Due to the problem seen earlier, I decided to take another approach, so that Notepad++ would cooperate better with the lines I was hiding in order to achieve the goals of the script.

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered too many bugs with the hidden lines feature, that it isn’t worth continuing. I think that, at least for now, I’m giving up on this idea…

@rjm5959 said in Exporting pages from Hits?:

1S####-##C CENTRAL LOAN ADMINISTRATION YY/MM/DD
LETTER LOG HISTORY FILE FOR NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC1 PAGE ####

I know nothing about the context in which you’re using this data, but are you sure that you’re not leaking confidential data to the internet by posting this here? Because if you are, consider anonymizing it.

@Darius-Gricius

GitHub issue #15324.
Fix is already in progress, it should be included in the upcoming next N++ version.

@Cee-Qhawekazi-Mhlongo You must press Install before you can use that!

@Kang-Tri Firewalls rarely get in the way of plugins. Disabling them as a general practice in an attempt to solve a problem that someone can’t articulate well is bad advice.

@guy038 said:

I just hope that these two regex S/R work nice, too, on your VERY BIG unordered ASN data list ;-))

Delighted to confirm that your hack (the first one) delivered a proper sort of the large listing (AS7552).

If you’re curious my kit took some 48sec compared to the inconsistent ‘results’ provided by 7.7.1 in (what would’ve normally have been) about a second.

Thank you @guy038 for providing that workaround to the native code’s flawed 7.7.1 …for which I await a fix.

@Carlos-Zhang said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:

Plugins > Open Plugins Folder: Nothing happened. File Manager did not open.

I also fixed this by this page:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929833/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system
FYI.

@andrecool-68

But only as long as you have not opened more than the maximum number of files to be saved.

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Create/maintain some sort of database for this info

But I see a disadvantage - maintenance. How to keep this kind of db clean. I would say that during runtime of npp one can expect it but
after a restart it will become a nightmare to keep it clean.
How would one handle temporarily inaccessible files, moved or deleted files.
On the other side if you can configure an extension or lexer to always
open a file in a specific encoding then I assume most of the issues are solved.

@Victorel-Petrovich said in Using Mark (Markers) and Styles:

the conclusion is that this feature is broken (if I can break it so easily).

it is easy to get the UI out of sync just using the built-in features (no scripting).

Ah, OK – I thought you meant something with the script.
Yes, the feature is very broken, for many reasons.
This has long been known.

@pnedev said in Useless Backup System:

It is becoming rather a philosophical discussion now but the other perspective is how often people will find the behavior of the editor awkward.

For all the time Notepad++ has been out there AFAIK @Resonant-Mind is the first to ask for that backup by default (not trying to be disrespectful here, just stating the facts).
I think what @Alan-Kilborn is kind of worried about is that since the change there are already several (two AFAIK) help requests in this forum asking why the .bak files appear and how to stop that. Those are coming from not power users obviously. And since @Alan-Kilborn and a few other folks here are the guys that are actually spending time and effort answering such queries and trying to help it is normal for them to measure the pros. and cons. of such change from the perspective of “How much confusion it will bring and how much maintenance effort”.

I understand both views and since we have prioritized the security and stability here (.bak ON by default) maybe it is worth creating post in the FAQ section describing how one can stop that default behavior.
@Alan-Kilborn , what do you think?

A couple users coming in to ask how to disable it, is not the same thing as a couple forum Golems b!tching about the change and then proceeding to be bigger cry babies than the person that lost data.

These elitist power users fail to recognize, that a lot of professional paid for / not free software out there have their own .bak system and is enabled by default.

So, welcome to being a professional.

@alan-kilborn I’m sorry again. I try to do my best…
Your formulation is perfect.
Just a detail, ‘icon =’ is not important for me. So :
For any other lines, leave them as they are after the ‘song_length =’ line in the output.

@alan-kilborn You’re exactly correct, this has been a great learning experience for me regarding Notepad++ plugin development. I plan to continue improving my current plugins and write new ones. Once again thank you @Alan-Kilborn and @PeterJones for pointing me in the right direction, you’ve been helped a great deal! : - )

@leonardchai Thank you very much. I searched for your plugin in the plugin admin menu and there it was. Works great!

Feature request: Prevent pinned tabs from being closed.

@Jos-Debouvere177 said:

I’m facing the same problem ‘failure to launch in browser’

“…in browser” ?

Regarding @Gerald-Kirchner’s 2019-02-16T22:54:10.388 post above,

I go to NPP -> ? -> Get More Plugins -> http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Plugin_Central

It seems to me that the ? > Get More Plugins menu item is more dangerous than helpful, in Notepad++ v7.6.3 and beyond. I have thus submitted issue #5325 to either get the behavior of ? > Get More Plugins changed, or get that menu item removed.

Some topics are troll magnets. Are they seeking, HunSpell, .dic, or something deeper?