See if the suggestions in the recent “Notepad++ Not Respondong” discussion help you.

As of this morning, Notepad++ refuses to open properly. I get a window that remains all white, then a “Not responding” error message, and have to kill the process.

I’m running Windows 10, OS Build 19043.1237.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Getting the Notepad++ window back into the viewport is hard (my solution: Change another programs’ window with Windows+CursorLeft, so Windows will ask for a window to be displayed on the right side, chose Notepadd++)

To quote Peter from above:

As far as I can tell, the behavior is nothing new to Notepad++ v8.1.4, so the question doesn’t really belong in this thread. This topic is for regressions – changes of behavior that came about in v8.1.4 that weren’t present in previous versions.

hi guys, thank you very much for this fabulous text editor.
I think that close tag auto-completion should cover PHP and jsp files (not only html and xml files).
the reason behind this: html tags are used in abundance inside PHP and jsp file

thank you very much

Ctrl+Shift+F5 is a long awaited feature!!!

Hmmm. There’s no feature tied to Ctrl+Shift+F5. Try to get your facts correct before posting.

Thank you a lot!
Have a very nice day!

Do you have XML Tools? In this recent thread, it was pointed out that XML Tools has an option

Thanks a lot – disabled that option → works like a charm.

At least I do know now the meaning of “Set XML Type Automatically” … I always wondered …
and my Google/Search-Fu is most obviously not as good as I thought

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Do you have XML Tools? In this recent thread, it was pointed out that XML Tools has an option to “Set XML Type Automatically” – if that option is enabled, then the XML Tools plugin will see that the file is XML (because of that first line), and change your file type for you.

Edit: just confirmed XML Tools defaults that option on when you first install the plugin

Auto-Completion Typing removes forced language interpretion and goes back to (extension) default.

Example:

• an XML file with native SQL
• force the XML to be interpreted as SQL (Language → S → SQL)
• start typing → the file is interpreted as XML again

Navigating by cursor/mouse, highlightning of text, even deleting nor inserting text does cancel the forced language interpretion … yet as soon as the first letter is typed …

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sql><![CDATA[select * from dual]]></sql>

As far as I can tell, the behavior is nothing new to Notepad++ v8.1.4, so the question doesn’t really belong in this thread. This topic is for regressions – changes of behavior that came about in v8.1.4 that weren’t present in previous versions. But I’ll give some pointers anyway.

If you install Notepad++ into the standard C:\Program Files\Notepad++\, then the plugins will be installed into subdirectories of C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\ – if your normal user has write permission to that folder, then it can do it without special permission; if your PC is more locked down, you may need to run as Administrator in order to install plugins (or at least use Admin privileges to change the permissions of C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\ so that your normal user can have write access to that directory hierarchy) (Read the above as Program Files (x86) if you are installing 32bit Notepad++ on a 64bit OS.)

If you install Notepad++ into the less-usual C:\ProgramData\Notepad++\, then the plugins will be installed into subdirectories of C:\ProgramData\Notepad++\Plugins\ – if your normal user has write permission to that folder, then it can do it without special permission; if your PC is more locked down, you may need to run as Administrator in order to install plugins (or at least use Admin privileges to change the permissions of C:\ProgramData\Notepad++\Plugins\ so that your normal user can have write access to that directory hierarchy) *

If you install Notepad++ into some other X:\FlibbertyGibbet\Notepad++\, then the plugins will be installed into subdirectories of X:\FlibbertyGibbet\Notepad++\Plugins\ – if your normal user has write permission to that folder, then it can do it without special permission; if your PC is more locked down, you may need to run as Administrator in order to install plugins (or at least use Admin privileges to change the permissions of X:\FlibbertyGibbet\Notepad++\Plugins\ so that your normal user can have write access to that directory hierarchy)

*: Please Note: the ProgramData folder is often hidden, or otherwise more locked down by the OS than even Program Files. That seems an odd place to me to install a program… but to each his own. As long as you have write permission, either normally or through run-as-admin, it should work

That’s been that way since v7.8.7.

The user manual describes the setting you need to change in order to allow regular expression searches to work in backwards mode, if you understand the risks

• It does not work from the shortcut key Shift-F3 (No conflicts for that key assignment are indicated).
• It does not work from the menu.
• In the Find dialog, in “2 Find Buttons Mode”, the Find Previous (Up-arrow) button is greyed out.

The new commands are located on the new Insert submenu on the Edit menu:

I suppose the exact format of the date is Windows locale specific, but for me, here’s what the two new commands produced, along with what Notepad.exe produces when I press F5 in that program (hint: appears same as N++'s short format):