Notepad++ 7.9 RC

Alan Kilborn · Sep 16, 2020, 9:06 PM

You may want to thank @Scott-Sumner :)

Not sure I understand this.
Of course I wish to thank ALL N++ developers bringing us this new release!
Well done, a lot of nice new “toys”, and some old “toys” have been made better!

Or maybe what is meant is that I should thank (blame) a specific dev for ringing the bell on me in the Function List ? :-)

donho · Sep 16, 2020, 9:56 PM

@ArkadiuszMichalski @deus-ex
Thank you for the test & the confirmation.

I assume you forward your fixes to the NP_HexEditor plugin repository?

Yes, sure. Just did a PR for @chcg to check and merge it:
https://github.com/chcg/NPP_HexEdit/pull/37
And I will include a new pluginList probably, if @chcg is OK to do a new release of HexEdit and point to it in the pluginList.

I don’t know how you solve this type of problem.

As mentioned in PR, HexEdit try to get the shortcut of commands from Notepad++, the wrong logic (the bug) in HexEdit worked until Notepad++ removes some shortcuts from the latest version.

Actually it is a problem as the original plugin simply won’t run with Notepad++ 7.9 RC. Note, that the 64-bit version of the plugin is affected likewise.

The fix will apply to both 32 and 64 bits version.

donho · Sep 16, 2020, 10:16 PM

@Alan-Kilborn said in Notepad++ 7.9 RC:

Of course I wish to thank ALL N++ developers bringing us this new release!

Yes, thank all people who have contributed to this project.

Not sure I understand this.

9 19 20 22 of change log (and lots more) are the implementation from @Scott-Sumner.
BTW, I didn’t really follow what you said:

I noticed for this change, which works to clear the text, it also sounds a bell?

Now I get it by hearing the bell.
I just checked the code, but cannot see what it’s wrong. If people complain then we will see what we can do about it.

deus ex · Sep 17, 2020, 8:17 AM

@donho

Hi don,

thank you for fixing the NppHexEdit plugin issue, it’s very much appreciated.

With regards to changelog item no. 9, add ability to sort lines randomly, there’s actually one reason that prevents me from migrating from Notepad++ 32-bit to 64-bit. I’m using the plugin NppTextFX for over a decade now just for ~~two~~ one of its functions. One was the ability to ‘trim trailing white space’ which eventually found its way into Notepad++, and I’m using the internal solution ever since.

The only other function that is important to me currently only available in NppTextFX is to ‘sort lines case insensitive’. Yet the plugin is only available in 32-bit. Would you be able to implement this into Notepad++?

donho · Sep 17, 2020, 1:03 PM

@Alan-Kilborn said in Notepad++ 7.9 RC:

I noticed for this change, which works to clear the text, it also sounds a bell?

Fixed and committed:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/f3fce2de4a5bf17143af9df31e67f4162d215f70

Thank you for the heads up!

donho · Sep 17, 2020, 1:05 PM

@deus-ex said in Notepad++ 7.9 RC:

The only other function that is important to me currently only available in NppTextFX is to ‘sort lines case insensitive’. Yet the plugin is only available in 32-bit. Would you be able to implement this into Notepad++?

Please do a feature request here:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

I believe it’s interesting to @Scott-Sumner for implementing it ;)

Michael Vincent · Sep 17, 2020, 1:03 PM

@donho said in Notepad++ 7.9 RC:

Fixed and committed:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/f3fce2de4a5bf17143af9df31e67f4162d215f70

Just tested - indeed fixed, I hear no bell anymore! Thanks @donho and @scott-sumner for this request. Eagerly awaiting the full keyboard experience for Function List if #8665 gets implemented. I tried, but no luck :-(

Looking forward to 7.9 official - although I"m using the RC now happily!

Cheers.

Alan Kilborn · Sep 17, 2020, 1:05 PM

@deus-ex said

sort lines case insensitive

@donho There is already an open issue on it, from 2018: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/4479

donho · Sep 17, 2020, 1:41 PM

@Alan-Kilborn
Thank you for the reminder.
Obviously @Scott-Sumner is working (or will work) on it.

deus ex · Sep 17, 2020, 1:59 PM

@donho

Actually there existed an earlier request 4424 which was turned down and the request got closed.

I think it would be sufficient to support case insensitive sorting of the English character set only. I just checked with NppTextFX, it sorts lines containing special foreign characters like ‘ß’ or ‘Ф’ at the top of a sort result. I.e. NppTextFX does not try to sort such lines but places them at a prominent place for the user to easily get aware.

TroshinDV · Sep 18, 2020, 7:53 AM

What is the name of the language file for plain text? “txt.xml”?
I want to use for * .txt - files:
<AutoComplete>
<Environment ignoreCase = “yes” />
</AutoComplete>
But it doesn’t work :)
https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/auto-completion/#auto-completion-file-format

donho · Sep 21, 2020, 2:13 AM

@Дмитрий-Трошин said in Notepad++ 7.9 RC:

What is the name of the language file for plain text? “txt.xml”?

Please do your feature request here:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues

If many users have the same need, we may consider implementing it.