Increase Search Results line length

[Marco Manzato]

Hi,
I’ve found in the Notepad++ manual that when doing a search, the amount of characters that will be displayed is 1024:
“The length limit is 1024 characters; this includes the match line number information and other formatting.”

I’m doing searches in files where lines sometimes have a lot more than 1024 characters.

If I click on that line, it takes me to the file and I can copy the full line.
But from the search results screen I can’t see the full line in any way.
If I copy with RichtClick -> Copy or with Ctrl+C, it only copies those 1024 characters.

Questions:
1-) Is there a way to increase or remove this line length restriction?
2-) Is there a way to do a copy of the full line from the search results screen?

Thank you so much for the help.

[PeterJones]

@Marco-Manzato said in Increase Search Results line length:

1-) Is there a way to increase or remove this line length restriction?

That’s a limit programmed into the code. Follow this FAQ to make a feature request

2-) Is there a way to do a copy of the full line from the search results screen?

I don’t think so. I believe all that exists in the mind of the search-results screen are those 1024 characters. Sorry.

[Alan Kilborn]

Please don’t create a new issue for this; it already exists: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7723

If you want it to gain traction, maybe put some comments in that issue?

[Marco Manzato]

@PeterJones Thanks!

[Marco Manzato]

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for identifying the issue on GitHub. I’ve posted a comment on the thread (would love to be more technical on that comment… but had to be just a regular complaint…)