@TG-King said in Blue icons:

but the icons were blue, and I think they were round.

Sounds like you used a set of custom icons, as per the User Manual > Config Files > Toolbar Icon Customization

That section has a link to a zip file with various icon sets, so maybe you used one of those; or maybe you found icons elsewhere, but we cannot tell you where you found them.

@Mark-Olson said in Markdown & Lint:

VSCode has a Markdown language server that I quite like; maybe you could use that.

I am afraid this is not possible because this extension uses node-ipc as a communication channel.

node-ipc: use node IPC communication between the client and the server. This is only supported if both client and server run under node.

If other LSP servers that use stdio or socket, i.e. tcp, are available, this would of course be an alternative.

@Coises, after @PeterJones mentioned your posts and your issues, I read discussions and your explanations. First I’m impressed with how many details you have in mind and this and other questions are very important. Also I noticed that while many agree with your observations, there are not so many who are frustrated by this as much as you are. Maybe I’m in your camp here, at least partially :)

My two cents are related to the fact that my previous activities were heavily influenced by Borland-originated editors (for example, in Delphi) where Virtual Space (now in npp too) was always on by default (I’m not even sure whether it is possible to switch it off). Lazarus IDE editor is very similar since Lazarus/FreePascal was inspired by Delphi/Turbo Pascal). Amongst other things this mode basically treats trailing space as virtual space. I just made a test when I forced multiple spaces after some last non-space character and tested End (SCI_LINEENDWRAP) operation. In Delphi/Lazarus the caret goes after the last non-space symbol so if there are no added spaces at all. The selection with keys also mostly ignores these new spaces, I could not select it with any ctrl/shift arrows operation. In npp End (SCI_LINEENDWRAP) jumps to the end of the new space so it is obviously kept intact. With selection in npp it’s mixed. Shift-arrows act like virtual space is everywhere, but Ctrl-Shift-arrows (SCI_WORDRIGHTENDEXTEND) “feels” this new space. Anyway, I’d suggest that when Enable Virtual Space is on, trailing spaces might be treated with some relaxed rules, but I’m not sure npp is ready to implicitly get rid of spaces without the user asking for it.

As for non-Virtual Spaces mode that is I suppose used mostly by npp users, maybe the difference in perception is what the Auto-Indent is doing. Actually I’m curious if anyone cares about trailing spaces at all (except when thinking about avoiding unnecessary bytes saved or implicit aesthetic reasons). The mere existence of “Trim trailing spaces and save” command probably partly answers this for many existing users, but I’m not sure about all.

Also interesting difference between Delphi editor and npp when the caret has some space after it and also meaningful text after the space. In the former after I press Enter the editor keeps the spaces and the text, but places the caret right below the character on the previous line so I have this space at the caret. In npp the caret goes to the start of the line and the meaningful text aligns to the line above.

The images below illustrates this

This is the state before I press enter in Delphi
Delphi_beforeEnter.png
… this is after
Delphi_afterEnter.png

This is before I press enter in npp
npp_beforeEnter.png

This is after
npp_afterEnter.png

I don’t know what kind is better, I’m more used to how Delphi handles it.

@Codereamp said in Turn on cursor beyond EOL + Remove unnecessary spaces when saving:

In the docs section Editing 1 the link inside “… feature in Editing > Virtual Space…” is broken an leads to a non-existing page. Maybe the page explaining the feature is yet not ready, so just in case

Just a typo in the href. Fixed.

@guy038 I think the OP has left. He had written “I used Blank operations-> trim trailing space and then “\d+(?=” “\d+” “\d+”$) and its fine now. Ty both for your help!”

We won’t know exactly what character(s) the trailing spaces were but now know the original issue was space characters of some sort.

In hindsight, I should have used \h* instead of * in my original proposed fix as \h matches the various horizontal space characters plus is less likely to introduce errors as people manually copy from what they read in a forum post on a screen into a regular expression.

@Samuel-Connault

One possible way to solve this is using the sort features in the Columns++ plugin.

If you want to try it, you can install that plugin from Plugins Admin. Then, select nothing if you want to sort the whole document; otherwise, select the lines you want to sort. When you select a Sort command in the next step, you’ll be prompted to allow the selection to be converted to a rectangular selection; allow it.

There are two sort options that might help. First, try the easy one: select Sort ascending (locale) from the the Columns++ menu. That might give you what you want.

If it doesn’t, a more controllable option is to select Sort… from the menu. The dialog that follows allows you to specify a regular expression that selects the sort key in each line.

Depending on how well you know regular expressions, the help link above and your knowledge might be enough, or you might need more guidance. Try first, and ask if you need more help.

Alternatively, that same dialog allows you to specify more details about the Locale sort, which might solve your problem without regular expressions even if the default locale sort does not.

@Saim-Anderson ,

adding a feature

We can talk about feature ideas here, but implementation happens in the code repository, not here in the Community of users.

to create custom web shortcuts within the interface could make it even more efficient.

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but that’s exactly what the Run menu allows you to do, as you can read more about in the user defined commands section of the online User Manual.

A customizable “Quick Links” menu for frequently visited websites.

aka, the Run menu

The ability to assign hotkeys for opening web pages directly.

aka, the Shortcut Mapper

Plugin support to integrate external references efficiently.

write your own plugin, if you think that the Run menu doesn’t meet your needs

Let’s discuss how it could be implemented!

It already exists.

I also doubt you actually want to discuss. I am assuming you are testing out your generative AI skills, based on the phraseology and buzzword-nature of your post. Please understand, as mentioned in the “Please Read Before Posting”, that generative AI content is expressly forbidden in this forum, as it’s a Community of Notepad++ users, and by definition, generative AI algorithms are not users of Notepad++. You can be banned from the forum for using it to generate your posts. Any more such posts from you will get you banned without further warning.

@Ussene-Nicururo ,

We’re you trying to answer the original question? Or ask a new, related question? Because that’s just a bunch of example text, and does not accomplish either.

@Netweezurd said in PowerShell syntax highlighting:

We’re in 2025, after dozens of updates and I still no highlights in PS files apart from the few listed in the OP.

The Notepad++ developer only updates the stylers.model.xml and themes\DarkModeDefault.xml – he expects volunteers from the userbase to submit updates to the other themes. That’s the way it was in 2018, and that’s the way it is in 2025. When I have added languages to the Notepad++ codebase, I’ve made dummy entries in all the themes, but that’s only been a handful of the dozens of languages that have been added over time since the various themes were submitted.

If you are willing to use the PythonScript plugin, I have a script for that plugin which will add all the missing languages to all your themes (grabbing the default colors from the theme for any new languages or new styles in an existing language – so it won’t look highlighted, but it won’t look bad); see Config Files Need Updating, Too for full details.

No PS highlights in VIM Dark Blue.

Indeed. As that’s not the stylers.model.xml nor themes\DarkModeDefault.xml, it’s unsurprising that it’s not updated.

The colors were all shot up but they can be easily adjusted in the Style Configurator:

Now that you’ve got a good set of colors for PS in the vim Dark Blue theme, you should consider submitting your update to the main repo, so that it will be bundled with future versions of Notepad++.

Great update! External lookup files in MultiReplace 4.2.0.22 make replacements cleaner and easier to manage.

@guy038 Good test.

The image shows Col: 325 so width of 2500 seems undersized for the OP. If this type of data in the image is regular then probably suggest 4000 though no less than 3500. Too small of a number could cause constant scrollbar jitter when switching tabs as it decreases and increases width.

@Jim-Julian said in block comment color:

I opened the style configurator but could find reference to only single line comment text color (green).

Is there a way to change the color of python block comment text?

Thanks.

@PeterJones mentioned the (orange) triple strings. I’ll mention the (green) block comments.

The lexer does style block comment text.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/a679e8ebfb425ae4c71a34a2080dd1a9a376acd6/lexilla/lexers/LexPython.cxx#L908-L909

Python has no multiline comment like C like languages unfortunely.

/* comment can span multiple lines */

The Python lexer does have block comments if that can be defined as such.

# comment line ## old code ## old code

The ## is SCE_P_COMMENTBLOCK style which in Style Configurator described as COMMENT BLOCK. It may not be noticeable as both SCE_P_COMMENTLINE and SCE_P_COMMENTBLOCK default to same style settings.

Changed COMMENT BLOCK in Style Configurator to grey shows

pyBlockComment.png

So now more customization can be done to improve the view.

@PeterJones thank you, unfortunately that bug has been fixed, but my work is very suitable for that bug, it helps me to handle it faster because if I use the macro to add HOME, it will affect my later macros, maybe I have to live with the old version, or will use the new version with many improvements but it will be more inconvenient for me, anyway thank you, I have been waiting for your reply all day

@PeterJones Apologies for the late response. I don’t normally check the email associated with this account.

You’re right! I don’t know why I didn’t notice. This behaviour is more than sufficient for me. Thank you.

@mathlete2 Thank you for your suggestions just the same.

@Coises Thanks. “Margins” is not a section I looked in. I thought it would be in “Editing” or “General.”

@mh-tp said in Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList:

Answer: I just downloaded the 8.7.8 installer of Notepad++ and the NppPluginList got updated too.

Or download the most-recent portable copy, where you can get the DLL without having to upgrade the rest, if you don’t want to.

Confusing was the “no update available…”

See our “most recent version” FAQ and the User Manual page on Upgrading Notepad++

The text and the … is very small, but contains important information about the update releases, so you’ll end up ccleaner or plugins tell you npp isn’t up to date, while it self tells you it is…

I don’t see how the size of the text has anything to do with what cleaner tells you (but after years of CCleaner getting worse and worse, I gave up ever listening to what it told me, and uninstalled it ages ago)

Interestingly (maybe?), I have found a similar issue involving Ditto and attempting to paste into the PythonScript console window; see HERE.

Hi All,

See my important and final comment about my own issue :

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/16279#issuecomment-2726313083

BR

guy038