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.

@Fred-Morant said in using User Defined Language : v.2.1.0.12:

Let’s create “alphatest” as a name for a new user defined language , close notepad++, new bloc appears in userDefineLang.xml for that “alphatest” , remove it from userDefineLang.xml manually , repopen Notepad++ : you can’t use that name “alphatest” again,

I cannot replicate. No matter how I try (ie, no matter how I interpret “remove it manually”):

First try: Start Notepad++ with no userDefineLang.xml existing Language > User Defined Language > Define your language… Create new…: alphatest Set ext: at and close the UDL dialog Exit Notepad++ userDefineLang.xml exists Edit userDefineLang.xml in Notepad++, delete the whole alphatest section, save, exit Notepad++ Run Notepad++: alphatest no longer exists. Create new…: alphatest works without difficulty Second try: Start Notepad++ with no userDefineLang.xml existing Language > User Defined Language > Define your language… Create new…: alphatest Set ext: at and close the UDL dialog Exit Notepad++ userDefineLang.xml exists Run Notepad++, go into UDL dialog, and select alphatest Remove, and answer Yes when it asks if you’re sure. It’s gone. Create new…: alphatest works again immediately. Remove, and answer Yes when it asks if you’re sure. It’s gone again. Exit Notepad++ and restart. Create new…: alphatest works again here, too. I don’t know what else you could mean by “manually delete”

It works just fine. Again, this is not with v8.9.2. I tried those tests with v8.9.3-RC, and again with the older v8.9.1. It works exactly 100% as expected, and it never prevented me from creating alphatest after I’d deleted it in any way I could think of.

@Võ-Văn-Hiếu ,

Settings > Preferences > Searching > Minimum Size for Auto-Checking “in selection”:

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It defaults to 1024, meaning you need to select at least 1024 characters in order to get it to checkmark the “in selection” box with the default setting. If you changed it to a lower number (like “1”), that would explain why it always auto-checks that box.

And if you really want never, instead of >=1024, then set that to 0, as it says when you hover your mouse cursor over the (?) and in the user manual’s section on the “Searching” preferences.

@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!

Thank you @PeterJones, this is a perfect solution.

@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.

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

The text is from a Perl script I wrote long ago. Notepad++ identifies the file as “ANSI” and it appears to be encoded as Windows-1254, although Notepad++ doesn’t identify it as such.

When Notepad++ opens a file as ANSI, it is using the default code page for your system. Is the default code page for your system Windows-1254? (One way to tell would be to copy the Debug Info… from the ? menu. Among other useful diagnostic information, it lists the Current ANSI codepage.)

If your code page is not 1254, then try opening the file in Notepad++ and immediately — before you do anything else! — select Encoding | Character sets | Turkish | Windows-1254. That will cause Notepad++ to reload the file and interpret it using the specified code page.

I’m not convinced that is the problem, though. In the screen shot you included, the quotes look like straight quotes, not typographic quotes. You’ve highlighted the quote mark, but that appears to be just your selection, not the result of a search; I think the search you show in that screen shot will not (and should not) match.

So I think it’s more likely that the problem lies in whatever led you to think that there is a non-ASCII end quote in the file. You say you didn’t expect a curly quote and it looks like you don’t have one. What sort of file search did you do that led you to think there was one?

thank you

@Vitalii-Dovgan said in NppExec Manual: CHM vs. HTML version [poll]:

Somebody, stop me! It has been 2 weeks I’ve been updating and improving the HTML form of the Manual!

Sorry, it is not possible for me to stop someone from improving documentation. ;-)

I’ve been footling around with my plugin a bit to try and generate a PR automatically when a new version is released. So - is the layout of the json files significant.

Most of the entries look like

\t\t\t{ \t\t\t"folder-name": "Linter++", \t\t\t"display-name": "Linter++", \t\t\t"version": "1.0.3.0", \t\t\t"npp-compatible-versions": "[8.7.5,]", \t\t\t"id": "F56573351010B62BFC75039725496C8687D53E82A3F47074F1F1B629A37A92C1", \t\t\t"repository": "https://github.com/ThosRTanner/notepad-pp-linter/releases/download/1.0.3/plugin_dll_ARM64.zip", \t\t\t"description": "Allows realtime code check against any checkstyle-compatible linter: jshint, eslint, jscs, phpcs, csslint, and many others.", \t\t\t"author": "Tom Tanner", \t\t\t"homepage": "https://github.com/thosrtanner/notepad-pp-linter" \t\t\t},

So I thought i could do my updater in python, just load up the json file, modify my entry, and dump it back, then commit

One entry (just one) uses spaces instead of tabs.

So my question is is there an official layout for these files? Is any valid json permissible (all on one line for instance), or is it expected to be formatted as 1 line per key and indented with tabs?

Would converting those spaces to tabs as part of my PR be frowned upon, or should I just read the file and modify the lines appropriately?

@PeterJones said in Is There a Way to Prevent Pasted Text from Spreading Out with Rows of Spaces?:

Or, since you said,

there aren’t any unused ones available under Plugins > Customize Toolbar

- I assume this is the one where you say, "there aren't any unused ones available". I cannot imagine that you've _actually_ enabled another couple-dozen buttons from its list, so that there are no other "available toolbar buttons", as that toolbar would be so full as to be unusable. On the other hand, that's the only thing I imagine that you _could_ mean by such a sentence.

Yes, all of the Old Large Legacy Icons are in the Current toolbar buttons box. After checking them, I decided that I might use all of them in the future.

Well, with all of that said, thanks for being patient and hanging in there through all of this. I have everything working, including adding a new icon to the toolbar. And thanks for the updated scripts.

I hope this thread serves many others.

@Deepa-Asthana
Before anyone can offer some ideas you will need to expand your description of the problem.

Like how many tabs open. How big are some of the files/tabs. What are your backup settings. It seems that your problem has existed before the latest update, correct? Provide the details of your installation using the ? menu option, copy and paste here. There is a FAQ post to help you. Sorry writing on phone so can’t easily provide the link.

Terry

@rdipardo ,
Thanks for pointing out the Native AOT template — I wasn’t aware of it when I started the ARM64 migration.

I did actually try Native AOT early on, but ran into two issues: the export limitations you mentioned, and the resulting DLL size (~57 MB), which felt way too large for a Notepad++ plugin. That’s why I ended up going with DNNE — the plugin DLL stays small (~1 MB), though it comes with the .NET 8 runtime dependency.

How large are the DLLs you’re getting with the Native AOT template? Has trimming improved enough to bring the size down to something reasonable for a plugin?

@Carlos-Sánchez said in [New plugin] Smart Math:

I’m a bit lazy and haven’t got a clue

I can’t solve the first part, but for the clue:

it’s just a PR to the nppPluginList project. Since you’re working in GitHub already, I assume you know how to do the PR fork the nppPluginList repo, create your own branch in that branch, edit pl.x64.json to link to the 64-bit version, and pl.x86.json to link to the 32-bit version the id required in the JSON is just the SHA256 hash, which GitHub provides for you:
fd4a838f-9724-477d-b755-24836141dc88-image.png once you have edited both files in your branch, submit the PR from that branch

@Murray-Sobol-1 said in Idea of a new installation routine:

@PeterJones said in Idea of a new installation routine:

No one should ever download a 32bit installer for modern OS. For any app. (Modern OS don’t come in 32-bit versions anymore, so I don’t understand why apps still bother distributing the 32-bit versions)

I agree with the above statement, however when I ask for an update by clicking Downloads I see this section:
Download 32-bit x86
Installer | GPG Signature
Portable (zip) | GPG Signature
Portable (7z) | GPG Signature
Mini-portable (7z) | GPG Signature

Why is this even being distributed anymore??

Because my statement was just my opinion, and not everyone agrees with it. Because there are some people who mistakenly think they need a 32-bit even though they have a 64-bit OS. And there are some people who have some unmaintained plugin that only comes in 32-bit (*). And because the developer has never decided to cut off those poor, unfortunate souls.

(*: aside: anytime I come across someone like that, I do a bit of research to help them find an alternative, or find someone who has done an unofficial recompile of the plugin for 64-bit. there are very few public plugins that have no 64-bit version and no alternative)

But that’s why we lobbied to put the 32-bit below the 64-bit, so the 64-bit gets the prominence it deserves – and why I rejoiced when it happened. Someone downloading N++ for the first time will see the 64-bit first, and will likely download that. Someone updating N++ should use the menu or auto-update, and never have to go back to the website.