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    Salimsg Ibrahim
    last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 10:13 AM

    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.

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      Salimsg Ibrahim
      last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 12:38 PM

      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.

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        donho @Eric Winn
        last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 5:08 PM

        @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.

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          dail
          last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 5:16 PM

          @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.

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            donho @dail
            last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 10:40 PM

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

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              dail
              last edited by Sep 23, 2016, 11:14 PM

              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.
              1. 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.
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                Tibi Dezse
                last edited by Sep 24, 2016, 9:32 AM

                Macro recording, hang the whole

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                  donho @Tibi Dezse
                  last edited by Sep 24, 2016, 11:14 PM

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

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                    Paul Slater
                    last edited by Sep 25, 2016, 2:19 AM

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

                    I’ve reverted to 6.9.2

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                      donho @Paul Slater
                      last edited by Sep 25, 2016, 11:55 AM

                      @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?

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                        Sean McPoland
                        last edited by Sep 26, 2016, 1:09 AM

                        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,

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                          donho @dail
                          last edited by Sep 26, 2016, 12:07 PM

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

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                            dail
                            last edited by Sep 26, 2016, 12:43 PM

                            @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.

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                              kawinga @Salimsg Ibrahim
                              last edited by Sep 27, 2016, 8:55 AM

                              @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)\...
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                                Gur Stavi
                                last edited by Sep 27, 2016, 12:08 PM

                                More ported plugins:
                                TagLEET
                                lexamples

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                                  Mohammad Masoumi @Sean McPoland
                                  last edited by Sep 27, 2016, 9:09 PM

                                  @Sean-McPoland
                                  Same issue

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                                    dail @Mohammad Masoumi
                                    last edited by dail Sep 27, 2016, 9:54 PM Sep 27, 2016, 9:54 PM

                                    @Sean-McPoland
                                    @Mohammad-Masoumi

                                    The plugin manager has been left out of the 64-bit version of Notepad++ because a 64-bit version of the plugin manager does not exist. And you are correct that very few 64-bit plugins currently exist.

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                                      Yongtao Yang
                                      last edited by Sep 28, 2016, 3:17 AM

                                      I found an interesting issue. When the “Commonad Argument Help” window is kept open,press Ctrl+S in the editor window will insert a special character, which is shown as a black background, white foreground block with the label ‘DC3’.

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                                        Robert Carnegie
                                        last edited by Sep 28, 2016, 3:22 PM

                                        Lazy question before I try it: Does Notepad++ 64 bit support larger file size than Notepad++ 32 bit?

                                        I have been using Notepad++ to convert large files of UTF-8 text data to UCS-2; they start around 450,000,000 bytes size and end up about 900,000,000 bytes. (There are other ways to do that, which I don’t have access to in my test environment, e.g. PowerShell 5.0 has capabilities.)

                                        Notepad++ saves the larger file but then cannot open it - I assume this is not a flaw in my environment. I would like to be able to open the file and save it back to UTF-8. This should be identical to the original file, but that is what I want to test.

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                                          Claudia Frank @Robert Carnegie
                                          last edited by Sep 29, 2016, 12:44 AM

                                          @Robert-Carnegie

                                          in theory yes, but at the end it depends how many ram can be used.

                                          Cheers
                                          Claudia

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