Feature: add "Bug report" to Npp

WinterSilence

Add item “Bug report” to menu “?”. On click Npp open new issue in browser.

PeterJones

Interesting idea. read the FAQ to see how to submit an official feature request.

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15741/faq-desk-feature-request-or-bug-report

Alan Kilborn

Maybe a popup first to instruct the user to search for an existing occurrence of the bug they are about to create?
And/or other informationals?

Like the popup when one clicks on Settings menu > Edit Popup ContextMenu
You get the information, then are allowed to proceed…

I can see that if bug reporting is made “too easy”, more duplicates than are currently happening could result.
Don’t get me wrong; bug reporting should be easy…

Alan Kilborn

PLUS…

It is usually better for some bug/feature discussion to go on here (this site) first, IMO.

A lot of things that users consider bugs are merely a lack of understanding.

Developers probably won’t want to take the time to do what we do here.

Of course, devs could just develop some boilerplate: Please ask this on the Community site

Picturing some “bug reports”:

I have this data where I want to remove commas but only when they occur after a number…