@Mister-Smitt ,

As you are just here to whine and complain and curse, I will move this “topic” to “Boycott Notepad++”, where such belongs.

And then, since I have that Category set so that I never see new posts there, I can hopefully just ignore anything else you post.

Good luck with your whining, ad hominem attacks, and anti-social behavior. <sarcasm> It will serve you well in life. </sarcasm>

@waskoma said in Cant change cursor color, and latest version shortcut to start batch file claims it cant find it:

today I upgraded to the latest versions

Which version do you think is the latest (see FAQ: Most Recent Version)? ie, did you just ? > Update Notepad++ to get v8.9.1? Or was it a few weeks ago, and pointing to v8.8.8 (IIRC)? Because the actual latest is v8.9.2. But if you’re not explicit, we don’t know what definition of “latest” you are using.

(since years I havent did this) and I have a c:\xxx.bat file starting from a shortcut, and now it claims it doesnt find it. when going back to older version (7.5, 8.0) this works.

can you show us the relevant portions of the <UserDefinedCommands> section of shortcuts.xml – specifically, the <Command> entry for the c:\xxx.bat … because the way you described your action, there shouldn’t be any change in how a run-menu-command is processed between v8.0 and now.

also cant change cursor color, I am trying to change it in style configurator global styles -> caret color, doesnt work, theme is set to default, I have an own defined languge styler, but I dont find it in the language list in case it should be changed there. cursor is black.

It works for me, in both v8.9.1 and v8.9.2.
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If you have done a multi-select (ctrl+click) to have multiple carets, then you also have to use Multi-Edits Colour, otherwise, they will be separate colors, as in:
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update: also, what are your Settings > Preferences > Editing 1 > Caret settings? Because with width=1, it’s really hard to see, and you just might not notice the change in color. For my screenshots above, I was using width=3 and super-slow blink rate, so that the screenshot would easily show the change in color. But by default, Caret settings look more like this :
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@Mario-Korva

Finally I found some time to try to fix C++ Function List parser regex (cpp.xml) to show all constructors.
Modification of the mainExpr in the <classRange> element of <parser>:

Original expression:

mainExpr="(?x) # use inline comments ... )? \s* # trailing whitespace \{ # class/struct body "

Modified expression:

mainExpr="(?x) # use inline comments ... )? \s*(:[^:]*)? #<- trailing whitespace and initializers \{ # class/struct body "

I did equivalent modification of the mainExpr in the <function> element of <parser>. This modification enable that function list shows constructors with initializers.
I found also that functions defined with the call convention keyword, for example:

void __fastcall function(parameter) { ...

are also missing in the function list. This is solved with the addition of the

(__[\d\l]+\s+)? #<- call convention __fastcall, __stdcall, etc.

immediately after second “# type pointer/reference” part of mainExpr in the same two elements.

After this modificatoins the Function List of my C++ source files appears complete! I hope that I didn’t break something.
I tried to include modified cpp.xml here, but the post becomes too long.
I hope this will be useful for someone.

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thanks for the update
image as requested
best regards, Guy