Notepad++ v8.4 Release Candidate

donho

Notepad++ v8.4 Release Candidate:
http://download.notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/8.x/8.4.RC/

It’s rather a major update since Scintilla is upgrade from v4.x to v5.x and Lexilla module has been added in the project.
Some bugs/regressions have been discovered and fixed. There might still be a few hidden issues in the RC.
The current external lexer plugins need a little bit more coding effort to work with Notepad++ v8.4 (due to new architecture of Scintilla 5), ~~I will publish a notice on Plugin Development ASAP~~ Here’s some information which may help:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22866/make-external-lexer-plugin-work-with-v8-4

Thank @chcg for his Scintilla 5 update PR and thank everyone of community for testing, reporting and fixing issues. Notepad++ v8.4 won’t be here without you.

Notepad++ v8.4 new feature and bug-fixes:

Update Scintilla from v4.4.6 to v5.2.1 and add Lexilla v5.1.5. (Fix #10504)
Enhance dark mode support (Shortcut Mapper, autocompletion, calltip, Column Editor and Style configurator, Preferences dialog, etc…) (Fix #11530, #11522, #11407, #11514, #11506, #11497)
Fix lossing characters issue after case-conversion (UPPER/lower). (Fix #11463)
Fix “Sort Lines as Integer” not considering negative number issue. (Fix #11023, #2025)
Sort languages alphabetically automatically in Style Configurator. (Fix #11337)
Fix flashing box (autocompletion empty list) appears while typing issue. (Fix #9433)
Scrolling Document List automatically to make the selected tab item visible. (Fix #11204)
Make Find in Files search result line number aligned. (Fix #11119)
Add default A-Z sorting ability in Function list. (Fix #11446)
Add virtual space ability. (Fix #11443, #11444)
Fix document being wronly marked as saved bug after converting its encoding. (Fix #11436)
Fix Document list not sync with tab order after sorting. (Fix #11272)
Fix file saving critical bug under Symantec encryption desktop. (Fix #11339)
Improve Find/Replace Dialog layout. (Fix #11318)
Update NSIS & Inno Setup keyword lists.

As usual, please report any critical bug/regression here you encounter. The official release will be available in about 10-14 days if no critical issue found.

Stan Mitchell130

My plugin fails to load with 8.4.
It is an external lexer, GedcomLexer (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/gedcomlexer/).
I know I need to build with Lexilla and make the necessary changes for ILexer5. I can’t predict, right now, when I will make the changes.

Lycan Thrope

@donho ,
Thanks for the CallTip coloring implementation, it works with my UDL and the Dark Mode is a bit easier to work with now, and still use the Autocomplete without guessing what we were highlighting. :) Screenies. Of course, the UDL has to change it’s default styler colors to be able to see what we’re typing when changning to Dark Mode, but that would be needed to be done anyway since it’s a custom thing, but at least the Calltip default behavior didn’t choke and put black text on a black background. :) over a highlight bar of black covering the typed text that was black until I changed the UDL’s default styler settings.

donho

@stan-mitchell130 said in Notepad++ v8.4 Release Candidate:

My plugin fails to load with 8.4.
It is an external lexer, GedcomLexer (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/gedcomlexer/).
I know I need to build with Lexilla and make the necessary changes for ILexer5. I can’t predict, right now, when I will make the changes.

Hope this announce helps:
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22866/make-external-lexer-plugin-work-with-v8-4

Good luck!

Andi Kiissel

Syntax highlighting is not working in HTML files.

Notepad++ v8.4 (32-bit)
Build time : Apr 15 2022 - 14:33:35
Path : C:\Users\andi\Npp\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19044.1645
Current ANSI codepage : 1257
Plugins : none

v8.3.3 with same config works.