@josiah-cohran said in need help to download notepad++:

im on my school computer trying to do something with not pad

Even for students, clarity of communication is important. “not pad” is not the same thing as “Notepad++”

and it is bringing me the github page

Assuming you mean that it took you to https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/ , then you should see a section on the right of the main page like:
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Click on the “Latest” to go to the most recent release (currently, https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/v8.7.8) , and from there, click on the npp.8.7.8.Installer.x64.exe (future readers: the number will change to match the most recent version) if you are on a normal 64-bit windows machine (most are 64-bit nowadays)
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The other way of getting Notepad++, instead of going through GitHub, is to go to the application’s official website and the “Downloads” page: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

From there, you can either go to the top link (which is currently v8.7.8), or if you are more conservative, scroll down to the one that says “stable”):
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From one of those pages, click on the topmost “Installer” link to download the installer for the 64-bit Notepad++ (which again is most likely what you need).

@Terry-R I know this kindness is above and beyond.
I have been looking, trying to help myself.

This will save much time and effort.

Thanx for your patience.

@Andrej730 said in Notepad++ font with emoji support / Segoe UI Emoji slows down notepad++:

Hi! I was looking for a way to show emojis in notepad (similarly to https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/20642/) and I’ve found it, it requires enabling DirectWrite in preferences (it seems nay DirectWrite option works for it) but it also requires a special font that supports emojis.

There are lots of fonts that support emojis

The font I’ve found for it Segoe UI Emoji - which works but the problem is that using this font slows down notepad++.

The font itself, combined with the DirectWrite settings, might be the culprit. When I tried the experiment with DirectWrite (default) and Segoe UI Emoji, I also saw a slowdown… But if I switch to GDI (most compatible) (and restart), then I don’t think I see the slowdown… not 100% sure. But I don’t know if that mode will show all the emojis you want, even with that font.

However, Segoe UI Emoji doesn’t appear to be a monospaced font, and Notepad++ works best with monospace.

Any suggestions for getting emojis in notepad++ by some other way or solving this problem with Segoe UI Emoji font?

Try without directwrite. Try a different font.

When I do DirectWrite (default) and my old normal DejaVu Sans Mono or my new normal FiraCode, I am able to see many emoji (even ones that those specific fonts don’t support, because of the “composite font” capability of Windows that DirectWrite enables). It’s possible that combination isn’t sufficient for you, but it’s something worth trying. I have never noticed a font-related slowdown when using those settings and fonts.

@Mark-Olson Thank you for the warning

@remotemachining ,

First, the user you @-mentioned was just a random user who had commented, and is not the same as the person who announced the plugin. The user you mentioned hasn’t been here since making the post in January 2024; and the user who announced the MarkdownText plugin hasn’t been here sincec 2021 (nor have there been any updates to that plugin since that year). I am doubtful that you’d get a response from either of them.

On to the specifics of your issue:

Where did you download the plugin? Did you use a specific URL (if so, share it), or did you just use Plugins Admin?

I ask, because this discussion is about the MarkdownText plugin, which would show up as MarkdownText.dll, but the error messages you typed out are referencing a plugin directory NppMarkdownPanel (which implies the NppMarkdownPanel.dll) but referencing a DLL in a lib sub-directory called MarkdigWrapper.dll – that’s not the normal way that Notepad++ plugins are set up (unless this plugin has multiple DLLs involved, and it’s just having a problem with one of them).

However, your messages imply you are actually using a different plugin, NppMarkdownPanel which is available in the Plugins Admin inside Notepad++, and has been updated much more recently… Assuming that’s the case, I tried installing that plugin and looking at a simple Markdown file: I, too, get an error message about that MarkdigWrapper.dll sub-library. Looks like there’s a major bug that’s making it incompatible.

I went to the most-recent issue that they said they closed, and the people testing the build were using Notepad++ 8.4.9 to do the testing (which would have been current in early 2023, when the last plugin release was made). And I still get the error with plugin v0.7.3 and NPP-64 v8.4.9. I also tried, with the same error, in the 32bit Notepad++/plugin combo.

However, if I instead grab plugin v0.7.0 (which is the version from Plugins Admin) in the 32bit, it works properly for me. And if I use Plugins Admin in 64bit Notepad++ and download the one there (which says 0.7.1 in the dialog, but the plugin’s About box only says 0.7.0), it also works.

So if you downloaded directly from github, try removing the manual installation of the plugin, and instead install using Plugins Admin, and there’s a good chance it will start working for you.

I personally chose the MarkdownViewer++ plugin (0.8.2) from Plugins Admin, and that one works reliably for me. But I do readily admit it hasn’t been updated since 2018, so is obviously not supported anymore.

@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
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… this is after
Delphi_afterEnter.png

This is before I press enter in npp
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This is after
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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.