@chtaylo3 , You only need to post in the “Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList” topic if there’s a feature or bug with the Plugins Admin and the list DLL itself. If there are issues with your PR to add it to NppPluginList, those will be discussed in the PR itself – and it looks like yours has been accepted already. If you want to just announce your new plugin, you can just create a new Topic in the Plugin Category to tell us about it. Hence, I am moving your post to its own Topic. And congrats on creating a lexer plugin!

@guy038 This method can be used to skip a string and replace part of a shorter, similar string, even when it precedes the long string. So, if the input text is:- abc abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz We can get an output like this:- ABC abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz By using this in the Find and Replace fields respectively with the “matches newline” box unticked (unchecked): FIND (?-s)abc.*xyz(*SKIP)(*F)|abc REPLACE \U$0 I am posting this here for the benefit of people who land on this page after searching online for something similar Explanation: Using $0 in the replace field is for replacing everything that is found while searching, which in this case is abc but due to the \U preceding it, it is replaced with capitals, ABC.

@CodeBiene said: MenuIcons (2.0.7) This is most likely not a N++ issue but that plugin one: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16798 https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16867 @CodeBiene said: files are prefixed with a star “*” This is not a N++ feature but that plugin one. Seems it causes more problems than benefits: https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/issues/71#issuecomment-4321741836

@Scott-Nielson @guy038 has given a good explanation of the (*SKIP)(*FAIL) method at https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26812/generic-regex-how-to-use-the-couple-of-backtracking-control-verbs-skip-fail-or-skip-f-in-regexes/5 - in fact I recommend everyone who lands on this page after searching online, to read that explanation and understand it!

@Sylvester-Bullitt said: Any idea when the next release will be out My guess: sometime in the next few weeks to a month or so – most of the time, that’s the cadence of the release schedule. But it all depends on when the developer thinks enough things have been added/fixed to warrant a new release. If it annoys you a lot, you can manually download and run the installer for an older version, and use that version which behaves as you want while wait to upgrade again until after you see the next version announced

@PeterJones said: What do you mean by “Can’t see anything”. Maybe: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15702

@Kendall-DeMott , The installer shouldn’t lose your settings – it tries hard to not overwrite – but not impossible. But after it’s installed, it shouldn’t lose all the settings. One guess is that the config.xml file doesn’t actually have normal write permissions, so when you make all the changes inside Notepad++, it tries to save the settings, but cannot – I would have thought it would prompt you for that, but maybe not. Use Explorer to go to %AppData%\Notepad++\, and right click on config.xml, and check the permissions, to make sure your normal user has write permission to the file; and also make sure you aren’t running Notepad++ As Admin – it would have Administrator in the title bar, and list it as Admin Mode: ON in the ? > Debug Info – because maybe your system is set up so Admin cannot write to your AppData directory. Another guess is that you have two copies of Notepad++, and when your settings are changing, it is because it’s using a different copy of Notepad++, pointing to a different config location. Use Windows search to look for notepad++.exe, and see if it finds more than one copy. (If you have multiple drives, make sure you check them all.) I thought or was told that the the app’s preferences etc. loaded from the Session file? Nope. Settings are stored in config.xml. The list of open files is stored in session.xml I can’t remember where you can change the setting or edit a line so more items are remembered in the Find What window, can you please tell me how to set it to (12) It’s a Preference for Advanced Users, which can only be changed by editing nbMaxFindHistoryFind and similar attributes, as described in the User Manual. When manually editing config.xml, you have to follow the steps in the Editing Config Files section, reading about the differences in how you have to treat config.xml because of its unique status in Notepad++'s inner workings.

@mpheath Thanks for this suggestion. It seems to be the simplest solution. A bit of an overkill since it would only be needed for my Python stuff, yet I like keyboard shortcuts, growing up on DOS and all. Thank You! I really appreciate the help. :)

@perdrix52 , It works for me: [image: 1781706853432-2df53d4e-a553-473e-8d32-147c22eb6d7c-image.jpeg] [image: 1781706887521-43e468c4-e3db-4f30-819a-76dfd8e22e8f-image.jpeg] Sounds like a font issue and/or rendering-mode issue to me. What are your settings on Settings > Preferences > Searching (especially Use Monospaced font in Find dialog) and Settings > Preferences > MISC > rendering mode dropdown? And what encoding is your file that contains Japanese text?

Hello, @decrepit-old-geekoid, @peterjones and All, It just so happens that I still have the docMonitor.2.2.zip archive on my old Win XP computer. So, on the last XP version of N++ ( v7.9.2 ), within a plugin directory named docMonitor, I installed the docMonitor.unicode.dll that I renamed docMonitor.dll Notepad++ opened normally and the plugin was here with the single option Plugins > Document Monitor > Start to monitor. Before activating this plugin, I ran, in a CMD command prompt window, the command : notepad++ -nosession Test.txt Then, the DOS command : echo ABCDE >> test.txt I verified that I got, within N++, the usual dialog : This file has been modified by an other program. Do you want to reload it? Clicking on the Yes button, it added, as expected, the line ABCDE to the empty Test.txt file => OK As soon as I choosed the option Plugins > Document Monitor > Start to monitor, any subsequent echo command uodated silently the Test.txt file, as well => OK Then I ran the option Plugins > Document Monitor > Stop monitoring. I thought that it would again show the dialog to reload the file, but subsequent echo commands still updated silently the file !? I said to myself : May be it’s worth to stop/start the computer again. However, the problem remained identical, afterwards ?? Then, I desintalled the DocMonitor plugin completely, including the docMonitor.ini file under config and restarted my Win XP computer. But, again, any echo command still updated the Test.txt file silently !!?? At that point, I didn’t understand at all ! Thus, I decided to pull out the stops and reinstall a clean version of a portable N++ v.7.9.2 in a separate directory ! By default, this new version correctly showed the dialog This file has been modified by an other program. after a command : echo bla bla blah >> test.txt Then, I had the idea to compare all the N++ preferences between my normal intallation and this new version and…, surprise : there were some differences in the MISC. preferences : The file status Auto-detection section shows the Enable for all opened files option and the Update silently and Scroll to the last line after update options were checked, in my normal intallation The file status Auto-detection section shows the Enable option and the Update silently and Scroll to the last line after update versions were unchecked, in the new N++ version So, in the new version, I re-installed the Doc Monitor plugin and even after running the Plugins > Document Monitor > Start to monitor option, the MISC. preferences for file status were still the default ones ! Howewer, if you close and re-start N++ immediately, you see, this time, the Enable for all opened files option and the two box options checked, in the MISC. preferences ! So, apparently, at least , with this 2.2.0.0 version, Don simply activates, with his plugin, these specific N++ options which updates silently any opened file ! Best Regards, guy038

A GitHub user Poualedesmon just uploaded FANUC_KAREL_UDL to the collection. I don’t know if that was @darren-hoyland or someone else, but it’s now publicly available for download from the Collection, per the same instructions in the README as linked earlier.

NppExec v0.8.12.1 has been released! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! improved: now WarningAnalyzer automatically removes “” around a file path/name fixed: the Console Output Filters dialog did not clear WarningAnalyzer’s cache improved: now Highlight’s [I], [B], [U] have Italic, Bold and Underline style Get it here: https://github.com/d0vgan/nppexec/releases/tag/NppExec_v08121

@xomx thanks a bunch

@Michael-Vincent Thanks for the feedback ;) fixed with : https://github.com/gcyrillus/nppGitClone/releases/tag/V1.0.1

@Travis-Young , I cannot replicate your problem: [image: 1781542289284-yamlpaste.gif] When I paste that in, the YAML formats the comments correctly, as far as I can tell. Could you either give the original data, and where you paste it? And your ?-menu’s Debug Info?

@Emmanuel-PIERRE said: Hello today I see that in 8.9.6.4 on win11 the Ctrl is not working, though in all others app this is fine. I have very few plugins in it (mime tools, npp converter, npp exports) so I guess this is not where it comes from. Shortcuts are fine. any idea ? If you mean that the Ctrl key with a letter that isn’t a shortcut isn’t inserting the traditional control character, see Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Prevent control character (C0 code) from typing into document and be sure it is not checked. If you mean that Ctrl+drag on a selection is not working as it does in most Windows programs, that is a known peculiarity which can be resolved in either of two ways: Press the mouse button down first, then the Ctrl key. or Uncheck Settings | Preferences… | Editing 2 | Enable Multi-Editing (Ctrl+Mouse click/selection). If neither of those is your problem, you’ll have to be more specific.

@PeterJones said: Columns++ plugin (though I don’t remember it having the header or full-column highlight, or just a gazillion other features which make column manipulation easier; the author @Coises can chime in at this point). There’s nothing in Columns++ for coloring text. The plugin is helpful if you want to do operations on data in visible columns (like right-justify the entries in a column, add the numbers in a column together, search/replace restricted to a column, do calculations to create a new column, sort on a column in situations that don’t work with Notepad++’s built-in sort) and/or to use elastic tab stops to make maintaining visible columns easier. It doesn’t do any coloring, though. Help is here if anyone wants to examine it to judge whether they might want to install Columns++.

@Konsolate said: Everything is lost. Also, while we confirmed with @zack-mosbrucker that the backup folder was empty, you never confirmed that. Are you sure that folder was empty, or did your session file just get reset? (If you don’t know where yours is, it’s probably in %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\ – if it’s not there, share your ? > Debug Info and we can help you find it.) Notepad++ backs up the session file into session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak, so if you still have files in the backup\ folder, then you can recover the old session if you exit Notpead++, rename session.xml.inCaseOfCorruption.bak to session.xml, and restart Notepad++, and it will go back to the previous version of the session file. And if it still doesn’t open all the files from your backup folder, you can just manually open those files from Notepad++, and then save them to a reasonable known location on your computer, so that you won’t lose them again in the future.