I don’t have a build environment that would work for NPP, otherwise I’d try to find one of those rare Round Tuits™ to do the debug build myself.

I’ll post here and (now that I think about it) in that thread, to see if there’s anyone who does have the right environment…

Before the NUL problem happened to me (once!), I blew off all the posts about it. Perhaps I thought really quickly, in passing, "What are these people doing with their Notepad++ to make this happen? Then my attitude TOTALLY CHANGED when it happened to me! Nothing like a perspective change! :-)

I think there is only one way that the NUL problem will be dealt with. It’s going to have to happen to @donho himself. And of course, if the right setup and environment for it occurring isn’t one he uses, well, …

Sometimes fixing something else fixes a problem that you didn’t realize was related – though, admittedly, much more often, a change makes an unexpected bug rather than an unexpected fix. :-)

The NUL problem reportedly happened July 10 with 7.5.7.
A June 3 occurrence would not have been 7.5.7…

Problems like the NUL problem typically don’t just “go away”…in my experience.

As the IT guy, if you thought you were going to be inundated with questions of “my PC crashed, and now my text file is all NULs”, you might not want to approve the software, either.

However, I haven’t noticed another post about the NULs in the last few months… I’m wondering if 7.5.6 intentionally or accidentally fixed whatever was going on, or whether Windows applied some bug fix that prevented the circumstances of those crashes, or if we’ve just been lucky (knock on wood).

edit: alas. Per https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2381#issuecomment-394246869, it happened around Jun 3 with 7.5.7, so it’s not forever-gone. :-(

not “everything”, but you can create a keyboard shortcut for every menu item in notepad++ including most of the external third party plugin functions if you have to use any.

Does anyone know if Notepad++ offers keyboard shortcuts for everything? If I couldn’t see the screen, do you think I could access all of N++'s menus and tools with just the keyboard? If so, that would go a long way toward accessibility–and usability for everybody.

Of course I was kidding…but I would employ my method if I could get away with it. :-)

I like Notepad++ (pretty obvious I suppose) but if I were in I.T. making decisions about what software to allow on user machines, I don’t think N++ would make the cut. I can imagine being contacted by a user complaining that the company’s data is now NUL NUL NUL…

@curtisbryant: What is required for this “certification”? It seems to me that either they would have a standard external clearinghouse (“check accessibility-certification.blah and see if they say it’s compatible”) or an internal process (“submit it a ticket to the Accessibility Verification Group”) if they require “certification”. Do you know of other software that has had to go through your employer’s approval process – if you know who pushed it through, you might be able to ask what qualified for “certification”, and how they went about getting it?

A quick google found me this, https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/issues/12431#issuecomment-274366615, in a discussion about a website whose code-editing panes weren’t compatible with NVDA. The comment I linked to mentions that as a workaround, one could copy from that web-based editor, paste in Notepad++ for screen-reader purposes, then copy/paste it back into the website. That strongly implies that NVDA works with Notepad++.

Hope this helps.

Just use it…don’t tell anyone…shhhhh!!! …unless YOU are the one with the disabilities…