@Cheok-SC said in 15sec freeze with word wrap:

Is Word Wrap really that heavy of a performance cost?

Yes.

There’s a reason that Settings > Preferences > Performance automatically deactivates word-wrap for large files, when all the other performance issues start with the checkboxes off, so you have to decide to also deactivate other features for large files. Word wrap and syntax highlighting are the two biggest performance costs, because they involve processing the entire file

@guy038 said in Change of the selection mode:

Open the search dialog ( Ctrl + F )

I just tried that. Then I tried doing just a Ctrl+A to select all the text more simply, and the Alt+Shift+UpArrow trick still worked to turn that stream into a zero-width column. That’s actually useful, as I often like getting a column at the beginning of the line. (It’s useful for going the other way – using the column editor to insert the line numbering.)

But be warned: if the final line of the file doesn’t have a newline, then my method will end up selecting a rectangle from the end of the last line to the beginning of the first line:
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The regex version avoids that by making sure it only selects lines that end with a newline.

This usually won’t be a problem for me, since I usually have a newline at the end of my file. I’ve just created a macro of the Ctrl+A then Alt+Shift+UpArrow sequence, and assigned a shortcut. It might just enter my standard workflow. So thanks, @guy038.

Actually, I just found another difference. @guy038’s regex vesion will only select a “paragraph” worth, since it will stop at the first blank line. So if you have

intro 1. blah 2. blah 10. blah ending

If your cursor is on intro or the line after, the regex will select the list. But if you’re on line 1. blah, then it will only select 2 and 10. And if you’re on the last line of the list, then it will actually select the ending paragraph.

So it depends on what quirks you want, and whether you want “paragraph” or “whole document”, whether you should record the macro with my Ctrl+A or @guy038’s regex, or a slightly modified regex to match your most common use case(s). Since macros record searches, any of those could be made into a macro for a single-keystroke for what you want.

@Maurizio-Scian The real problem is that most Americans don’t know left from right. True right wingers wear BLUE ball hats. American right wingers wear RED ball hats. Now is that fucked-up or what? And what’s more, real communists restore old American cars and put diesel engines in them without catalytic converters. America communists ride electric bicycles and believe in climate change. Lets try to keep this in mind when discussing politics.

Just a heads up for recent N++ users, search for the text no-break space in Windows Character Map, select it at top left and copy/paste into a UTF encoded N++ window with Word wrap and View>Show Non-Printing Characters ticked, it shows up as NBSP highlighted.
Or, the character is pasted here on the next line:
 
Works at least in the unposted forum edit box - but not in the preview pane it seems.

@BUILMOND-interactive same problem on Snapdragon Windows Laptops - once changed to GDI the flickering across the screen is gone - seems the flickering has to do /w the cursor position flicker

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.

The certificate instructions (above) are still appropriate for confirming the self-signed certificate, but with the GlobalSign-issued certificate, the procedure is not as critical on v8.8.7 and newer.

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.

The above instructions are still appropriate for confirming the self-signed certificate, but with the GlobalSign-issued certificate, the procedure is not as critical.

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.

UPDATE: With the release of v8.8.7, Notepad++ is once again signed by a GlobalSign-issued certificate, as well as the Notepad++ self-signed certificate.

@Vito-Evola I’ve got the simplest workaround and tested it… Download the portable version of Notepad++ and unpack Notepad++ inside a folder in Dropbox.

Is that simple, both computers found the txt files and since my files are also inside Dropbox then no broken files.

Hope you find this helpful!

@Ilia-Nenashev said in JSON String Escape / Unescape:

Such possibility I have found only in https://github.com/RolandTaverner/npp-json-escape-unescape-plugin but there is some risk of installing compiled plugin from outside of community.

Well, I’m (the author of the npp-json-escape-unescape-plugin) not that far outside the community. Also, I’ve finally fixed the plugin solution so anyone can build it from source (see the instructions in the README).

@AlainCh2 said in Replace Notepad++ as Default W10 editor. How to ?:

Activated in right click > Open With
Open with >Choose another App \ Browse to Program Files/Notepad++ 🙄

-That’s not enough … …crazy as it can be,

That always worked for me back when I was using Win10. And I just verified I had no difficulty in Win11 getting it to keep Notepad++ as an Open With for .ini files.

BUT now you have fixed it as > Edit with Notepad++,

If all you are looking for is the Edit with Notepad++ choice in the right-click menu, when you run the installer initially, assuming it prompted with the UAC prompt, your installation should have included the ShellExtension DLL C:\Program Files\Notepad++\contextMenu\NppShell.dll (assuming you installed newer than v8.5.1; older versions used a different name, and didn’t work with Win11). And it should have registered that DLL so that the Windows Explorer context menu includes that. If something went wrong with that registration, you could open a cmd.exe or PowerShell window in that contextMenu directory, probably using “as Admin” when open that window, and then follow the manual DLL registration instructions instructions from the user manual. (That page in the user manual has a lot of different tactics to get the Edit with Notepad++ or similar, including a registry entry that adds it as a verb to all files, so that you don’t have to do the OpenWith on each file type. But the Shell Extension DLL is really the preferred method, because it’s designed to do things the way Windows likes.)

With the modern Notepad++, that same DLL should work to get the right-click entry with either Win10 or Win11.

If you got it working using an alternate method (like the registry edit shown in the first post), great. This is just presenting an alternate method, and the way that Notepad++ intends you to get Edit with Notepad++ functionality.

A little “almost” missed update: WebEdit has been added to the nppPluginList and is available in Notepad++ v8.8.6. 🥳

Regardless, I still would like to add a few more small features to the plugin. I’m trying to make these available in the latest releases,* and if everything works fine, I’d like to eventually submit them to the nppPluginList with a new (and a last?) PR.

* To try it out, just overwrite the C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\WebEdit\WebEdit.dll file with the downloaded and unzipped one – but make a backup anyway. ;)