@guy038 I wasn’t familiar with these projects. Thank you for the tip-off, I have a lot to learn from these. Glad I asked your advice. We don’t know each other too well yet, but from your replies I get the feeling you have been coding for a while now… as a relative n00b I think it’s good to learn coding the nuts-and-bolt way, not just “vibe coding” like everyone is nowadays. (Even though I’m developing an AI plugin, so a bit of a contradiction. But I like to develop plugins that I would use personally, and I don’t use it to “vibe code”. Granted though that some might.) tl;dr Hard work pays off!

Sorry! It is NOT that I refuse to help you. It is mostly I don’t know how… I asked for screenshots (a normal function of Windows, which I assumed you would know how to grab). I asked for the Debug Info (I told you what menu to go into to get it). You provided neither. Also, I thought telling you that NOTHING showed in " -> Configuration" was self evident and DIDN’T need a screen snapshot? The screenshot would have confirmed: 1) that there really was “nothing” there (maybe you and I have a different definition of “nothing”), 2) whether you had really selected “user scripts” or had selected “machine scripts”, and 3) that you were willing to follow instructions to try to get help. I’m happy to announce I’ve fixed it!!! Don’t ask me how but my WHOLE NP++ setup was weird!!! It seemed half in Program Files and half in AppData. That’s not weird. That’s how Notepad++ and PythonScript are intentionally set up. The FAQ footnote that I’ve begged you to read explains why there are the two different script locations. In fiddling around I copied the PythonScript directory from Program Files into AppData and TaDa! Everything fell into place… EVERYTHING WORKED like clockwork! You thus copied way too much. You could have copied just the scripts. Or you could have just clicked the “machine scripts” button in the dialog, like I told you to, and not had to copy any files. THANK YOU for your responses and help. Glad you’ve got it working.

@PeterJones OK, I didn’t know that. .8.9.4 and .5 both broke my PreviewHTML plugin, installing back to 8,9,3 fixed it. So, there you go.

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

Hello, @balancedcircular, @terry-r, @coises and All, I suppose that the following regex S/R should be close to what you want ! I consider the entire line because you may have other lines with attributes Name and/or Comments FIND (?-si)^(<RectangularPart Version=.+ Name=")\d\d\d (.+/.).+?(\d")(.+ Comments=").+(?=>) REPLACE $1$2$3$4$2$3 As @coises said, try this global replacement on a copy of your file ! If everything works as expected, I’ll explain you, next time, how all the regex syntax means ! Best Regards, guy038 I almost forgot the last line of your post. To simultaneously search for any of the three words Rafter, C.Tie and Web, simply use the regex (?-i)Rafter|C\.Tie|Web

@xomx said in Notepad++ release 8.9.4: @donho said in Notepad++ release 8.9.4: Add NPP_LANG property to install a specific localization file for MSI. (Fix issue reported in comment ) As is correctly noted in this GitHub comment, the lang info should be stored into Registry HKLM and not into HKCU. Fixed by: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/09e50bad56c493a6dfd2d034d288b5271a656d96

@ioc2e3 said: ioc2e3 Apr 29, 2026, 4:16 PM Hopefully Notepad++ can display correctly … More types of language archives … notepad++ has been holding it down for like 20 years now. underrated.

I have checked out the https://github.com/donho/xmlSigner project and it is what I needed. I have used that project to correctly pass the XML signing test. I have opened some issues with that project. Here is a quick summary of how the update process works. The wingup code first queries a website to determine if an update is required and the returned XML provides information to be used later. None of the information in the XML is used if it doesn’t pass the XML security check. After passing the security check the code looks for the update status and download location, assuming an update is required. After prompting the user to download the update and finishing the download, it checks the code signing of the installer. Assuming that the code signing is valid and the correct certificate, it starts the install. I will try to document all the customizations to the code from Notepad++, wingup and xmlSigner to make it work in my project so that future users have a place to start, but that will be after I am sure its all working correctly with the new security updates. Thank you @xomx for pointing me in the right direction.

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

@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)

@Alan-Kilborn said in New feature: Allow additional line on each search results: @Coises I can’t tell if you’ve considered this, but one way to do it would be in conjunction with hiding lines. You could hide lines that don’t meet the criterion of -M through +N, where M would be a user-chosen number of lines before the hit, and N a user-selected count of lines after the search match. At first thought, I believe that would be significantly easier to implement than doing it in the search results window. As a plus, it (or a close approximation) could even be available after the search with something like an “expand visible blocks” command. The downside is that Show commands only work on the current document; you can’t show in all open documents (and it wouldn’t even make sense for find in files, whenever I finally get that done). At present, my use of hidden lines (using Scintilla’s function directly) and Notepad++’s way of doing it (keeping its own internal table, inaccessible to plugins, of what ranges are hidden) are at odds with one another, which causes any changes my plugin has made to hidden lines to be lost when any other tab is switched into the view. Thus far, I have not been able to devise any solution to this.

@Uwo222777 Of course, the program itself should return the encoding to its original form, but… it doesn’t do this.

Hi, @alan-kilborn and All, Of course, I could use your method to achieve my goal but that is just the reason why I wanted this enhancement which should avoid any further operation !! BTW, this idea occured to me while I was writing this other post : https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27511/surprising-regular-expression In the meanwhile, I’ve found out a nice work-around to realize that goal ! Let’s imagine that you want to do a list of 743 empty lines exactly ( I chose that number as it’s a prime number ). Then : Open a new tab Within N++ Hit the Enter key just once Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H ) Uncheck all box options Check the Wrap around option ONLY Select the Regular expression search mode FIND \R REPLACE $0$0 Click 10 times on the Replace All button => You should get a total of 1,025 lines ( Note that, after each replacement N, the number of lines increases to the value 2 × N + 1 ) The trick is to repeat the process up to the first number which is greater than 743 ! Now, open the Search > Go to... option ( Ctrl + G ) Search for the line 744 ( so 743 + 1 ) Then, select to the very end of file with the Ctrl + Shift + End shortcut And finally, hit the Delete key => It should remain the expected 743 lines ! I readily admit that all the different tasks of my work-around do not take long. However, I still think that a new field Total insertion number, in the Column Editor dialog, filled with the value 743, would have been more elegant and straightforward ! Best Regards, guy038

@guy038 Just to say, I tried your solution in native N++ for kicks, and it worked! So kudos for an elegant idea. :)

@MarkusBodensee Thank you for your heads up. The fix will come with v8.9.5 release tomorrow.

@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!

@baberzaman , You can also check NppGTags plugin from Notepad++'s Plugin Manager (this is its project URL: https://github.com/pnedev/nppgtags) - it uses Global GTags to index your code-base and then you can look-up identifiers and do greps. P.S. You love Notepad++, “Boycott Notepad++” is probably not the proper place for your thread. It is more suitable for general discussion or plugins sections as a question and/or suggestion for Notepad++ improvement. BR

Hi @rwieber79 , @peterjones , I’m just seeing this issue, thank you Peter for pinging me. @rwieber79 , just as a side note - please write directly to https://github.com/pnedev/comparePlus/issues in the future if you encounbter problems with ComparePlus - this way I’ll be notified more quickly about the issue. As to the issue itself - please try setting your Notepad++ rendering mode to GDI for the moment. You can do that from Notepad++ Settings - MISC. section (there is a drop-down menu there selecting the rendering which is DirectWrite by default). Then after restarting Notepad++ try again your crashing compare and please write back here if crash is still present. I am in a middle of a large ComparePlus code portions rework and some time in the near future I will release a new version which should not have problems with DirectWrite rendering. BR

Thank you Peter. Makes perfect sense. Much appreciated!