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    • Evgenii FilippovE
      Evgenii Filippov @donho
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      • Romain BocquiauR
        Romain Bocquiau
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        Notepad++ v8.3 installed.

        When in PHP language, starting to write a command already known, it shows the list. if I see the autocompletion needed, i search with [ARROW UP/DOWN]+[ENTER].
        i remember that before, the command was autocompleted.
        now, it does a single “chariot return”.

        for instance, i want to write “public $my_data;”
        so let’s start … : “pu”
        d0629e69-e06f-4d12-b469-c4ac7ee08749-image.png
        public is selected, so let press [ENTER]
        e53e55a3-70e6-4d8f-817e-a5241adc8b15-image.png
        why do we need to do [CTRL]+[ENTER] to get the same result ?

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones @Romain Bocquiau
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          @romain-bocquiau ,

          It was not Ctrl+Enter before: in previous versions, either the ENTER key or the TAB key would select the active choice from auto-complete. Starting in v8.2.1, the Developers added an option to configure whether it was ENTER or TAB or either (in Settings > Preferences > AutoCompletion); but because the option defaulted to TAB=on and ENTER=off, which changed the default behavior of Notepad++, it has confused a lot of users. You should go to that option, and ☑ ENTER, which will re-enable using ENTER to finish the auto-complete.

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          • Josh DavidsonJ
            Josh Davidson @PeterJones
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            @peterjones Oh, thanks. I was confused because in config page it still showed “Enter” as the key to autocomplete, so I couldn’t understand what was going on. Well this behavior is great anyways, so I’m glad its staying.

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            • Eugene PhilippovE
              Eugene Philippov
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              Great work, π do rust bl

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              • Hercules Queiroz PalomboH
                Hercules Queiroz Palombo @donho
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                @donho Using the latest release v8.3 the command line parameter -nLineNumber is not working anymore …
                It open the file at the first line …
                I’m using Windows 10 and notepad++ (x64) msi installer …
                To reproduce go to de commando prompt e type notepad++ -n5 test.txt

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                • Michael VincentM
                  Michael Vincent @Hercules Queiroz Palombo
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                  @hercules-queiroz-palombo said in Notepad++ v8.3 release:

                  Using the latest release v8.3 the command line parameter -nLineNumber is not working anymore …
                  It open the file at the first line …
                  I’m using Windows 10 and notepad++ (x64) msi installer …
                  To reproduce go to de commando prompt e type notepad++ -n5 test.txt

                  Known issue. It will be fixed in the next version.

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                  • PeterJonesP
                    PeterJones @Michael Vincent
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                    @michael-vincent said in Notepad++ v8.3 release:

                    It will be fixed in the next version.

                    which @Hercules-Queiroz-Palombo can confirm using the v8.3.1 Release Candidate

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                    • AnderwriterA
                      Anderwriter @donho
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                      As always, dude, thanks for all your work on this great editor!

                      Considering the many improvements in 8.3 (and 8.3.1), I don’t understand why v8.2.1 said “no update is available” when I checked from within it. Would more frequent auto-updates require too much bandwidth?

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                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @Anderwriter
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                        @anderwriter said in Notepad++ v8.3 release:

                        Considering the many improvements in 8.3 (and 8.3.1), I don’t understand why v8.2.1 said “no update is available” when I checked from within it.

                        So this is a PERFECT example of exactly why it says no update is available.

                        8.3+ introduces HUGE file support, which caused a lot of new bugs to be introduced. Developers are working through the bugs, but probably at this point it isn’t a great idea for every single Notepad++ user out there to migrate to these versions. Just my 2c.

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                        • Albrecht HilkerA
                          Albrecht Hilker
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                          which caused a lot of new bugs to be introduced.

                          So why dont you release it marked as a beta version ?

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @Albrecht Hilker
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                            @albrecht-hilker said in Notepad++ v8.3 release:

                            So why dont you release it marked as a beta version ?

                            There are “release candidate versions”; click HERE and glance down the list produced, and you’ll see them.

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                            • PeterJonesP
                              PeterJones @Albrecht Hilker
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                              @albrecht-hilker said in Notepad++ v8.3 release:

                              So why dont you release it marked as a beta version ?

                              Because this is the sequence that the developer usually follows:

                              1. Develop updates
                              2. Submit as Release Candidate (RC) version
                              3. Wait for feedback from those users who are willing to download a RC version
                              4. Iterate 1-2 until no “critical regressions” are reported
                              5. Release as official version
                              6. Wait for feedback from those users who are willing to download the released version without waiting for auto-update to be triggered (much larger number of people)
                              7. Do a faster loop back to step 1 if critical regressions found after #4
                              8. If no critical regressions found in #5, then trigger auto-update

                              The goal is for critical regressions to be found in #2 (the equivalent of “beta”), but not enough users download the RC/beta versions, so sometimes critical regressions are not found until #5. This happened to be one of those cases. Since the developer likes a fast-paced release cycle anyway, he feels that the current process works reasonably well – and the delay between #4 and #7 prevents “too many” people from downloading the release if a critical regression is found within a week or two of release.

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