• Notepad++ v8.8.9: Vulnerability-fix

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    donhoD

    @PeterJones said in Notepad++ v8.8.9: Vulnerability-fix:

    if the active theme has a dark background by default I could look up the Default Style’s foreground and background for that theme, and assign those as the foreground and background colors for all new style entries (so that all the new styles will be completely unnoticed by the user, and they won’t ever notice that the feature brought in the new styles).

    I think it’s “the way to go”.

    So the first makes it jarring, but noticeable; the second won’t be as jarring, but people might not know that they’ve got a lot of new style colors that they could set to their liking to get better highlighting in many languages (and a few new GUI colors).

    The reason of “the way to go” is, if users don’t need to change anything, just let these features sleep.
    As I said, a good tool is a tool transparent: user opens it, get jobs done, then closes it, without noticing or being bothered by anything unsual.

    I could change it to the second: it’s a bit more effort, but it’s doable.

    Thank you. Then it’ll be in the next release.

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    LoisL

    @Terry-R This has worked perfectly. Its a very long document so this was great. Thanks again, greatly appreciated.

  • All the off-topic go here

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    Hi there - since every computer i ever used has notepad++ installed as first tool, i would love to donate for this release but wondered if the Name of the paypal account is correct?
    It differs from your name and email adress used in the Author Information on the Website.
    Is C***-W* H** correct?

  • Paste Special - Paste RTF Content not working

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  • Jumping between matching brackets is not idempotent

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    fml2F

    OK, if it’s the intended behaviour then I’ll just live with it. It’s not a very big deal.

    Thank you all who answered!

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    VTGroupGitHubV

    Thank you for all of the information. While it might be fun to dig into the Windows APIs again, I was hoping for something simple I could run with NppExec, etc. without a lot of coding. Since it’s not a lot of extra work to move the splitter manually, I’ll live with that for now. And maybe the MarkdownPanel team will find my request worth implementing, though it’s possible it can’t be done since one side is a NPP tab and the other is a panel.

  • Notepad++ 8.8.8 release

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    @Andrea-Gaviraghi

    Yes we are seeing this in our Enterprise install testing of the MSI. We had to build a script to uninstall the executable and then install the MSI. And package the scrip & MSI in an Intune package. Seems to have solved the problem.

  • Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years

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    @Eric-Wiseman said in Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years:

    Line Operations -> Sort lines works ONLY if you convert Edit -> EOL Conversion ->Unix.

    Unless I am missing something this looks like a bug…

    As others have already explained, this is not a bug but rather a known and documented limitation, that all line endings must be the same.

    If Sort Lines In Locale Order Ascending and Descending do what you want, those sorts implemented differently and are not dependent on consistent line endings. The ending for each line will remain with the text of the line it follows.

    The Locale sorts can also sort using a rectangular selection for the keys even if there are tabs or characters of differing byte widths (such as can happen with non-ASCII characters in UTF-8) to the left of the selection, which does not work with the other sorts.

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    @rdipardo

    This still worked for me a year later, thanks!

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    LoisL

    @PeterJones this worked perfectly! Thank you very much

  • Networking problem

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    @Dan-Walter-0 said in Networking problem:

    Before I open a ticket with my helpdesk, I want to know if there is anything I am missing on the application configuruation level.

    From your N++ DebugInfo, I think not.

    But could you 1st follow the instructions in my linked issue and paste here the nppLogNetworkDriveIssue.log obtained?

  • Notepad++ 8.8.9 release candidate

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    @PeterJones
    Thanks, Peter, for the detailed instructions.
    Now, Notepad++ V8.8.9 launches, as expected.

    Murray

  • The update deletes the macro file.

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    @Pierrick-ram

    I think you will need to provide more information. Such as copying the “Debug Info” from your Notepad++ installation and pasting it here. It’s under the ? menu.

    Terry

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    @Dawn-Brockman-0 You should be able to do this with a few find and replace.

    You make copies in a new folders as you said you do, let’s say “D:\MoviesFolder” You can use “Find in Files” with Regex to remove all the rows that are not year/genre/stars. make sure the “Directory” is the correct directory so you don’t break files from other places, don’t know if there is undo for this operation. I never tried to run it on mkv/mp4, but I assume you already have files that look like the xml you provided and we use them.
    b09b9845-a2f2-49b6-a1f5-ac76a1b6d425-image.png If you want to remove the tags, you can run another find&replace with:
    Find: .<(year|genre|stars)>(.?)</\1>.*\R?
    Replace: \2\n
    You will now have only number and names so you will have to deduce yourself what is a year, what is a genre, and what is a star, but as long as Ryan Reynolds is not a genre yet you should be fine.
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    @Alan-Kilborn
    Yes, you are right. Thanks for the transparency tip.

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    @Coises I like your idea (as I also wrote in the issue). Besides other merits, it eliminates a behaviour that has been bothering me for a long time: if you work with a real file, then switch to a tab that is not a file, then to another not-a-file-tab and remain on these for some time, you completely lose the context of the real file in your mind. Yet when you press Ctrl+O (or Ctrl+S) you find yourself in a location that you have long abandoned mentally.

  • v8.8.9 and ConfigUpdater plugin

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    @donho said in v8.8.9 and ConfigUpdater plugin:

    @PeterJones

    It’s already fixed in the GitHub, but I didn’t make the plugin list cutoff deadline.

    Are you talking about it?
    https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList/pull/999

    It’s in the current PluginList in RC normally.

    I ran:

    Plugins > ConfigUpdater > Reset Validators Plugins > ConfigUpdater > Update Config Files

    The open tab with ConfigUpdater.log no longer shows any errors

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    @KingRustamus

    I’ve encountered such stuff before and it was caused by the Windows ransomware protection “Controlled folder access” in action. (build in Notepad.exe works in such a case because all the Microsoft own signed binaries have a build-in exception).

    So check (try to set temporary off or add a new Notepad++.exe exception there) the Windows Settings > Privacy & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection > Ransomware protection > Controlled folder access.

    If it doesn’t help, I can prepare a testing build of the notepad++.exe binary showing us exact system error code (and it’s not the ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED for sure, otherwise in the v8.8.6+ you saw the UAC-elevation prompt 1st) leading to this SaveFailed N++ messagebox.

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    @Sinsearach ,

    Just updated after quite a long while,

    So that means it wasn’t just v8.8.8 that you had the problem with. Please only use the “Notepad++ x.y.z release” announcement topics for changes between immediately-previous version and this version. For example, that v8.8.8 topic should only mention regressions that changed behavior between v8.8.7 and v8.8.8. Any other problems you find when you jump from v8.1.5 (for example) to v8.8.8 should go in “help wanted” (where I put this duplicate discussion), and if can be confirmed as a bug in Notepad++, we will direct you on where to put in the official bug report. But it’s not an immediate regression with v8.8.8, so doesn’t belong in that discussion.

    TextFX (NppTextFX2) plugin

    mumble mumble… I wish the person who had done the conversion to make it compatible with N++ v8+ had renamed the menu and About box, not just the underlying DLL. (Not your fault, I know… but if someone accidentally just calls it TextFX, we are led to believe it’s the out-of-date incompatible plugin. So thanks for at least putting the real name in parentheses.)

    plugin will not work (appear at all), whether installed manually or through plugin admin,

    Weird. I just took portable v8.8.8 on my Windows 11 machine, and used Plugins Admin to install NppTextFX2 1.4.1, and it installed just fine. When N++ restarted, the TextFX menu was there, and I tried a couple random commands, and they did what was expected.

    I would be very much surprised if this were a Windows 10-vs-11 thing, because NppTextFX2 hasn’t changed recently, and N++ itself is tested on both Win10 and Win11…

    Yes I ran as admin.

    when did you run as admin? when you installed the plugin? or when you tried to run the plugin? or both? Because if you’ve got a portable Notepad++, it should be in a directory where you have full write access… and you shouldn’t need to Run as Admin (in fact, since v8.8.6, you probably shouldn’t need to Run As Admin for just about anything; it will individually ask for permission when writing files in protected directories). But if you installed it as Admin, maybe it broke the permissions of your portable directory

    In your portable 64-bit (you shouldn’t need to use 32-bit in modern OS): please do the following:

    go to ?-menu, and share your Debug Info with us show us a recursive directory listing of your portable Plugins directory, so that we can see that the directory hierarchy is correct (dir /S from a cmd.exe prompt, or powershell equivalent)
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    @Arp-Rip said in How to copy and paste large line ?:

    I want to copy and paste from line 234566 to 6573242.

    Due to it is pretty large line, I can not push the mouse left key and pull.

    What kind of effective method that I can do this ?

    Ctrl+G then 234566 to go to first line, and place the caret wherever you want to start on that line Edit > Begin/End Select (or keyboard shortcut equivalent) Ctrl+G then 6573242 to go to final line, and place the caret wherever you want to end the selection on that line Edit > Begin/End Select (or keyboard shortcut equivalent) Everything between the Begin and End will be selected