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    • Claudia FrankC
      Claudia Frank @Charles Davis
      last edited by

      @Charles-Davis

      we discovered this while using in-house devleoped java applications. Later we
      recognized that npp and other c++ application were affected to but as said, this was
      long time ago. It might be that nvidia can’t be blamed anymore, I don’t know.
      That’s why I wrote I’m curious - I hoped that @Ralph-Clark would answer if this
      could be solved by uninstalling the nvidia software.

      Cheers
      Claudia

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      • Claudia FrankC
        Claudia Frank @Grant Molloy
        last edited by

        @Grant-Molloy

        It sounds like there is a permission issue - you need to take care that the files you wan’t to open
        and notepad++ are on the same elevation level.
        Catchword would be, run npp as administrator or mapped directory uses different credentials.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Charles DavisC
          Charles Davis @Claudia Frank
          last edited by

          @Claudia-Frank
          re the nView Notepad++ mouse copy/paste conflict…

          Well, I am still running N++ 6.9.2 and I have upgraded my NVIDIA drivers to 368.39 (in which nView is 147.00) and the problem has gone away. It seems nView was the issue, though why only N++ was affected (for me) remains a mystery.

          In looking back at my maint history, my 1st install of N++ (6.8.2) was on Sep 2, 2015 at which time my nView version was 146.22 (from NVIDIA driver release package 348.07), so perhaps nView 146.22 (or earlier) re-introduced the bug you saw long ago, and in the interim it was reported to NVIDIA and they fixed it.

          Bottom line, there are no problems with N++ 6.8.2 and nView 147.00.

          Thank you for your suggestion. I wouldn’t have updated my NVIDIA drivers as soon, had you not suggested the connection.

          I would encourage Ralph Clark to likewise upgrade to NVIDIA 368.39 and see if that resolves the problem for him as well.

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          • Charles DavisC
            Charles Davis @Charles Davis
            last edited by

            @Charles-Davis
            correction above: older nView version “146.22” should be “146.33”

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            • Claudia FrankC
              Claudia Frank @Charles Davis
              last edited by

              @Charles-Davis

              though why only N++ was affected (for me) remains a mystery.

              Agreed.

              It may be that reinstalling the graphics driver was solving the problem as well.
              Meaning, maybe reinstalling the old version would have solved it also.
              But at the end it would still be weird.

              I never had such an issue with ATI (note, not saying ATI is better than NVIDIA) graphic cards.
              And, unfortunately or luckily, non of my computers do have NVIDIA so can’t really test.

              Maybe keep in mind when this happens again that you just try to reinstall the current driver. !?

              Cheers
              Claudia

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              • Herman OnrustH
                Herman Onrust
                last edited by

                In installed N++ 6.9.2, but Log Monitoring does not seem to work - at all. When I monitor a logfile of my appserver by clicking on the “eye” in the toolbar, the content is never refreshed, unless I do this manually, or switch focus from and to N++.
                I disabled the File Status Auto-Detection feature to see if that helps, but no success. If i enable that feature, the file is only updated as soon as I switch from and to N++, and after confirming the “Reload”-popup . How is this feature supposed to work?
                Another bug(?) seems to be that with the tailing feature enabled, it that is no longer possible to delete-and-save all text (ctrl-A, DEL, ctrl-S). As soon as I select all text and delete, it is immediately replaced by the content from the file… Not what I would expect.
                (I’m on Windows 8)

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                • Claudia FrankC
                  Claudia Frank @Herman Onrust
                  last edited by

                  @Herman-Onrust

                  I tried a local file and it is working as expected.
                  As you wrote

                  When I monitor a logfile of my appserver

                  I assume that the file is on a remote server? How is it integrated? Mapped? Opened with UNC path??

                  Another bug(?) seems to be that with the tailing feature enabled, it that is no longer possible to delete-and-save all text (ctrl-A, DEL, ctrl-S).
                  As soon as I select all text and delete, it is immediately replaced by the content from the file… Not what I would expect.

                  I wouldn’t say this is a bug as it should only do what tail -f on linux does. Outputting appended data.

                  Cheers
                  Claudia

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                  • Daniel CarterD
                    Daniel Carter
                    last edited by

                    Hi,

                    I am running a fresh install of 6.9.2, but the log monitoring does not work. I press the eye button on the toolbar, the tab updates with eye icon, but the buffer never updates.

                    If i click File -> Reload from Disk, then the editor updates.

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                    • Daniel CarterD
                      Daniel Carter @Daniel Carter
                      last edited by

                      @Daniel-Carter
                      Update: i’m monitoring two files, both of them on local disk. One never updates. The other does update sometimes update after a delay. Baretail in comparison updates the display for both files almost instantly.

                      For the one that does update sometimes, it also sometimes pops up a dialog saying it’s noticed the file has updated, would I like to reload? Would be good if that dialog was disabled when you are in monitor mode.

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                      • KO HoK
                        KO Ho
                        last edited by

                        Recently I try the search in finder (find in files result) feature in Notepad++ v6.9.2 to narrow down the search result.
                        When I highlighted some words in the find in files result, click the right mouse button to select copy, it was found that the whole line is copied when pasted onto “find in finder” panel “find what” box, or onto other editor. In recent version, only those highlighted words are copied. The whole line is copied if no word is highlighted. The copy option is also not allowed (grey colour) in the “edit” pull down menu.
                        I am wondering if this is a bug or recent copy feature is not going to provide.

                        Again when I highlighted the words across 2 files including the filename in the green line, click the right mouse button to select copy, it was found that only the whole line content with highlighted words are copied, but not the filename in the green line. In recent version, all the highlighted words including the path/filename name are copied.
                        While someone may need the feature to copy only the content of the selected line, I would need to copy the filename as well in some case. It would be great it if there is an option (maybe in setting panel) to copy only the line content or to include the filename.

                        Lastly, I would appreciate it if there is an NOT INCLUDE option in the “search in finder” panel, or even in “search” panel.
                        For example, I want to search all the lines containing letter “a” and letter “b” but exclude the word “bad”. I can first find those lines contain letter “a”, then find those lines contain letter “b” from search result with “a”, and finally find those lines NOT contain letter “bad” with NOT INCLUDE option.

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                        • Claudia FrankC
                          Claudia Frank @Daniel Carter
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                          @Daniel-Carter

                          I don’t know baretail but could it be that it monitors files by comparing content?
                          What I can think of is that files get written but content isn’t really flushed.
                          When you do see updates in baretail, did file properties (size, access time …) of that file change?
                          Could you give us details about the application which writes this file?

                          Cheers
                          Claudia

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                          • Simon SmillieS
                            Simon Smillie @Claudia Frank
                            last edited by

                            @Claudia-Frank said:

                            @Daniel-Carter

                            I don’t know baretail but could it be that it monitors files by comparing content?
                            What I can think of is that files get written but content isn’t really flushed.
                            When you do see updates in baretail, did file properties (size, access time …) of that file change?
                            Could you give us details about the application which writes this file?

                            Cheers
                            Claudia

                            I too am finding the monitoring is not working.

                            I also use BareTail to currently monitor log files. BareTail updates the display immediately (our log files have time entries in them to thousandths of a second). The log file time stamp and date does not update. I would say that the entire log files is not being compared with a cache, as we work with log files the can be over 100MB in size (that is pretty big in terms of line/row counts), and there is no noticeable performance issues that would suggest comparisons are being performed.

                            Windows time stamps are not updated if the log file is kept open, this is a “feature” of Windows (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/asiasupp/2010/12/14/file-date-modified-property-are-not-updating-while-modifying-a-file-without-closing-it/).

                            I am using Windows 7 SP1 to monitor log files on various network shares, where the file is generated on various Windows servers, 2008 R2 upwards, using a variety of applications.

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                            • Claudia FrankC
                              Claudia Frank @Simon Smillie
                              last edited by

                              @Simon-Smillie

                              Windows time stamps are not updated if the log file is kept open, this is a “feature” of Windows

                              Correct.

                              I downloaded baretail (free version) and tested it.
                              This version constantly reads the file, don’t know if the pro version does do the same.
                              In the free version you can set the update interval in the option dialog.
                              If you set it to 1 minute you will see that you don’t get immediate updates anymore and
                              if you trace either the monitored file or the baretail exe with procmon you will see
                              that in reads the file every “update interval”.

                              While testing baretail and npp I discovered an issue. The npp monitoring didn’t work if the file
                              to be monitored was located in the root directory. If it is in a subdirectory it gets automatically updated.
                              I didn’t test network drives, subst drives, junctions etc… yet.

                              Could this be your problem as well?

                              Cheers
                              Claudia

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                              • Daniel CarterD
                                Daniel Carter @Claudia Frank
                                last edited by

                                @Claudia-Frank
                                Hi, the log files are written to by IBM Websphere (java). I wish to monitor both local files on windows, and remote files which are written by WebSphere on unix and accessed via CIFS share.

                                For instance right now, last log file entry Notepad++ is showing is
                                2016-07-13 12:48:58,074
                                In windows explorer ‘date modified’ shows 2016/07/08 14:22

                                When i go File -> reload from disk, now last log line Notepad++ is showing
                                2016-07-14 14:26:53,137

                                So basically same as @Simon Smillie reports.

                                I have in the past, used cygwin ‘tail -f’ and ‘less +F’ with success to monitor such files.

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                                • Lorne KL
                                  Lorne K
                                  last edited by

                                  DspellCheck extensione doss not appeer to woork. Would loove to sea spellchack intagrated as a stendard featuree.

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                                  • Claudia FrankC
                                    Claudia Frank @Daniel Carter
                                    last edited by

                                    @Daniel-Carter

                                    did you try if the local file to monitor isn’t in the root directory?
                                    Maybe a similar test with mapped shares?

                                    Cheers
                                    Claudia

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                                    • donhoD
                                      donho
                                      last edited by

                                      The npp monitoring didn’t work if the file to be monitored was located in the root directory.

                                      Indeed. I will try to fix this one.

                                      The monitoring doesn’t always work due to Windows cache system.
                                      I will see what I can I do about it.

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                                      • leo stoneL
                                        leo stone
                                        last edited by

                                        Character Encoding Detection Bug I call it the Single-ö-Bug

                                        Hi all, I’discovered a bug concerning character encoding detection.
                                        This bug is not specific to v.6.9.2, I don’t know since what release this bug is present.

                                        Reproduce:

                                        • Make sure encoding for new file is set to UTF-8 without BOM
                                          and ‘Apply to opened ANSI files’ is checked.
                                          Settings->Preferences->New document->Encoding
                                        • Open new file
                                        • Enter the character ö, or use Hexeditor and create two bytes 0xc3,0xb6
                                        • Save the file
                                        • Close the file
                                        • Reopen the file

                                        Result:

                                        รถ

                                        or Hex

                                        0xe0 0xb8 0xa3 0xe0 0xb8 0x96

                                        and the information in status bar is showing

                                        Dos\Windows | TIS-620

                                        Expected result:

                                        ö

                                        or Hex

                                        0xc3 0xb6

                                        and the information in status bar is showing

                                        Dos\Windows | UTF-8

                                        Remarks:

                                        • Other Umlauts like ä or ü work properly
                                        • As soon there is another UTF-8 character present, this bug does not show, eg. öö works as intended.
                                        • But this bug shows also if there are other ascii-characters present, so “Let’s test the ö bug” will also cause a wrong encoding detection result.

                                        tx for this great editor
                                        leo

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                                        • Chris CheatwoodC
                                          Chris Cheatwood
                                          last edited by

                                          I am seeing an issue when writing PL/SQL in Notepad++ on a Windows 10 workstation. When we attempt to run the saved .sql file on our database server (AIX) we get errors. We feel there are some additional characters being added when the file is saved. When we copy/paste from Notepad++ to Notepad all the line returns are missing. The only workaround we could find was to copy/paste from Notepad++ to SQL Developer then Copy/Paste that into Notepad and save.

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                                          • Claudia FrankC
                                            Claudia Frank @Chris Cheatwood
                                            last edited by

                                            @Chris-Cheatwood

                                            AIX = unix, means you have to set Edit->EOL Conversion to UNIX. Did you double check this?
                                            In addition, did you test that the sql file created has really only LF’s by using an hex editor?

                                            Cheers
                                            Claudia

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