@Sylvester-Bullitt said: Any idea when the next release will be out My guess: sometime in the next few weeks to a month or so – most of the time, that’s the cadence of the release schedule. But it all depends on when the developer thinks enough things have been added/fixed to warrant a new release. If it annoys you a lot, you can manually download and run the installer for an older version, and use that version which behaves as you want while wait to upgrade again until after you see the next version announced

@Scott-Nielson @guy038 has given a good explanation of the (*SKIP)(*FAIL) method at https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26812/generic-regex-how-to-use-the-couple-of-backtracking-control-verbs-skip-fail-or-skip-f-in-regexes/5 - in fact I recommend everyone who lands on this page after searching online, to read that explanation and understand it!