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  • CoisesC

    Search++: A work in progress

    Notepad++ & Plugin Development
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    guy038G

    Hello, @coises and All,

    Two more points :

    Open the change.log file

    Let’s suppose that the N++ Find dialog is already opened and that the Find field contains the text This is a test

    Now, switch back to the change.log file

    Select the Updater (Installer only): text

    Use the Ctrl + F shortcut

    => The previous text is updated to the new text to search : Updater (Installer only): => OK

    Now, open Search++ ( with Plugins > Search++ > Search... or with my shortcut Ctrl + Shift + N )

    Type in This is a test in the Find dialog of Search++

    Click on the change.log tab

    Select again the Updater (Installer only): text

    Put the focus again on the Search++ plugin ( with Plugins > Search++ > Search... or with my shortcut Ctrl + Shift + N )

    => The text is not uptaded and remains the string This is a test ! To get it updated, you need to close and re-open Search++

    Could you provide this N++ search behavior to Search++, as well ?

    When the Search++ dialog is docked, it’s very easy to identify if focus is on Notepad++ or on Search++, thanks to the blue color of the title bar. However, this difference is not so obvious when the Search++ plugin is not docked ! Is there a mean to improve this difference ?

    Best Regards,

    guy038

  • mapsonxM

    Toolbar button names

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    PeterJonesP

    @mapsonx,

    I previously said,

    I am curious where you found such advice.

    If you are talking about my reply to your 2025 question, where half of your question was about changing the icons, you misunderstood my answer, because I was talking (at that point) about Notepad++'s built-in icon-replacement, not the Customize Toolbar plugin. And I wasn’t talking about using “action names” in the button at all.

  • mapsonxM

    Replace Notepad with Notepad++ portable as default

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    PeterJonesP

    @mapsonx ,

    This Topic is closed/locked as a duplicate of your original.

    If you have more questions about the answers you received, reply in the original discussion, not here; and ask specific questions about the answer you were given, don’t just re-iterate what you’ve already said.

    Update: this is also the same question you asked in June 2025. Apparently, you don’t actually read the replies to questions you already asked. If it’s because you don’t realize you’ve gotten replies, I recommend going to your forum settings (click your avatar/icon in the upper-right in the forum, click settings, then change “When a new reply is posted in a topic you are watching” and/or “When someone mentions you” from None or Notification Only to Notification & Email, so that the forum will email you when you get a reply)

  • donhoD

    Notepad++ release 8.9.3

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    PeterJonesP

    @M-Andre-Z-Eckenrode said in Notepad++ release 8.9.3:

    Possible bug/shortcoming, or maybe just incorrect online manual info:

    One of each. But neither are unique to v8.9.3.

    In general, when replying to the Announcement posts, make sure that the issue you are brining up really started in the version you comment on: if it started earlier, it really belongs in a separate discussion, and if it’s confirmed, as a normal bug report.

    Quick responses to each:

    The “Column Editor” dialog has actually been renamed to “Column/Multi-Selection Editor” since v8.5.4 in 2023 (in the Changes, it was lumped as part of the “GUI Enhancements”). It’s true that the manual doesn’t use the text of the “/ Multi-Selection” for the dialog title, but the screenshot in the UM has included the more recent dialog for some time. But yes, the manual does need to mention that all those dialog features work in multi-selection mode, too. (You can actually create issues in the user manual repo directly (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/npp-usermanual/issues) to point out things like that. {edit: fixed in PR#863}

    For not being able to leave Column Editor entries blank: there was a change to ColumnEditorDlg::getNumericFieldValueFromText() in v8.9.2 where it no longer handles the empty field the same as it used to, creating a regression in v8.9.2 (which carried into v8.9.3). (I will create an issue for this one momentarily. {edit: issue #17912})

  • Ertan KüçükogluE

    Pascal multi line string highlight

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    PeterJonesP

    Update: @Ertan-Küçükoglu didn’t post the link here, but had made https://github.com/ScintillaOrg/lexilla/issues/321 to request this feature from Lexilla. Lexilla just merged a PR to add SCE_PAS_MULTILINESTRING styleID=15. Since Lexilla v5.4.8 was just released last week, it’s likely going to be a few weeks to a couple months before v5.4.9 is released to include that feature. But once it is, and once Notepad++ imports the updated Lexilla, then that new style can be added to the Pascal/Delphi definitions in stylers/themes. So hopefully, this will be added to Notepad++ within the next few months.

    (Keep an eye on Notepad++'s Issue #16807 to see when it gets added to the codebase; whatever release happens after that Issue is closed will be the first Notepad++ release to incude the multi-line string highlighting.)

  • mapsonxM

    Notetab++ novice questions

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    PeterJonesP

    Any future replies need to go to this 2026 topic where @mapsonx asked essentially the same question

    This Topic is locked.