@PeterJones
Thankyou. Both Scale and Resolution are different.

@HalfOffHell said in notepad not responding due to searching the regular expression "(?-i)\u*(?=[^\l])" in a file that has "└" as the last character:

put “└” at the end of a file
Ctrl+F
paste “(?-i)\u*(?=[^\l])” into da box
click “Find All in Current Document”
notepad not responding

I’ve filed an issue for this.

@Torax-Malu ,

@Alan-Kilborn messaged me a link to this post, where he shared a script for the PythonScript plugin, which can be used to set the current file to either tabs or spaces

Useful link: FAQ: How to install and runscripts with PythonScript plugin – also includes instructions for assigning a keyboard shortcut. And you can even use the Plugins > PythonScript > Configuration… to add a script to the toolbar, allowing you to have a toolbar button to activate it.

@tony-he said in chinese character problem:

what are default Chinese font library in notepad++ 8.7.7？

Notepad++ doesn’t have its own font library. It uses whatever fonts are installed on your computer, and will try to use your chosen Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global styles > Style: Default Style’s chosen font (which you’ve indicated is Consolas for you).

If that chosen font (Consolas) doesn’t have a glyph for a given codepoint, Notepad++ can ask the OS to recommend a different font which will have a glyph for that codepoint; the Settings > Preferences > MISC > Use DirectWrite option affects how Notepad++ interacts with the OS for choosing/displaying those glyphs. If you don’t like the results, you can try changing that setting, restarting Notepad++, and seeing if the other option works better for you. (It is looking like there will hopefully be more options for the DirectWrite setting in the future – whether in the GUI or in a power-user setting – which might give more choices to influence such results.)

As @Alan-Kilborn recommends, picking a font that you like that has all the glyphs you want will help Notepad++ display it the way you like.

Also, there are other posts in the Forum dealing with the CompositeFont concept, which is the way that Windows handles this, so you might be able to learn some more about what the operating system does for Notepad++ behind-the-scenes. But basically, windows has some tables about what fonts it looks for when it doesn’t find a glyph in a certain range of codepoints; doing more searching about the web on CompositeFont may help you learn how to encourage Windows to pick from a “better” font for a given glyph, if you can understand the results (I have only a surface-level understanding of such things, since mathy glyphs are the only “extra” glyphs that I tend to look for when using Notepad++ for my purposes)

@PeterJones Thanks - I had completely forgotten that I had that plugin installed, and somehow also missed it when posting the question. Disabling the plugin resolved the issue.

@Peter-Barnett said in Column mode edit is sticky and needs Esc to leave:

What use is this sticky selection?

Alan showed you where to switch it off.

The use is for people who use multiple selections; it allows converting a column selection into a multiple selection. It was included when new features for working with multiple selections were added a few versions ago. For those of us who use rectangular selections often and multiple selections almost never, it’s more annoying than helpful. As I recall, the option to turn it off was added pursuant to our complaints.

If you never use multiple selections, unchecking the Enable Multi-Editing box will also restore another behavior that was changed. With Multi-Editing enabled, you cannot hold down the Ctrl key, then click and drag in a selection to copy it. You must begin dragging, then press and hold Ctrl. (Ctrl first is used to remove or replace a selection from a multiple selection.) The familiar behavior, in which you can press and hold Ctrl before or after you begin dragging, works when the box is not checked.

@sdurham
Have you tried changing the logger_level setting to JSON5? As described in the documentation, the parser will log errors for many JSON5 features unless you do that.

If you can give me an example of valid JSON5 (can be parsed by some major parser) that JsonTools v8.3.1 logs an error on when logger_level is JSON5, that is a bug and I will fix it.

@mpheath
Yeah same thing there although I doubt it’s a bug on their side. When I force Intel’s built-in GPU the mirror arrow displays correctly. Without my intervention AMD does everything hence the black square.
Since both chips and their drivers are from the same year I presume AMD’s drivers are to blame. They’re latest since ages ago so I can’t simply update them. They had a rather sloppy period around that time (and technical standards were very dynamic) and one the symptoms are hardware cursors such as this example.

For that reason it makes little sense to file a ticket to support faulty and obsolete technology. It would take away from devs time to support a handful of such old (don’t ask) PC configurations that still exist. This one is on its last legs as well so the problem is about to fix itself soon enough :)

If it were a real bug I suspect a lot more people would react so no biggie. Thanks for the links btw, it was interesting to see how Scintilla and N++ are connected, I had no idea.

@Jana-Laster said in Notepad ++ XML Plugin:

We have previously used Notepad ++ to do transforms without issue.

I am assuming you were using a plugin to do these transformations. Which plugin, and which command within that plugin? Which version of Notepad++?

I suppose you could have been committing the unspeakable atrocity that is editing HTML with regex, but I don’t want to accuse you of such a grievous crime without evidence.

@Mark-Olson
Fixed. Thank you!

@Kaptain-Biwouak ,

It is up to each plugin’s author/maintainer to determine whether or not their plugin is affected.

Don, as the owner of Notepad++ but not of the plugins that are written for Notepad++, doesn’t have the bandwidth to review the source code of every plugin that exists for Notepad++ to determine whether or not it would be affected, hence he made this announcement to let the plugin authors know that they each need to check their own plugins.

addendum: and if users want to find out if any of the plugins they use are affected, they can just try the plugin(s) in v8.7.6, because what happened was that it was found that efficiency-improvements in v8.7.6 unintentionally broke some plugins by disabling some events; the changes that will be in v8.7.7 will allow plugins to use the API to ask Notepad++ to re-enable the mentioned events on a per-request basis.

So, if you are successfully using a plugin in v8.7.6, you can continue using it in v8.7.7. If you find that a plugin worked in v8.7.5 but broke in v8.7.6, then you could check the homepage for that plugin and see whether or not they’ve mentioned a fix or released a new version in the last week or so, and if not, then ask them if they will have a fixed version ready in time for v8.7.7.

@Henrik-Haftmann, when you do Ctrl+S from within Notepad++ are you always or nearly always then immediately getting a file-modified pop-up, This may well be something we can look into.

I had thought that when you do Ctrl+S that Notepad++ writes the file to disk and it then immediately gets the file’s mtime and size from the disk to use as a baseline for the file-modified logic. If your file system is then changing the mtime to better match someone’s granularity standard then can that behavior be changed? How do applications know when the file system is done with fiddling with the mtime?

Your proposal about comparing the file content means that Notepad++ would need to first make a copy of the file the instant someone starts making changes to the file. Notepad++ probably would start making the copy the moment you open the file. We need a copy of the original file to do the comparison you proposed.

Computing a hash would have less overhead

If it were my problem to deal with and I was forced to deal with a file system that keeps fiddling with the mtimes then I would set it up so that I use Notepad++ with local on-disk copies of files and I’d have a background application that synchronizes the local disk files to the external file system. That background application would only change the local disk mtime if and only if the content of the file on the external file system is modified. Basically, I would make my machine part of the AFS network but it would hide the part about that mtimes change.

@Max-lighnting said in Different text path Notepad++ batch files:

how to use different text path on batch notepad++
(…)
“set /p Text”= it makes messege like text on powershell
but i want it to use differet path for like yes/no questions

Further to @PeterJones 's comments, it’s not clear what you mean by a “text path” in NP++. Your follow-up comments sound like references to the console window from a running batch script, but as Peter alluded to, those are the subject of other forums like the various Stack Exchange sites, not this one.

@Henrik-Haftmann

I tried on my network NAS (webdav), created date/time did not change when I opened, updated & saved an old file using N++:

npp-NAS-webdav-created-not-changed.png

@Jonathan-R ,
You’re very unclear in your question. @PeterJones is correct.

It’s been a long time since I did any COBOL of any flavor, so I did a quick search on the newest IBM COBOL syntax, and apparently, yes, the hyphen(-) is a word character. My question, is why don’t you think that the current COBOL language is properly rendering syntax coloring, etc for COBOL, let alone IBM COBOL?

Here is a screenshot of me just pasting some sample COBOL code in Notepad++, and just selecting under Language->C->COBOL and this screenshot shows the current colorization of that language, properly showing the hyphen as a word character.

COBOLExampleHyphen.PNG

This is that code so you can try it yourself:

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. VARS. DATA DIVISION. *> working storage defines variables WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. *> define a number with a sign, 3 numbers, a decimal, and then *> two numbers aafter the decimal. by default it should be 0 filled 01 FIRST-VAR PIC S9(3)V9(2). *> do the same thing as above but actually initialize *> to a number -123.45 01 SECOND-VAR PIC S9(3)V9(2) VALUE -123.45. *> defines an alphabetic string and initialize it to abcdef 01 THIRD-VAR PIC A(6) VALUE 'ABCDEF'. *> define an alphanumeric string and initialize it to a121$ 01 FOURTH-VAR PIC X(5) VALUE 'A121$'. *> create a grouped variable 01 GROUP-VAR. 05 SUBVAR-1 PIC 9(3) VALUE 337. *> create 3 alphanumerics, but use less than *> the allocated space for each of them 05 SUBVAR-2 PIC X(15) VALUE 'LALALALA'. 05 SUBVAR-3 PIC X(15) VALUE 'LALALA'. 05 SUBVAR-4 PIC X(15) VALUE 'LALALA'. *> print our variables PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY "1ST VAR :"FIRST-VAR. DISPLAY "2ND VAR :"SECOND-VAR. DISPLAY "3RD VAR :"THIRD-VAR. DISPLAY "4TH VAR :"FOURTH-VAR. DISPLAY "GROUP VAR :"GROUP-VAR. STOP RUN.

As you can see…the hyphen(-) is treated as a word character, and properly highlighted even when being used as minus in a numerical representation.

So again, what are you really asking, because you are clear as mud.

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to insert blank line in between every line:

I suppose this is about the same as @Ekopalypse 's post earlie

No … I have zero dollars, you have two? No cookies for me :(

@Jean-Jean said in NotePad French via Intune:

i would like the package FR for Notepad usage like Settings > Preferences > General > Localization : Français

If you do, what I told you, then after the silent installation your N++ GUI should be automatically in FR.

(during silent installations, the N++ installer can only look for any previous installation lang used on the comp and then use it to also preset the GUI of the installed N++ app)

Edit: Maybe the problem is in what Intune really sees in that RegKey during your installation. A logging should reveal if this is it.

Edit2: You can also do a “post-installing” action: simply take e.g. the “C:\Program Files\Notepad++\localization\french.xml” and copy it to the user %APPDATA%\Notepad++\nativeLang.xml

@Alex-De-Lara ,
Agreed. I use the Open-Shell UI, because I like the older Windows layout and menus, and I hate when people change things for everyone just for the sake of change.

Google is just as bad for this, as are supermarket marketing idiots that think changing where things are placed will make a shopper cover more sales area they want them to see things at, to spur impulse shopping…when in reality, they are alienating their customers and making them buy less out of frustration for not being able to find their favorite items where they their favorite items used to be. It’s human nature to categorize and memorize where things are at, and by doing things like this, they are just losing their customers business.

@Craig-Shannon said in How can I change the icon for Notepad++:

previous regedits didn’t work for me

Yes it did, because knowingly or not, you followed my instructions.

You chose a different icon than I did (which is reasonable: the icon you want is of course up to you), and yours was called Notepad++_file\ instead of the txtfile in my example, but my instructions explicitly said, “or whatever it was for yours” to indicate that while it’s often txtfile (because that was the old default for opening a .txt file under older versions of windows), it always depends on the exact circumstances of each user, and no set of instructions that claims one key can be correct for everyone… And there’s no point in trying to list all the possible key names, because it’s virtually limitless. Hence, my instructions gave the old default key, and confirmed that the key might be different for any given user.

@Shohreh ,

You are not showing the View > Tab menu, despite what you said.

This is View > Tab:
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The Move Tab Forward Ctrl+Shift+Page down and Move Tab Backward Ctrl+Shift+Page up are exactly the feature you are asking for, in the menu you claim you want them in.

The View > Tab menu is described here in the Online User Manual.

What you have actually shown in your screenshot is the menu that pops up when you right-click on the tab’s title on the tab bar, which is described here.

If you don’t like the actions that are available by default in that tab-bar right-click context menu, you can customize it using tabContextMenu.xml, as described here. (Essentially, you copy the example to the main name, customize the entries to include the extra commands you want, and then save and exit Notepad++ and re-run, and from then on, the new commands you asked for will be available in the context menu).