Notepad++ v8.5.4 Release

[Michael Sousa]

The ability to “column select” using the Begin/End Select no longer works. “Column Select” still works when holding down ALT + selection, but the method using Begin/End Select (right click > Begin/End Select > (highlight a least 2 rows to initiate “Column Select”) > right click > Begin/End Select) no longer works with the latest updates.

[Alan Kilborn]

@Michael-Sousa

The ability to “column select” using the Begin/End Select no longer works.

There’s a relatively new command for this, in the main menus:

In the right-click context menu:

[rdipardo]

@wallobit said in Notepad++ v8.5.4 Release:

Comments in batch files with colons are no longer correctly formatted across the entire line

Hmm, probably because that isn’t a “comment”; it’s a “label”. Comments in batch start with rem but a pseudo comment can start with ::. But a line starting with : is simply a label, even though the rest of the line (after the label) is ignored.

Likely what happened is that the Scintilla lexer for batch “tightened up” the definition of what a label is, and that resulted in the behavior change you’re seeing.

@Alan-Kilborn, that’s exactly what happened.

The former way of styling labels was reported as a bug and changed in Lexilla 5.2.5, which added a new style class for the rest of the line after the first word of the label.

Of course none of the themes have been updated with the new SCE_BAT_AFTER_LABEL style (id 8). In fact, the only way to replicate the former style would be to copy and paste the existing label style, adding the attribute styleId="8", in every theme’s XML descriptor. That’s really a design choice, and there’s no chance that every theme maintainer will universally adopt it.

So, basically, what you see is how Batch labels are going to look from now on.

[Michael Vincent]

@rdipardo said in Notepad++ v8.5.4 Release:

Of course none of the themes have been updated with the new SCE_BAT_AFTER_LABEL style (id 8). In fact, the only way to replicate the former style would be to copy and paste the existing label style, adding the attribute styleId=“8”, in every theme’s XML descriptor.

Thanks - verified that works:

Relevant section of my styler file:

        <LexerType name="batch" desc="Batch" ext="">
            <WordsStyle name="DEFAULT" styleID="0" fgColor="E0E2E4" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
            <WordsStyle name="COMMENT" styleID="1" fgColor="66747B" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
            <WordsStyle name="KEYWORDS" styleID="2" fgColor="93C763" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" keywordClass="instre1">ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION</WordsStyle>
            <WordsStyle name="LABEL" styleID="3" fgColor="A082BD" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" />
            <WordsStyle name="HIDE SYMBOL" styleID="4" fgColor="D3DA50" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
            <WordsStyle name="COMMAND" styleID="5" fgColor="FFCD22" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="0" fontSize="" />
            <WordsStyle name="VARIABLE" styleID="6" fgColor="678CB1" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" />
            <WordsStyle name="OPERATOR" styleID="7" fgColor="E8E2B7" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" />
            <WordsStyle name="AFTER LABEL" styleID="8" fgColor="66747B" bgColor="202020" fontName="" fontStyle="1" fontSize="" />
        </LexerType>

Cheers.

[donho]

FYI
Auto-update of v8.5.4 has been triggered.

[Luper]

@donho Hi

I know it but the triggered error is seriously painful to manage.
I’m deploying several hundreds of windows with a syspreped image and if I told my users to manually install the software, they will seriously have a bit of anger toward me…

can’t have the powershell command add-appxprovisionned package working to transform the user-defined package to a computer-defined package
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/add-appxprovisionedpackage?view=windowsserver2022-ps

maybe it can be used during the building of the plugin?

[XanKyBpaT]

I update my notepad++ to 8.5.4. Now i have 2 menus with the same name SHA-256. They do 2 different things - one generate sha256 and the other generate sha1. See printscreen. Maybe localization is broken.

Sorry for my bad english (i am native bulgarian).

[PeterJones]

@XanKyBpaT said in Notepad++ v8.5.4 Release:

I update my notepad++ to 8.5.4. Now i have 2 menus with the same name SHA-256. They do 2 different things - one generate sha256 and the other generate sha1. See printscreen. Maybe localization is broken.

That’s exactly the same thing that @Michael-Vincent pointed out in his very first reply in this topic ten days ago. It will be fixed in the next version of Notepad++.

[XanKyBpaT]

@PeterJones
I am stupid. Thank you!

[Michael Sousa]

@Alan-Kilborn Thanks for the response Alan. I did not notice that and happy to see there’s a shortcut for it as well.

[Kirill Shalygin]

Hello,
first of all - thank you all for your work! I like npp so much :)
And it is quite pity that my first message here is a complain :(
Seems I update npp too rarely… Today I’ve updated it from 8.4.7 up to current version. So much changes, maybe very useful - but I am very frustrated… There is no bash/shell syntax suport here? There is neither syntax choice (unser 'S, as earlier) not file extantion to save. Is it an error or feature? I had to rollback to good old 8.4.7 even if it costed me all my custom settings :(
WBR
Kirill

[PeterJones]

@Kirill-Shalygin said in Notepad++ v8.5.4 Release:

There is no bash/shell syntax suport here?

It may be confusing because it’s called “Shell” in the Language menu but “Bash” in the Style Configurator.

[mpheath]

@Kirill-Shalygin said in Notepad++ v8.5.4 Release:

…
There is neither syntax choice (unser 'S, as earlier) not file extantion to save.
…

As for the Save as type, look for Unix script file

Unix script file (*.bash;*.sh;*.bsh;*.csh;*.bash_profile;*.bashrc;*.profile; *.*.*.)

which can append the extension if the checkbox is checked

new 1.bash

Tip: Focus the Save as type combobox and type the letter u and it will select the Unix script file item which can be quicker than viewing the long drop down list to find the item to select.

[Kirill Shalygin]

@mpheath thank you for check!
‘Highly probably’ :) there was a glitch somewhere in npp stored data. The full story looks like:

• first update - there was no Shell in syntax
• remove of the new version with data stored, then install 8.5.4 - Shell was absent yet
• remove npp (data still not removed!) with rollback to 8.7.4 - there is no Shell again
• full remove includung stored data, then 8.7.4 install - sucsess, Shell returned back!

• update up to 8.5.4 - nothing is spoiled, Shell is OK.
  So now everithing is fine!
  BTW, maybe the reson of glitch is somewhere in localization? Historically I use russian in npp… Well, maybe it is the good reason to change language finally :)

WBR
Kirill

[mpheath]

@Kirill-Shalygin said in Notepad++ v8.5.4 Release:

…
So now everithing is fine!
BTW, maybe the reson of glitch is somewhere in localization? Historically I use russian in npp… Well, maybe it is the good reason to change language finally :)
…

Happy that you solved the problem :)

I checked the sources for Bash (Shell) and it has not changed for about 6 years. I would suspect file corruption in %AppData%\Notepad++\langs.xml as that is where the file extensions and keywords are stored for Bash. Without a working extension identification for Bash, no automatic Bash language selection which causes no document styling and the Save dialog will not pre-select Unix scripts files in the combobox. Append extension string is localized though I consider as less likely as a cause so russian should be good.

[Stefan Pendl]

@mpheath
You can compare you personal languages file in %APPDATA% with the one shipping with NPP.
If there are no customization’s that you need in your file, replace it with the one shipping with NPP.

[ifschulz]

There seems to be an issue with shell script syntax highlighting when using a ‘$’ as the last character of a double quoted string. Up to npp-v8.5.3 everything was fine, but with v8.5.4 it breaks the syntax highlighting to the end of the document:

v8.5.3:

v8.5.4:

This can of course be fixed with escaping the ‘$’ sign:

Even though using an unescaped ‘$’ sign inside double quotes when not referencing a variable is not best practice, it should still not break the syntax highlighting.

[mpheath]

@ifschulz 6 items are listed for Bash in the change log for Lexilla v5.2.5 that was pulled in Notepad++.

Whether your examples are a bug or intentional is unknown to myself as $,`, \ are special characters within double quotes as mentioned in

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Double-Quotes.html

and the Bash lexer can optionally highlight code within these strings. The backslash escape looks correct to make $ a literal, though the person who changed the lexer may still see this as a bug in the lexer and may change it. If you want, you can submit a new issue to Lexilla to have it evaluated.

[ifschulz]

@mpheath, Thanks for info. I submitted a new issue to Lexilla.

[heffthedev]

Since using 8.5.4 the tabs have an increased font-size. Can this somehow be changed as it was before?