• All the off-topic go here

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    Hello, All,

    Like most of you still using Windows 10, I decided to migrate to Windows 11, at the end of october, because my computer was compatible ( BIOS with UEFI boot, TPM module and DirectX 12 )

    I eagerly awaited the November 11, 2025 update, which should have brought us a new Start Menu, correcting some of the current limitations However, no such update occured, so far, on my laptop :-((

    Of course, I know that I could use the GitHub tool, named ViveTool.exe. After downloading and extracting the last release https://github.com/thebookisclosed/ViVe/releases/tag/v0.3.4, I would have run, in an Administrator Commmand Prompt window, the command vivetool /enable /id:47205210 to get the new Start Menu, after a complete restart. Moreover, this action seems safe as we can revert back to our present Start Menu with the command vivetool /reset /id:47205210

    Ultimately, I prefer to wait for the usual Windows 11 staged roll-out to work in my favor !

    But, if you’re interested to test it, read, first, this recent article

    In this other article

    it is also said :

    ViVeTool is an open-source tool to unlock hidden features in Windows. It directly interacts with Windows Feature Management, which is the A/B testing system Microsoft uses. ViVeTool calls the official APIs and doesn’t hack or modify Windows files, so it’s mostly safe to use as long as you use it with correct variables.

    So, in the meanwhile, I tried to get used to the main aspects of Windows 11, which doesn’t change, fundamentally, my workflow ! Among other things, I updated my Win 10 list of shortcuts related to the Windows key and, little by little, I included, in that list, a lot of other shortcuts related to main applications of the Microsoft world.

    Here is the outline of this list, related to Windows 11 shortcuts :

    Shortcuts about the Windows and Office keys Shortcuts about Desktops and Taskbar Shortcuts about Text editing and Dialog boxes Shortcuts about Accessibility and the Magnifier feature Shortcuts about main applications (File Explorer, Terminal and DOS prompts, Microsoft Edge) Shortcuts about various applications (Google Maps, Settings, Xbox Game, Calculator, Sticky Notes) Shortcuts about audio / video applications (Movies & TV, Media Player, Photos, Sound Recorder) Shortcuts about drawing applications (Paint, Paint 3D) Shortcuts about basic text editors (Wordpad, Notepad)

    You can get this list, named W11_Shortcuts.txt, from my Drive account :

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wt03527NLrg-bNfKFK1x_0QqdxnSB4PU/view?usp=sharing

    Notes :

    These shortcuts are those used with a standard American / English keyboard. As I’m French, I noted some variations with my French keyboard ! Thus, for any other language, some shortcuts may be different and not very easy to find out !

    Google Chrome’s shortcuts are not described in this list as I simply use the native Edge browser of Microsoft

    Moreover, all Microsoft 365 applications are not listed, so far !

    IMPORTANT :

    Some Microsoft UWP applications (Media Player, Paint, Paint 3D, Sound Recorder, Wordpad, Notepad) have additionnal shortcuts based on the Alt key, and generally tied to each user language. To show all of them, open these applications and simply hit the Alt key. You may, also, open any menu and hit the Alt key to get some new Alt available shortcuts. As they generally depend on each user language, these specific shortcuts are mostly not included in this list !

    Now, all these shortcuts consist of one or more keys from the list below :

    The Windows key, on the left side of the main keyboard

    The Office key, on the right side of the main keyboard

    One of the two Control keys, on both sides of the main keyboard : Ctrl

    One of the two Shift keys, on both sides of the main keyboard : Shift

    The Alternate key , on the left side of the main keyboard : Alt

    The Letter keys : Any upper-case letter, for example C

    The Symbol keys : Any symbol surrounded with parentheses, for example (+)

    Remarks :

    Some shortcuts are specific to the main keyboard => indication (Main)

    Some shortcuts are specific to the numeric keypad => indication (Numpad)

    Of course, if any shortcut have been left out of this list, please, let me know ! On the other hand, feel free to ask me about shortcuts that seem still unclear to you !

    I personally did not understand 9 shortcuts, which are identified, in this list, with the ??? mark, right after the shortcut !

    Best Regards,

    guy038

    P.S. :

    Do not forget to only reply within this off-topic thread !

  • config.model.xml change the localization to german

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    Hi @Clicketyclick,
    I’ve updated DoxyIt and tested it on my x64 machine.
    Please give it a try: https://github.com/AN-2101/DoxyIt/releases/tag/v0.4.5

  • Can't get the old toolbar

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    @prof-tech said in Can't get the old toolbar:

    Help! I have tried everything to get the old toolbar and it doesn’t appear! can anyone help me?

    Settings > Prefernces > Toolbar: the “Fluent UI” variants are the “new toolbar” and “standard icons: small” are the “old toolbar” (and the “Hide” checkbox turns it on and off)

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    @Alan-Kilborn said in 'Find in Files' doesn't appear to work:

    If a folder doesn’t exist, I think when the search is initiated, input focus will immediately jump to the Directory: box, signaling a problem with that folder to the user (without a message box). Not on a PC right now, so can’t verify; going from memory.

    I see you are correct. However… I also see that the search results show 0 files searched. So I don’t see how it could be a problem with what is in the Find box. The directory might exist, but not be the one OP meant to search.

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    Hello, @brenda-gross-0 and All,

    Very easy with regexes !

    Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

    Un-tick all box options

    FIND (?-i)(?<=\l)(?=\u)|_

    REPLACE \x20

    Tick the Wrap around option

    Select the Regular expression search mode

    Click, once only, on the Replace All button

    Voila !

    Notes :

    The leading part (?-i) is an in-line modifier which force to take care about the case of letters, meaning non-insensitive search !

    Then, due to the alternation symbol |, two individual regexes are performed, simultaneously :

    (?<=\l)(?=\u) which searches for an empty string between a lower-case letter and an upper-case letter

    _ which simply searches for the underline character

    In both cases, the replacement changes the regex search with an normal space character \x20. I could have chosen to type a single space char, instead !

    The regex search may also be expressed as a non-capturing group : (?-i:(?<=\l)(?=\u)|_), with the leading non-insensitive option

    Best Regards,

    guy038

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    @Ryan-Cartmill

    Your 1st log entry above means that the N++ file checking I/O routine succeeded within the specified maximum time limit (3 secs), but that the OS (or network layer) response is that the file corresponding to the opened doc/tab in the N++ was not found. (WIN32API Error Code: 2 means ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). I also see that the file is named new 41 and without any path, so it looks like it’s not a real (saved) file yet(!?) but the newXXX N++ tab filebuffer only. But in that case the N++ getFileAttributesExWithTimeout call should not be used at all, as the N++ knows that it’s not a real file yet! Weird.

    2nd one means that the OS (or network layer) doesn’t respond in the 3secs time limit at all.

  • Notepad++ v8.8.9: Vulnerability-fix

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    @donho
    Sometimes there are users (like me) that do some silly thing, that are not expected.

    In version 8.6 a new style had been introduced: “Multi selected text colour”. The effect for me was, that in column-select mode the selection was shown only partially (last line only). It took me some time to find out what was my fault. I use a personalised style, where the default background colour happens to have the value “C0C0C0”, the same value as the background for this new style. Therefore I could not see the selection because it had the same bg-colour as the rest of my text. For “Selected text colour” I use the value “A0A0A0”; after applying this value to the new style, it worked again.

    I know, it is really a very special case, but it may happen. A similar situation might arise with other changes in the future. For these cases it would help to have a backup for comparison.

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  • Notepad+++ workflow for Bookkeeping.

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    @Charles-Fraichot

    Glad you found a good solution. Thanks for letting us know.

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    @Mark-Olson said in Menu command for ensuring current position is visible:

    I agree with you that this is pretty confusing, and agree that using the arrow keys should have the same effect as typing. This would obviously be a separate feature request though, and as you noted I rather doubt that it would be accepted because it would only add confusion for some other users.

    After sleeping one night about it, and rereading your posting about typing any char and undo. Also in your issue #17297 and @Alan-Kilborn 's issue #12107 … I have changed my mind a bit, because I think that both situations of keystrokes (typing char from keyboard input or pressing arrow key) should be handled in the same way. This would make consistent behaviour of the application.

    I think, keystrokes should always have direct effect on a visible caret, so the caret should be made visible first, and afterwards perform the action from keyboard (typing char/moving caret).

    Keystrokes on an invisible caret look more like undefined behaviour. The user does not know, where his focus is. Even making caret jump to next visible position could be unexpected, because user did not know where he previously has been. Maybe user is even confused, because of the jump.

    So from this perspective, the current behaviour of arrow keys could be worth considering if it is unexpected/inconsistent.

  • FAQ: Themes in v8.8.9

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    @Jayson-Allen ,

    See details in https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/104192

    update: I have versions of the theme files which won’t have the ugly white backgrounds temporaroly at https://github.com/pryrt/notepad-plus-plus/tree/themesPost889/PowerEditor/installer/themes ⇒ they will hopefully eventually be put into the main codebase, for distribution with v8.9 and future. But until then, you can

    Exit Notepad++ Go to that URL and download the raw version of your theme(s) For a normal Notepad++ installation, use Explorer to go to %AppData%\Notepad++ if there’s not a themes subdirectory, create it move the downloaded theme(s) into %AppData%\Notepad++\themes When you run Notepad++ next time, it will use the updated theme.

    If you have customized your theme with user-keywords or user-extensions, this would overwrite those… I will eventually be writing a FAQ which explains a way to work around those customizations (once I don’t have to link to a branch in my fork of the code to share the theme files).

    New FAQ: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27306/faq-themes-in-v8-8-9

  • Notepad++ 8.8.8: 2 issues detected

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    @deleelee

    Thanks for the pic. You are evidently using the MenuIcons plugin and it seems that this plugin has a problem with the N++ v8.8.8+ new tab-label length limitation feature. You can try to report/ask for help at that plugin site:
    https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/issues

    or disable its “*” tab marking feature in the Menu Icons Options settings (select the “No symbol” radio-button there).

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    @PeterJones

    If you are using one of the built-in themes, you might try to compare your %AppData%\Notepad++\themes___.xml with the version from c:\program files\Notepad++\themes,

    I don’t have a custom theme; I just use whatever existing themes and modify them (just two, really). I just replaced my %AppData% theme with the “program files” themes, and the colors look okay again.

    795725ad-50a6-4d40-a0cf-308501ed7cea-image.png

    But both your margins being light gray imply that your theme was missing both those definitions when you ran 8.8.9 for the first time.

    I am pretty sure that when I installed Notepad++, I just copied the old saved themes over, which is why the new styles were probably missing.

    In this screenshot, I set one to Bookmark to salmon and Change History to yellow, to make it obvious which was which.

    This makes it much easier to understand. Thank you!

    Update: See our Change History Margin FAQ, especially the “How do I change the size” section, for an example of how to change the size using PythonScript or NppExec. (But yikes, I see that FAQ is out of date, since it doesn’t show the ability to change the four colors, which was added years ago… I will have to fix that next)

    I am not that ambitious, but I am sure the update will be appreciated!

    Thank you again, Peter. Not only did your post help fix the problem, but it’s also educational and shows me how dedicated people are to Notepad++.

  • Updated Notepad++ VPAT?

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    @PeterJones

    Thank you, that’s very helpful. I’ll do that.

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    @Terry-R This has worked perfectly. Its a very long document so this was great. Thanks again, greatly appreciated.

  • All the off-topic go here

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    Hi there - since every computer i ever used has notepad++ installed as first tool, i would love to donate for this release but wondered if the Name of the paypal account is correct?
    It differs from your name and email adress used in the Author Information on the Website.
    Is C***-W* H** correct?