• Notepad++ v8.8.3 Release Candidate

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    Xuân-Thơ HOÀNGX

    I have no issue with v8.8.2

    But with v8.8.3 (all RC), installed the cert. (checked in Local Machine & Current User), i have the issue (newly program detected) by Trend Apex One (my company).

    Thanks for your support, Notepad++ is my favorite editor. I’m currenty using portable edition.

  • POLL / Discussion: taking over a plugin

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    @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.

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    @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

  • How to create a C# plugin?

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    @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.

    81a75ca8-8b44-4ca7-90cf-a0e31b288f38-{D5638942-D3BC-41B4-83BB-90B7C809D881}.png

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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.

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    @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

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    @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)

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

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    CoisesC

    It’s open source. Look here:

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

  • Security of Legacy Notepad++ Versions (CVE-2025-49144)

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    @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…

  • [New Plugin] CSV Lint

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    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.

  • Fighting Malicious Ads on Download Pages

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    @Coises

    I have no reason to think that it doesn’t block what you enter. What I meant was that it’s not accomplishing much, since it seems like no matter how many bad ads you block, there are always more to take their place. It seems like this is making a lot of work for you, but the whole nature of the advertising system is just undermining your efforts. (No complaint or criticism towards you, just disgust for the whole ad-supported nightmare that is the modern web.)

    I do what I can do.

    Though a lot of them are missleading, not all of ad destinations are “malicious” - here’s an example:

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    The link of “Download the White Paper” is:

    https://more.suse.com/Security_controls_for_the_OWASP_Kubernetes_Top_10.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=5_0004280_OA_Google_NeuVector_OWASP_Whitepaper_mp_2024737_en&utm_term=NeuVector_Prime&qgad=749273370457&gad_source=5&gad_campaignid=22495509070&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq7mXqOCgjgMV3Yd_BB0V5DQqEAEYASAAEgJecfD_BwE

    which leads to https://more.suse.com/ - a section of suse.com website.
    It’s not the first time I’ve seen this - I have also blocked Microsoft & Google chrome.

    I don’t think these prestigious companies are aware that they are running the misleading ads. The real issue, I suspect, is that the marketing departments within these companies work with ad agences that view the traffic as an efficient way to boost superficial performance metrics and revenues.

    OTOH, back to 2013, in Oracle Java download from their website, it contained even the crapeware:
    https://www.facebook.com/Notepad.plus.plus/photos/pb.100057220819766.-2207520000/569194946466175/?type=3
    And Adobe did the same thing:
    https://www.facebook.com/Notepad.plus.plus/photos/pb.100057220819766.-2207520000/948957855156547/?type=3

    The both cases above, it’s really too huge that I don’t see how they can be innoncent.

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    @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.

  • Notepad++ v8.8.2 Release

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    Microsoft’s Windows Defender was not allowing the npp.8.8.2.portable.7z file on my machine claiming:
    Detected: Trojan:Win32/Suschil!rfn

    One puzzle is is that if I expand npp.8.8.2.portable.7z into a folder that a full scan of that folder reports “0 threat(s) found.”

    Windows Defender was using 1.431.348.0 created/updated on 07/02/2025 6:13 AM. I checked for updates and got 1.431.355.0 created/updated on 07/02/2025 11:10 AM. I re-ran the scanner and it reports no threats found.

    I assume this is not related to the code signing issue as I assume Windows Defender would still detect viruses in and and quarantine signed files.

    I’m guessing it was a false positive from Windows Defender’s 1.431.348.0 package that Microsoft has since fixed.

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    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

  • KNOWN ISSUE: 8.8.2 doesn't appear to be digitally signed

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    It’s even worse that you now need a USB stick / HSM for code signing certificates which makes it even more complicated and expensive.

  • Sometimes when one door closes in life, another one opens

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  • Notepad++ replacing '!='

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    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