Hello, @pellelin, @mpheath, and All, Oh…, @pellelin, in my previous post, I forgot to mention confidentiality and sensitive information. Of course, I completely understand why you don’t want to send me your summary file! However, if you could send me an example — even a shorter one, with any personal information removed — I’m sure I could find a suitable replacement, using regular expressions ! I only need the text’s formatting / text’s frame, not the words themselves . BR guy038

@Em776102 not sure what your use is, for example in termux on android you can use nano. For most quick edits it’s enough I guess… Need something more advanced, use: Acode - code editor | OSS Surely it’s not our beloved notepad++, but quick search may reveal even more alternatives.

@xomx , Dave Bowman: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL. " HAL: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” [image: 488a3017b34fe587.png]

@Taras-Tkachenko , No version of Notepad++ has such a button on the tabs bar. There is one on the far right of the menu bar (beyond the ? menu): [image: 1780441214049-dbd16aed-078a-4380-be71-254794b615fc-image.jpeg] That one can be turned off using Settings > Prefeerences > General, where there’s a setting ☐ Hide right shortcuts ＋ ▼ ✕ from the menu bar – if you checkmark that, and restart, then it will hide those three symbols. Notepad++ never sets that option by default, so maybe you accidentally set it at some point. If it’s checkmarked, just uncheckmark it, and restart, and those three buttons will be back. But, again, Notepad++ doesn’t have a similar button on the tabbar (and never has). You can, however, double-click to the right of the tabs, and it will create a new tab without needing to find the symbol [image: 1780441370585-7b98eeb8-54c3-49c2-bb2c-1ca8c9df8891-image.jpeg] User Manual on related topics: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#general https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/user-interface/#tabs

@Ekopalypse said: Those are exactly the things that keep holding me back. I have no idea who came up with them, but… can’t we just fire that person? I mean, obviously I’m not the only one this affects. :-D @Ekopalypse , I appreciate your research into this, and I’ll look at it again, later, at least for dBASE. The problem, however for dBASE is it’s IDE, which is a program that is a virtual machine , and unless I can control the dBASE IDE via, say, OLE, from Notepad++, it’s going to be an impossible attempt, as far as I know. It boils down to one of the problems I’ve been having trying to get a file edited in NPP, to open inside the dBASE IDE, which, essentially runs it, since after editing, you want the file compiled and run. Sending a file to the IDE doesn’t give the option of compile only, or run only. It does both. When it does both it will attempt to compile and run the file, but the problem is that the last active directory, is still hardcoded in the environment and the .ini file (any time it starts up) for the IDE, and will open there and then throw a database error , or file location error, and not allow the file to be opened. Much like Notepad++ won’t allow changes to it’s environment and files to be changed until restarted and reloaded. Even using a slight of hand to bring up a directory file dialog box inside the IDE to allow going to the file, fails because the IDE environment STAYS in the last active directory. It requires changing that directory inside of the IDE to direct to the directory that can compile and run that file. Inside the IDE, one can compile and run, separately. Not from the outside, which I suspect is an unexpected security precaution. There might be a way to change the .ini file settings before using Run to start the application, (something I may look at) but that’s a lot of trouble for varying paths, apps…etc., for something that should be simple if the communication was easier. I’m still looking at this aspect, at least as a possible solution for opening files in the IDE to be compiled and run, and would be a step toward the Debugger, but it’s not there yet and time, as we’ve mentioned, is at a bit of a premium right now. The problem with the Notepad++ Run (as well as the Windows Run) is that the path has to be hardcoded. It doesn’t work with the NPP Run variables being passed to the commandline path to open the dBASE IDE, but even if it did, the environment doesn’t allow for that path to change the “last active directory”. I know, it’s frustrating. :-( The easiest way I can think of, to better commmunicate, is if dBASE is an OLE server that Notepad++ can connect to and allow commands to be sent to the IDE to manipulate it from inside. If that is possible, then maybe that can then be put into, say, a PythonScript inside Notepad++ to automate the process. Unfortunately, searching the Notepad++ documentation, I don’t see any mention of Notepad++ being OLE capable. As of right now, until I can either find out how to use text commands to the Debugger (which is also, an app run inside of the IDE runtime), or figure out how to use OLE with Notepad++ and the dBASE environment, communication with the standalone debugger app for dBASE will have to go on that way in the back burner. Not ruling it out or giving up, just putting it where it has to go for now, until my understanding, knowledge and capability improves. In the meantime, I need to find that person causing all these IRL chores and have a talk with them…unfortunately, I suspect if I do start having a conversation with ‘him’, people will view me crazier than they already do. :-)

In a humorous anecdote, I just rejected an AI spam post that titled itself (translated from the original language): “AI Super Student”. If all AI bots would be kind enough to announce themselves as AI, that will make our jobs as moderators so much easier. Thank you. ;-)

Explained with a proposed fix at https://github.com/ffes/nppsnippets/issues/77#issuecomment-4602799602