Notepad++ 6.8 release

[guy038]

Hi Don,

Hope that you do enjoy your holidays and that you’re on “top” form, from now on !

Two annoying points, about the new 6.8 version :

• Are your aware of the lack of the excellent DSpellCheck plugin, in the two archives npp.6.8.bin.7z and npp.6.8.bin.zip ? ( didn’t verify with the installer ) And the archive folder \Plugins\Config\Hunspell doesn’t contain any dictionary ! Did you do it , on purpose, or did you forget to include it, in the v6.8 version ?

• Some options, in the Preferences dialog, which could be changed, immediately, in past versions, can’t take effect, at once, with the 6.8 version. it needs a stop/restart of N++, to see the wanted changes ! It’s the case, for instance, for the Display line number, Show vertical edge option and so on… Strangely, the new option enable smooth font is immediate !

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

Of course, Don, I could easily get the DSpellCheck plugin back and the dictionaries, as well, from my old 6.7.9.2 configuration, and it works great, with the 6.8 version !

I also verified that point #2, above, doesn’t occur because of the DspellCheck plugin. Good :)

[donho]

Hi Guy,

Thank you for your bug report.

DSpellCheck plugin has been removed from Notepad++ release due to the issue #427
Otherwise I just created issue #570 for the regression in Preferences dialog, and it will be fixed in next release (v6.8.1).

[Michael McCord]

I’m not here to complain at all.
But since I installed 6.8 My screen freezes for 15 seconds or so when I open more than one file at a time.
I usually am opening .xml files.
Thanks Still great software, the best. I’m going to revert to 6.7.9

[donho]

Hi Michael,

It could be the font issue.
Could you try this improved version regarding the font:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/temp/npp.7z
unzip it into a new created folder, reboot the system (in order to process the test properly), then launch notepad++.exe.

Please let me know if your issues are solved.

[Michael McCord]

Ok yeah, going to try right now.
LOL I guess I’m too late.
But I’m installing 6.8.1 now.

[Michael McCord]

Its works great!
BTW.

My personal Graphics is Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 itx.
Don’t know if that helps or not.

Edit:Zipped my config files, I Revo Uninstalled 6.8.1, to do the test.
It ran good. I think it lagged a slight bit once, that was it. I opened the rest of the files in that folder, no problem.

I just learned something I never even though of.
Because I didn’t want to mess with the file associations just yet, so I just drag and dropped files into the editor from that portable version folder. I had no idea that was possible.
Amazing. Thanks for this great piece of software.
I’ve used it for 8 years. One of my most used apps. Like my right arm just cant do without it.

[Michael McCord]

Also I noticed you .xml coding I’ve haven’t seen it so clean just the way I think it should look.

[donho]

Thank you @Michael-McCord for the confirmation of bug-fix!

[Moltres Rider]

@donho then ONLY remove it on Windows 10 machines!!! leave us Windows 7 users ALONE!!!

[donho]

@Moltres-Rider You can always use Plugins Manager to get it back.