@Martin-1 said in autoupdater and connection temp.sh:

@PeterJones That is what i meant. I don’t understand what is being said in those links or what is being said above. hence the repeat of my questions.

Then ask for clarification, rather than ask the same thing over and over.

Besides, the https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarification-security-incident/ link that @donho most recently posted seems pretty clear to me:

Who Was Targeted?

This was a highly selective attack by a state-sponsored group targeting specific high-value organizations. Security researchers confirmed that the vast majority of Notepad++ users were never affected - attackers filtered victims based on strategic value, not random distribution.

For most users: Simply updating to the latest version is sufficient.

If you are a member of a a high-value organization, then you need to find someone on your IT team who does understand all the technical details. (If you are unsure whether your organization would be considered “high value”, then it wouldn’t be.) If you are not, then you are part of the “for most users” group. And those instructions seem quite clear to me: manually update to v8.9.1.

@fml2 said in Feature Request / Question: Soft Wrap at Vertical Edge (Column 80) regardless of window size:

@Coises Thank you for the quick implementation! If enebaled, it applies to all documets, not just the current one, right?

Yes, I made it a single toggle for all documents in both views.

It would be possible, but considerably more complex, to track documents and enable/disable per document. (I do it with elastic tabstops in Columns++.)

Hello, @mark-boonie and All,

I said in this post that we can translate the regex’s logic to :

What_I_do_not_want(*SKIP)(*F)|What_I_want. See also the excellent article, on this topic, at https://www.rexegg.com/backtracking-control-verbs.php#skipfail !

But, regarding your present example, @mark-boonie, I suppose that we should invert the logic and tell :

What_I_want_to_keep(*SKIP)(*F)|What_I_want_to_delete

This means that any multi-lines block, with delimiters Block start and Block end containing the string 80     00010000 is not considered ( text is skipped ) and that any single line contents, with its line-break, due to the (?-s) modifier, must be deleted

Note that the use of the Backtracking Control Verbs (*SKIP) and (*F) is not mandatory at all ! we could have used this syntax, instead, for similar results :

SEARCH (?s)^\*Block start\h*((?!\*Block start).)+?80 00010000.+?^\*Block end\h*\R?|(?-s)^.*\R?

REPLACE (?1$0)

We simply change the non-capturing group (?:(?!\*Block start).)+? into a capturing group ((?!\*Block start).)+?

We tell that, in replacement, we must rewrite any block entirely ( $0 ), if the group 1 exists, thus the (?1$0) syntax

And, as there is no colon char and text after (?1$0, nothing must be taken in account if the group 1 is absent, which is the case in the (?-s)^.*\R? part !

Best regards,

guy038

@mpheath Cheers thank you for the detailed explanation! i will give this a go.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Simple and light is often the opposite of universal.

This is often the case, but not always.

@PeterJones said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

If you solution is “universal enough” for you, fine;

Of course, when there is no ideal option, you have to choose the one that is most suitable for the situation.

@Alan-Kilborn said in The problem with notepad.runMenuCommand:

Good luck achieving all of those all of the time.
Or do you have a “pick any 2” or “pick any 3” type rule? ;-)

Thanks. It happens to everyone at some point ;)
But it must be universal and fast, even if it means making the code complex.

@PeterJones

Hello,

Here is a demonstration of what altsnap does

You can press the ALT key, or the “hot click” which on my mouse is mouse button #5.

And this allows moving and resizing a window from anywhere.

https://youtu.be/Wzt7hSyGGmc

It is very ergonomic as you don’t have to position the cursor on the thin window edges.

I think this is quite rare and cutting edge practice, most people I think just maximize their window and use one application at a time.

But I have a very large desktop of 4x 40 inch 4K monitors and I needed more efficient way to move the windows around.

As for the scrolling, there are two “middle-click” based scrolling methods I know about. There’s the autoscroll round thing which I don’t really like, it’s like using a thumbstick. It’s good if you want to let it scoll at a constant speed like the text scroll at the beginning of star wars but it is otherwise clumsy and slow to use, not “dextrous”.

I prefer the “scroll anywhere” method which is similar to like you would scroll a touch tablet interface.

I demonstrate both of these modes here

https://youtube.com/shorts/yHuWI4f1rOg

So, what I am asking is like scroll anywhere but in a left-right direction to move the center divider around.

@PeterJones Ok, Thank you. I see now Microsoft Excel is the way to go!

@PeterJones I managed to do it, I uninstalled it again and when it asked about settings, I answered no, upon startup it was like a completely new installation.Screenshot_1.png nnn.png
When I started up, I changed the theme and it worked, thank you very much for the tips.

@Fred-Morant said in "In Find, Regex Search in Current File Limited to "Find Next" Downward Direction Only":

@PeterJones ,

This solution requires a change in config.xml,

As described in the user manual, yes.

regexBackward4PowerUser at yes seems to be not an accepted value for my version V8.9.1.

Nope. Works just fine for me in v8.9.1. My guess is you used your active Notepad++ to edit config.xml. But Notepad++ overwrites config.xml when it exits, so you lost your change. The user manual has a few paragraphs at Config Files Details > Editing Configuration Files which explains how to edit most of the Notepad++ configuration files, and then explains the workaround for the config.xml exception.

Until you properly edit and save the config.xml, Notepad++ will not see your regexBackward4PowerUser="yes"

if config.xml is detected with value not conformed at start then config.xml is not considered and default parameters are used,
if config.xml is not conformed then config.xml is rewritten at close,

Correct. That’s described in more detail in the user manual, where I just linked you.

Reason for considering regexBackward4PowerUser at yes as not a accepted value :
going backward with a regex requires more computation than going forward, and that value is not accepted in V8.9.1,

Wrong. Don’t believe AI hallucinations. It has nothing to do with computation. Regular expressions parse characters in byte order, and when they do that but go backwards through the bytes for the start of the match, there are quirks that users don’t expect; the Developer got tired of people reporting bugs in the regex engine because they didn’t understand the implications of how backward mode interacts with regular expression parsing, so turned it off by default, but gave power users the ability to turn it back on. That ability has not been taken away, despite the lies the AI is telling you.

Do you confirm ?

I confirm it’s nonsense from AI that just says the most likely next words based on context. “Most likely” does not equal “true”.

@PeterJones said in Is There a Way to Prevent Pasted Text from Spreading Out with Rows of Spaces?:

implementing it in PythonScript today

Thankfully, I found an old script which did something related, which was easy to update.

# encoding=utf-8 """in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27385/ This will paste the CF_TEXT plaintext from the clipboard, but will convert any series of newline characters into a single space before doing the paste. Because this uses .insertText() instead of putting the modified text back into the clipboard and doing .paste(), it should avoid clobbering the clipboard. (based on @alan-kilborn's clipboard script here: <https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97132>) """ from Npp import * try: editor3h # third editor, hidden except NameError: editor3h = notepad.createScintilla() def get_clipboard_text_without_newlines(): retval = '' editor3h.clearAll() editor3h.paste() if editor3h.getLength() > 0: editor3h.rereplace(r'[\r\n]+', ' ') # replace all newline seqeuences with a single space retval = editor3h.getText() return retval editor.beginUndoAction() editor.insertText(editor.getCurrentPos(), get_clipboard_text_without_newlines()) editor.endUndoAction()

This has been tested in the PythonScript 3 plugin. The PythonScript FAQ explains how to install PythonScript plugin, and how to run a script using PythonScript plugin, and even how to assign a keyboard shortcut to the script. Make sure you follow the instructions for PythonScript 3, not PythonScript 2 (as I have not tested under the older plugin syntax, though it will likely work there)

Hi, , @russ-jones, @freemeow, @m-andre-z-eckenrode and All,

Ah… many thanks, @m-andre-z-eckenrode for your valuable input ! Thus, @russ-jones, my macros can be improved as below, just adding a final Esc key stroke :

<Macro name="End Previous NON-Blank chars" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="190"> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\S+\K(?=\s)" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="256" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2325" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro> <Macro name="End Next NON-Blank chars" Ctrl="no" Alt="yes" Shift="no" Key="191"> <Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="\S+\K(?=\s)" /> <Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="2" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" /> <Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1" sParam="" /> <Action type="0" message="2325" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" /> </Macro>

BR

guy038

The Open With extension is not the Edit with Notepad++ extension. The later is NppShell.

Open a cmd prompt and enter:

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Applications\notepad++.exe"

Press Return key and if no error, then it will prompt to delete the key and reply with yes.

Open With creates this key and some others. Removing this key removes the orphaned Open With entry of Notepad++.

Some installers add this key, the Notepad++ installer currently does not add this key so it does not remove it on uninstall.

The duplicate entry is something else. Try:

reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.ini" /s

and will print information about the entries to discover more details about the entries. You may see something like Applications\other.exe and if another ophaned entry, can use a similar command to remove it:

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\Applications\other.exe"

Always use care with the registry. Ensure the commands are correct before executing them.

@guy038 said in Columns++ version 1.3: All Unicode, all the time:

Note that the \p{Hex_Digit} regex is erroneous ! The right one is \p{xdigit}, at least, within Columns++

What’s going on there is that I followed the structure of Boost::regex character classes:

Character Classes that are Always Supported

Character classes that are supported by Unicode Regular Expressions

which are mainly the POSIX character classes plus Unicode General Categories interpreted as character classes. Also, note that in Boost::regex, character classes and character properties are the same thing. I didn’t make any attempt to change that. I believe this is different both from Unicode regular expressions and from PCRE.

(I did add a couple new character classes unique to Columns++: [:defined:] and [:invalid:], and aliases \i, \o and \y for [:invalid:], [:ASCII:] and [:defined:]. Also, Columns++ does not support [:Cs:]/[:Surrogate:] since Unicode in Scintilla can only be UTF-8, which cannot contain surrogates — though it can contain invalid byte sequences which appear to encode surrogates, as in WTF-8; Scintilla treats these as invalid UTF-8 bytes, and so does Columns++.)

Hex_Digit isn’t one of the Boost::regex character classes, and I never defined it. Defining it to be equivalent to xdigit would be trivial; re-defining xdigit to include non-ASCII characters is a bit more complicated:

I’ve found out a small anomaly concerning hexadecimal characters :

If I use the native Notepad++ search to match any hexadecimal character, with the regex [[:xdigit:]], against my Total_Chars.txt file, it returns 44 matches

If I use the Columns++ search to match any hexadecimal character, with the regex [[:xdigit:]], against my Total_Chars.txt file, it returns 22 matches

I suppose that the N++ answer is the right one. Indeed, in the https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Compatibility_Properties article , ( Annexe C about UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS ), it is said :

Hex_Digit contains 0-9 A-F fullwidth and halfwidth, upper and lowercase

Yes, it would seem the standard is to include those non-ASCII characters as hex digits. Further, the comments at your link under lower and upper are troublesome, as Columns++ treats them as aliases for Ll and Lu. Word and word boundaries are probably faulty as well.

I followed the Boost::regex principle that to extend the traditional POSIX mappings, the only Unicode property that is used to determine membership in a character class is the General Category.

I hard-coded (that is, they are written explicitly rather than being derived from Unicode tables) the POSIX mappings for ASCII characters, since that’s the only place they are really well-defined; plus there is a hard-coded exception for the non-ASCII character U+0085, the Next Line control character, because it should be part of \v, which is implemented in Boost::regex as [[:v:]]. I don’t see any reason [[:xdigit:]] can’t be extended with similar hard-coded logic; I just didn’t know until now that I should do it.

The other parts, though: whatever they are saying is supposed to be included in [:lower:] and [:upper:] besides letters, and whatever they are talking about in regard to word characters and boundaries… that might be problematic. I have a condensed set of tables built from a few Unicode files, instead of trying to import the ghastly large and complex ICU. Those tables include the General Category, but if that is not enough to determine membership in a character class… reorganizing them to include whatever additional information I need (it’s not yet clear to me what that will be) is not likely to be simple.

Thank you for your observation. Indeed, there are flaws. It is not yet clear to me if and how it will be practical to address them, though I can probably fix the [:xdigit:] behavior without much difficulty.

@PeterJones I am happy :)

BTW:

5.1-if your home internet speed is fast enough, setup your own web server to your pc under virtualbox(in case of web server software cve’s/rce’s). I or anyone can help with that. Dont forget to hardening server for security.

IMO, this is BAD advice. To suggest to a non-security specialist who runs this as a hobby, that he should self-host, and try to keep up on all the security hardening, is asking him to get hacked even worse than the hack that already happened. He was literally paying a host to provide such services, and the professionals failed; he has now changed providers to a host who has better security procedures.

Believe me it’s not that hard to setup a webserver or harden it, especially while backed by a strong community. The risks are different when hosting at home between hosting remotely. The hosting firm may be offered money to hijack, or an out-of-date hosting management software had rce was waiting to be abused.

@sagradamoly-stack said in Managing the User Languages tool:

Is there any way to delete all the interim variations without losing all the work getting to a useful final result?

It depends on what you mean.

En masse? No

One at a time? Yes. In the UDL dialog, select each intermediate UDL from the drop-down, and click Remove. Since it’s likely on the order of a dozen or two, it won’t take you that long – less time than asking here took you, I’d wager.

without losing all the work

I mean, deleting the intermediate ones will obviously delete the intermediate stages. If you don’t want to lose them, but don’t want them in the N++ Language menu, use Export to save each to a separate XML file which you can then save in some backup directory, then Remove to take it out of the menu.

@shodanx2 ,

I normally stay out of the “Boycott” discussions, because they’re a complete waste of time (as is this one, for example, so I’ll be leaving this one again), but it seems really odd that you just started complaining about this a year after you successfully created your account and made your first post. But whatever, the haters are going to hate. (update: never mind, you were whining about this a year ago, too.)

If the owners of the forum software and the service that they are donating to host our forum (they normally charge people and organizations to host with them, but are giving the hosting for free to us, so beggars cannot be choosers), or the contributors to their ecosystem (not me, not the developer of Notepad++) ever provide a plugin that allowed a “login with XYZ” for any other OAUTH provider, I would enable that in a heartbeat, because I’m all for giving users a choice. I cannot speak for the rest of the internet, but the email-only didn’t work here, despite your repeated protestations, for whatever reason, so I’ve tried to help give users as much choice from OAUTH providers as possible; unfortunately, those are the only two for now.

Our choice of login has nothing to do with censoring people from speaking (as should be blatantly obvious, because we literally provide a topic for whining about Notepad++ in a forum dedicated to advocating for and helping people use Notepad++ … the N++ developer is highly into free speech), nor “shilling for the techbro cloud elites”, and everything to do with trying to make the user experience as good as possible for as many as we can.