Strange behavior in Find dialog

Jonathan Sachs177

Notepad++ has been serving me faithfully for years. A few days ago its Find dialog spontaneously (without an update) began behaving weirdly.

Say I want to type ‘xyz_mod.h’ into the “Find what” box. As I type the first three characters they appear aligned at the RIGHT end of the box. Here ‘|’ represents the insert point marker:
xyz|

Then I type the underscore and it appears at the BEGINNING of the string with the insert point before it:
|_xyz

When I type the next letter the box corrects the order of characters:

                                               xyz_m|
                                             xyz_mo|
                                           xyz_mod|

When I type the period it appears at the beginning of the string:

                                         |.xyz_mod

When I type the final letter the box corrects the order again:

                                        xyz_mod.h|

I get the right result, but it’s very confusing. What made it start doing this, and what’s the best way to fix it?

Yaron

Does your Windows support a RTL (right to left, e.g. Hebrew) language?
Do you get a “Text Direction” command on right-clicking “Find what”?
Do you have the same problem in the other Find’s combos (“Replace with” etc.)?

Jonathan Sachs177

Does your Windows support a RTL (right to left, e.g. Hebrew) language?

Not as far as I know. It (Windows 7 Enterprise) is used in English only. If there’s support for an RTL language, it’s well hidden!

Do you get a “Text Direction” command on right-clicking “Find what”?

No; just the behavior I described.

Do you have the same problem in the other Find’s combos (“Replace with” etc.)?

No; and in fact, after I investigated them, the problem disappeared in Find as well!

Not knowing why it started happening or stopped, I don’t have complete confidence that it won’t return. For the moment, though, the problem seems to be gone. Chalk it up to nonreproducible weirdness.

Yaron

I’m glad it’s working as expected now.
You may have accidentally pressed a keyboard-shortcut which changed the text direction.