@Ekopalypse said in New cross-platform plugin template for Delphi developers:

that sounds strange if halt is supposed to terminate the running process […]

Like @klaus101 observed, it does not kill the notepad++.exe process because the Free Pascal version of the template does not own the main application handle (the way the Delphi version — unfortunately — does, for reasons that go back to Delphi’s history as the precursor to .NET, as .NET plugins likewise share the notepad++ process ID).

@klaus101 said in New cross-platform plugin template for Delphi developers:

i’m now still unsure about debugging it.

That’s a problem with DLLs in general and with plugin DLLs in particular. For example, the getFuncsArray function is called by notepad++.exe through a function pointer, i.e., a memory address pointing to where the compiled Pascal code is sitting in the DLL. I don’t know if the Lazarus IDE’s debugger can even trace that; you would have to first of all attach it to the running notepad++.exe process, and the function call happens so early you will miss it.

In general, the stuff in the template’s DllExports unit should be considered read-only, except for the DLL_ATTACH hook where you construct your plugin object.

As for tooling, I suggest using GNU Debug if you want to monitor every step of the DLL lifecycle. My personal setup uses VS Code with the C++ Tools extension. All I do is create a launch profile based on the cppdbg template, e.g.,

{ "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "name": "Notepad++", "request": "launch", "args": [], "stopAtEntry": false, "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}", "type": "cppdbg", "MIMode": "gdb", "miDebuggerPath": "${env:LAZARUS_DIR}\\mingw\\x86_64-win64\\bin\\gdb.exe", "setupCommands": [ { "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb", "text": "-enable-pretty-printing", "ignoreFailures": true }, { "description": "Set Disassembly Flavor to Intel", "text": "-gdb-set disassembly-flavor intel", "ignoreFailures": true } ], "logging": { "moduleLoad": true }, "program": "${full_path_to}\\notepad++.exe" } ] }

Save this as .vscode/launch.json and open the root source folder in VS Code. Replace "${full_path_to}\\notepad++.exe" to the one where the plugin is installed. Every Lazarus toolchain comes with a compatible version of gdb, so replace ${env:LAZARUS_DIR}\\mingw\\x86_64-win64\\bin\\gdb.exe with the actual path on your PC.

After that, you should be able to set breakpoints (by clicking on the line number margin) and start the editor with the F5 key.

@guy038 Oui, merci beaucoup!

Feature request: Prevent pinned tabs from being closed.

@Eric-Schetselaar

Realistically Notepad++ will not provide anything for working with GraphQL that you couldn’t get a better version of in some other text editor. I have no idea; I don’t use GraphQL, but I’ve at least heard of it.

Technically you could use the UDL system to highlight GraphQL, but UDL’s are incredibly jank and the EnhanceAnyLexer plugin only really provides a band-aid on that jankiness. The chances of getting a proper lexer for GraphQL added to the Lexilla library (like the lexers for Python, C++, and other more established languages) is essentially nonexistent.

Finally, there’s NppLspClient, which you could potentially connect to a language server for GraphQL, but this all seems like more work than just editing GraphQL in VSCode or whatever.

@NotSoBitWise Seems like a familar issue with printing that someone else had. Have a look at this doPrint function that I rediscovered by using the PythonScript plugin.

@PeterJones keeping the 2 Listboxes might be OK as well since I have mocked it recently.

NppListToCombo2.png

Left side and center same as my previous post. The right side displays 2 listboxes with 8 items per list being visible. Either of the 2 alternatives appear wider as can be seen in the image.

Here is the AutoIt3 sources if anyone wants to play with them. Just need the AutoIt3 interpreter which can get from downloading the Zip file and extract AutoIt3.exe or AutoIt3_x64.exe.

; about: With 1 ComboBox and 1 Listbox. Global Const $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST = 0x3 Global Const $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE = -3 Global Const $WS_VSCROLL = 0x00200000 Global Const $WS_CAPTION = 0x00C00000 GUICreate('Style Configurator', 750, 405, -1, -1, $WS_CAPTION) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Select theme:', 67, 15) GUICtrlCreateCombo('Default (stylers.xml)', 142, 15, 160, Default, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST) GUICtrlCreateGroup('', 10, 45, 250, 345) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Language:', 20, 60) GUICtrlCreateCombo('Global Styles', 20, 85, 230, Default, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'ActionScript|ADA|ASN.1|ASP') GUICtrlCreateLabel('Style:', 20, 120) GUICtrlCreateList('Default Style', 20, 145, 230, 180, $WS_VSCROLL) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'Indent guideline style|Brace highlight style|Bad brace colour' & _ '|Current line background|Selected text colour|Multi-selected text color' & _ '|Caret colour|Multi-edit carets color|Edge colour|Line number margin' & _ '|Bookmark margin|Change History margin|Change History modified' & _ '|Change History revert modified|Change History revert origin' & _ '|Change History saved|Fold|Fold active' & _ '|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20') $idExit = GUICtrlCreateButton('Exit', 650, 365, 80) GUISetState() While 1 Switch GUIGetMsg() Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $idExit Exit EndSwitch WEnd ; about: With 2 Listboxes Global Const $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST = 0x3 Global Const $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE = -3 Global Const $WS_VSCROLL = 0x00200000 Global Const $WS_CAPTION = 0x00C00000 GUICreate('Style Configurator', 750, 405, -1, -1, $WS_CAPTION) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Select theme:', 67, 15) GUICtrlCreateCombo('Default (stylers.xml)', 142, 15, 160, Default, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST) GUICtrlCreateGroup('', 10, 45, 250, 345) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Language:', 20, 60) GUICtrlCreateList('Global Styles', 20, 80, 230, 120, $WS_VSCROLL) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'ActionScript|ADA|ASN.1|ASP|Assembly|AutoIt|AviSynth' & _ '|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20') GUICtrlCreateLabel('Style:', 20, 195) GUICtrlCreateList('Default Style', 20, 215, 230, 120, $WS_VSCROLL) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'Indent guideline style|Brace highlight style|Bad brace colour' & _ '|Current line background|Selected text colour|Multi-selected text color' & _ '|Caret colour|Multi-edit carets color|Edge colour|Line number margin' & _ '|Bookmark margin|Change History margin|Change History modified' & _ '|Change History revert modified|Change History revert origin' & _ '|Change History saved|Fold|Fold active' & _ '|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20') $idExit = GUICtrlCreateButton('Exit', 650, 365, 80) GUISetState() While 1 Switch GUIGetMsg() Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $idExit Exit EndSwitch WEnd

I didn’t type the full list of items as it is just mocking the Style Configurator Dialog for display purposes.

I learned my lesson a long time ago, and I have a batch file that starts Notepad++. Before it starts it, it zips up a snapshot (into a zip file with a name derived from system date/time) of relevant config files. The batch file also removes older snapshots so this mechanism doesn’t use up too much disk space.

It’s a shame we have to take defensive action against our favorite software. :-(

I am using remote desktop using chrome browser… it displays blank content on Notepad++ only, when there is no monitor associated to the remote machine. I am using Windows 11.

The moment, I enable display by opening my laptop lid, the content displays again.

@deleelee

You must be referring to the TextFxInsertLineNumbers.py script, because the other script discussed in this topic, InsertLineNumbersOnLines.py, doesn’t deal with any selected text at all.

Here’s a modified version of the script I’m calling TextFxInsertLineNumbers2.py :

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from __future__ import print_function # references: # https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23206/insert-sequential-numbers-at-start-of-lines # https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/23166/faq-desk-how-do-i-replicate-the-features-of-textfx from Npp import * #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class TFILN2(object): def __init__(self): handled_line_nbr_list = [] running_line_nbr = 1 line_tup_list = [] for s in range(editor.getSelections()): start_line = editor.lineFromPosition(editor.getSelectionNStart(s)) end_line = editor.lineFromPosition(editor.getSelectionNEnd(s)) line_tup_list.append((start_line, end_line)) line_tup_list.sort() for (start_line, end_line) in line_tup_list: for line_nbr in range(start_line, end_line + 1): if line_nbr not in handled_line_nbr_list: line_content = editor.getLine(line_nbr).rstrip('\n\r') editor.replaceLine(line_nbr, '{n:08} {c}'.format(n=running_line_nbr, c=line_content)) running_line_nbr += 1 handled_line_nbr_list.append(line_nbr) editor.setSel(editor.getCurrentPos(), editor.getCurrentPos()) #------------------------------------------------------------------------------- if __name__ == '__main__': TFILN2()

This version handles all types of selections.

The solution on my side plugin called CSV Lint
I do this steps
Notpad++ > Plugins > CSV Lint > Settings > Colors > Normal Mode or Dark mode (foreground colors) > Yes > OK > manual restart notepad++

this should fix your issue and that happen when you try to change the theme and than back to default, and thanks @ibrummel for the hint of CSV Lint plugin

@Arthur-Gordon-Pym said in "Word wrap" option is reset from time to time:

I also have this strange bug

As I think you will be aware, that information isn’t much to go on. You speak of “with latest versions” but don’t specify if it is “the” latest version. Additionally there might well be other factors such as whether you run Notepad++ in single instance mode or “multiple instance”. This is a setting under Settings, preferences, Multi-instance & date (ver 8.7.4). This setting can create the anomaly you see. If you run multi-instance and turn off the word wrap in one instance, and then when closing, make that instance the last to close the setting will change as it writes the change to the config files. Next time you start you will see it turned off.

So far very few have stated they have this problem. We had a previous case where only a few had a particular problem and because of that it took a very long time to establish there was in fact a situation where the issue arose. Yours might be such a situation, or indeed just something you haven’t identified yet which is causing the problem to occur sporadically and not specifically a Notepad++ issue.

Terry

@PeterJones

option 1 is most likely, but one time it happened when i restarted notepad++ himself
i will backup the file you told me

@Bob-Smith said in notepad ++ adjust indentation:

Where is this hiding? Not seeing it. Have the settings been moved around?

Which version of Notepad++ are you running. The preference option is certainly there in the recent versions. You might need to show us your debug info. From the ? menu, select debug info, copy and paste that info here.

As well as the previous post another idea is I think the “Column Editor”. If you want all the lines in your file to have the same prefix, position the cursor at the very start, use column editor and enter the text to be the prefix on EVERY line.

If you just want a group of lines to have a prefix, position the cursor on the first line of the group, use Ctrl + Alt + mouse control to move down the left margin for the group of lines. Then use the column editor to insert a prefix for that group. You could also just type the character(s).

Terry

@Bob-Smith ,

The way you avoid that 1200 second time limit is to get enough upvotes that the system doesn’t consider you a threat.

That rule assumes that anyone who has been here long has posted enough good quality posts to have earned a few upvotes.

Given our additional anti-spam that’s been implemented since that limit was originally enacted, I think I’m willing to shrink the delay. But there will still be limitations on you until people have upvoted you enough.

I’m not 100% sure whether I’ve understood your problem.

I was going to ask for a screenshot of your Preferences > Delimiter page, wondering if maybe you had something added to your list of characters… but then I was reminded of the Delimiter selection settings (Ctrl + Mouse double click), which I forget about under most circumstances.

So with the example text

one two three four five six blah(seven eight nine)

if I Ctrl+DoubleClick on one then five then eight, I get one and five and seven eight nine selected. Based on being reminded of the existing of the special meaning for inside-delimiter Ctrl+DoubleClick, that is now my expectation. But I’m wondering if you were hoping for just one and five and eight in that situation. If so, you would have to “defeat” the Delimiter selection settings, by changing the open and close delimiters to something else (or to nothing).

Examples:

Default:
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With no selection-delimiters:
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@Bob-Smith ,

A few years ago, it was requested in the NppFTP repository’s issue tracker, but the maintainer didn’t have time (at least then) to take on the effort of adding all the DarkMode hooks.

I’ve pinged the issue, and updated with the current state (because in the original issue, even the Profiles and Progress panel was still white, not just the Output and dialog boxes) – but the maintainer asked for help 3 years ago, and no one volunteered, so it’s not likely to happen any time soon, unless someone new volunteers. (@chcg is highly involved in a variety of plugins, plus contributes to the main app, so doesn’t often find time for requests like this; hence the 2021 request for help, which was unfortunately ignored.)

@mkupper ,

the OP’s question seemed clear enough to me. While they did not show their debug info …

Maybe you didn’t notice which FAQ @Alan-Kilborn directed the OP to, because “it’s ambiguous” wasn’t meant to say that “the OP question was ambiguous” – “It’s Ambiguous” is one of the headers in the FAQ that was linked to.

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I am thinking that when Alan said, “It’s Ambiguous” and directed the OP to a FAQ that you thought he was linking to the “request for more information, especially debug info” FAQ. But he actually linked to the FAQ: Why Can’t I Just Say “Most Recent Version”, which explains in detail about why the Update Notepad++ doesn’t find v8.7.4 right now, using much the same language that you used in your reply.

update 1: Yes, I admit that “Most Recent Version” FAQ also asks for Debug Info, but the “It’s Ambiguous” section can double as the answer to the FAQ “why does Notepad++ say there’s no newer version, when the downloads page clearly shows a newer version”.
I guess I could make the FAQ more explicit in that regard.

update 2: I have now tried to make the FAQ more clear that it’s answering two questions that both have the same root description, even though they seem, on the surface, unrelated.

Hi NCalu,

i like your plugin and have it on my watchlist. Want to try it out, but didn’t had the time yet.

Personaly i work only with Sinumerik Controllers. Looking at your G-Code, it looks more like Fanuc or Mitsubishi Style G-Code programing. However the preview is a really nice feature.

Can the plugin handle unexpected commands, which are possible only on certain controllers e.g. Sinumerik G-Codes, Functions, Cycles e.g like Cycle61(,…,) for face milling and so on?

Hello, @mohammad-al-maaitah and All,

Very easy !

Open your file in Notepad++

Run the Edit > Character Panel menu option

=> As you can see, the SYN character is a Control C0 character, with decimal value = 22 and hexadecimal value = 16. Thus :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Un-check all the box options

Type in \x16 in the Find what : zone

Leave the Replace with: zone EMPTY

Check the Wrap around option

Select the Extended (\n, \r, \t, \0, \x...) or the Regular expression radio button

Click ,once only, on the Replace All button

Voila !

Best Regards,

guy038