URLs containing exclamation marks - Can they be made to work within Notepad++?

Cow Bovine

A nice feature of Notepad++ is ability to utilize clickable links.
Example: http://lederniergaulois.nouvelles-ecritures.francetv.fr/
(Copyright belongs to its creator, which is not me.)

Hyperlinks embedded with an exclamation mark will only be clickable up to - but not including - the exclamation mark.
(yes, Settings>Preferences…>MISC.>Clickable Links Settings>Enabled is fine)

Let’s say I have this link in my .TXT object in Notepad++ (minus quotation marks, of course):
“http://lederniergaulois.nouvelles-ecritures.francetv.fr/#!/episode1”

Double-clicking it will only send “http://lederniergaulois.nouvelles-ecritures.francetv.fr/#” to the browser. Notice the “!/episode1” was dropped.

My temporary method is to copy and paste all these links (Episodes 1 through 6) into an M$ documant or spreadsheet, thereby click the links there; else copy and paste the link(s) manually into the browser.

Is there any solutions, plugins, feature requests or other suggestions around addressing this?

Thanks so much for your feedback. Have a great week!

[Circa 2016-03]
Example: http://lederniergaulois.nouvelles-ecritures.francetv.fr/#!/episode1

Claudia Frank

Hello @Cow-Bovine,

you are right, the reason is that the exclamation mark is missing in the allowed chars I guess this has been historical reasons.
I will create an issue and ask for adding the exclamation mark.

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank

@Cow-Bovine

for your information, issue 1595 has been opened.

Cheers
Claudia

Cow Bovine

You are awesome! This is very much appreciated! It will be nice to follow this progress.