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

implementing it in PythonScript today

Thankfully, I found an old script which did something related, which was easy to update.

# encoding=utf-8 """in response to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27385/ This will paste the CF_TEXT plaintext from the clipboard, but will convert any series of newline characters into a single space before doing the paste. Because this uses .insertText() instead of putting the modified text back into the clipboard and doing .paste(), it should avoid clobbering the clipboard. (based on @alan-kilborn's clipboard script here: <https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/97132>) """ from Npp import * try: editor3h # third editor, hidden except NameError: editor3h = notepad.createScintilla() def get_clipboard_text_without_newlines(): retval = '' editor3h.clearAll() editor3h.paste() if editor3h.getLength() > 0: editor3h.rereplace(r'[\r\n]+', ' ') # replace all newline seqeuences with a single space retval = editor3h.getText() return retval editor.beginUndoAction() editor.insertText(editor.getCurrentPos(), get_clipboard_text_without_newlines()) editor.endUndoAction()

This has been tested in the PythonScript 3 plugin. The PythonScript FAQ explains how to install PythonScript plugin, and how to run a script using PythonScript plugin, and even how to assign a keyboard shortcut to the script. Make sure you follow the instructions for PythonScript 3, not PythonScript 2 (as I have not tested under the older plugin syntax, though it will likely work there)

Thank you! Problem solved.

@Jay-S

I replied here.

@David-Brown i came here to let you know that my receipt had what appears to be his email address on it (which i’ve blocked out here for privacy):

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seems legit to me, but i can’t know for sure. :)

@Ilhan-Yumer ,

The developer does not read most posts in this Forum. If you would like to suggest such a move to the developer, I would recommend creating a new Issue at GitHub requesting it (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues).

Turns out it was an issue with the GPU driver, which has now been patched.

@archerarcher1 I will suggest LongPathTool to solve this error.

BTW:

5.1-if your home internet speed is fast enough, setup your own web server to your pc under virtualbox(in case of web server software cve’s/rce’s). I or anyone can help with that. Dont forget to hardening server for security.

IMO, this is BAD advice. To suggest to a non-security specialist who runs this as a hobby, that he should self-host, and try to keep up on all the security hardening, is asking him to get hacked even worse than the hack that already happened. He was literally paying a host to provide such services, and the professionals failed; he has now changed providers to a host who has better security procedures.

Believe me it’s not that hard to setup a webserver or harden it, especially while backed by a strong community. The risks are different when hosting at home between hosting remotely. The hosting firm may be offered money to hijack, or an out-of-date hosting management software had rce was waiting to be abused.

@PeterJones
on the screenshot above Reduce option is already pressed though.
Max tab label length truncates text, which is not the behavior i want to restore - i want the tabs with short names to not have this big gap at the end.

That said, it seems that the “enable pin tab feature” was the culprit, as disabling it seems to have restored the desired tab size behavior.

There still is some extra spacing before the close button though:

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@Nppenjoyr ,

See this post

@Tavi ,

As far as I can tell, they were unrelated. Scanners such as VirusTotal look at the executable itself, and last year were being triggered by the lack of signing and the self-signing of the executable.

please confirm if this issue is related to the notepad++ hijack news dated 2nd Feb 2026?

The issue you are referring to, as linked here and described in detail here specifically said,

the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself.

This was a website hack, and VirusTotal and other such AV scans do not detect website hacks, as far as I understand them.

See the FAQ, which has the best “table of contents” for the website hack. ALL related followups/discussions must go in Topic: autoupdater and connection to temp.sh.

@Liam-Wright I am running the latest NPP (8.9.1) and I don’t see this setting.

@PeterJones Thanks. I will work on getting the debug. Until then…

After making the edit, which took by the way (saved), I closed the app as usual. Just to be sure I checked Task Manager and found 2 instances of it showing there even though all copies were previously closed by me. I killed it there, unmounted the thumb drive that has the portable version I’m trying to edit, and then did a system restart thinking that might clear anything else.

I remounted the thumb drive and still have an edited Shortcuts file but it is not recognizing the changes. That edit is working with my resident copy on the same system but that was also hard to change when I did it a while back.

Thanks for the help.

@D-Kirkpatrick said in Editing the Shortcuts File:

However with this latest version there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this?

Nothing has changed regarding shortcuts.xml in the last many versions.

I know there is a copy in %appdata% but that also had my changes.

It depends on your settings, but the %AppData%\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml is the normal first place that Notepad++ will look.

if that’s not working for you:

confirm you follow the normal incantation for editing config files (ie, close all N++, open just one, edit file, save, exit and restart N++ to allow the change to take effect) if that doesn’t work, grab ?-menu’s Debug Info and share it with us share the actual XML snippet from the right shortcuts.xml file, so we can look to see if we can tell what’s wrong

update: I just re-read your post, and noticed:

When I added in the appropriate line to the XML file and saved it nothing happened and the pull down menu did not change.

You have to exit Notepad++ after saving, then restart the application. Notepad++ doesn’t just re-parse shortcuts.xml when you save it, so the menu won’t change by just hitting save on the file.

@sagradamoly-stack said in Managing the User Languages tool:

Is there any way to delete all the interim variations without losing all the work getting to a useful final result?

It depends on what you mean.

En masse? No

One at a time? Yes. In the UDL dialog, select each intermediate UDL from the drop-down, and click Remove. Since it’s likely on the order of a dozen or two, it won’t take you that long – less time than asking here took you, I’d wager.

without losing all the work

I mean, deleting the intermediate ones will obviously delete the intermediate stages. If you don’t want to lose them, but don’t want them in the N++ Language menu, use Export to save each to a separate XML file which you can then save in some backup directory, then Remove to take it out of the menu.

@George-Warriner,

My best guess is that it was referring to this conversation