@donho Is it possible to add a button (for the search bar) to clear the text field?

@guy038 said: Now if, for any font, you select all the text of that new tab and run an Edit > Line Operations > Split Lines operation, for most of them, indeed, the spliting behaviour occured right after the 78 capital letter P. However, for eample : For the proportional Times New Roman font, the spliting action occured after 76 letters P For the fixed witdh **``Consolas font, the spliting action occured after 77 letters P The explanation may lie in something I discovered while bug-hunting in the Elastic tabstops function of Columns++: when DirectWrite is in use, the width of characters can work out to fractional pixels (this is true for both fixed and proportional fonts); but Scintilla only reports the width of strings as integers. So due to the effect of rounding to integers, the width of a string of 78 letters P is not necessarily 78 times the (reported) width of one letter P. Notepad++ uses 78 times the width of one letter P. (Not that it matters much, since none of this is likely to be what anyone wants or expects anyway.)

@PeterJones said: Your words said “Distraction Free Mode” without “Fullscreen”. “Fullscreen” is the aspect of DFM that covers the full screen. That is true, but to be fair I’ve also immediately clarified what I meant by “Fullscreen” in the first message : ) I’m assuming operates in Fullscreen mode, meaning it tries to always stay on top Not being a programmer, I can only talk about Fullscreen and Borderless by their observed effects in videogames. From videogame options, Fullscreen and Borderless both cover the entire screen, the only difference is Fullscreen behave as “Always On Top” (almost always), and Borderless doesn’t. Thank you for the Macro, it’s much less hassle than having to run that script manually every time, and I really appreciate it ^_^

Tabs v spaces As Peter said, the most important part is consistency. Mixing tabs and spaces together makes no one happy. I will throw out a couple arguments for tabs here: Indentation of code, markup language, et. cetera is meant to show the structure of whatever. Tabs are a logical, structural element. Spaces are physical. Different users may want different sizes of indentation. If i want 4 character indentation and my coworker wants 2, tabs can be set to show our preferred width. Seems for the most part that spaces are winning out though.

Hi, @coises and All, You said : Since all you need to do to cancel a selection is to click anywhere in the document, I didn’t figure anything more would be needed. I agree with you that’s not a big task ! I just wanted to point out, that if you want to keep focus on the Search++ dialog, in order to use any other Alt + ... command, I do not see any command which could cancel the selection ! Now, regarding the five shortcuts problem, you’re totally right : my FRENCH keyboard is a standard one and in order to get, for example, the Alt + 1 action, I must use the combination Alt + Shift + 1 ! Now, I do not mind to stay with these Alt + Shift + 1-5 shortcuts ! But, if you find a way to detect the keys themselves, that would be fine too ! BR guy038 P.S. : Sorry for thinking you might have made a mistake when assigning those 5 shortcuts !

@fml2 said: Out of interest: is it possible to configure Notepad++ in a way that the folder marks are also displayed at the last element of the structure? The document’s fold structure is determined by the underlying Scintilla editing component. Notepad++ simply visualizes the fold structure. While some alternative styles can be enabled at the application layer, what you’re requesting would require changes to Scintilla.

Hi @guy038, your summary is right. By hard disks I meant the classic ones with spinning platters. SSDs get 4 threads, like your key. MultiReplace asks Windows whether a drive has a seek penalty, which only drives with moving read heads report. Those get 1 thread, CD/DVD drives too, and to be safe also USB disks that don’t answer that question. And thanks for checking the hit counts, good to see all three engines agree.

@Mark-Olson That’s really helpful, especially the point about a huge single-line file being slower than a much larger file with shorter lines. I hadn’t considered that line length could make such a big difference to Notepad++ performance. I’ll definitely take a look at the Large File Restriction setting and the HugeFiles plugin as well. Thanks for sharing all these details!

@Sevens99 said: I wonder if I’m the only one experiencing this issue. It’s a known problem of the modern NppShell, see the GitHub issue #15683 Most likely this is the culprit but I have no easy solution ready. Also no spare time to fix that (maybe during the end of year holidays), so your workaround (or similar) is what I currently recommend to do for the affected users (you don’t need to rename the NppShell.dll, unregistering that shell extension from within the admin-rights powered CMD by regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\contextMenu\NppShell.dll" will do it). What’s interesting - the problem manifests only on some PCs/configs (I, for one, have never encountered it).

Rants like this are only allowed in the Boycott Notepad++ category, so I moved it from a reply in the General Discussion to its own topic here Do not reply to normal discussions with such rants.

@ThatsYar_ , Can you share your ?-menu’s Debug Info? Does the same problem occur if you turn off all plugins (using -noPlugin command line option)? Is it for all files that need admin? Or just in one directory? Or just the one file?

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