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    • Michael VincentM
      Michael Vincent
      last edited by

      No, it’s not my code. None of the above mentioned are “mine” either, they’re just my improvements on others’ code. I grabbed Multiclipboard here:

      https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/MultiClipboard/MultiClipboard 2.1 unicode/

      and spoke with the author who wasn’t really interested in making 64-bit due to time constraints. I can try to put a GitHub repo up, but it’d just be my changes since unfortunately I didn’t git init the directory I unzipped the original source into. First commit would be all of my changes already. OK?

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
        last edited by

        @Michael-Vincent

        I guess it is good to push 64-bit Notepad++ usage forward, if you can (and as you are doing), but really, there is nothing forcing that move. AFAIK there are no plans to eliminate 32-bit releases (but I have no insider knowledge about this).

        There still is no great advantage in 64-bit N++ over 32-bit. Maybe you can open some larger files, but certainly still not huge files like everyone seems to expect. I believe Scintilla plays a larger role in that than N++ 64 vs 32.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
          last edited by

          @Michael-Vincent

          Was “Column Tools” really a holdout? It appears to be your own original creation? So don’t you control its bitness, directly?

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          • Michael VincentM
            Michael Vincent
            last edited by

            No, I merged my “use the right margin line to show the active column” with the Horizontal Ruler plugin discussed here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13369/a-notepad-beautiful-ruler-plugin-finally

            Like I said, none of the above are my “creations”, they’re my improvements on seemingly “dead” (aka: abandoned) N++ plugins.

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            • Michael VincentM
              Michael Vincent
              last edited by

              Just FYI, the plugins I use in both 64-bit and 32-bit are:
              AutoSave
              ColumnTools
              ComparePlugin
              DSpellCheck
              Explorer
              GitSCM
              HexEditor
              JSMinNpp
              MarkdownViewerPlusPlus
              NppConsole
              NppExec
              NppExport
              NppFTP
              NppMenuSearch
              PluginManager
              PreviewHTML
              QuickText
              SpeechPlugin
              TagLEET
              XMLTools\

              The 32-bit only I’m trying to convert are:
              dbgpPlugin
              MultiClipboard
              SourceCookifier (possibly, although TagLEET seems to address this Feature acceptably)

              Some can done with the build-in Plugin Admin, some with the older Plugin Manager and some manual intervention, some require a direct download, possible compile and manual install.

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                last edited by

                @Michael-Vincent

                I built ColumnTools from source and all went just fine. I tried it out functionally and I like it. Specifically the vertical column marker. Very nice plugin.

                Occasionally I have the need to line up things vertically that are a distance apart but still on one screen–this plugin will help with that task in the future.

                One minor point: I was a bit confused by the “Enable” menu option, but some experimentation showed how it worked. I think I would have left out the “Enable” option, but it is fine. I think if it was called “Quick Enable All” then I wouldn’t have had any confusion.

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                  last edited by

                  @Alan-Kilborn said:

                  One minor point…

                  @Michael-Vincent

                  So my “minor point” from earlier wasn’t a bug report, but now I have one. The “Column highlight” option doesn’t retain its “on” setting from run to run of Notepad++. Do you want bug reports here (since you are not taking “ownership”), as issues on the github site (where your “ownership” gets solidified), or, as I suspect…you don’t want them at all? :)

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                  • Michael VincentM
                    Michael Vincent
                    last edited by

                    Correct, I don’t save state of the column mode because it’s using SCI_[SG]ETEDGE* calls which affect the column marker that N++ can set. I normally have this set at 80 columns and in line mode. Others may have a different mode set, a different column, or have it disabled altogether. I didn’t want to save that state and have it get out of sync with the N++ setting in the Settings => Preferences => Editing configuration.

                    Alas, I gave it a shot and you can find the result here:
                    https://github.com/vinsworldcom/nppColumnTools/tree/develop

                    Both 32 and 64 bit - I tested a bit with the 64-bit version. There’s still a danger of editing the config file directly or changing the setting in N++ menu as described above and getting things out of sync.

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                      last edited by

                      @Michael-Vincent

                      Ah, okay…so it’s a feature. At first I was thinking I didn’t like it, but the more I consider it…

                      It really is OK, just knowing that it is possible to turn it on in when needed.

                      My first thought was that it should always be on, and I had a special reason: It helps you locate the caret very quickly if you’ve lost track of it. With the N++ native current line highlight feature enabled, plus this one, you get a crosshairs of caret location.

                      Since you seem receptive to critique, :) , it would be nice if it also worked (both features, ruler and column-indicator) when the caret is in virtual-space land, but perhaps that isn’t possible (given that you are working within the bounds of what the Scintilla vertical edge can do).

                      Anyway, thanks again for sharing this great plugin. And I do realize that your purpose in starting this thread was for a different purpose!

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                      • Michael VincentM
                        Michael Vincent
                        last edited by

                        No worries - happy to help. Like I said, the entire ruler part is someone else’s code that I merged with my little edge marker. For EXACTLY the same reason you state - aligning columns far enough way but still on the same screen quickly and visually and the “crosshairs” look of it. I realize there is a column counter in the status bar, but this visual is so much easier. I rarely use it, but when I do, I’m glad I wrote it.

                        Admittedly, it’s a hack and I don’t know enough of the N++, Scintilla or just plain C++ programming for that matter to do something really cool - that’s why I piggy-back on other’s work and just make improvements. In any case, I had a look at keeping the edge marker and adding a second vertical line to track position instead of hijacking the edge marker - it seems you can do this:

                        https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_MULTIEDGEADDLINE

                        but I don’t see how you then control the second edge. There’s just a call to add one at a location and then to clear all of them.

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                        • EkopalypseE
                          Ekopalypse @Michael Vincent
                          last edited by Ekopalypse

                          @Michael-Vincent

                          the scintilla version 3.5.6 used by notepad++ doesn’t have this feature.

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                            last edited by

                            @Ekopalypse said:

                            the scintilla version 3.5.6 used by notepad++ hasn’t this feature.

                            True, but @Michael-Vincent , keep an eye on N++ as @donho said recently that Scintilla is gonna get updated soon! :)

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                            • EkopalypseE
                              Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                              last edited by

                              @Alan-Kilborn

                              N++ as @donho said recently that Scintilla is gonna get updated soon! :

                              that would be cool because it would introduce other cool features like better
                              multiple edits as well :-)

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                              • chcgC
                                chcg
                                last edited by chcg

                                @Michael-Vincent Let me know if you think the 64bit ports are ready to be added to the PluginAdmin list.

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