@David-Brown i came here to let you know that my receipt had what appears to be his email address on it (which i’ve blocked out here for privacy):

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seems legit to me, but i can’t know for sure. :)

@Ilhan-Yumer ,

The developer does not read most posts in this Forum. If you would like to suggest such a move to the developer, I would recommend creating a new Issue at GitHub requesting it (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues).

@Nppenjoyr ,

See this post

@Tavi ,

As far as I can tell, they were unrelated. Scanners such as VirusTotal look at the executable itself, and last year were being triggered by the lack of signing and the self-signing of the executable.

please confirm if this issue is related to the notepad++ hijack news dated 2nd Feb 2026?

The issue you are referring to, as linked here and described in detail here specifically said,

the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself.

This was a website hack, and VirusTotal and other such AV scans do not detect website hacks, as far as I understand them.

See the FAQ, which has the best “table of contents” for the website hack. ALL related followups/discussions must go in Topic: autoupdater and connection to temp.sh.

@D-Kirkpatrick said in Editing the Shortcuts File:

However with this latest version there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this?

Nothing has changed regarding shortcuts.xml in the last many versions.

I know there is a copy in %appdata% but that also had my changes.

It depends on your settings, but the %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml is the normal first place that Notepad++ will look.

if that’s not working for you:

confirm you follow the normal incantation for editing config files (ie, close all N++, open just one, edit file, save, exit and restart N++ to allow the change to take effect) if that doesn’t work, grab ?-menu’s Debug Info and share it with us share the actual XML snippet from the right shortcuts.xml file, so we can look to see if we can tell what’s wrong

update: I just re-read your post, and noticed:

When I added in the appropriate line to the XML file and saved it nothing happened and the pull down menu did not change.

You have to exit Notepad++ after saving, then restart the application. Notepad++ doesn’t just re-parse shortcuts.xml when you save it, so the menu won’t change by just hitting save on the file.

@George-Warriner,

My best guess is that it was referring to this conversation

@Markus-Louw ,

You mean this box?

See that X on the upper right, right where Windows dialog boxes normally have their X close symbol? You click it to close the message so that you can type.

@jterrain said in how to make tab bar appear vertically in notepad ++:

but implementation of actual vertical tabs would work better.

We have a Feature Request FAQ:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15741/faq-feature-request-or-bug-report

@Pierre-de-la-Verre said in No solution for using as Preview Handler?:

I looked around and it seems that there is no (common) way to activate / to configure the “Preview Pane” in Windows Explorer on “Win Server 2019” to display common files like logs, txts and so on.

Notepad++ doesn’t have a preview pane natively. Are you using one or more plugins? If so, which plugin(s)?

Or are you saying that you would like to tell Windows OS to use Notepad++ as the preview tool for those kinds of files? My guess is that would require that Notepad++ add hooks to handle whatever special message Windows sends to request generating the preview. Yeah, I found this 2019 feature request that requested adding such a feature. You could go upvote that request… Also, there’s a discussion from 2021 about the possibility of this feature, as well.

(On Github I found a fork which offers this, but I would like to prefer a solution with / within the “official version of NotePad++”)

I couldn’t find that fork easily. If you pointed a link to that fork in the official feature request issue, it might give a volunteer the context and information needed to be able to try to incorporate it into Notepad++.

@waskoma said in Cant change cursor color, and latest version shortcut to start batch file claims it cant find it:

while we’re at it, some years ago probably it was you helping me to get code folding working I want to use:

;blockbegin
;blockend

but that doesnt work again, looking at it at 8.9.2 it seems to recognize it only when there are like above right in the next row to eachother.

allow folding of comments is checked. comment line is set to “,”

line comment position is allow preceding white space

I am quoting and replying to this here, because this is where it belongs:

It still works for me in v8.9.2, using the same color descriptions as I used three years ago:

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If you think you have text that doesn’t work with that, click the </> button in the forum, and paste that text between the ``` lines

update: note that 8.9.2 actually has some bugs with regards to entering keywords: it would crash on long keywords. And, if my experiences just now were any indication, it also doesn’t necessarily save the edits to other fields, like the open/close for the folding or comment-line fields. But when I tried the bugfix build for my #17520 issue report, it allowed me to enter those other fields, and save them. So if you’re editing UDL, I actually recommend v8.9.1, not v8.9.2 (until the v8.9.3 is released with a fix)

@Mario-Korva

Finally I found some time to try to fix C++ Function List parser regex (cpp.xml) to show all constructors.
Modification of the mainExpr in the <classRange> element of <parser>:

Original expression:

mainExpr="(?x) # use inline comments ... )? \s* # trailing whitespace \{ # class/struct body "

Modified expression:

mainExpr="(?x) # use inline comments ... )? \s*(:[^:]*)? #<- trailing whitespace and initializers \{ # class/struct body "

I did equivalent modification of the mainExpr in the <function> element of <parser>. This modification enable that function list shows constructors with initializers.
I found also that functions defined with the call convention keyword, for example:

void __fastcall function(parameter) { ...

are also missing in the function list. This is solved with the addition of the

(__[\d\l]+\s+)? #<- call convention __fastcall, __stdcall, etc.

immediately after second “# type pointer/reference” part of mainExpr in the same two elements.

After this modificatoins the Function List of my C++ source files appears complete! I hope that I didn’t break something.
I tried to include modified cpp.xml here, but the post becomes too long.
I hope this will be useful for someone.

A new version of MultiReplace (v5.0.0.35) is ready and will be available with the next Notepad++ release. For early testing, it can already be downloaded here.

The focus of this release is on a new Settings Panel, improved Search Results visualization, and overall usability enhancements.

Key Features & Improvements Settings Panel: A comprehensive configuration dialog replaces manual INI file editing. All options are now organized into clear categories: Search & Replace, List View, CSV Options, Export, and Appearance. Refined Toolbar Icon: The icon has been updated to improve clarity. List Search Bar: Press Ctrl+F while focused on the replacement list to open a search bar. Quickly find entries in large lists by searching through the ‘Find’ and ‘Replace’ columns. Search Results Window Enhancements: Color-coded matches (up to 28 colors) for easy visual distinction per list entry. Double-click the Matches count to jump directly to the results. Duplicate Line Detection: Identify and mark duplicate CSV rows. Delete or inspect duplicates with optional bookmark navigation. Binary Escape Sequence: Extended mode now supports \bNNNNNNNN for binary values. tonum() Function: New helper to convert strings to numbers, supporting both dot and comma as decimal separators. MATCH and CAP Variables: Now always return strings. Use tonum(CAP1) for calculations. Selection Mode: The ‘In Selection’ radio button no longer disables itself, enabling smoother repeated searches. Document Filtering for Open Docs: Find and Replace in Open Documents now supports wildcard-based filename filtering. Unified Filter Syntax: Filters now use semicolons (;) as separators in both ‘Open Documents’ and ‘Find in Files’ modes. This enables filtering for filenames containing spaces. Performance: Various optimizations for Replace All, Find All, and FlowTabs alignment on large files.

New Settings Panel with organized categories
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Double-click the Matches count to quickly navigate through results
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Enjoy!

@iChal2112 That worked. Thank you :).

I will add the steps in case anyone finds this post with google.

Click the settings icon in the notepad ++ ftp plugin, profile settings, click a profile you want to edit, cache, click the … button by add new button, set a local path I chose C:\Users\user_name\Downloads, set a external path I chose /, click the add new button

An odd thing to note. I am using Windows 11. I also have admin privileges on my computer but still needed to do this. Not sure why I was having trouble. This issue occurred on a red hat server. The red hat server has time out issues all the time.

I have zero problems on my sunos servers. I did not change my cache settings at all on my sunos servers.

Someone that is good with copilot pointed out another option is to use winscp with notepad ++. This required no setup. Just use winscp to open your remote file in notepad++. I have notepad ++ setup as my default text editor. Not sure if this is the case for all Linux/Unix servers but scp is more stable on the red hat server I am using.

I have been using Notepad++ for years. I frequently get this message, usually after a Windows 11 restart.
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I’ve updated Notepad++ whenever prompted, I’ve reinstalled to try to fix the problem. The problem seems to come with the program. I don’t know why I would get this message or what they want ME to do about it. I don’t even know where to find the extra DLL.

Help?

@Coises This is an excellent solution. Not only did it solve this specific issue for me (as I transition away from my job, and need to save out many learning notes), but this taught me new tricks that I didn’t know Notepad++ was capable of. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

Turns out it was an issue with the GPU driver, which has now been patched.

@archerarcher1 I will suggest LongPathTool to solve this error.