@guy038 said: Do you have an explanation ? This is exceedingly odd. Thank you for identifying and describing it clearly. I do not have an explanation, but I think it has to be a bug (and not just a quirk of regex). Here’s why. We can’t compare the same test in native Notepad++ search, because Mark doesn’t count or bookmark null matches. (The same with Count and Find All: in Notepad++ native search, they ignore null matches.) However, single-step Find does identify null matches in both engines. In Notepad++ native search using Find Next, your expression (?-s)^((?!test).)*\R|\z identifies eight matches. The last is at the end of the file and shows the ^ zero length match message. In Search++ Regex with Find, it only finds seven. What is even more peculiar is if you switch to the ICU engine and Mark the same expressions. In ICU as in Regex, \z alone does as you would expect, bookmarking the last line and showing the message “Found 1 match (0 marked, 1 null).” ICU also does the same as Regex with (?-s)^((?!test).)*\R, marking and bookmarking seven lines, exactly as you would expect. Adding the |\z to the end changes nothing in Regex, though you would expect to see “Found 8 matches (7 marked, 1 null)” and a bookmark on the last line. In ICU it not only doesn’t bookmark the last line, it finds and bookmarks nine matches, marking the LF, but not the CR or the rest of the line, on the lines containing test! As far as I can tell (I might not have tested every possible combination yet), both Regex and ICU are self-consistent in that they Find and Count and Find All the same things they mark/bookmark. Why adding |\z causes such strange behavior — in ICU even leading to new matches in the middle of the file — as yet I have no clue.

@Alan-Kilborn said: @deleelee 9 is single digit and 12/14/22 are each two digits. Thank you, that’s exactly what it was.

@PeterJones said: [IANAL, and I don’t know the legal term for a non-registered trademark] An unregistered trademark, sometimes informally called a common law trademark, is an enforceable mark created by a business or individual to signify or distinguish a product or service. –For future reference. The stronger case needs to be made as you mention to differentiate what could be called a trademark name versus a generically descriptive name. Such as the difference between Borax as a chemical and Borax as a trademarked product name. I am not a lawyer [IANAL], either, but I have done legal research from time to time, on these types of subjects as well, in the past.

Here are the latest binaries of SmartMath. This is a fully-working unofficial build that is going to be added to the official git repository… unless more improvements are suggested :) What’s new: the archive structure corresponds to the expectations of the Plugins Admin; the plugin searches for its documentation file near the SmartMath.dll, as well as in the “plugins\doc” folder; the plugin shows a warning when it does not find its syntax files in the expected locations under the “userDefineLangs” and “autoCompletion” folders of Notepad++. 64-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pTS_cBdU_Q0vkG03cubqWZ9TDdYiSsXW/view?usp=drive_link 32-bit version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qsI5Hsx4XmyRlhVeGsplAoTX391WEnOv/view?usp=drive_link

Feature request created: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/18429 Put the several possibilities given my lack of knowing how the backend works and the feedback I’d gotten on this thread of possible feasibilities. I do stuff on both a Work computer using IT’s selected version of Notepad++ as well as home use, so even if I could get AutoIt working on my personal computer, I probably can’t get it running on my Work computer (permissions) I’ll try to train myself to alt+d

@Paul-Adamczyk said: Still much to learn. Useful References: Notepad++ Online User Manual: Searching/Regex FAQ: Where to find other regular expressions (regex) documentation

@rdipardo , I got a statement of sorts in regard to this request, specifically, this comment: Using AI to create a PR for an open source project - is it a good thing or a bad thing? I have no judgement on that. For me, the only criterion that matters is whether the merged code will be maintainable in the future. On this point, I have to say that AI-generated PRs (I can usually tell during code review), often do not meet the critera in their current state - but many human devs don’t either.

@PeterJones Thank you now as for my other questions …

@PeterJones Oh!! Understood!! thank you!!!

XBrackets Lite v2.0.4 Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! improved: a manually typed closing bracket steps over an auto-completed one, even after typing text inside the pair. For example, typing ( automatically inserts ), producing (|), where | indicates the caret position. Typing abc places the characters inside the pair, resulting in (abc|). Typing the final ) then steps over the existing ), resulting in (abc)| instead of adding a duplicate closing bracket (abc)). changed: while searching for “XBrackets.txt”, the plugin first checks the “plugins\XBrackets” folder, and only then checks the “plugins\doc” folder. a few internal corrections. https://github.com/d0vgan/npp-XBracketsLite/releases/tag/XBrackets_v204

Thanks a lot @guy038 for running the whole thing again, this time it didn’t finish in seconds ;-) Nice to see the results panel still usable with almost 10 million hits, even the jump to line 690 in that DLL at the very end. Interesting that walking the whole drive for those 130 PDFs takes almost the entire run, 5m45 of 5m48 for MultiReplace, and it’s the same picture with the other tools. The 4 “not decodable” are most likely UTF-16 files with an odd number of bytes. N++ simply drops the last byte there, the next MultiReplace build will do the same in Find in Files (Replace leaves them alone, writing them back would lose that byte). Speed is next on my list.

@docpomus , I am sorry no one replied yet. Usually when that happens, it means that either gup.exe or nppPluginList.dll (in subdirectories of your Notepad++ installation folder) still have the “mark of the web”. To check (and clear) the “mark of the web”, exit Notepad++; right click on the exe or dll file; select Properties; in the General properties tab, if there is a message at the bottom with “unblock”, checkmark that checkbox, and click OK. Do that for either/both files. After that, the plugins should be able to update from Plugins Admin again.

@Adam-Narkiewicz , (sorry for the slow reply: when I first read your post, I was in the middle of something, and couldn’t go looking for the issues, so I hoped that someone else would reply with similar information. Since no one has, I am doing it now.) Honestly, I believe the bug is in step 5: it shouldn’t do that “check for underlying file existence” when you tell it to Close All (or when just closing one file, as in Issue #11866; or when you tell it to reload a file, as in Issue #18718). The developer tried (per this comment) to find a way around this, but hasn’t found a viable solution yet. After asking whether to keep a file in the editor, Notepad++ closes it no matter what my answer is. For me, since you already said “close all”, I don’t see a problem in Notepad++ closing it. I am not convinced it should’ve asked in the first place. Fortunately, if there are unsaved changes – so if you’ve edited the file, so there are unsaved changes to the file that doesn’t exist anymore – it will interrupt the process and ask you to save it, and when it fails, it stops the process (not the best solution, but better than losing data). So this oddity at least won’t let you lose unsaved changes accidentally when doing Close All for files that have disappeared. So that’s something. asks me whether to keep some deleted files open, but not all That does seem problematic, to me. I guess after doing the single check, it finally believes your request to Close All meant to Close All. In conclusion: Since Issue #11866 exists for the single file-close, I don’t think this needs a separate official issue. I’m glad it’s “not particularly annoying” to you, because it could be a long time (if ever) before a solution can be found.

I said: In case anyone else is interested, you can try previewing plain-text wireloom files with this development build of Preview HTML. This feature has now been merged, with additional support for offline Markdown previews that will render wireloom code blocks: [image: 1790348955006-wireloomx898.gif] All rendering is done by client-side JavaScript modules, so MS Edge is still required. @Keith-Collyer said: What would be really good would be if the developers of these re-merged their plugins! Don’t look now, but no fewer than three new Markdown plugins have appeared in the past two weeks — and they all depend on the WebView2 runtime (i.e. Edge).

@peterjones Installed Notepad++ v8.9.8.1, and this problem went away [image: 1790343129511-%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9.png] p.s. And I don’t need to unblock files received from the Internet, because after a clean install of any Windows, I will block this option through the registry.

@ChotaFallen , Under default Monokai, I cannot replicate: [image: 1790262087450-9491595a-6d67-4abf-8758-f5ed5da6beb3-image.jpeg] However, if I change the Default Style > Background for Monokai (to a green similar to your second screenshot), I can see it: [image: 1790262414327-b8f97a3a-d5b4-43cd-b0f3-a1c35e66c366-image.jpeg] It’s because Monokai (and most themes) hardcodes every background color for every style, rather than using “inherit”. Here’s an example using the default style: [image: 1790262562644-9ba07e02-fb1d-4d2f-a580-d6cb2d7d5924-image.jpeg] The theme color choices aren’t always perfect, and not everyone is going to agree with color choices made. As such, you can customize to what you want. If you want most of the backgrounds for your theme to inherit from the “default background” rather than being hardcoded, you can go through and right click the background color for any that are the default. (Or, as a footnote, I will also explain a process that you can edit the XML for your customized Monokai, to automatically change anything that has a background that matches the monokai default background to inherit from default background, so that you can do it in a lot less time.) What I need is a better highlighed line I am working in, its black on dark that has nothing to do with highlight. … If I try to change it via Style congiruator the line will be solid in the color I choode doesnt matter for fore or background. Which “highlight” do you mean? And I am not sure what you aren’t liking about it when you change it. Current line highlight: default Monokai: [image: 1790262875579-db922444-92f4-4df3-91f4-9865727004fd-image.jpeg] set it to something else: [image: 1790262905945-fca66fe1-82d2-47cd-92cb-8c1ca0e6bc54-image.jpeg] it does exactly what I expect: it changes the current line background color 0x3E3D32 to something based on the color I selected. Selected text colour: default: [image: 1790263082002-6cf5b4c1-7b2e-47bc-8b20-47ad2ea1884a-image.jpeg] modified: [image: 1790263104839-6318a4e3-6d6a-4583-b949-855a439f304c-image.jpeg] again, it does what I expect Smart Highlighting: default: [image: 1790263153651-1107e88c-b40c-4622-b0e9-d2676004c323-image.jpeg] changed to cyan: [image: 1790263182686-3ba38b0a-1f92-4d9d-ba94-b36ef4d0c6f3-image.jpeg] this one, it’s actually combing the selected color with the normal background color, so it’s not exactly the same color you chose; but again, that’s not unique to Monokai Find Mark Style: used when you use Find > Mark dialog [image: 1790263284015-0e9c9f44-f393-44ae-b29a-386e362939bd-image.jpeg] Mark Style #: used when you use Search > Style … Token options: [image: 1790263340517-131aa3df-93bd-4977-9bd9-3143c4a7fbcb-image.jpeg] There are a few other, less likely, choices that you might mean by highlight. But rather than showing that I think it does what’s expected, it would be better if you were more specific about what you were doing, and what you don’t like, and what you would like. Footnote: Make Monokai backgrounds inherit quickly I assume you have a copy of Monokai.xml in %AppData%\Notepad++\themes\ . Exit all copies of Notepad++ Copy Monokai.xml to Monokai_custom.xml Edit Monokai_custom.xml with Notepad++ Confirm that <WidgetStyle name="Default Style" has bgColor="272822" – if not, manually edit it to use that Search > Replace, set Search Mode = Regular Expression FIND = (?-s)bgColor="272822".*\KcolorStyle="(?:(2)|(3))" REPLACE = colorStyle="(?{1}0)(?{2}1)" REPLACE ALL FIND = (?-s)(bgColor="272822"(?:(?!colorStyle).))*\h*/> REPLACE = colorStyle="${1} colorStyle="1" /> REPLACE ALL On the “Default Style” line again, delete colorStyle="1" Save the file Exit Notepad++ and re-launch it Settings > Style Configurator > Select Theme = Monokai_custom Now if you change Monokai_custom’s default background color, it should propagate to all the other styles (both normal text and each language), so it really changes the background throughout.

@guy038 , I have also noticed that, recently, the username filter in the advanced search page doesn’t populate usernames. I had thought it might have just been me. I know that @barisusakli from NodeBB occasionally logs in, and they recently updated the forum software for us… maybe that version had a bug, because the admin panel says there’s another version available since they last updated us. Until then, once you make your search, you can edit the URL to set &by=PeterJones to search for my posts (right now, the URL probably has &by= with no value). It’s not as convenient as the drop-down, but it is a workaround.

@Bondige-Ramesh , I am sorry you are having difficulty. Assuming you mean “Notepad++”, not “Notepad” (they are two different applications – Notepad++ is what’s discussed in this forum; Microsoft’s notepad.exe is a separate product, and is not the focus of this forum) please share your ?-menu’s Debug Info, so we know what version of Notepad++ you are using, and get some useful information to help us replicate and diagnose your problem please be more specific than saying “suddenly loaded as empty” over and over. If it’s just a matter of you had a file, then accidentally deleted its contents, there is not much we can do to help you: we have a FAQ about backups, which gives a couple places to look, depending on what your Notepad++ backup settings are. But the chances are, now that the file loads empty, you have likely lost your data.