<![CDATA[Bug with annotations relating to z-order]]>Here’s an interesting one. If you do a regular expression search for ^, for example, Notepad++ will put up an annotation indicating ^ zero length match. However, if something else (e.g. the Find window) is in the same screen space, the annotation will appear closer to the user than the other entity. Perhaps a screenshot helps:

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Here the annotation should clearly be under the Find window, not on top of it.

I should/will put in a bug report.

BTW, I’ve never really liked that the zero-length-match annotation uses ^ as part of its text – easy to confuse the meaning with the ^ used in the regex. The annotation attempts to use it to point to something (totally different meaning).

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22920/bug-with-annotations-relating-to-z-orderRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 10:13:13 GMTWed, 27 Apr 2022 15:04:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Bug with annotations relating to z-order on Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:01:48 GMT]]>@michael-vincent said in Bug with annotations relating to z-order:

that actually isn’t an “annotation” in the sense of a Scintilla annotation

I was actually working on some script code that deals with annotations at the time I noticed that, so I guess that was on my mind. :-)

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/76452https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/76452Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:01:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bug with annotations relating to z-order on Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:30:14 GMT]]>@alan-kilborn said in Bug with annotations relating to z-order:

Here the annotation should clearly be under the Find window, not on top of it.

Not to be pedantic, but that actually isn’t an “annotation” in the sense of a Scintilla annotation. It’s actually a “calltip” in the Scintilla sense. Using those terms in the issue report may help a quicker fix?

Cheers.

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