Document does not scroll when holding F3

Antoni Roszak

Hi,

In the recent update (perhaps in 8.3.3 but I am not 100% sure) NPP changed the behaviour of F3 button.
Before, I was able to hold F3 and quickly go through the whole file.
Now, when I hold F3, the vertical scrollbar shows it’s progressing, but the document itself is frozen. Only when I release the button, it jumps to the position in file indicated by scrollbar.

I suppose this is a bug, as I see no advantage of the new behaviour; is it the right category to request fixing it?

Notepad++ v8.3.3 (64-bit)
Build time : Mar 13 2022 - 17:20:02
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19042.1586
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll JSMinNPP.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll NppHorizontalRuler.dll NppRegExTractorPlugin.dll XMLTools.dll

dfs-

Works fine for me with the same version

Notepad++ v8.3.3   (64-bit)
Build time : Mar 13 2022 - 17:20:02
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) 
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19044.1620
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : ComparePlugin.dll JSMinNPP.dll mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll PythonScript.dll XMLTools.dll

Possibly a plugin is interfering, what does NppHorizontalRuler.dll do?

Michael Vincent

@antoni-roszak said in Document does not scroll when holding F3:

Before, I was able to hold F3 and quickly go through the whole file.
Now, when I hold F3, the vertical scrollbar shows it’s progressing, but the document itself is frozen.

I can only assume this is an XML file and yo need to update your XML Tools to the latest version (3.1.1.13 as of this comment) as this is a known issue with older versions.

Cheers.

Antoni Roszak

Hi,

I have uninstalled the Horizontal Ruler, and updated XMLTools to 3.1.1.13, and it’s still incorrect. This is a large XML file, 57 MB, 1.7 million lines. With a smaller file (87k lines) it works fine.

I have narrowed it down a bit; apparently, the problem occurs when the number of lines between occurrences is large. I cannot share the original file itself for privacy reasons, but I got the path:

take file “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code\1.0.2911.0\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX.xml”
copy everything between second and penultimate line, 20 times (I got 270k lines)
search for “Microsoft.DirectX.PrivateImplementationDetails.”, normal mode
hold F3