@Coises

SCI_BRACEMATCH is pretty useful as well, when dealing with (), [], {} and <>.

As for “” and ‘’ (as well as other possible situations when SCI_BRACEMATCH returns -1), the internal functions findLeftBracket and findRightBracket in XBrackets Lite do pretty good job there.

The exported functions GoToMatchingBracket and SelToMatchingBracket already work, though may need some tuning. The source code is here:
https://github.com/d0vgan/npp-XBracketsLite/commits/feature/GoToNearestBr/

@PeterJones said in Legacy Print dialog freeze (Windows):

In Emacs (and possibly other unixy apps), control key combos are indicated with…

Nice to know, I guess, but I could’ve lived without that knowledge. :-)

As Notepad++ is a Windows (only) app, let’s try to stick to its (and Windows’) notations when discussing it: Ctrl+X Current Microsoft notation

Hola Jhorbam,

Lo que estás buscando se puede lograr parcialmente en Notepad++ utilizando resaltado de sintaxis personalizado (User Defined Language, UDL). Notepad++ no tiene soporte nativo para fórmulas de Excel, pero puedes crear una definición de lenguaje personalizada que resalte palabras clave como SUMA, PRODUCTO, operadores como +, =, *, (, ), y los signos de dólar $.

Pasos para hacerlo: Abre Notepad++. Ve a “Lenguaje” → “Definir tu lenguaje…”. Crea un nuevo lenguaje con un nombre como ExcelFormulas. En la pestaña “Palabras clave”, añade funciones de Excel que uses, como SUMA, PRODUCTO, SI, etc. En la pestaña “Operadores y delimitadores”, puedes agregar =, (, ), {, }, $, y otros símbolos. Personaliza los colores de texto para que se parezcan a los del editor de fórmulas de Excel. Guarda tu configuración y aplícala al archivo.

Esto no será tan avanzado como el editor de fórmulas de Excel, pero puede ayudarte visualmente al copiar y revisar fórmulas extensas.

También puedes exportar/importar configuraciones si quieres compartir tu UDL con otros.

Saludos.

@donho , worked without a hitch or a hiccup. No problems with the update on my Standard Install version.

@datatraveller1
Awesome. You are the best!

@Alan-Kilborn said in How does one create a desktop icon for this program please?:

You should distill that down into something exactly applicable to Notepad++

Good point.

The command prompt code below will create a simple shortcut on the Desktop that shows the various command line arguments that NP++ supports in a pop-up before launching NP++ itself. The ICON-based pieces can be omitted if you prefer the standard icon, and PF may need to be adjusted depending on where you actually installed NP++ to.

set PF=%PROGRAMFILES(x86)% set TARGET='"%PF%\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"' set STARTIN='"%USERPROFILE%\Documents"' set SHORTCUT='"%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\NP++ - help.lnk"' set ICON='"%PF%\Notepad++\updater\updater.ico"' set ARGUMENTS='--help' set PWS=powershell.exe -Command %PWS% "$ws = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell; $s = $ws.CreateShortcut(%SHORTCUT%); $S.WorkingDirectory = %STARTIN%; $S.TargetPath = %TARGET%; $S.IconLocation = %ICON%; $S.Arguments = %ARGUMENTS%; $S.Save()"

@guy038, Thanks to you, I not only solved my problem, but also became better acquainted with the possibilities of Notepad++.
Best regards

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@Silva-Yunus ,

The CustomizeToolbar plugin allows you to add menu commands (including saved macros) to the main toolbar, so it’s almost what you are asking for.

Otherwise, we have a FAQ on Feature Requests

@tnet-chrome said in Note++ file location:

The file config.xml under %AppData% had the recent files list. But if I manually delete any recents, save the file and restart Notepad++ the same list of files is re-added. Why? Where from?

Because those recents were still in memory when you exited Notepad++, and when Notepad++ exits, it overwrites the existing config.xml with those values from memory – even if you had recently manually edited config.xml. The user-manual section on Editing Config Files has a paragraph explaining how to edit config.xml, because it must be treated differently than the other config files (and config files in general have to be treated differently relative to “normal” files, as that entire section describes).

Eventually, it seems the best solution is to subclass Scintilla’s WndProc (for both Main and Secondary Scintilla window) and to handle WM_CHAR there.
The benefits:

no need to bother with Scintilla’s native notifications and their nuances; full control and clarity of what happens and when it happens: within own WM_CHAR handler, we are able to process a character before it goes to Scintilla and after it goes to Scintilla; simplified code because all the logic is controlled by you and there is no need to conform to Scintilla’s way of processing the events.

@Dave-Lang
I’m not familiar with your problem but your issue did make me recall a previous post here.

It might have occured as you just updated the version of Notepad++ from a very much older one, or possibly changed to a different font.

Anyways, read that post and maybe you might find the answer.

Terry

@xomx, thank you very much. When I selected another font (Ebrima), the problem was resolved.

@Tanya-Dhina

check Scenario: My (unsaved) files are missing! in FAQ:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21782/faq-periodic-backup-vs-autosave-plugin

I’m not entirely sure how to vote on this because - if with the permission of the original author, I don’t think a new name would be required. However, any other option should have a new name

Since this has come up twice in the last couple months, I have cleaned up the instructions and split them off into a dedicated “FAQ: Using the GCC version of Notpead++”

@neeraj10786:

While I don’t use it myself (and so can’t give detailed advice), it seems like the MultiReplace plugin by @Thomas-Knoefel would be easier to use than built-in methods. If this is a single-time problem, then the built-in methods others have given make sense; but if it is something you’ll need to do repeatedly, I’d check out that plugin.

@Ekopalypse said in Keyboard shortcuts from external apps not working:

@Bernard-Danino

Right, that’s strange.
I use Deepl, there is also the shortcut ctrl+c+c and as you can see in this screenshot, it works.

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Understood. I passed it on to Reverso. Maybe they have an explanation, although the ticket I opened over there didn’t yield anything. Maybe this new info will get them going.
Thanks

Hi, I ran into the same issue.

I unfortunately don’t have enough time to manually check every single vscode keymapping, but with the courtesy of an LLM I was able to generate a “good enough” shortcut map that has all the functionality I need, which is mostly just alt+up/down and ctrl+/

https://gist.github.com/nopeless/b18fe37105fd165cd9c637d4a2a2b48b

Here is the link