@dfs ,
We could go a step further and lament that it would be nice if the entire graphical environment of NP++ could be contained in one dialog setting, and then when we switched between Light or Dark, the environment would change all the UI references:

Settings->Preferences...->Dark Mode,
Settings->Style Configurator...->Style:, and the
Settings->Style Configurator...->Select theme:

…could be coordinated to make just switching between Dark Mode and Light Mode change them all, accordingly. As it is, I’m glad to have just found out that the Dark and Light language files can automatically change by setting that one switch in the dark mode file @PeterJones mentioned, and that automatically chooses the correct code coloring file for the environment (Dark/Light) chosen.

@PeterJones
Hello that first option won’t work as I’ll have no idea which duplicates were removed.
Tried method 2, showered red for all entries that were different and white for duplicate, so used hide matches instead of hide all diffs, this his the white entries, need to do some more examples to be certain.
When I perform these actions it appears to change the file entries, in the text file does that make sense.

Just re-read your post, not sure if I’ve made myself clear about what I need.
I have 2 files, DocMaster with all my music, a second DocNewMusic, which has a list of new music but also contains some tracks already listed in DocMaster, so I want to delete all entries in DocNewMusic that already exist in DocMaster, think we are on the right track, but not certain, the procedure is deleting the correct entries.
Thanks so much for your perseverance and help. I know some visual basic, but not enough experience to write a plug in, my son writes in Unity, if he had the source code for the Compare plus plugin, maybe he could make a plugin to do what I need in one action.

Thanks

@PeterJones Thank you. I just found this forum after searching about the multiple line issue. I’ve been using Notepad++ for years, fantastic program. First text editor I’d found that did search and replace on end of line charaters since good old Wordstar.

@Dervars14 Just checked and unfortunately the undo, ^Z, does not work. This used to be a more common occurance in the old days, Prior to Windows 7 and back in the DOS days, there was no checking to see if wanted to keep a file, it just got overwritten even if a totally different file, but just had the same name. The way we used to get around this is with a recovery program. The good thing is for a long time, whenever you save a file, it actually saves it to a different area of the dirve, precisely for this kind of incedent.

First important thing is don’t do any work on that drive, if the data is still there, it is not protected, the more you use the computer, the more likelihood those clusters of the drive will get overwritten.

I don’t think Windows has any internal programs, other than the Recycle bin, which is no use here, as overwritten files aren’t placed there. There is a free program called Recuva, from Piriform, the same people that do CCleaner. If possible, try and download this on another computer to a USB drive, as I said, the more work you do on the drive, the chance of losing the data.

The other good thing with using another machine, is you quickly play around with recuva, it is very basic program, the results are in table form, so easy to rearrange. You can save any detected files to the USB drive as well. If you get the file back, then just replace the current one. And this is the way to all learn to do backups more regularly, which reminds me.

Bravo!

You may also be interested in this issue: “ANSI auto-completion shows garbled text when typing Chinese characters (since v8.8)”

@leleganja said in Notepad++ v8.9.1 Release:

Why do I get these errors when I install Notepd++ with both v8.9.2 and v8.9.1?

At first glance: it appears that whatever account that is being used to install Notepad++ doesn’t have write-permission to the temp directory that the installer created. That is odd, given that the installer usually asks for Admin privileges to install. But maybe your computer is set up so the Admin account(s) don’t have write permission to the indiviudal user file-areas.

Try creating a directory someplace where both your normal user and your admin user have write access, and then temporarily set %TMP% to point to that directory. When you run the installer, it should use that new directory instead, and should (I would think) have write-permission there. (My experiments showed it used the alternate location if I set the %TMP% user variable, but not if I set the %TEMP% variable, so you only need to change %TMP%. If you don’t know how to change that variable: click the START menu, type system environtment which will find the Edit the system environment variables option, which you use; click Environment variables button, then in the User variables section, edit TMP to point to the new directory you created; after doing OK a few times, then you can run the installer, and it should use that directory. When done installing, don’t forget to set TMP back to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp in the same manner.)

@PeterJones Hi, I managed to complete your code so that all color formats work. If you want, I can send you the code.!Sem títulddddo.jpg

@PeterJones

I will try with v8.9.3-RC and v8.9.1,

regarding my last question it’s with v8.9.2,

“create new” works fine with old name, it’s the “save as” function which shows that behavior : “can’t use a name preivously used” (i wasn’t enough precised in my question, sorry).
Note : if i well understand the way notepad++ works at closing : “save as” should not be used,

I will have a try with the portable version of v8.9.3-RC,

Again thanks for the help,

@Võ-Văn-Hiếu said:

It seems that when I select all the text (which should exceed that default number), the box stays checked even after I stop selecting.

I’m not quite sure what your meaning is here, but…

…and I presume that when you say “default number”, you mean 1024…

The In selection checkbox isn’t truly dynamic; it isn’t going to change while you are selecting text. It only changes when you invoke search, and here are some examples of that:

input focus in the editing area and you press Ctrl+f input focus in the editing area with Find window also visible, and you use the mouse to activate the Find window

@Freon-Sandoz said in Unexpected match when searching files for an end-quote character (non-ASCII):

I can reproduce the file contents and the unexpected behavior

I was able to do that, too… and now I see what is happening. The character you are calling an end quote is not the Right Double Quotation Mark, U+201D but the Double Prime, U+2033.

Windows-1252 (and Windows-1254) contains the right double quotation mark at 0x94. However, it does not contain the double prime. The entry boxes on the file dialog are always in Unicode. (That’s how it works pretty much everywhere in modern Windows.) But if the file is in ANSI, the file search is done in ANSI, so Notepad++ asks Windows to translate the string you gave it into ANSI. Seeing that there is no double prime character in your current code page, Windows “helpfully” translates it to something that looks a lot like it… the ASCII double quote.

Further confusing the issue is that Notepad++ never loads a file in any code page other than your system code page (which you said is 1252) or Unicode. So when you open the file in Windows-1254, Notepad++ is actually converting it from 1254 to UTF-8 and editing that way. That’s why the search behaved as expected in 1254: it wasn’t really 1254 in, it was in UTF-8.

Bottom line… this behavior actually is “expected”… but not by any normal human being. About the only thing you can do about it is to work in Unicode wherever possible when you are using non-ASCII characters.

It might be possible for Notepad++ to change its search so that it warned you when you tried to search an ANSI document for characters that aren’t possible in that document. I haven’t looked into it in depth; I would guess there must be a call to WideCharToMultiByte somewhere, and it could be passed the WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS flag and the lpUsedDefaultChar output pointer to detect such shenanigans so the program could tell the user about it instead of potentially claiming to find something that isn’t there.

@donho ,

Thanks for doing that. It’s good to be able to grab older versions, for historical purposes / comparisons, and for people who are trying to use Notepad++ on machines that still have ancient OS installed and cannot be upgraded (like a bunch of early 2000s electronic-measurement equipment that I used to use)

@tedhettel ,

With native Notepad++, you cannot get that exactly. But you can get close.

Notepad++ has a keystroke Ctrl+End to take you to the end of a document, and a menu action (Edit > Insert > Date Time … of three variants, one of which is customizable in settings). So you could record a macro (Macro > Start Recording, Ctrl+End, ENTER, Edit > Insert > Date Time …, ENTER, Macro > Stop Recording) and save it with a keystroke (Macro > Save Current Recorded Macro), which means when you open your logfile, you can do that one keystroke, and it would then take you to the end and put in the date for you. So it would be one extra keystroke when you open the file… but one keystroke isn’t bad.

see update in this announcement: new github repo with archived versions of Notepad++ at https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/old-releases

@Mark-Olson You are right, thanx Mark.

@PeterJones
hello and Thank You…
I think I had read all of the references you posted, and must have misunderstood everything.
(sigh) I’m feeling so old (LoL)
just used your example and it worked perfectly
…
well, except I next will want to enter an exception for cases of a period before the first carriage return.
I think I know how to get that working, now that you’ve given me a great direction.
Again, Thank You!

FYI:
I just updated RC4 binaries with the fix:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/9b558895e744601842ffdaff4679467863b9722d

Sorry for the inconvenience.

@Robk-Blue said in Tidy2 or other HTM L plugins:

It looks like Tidy2 is a 32 bit plugin and I can’t find a x64 version. Is it able to be used still? Any other options?

Yeah, Tidy2 hasn’t been updated in more than a decade – it’s essentially abandoned. And as far as I can tell, no one here has grabbed the source code, recompiled for 64-bit, and published it anywhere (that has happened on some other plugins that used to be only 32-bit, if someone here was interested enough in that plugin to do it for themselves and share it with others)

XML Tools is able to make XML look pretty, and usually works on HTML files as well.

Other than that, it’s possible to pass the current file to your favorite external command-line code-prettifier (tidy.exe, if you installed HTML Tidy utility on your computer yourself), using either the Run > Run to create a User-defined command, or using a plugin like Pork2Sausage or NppExec.

See also the FAQ: How do I use Notepad++ to Compile my Source Code (or Convert My Text)?, which has a section on Converting text (which is what things like tidy.exe are doing), and explains how to use the plugins mentioned in the previous paragraph to accomplish conversion tasks.

thank you