@Jason-Wright said: @donho none of these are my issue; now remove the find in files feature. its a waste of time. The feature is not a waste of time. I have used that feature for more than a decade. It would be a waste of time to spend time to remove it (and be a huge annoyance to people to have relied on it for more than a decade). Now, if you mean, you don’t care about that feature, that’s fine. But why would you want it removed? If you mean, you are having difficulty using it, and would like help, then @donho pointed you to my post, which list a few debugging techniques which would help us help you. I will reiterate them: Try with all plugins disabled, to make sure it’s not a plugin issue share ?-menu’s Debug Info share your FIND WHAT (use ` before and after your search, like `my.*search` , so that the Forum doesn’t “eat” your search characters as post-formatting) share all the options in the Find in Files dialog (Filters, Directory, Search Mode, other checkboxes – a screenshot would be easiest) does your directory contain *.lnk to files or other directories? or windows junctions or symlinks or hardlinks? So if you’d like help with it, feel free to provide actual information. If you don’t want help, that’s fine. also why the !@$!#@$ does your website need a clout system??? The reputation system prevents spammers from flooding this forum with links to their ad farms. The minimum reputation to upvote or downvote will keep spammers from creating multple accounts to be able to upvote themselves, so that they can get around the posting limits for users with low reputation. [image of “You need 5 reputation to downvote”] Also, there is irony in someone complaining about a reputation system because they didn’t have enough reputation to use the reputation system to dowvote. this site sounds like it was designed by an @#$@#$#@$ tiktok kid oh my god Notepad++ moved to a NodeBB-based forum in 2015. TikTok was created in 2016. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good rant. why the @#$@@#$ isnt @$@#$@ funny site sounds like it was designed by an @#$#@$# tiktok kid There’s a whole section devoted to those who just want to whine and curse, and not actively discuss and/or seek help. If you actually want help, and meaningful discussion, feel free to reply here. If all you want to do is curse and whine, create a topic in that section, or go find something more productive to do with your time.

I also vote for Method 3. Method 2 has too much text changing from use to use. For me, the only advantage to Method 1 is being a bit easier to automate with AutoHotkey.

@guy038 said: @coises, I wrote all the interesting sequences to use, with a French keyboard, in the Main_Compose.txt file. You can download this file, just for information, from my Google Drive account : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_twecFVI_hkIPSg86_aNDE5NPE18fqyE/view?usp=sharing Thanks for checking this out. I’m glad you’re finding it useful! Looking at your chart, it seems like the French keyboard might be a case where it would be worth redefining some of the implicit accent sequences, so you don’t have to use AltGr to get the circumflex, grave accent and tilde. You have to replace the entire set to replace any part of it, so to work from scratch you’d first need to find compose-default.jsonc in the plugins\Compose directory. You’d copy the entire block starting with "implicit combining rules" : { and extending to the matching }, then paste that after the opening { in a new user definitions file. You could replace the circumflex, grave accent and tilde with the base letters (since none of them are used in existing combinations), so your user definitions file would look like this (I think — I can’t really test without a French keyboard): { "implicit combining rules" : { "'" : ["\u0301", "\u030B", true , "\u0317"], // acute accent | double | same as plain | acute accent below ")" : ["\u0306", false , true , "\u032E"], // breve | - | same as plain | breve below ">" : ["\u030C", false , true , "\u032C"], // caron/hacek | - | same as plain | caron/hacek below "," : ["\u0327", false , "\u0313", "\u0326"], // cedilla | - | comma above | comma below "ç" : ["\u0302", false , true , "\u032D"], // circumflex | - | same as plain | circumflex below "\"": ["\u0308", false , true , "\u0324"], // diaeresis | - | same as plain | diaeresis below "." : ["\u0307", false , true , "\u0323"], // dot above | - | same as plain | dot below "è" : ["\u0300", "\u030F", true , "\u0316"], // grave accent | double | same as plain | grave accent below "?" : ["\u0309", false , true , false ], // hook above | - | same as plain | - "+" : ["\u031B", false , true , false ], // horn | - | same as plain | - "-" : ["\u0304", false , true , "\u0331"], // macron | - | same as plain | macron below ";" : ["\u0328", false , "\u1DCE", true ], // ogonek | - | ogonnek above | same as plain "*" : ["\u030A", false , true , "\u0325"], // ring above | - | same as plain | ring below "é" : ["\u0303", false , true , "\u0330"], // tilde | - | same as plain | tilde below "_" : ["\u0332", "\u0333", "\u0305", true ] // underline | double | overline | same as plain } } Then you could just use ç, è and é instead of having to use AltGr with them. Then again, maybe AltGr is so natural to people who use a French keyboard that it really doesn’t make it any more awkward to use it. I am a little confused by why you are showing sequences like [AltGr] [é2~] [SP] [Letter] with the space in them; I would expect the space to break the sequence and show the accent as a separate, non-combining mark. Does it not work that way for you? Edit to add: I’m sorry. I see: the grave accent and the tilde are dead keys (and the circumflex on the ç key is the ASCII circumflex, but there is also another one that is a dead key). So you probably rarely need to use those combinations anyway, since the dead key would create the character you need in most circumstances. If there are times when the dead keys don’t work, though, so that sometimes you still want the Compose combinations, the override suggested above would avoid the need for the space as well as the AltGr.