@xomx said in NPPCrypt not fully decrypting text.:

Could be. Seems to me that your file was simply out of sync somehow (common when the network is laggy or there was just a temp outage):

To clarify the file is local to the systems I’m experiencing the issue. It’s created, open, edited, and saved here. The cloud storage is just as a backup. I’m not accessing it on a second machine.

@joesalvati68 said in Save as File Type Options:

@PeterJones I tried replying but not sure if it went through. I copied the above picture. My actual wndow is here.

As the post-edit window told you (you had to hit the X to close it when replying), until you get enough “upvotes”, you will have to wait for a moderator to approve all your posts.

Notepad++ v8.8.5 (64-bit)
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Admin mode: OFF
Local Conf mode: OFF
Cloud Config: C:\Users\JoeSalvati\OneDrive - Arcuity ai, Inc\Notepad++_backup

ahh, I wouldn’t have guessed you were in Cloud Config mode. So my suggestion of %AppData%\Notepad++\langs.xml was wrong. In Cloud Config mode, it would be C:\Users\JoeSalvati\OneDrive - Arcuity ai, Inc\Notepad++_backup\langs.xml

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Plugins:
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.6)
NppExec (0.8.8)
NppExport (0.4)
NppMenuSearch (0.9.6)

I am doubtful, but since i’ve never used it, the culprit might be NppMenuSearch. You could try running with that plugin disabled (if you don’t know how to run with a specific plugin disabled, see the Possible Culprit: Plugin in our FAQ).

If disbling that plugin doesn’t fix it, then open C:\Users\JoeSalvati\OneDrive - Arcuity ai, Inc\Notepad++_backup\langs.xml, and show us the first 25 lines or so, using a screenshot like:
0959e27c-0ea2-45fe-93d4-87e39dcbe697-image.png

or click the </> button in your reply, and pasting the text of the first 25 lines inside the ``` … ``` section:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <NotepadPlus> <!-- The keywords of the supported languages, don't touch them! --> <!-- For languages like C/C++ substyle1..8 entries, you may enter your own keywords in those entries, to have them show up in the "Default keywords" list shown in the Style Configurator --> <Languages> <Language name="normal" ext="txt" /> <Language name="actionscript" ext="as mx" commentLine="//" commentStart="/*" commentEnd="*/"> <Keywords name="instre1">add for lt tellTarget and function ne this break ge new typeof continue gt not var delete if on void do ifFrameLoaded onClipEvent while else in or with eq le return instanceof case default switch</Keywords> <Keywords name="type1">arguments constructor class dynamic false extends implements import interface intrinsic newline null private public super static true undefined Accessibility Arguments Array Boolean Button Camera ContextMenu ContextMenuItem CustomActions Color Date Error Function Key LoadVars 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@Walter-Cook said in Using Notepad++ Together with ChatGPT for a Faster Workflow:

Is there a preferred “Language” to use before pasting into Notepad++?

If the Generative AI nonsense is pretending to be C++, then use Language > C > C++; if it’s pretending to be Python, then use Language > P > Python; if it’s pretending to be markdown, use Language > Markdown (preinstalled). If it’s pretending to be plain text, use Language > None (Normal Text)

Remember, Generative AI is not thinking, and is not actually generating anything with meaning. It is just picking a long list of likely “next token” (effectively, “next word”, but not technically) based on the prompt and what it’s generated so far.

Copying from ChatGPT or any of the AI’s interfaces seems to be pretty messy!

Then find a better UI? There are various frontends to those “tools” which can help. (I know that Google’s AI Studio interface, for example, has a button to allow copying the underlying Markdown that their LLM produces, so something like that might be better formatted than the rendered stuff directly from the browser.)

Admin Note: as @Alan-Kilborn said, this conversation really shouldn’t be under the “Help Wanted” category, so I am moving it to the “General Discussion”

@Walter-Cook

If you have a few favorites of the “Line Operations”, you could add them individually using the “Customize Toolbar” plugin.

@rdipardo

That’s what I thought too, I was just surprised that the port didn’t have it, hence the question.

There’s a hard-coded limit of 100 characters for property names; the property inside “hello3” has 101. It’s a known issue.

@João-Borloth said in Help with Regex/Find/Macro:

Good morning!
Everyone, I couldn’t understand REGEX.
I believe there’s a REGEX solution (Find or Filter) to solve my problem.
I need Notepad++ to search line by line and find the lines that contain:

A word with all letters in uppercase (example: LTDA) A word with all letters in lowercase (example: and) A word with mixed lowercase and uppercase letters (except capitalized words) (for example, find: hoUse, HOuse, HousE)
but NOT find House.

This would require 3 Regex and/or 3 macros.
Example sentences:
My HouSe is Beautiful => Find “HouSe” and “is”
My House Is Beautiful => Ok, Don’t find anything
MY House IS Beautiful => Find “MY”, “IS”

Thank you

Your example doesn’t quite match your statement. If, as per your statement, you want to find lines which contain one or more words that do not consist of a capital letter optionally followed by one or more lower case letters, then try:

(?-is)^(?!\u\l*+([^\w\r\n]+\u\l*+)*+[^\w\r\n]*$).*+

You can find them one by one, or click Find All to get a list.

If, as per your example, you want to find words that do not consist of a capital letter optionally followed by one or more lower case letters, try:

(?-is)\b(\u\l*+)?+\w++

I tried to cover likely cases involving punctuation, but test. I’m not promising it’s perfect. (Come to think of it, I’m sure these will not handle words with apostrophes correctly.)

@PeterJones that’s great. I wonder if it’s a Win11 ‘feature’ that prevents the graceful app close/shutdown.
Either way I know now what the smoking gun looks like so will be mindful of that in future.
Tx for the analysis and for filing the plugin issue.

@xomx thank you very much :) hopefully the plugin gets updated some day, the auto-check is quite useful…

@donho ,
And here I was, hopeful that making excuses about it being a computer error was over, with AI handling the responses. Even the AI has to make an excuse that it was (brain) computer error. :-)

Updated linter++ to v1.0.1

Most obvious changes:

Works properly in 32 bit mode Ability to switch linting off and on - mainly for people with slow PCs Double clicking on an error in the ‘system’ tab will open a new notepad++ buffer and provide more detail on the error Ability to define your own variables to be used in commands.

This is available at the same page as above.

@guy038 ,

I think you missed my point.

My point was not, “you can enter C0 using Ctrl+<key>, so there’s no need/benefit to be able to also enter C0 using Alt+0###”. My point is, all you have to do to be able to get Alt+0### access for C0 codes is to turn off the option named “prevent control character (C0 code) typing into document”: if you have things set up in a way that you want to be able to enter control codes, then you are the kind of user who probably doesn’t need the accidental-Ctrl+combo “protection” that enabling that option provides.

Making the developers try to intercept the keystrokes before Windows turns the keystrokes from multiple presses into sending a single character to the app, just because you aren’t willing to turn off the anti-C0-“protection” seems the wrong way around. N++ already provides the option that allows you to enable typing C0 codes, whether by Ctrl+<unmapped> or by Alt+0### for C0 codes, so if you want to enter C0 codes, then set the option appropriately.

solution cannot be applied because :

Or, I would say, the “solution cannot be applied without unmapping pre-defined shortcuts, which is simple to do using Shortcut mapper”. (Or, I would say that, if that were a “solution” I were recommending; but it wasn’t.)

Enabling vs disabling of features always come with tradeoffs, and power users of Notepad++ make those tradeoffs every day.

Maybe I’ll put it this way: the option is literally named “prevent control character (C0 code) typing into document”. If you want to be able to type control characters (C0 codes) into the document, you obviously have to turn off that option. This seems highly reasonable to me.

@Dawg1104 said in Adding a Language to official Notepad++:

Is it at all possible to add a language to Notepad++ officially?

At all? Definitely.

Practically? It depends on the language.

Notepad++ uses a library called Lexilla for handling the syntax highlighting of “official” languages. Lexilla actually provides some languages that Notepad++ has not yet exposed to its users. I have actually done a couple PR where I submitted the Notepad++ code update to enable those “hidden languages”.

But if it doesn’t already exist in Lexilla, then someone would have to write the lexer per Lexilla standards, then submit it to Lexilla. One, in theory, could just submit a request that Lexilla add the language, but unless it happens to be a language that one of the Lexilla team is interested in, there’s very little chance they will implement it – for example, awk was requested to be added to Lexilla in 2009, but since the developer isn’t interested in it, it’s never been implemented. So practically, to add a new language to Lexilla, you have to write it.

Those are the two paths to being “officially” added. But there are more paths to unofficial:

There might already be a UDL (User Defined Language) available in the UDL Collection, If so, anyone can easily download the UDL definition from there and install it into their copy of Notepad++ per the UDL Collection instructions or, if you already have a UDL defined, but there isn’t one for that language in the Collection, you can submit it to the collection as described in the Collection instructions if it’s a simple list of keywords and operators and maybe a folding symbol (like the { ... } of C-style languages), it’s pretty easy to make your own UDL (and then submit it to the collection) my CollectionInterface plugin makes it really easy to download and install a language from the UDL Collection. wink wink nudge nudge If the logic is more complicated than simple keyword matching, then it’s possible to write a lexer plugin (overview found in the User Manual) – and such a plugin can be submitted to the Plugins Admin. (One of the most famous lexer plugins is the GEDCOM lexer, but there are actually quite a few of the plugins that have lexing capability among their features.)

So, what language are you looking for, that you cannot yet find?

Hello, @Jose-Ramalho, @peterjones and All,

@jose-ramalho, let’s suppose this INPUT text :

move $a swap $b, $c

Then :

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Uncheck all box options

FIND (?-s)^(.+)\t(.+)

REPLACE \1 FIXED_TEXT \(\2\)

Select the Regular expression search mode

Possibly, check the Wrap around option

Click on the Replace All button

=> You should get the following OUTPUT text :

move FIXED_TEXT ($a) swap FIXED_TEXT ($b, $c)

This is just my first idea. Obviously, this requires some ajustements. See you later !

Best regards,

guy038

@PeterJones Thanks! 🙂

@Notepadder said in Strange Notepad++ file recovery:

How can I access the files in this folder from a more recent restore point as with first crash?

If there is also a more recent Windows OS Restore Point but you selected an older one somehow (with older N++ backup folder state) during your effort to revive your PC, you can try to extract newer N++ files by ShadowExplorer.

@Ekopalypse said in Notepad++ v8.8.4 Release Candidate:

Does that mean if you are using 8.8.2 you can’t use the plugin admin to install plugins without unlocking gup.exe first? Because I just checked again and I can.

Weird. I had assumed that if the MotW existed on gup.exe, it wouldn’t run. But no, with v8.8.2 portable, if gup.exe has MotW, Plugins Admin will still install plugins; but on v8.8.3 portable and v8.8.4-RC2 portable, if gup.exe has MotW, Plugins Admin will not install plugins

@PeterJones Thank you. As far as I can see, the function has not been removed. Before concluding this, I downloaded the versions one by one and checked the settings to see if it was still there. I was only able to find an option under “Default Directory.” My issue is now resolved. Thank you.