Notepad++ 7.7 Release

donho

Please find Notepad++ 7.7 Release here:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-7.7-released.html

Notepad++ v7.7 new features and bug-fixes:

list itemContinue Microsoft binary code signing thanks to the offer from DigiCert (again).
Upgrade Scintilla from v3.56 to v4.14.
Fix a regression about memory issue while reloading a file.
Fix cursor flickering problem after double clicking on URL.
Make Python files default to using spaces instead of tabs.
Add “Count in selection” option in Find dialog.
Add Ctrl + R shortcut for “Reload from disk” command.
Fix \ display problem in CSS while using themes (Remove Batang font for CSS tags).
Fix crash while right clicking on DocSwitcher’s column bar.
Fix all plugins being removed problem while Plugin Admin romoves an old plugin (of old system).

Please let me know if you find any regression or critical issue.

Artur Harison

Notepad++ 7.7 (32-bit)
Win 10 (64-bit)
When typing a word, i see flickers
https://youtu.be/Pg2frEmhrNg

Artur Harison

Sorry! This is caused by auto-completion. I never use it. Maybe I turned it on by accident.
But the fact of flickering of an empty field…
Sorry for flooding.
ps
Thanks for the update! I am glad that the project is developing.

Nick Moyer

Notepad++ 7.7 (32-bit)
Win 10 (64-bit)
Finding “\r\n” doesn’t seem to work anymore for finding/replacing new lines
https://imgur.com/a/ZsrYEpr

Ekopalypse

@Nick-Moyer

not a 7.7. issue, deselecting Match whole word only makes it work.

andrecool-68

@donho
I do not know how to solve the problems with the Cyrillic, for me it is very important!

Nick Moyer

@Ekopalypse doh thx

patrickdrd

I’m having problems copying text with greek characters to another app, in 7.6.6 it works fine

donho

@patrickdrd said:

I’m having problems copying text with greek characters to another app, in 7.6.6 it works fine

Telling us that you have a problem doesn’t help you to solve your problem.
Describing it by providing more detail information does.

donho

@andrecool-68 said:

I do not know how to solve the problems with the Cyrillic, for me it is very important!

I heard you. Did I say that this bug won’t be fixed?
BTW, just as you, I have a daily job so I can feed my family, and I have also my personal life.
So be patient, or fix it by your own (it’s an open source project after all) - I don’t owe you anything.

SinghRajenM

@donho, it seems you’re are bit frustrated/tensed today. Hope, things are fine. Please relax and take care.

patrickdrd

@donho said:

@patrickdrd said:

I’m having problems copying text with greek characters to another app, in 7.6.6 it works fine

Telling us that you have a problem doesn’t help you to solve your problem.
Describing it by providing more detail information does.

what information do you want?
I’m receiving sql queries by email that I open with npp and I then copy the file content to sql manager program in order to execute them, well, with 7.7 Greek characters are displayed like Chinese, I rolled back to 7.6.6 and they display properly

cipher-1024

@donho , Thank you for scintilla update. It can’t have been easy, fun, or glamorous, but I appreciate the work.

borynet llc

I upgraded from 7.5.9 to 7.7 (32-bit) and:

I lost Explorer plugin
If I install Explorer 1.8.5 plugin using Plugins Admin, I get an error about hash mismatch and plugin is not installed.
The Plugin Manager doesn’t work anymore but still shows up among my plugins
If I attempt to remove Plugin Manager using Plugin Admin it just does nothing
After reinstalling my previous version 7.5.9, the notepad is no longer functional

It seems that release v7.7 is very unstable and has some major issues.

Alan Kilborn

@borynet-llc

Please take these issues to a separate thread; it is meant to keep this thread clean for real 7.7 issues. [Your issue isn’t related to 7.7 but rather the coming of Plugins Admin (N++ 7.6+) and the deprecating of Plugin Manager (used in 7.5.9 and earlier)].

donho

The Plugin Manager doesn’t work anymore but still shows up among my plugins

@chcg Could Plugin Manager be removed from the list ? Since it stops working for a while.

dinkumoil

@donho said:

Could Plugin Manager be removed from the list ?

It’s already done, see >>> this commit <<<. The problem is: at most users systems it is already present and of course they migrate it to the new plugins directory structure like they do with their other plugins.

PeterJones

@dinkumoil said:

@donho said,

Could Plugin Manager be removed from the list ?

It’s already done, see >>> this commit <<<. The problem is: at most users systems it is already present and of course they migrate it to the new plugins directory structure like they do with their other plugins.

Could it be treated like “unstable plugins” are (or were?) – ie, moved to a disabled\ subdirectory? I know that through 7.5.9, when I would upgrade Notepad++ (either through the auto-update, or by downloading the new install package and installing over top the old copy), it would identify PreviewHTML as an “unstable” plugin, in move it to the disabled subdir, so I always had to go move it back into the main plugins directory so that I could use it. Is that feature still there, or could it be added back in for the old PluginManager?

dinkumoil

@PeterJones said:

it would identify PreviewHTML as an “unstable” plugin, in move it to the disabled subdir

There was >>> this commit <<< that removed the “disabling routine” from Notepad++'s installer, it has been part of v7.6.2.

Why would you like to “save” the old PluginManager? @chcg stated somewhere that he wants to keep it alive to the end of 2019. When the plugin list servers will be taken offline it will be useless. The plugin admin system at bruderste.in already lacks a valid SSL certificate and it seems like plugin updates are not applied to the plugin list anymore.

EDIT: @PeterJones Forget what I wrote above, I’ve missed your point.

borynet llc

What about Explorer plugin? Why is explicitly disabled and why the new does not installs?