New version of HTML Tag

rdipardo

Notes

Since v1.2, 64-bit versions of HTMLTag require Notepad++ 8.3 or newer.
Notepad++ 8.4 is not compatible with HTMLTag 1.2.1 or 1.2.2

HTMLTag is now free (as in Free Pascal)

1.3 will be the first version linked against Free Pascal’s open source runtime libraries.

The transition from Delphi’s proprietary runtime took longer than expected; I don’t recommend doing the same with other Object Pascal plugins, especially if they depend on Delphi’s Visual Component Library. That HTMLTag had no GUI was a lucky exception. Potential contributors will find that a command line and GDB are all that’s needed to get started.

To mark the milestone, the About dialog has been refreshed with clickable URLs and dynamic text revealing the path to the HTML entities configuration file. A missing file will be indicated by a red error message; when found, clicking will open it (in notepad.exe, unless you’ve hacked the Registry to make N++ the system’s default text editor):

No more load failures in 64-bit Notepad++

As confirmed here, all 64-bit versions of HTMLTag will load without fail in N++ 8.4.1 and later.

Yaron

@rdipardo,

I was not notified of your last post. Just happened to see it.

v1.3.0 crashes NPP on going to the opening tag and on error.
Could you please have a look?

Thank you for you work.

rdipardo

@yaron,
Was it a source build that crashed? I know the proposed upgrade to Scintilla 5.2.3 involves a scary-looking change to the builtin tag matcher, but it’s not been merged yet.

For me, the x64 release DLL runs fine in the latest N++.

Notepad++ v8.4.2   (64-bit)
Build time : May 29 2022 - 16:47:30
Path : C:\bin\npp_8.4.2_x64\notepad++.exe
Command Line : $COMMAND_LINE_PLACEHOLDER$
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 (64-bit) 
OS Version : 21H2
OS Build : 22000.708
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    HTMLTag (1.3)
    mimeTools (2.8)
    NppConverter (4.4)
    NppExport (0.4)

rdipardo

[Edit] I think what you’re seeing is an infinite loop that freezes up the editor when you search for a non-existent closing tag. The application window fades with the “Not responding” message, correct?

It’s a regression from my attempt to fix a memory leak in the Unicode escape decoder. I’ll release a new version when it’s fixed.

Yaron

@rdipardo said in New version of HTML Tag:

I think what you’re seeing is an infinite loop that freezes up the editor when you search for a non-existent closing tag. The application window fades with the “Not responding” message, correct?

Correct. That’s “on error”.
And the second case is: place the caret on a closing tag and “Find a matching tag”.

I’ll release a new version when it’s fixed.

Great.
Many thanks.

rdipardo

The latest build should be more stable.

Yaron

@rdipardo,

Fixed.
Thank you.

rdipardo

Note

Since v1.2, 64-bit versions of HTMLTag require Notepad++ 8.3 or newer.

1.3.6 is the first version that will survive the deprecation of Scintilla’s non-*FULL APIs. This comes with no loss of backward-compatibility with N++ versions older than 8.4.3.

Using N++ 8.4.1 and newer in dark mode will dynamically change the style of About dialog:

Now that 7-zip has begun preserving the Zone.Identifier file attribute (as the builtin Windows utility has always done), the README has been updated with a guide to unblocking manually downloaded DLLs. Zipballs will no longer contain the (useless) HTMLTag.ini file.

Magyar Egy

@rdipardo Hi, the site (https://bitbucket.org/rdipardo/htmltag/) unavailable. Can you send me the plugin or upload to other host, like Github?

Thanks.

Alan Kilborn

@Magyar-Egy said in New version of HTML Tag:

the site (https://bitbucket.org/rdipardo/htmltag/) unavailable.

It is available when I try it.

Magyar Egy

@Alan-Kilborn Possible that non available from Hungary? All pages from https://bitbucket.org domain crash, but Atlassian other pages, like Trello works fine.

Can you upload a zip and send me a link?

Thanks.

rdipardo

@Magyar-Egy,

Are you in a geographic area that blocks access to certain domains? (If so, are you sure that — Microsoft’s — GitHub is on the whitelist?)
Have you tried installing the plugin with the Plugins Admin utility that comes with Notepad++?

bb-issue-creation

rdipardo

@Magyar-Egy,

Possible that non available from Hungary?

For what it’s worth, I can reach it without a problem from the Tor Browser while behind a Hungarian IP address.

tor-exit-node-hu

Magyar Egy

@rdipardo Thanks, i reached it from mobile network. i do not understand why, but wired internet connection can not reach Bitbucket. WTF? :S Maybe our firewall blocked this domain (i no use user configured firewall, only that has in ASUS router)? I’ve never seen like this before.

rdipardo

Note to users — versions 1.3.5 - 1.3.6 are affected by a recent breaking change to N++'s graphics rendering subsystem. See my bug report for details and a temporary workaround.

rdipardo

@Magyar-Egy said in New version of HTML Tag:

Can you send me the plugin or upload to other host, like Github?

A GitHub mirror is now online at https://github.com/rdipardo/nppHTMLTag

rdipardo

It seems Bitbucket recently put more of its web UI behind authentication, so anonymous bug reports are no longer possible. As backup, the GitHub mirror now has its own issue tracker.

If you’re using a released version (including the most recent 1.3.7), you’ll still be pointed to Bitbucket by clicking the “Bugs” hyperlink in the About dialog.

rdipardo

Localizations

A future version of HTMLTag will feature a localized menu, e.g.,

The implementation is ad hoc since there are no plugin APIs exposing the user’s native language preferences. I may try pitching some new APIs upstream before an implementation is finalized.

In the meantime, there are some boilerplate translations in version control that could benefit from proofreading by native speakers; PRs adding missing languages are also welcome.

New Release

The latest version adds emoji (en/de)coding and options to decode as you type.

htmltag-v140-preview

Breaking Changes

The shortcuts Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T have changed to Alt+T and Alt+Shift+T, respectively
The default file path of the entities character mappings is now <NPP_Install_Dir>\plugins\Config\HTMLTag\entities.ini.

If you want to keep using an older entities file, rename it to match the above path, and change 4 to 5 in the HTML section:

[HTML 5]
;[HTML 4]

Note: the HTMLTag subfolder is the same for all target CPUs; there is no _unicode suffix for 32-bit versions

rdipardo

New Patch Release

By urgent request, the latest version adds a command to select matching tags, enabling synchronized tag renaming, similar to VS Code.

htmltag-v141-preview

Michael Vincent

@rdipardo said in New version of HTML Tag:

By urgent request,

My “urgent request” and thank you for promptly adding this feature. Certainly not expected to be this quick, but you are a very talented and dedicated developer and I do appreciate your commitment to Notepad++ and supporting the plugin ecosystem.

This will certainly make my workflow (currently involves creating / editing XML schemas and docs) much easier as the tags update and change in the flux of this development period and auto-selecting the matching tags (sometimes far away in the document and nested) for renaming saves so much manual time.

Cheers.