Notepad++ 7 - 64-bit Available

[donho]

@jNizM Thank you for making Notepad++ crash !
it’ll be fixed in the next release.

[Salimsg Ibrahim]

In addition to the issues brought up by Eric Winn, the file association is unable to switched to the 64-bit version, even if I rename the 32-bit version folder to something else. Not sure if this is a Windows 7 64 bit problem or Notepad++ problem.

[donho]

@Salimsg-Ibrahim Could you povide the step-by-step instuctions so I can repoduce it?

[donho]

@dail Thank you for infos. I cannot reproduce it either.
I’ll stay tightly on this issue.

[Rickard Jonsson]

Hi i’m try to install notepad++ 7 x64 from command line with this switches but it will not install in this folder why? npp.7.Installer.x64.exe /S /D=C:\Program Files\Plus!\Notepad++

[Salimsg Ibrahim]

Thank you for the response. I am using Windows 7 64-bit and Notepad++ 6.9.2, which is located at C:\notepad++\notepad++.exe. After installing Notepad++ 7 64-bit, it is now located at C:\Program Files\notepad++\notepad++.exe. Right-click a .txt file to open with> choose a default program> open notepad++.exe in C:\Program Files\notepad++.
However it is the 6.9.2 version that is called up. What I did was to rename C:\notepad++ folder to something else. Try right-click again to open with> choose a default program> goes to C:\Program Files\notepad++ folder. Problem is notepad++.exe does not appear in windows 7 open with windows anymore.

[Salimsg Ibrahim]

Hi Don, I solved my problem. This is the solution:

The program that you’re pointing to isn’t registered correctly.

In regedit: Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications and find your .exe name.
Navigate under its name to shell>open>command. In the Default change its location to the actual location of the executable, hit okay and then try and reassociate the file type as you normally would.

[donho]

@Eric-Winn
You are pointing out an issue where there may be some incoherence.

Indeed there are 2 scenarios :
if user download installer for 64-bit and install it without remove old 32-bit one, both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries will stay in C:\Program Files (x86)\ and C:\Program Files\ respectively.

OTOH, if user uninstalls 32-bit version before installing 64-bit version, all the settings will be gone. But user is aware of what they do so it’s a normal behaviour to me.

I have no yet idea to solve this issue. If anyone in here has a thought, please let me know.

[dail]

@donho

I’ve seen some uninstallers ask the user whether they’d like to keep their configuration files. Not sure how easy this would be.

[donho]

@dail How about remove automatically the 32-bit version while installing 64-bit version and vice versa?

[dail]

I’m curious how other applications work that have both 32bit and 64bit installations.

How about remove automatically the 32-bit version while installing 64-bit version and vice versa?

That might be a good solution (possibly ask/warn the user?). Either way, I think a couple of things have to be considered:

1. If 32bit and 64bit are allowed to be installed simultaneously:

• Users might get confused. Using the windows shell to edit a file with Notepad++ might not always use the one they want.
• At least all the config files should be compatible between 32bit and 64bit which is good.
• Plugins will be different between the two. Also, if plugins are allowed to be loaded from %APPDATA% do 32 and 64bit try to load the same plugins? This could be a problem.

2. If only one of either 32bit or 64bit is allowed to be install:

• I’m sure someone will complain, but you can’t please all users :)
• I’ve found it useful so that I can test 32bit and 64bit plugins…but there are several other ways to do this so not a big deal.

[Tibi Dezse]

Macro recording, hang the whole

[donho]

@Tibi-Dezse it should be fixed in the latest snapshot:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/job/tv72aehq0plqabdn/artifacts

[Paul Slater]

Crashes when recording a macro. Usually when you type a \ for a special character.

I’ve reverted to 6.9.2

[donho]

@Paul-Slater It has been fixed in:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/job/tv72aehq0plqabdn/artifacts

Could you check it and confirm us the fix?

[Sean McPoland]

No PlugIn Manager?

I assume it’s been left out until PlugIns are available…but shouldn’t it just list those available for 64 bit…meaning it should be there.

Many thanks by the way,

[donho]

@dail Good point!
What’s your suggestion then?

[dail]

@donho Under normal circumstances I don’t think users will need both. However, forcing a user to use just one might not be a good idea since there may be good reason to have both installed.

So this is my suggestion (feel free to use it, or do something completely different :))

• During installation (e.g. of 64bit Notepad++ version)
  • Check to see if 32bit version is currently installed.
  • If so, warn the user that installing both may cause problems.
  • Ask the user if they want to uninstall the 32bit version.
  • During uninstall of 32bit version, give the user the option to keep their current settings. This would probably be easy if they are using %APPDATA% but if they are using a local conf mode then the xml files won’t be in the right place, they would be under C:\Program Files (x86)\...

Again this is just my suggestion so feel free to do whatever you feel is appropriate, and others may have better ideas. I am not familiar with NSIS so I don’t know the details of how hard or easy all this would be.

[kawinga]

@Salimsg-Ibrahim i just wanted to point out the same solution, i found it on myself

In regedit: Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\notepad++ and find your .exe name.
Navigate under its name to shell>open>command. In the Default change its location to the actual location of the executable, hit okay and then try and reassociate the file type as you normally would.

@donho i fear there will be a lot of users experiencing this problem, maybe you should try to get a fix before the automatic update causes a lot of troubles

i like @dail solution

@dail said:

• During installation (e.g. of 64bit Notepad++ version)
  • Check to see if 32bit version is currently installed.
  • If so, warn the user that installing both may cause problems.
  • Ask the user if they want to uninstall the 32bit version.
  • During uninstall of 32bit version, give the user the option to keep their current settings. This would probably be easy if they are using %APPDATA% but if they are using a local conf mode then the xml files won’t be in the right place, they would be under C:\Program Files (x86)\...

[Gur Stavi]

More ported plugins:
TagLEET
lexamples