@Vitalii-Dovgan

Be careful, though, what you mean by a “scope.”

Consider your own example from earlier in the thread:

void func() { const auto s = "abc"; }

On the basis you describe, the word auto would appear to be a “scope” beginning with a and ending with o.

@datatraveller1
Awesome. You are the best!

@Alan-Kilborn said in How does one create a desktop icon for this program please?:

You should distill that down into something exactly applicable to Notepad++

Good point.

The command prompt code below will create a simple shortcut on the Desktop that shows the various command line arguments that NP++ supports in a pop-up before launching NP++ itself. The ICON-based pieces can be omitted if you prefer the standard icon, and PF may need to be adjusted depending on where you actually installed NP++ to.

set PF=%PROGRAMFILES(x86)% set TARGET='"%PF%\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"' set STARTIN='"%USERPROFILE%\Documents"' set SHORTCUT='"%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\NP++ - help.lnk"' set ICON='"%PF%\Notepad++\updater\updater.ico"' set ARGUMENTS='--help' set PWS=powershell.exe -Command %PWS% "$ws = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell; $s = $ws.CreateShortcut(%SHORTCUT%); $S.WorkingDirectory = %STARTIN%; $S.TargetPath = %TARGET%; $S.IconLocation = %ICON%; $S.Arguments = %ARGUMENTS%; $S.Save()"

@guy038, Thanks to you, I not only solved my problem, but also became better acquainted with the possibilities of Notepad++.
Best regards

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@Silva-Yunus ,

The CustomizeToolbar plugin allows you to add menu commands (including saved macros) to the main toolbar, so it’s almost what you are asking for.

Otherwise, we have a FAQ on Feature Requests

@tnet-chrome said in Note++ file location:

The file config.xml under %AppData% had the recent files list. But if I manually delete any recents, save the file and restart Notepad++ the same list of files is re-added. Why? Where from?

Because those recents were still in memory when you exited Notepad++, and when Notepad++ exits, it overwrites the existing config.xml with those values from memory – even if you had recently manually edited config.xml. The user-manual section on Editing Config Files has a paragraph explaining how to edit config.xml, because it must be treated differently than the other config files (and config files in general have to be treated differently relative to “normal” files, as that entire section describes).

Eventually, it seems the best solution is to subclass Scintilla’s WndProc (for both Main and Secondary Scintilla window) and to handle WM_CHAR there.
The benefits:

no need to bother with Scintilla’s native notifications and their nuances; full control and clarity of what happens and when it happens: within own WM_CHAR handler, we are able to process a character before it goes to Scintilla and after it goes to Scintilla; simplified code because all the logic is controlled by you and there is no need to conform to Scintilla’s way of processing the events.

@Dave-Lang
I’m not familiar with your problem but your issue did make me recall a previous post here.

It might have occured as you just updated the version of Notepad++ from a very much older one, or possibly changed to a different font.

Anyways, read that post and maybe you might find the answer.

Terry

@xomx, thank you very much. When I selected another font (Ebrima), the problem was resolved.

@Terry-R Thank You!

@Tanya-Dhina

check Scenario: My (unsaved) files are missing! in FAQ:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21782/faq-periodic-backup-vs-autosave-plugin

I’m not entirely sure how to vote on this because - if with the permission of the original author, I don’t think a new name would be required. However, any other option should have a new name

Since this has come up twice in the last couple months, I have cleaned up the instructions and split them off into a dedicated “FAQ: Using the GCC version of Notpead++”

@neeraj10786:

While I don’t use it myself (and so can’t give detailed advice), it seems like the MultiReplace plugin by @Thomas-Knoefel would be easier to use than built-in methods. If this is a single-time problem, then the built-in methods others have given make sense; but if it is something you’ll need to do repeatedly, I’d check out that plugin.

@Thomas-Knoefel ,

Well, that got me farther. With some keystrokes, like a normal letter, or a key-combo that’s not assigned to anything in Notepad++ (like Shift+Ctrl+C), it will call that subclass function and see the uMsg==WM_CHAR. But Ctrl+C doesn’t trigger it; and if I try a shortcut that does something obviousl in N++, like Alt+C (for the Column Editor).

But that reminded me of the recent conversation about shortcut mappings, and so I tried sending the appropriate NPPM_MODELESSDIALOG arguments during my plugin’s init & destroy, and now it can capture Ctrl+C (or any other shortcut).

Thank you

MultiReplace now also supports Replace in Files. This is another step toward a powerful feature when combined with the list entries. This feature supports all variables used in Use Variables, like FNAME and FPATH, as well as the CSV Scope option, so it is fully integrated.

This is a Release Candidate available for testing – if it works for you, feel free to leave a like. If you run into any issues, please report them here.

Download link

Download the ZIP file matching your system. Copy its contents into C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\MultiReplace. Done!

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Happy replacing!