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    • Stefan Weber
      Stefan Weber @Alan Kilborn last edited by

      @Alan-Kilborn I absolutely agree with what you write. The change markers do have advantages, so it’s nice that notepad++ now also has this functionality. And I am sure that this feature will be used by lots of users of notepad++, so there were good reasons to add it.
      Ok, give me a try and some time to get more comfortable with it. Maybe my opinion can be changed when I spend more time using it.

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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Alan Kilborn last edited by Alan Kilborn

        @Alan-Kilborn said in How can I turn off Change History:

        Maybe Distraction Free Mode on the View menu … should NOT incorporate display of Change History?

        I created an issue for this, see HERE.

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        • lmagyar
          lmagyar last edited by

          Is there a way to reset this Change History? Not turning the feature off, just simply removing all the past “colored lines” and displaying only the new changes forward?

          A Save will not reset it.

          A Reload will mark the whole document changed, this is useless.

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          • David Brigden52
            David Brigden52 @lmagyar last edited by

            Some sort of “reset change history” for a given file or tab? This seems reasonable to me. Where could this go? On the tab menu? View menu? Somewhere else?

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            • Snabel42
              Snabel42 @lmagyar last edited by

              @lmagyar said in How can I turn off Change History:

              A Reload will mark the whole document changed, this is useless.

              I believe this was a reported issue in Scintilla, which Notepad++ is built around.

              Once fixed and once Notepad++ has pulled in that version, that behavior could change also here. But unfortunately not likely to change until then I guess.

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              • Alan Kilborn
                Alan Kilborn @lmagyar last edited by

                @lmagyar said in How can I turn off Change History:

                A Reload will mark the whole document changed, this is useless.

                Known issue, see HERE, will be fixed.
                Notepad++ users will have to be patient; like any large new feature, Change-History is having its growing pains.

                If you are interested in temporary workarounds, see the @PeterJones macro HERE.

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                • Alan Kilborn
                  Alan Kilborn @David Brigden52 last edited by Alan Kilborn

                  @David-Brigden52 said in How can I turn off Change History:

                  Some sort of “reset change history” for a given file or tab?
                  Where could this go? On the tab menu? View menu?

                  It really wouldn’t be necessary as a separate command, once the action of Change-History with the Reload command is fixed.

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                  • MIN HEE HAN
                    MIN HEE HAN last edited by

                    I like this new feature!
                    But… Isn’t it unnecessary for new documents? :D

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                    • Alan Kilborn
                      Alan Kilborn @MIN HEE HAN last edited by

                      @MIN-HEE-HAN said in How can I turn off Change History:

                      Isn’t it unnecessary for new documents?

                      Presume you mean like new 2 as you edit it in one run of Notepad++. In that case, your statement is rather true. However, prudent advice to follow is to save such documents to a hard-named file in your file system ASAP after creating them – at that point change-history starts showing valuable information as you continue to edit and periodically save.

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                      • PeterJones
                        PeterJones @MIN HEE HAN last edited by

                        @MIN-HEE-HAN said in How can I turn off Change History:

                        Isn’t it unnecessary for new documents?

                        It provides yet another indicator that the file you are editing has not been saved. Given the number of times that users complain about problems that arose because they refused to save, having more indicators makes it more likely that they will think about their data integrity rather than just assuming “oh, come on, nothing bad will happen to my data” is not a bad thing, IMO.

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                        • Alan Harris-Reid
                          Alan Harris-Reid @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                          @Alan-Kilborn , I agree - I have just discovered this feature and think it’s a really good addition to N++. However, what about us users who have red-green color-blindness? I understand that modified lines are marked in green and new lines are in orange, but I can’t tell the difference between them - when adjacent they all look like orange to me! Is there any way I can get a message to N++ developers to make these colours configurable so that they contrast more?

                          Thanks, Alan

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                          • Alan Kilborn
                            Alan Kilborn @Alan Harris-Reid last edited by

                            @Alan-Harris-Reid

                            From one Alan to another…

                            There’s already at least one official feature request to allow changing the Change History colors, see HERE.

                            The Change History feature comes from Notepad++'s editing component which is a different project not under Notepad++ control. I believe, although I’m not certain, that that project has not to this point made the colors configurable – which means that Notepad++ can’t reasonably do it.

                            Change History is a new feature, and I’ll sure it will evolve; let’s see where things go.

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                            • Evans Harrigan
                              Evans Harrigan last edited by

                              After making many changes to a file, I printed a modified copy for “eye scanning.” However, the changes were highlighted in black which made it impossible to read. After trying many options in Preferences to change this behavior, the tip you mentioned resolved my problem which also calmed my frustrated nerves. Thanks for posting.

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                              • astewart77
                                astewart77 @Alan Kilborn last edited by

                                @Alan-Kilborn said in How can I turn off Change History:

                                The Change History feature comes from Notepad++'s editing component which is a different project not under Notepad++ control. I believe, although I’m not certain, that that project has not to this point made the colors configurable – which means that Notepad++ can’t reasonably do it.

                                It’s not difficult. In the n++ source I found

                                #define SC_MARKNUM_HISTORY_REVERTED_TO_ORIGIN 21
                                #define SC_MARKNUM_HISTORY_SAVED 22
                                #define SC_MARKNUM_HISTORY_MODIFIED 23
                                #define SC_MARKNUM_HISTORY_REVERTED_TO_MODIFIED 24
                                
                                

                                and

                                execute(SCI_MARKERSETBACK, SC_MARKNUM_HISTORY_MODIFIED, modifiedColor);
                                
                                

                                I use Autohotkey for my startup script and added

                                PostMessage, SCI_MARKERSETBACK, SC_MARKNUM_HISTORY_SAVED, 0xc0c0c0, Scintilla1, ahk_exe notepad++.exe
                                

                                to get a gray saved marker.

                                BTW, the above defines show why bookmarks had to move from marker 24 to marker 20.

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                                • Bigfootmech
                                  Bigfootmech last edited by

                                  This has been giving me a headache for a while, and keeps re-enabling.

                                  I notice it every time I update the version. But what I’ve found now, is that I have two instances of Notepad++ installed

                                  And if I launch the old one, the “off” setting gets reset on the new version, turning display history back on '-.-

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                                  • Alan Kilborn
                                    Alan Kilborn @Bigfootmech last edited by Alan Kilborn

                                    @Bigfootmech

                                    if I launch the old one, the “off” setting gets reset on the new version, turning display history back on

                                    This situation causes both to use the same settings, because there is only one copy of the settings on your PC.

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