Notepad++ 7.8 Release Candidate

donho

7.8 RC is available for testing here:
http://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/tmp/

Notepad++ v7.8 enhancements and bug-fixes:

Upgrade Scintilla from 4.1.4 to 4.2.0
Fix non Unicode encoding problem in non-Western language(Chinese or in Turkish).
Add “No to All” and “Yes to All” options in Save dialog.
Add the command line argument “-openFoldersAsWorkspace” to open folders in “folder as workspace” panel.
Example: notepad++ -openFoldersAsWorkspace c:\src\myProj01 c:\src\myProj02
Enhance plugin system: allow any plugin to load private DLL files from the plugin folder.
Fix File-Rename failing when new name is on a different drive.
Make “Clear all marks”, “Inverse Bookmark”, “Remove Consecutive Duplicate Lines” & “Find All Current Document” to be macro recordable.
Make “Command Argument Help” MessageBox modal.
Fix Folder as Workspace crash and “queue overflow” issues.
Make Combobox font monospace in Find dialog.
Fix folding in user-defined languages for non-windows line endings.
Fix crash of Folder as Workspace when too many directory changes happen.
Fix ‘-nosession’ overwrites config.xml issue.
Fix the crash due to NPPM_DESTROYSCINTILLAHANDLE message.*
Improve GUI in Find dialog for Find Previous & Find Next buttons.
Fix Sort Line as Integer regression.
Add more OS information to debug info.
Fix tab dragging issues under WINE and ReactOS.
Fix indent indicators continue to following code blocks for Python.
Fix Python folding collapse issue.
Fix crash when sorting “out of range” columns.
Fix find 2 times for the same occurrence in both original and cloned documents issue.
Fix command line issues where filenames have multiple white spaces in them.
Fix Document Peeker constantly changing focus problem.
Make backward direction checkbox be also on Find dialog’s Mark tab.
Add 2 new columns for HTML Code in the Character Panel.
Fix “clear all marks in find dialog also removes bookmarks” issue.
Enhance supported language (on function list or auto-completion): LISP, BaanC,(PL/)SQL & COBOL.

Thank you for your testing :)

cmeriaux

@donho said
could you please also make a new release for nppPluginList .
Thanks

donho

@cmeriaux

Good point ! Will do ASAIC.
Thank you.

dinkumoil

@donho

The 64 bit 7z and ZIP packages contain a 32 bit version of the NppExport plugin which causes an error at Npp startup.

dinkumoil

@donho

The 64 bit installer contains no NppExport plugin at all.

Alan Kilborn

Maybe not a defect per se, but it definitely adds “interest” when the language file version numbers don’t correspond to the Notepad++ version (and sometimes refer to versions that never existed!); example from N++ v.7.7.1 and v.7.8(rc1):

andrecool-68

@Alan-Kilborn It depends on the person who makes the localization of this language, donho does not do this))