Notepad++ v7.9.4 released

[hipeek]

There is pretty old bug in “Find Previous” - it exists since 7.8.7 version.
With “Search Mode = Regular expression” Shift+F3 shortcut or menu “Search > Find Previous” doesn’t find anything.
Switch to other mode (Normal or Extended) and shortcut/menu is working again.

[PeterJones]

@hipeek said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

There is pretty old bug in “Find Previous” - it exists since 7.8.7 version. With “Search Mode = Regular expression”

Not a bug. That was an intentional design change in v7.8.7, and is documented , explaining how to change the config.xml setting to allow reverse regular expression searches. (It was changed because reverse results don’t always seem to follow the rules documented for regular expressions, and a regex would work differently backward than it did forward.)

[hipeek]

@PeterJones
Thanks for pointing this out. I stand corrected :)

[Alan Kilborn]

So I have a “project” defined and I wanted to search it, but I can’t … is there something special I need to do to be able to do this?

[Michael Vincent]

@Alan-Kilborn said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

is there something special I need to do to be able to do this?

Weird.

I just opened Project Panel 1 (View => Project => Project Panel 1) and it un-greys the Project Panel 1 checkbox for me. Here is a view doing the same - just opening the “View” menu item, not adding any files or having any files prepopulated - for Project Panel 2:

Are you sure you’re using the latest release from the Website, and not the RC4 - I believe there was an issue with the “Find” button being disabled due to the new Project Panel search that was caught in the RC before 7.9.4 release.

Cheers.

[Alan Kilborn]

@Michael-Vincent said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

Are you sure you’re using the latest release from the Website, and not the RC4

Yep, just got it today.
I was working with this “Project1” in 7.9.3, and thought I’d try searching it now that I have 7.9.4, but thus far, I’m still out of luck for doing that!

EDIT: Well, after a restart of N++, it becomes enabled. But, I’m 99% sure I’ll get into that situation again. :-(

[Alan Kilborn]

@Alan-Kilborn said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

But, I’m 99% sure I’ll get into that situation again. :-(

I’m 100% sure now because after another restart it is disabled like I show again. :-(
Finding in projects isn’t going to be very useful for me with this release.

[donho]

@Alan-Kilborn said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

I’m 100% sure now because after another restart it is disabled like I show again. :-(

I cannot reproduce it. Could you provide the step-by-step instructions please?

[Alan Kilborn]

@donho said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

Could you provide the step-by-step instructions please?

I haven’t figured out what those are yet. :-(

[donho]

@Alan-Kilborn
It could be the configuration of your Notepad++… Have you tried the portable package to reproduce it?

[Alan Kilborn]

@donho

tried portable?

Well, briefly, and I haven’t seen it happen.
I can’t give up my customized portable (after many years of customizing) though, so if time shows it doesn’t happen for others, I just live with it.
Just like underlined hyperlinks not always appearing in my documents, until I switch tabs and switch back, or some such.

[donho]

@Alan-Kilborn

Let’s wait & see users’ report about it in v7.9.5 (with which auto-updater will be triggered).

[ImSpecial]

@mere-human said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

@ImSpecial said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

if Windows 10 needs to apply some “Compatibility fix” each time, maybe something is wrong.

This is interesting. It seems other programs like MS Outlook sometimes have this problem:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_win10-mso_2013_release/compatibility-fix-applied-to-outlookexe-eventid/4ca0ccfb-5b82-4f28-b553-7c414c7293ee

Do you see any other problems besides this log entry?

Sorry for taking so long to reply… (where the hell does all my free time go???)

No I cannot say there are any problems, though I’m not sure I would be able to tell if something was buggy or not. No crashes or broken thing as far as I can see.

I do know this started two versions ago though, these are recent to the event viewer.

Does anyone else get the same or similar warnings? I just want to know if it’s “my system” and I need to look into this, or if everyone is also getting these so a general problem with “notepad++” and Windows 10.

[Matthew Moore 0]

An issue cropped up recently, that I noticed is listed as a ‘feature’ in the release notes for 7.9.2, is that NPP will now automatically open .lnk files, rather than allowing the user to edit/parse them as they are. For those of us working in forensics, this can come as an unwelcome shock when the file you’re trying to analyze is trying to run instead, potentially allowing malware to run on the host machine.

I would request that this either be set to disabled by default, with an option to turn on, or to give the users a means to turn it off in the settings.

[Grenville Tryon 0]

7.9.4 portable: cant use line mode with keyboard (alt-shift-L, or arrows).

Notepad++ v7.9.4 (32-bit)
Build time : Mar 15 2021 - 01:00:14
Path : C:\PortableApps\Notepad++Portable\App\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 2004
OS Build : 19041.867
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : AutoSave.dll CodeAlignmentNpp.dll ColorPicker.dll ComparePlugin.dll EmmetNPP.dll Explorer.dll FingerText.dll IndentByFold.dll LightExplorer.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExec.dll NppExport.dll NppTextFX.dll PluginManager.dll PythonScript.dll

[PeterJones]

@Matthew-Moore-0 said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

For those of us working in forensics

I would expect those of you working in IT forensics to know that you could just rename the file to .txt (or no extension) to load the contents in Notepad++.

I would request that this either be set to disabled by default, with an option to turn on, or to give the users a means to turn it off in the settings

I wouldn’t mind if there was an option to disable that, but I would lobby that it should follow .lnk files by default, and only edit the link contents if you change the option (maybe even making it a “hidden option”), because I would think the vast majority of users would expect Windows links to work like links, like they do in other Windows applications – and the principal of least-surprise is important for most users.

[PeterJones]

@Grenville-Tryon-0 said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

7.9.4 portable: cant use line mode with keyboard (alt-shift-L, or arrows).

Fresh v7.9.4 portable doesn’t have anything associated with Alt+Shift+L by default, and I’m not sure what “line mode” you mean. Is that a command + shortcut that comes with one of your plethora of plugins? Could you tell us which one plugin, or at least where you came up with Alt+Shift+L or what menu the “line mode” is from?

[Alan Kilborn]

@Matthew-Moore-0 said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

when the file you’re trying to analyze is trying to run instead, potentially allowing malware to run on the host machine.

I don’t really understand this.
NPP will only “open” the file pointed to by the .lnk, into itself.
So, if the .lnk references an .exe file, there is no “running” of it, it would merely be pulled into N++ to edit it (which you wouldn’t want to do anyway, because it isn’t a text file). At that point your best course of action is to immediately close it.
Unless I’m missing something…there’s no “malware” potential here.

NPP will now automatically open .lnk files, rather than allowing the user to edit/parse them as they are.

As .lnk files themselves are not text files, the previous behavior for them (opening them as some binary mess in N++) wasn’t all that valuable anyway.

[Grenville Tryon 0]

@PeterJones Excuse me! My terrible bad. I was talking about “column mode”. (I used to start & mark columns using only keyboard strokes (alt-Shift-cursors) , now I have to use the mouse. TIA,

[PeterJones]

@Grenville-Tryon-0 said in Notepad++ v7.9.4 released:

@PeterJones Excuse me! My terrible bad. I was talking about “column mode”. (I used to start & mark columns using only keyboard strokes (alt-Shift-cursors) , now I have to use the mouse. TIA,

Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, I cannot replicate. I opened a fresh unzip of v7.9.1-32bit portable, typed in some text, and used alt+shift+cursors to draw a rectangle in column-editing mode, without difficulty.

Are you sure nothing is hijacking your alt key ? (I know when I remote-desktop into my Windows box from a Linux machine I’m often on, the Alt key gets captured by the Linux side, and I cannot do column-mode edits across the link.) Or maybe you held Alt or Shift down too long and Windows went into some accessibility mode?