@Coises said in POLL / Discussion: taking over a plugin:

Just my personal opinion, but as I wrote in my other comment, I feel we should default to requiring new names; the “burden of proof” is on the new plugin and its author that it really is an appropriate replacement if they want to use the old name.

A new plugin name is not ideal if you’re aiming for wide distribution, such as when the new version addresses a breaking change upstream. The Plugins Admin dialog will only suggest an update if the names are the same between the old and newer versions.

The unfortunate case of Elastic Tabstops is probably too rare to inform a guiding principle. I had early doubts about the new version, but only something like formal acceptance criteria would have found the defects before unsuspecting users did. In one respect, transferring the name with ownership made finding the defects more likely.

@dr-ramaanand said in What makes notepad++ capable of making an html ???:

@rdipardo Please let us know how to use that.

Be more specific.

All of the above-mentioned plugins have documentation in the usual places (like a README file). In addition, HTML Tag has a wiki with illustrations; WebEdit has its own website.

I would also forget about jn-npp-emmet: the jN plugin already includes Emmet-like features, no extensions necessary. Just install jN, type an abbreviation using Emmet syntax, then press Ctrl+E (or your custom key mapping for the Zen Coding > Expand Abbreviation command):

jn.emmet.expansion.demo.gif

@PeterJones

I haven’t checked the Scintilla source code, but I’d be surprised if the code didn’t just ignore the alpha value.
A quick test seems to confirm this.

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@john-murphy ,

I had delayed responding, because I’m not sure I understand exactly what’s going on for you. I was hoping someone else understood your post better, so they could provide help. But since it’s been a few days with no response, I will chime in saying, “I am confused”.

I try to load a file I use often and it opens a workspace

How do you load the file? Windows Explore double-click? Windows Explorer right-click and picking Edit with Notepad++? Notepad++'s File Open or toolbar equivalent? Double clicking on the filename in the View > Folder as Workspace’s panel? Double clicking on the filename in the View > Project Panels > Project Panel N? Something else I haven’t thought of?

I cannot think of any way to get any of those actions to launch the project/workspace panel or folder-as-workspace panel. (Those last two had to manually open the panel first, before double clicking, and double clicking would still open the file.)

About the only thing I can think that would change Notepad++ to automatically open a “workspace” instead of a file would be if you had set Settings > Preferences > MISC’s Workspace file ext: to an extension that happened to match your file’s extension (in this case, I think you want Portguese general.txt, and it would really surprise me if you’d set that extension setting to txt); but if you did that, and the content of your file was the right XML to match a workspace definition, then Notepad++ would open that workspace instead of opening a file. But that doesn’t quite sound like your symptoms, and it would be really confusing to me.

I think you need to explain more step-by-step what you are doing – maybe even with screenshots at various points along the way, so we know exactly how you got to where you are.

@Coises said in Cannot change Encoding to correct encoding of UTF-8:

Open Settings | Preferences… | MISC. and look for Autodetect character encoding.

Thank you for your suggestion, this liitle “trick” with unchecking Autodetect fixed the issue for me

@Lycan-Thrope said in Config Files Need Updating, Too:

became enabled only after selecting and double clicking the error

I should probably add a single-click handler to enable that button, too. (Without any selection, it wouldn’t know where in the file to go to, so I will probably leave it disabled with no selection)

Thanks Peter. I was starting to wonder if I was running NP in an odd way that was preventing it from working correctly. 😊

It’s open source. Look here:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppShell

@Bhaalthazar said in Security of Legacy Notepad++ Versions (CVE-2025-49144):

patching older vulnerable versions

It could be fun, now without the public CA cert available…

I had sent a comment before this one which is not yet visible to me.

Just wanted to let you know it seems solved. Other plugins struggled as well so I completely uninstalled npp and started from scratch. Now it works for me as a normal user.

@Kunal-Mehta

Everything is possible if someone with enough time and desire can tackle this.
Unfortunately I personally don’t have the necessary time to realize this, the little free time I have at the moment is not even enough to maintain my own plugins with the necessary love and care.

Many thanks to @PeterJones and @Coises, for the answers, perspective, and (in Peter’s case) updating the User Manual.

You are right, it was Cascadia Code; changing it to Consolas, for example, got rid of it. My “exhaustive” font testing was… only Cascadia Code and Fira Code, so I literally hit both of the two. I’ve been mostly using Hack font for such a long time, I just haven’t really noticed any of this ligature-supporting fonts. I just got a new PC and hadn’t installed Hack yet.

I like finding out where I was ignorant and wrong. It makes me less so.

Cheers and thanks again!
–BrBill

To future readers: I have updated the User Manual’s description of the DirectWrite settings to show:

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This should hopefully help guide people in how to use or disable this feature of their chosen fonts