Hi, @coises,

I re-tested the supposed bug and I simplified the procedure which is necessary to trigger that bug !

If opened, close the Search++ plugin by clicking on the cross, at the far right

A Re-open Search++ with the Plugins > Search++ > Search... option

B Try to close the Search++ panel by clicking on the cross, at the far right => Nothing happens !?

C After some trys, if you move slightly the mouse, you should be able to close the Search++ panel

Sometimes, you’ll need to repeat the actions A ato C, up to 5 times consecutively, to trigger that bug. but this event may also occur at the first try !

I also noted that, when the bug occurs, any subsequent left click on the cross does nothing until I move very slightly the mouse, without any clicking, that is enough, then, to close the search++ panel by clicking againg onto the cross icon. Very strange, indeed !?

As I suspected that the problem could be an hardware issue with my bluethooth mouse, I disabled it and installed a classical USB mouse, instead. But, unfortunately, results were identical as well as the uncertainty regarding the manifestation of the bug !

I have different portable versions of Notepad++, but the one which is concerned is the v8.9 release where I installed, both, your Columns++ and Search++ plugins

Here is my Debug info :

Notepad++ v8.9 (64-bit) Build time: Jan 10 2026 - 02:25:19 Scintilla/Lexilla included: 5.5.8/5.4.6 Boost Regex included: 1_90 pugixml included: 1.15 nlohmann JSON included: 3.12.0 Path: D:\890_x64\Notepad++.exe Command Line: Admin mode: OFF Local Conf mode: ON Cloud Config: OFF Periodic Backup: OFF Placeholders: OFF Scintilla Rendering Mode: SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE (1) Multi-instance Mode: monoInst asNotepad: OFF File Status Auto-Detection: cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only) Dark Mode: OFF Display Info: primary monitor: 1920x1080, scaling 125% visible monitors count: 1 installed Display Class adapters: 0001: Description - Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics 0001: DriverVersion - 32.0.101.7084 OS Name: Windows 11 Pro (64-bit) OS Version: 25H2 OS Build: 26200.7462 Current ANSI codepage: 1252 Plugins: mimeTools (3.1) NppConverter (4.7) NppExport (0.4) ComparePlus (2.2) ColumnsPlusPlus (1.3.1) NppUISpy (1.2) MultiReplace (4.6.0.33) Marginalize (1) Search++ (0.5.5)

Finally, note that this portable version of N++ is installed on an USB drive

Best Regards,

guy038

@snafu423 said:

since I use the “real” portable version it all works fine

And this is the key point of this entire thread!

@hknet said in Notepad++ release 8.9.3:

as usual with a lots of other MSIs we take to the softwareinstallation in the GPO editor, then select “new - package”, select the current npp.8.9.3.Installer.x64.msi file from our GPO deployment path, open it, then select to deploy the package in a customized version (German: Erweitert), but tried all three options in the meantime, all end with the GPO editor reporting that adding the package to the GPO went wrong because the deploymentinformation can not be read (from the package) and we should check if we got the correct softwarepackage…

It’s likely that Windows has placed a “Zone.Identifier” alternate data stream on it, marking it as untrusted.
If not, please check the network share where npp.8.9.3.Installer.x64.msi is stored has Read permissions for both “Domain Computers” and “Authenticated Users” (or at least your specific admin account).

ello, @ricardo-barroso, @peterjones, @terry-r and All,

An other S/R could be :

FIND (?-i)RequiredItem.+, \K\d+

REPLACE 0

The search regex means :

First, find a string RequiredItem, with that exact case because of the leading part (?-i)

Then find any NON-zero number of chars ( .+ ) till a comma followed with a space char

Now, forget anything matched so far, due to the \K syntax

And just match a non-zero list of digits ( \d+ ), which come next

Finally, replace that number by 0

Remark : You must do a global S/R, using the Replace All button. Due to the \K syntax a step by step replacement, with the Replace button, would not work !

Best Regards,

guy038

@PeterJones Ah yah, I understand now. I suppose this is a fine solution, so thank you for that. This still requires some finesse to get in front of the 1st column versus just click+dragging inside the margin, but definitely better than before. 😎

@arnaud-derette said in Terminal window in a N++ tab:

i think i get it : It does not handle correctly 4K screen.

That does not surprise me. Notepad++ is still not great for high-DPI environments, and it’s been taking a long time to finish some of the last-remaining high-DPI issues. And if the main app, with lots of contributors, still has issues, then it should come as no surprise that the plugins, which usually only have one developer (if they remain interested), whose skillset usually focuses on the feature that their plugin implements, rather than on the generics of all the edge cases of modern win32 coding. (At least, I know that’s true for me on my plugin(s).)

I don’t have a High-DPI environment, so I don’t know and can’t test for you, but maybe the NppExec plugin handles high-DPI better than NppConsole does (whether the original, or the intermediate fork)

@Olyfant22

There really are substantial differences in between the Win10 & Win11 in this area. I know about 2: SMB signing enforcement in 24H2+ and stricter token isolation (the later one should be solvable by that mentioned “EnableLinkedConnections”)

@Ronald-Besdansky Hi Terry Deleting that plugin fixed the issue. Thanks.

@scottgshin said in autoupdater and XMLDSig:

point me in the correct direction or add the code to the N++ project

Did you check the https://github.com/donho/xmlSigner README?

And these commits:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/6f87bb7fe25350025b72fdbc711762f552f5b1ad

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/wingup/commit/ab8720819f9f4205ade5fe2afc56819b71a3227d

@xomx
Thank you for pinging!
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/2c1abe0784543e78dbba0f259b0948cf3a08b8cb

I also find that OneDrive folders aren’t always turned on when you first log in/start up; that’s why I preferred using network drives over OneDrive. When you first open a OneDrive folder in File Explorer, there should be a button somewhere that toggles the drive.

@Phil-Shearer said in Download Status Page Out of Date:

hopefully it will all be good again in a week or two

As of 2026-Apr-7 (per this post), v8.9.3 has been triggered for Auto-Update, so ? > Update Notepad++ should see a new version available now.

@Fii-Ert ,

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我之前的评论依然有效。你那些显而易见的人身攻击，暴露了你在辩论中缺乏诚信；而你那种以为对手除了你们党派灌输的那些教条之外便对外部世界一无所知的臆想，更是与事实相去甚远。你可以试着去蒙骗那些涉世未深的人，但请把你的那一套宣传留给你该留的地方——也就是你那充满倒退色彩、妄图称霸世界的“中国梦”里去吧。

如果你除了那些含糊其辞的陈词滥调和人身侮辱之外别无他物，那么中国人民当真是彻底迷失了方向，永远无法摆脱自我膨胀的桎梏，更无法拥有超越眼前狭隘视野的眼光。请你再消失个四年吧。我确信，贵国对外部网络的封锁或许是你这四年间音讯全无的部分原因，但这四年过去，你既没有变得更加清醒，也没有变得更加博学。好自为之吧，我们的对话到此为止。

@mapsonx said in Toolbar button names:

Settings > Preferences > Backup > ☑ Enable session snapshot and periodic backup

That setting kinda represents the journey of discovery for me, who, is certainly a novice, and has been reminded regularly of my level of ignorance when it comes to an impressive tool like Notepad++. Obviously, the way manifested itself didn’t make sense to me, never seeing that effect before elsewhere.

That setting has nothing to do with toolbar buttons. If you just brought this up as an example of things that you didn’t understand but are learning the utility of, fine.

If you think that this affected your toolbar buttons in any way, shape, or form, you will need to explain what you think changed, and prove to yourself that it does change it by doing screenshots before and after toggling that option (and paste them here if you think it does prove your point).

since some other text editors do have such a feature.

What text editors do you think have this feature that you want? What setting in that other text editor do you change to get things to go from “normal” to “what you want”? If you give us that, (including “before” and “after” screenshots) we might be able to figure out what feature it is you really want, and be able to better answer you as to whether or not it can be done in Notepad++.

(I mentioned screenshots a couple of times. If you use Alt+PrintScreen or the modern Win11 Snipping Tool equivalent, you can just paste the image directly into your reply here, making it simply a matter of Ctrl+V to embed the image. But screenshots showing what it is you want would be really helpful for us to understand you.)

@guy038 said:

There is no mean to achieve such a goal with the present Column Editor feature ! Do you agree with my statement ?

Yes, but I don’t know that functionality is lacking enough for someone to develop the new feature. Unless, say, you yourself are going to give implementation a try?

What I would do, instead, for your “second example” would be to manually create the line I want, on a new blank line at end-of-file and then just hold down my keycombo for duplicating a line until the line is copied as many times as I want (e.g. 100). Now, key repeat is likely to make me go over the amount needed slightly, but pressing the delete-line keycombo a few times is an easy repair. Very fast for me, rather than invoking the column editor and then fussing with its controls.

TL;DR: Your desired feature is okay, but not life-changing for me. :-)

@Fii-Ert said in 傻逼软件，傻逼作者，傻逼呆湾人:

美国干涉台湾，又怎么说？
台湾的绿圾执政党，自甘堕落化为纳粹，由不得别人不干涉！

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你这种逻辑，正是共产主义灌输教育的典型特征——试图将共产主义的侵略行径粉饰为某种“好事”，而事实绝非如此。这本质上不过是一种混淆视听的企图。你将美国的援助视为“干涉”，这纯粹是你基于自身偏见所构建的一种妄想式解读，而非客观现实。中国必须远离台湾，这一点毫无商量余地。

@PeterJones Thanks for the quick update to the manual! Maintaining technical documentation across versions is a major undertaking when there’s an integrated development team within major corporations; I can’t imagine how herculean that job must be when you’re not side-by-side with a lone developer, so thank you for the excellent work on it. I really do appreciate your speedy response and update.

I tried to post the second part of my list yesterday, but I was delayed by the “time between posts” counter, and unfortunately had to leave before it reset.

However, you might want to double check your list against the FAQ, to let us know if the FAQ is missing any.

I’ll go ahead and do that. Thanks again!

@Giuseppe-Aiosa-0 said in View only searched lines:

is there any function or existing plugin to view/extract only those line which match the tezt search?

If you like to experiment, I am working on a plugin for search which includes a Show command that hides all lines and then shows just the ones with matches.

It’s still a work in progress, but everyone is welcome to try it and offer bug reports, suggestions and complaints. See this thread for ongoing discussion; go here to find the latest version.

@George-0 said in Archive of Notepad++ versions:

I checked this link but it is not that relevant.

Why do you think that? The README that @Murray-Sobol-1 linked to starts with,

You can find all the old Notepad++ releases - from the very first version 1.0 up to v6.9.2 - here

That’s 100% relevant to the original question “does any people have an notepad++ installers from version 1.0-4.x.x?”

And if you then follow the link in that README to the Releases page, there are a few pages of releases. The first page has all the v1 installers/downloads, all the v2 installers/downloads, all the v3 installers/downloads, all the v4 installers/downloads (split into groups), and all the v5 installers/downloads (split into groups). And clicking to the second page gives all the v6 installers/downloads (split into groups). If that’s not relevant, then there is no answer to the original question that is relevant. Fortunately, it is obviously relevant: I was quite happy that the Developer listed to the feedback of the users, and re-published all those old installers so that people can still go grab the older copies of the application. He didn’t have to, and I appreciate that he did.