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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @maddes-b
      last edited by Alan Kilborn

      @maddes-b

      I think you want the “DarkModeDefault” theme selected in Style Configurator. Or maybe you tried that and it doesn’t “stick” somehow?

      Correction of Npp’s debug info: It is version 21H1, not 2009.

      Is this implying that there is a bug in how N++ reports this data?

      Hmm, you might want to report a bug about your status bar as well.
      The horizontal spacing of the fields looks wacky.
      Just sayin.

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      • maddes-bM
        maddes-b
        last edited by

        @Alan-Kilborn: Thanks for pointing out, so I re-checked.

        #1 Dark Mode
        I never changed anything in the Style Configurator since my clean install in February 2021 (as I far as I can remember).
        For dark mode I just enabled it in the Settings (not Style Configurator).
        On the admin account it switched the theme to “DarkModeDefault” as mentioned by Alan-Kilborn.
        On my normal user there are no themes available at all, so I currently assume it is a code or installer issue. Maybe this was even introduced in an earlier release, but not recognized by me as I never changed theme stuff. The other theme issues mentioned by Alan-Kilborn could be related to this too.
        Anything else I should check out for Npp team?

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        #2 Debug info
        Maybe the debug info code is just not adapted to newer versions of Windows 10 yet.
        Anything else I should check out for Npp team (e.g. reg file)?

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        • o-l-a-vO
          o-l-a-v
          last edited by o-l-a-v

          Love the new dark mode. Only problem is that I’m addicted to the “Doc Switcher”, where the “Name” column still is eye damaging (not really) white. Also, if you highlight/ select a file, that too will become white.

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          Nothing critical, but would be nice to have that fixed as well.

          For editor theme I use Dracula (if anyone wonders):

          • https://draculatheme.com/notepad-plus-plus
          • https://github.com/dracula/notepad-plus-plus

          Oh, some feature requests while we’re at it:

          • Add ability to have .md as default file extension. I write 99% markdown. (Preferences -> New Document -> Default language.
            • Please sort the list alphabetically too.
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          • Add markdom as a “Language” in “Style Configurator”. And sort that list of “Languages” alphabetically as well.
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          • o-l-a-vO
            o-l-a-v
            last edited by o-l-a-v

            Would also like to add that, when enabling “Settings on cloud”, it seems it still gets theme files from the %AppData%\Notepad++\themes folder, but user defined styles gets pulled correctly from the cloud location path (which in my case is %OneDriveConsumer%\_Share\AppData\Notepad++\userDefineLangs (Real full path, as env variables for “Settings on cloud” doesn’t work. just anonymized it with env variable in this example)).

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            • Ivan KI
              Ivan K @maddes-b
              last edited by Ivan K

              @maddes-b I saw the same thing on my secondary (non-admin) user account on my Windows machine. I had installed NPP on my primary account. I am not sure if admin vs. non-admin has anything do with it, or if it is just a matter of running NPP on an account that didn’t also install it.

              At any rate, I was able to fix it by copying %AppData%\Notepad++\themes\DarkModeDefault.xml from my primary user account (the one I installed NPP with) to the same location on my secondary account.

              Note that NPP can’t be running when you do this, or it will overwrite that file on application exit with the “broken” settings. After copying the primary user’s file and then launching NPP and selecting dark mode in settings it worked for me on the secondary account. In fact, for some reason I think I had do the “close app and then copy file” twice after first running NPP to verify the error, although that may have just been because I inadvertently did the first copy while NPP was still running.

              Perhaps the default creation/copying of the DarkModeDefault.xml file (if it doesn’t already exist) is incorrect?

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              • maddes-bM
                maddes-b @Ivan K
                last edited by maddes-b

                @Ivan-K You are right it’s an installer / implementation issue for multi-user systems.

                Issues with Dark Mode / Themes
                Themes are only installed to %APPDATA%\Notepad++\themes of the user who installed N++. Other users never get these (no themes at all in my case, see earlier post).

                From my point of view this is a concept error. Default themes should be in %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\themes and %APPDATA%\Notepad++\themes supersede these. I hope this would also fit the “settings in the cloud” approach.
                Copying files around from user to user is neither convenient nor fitting well to user segregation (admin to install program, normal users to work with program).

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                • maddes-bM
                  maddes-b @maddes-b
                  last edited by

                  Update:
                  Actually the concept is already implemented.
                  Out of curiosity I copied my Admin’s %APPDATA%\Notepad++\themes to %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\themes and my normal user could see all themes.

                  So 2 Issues with Themes and Dark Mode:

                  • Installer does not put default themes in %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\themes
                  • Setting “Dark Mode > Enable dark mode” expects themes in %APPDATA% and if missing does not fall back to %ProgramFiles%.
                    Workaround: Select Dark Mode theme manually

                  I think we figured out the actual cause and related issues. Thanks to all.
                  Let’s hope the N++ team can fix this in v8.2.

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                  • PeterJonesP
                    PeterJones @maddes-b
                    last edited by PeterJones

                    @maddes-b said in Notepad++ v8.1 is available:

                    Let’s hope the N++ team can fix this in v8.2.

                    Since it’s never worked that way in the past, that is a feature request, rather than a regression in v8.1. Don does check this thread for regressions, but to make sure they are noticed and tracked, feature requests should go in the official issues site on GitHub, as described in our FAQ

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                    • JamesWebbJ
                      JamesWebb
                      last edited by

                      Hi there,

                      I am NP++ (Minimal Portable version) user since 2015, and use it as a simple text editor (instead of Windows Notepad).
                      Everything was OK till version 8 and later!

                      Why the latest version has lag on start! When I click on NP++ icon it starts too late (about 2 to 3 seconds), previous versions have no lag, were just like thunder! (I am on Windows 10 20H2 x64, SSD Hard, as always NP++ Minimal Portable latest version).

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                      • Raheesh RamsyR
                        Raheesh Ramsy
                        last edited by

                        Hi!!!
                        Great to be a member!!!

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                        • Raheesh RamsyR
                          Raheesh Ramsy
                          last edited by

                          how can we insert a image in notepad++???
                          can someone please help???

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                          • László BotkaL
                            László Botka
                            last edited by

                            see this

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                            • Alan KilbornA
                              Alan Kilborn @László Botka
                              last edited by

                              @László-Botka

                              What your link points to isn’t what @Raheesh-Ramsy is asking about.

                              @Raheesh-Ramsy said:

                              how can we insert a image in notepad++???

                              Short answer: You can’t. Notepad++ doesn’t handle images, only text.

                              BOTH: This thread is for discussion of problems with the 8.1 release of Notepad++. Please don’t ask questions or make comments unrelated to that in this thread – create a new discussion thread in that case.

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                              • mere-humanM
                                mere-human @JamesWebb
                                last edited by

                                @ten2120 Interesting. Do you use any custom plugins? Have you enabled the dark mode?
                                It would be interesting to see your debug info (Menu > ? > Debug Info)

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                                • Andrei Mincov 0A
                                  Andrei Mincov 0
                                  last edited by

                                  And still no way to choose the obsolete icon. The app and file type icon is the only reason I’m sticking with 6.9.2.

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                                  • Alan KilbornA
                                    Alan Kilborn @Andrei Mincov 0
                                    last edited by

                                    @Andrei-Mincov-0 said in Notepad++ v8.1 is available:

                                    And still no way to choose the obsolete icon. The app and file type icon is the only reason I’m sticking with 6.9.2.

                                    And the award-winner for the dumbest reason ever to use an ancient version of a software program goes to…YOU.
                                    Sorry, but that is really, really, really dumb.

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                                    • Andrei Mincov 0A
                                      Andrei Mincov 0 @Alan Kilborn
                                      last edited by

                                      @Alan-Kilborn The old version does everything I really NEED it to do, and I prefer to use a program that uses file-type icons that look like word documents, not some random green bullshit.

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                                      • Alan KilbornA
                                        Alan Kilborn @Andrei Mincov 0
                                        last edited by

                                        @Andrei-Mincov-0 said in Notepad++ v8.1 is available:

                                        The old version does everything I really NEED it to do

                                        Then why come here to comment on it? Live on in your happy obsolescence. :-)

                                        Seriously, though, aren’t there reasonable ways to get any icons you want using the OS instead of Notepad++ 's control?
                                        If that aspect of the discussion is to be continued, respectfully request that you open a new discussion thread, as this one is sort of reserved for real 8.1 problems.

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                                        • donhoD
                                          donho @maddes-b
                                          last edited by

                                          @maddes-b said in Notepad++ v8.1 is available:

                                          Themes are only installed to %APPDATA%\Notepad++\themes of the user who installed N++. Other users never get these (no themes at all in my case, see earlier post).
                                          From my point of view this is a concept error. Default themes should be in %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\themes and %APPDATA%\Notepad++\themes supersede these. I hope this would also fit the “settings in the cloud” approach.

                                          This issue will be fixed in the next release:
                                          https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/3347044595cae60c658ed39e4f2e1ea913eb66e2

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                                          • Arnaud SchmittA
                                            Arnaud Schmitt
                                            last edited by Arnaud Schmitt

                                            The is a regresion with the Style Token feature (under right click). For instance: write “RECONCILE” and “UNRECONCILE”. Select RECONCILE and apply a Style Token color. Before it would hightlight both RECONCILE from both words, even on UNRECONCILE (not highlighting “UN” as expected).

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