasons it usually a bad idea is that you’ll find there’s no easy way to replace the characters you copied with “normal” text.

@PeterJones Thanx very much for your help

This appears to be a JSON5 file. Probably it has the .json file extension, so it is highlighted with the JSON syntax highlighter, which treats unquoted keys as a syntax error. More recent versions of Notepad++ have a JSON5 syntax highlighter, available under Language->J->JSON5 from the Notepad++ main menu. If the JSON5 syntax highlighter isn’t available, you can just change the language preference to None (Normal Text).

EDIT: even in the most recent version of Notepad++, the JSON5 syntax highlighter still doesn’t properly parse unquoted keys in objects, so you should just change your Language to None (Normal Text).

You may also find the JsonTools plugin useful for working with JSON or JSON5. If you pretty-print a JSON5 file with JsonTools, it will convert it to JSON, and then the syntax highlighting will work correctly (but you won’t have unquoted keys anymore).

@PeterJones Thanks much for the infos.

@peter-vasil

The install directory is handled similar with the installer whether Don't use %AppData% is checked or unchecked. The main difference is the doLocalConf.xml existence which impacts how notepad++.exe saves to the xml files. When notepad++.exe saves to the install directory, then a risk exists when using the installer to upgrade which can overwrite customized xml files.

Information from install logs:

Files Install Upgrade Minimalist doLocalConf.xml extract extract extract autoCompletion\*.xml extract skip functionList\*.xml extract extract overrideMap.xml extract skip gup.xml extract extract contextMenu.xml extract skip skip tabContextMenu_example.xml extract skip skip toolbarButtonsConf_example.xml extract skip skip toolbarIcons.xml extract skip skip langs.model.xml extract extract extract stylers.model.xml extract extract extract shortcuts.xml extract skip skip nppLogNulContentCorruptionIssue.xml extract skip skip markdown._preinstalled.udl.xml extract extract extract markdown._preinstalled_DM.udl.xml extract extract extract DarkModeDefault.xml extract extract extract themes\*.xml extract extract

Theme modifications in the install directory can be overwritten by the upgrade as that is what extract does.

If Don't use %AppData% is checked:

The default Custom type of upgrade install will extract many xml files so to keep customizations, may need to backup before install and merge after install.

The Minimalist type of upgrade install will extract the least amount of xml files so is probably the safest to keep customized xml files.

If Don't use %AppData% is unchecked:

Modified xml files are saved to %AppData% so are safe.

@PeterJones thank you so much for the help!!

@Terry-R I know this kindness is above and beyond.
I have been looking, trying to help myself.

This will save much time and effort.

Thanx for your patience.

@Samuel-Connault

One possible way to solve this is using the sort features in the Columns++ plugin.

If you want to try it, you can install that plugin from Plugins Admin. Then, select nothing if you want to sort the whole document; otherwise, select the lines you want to sort. When you select a Sort command in the next step, you’ll be prompted to allow the selection to be converted to a rectangular selection; allow it.

There are two sort options that might help. First, try the easy one: select Sort ascending (locale) from the the Columns++ menu. That might give you what you want.

If it doesn’t, a more controllable option is to select Sort… from the menu. The dialog that follows allows you to specify a regular expression that selects the sort key in each line.

Depending on how well you know regular expressions, the help link above and your knowledge might be enough, or you might need more guidance. Try first, and ask if you need more help.

Alternatively, that same dialog allows you to specify more details about the Locale sort, which might solve your problem without regular expressions even if the default locale sort does not.

@Ussene-Nicururo ,

We’re you trying to answer the original question? Or ask a new, related question? Because that’s just a bunch of example text, and does not accomplish either.